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VOL. XXXI—XO. Ill EUGENE, OREGON. THURSDAY, APRIL 44. 11)30 C A R PI S EDITION 4 I* AGES PRICE FIVE CENTS STIIIT VOTERS FACE CHALLENGE May Primary Election ► Rights Questioned. WILL REGHECK ON CENSUS Governor’s Race Close Is Cause of Trouble. ECHO OF MOVIE FIGHT Many Registered for National Polls in 1928, Fail to Claim Eugene as Home Town. A check-up on University of Oregon students who have regis tered here for the municipal and state elections was started yester day when an investigation of fed eral census figures showed a rela tively small number of students giving their permanent addresses as Eugene. At the same time, a perusal of registration figures showed that a large number of these same students had registered here giving their permanent ad dress as Eugene. A definite check was made in precinct No. 22, which is bounded by Patterson on the west and by Broadway and 11th on the north and south, and the city limits on the east. There are 337 students in this area who have registered far voting, yet there are compara tively few enumerated on the cen sus role with Eugene given as their permanent address. The Sig ma Nu house has 34 registered voters, yet the census shows but 1 two Eugene residents living there. The Beta Theta Pi house has 19 voters registered for Eugene while the census, shows but one with a permanent Eugene address. Other houses checked upon, according to W. B. Dillard, county clerk, and J. H. Koke, district census super visor, show similar discrepancies. Because of the closeness of the expected ballot here at the pri maries the students may expect a severe challenging of their votes. County Clerk Dillard is of the opinion that residence is where the voter is registered. With sworn affidavits from the federal census staring them in the face, students who expect to vote are going to have a difficult time ex plaining two permanent resi dences. Figures of Orvil Lindstrom, statistician of the registrar’s of fice, show 461 men and 362 women or approximately one-quarter of the total enrollment of 3,277 stu dents with their permanent ad dress given as Eugene. I HISTORY CITES TWO CASES Church Brotherhood Made Fuss Over Last National Poll. A check-back on the records shows a questioning of student votes in 1906 when student voting Concluded on Paj?e 4, Column 2. CHICAGO MAN. GIVEN ROLE IN ORATORIO LESTER SPRING, SOLOIST, ENGAGED BY EVANS. Cast of Haydn’s “The Creation,” To Be Presented on May 16, Ineludes 150 Students. John Stark Evans, member of the music faculty, who is conduct ing- the Eugene Oratorio society in its presentation of Haydn's “The Creation," to be given at McArthur court on May 16, an nounced yesterday that -Lester Spring, ( gaged to in the oi Spring gene fro where h< in the p ation,” p Uval to 7, 8. John , school Boardm; partmen 'go, has been en ! bass soloist role £ I 8 I c; a 'B < ne direct to Eu igham, Alabama, irry the solo role ice of “The Cre >r the Music Fes there on May 6, jury, dean of the ic, and Arthur of the voice de rsonally acquaint ed with Spring., Boardman having sung with him frequently in mid dle west concerts. “He is a splendid oratorio sing er," Boardman said. “I am antici pating with pleasure singing with him as fellow soloist in ‘The Cre ation’ next month.” The signing of Spring completes the list of soloists for the produc tion next month. Arthur Board man will sing the tenor role, and Mis3 Ruth Somerindyke of Los Angeles will take the soprano part. John Stark Evans is training the chorus for the oratorio. About 50 per cent of its personnel of 300 are University students. The Uni versity orchestra will be used with the chorus in the production, and has begun rehearsals under the tutelage of Evans and Rex Under- . wood. ! HART GETS PEN TERM j Dclt Imposter Sentenced To Serve Three Years at Salem. Pleading guilty in Judge Skip worth's court yesterday to a charge of taking money under false pretenses, Allen Hart, 26 years old, was sentenced to the state penitentiary for a maximum ter mof three years. Last Friday Hart posed at the Delt house here as a “brother” from Wisconsin. After he had passed several worthless checks and stolen clothing in the house he left for Corvallis where he was apprehended Tuesday. --- PLEDGES TO GIVE STUNT Sigma Delta Chi Neophytes Will Perform on Library Steps. Before going to the nominating ! assembly this morning, drop around to the library steps for the i show. • It is scheduled for 10:50, and it ' is not to be disciplining of frosh. Eight Sigma Delta Chi pledges have a most solemn ritual to per form before the student body. It is to be no light comedy and those who dampen handkerchiefs at sad movies are advised not to come. The affair is strictly formal and will incidentally be a fashion show in the latest models of men’s eve ning clothes. The models will be Barney Miller, Willis Duniway, Jack Burke, Peorge Thompson, Phil Cogswell, Bob Allen, Merlin j Blais, and Dave Wilson. Jones To Compete in Oratory