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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1930)
Tryouts For Track Teams Today at 3:30 Cimler Prospects as Good Or Better Than Last Year, Says Hayward Many Lettermen Will Turn Out This Afternoon Tryouts for the varsity and freshman track teams will be held at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon in-, stead of Saturday morning, it was announced yesterday by Bill Hay ward, track coach. According to Hayward, the var sity is fully as strong as it was j last year at this time. The weight j men are exceptionally promising, | but there is a dearth of candidates for the half-mile. Hayward ex pects Oregon to be stronger in the pole vault, but because Orville j Bredthauer did not return to school, it will be weaker in the broad jump. Bredthauer won the northern section meet last year. Oregon Seems Strong Five candidates appear promis ing varsity material in the dashes. There is Tyrrel Lowry, a letter man; Virgil Scheiber, sophomore, who won the century against the O. S. C. babes last year; Paul Bale, another sophomore, who downed the Corvallis yearlings in the 220-yard dash; Jim Corcoran, ahother sophomore, who was not in school last spring, and Ivan Anderson, who was a quarter-; miler on the 1929 team. Clare McKinnon, victor in last 1 year's northern conference meet, quarter-mile race, is the outstand ing candidate for this event with Ivan Anderson, Ed Otis, sopho- j more, who was not eligible last year, Lloyd Huff, who won the; quarter against the Rooks last j year, Tom Johnson and Joe Gerot as candidates for the remaining places in this event. * Hill Will Hun Ralph Hill, Oregon’s great miler, will enter in the half-mile with Dick Jennings and Tom Moran also entered. Jennings won the half in last year’s Oregon State freshman meet. Hill is a letter man. There are four candidates for the mile and two-mile, three of whom are lettermen in cross country, and George Cruiekshank. The three lettermen are Clarence Hill, Leonard Steele and Pat Beale. Ralph Hill will enter the mile but not the longer race. ltd Siegmund and Hal Kelly, both lettermen, will compete with Hubert Allen of last year’s frosh, Nell Whisnant, Boone Hendricks and Orville Bailey in the hurdles. Allen won against the. Rooks last year. Bailey Is a transfer from junior college and is out this sea son for the first time. Captain Moeller Hack Bob Evarts, a letterman, looks to be the best bet in the high jump. He will be jumping with Hubert Allen, who won this event against the Rooks last year. The remaining candidates for the jumps will be Captain Ed Moeller, Orville Bailey, Pat McGinnis and Gilbert French of last year’s var sity. Lowry and McGinnis are the only experienced men out for the broad jump. Bill Minsinger, Allen, and Schieber are promising soph omores, who will vie with the vet erans for regular berths. Bob Robinson and Don Maidtby, both veterans, and Bailey are out for the pole vault. Robinson is improving daily and should do bet ter than 13 feet before the season is over. Besides Captain Moeller, .liggs Hildreth, Marion Hall, Bob Eek man, and Homer Dickson are the discus possibilities. All are let termen except Eckman, although the latter was on the squad last year. Dickson is tile outstanding jave lin tosser. French and Carry Thompson, a sophomore, also are fighting for places on the team. Miss Schwab Resigns Position in library Marguerite Schwab, who for five years has worked in the cata logue department of the main li brary, has resigned her position Miijs Schwab is now in Portland but expects to get a position m a Califronia library soon. Before leaving Miss Schwab was entertained at a dinner given by Beatrice J. Barker, head of the catalogue department, in her hon or. Miriam Yoder, Pearl Watts, Ella Carrick, Jacquoise Kirtley, Virginia Reid, Frances Rupert. Nellie Moore. Ethelyn Forrest, and Marguerite Carpenter, all members of the library staff, were present at the dinner on Saturday evening. i/,lllllllfH!llliil!tlll!li!llll!lilflli!l!lllillllt!lllllll!ll!llllllllllllllllll!lllllltlllllllllllll,llitlllll!ll|tlll! Side Ones By Harry Van Dine McEwan has real task ahead of him at Holy Cross; An derson and Laferty to com pete in state meet. nwHHwmmw /AUK old friend, Captain John J. ^ McEwan, is hard at work back at Holy Cross college of Worcester, Mass., installing his football system in preparation for the 1930 campaign. Needless to say, McEwan's many friends on the Oregon campus were happy to hear that he had landed the east ern coaching berth. Cap is right in his environment in the East, as he has many strong contacts ihere which he formed when he was head coach at West Point. * * * McEwan will face a tough schedule in his first year at the Jesuit school, the bill calling for ten games. Harvard, Brown, Eordham, Rutgers, Boston college, Catholic university schools like these turn out some real teams and McEwan will have to keep his men hustling to make a good showing against them. Incidental ly, the game between Holy Cross and Boston college is as tradition al as the Oregon-Oregon State battle. Holy Cross has one record of which it is highly proud—it has sent more baseball players to the big leagues than any other one in stitution of higher learning in the country. McEwan's big ambition is to make it just as well known in football. When he started spring practice he found the men rather small, compared to those at Oregon, but very fast. They ought to fit in well with his style of play. The Holy Cross officials seem to be giving Mac free rein as Gene Vidal, who served as assist ant coach to McEwan for three years here, will be his first lieu tenant there. Gene knows his foot ROTC To Benefit ! If Bill Is Passed Enactment Would Allow j Larger Enrollment More snappy uniforms for all j and an increase in the number of | advanced course students in the • K. O. T. C. here may be antici-, paled if the bill before congress j which will increase the appropria tions^ for the R. O. T. C. from to .j!4,000,000 passes, in the opinion of Capt. C. H. Bragg, of the military department. “Of course, it is difficult to de termine just what effect such a bill would have on the local unit because the money has first to be apportioned among the various corps areas and then subdivided among the various units, but it is quite probable that if the bill were passed we would be able to enroll more juniors and seniors in the advanced course and also furnish better uniforms to both those in the advanced course and those in the basic course,” Captain Bragg slated. There has been a delay atfect ing all military legislation in con gress, so it is rather uncertain whether the bill will pass. The delay was due, in the senate, to the absence of Senator Reed, chair man of the committee on military affairs, who is attending the Na val conference in London; and in the house, to the absence of Con gressman James, who has been se riously ill for weeks. HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA MEET OPENS HERE Ruth Howe; Henry Berry Lowrie, Alex Volehok. The judges for the contest are; Mrs. Bess Whitcomb, of the Bess Whitcomb Players and Portland Civic theater, Portland; Dean Col lins, dramatic critic, The Tele gram. Portland; Mrs. KatTlleen M. Clarke, author, of Grants Pass. Tonight's program includes: St Helens high school in "Einders Keepers" by George Kelly, directed by Esther M Strieker; The Dalles high school in "Thank You, Doc tor,” by Gilbert Emory, directed by Lois Crary Dahl; Lincoln high school, Portland, in "Aye, Aye. Sir!” directed by Constance L. Roth. Miss Roth was assistant in the department of drama at the Uni versity last year. Besides these, three more plays will be presented Saturday night and one on Saturday afternoon. A silver loving cup will be award ed to the high school judged to be the best, and a second cup to the individual whose acting is con sidered the most outstanding. The general committee for the, tournament consists of: faculty. Ot.tihe T. Seybolt, chairman; Mo selle Hair, secretary; Dean James H. Gilbert, Dr. C V. Boyer, Prof. Gi-orgt Turnbull and Ctiil Mat ball and, in his prime, he was one of the greatest of Army halfbacks * * * When McEwan was dickering for the job in the East, his many friends out here sent a deluge of recommendations to Holy Cross authorities which landed him the job. Writing to Sam Wilderman, Mac stated, “I want to express my appreti u for the splendid rec ommendat try telegrams from Eu- ! gene. The / were a great help and determinii g factor." l That might be said to have j closed the book “McEwan at Oregon" as everybody seems to be well satisfied. Mac is hard at work there incidentally he has 1100 men students at Holy Cross and Coach Doc Spears is work- . ing wonders with the Webfoot.; team here. * * * Johnny Anderson and Paul Laf- j erty v/ill uphold Oregon's colors in the Oregon State indoor cham piomrhips at Multnomah club Sat urday. The blond Webfoot. captain will swim the dashes and maybe the backstroke. He holds the Northwest dash records. Laferty will swim in the breast and back stroke events. Chuck Silverman, holder of the Northwest 440 free style record, will be unable to pete. Silverman’s case is sure tough for a man to take. Chuck was far ahead of anyone last year and was counted upon to have a great sea son in his last year of competition. He wrenched his shoulder in prac tice and has never got going since. However, he is still a great little swimmer and should continue on his road to fame after his injury heals up. son; students, Loleta Jaeger and Kermit Stevens. Those students in charge of the plans are: Gene Love, transporta tion; Marian Camp, registration; Florence McNerney, housing; Carl Klippel, stage manager: Betty Cook and Louise Harris, lighting; Celene Lauterstein, properties; Charlotte Brosius, music; Elinor F. Rennie, hostess; James Lyons, host; Cleta McKennon, business manager; Norma Jacobs, women's dressing rooms; Ethan Newman, men's dressing rooms; George Godfrey, publicity; Renee Nelson, luncheon; Lucille Kraus, Pauline Prigmore, Jean Williams, luncheon reservations; Jack Waldron, How ard Barrett, Helen Allen. Kather ine Starr, on the reception com mittee. Sheldon To l ake Two Weeks’ Trip Talk u( Inland Empire Meet on Schedule Henry D. Sheklon, dean of the school of education, is leaving on Friday for a two weeks’ tour through the northwest. Dean Sheldon will first stop at the University of Washington in Seattle. From there he will con tinue to Spokane where he will address a meeting on “The Pro gram of Research in the History of Education." The latter part of the trip Dcau Sheldon will spend in northern Idaho. Check for JSeic Books Received by Library A check for $25. the gift of the Oregon Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America, for