Contest; Tonight's Meet Closes Forensic Season Oregon’s forensic season closes tonight with Charles Jones, var sity debater, competing in Cor vallis in the state constitution con test, and the freshman team de bating Linfield’s squad here. “Teach Yputh the Constitution,” is the subject on which Jones will speak. The representatives of four schools, Oregon, Oregon State, Willamette, and Linfield, will give their addresses in the little thea tre auditorium of the O. S. C.’s administration building, at 8:15. The contest is being sponsored by the Better America Federation of California. The winner at Corval E7-* PROGRAM FOR SENIOR LEAP WEEK. Today. Kappa Koffee—3:30 to 5:30 at Kappa Kappa Gamma house. Bring calling Co-ed’s Revenge—8:30 to 10:30 at Delta Gamma house. No-date affair. Friday. Mortar Board Ball—9 at men’s dormi tory. Formal. Kwama pledging. Saturday. Bar-room Bust—9 to 12 at Hendricks hall. (No picnic Saturday on account of unsettled weather.) lis will enter a zone final and the victor in this will vie for some of the $5,000 prize money in the na tional championships at Los An geles, June 19. This is Jones’ first year in var sity debate competition. As a jun ior in history, he has been interest- j ed in literature and his perform ance in the forensic field this year has been remarkable. The Oregon frosh team, com posed of Charles Dalloff and John King, will debate Linfield at 7:30 . in 105 Commerce this evening, j The frosh will uphold the affirma tive side of the question: Resolv ed, That the nations of the world adopt a plan for complete dis armament except such forces as are necessary for police protec tion. W. E. Hempstead Jr., instructor in English, said in connection with tonight’s activities, “they are two suitable events closing a season successful in every respect—there having been as large a number of men and women, varsity and fresh man, debates, oratory, and extem poraneous speaking contests as during any previous season. More than 30 students have represent ed Oregon officially.” LEAP WEEK OPENS TODAY AT DANCES Kappa Koffee, Co-ed's Revenge on Program. INFORMALITY IS KEYNOTE Crazy Calling Cards Needed For Afternoon Affair. t ORIGIN OF CUSTOM TOLD Event Has Been Big; Feature Of Spring; Terms Since 1922, University Graduate Says. Senior women are queens of the campus for a week-end! Today marks the opening of Senior Leap Week festivities with men taking the decided background, and the women taking the initiative in spending the dough. Today at 4 o’clock the senior women of Kappa Kappa Gamma will be hostesses for the annual Kappa Koffee which begins at 3:30 and lasts until 5:30. Senior Leap Week has been a prominent feature of spring term ever since 1922. A sidelight was thrown upon this event and how it was started by Lyle P. Bartholo mew, A. S. U. O. president in 1922, who visited the campus yesterday. According to him the story runs thus. Custom's Origin Related. A group of majors were playing horseshoes one day back of the architecture building when they thought of a crippled girl, a hunchback, who was liked by everyone, yet because of physical deformity she had probably never had a date. Senior Leap Week was then begun with the condi tion that every man must accept the first date that he received. Every woman’s house held some affair, and it proved so popular that it went on into half of the next week and then, was stopped only because it was thought the faculty would put a ban on it. Such was the beginning of this famous week-end which has sur vived down to the opening of Kappa Koffee. Informality is the keynote of this afternoon’s enter tainment, and everyone who comes must bring calling cards of a hu morous variety to gain admittance, according to Naomi Hohman, who is in charge. No senior man will be allowed to attend unless some senior woman has deigned to in- > vite him to go along with her, “strictly a date affair,” says Miss Hohman. Co-ed’s Revenge is the lurid Concluded on *Page 4, Column 1. JOHN KING WINNER IN SPEECH CONTEST GEORGE BATEMAN SECOND; ROY CRAFT, THIRD. Eleven Enter the Vice-president Extempore Meet; Nine Named for Prizes. John King, of Milton-Freewater, took first place in the Vice-presi dent freshman extempore speak ing contest held last night. King's subject was “Dollar Diplomacy,” and in his talk he brought out the exploitive policies of bo.th Great Britain and the United States, and he argued that this principle in dealing with other nations, if con tinued, would bring serious conse quences on the imperialistic na tions. George Bateman, of Medford, took second place, on the subject, “The American Penal System." He discussed the defects in the present system of prisons, and suggested constructive remedies for these defects. Roy Craft, of McCleary, Wash ington, received third prize, dis cussing “America’s Crime Situa tion.” Charles Dolloff, of Port land, won fourth place, speaking on the same subject. The last five prizes were taken by' Sterling Green, of Portland, who spoke On “Independence for India”; Ethan Newman, of Eugene, on the sub ject “Recognition of Russia”; Les Conglutkul on Page 4. Column 1._' MRS. WICKHAM TOPS WINTER HONOR ROLL STUDENT SCORES 96 POINTS TO LEAD UNIVERSITY. Accomplishment Is Second Time In Succession; Thirty-four Total More Than 89. Honors for the highest grades in the University went for tt\f sec ond time in succession to Mrs. Golda Wickham with a total of 96 points on 20 hours, according to an announcement of spring term grades made late last night from the registrar's office. Running a close second to Mrs. Wickham was Doris Patterson, who totaled 94 points on the same number of hours. A third candi date for honors was William Cutis with 93 points. Although the total number of hours carried count in the compi lation of grades for highest num ber of points, only 19 hours are allowed for graduation and only the points gained from those will be used when house averages are computed, state officials. A Uni versity ruling scales that a load of 19 hours is the greatest that can be carried without petitioning for the privileges. Occasionally ex ceptions to the rule are made and a student is allowed credit towar.i graduation above the 19 hour mark. Students who made grade points above 80 are as follows: David Concluded on Pa^e4, Column 5._ He Purchases a Coat for Two Bits; Campus Auction Provides Amusement “Going, going, gone! What am I offered ? Not a hole in it. Sold to that man with a mouth full of teeth! Who wants a good pair of glasses ? Fifteen, who’ll say twenty ? Twenty ? Sold for twenty cents to the little red headed boy. Scarfs, who wants a scarf? Mmm, found on the lawn. Somebody hit me for what I’m thinking. Sold for six bits. Um brella! Never been opened. Bet ter than new. Sold for four bits. That guy got stung. “Ladles’ hats, Meadowbrook, Knox, and Stetson, Paris, New York, and San Francisco. What am I offered? All three for fif teen cents. Sold! Wait a min ute. I gotta get a drink! Who wants a silver compact? Going, going, gone to Mimnaugh! Kick through, Brian. “Who wants a Kappa Sig pledge pin? Who’ll give me five cents? They give ’em away over by the mill race. Here’s a Theta note book. Be exclusive with a Theta notebook. Going, once, twice, gone1 for two bits. Step right up, don’t be backward. Here’s a raincoat. What am I offered ? Initials, seal, pictures, and all for sixty-five cents. “Who wants a real diamond ring? Here boys, get engaged for two bits. Going, going, gone, to the man with his face hanging out! Get a top coat, New York make. Who wants it? One dol lar! Who'll give two? Sold to Milligan for three. We take cash, checks and I. O. U.’s. Who wants a compact? Sold! And you get stung! Any Kwama’s here? I need some help. Where are those Kwamas?” Umbrellas, compacts, diamond rings, books, slickers, gloves, a pair of black sox, hats, berets, scarfs, and what have you all ap pealed to a large crowd which hung around the Library steps and listened to the appeal of Bill Knox’ voice. Bill’s voice must have had some appeal for it brought the Associ a t e d Women Students $98.50, which is a good deal more than the amount cleared last year, ac cording to officials of the lost and found department of the Univer sity depot. The above sample of the Knox line will be continued today from the same libe steps from 12:30 till 1:30, when the veteran and suc cessful auctioneer will cajole the crowd into buying books of every size, shape and content. According to the officiating officer anyone who has lost a book will have a chance to buy it back. We heartily recommend that you attend today’s session. Sit up on the stairs, close to the speiler and you may hear some of the cracks which we would like to print and which we don’t, and not because there isn’t space enough. Go anyway, you might get a good bargain. Lots did yesterday. TO THE VICTOR BELONGS THE FRUITS I'M A GOOD ,, BOV, MOM! /NOW, TO THE ONE WHO PROVES TO BE THE BEST OF YOU, I WILL GIVE THIS NICE,' JUICYAPPLE f Y'KNOW' ME, MOM < y ? LET ME' ) f l TOSS IT UP/ Class Schedules Cause of Several Changes. — LUNCHEON INITIAL EVENT Vodvil Acts Will Be Part of Canoe Fete Bill. FOOTBALL TILT SLATED Friday Afternoon and Saturday Morning Classes To Be Cut, Biggs States, The complete schedule of events for the annual Junior Week-end to be held May 9, 10, and 11, was announced Wednesday afternoon by Hal Johnson, general chairman of the week-end directorate. Due to the change in University class schedules this year, the usual times of some events have been changed. The activities of the week-end will start with the campus lunch eon, scheduled for 12:30 Friday noon, May 9. Tennis court danc ing will be held after the lunch eon. Plenty of music and several new features have been planned for entertainment during the serv ing. Campus events, including the flivver race and other new fea tures, will be held Friday after noon. The tug-of-war will also be held during the afternoon. Canoe Fete Friday. The annual Canoe Fete will be held on the