the purchase of history books, was re ceived yesterday, according to M II. Douglass, librarian. A similar gift was made by the organization last year. Dr. Casey Given Grant ■ in - aid by Research Council Offer Is Recognition of Exceptional Work in Journalism Coming as a recognition of his mtstanding work in journalistic -esearch, Dr. Ralph B. Casey, pro fessor of journalism at the Uni versity, has been given a grant-in lid fj-om the Social Science Re search Council of America. These grants are given to aid scholars in specific pieces of research, which >eem especially deserving of help. With the grant Dr. Casey will :omplete a research project on po itical propaganda, the major part if which was done during the last two years at the University of Wisconsin, and which formed the subject, of his doctor’s thesis. The technique of the 1928 presi dential campaign forms the bulk af the research, all of which is complete except the field work which Dr. Casey plans to do next summer. He will go to New York and Washington, D. C., where he will interview the publicity chair men of the Republican, Democratic and Socialistic parties, and others connected with political publicity. As soon as he has done this part of the project, the thesis will be published. Women Offered j Choice of Sports Grade Average of 3.5 Is Necessary To Compete Women athletically inclined will find some sport offered this term to interest them, with tennis, base ball, hockey, and archery to' choose from. Hockey is being offered every day at 4 o’clock, under the coach ing of Janet Woodruff, who coached the team that played the All-A'mericans last term. Many of the senior coaches for hockey were also members of the team. All women interested are asked to, sign up on the bulletin board in the gym, and report tonight for practice. Naomi Moshberger is head of hockey. Net Work Will Begin Tennis practice will begin offi cially next Monday at 4 o’clock, and will be held every day on the l^piveir.sity courts. Margaret Dun can is coaching, and she will be assisted by senior coaches. Those interested in tennis are requested to sign up in the gym. Players will be divided into two classes, intermediate and advanced, with tournaments in each class. There will be the regular interclass meets, for both singles and dou bles, and if there are enough women out in each class, there will be interclass tournaments. Ecth Salway is head of tennis. Archery Practice Listed Archery will be given only twice :i week, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4 to 5:30, with Ernestine Troemel coaching on Thursdays, and Harriett Thomson coaching on Tuesdays. Ruth Jaynes is head of archery. Baseball practice will be held every day at 5 o’clock, but Mon days, Wednesdays, and Fridays will be the days for regular coach ing; Tuesdays and Thursdays will be set aside for technique. Regu lar practice begins tonight and all women interested are asked to sign up, and come out. A grade average of 3.0 is neces sary in order to come out for any of the sports offered, under the W. A. A. ruling. DR. J. R. WETHERBEE Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Office l'honc 1601 Residence 1230-M *01-2-3 Miner Bldg. Eugene, Oregon SI* ■ ¥ I VACATION DAYS ARE OVER . . . but the memory lingers on . . . so do the soiled clothes. . . . Don t let that worry you; we take care of all laundry problems. qmesiic J^autulry m m ■ i ■ m p 1 n Phone 252 ■ ■ 143 7th West Round In Qualifying Golf Date Postponed The qualifying round for po sitions on the varsity and fresh man golf squads, scheduled to he held Saturday and Sunday over the course of the Eugene Country club, has been post poned until Monday and Tues day, according to an announce ment made last night by George Will, varsity captain. Those trying out must turn in their cards to Will by Tuesday evening. Inclement weather conditions caused the postpone ment. -| I Outdoor Range Said Necessity! Harvey Wright, Star Firer, ] Discloses Need An outdoor rifle range is what the University of Oregon R. O. T. C. needs most if increased gov ernment appropriations such as are provided for in the present bill before congress would make it possible for the local unit to expand, Harvey Wright, star mem ber of the rifle team, believes. "The outdoor rifle range has many advantages over the inside range such as we have now,” Wright said. "For one thing it would not be necessary to have artificial light, which is difficult to shoot by. Then there would be ground to brace oneself on, which is very important. The at mosphere in the outdoor range is also much better. There is no steam to bother a person,” he added. Wright also believes that a non commissioned officer should be provided for who would supervise the shooting. With a man in charge who had no other duties, it would be possible to keep the range open all day, while at pres ent the range is open only part of the time. The annual Shakespeare birth-. day festival at Stratford-on-Avon j will commence April 21, and con tinue for five weeks. The regu lar summer festivals of Stratford on-Avon will begin July 7, and continue until September 13. Officer I raining School for Prison Work Is Planned College Men Wanted for Service, Says Letter To Dean Gilbert Plans are being made to profes sionalize the federal prison service by enlisting high grade officers and by establishing a system