mill race Friday eve ning and several vodvil acts have' been booked for the occasion. A big stage will be constructed on the far side of the race to enable a complete chorus to appear at the Fete. Water carnival sports will be held Saturday morning, and the traditional burning of the green lids of the frosh will follow. Canoe races and swimming events for both men and women will be in cluded in the water carnival pro gram. The big community chest bene fit football game and field meet, under the direction of Coach Doc Spears, will furnish plenty of ex citement for Saturday afternoon. Two picked Oregon football teams will meet in a regulation 60-min ute battle. Numerous special events are also on tap and play ers will be awarded prizes for in dividual excellence in these. Tea Planned. A tea for visiting mothers will also be given Saturday afternoon, and the prom queen will preside at the Junior Prom Saturday night. Mother’s Day, on Sunday, will conclude the festivities and all houses are expected to be hosts to the mothers. The services of Johnny Robinson and his revamped band of Varsity Vagabonds have been secured for the Canoe Fete and the Junior Prom, according to an announce ment /nade by Johnson. The band to play at the other events has _Concluded on Page 4, Column 1. CAMPUS BULLETIN Tall girls' and men'* c’lorus for Junior Vodvil, practice tonight ai 7:45 at the Gerlinger building for Canoe Fete. National Collegiate Players' meeting to day at 5 o’clock in the drama department office. All pledges and members requested to attend. Meeting of Junior Prom directorate at the Alpha Beta Chi house at 8 o'clock this evening. All members must be pres ent. Kwamu members, both sophomores and juniors, are urged to attend a meeting tonight at 5 o'clock in Gerlinger hall. Phi Beta will hold an important meet- | ing today at 4:15 in Susan Campbell hall, i Very important Amphibian meeting to- ! day at 5 o'clock in the W. A. .A. room of j Gerlinger hall. All members must be , Water Carnival directorate of Junior | Week-end will meet in room 105, Journal ism building, at 5 o'clock this afternoon. Very important. Annual meeting for nominations of the Co-op board of directors will be held Mon day at 4 o’clock in 106 Commerce. Gamma Alpha Chi will meet in 204 Journalism at 6 o'clock today. Members and pledges be there. The Woman in Her Sphere group will meet Sunday at 4 o'clock in the women’s lounge of Gerlinger hall. Seniors, Notice—Order commencement announcements, caps and gowns, and souv.-nirs at the Co-op before Saturday, April 26. This is very important. Christian Science Organization meets to night at 7:30 in the Y. W. C. A. bunga Pledging Announcement*. Alpha Delta Pi announces the pledging of Edith Losstedt, of Astoria, and Nlar garct Cook, of Portland. Theta Omega announces the pledging of Gladys Collins of Eugene. ALPHA DELTA SIGMA PLANS CONVENTION; ADVERTISING MEN OF STATE TO MEET HERE MAY 3. Elaborate Program for Banquet Will Be Presented at New Men’s Dorm. Preparations for the Oregon Advertising convention, May 3 and 4, being conducted by the W. F. G. Thacher chapter of Alpha Delta Sigma, national honorary advertis ing fraternity, are rapidly swing ing under way. It is expected to be one of the largest advertising gatherings ever to be held in the State of Oregon outside of Port land. Appblntments have been made of the committee to make arrange ments for the elaborate program at the banquet to be held at the new men’s dorm, Saturday, May 3. The men appointed are Anton Pe terson, chairman; Bill Hammond, and Harry Tonkon. John Cuddy, managing editor of Californians, Inc., will be the prin cipal speaker at the banquet. Rob ert W. Jones, of the University of Washington, and national presi dent of Alpha Delta Sigma, will speak at both the banquet and the reunion breakfast to be held Sun day morning. Invitations have been sent to advertising clubs and men through out the state. Besides the banquet and breakfast, golf and other forms of recreations will be of fered to the delegates. The committee in charge of the convention is as follows; George Weber, chairman; Anton Peter son, Harry Tonkon, William Ham mond, Charles Reed, Edward Bls sell, Jack Gregg, John Nelson, Harold Fraundorf, Addison. Brock man, Fletcher Udall, Dave Foster, and Dick Horn. 20 ARE GOLF HOLD-OUTS Rain Prevents Entrants Playing Qualifying Rounds. Hold-outs in the Emerald’s spring handicap golf tournament still numbered 20 yesterday. Rain has prevented many from playing their qualifying rounds and con sequently tourney play has been impossible. Golfers who have not turned in their qualifying scores are asked to communicate with Faulkner Short, Sigma Pi Tau, manager of the tournament. Cups and other awards will be displayed today at the Co-op, ac cording to Short. The tournament will begin as soon as the weather permits entrants to qualify. VIOLIN CONCERT TONIGHT Juanita Oskins, Juilllard Scholar, To Give Senior Recital. The second appearance of Juil liard music scholars this week will be made tonight at *8 o'clock when Juanita Oskins, violinist, will give her senior recital. Alice Holmbach, pianist, will be her as sistant. Miss Oskins will open her pro gram with the D-major sonata by Nardini. Her other two groups will be from Cottenet, Kreisler, Wieniawski, Bach-Kreisler and Nachez. Her program is anticipated as one of the most interesting of stu dent recitals this spring. She is said to have done fine work as the student of Rex Underwood. ORATORS TO HOLD FORTH AT MEETING Nominations Slated for Today at Gerlinger. STODDARD WILL PRESIDE Speakers Must Be Members Of Student Body. CLASSES ARE DISMISSED Regular Business Transaction From Floor Allowed; Forties Primed. Flowery and euphonious oratory from the tongues of some of the most persuasive speakers on the campus will be the highlight of the nominating assembly to be held at 11 o’clock this morning in Gerlinger hall, formerly known as the Woman's building. Eleven o’clock classes will be dismissed. The names of all the candidates except those to be nominated for the embryonic office of senior ex ecutive man have been known for a week past, and the capacity crowd which is expected to at tend, will be Interested principally in the competitive speeches to be made by the nominators in praise of their candidates. Each party has a list of its speakers drawn up, one for each candidate on the ticket. Each party has its supporters carefully coached on the importance of ap plause, and the noise which tradi tionally follows each nomination will be more Indicative of the ef ficiency of the party pep organi zation than of the rhetorical ex cellence of the speech. Tom Stoddard will preside at the meeting. He has announced that nominations may be made only by students who have the right to vote in the election. This ruling excludes fifth and sixth year stu dents and special students. The time limit on the nominating speeches will be as follows: presi dent, five minutes; vice-president and secretary, three minutes each; other offices, two minutes. The order in which nominations will be called will probably be president, vice-president and sec retary, executive woman, execu tive man, junior finance officer. The new titles are those incor porated in the proposed new con stitution to be voted upon the same day as new officers are elected, and their integrity is de pendent upon the acceptance of the constitution. At this meeting is one of the two regular business sessions held every year by the Associated Stu dents, the floor will be open to the transaction of legitimate busi ness, Stoddard said. The proposal of resolutions will be in order. Procedure in regard to voting on the proposed new constitution will be explained. Visiting President Declares Deferred Pledging Has Proved Unsatisfactory Editor's Note: This is the fifth of a series of articles giving both arguments ror anti against deferred pledging in or der to give some knowledge of the way the system might work if installed at the Univeisity of Oregon. By RALPH DAVID Dr. Francis W. Shepardson, na tional president of Beta Theta Pi, and former national vice-presi dent of Phi Beta Kappa, was in terviewed as to his opinions con cerning deferred pledging when he was on the campus this week. Dr. Shepardson was emphatic in saying that in 50 years as a mem ber of a fraternity, and 25 years as a member of the faculty at the University of Chicago, he had never heard an argument for de ferred pledging that was support ed by the actual fact of exper ience. In the freshman year the fra ternity can do the most good. The freshman needs the help of the older student; to show him mat ters of social etiquette, to help him with his studies, to show him what school spirit means, and to paddle him when the occasion de mands. "Living in a dormitory can be beneficial to the freshman only if there are competent men in charge who are capable of under standing the problems of the freshman, and who will willingly give of their time and experience.” Dr. Shepardson believes that a university that installed the de ferred pledging system would suf fer as a result because it would mean that fraternities would not be so eager to get high school men to come to that particular school when they realized that they would not be able to pledge them for a year. At the present time fraternity rushing is as much a rushing for the school as for the fraternity. There is a good deal of theory in deferred pledging that isn't sound, according to Dr. Shepard son. If there are rules that pre vent fraternities from rushing un til a certain period, it is altogether probable that the rushing will be carried on by the alumni members of fraternities who live in that particular community. “I am in favor of deferred init iation such as in use at the Uni versity of Oregon at the present time. If the scholastic standard to be reached before initiation is sufficiently high, freshmen will do much better work in a fraternity than in a dormitory,” concludes Dr. Shepardson.