of professional training and promo tion cn merit, according to a let ter recently received from the de partment of justice by Dr. James H. Gilbert, dean of the college of literature, science, and the arts. A training school for officers has been established in New York City, where the men enter service as guards and take a four months’ course. At the conclusion of the train ing course officers are assigned to one of the federal penitentiaries or one of several prison camps in various parts of the • country. A man enters the federal prison service with a base pay of $1,620 per year and allowances which bring the total remuneration to SI,860. Within the guards' grade it is possible to reach a salary of $2,100 a year, and salaries in ad ministrative positions for which one may qualify after experience range from $2,100 to $7,000. “College men with specialized training for prison work have their place in the progressive penal pro gram laid down by the attorney general and the superintendent of prisons and embodied in bills now before congress,” states the letter. “An urgent appeal is made to the undergraduates and recent gradu ates of American colleges and uni versities to consider entering the federal prison service at this time.” CALIFORNIA MOTHERS AND DADS ORGANIZE (Continued from Page One) closer contact between parents and students. He brought out the im portance of the fine arts, espe cially music, in the students’ emo tional development. Regarding the educational pro gram of the University, E>r. Hall explained that one of his principal aims is to train students to think for themselves. He spoke of the vocational wrork being carried on by the personnel bureau, the Mis souri system of grading, the ad visory system, nonors iuuia«, Portland medical school, and many other angles of his University work. Forty-seven guests were present at the dinner—27 California par ents and 20 alumni. Short talks by the dads, mothers, and alumni completed the program. Mr. Kim ball acted as toastmaster. Plans are now being made by the California group for regular annual meetings with Dr. Hall to discuss matters relative to the University and Dr. Hall's develop ment program. j Newsreel Shows Reversed Drive - . Tree-Climbing Canine Is Also Film Feature A trick picture in which a girl is shown diving from a bridge into the millrace and going back to the j bridge is the feature of this week's Register-McDonald newsreel re cently finished by George Godfrey, director of the public relations bureau. The picture, Godfrey as serts, is not rewound or taken backwards, but actually shows the “reverse dive.” The reel will also show members of Alpha Phi, Gamma Phi Beta, and Zeta Tau Alpha swimming in the millrace, and pictures of the I Amphibian initiates. Shots of Art Anderson, Ed Hansen, and Paul Lafferty swimming when the snow was on the ground will be run again. A tree-climbing dog is to be included in the pictures, which will be shown at the McDonald theatre starting tonight. The Bible, still the best seller in the world, is now being dressed in colored covers, according to Ed ward S. Mills, president of the National Association of Book Pub lishers. Reds, blues and purples are replacing the somber blacks in cover designs for the Holy Book. April Schedule For 4Y’ Promises Many Activities ► Campus Organizations Will Greet Mrs. Imluk Kim, Of Korea, Monday A busy month is anticipated by the campus Y. M. C. A., accord ing to the April schedule released yesterday by M&x Adams, execu tive secretary of the organization. Monday and Tuesday of next week Mrs. Induk Kim, one of the leaders of the youth movement in Korea, will be on the campus. Mrs. Kim represents the Student Volunteer movement, and will in terpret modern Christian missions. Her program in Eugene is being arranged by both the student Y. M. and Y. W. ^ On April 14 the secretary of the League for Industrial Democracy will be on the campus to meet stu dent groups of men and women who are interested in economic problems. Charles H. Corbett, Christian World educational secretary for the student Y. M. C. A.’s and Y. W. C. A.'s, will be here April 18 to assist in organizing An inter national relations group of men. On the same day Roy McCulloush, executive secretary of the Inter collegiate Prohibition association, will be on the campus to organize a student group to study the liquor question. April 28, Frank Packard, presi dent of the Student Y at the Uni versity of Washington and also of || the Northwest Field council, will consult with the Y cabinet here and also will consult with men in terested in the Seabeck conference. Members of the Y cabinet will go to Corvallis April 11, 12, and 13 for the cabinet officers’ train ing conference for student Y’s of the state. Speakers at the con ference will be Dad Elliot, Charles Corbett, and Roy McCullough. WE RESOLVE DEAUVILLE SANDALS JIM THE SHOE DOCTOR * • • c FiNE TURKISH and DOMESTIC tobaccos, not only BLENDED but CROSS-BLENDED in a cigarette it's No GOOD EVER COMES of minding other men's matters.” We mind our own business, making cigarettes of good taste. And let others say what they will, taste is what counts! We know . . . for billions and billions of Chesterfields, blended and cross-blended, the standard Chesterfield method, have been made to just one formula: "TASTE above everything " Taste/ MILO . . . and yet THEY SATISFY i ' ::; T 'S--. l ' C.