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VOLUME XXXII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 8, 1930
The Weather
Cloudy but with clearing Thurs
day. Wind from southwest.
Yesterday
Maximum . 64
Minimum . 54
| Precipitation .50
NUMBER 5
Fall Calendai
Social Events!
Now Complete
- Soph Informal on Nov. 1;
Homecoming and Dad’s
Dates Are Set
Several Houses Have Not
Yet Scheduled Dances
With Dean
The social calendar for the fall
term was released Tuesday after
noon by the dean of women's of
fice. Not all houses have sched
uled their dances for the fall term,
and those which have not are ask
ed to do so immediately.
The Sophomore Informal, the
only class dance of the term, is
dated for November 1. Two fresh
man assemblies, on October 14
■f and 28, are also scheduled. Dad’s
Day is to be October 25. Home
coming is slated for November 8.
Oregon students will have from
November 27 to 30 for vacationing
during the Thanksgiving holidays.
Fall finals are put down for De
cember 15 to 19, and on December
20 Christmas vacation begins.
The calendar is:
October 10, Friday
S. A. E. pledge dance.
October 11, Saturday
A. W. S. Hello dance — after
I1UUU.
Delta Tau Delta pledge dance.
Alpha Omicron Pi pledge dance.
Theta Chi pledge dance.
Beta Theta Pi pledge dance.
Alpha Delta Pi pledge dance.
Alpha Chi Omega pledge dance.
October 13, Monday
Heads of Houses dinner.
October 14, Tuesday
Freshman assembly, 9 o’clock.
October 15, Wednesday
President's reception.
Art School Bust,
k . October 16, Thursday
A. W. S. Get Wise party, 4-6
p. m.
October 18, Saturday
Washington game at Portland.
October 24, Friday
Delta Gamma pledge dance.
Alpha Upsilon pledge dance.
Susan Campbell informal.
Sigma Nu pledge dance.
Sigma Pi Tau pledge dance.
Alpha Xi Delta pledge dance.
Pi Beta Phi pledge dance.
Hendricks hall informal.
Kappa Kappa Gamma pledge
dance.
Delta Delta Delta pledge dance.
October 25, Saturday
Dad’s Day, closed to dances.
October 28, Tuesday
Moroni Olsen play.
Freshman assembly.
October 31, Friday
Gamma Phi Beta pledge dance.
Phi Gamma Delta pledge dance.
Zeta Tau Alpha pledge dance.
Sigma Phi Epsilon pledge dance.
Alpha Phi pledge dance.
Sherry Ross dinner dance.
Kappa Sigma pledge dance.
Kappa Delta pledge dance.
November 1, Saturday
Sophomore informal, closed to
dances.
November 7, Friday
University of Washington Frosh
and Oregon Frosh, Night football
game.
November 8, Saturday
Homecoming.
(Continued on Page Four)
Morris Explains
\ Big Registration
witless Students Retreat
To College Cover
The economic solution of why
the enrollment at the University
is larger this year in spite of the
fact that it is a period of depres
sion is given by Victor P. Morris,
professor of economics.
“A period of depression works
two ways," he said. “First, it tends
to keep some students away from
school because they lack the neces
sary funds. Second, it tends to
draw others because they have the
money to go on but are unable to
get a good job. In other words
there are not as many jobs to com
pete with going to school.”
According to Mr. Morris, the
eastern schools have had a large
increase in enrollment, too, and
economists are of the belief that in
a period of depression people rec
ognize the need of specialization
and accordingly flock to the
schools of higher education.
Two Will Run for
Secretarial Job
Of Class of 1932
Carol Hurlburt and Marie
Meyers Nominated in
Meeting Last Night
Carol Hurlburt and Marie Mey
ers were nominated for the office
of secretary of the junior class
at a meeting held in Villard hall
last night. Election will be held
next week, with Kelsey Slocum
in charge of the election board.
His assistants will be announced
soon.
Choice of a new secretary for
the class of 1932 was made neces
sary this term when Alice Win
gate did not return to school.
Plans for junior class activities
during the year were discussed at
the meeting, the first this term,
and committees to arrange for a
class dance some time in Novem
ber, the Junior Vodvil, Shine Day,
and similar events will be named
soon by Art Potwin, class presi
dent.
The meeting seemed to carry on
the traditions of the class of 1932
to be funny, and speeches by Bill
Barendrick, John Penland, Jack
Stipe, Bob Miller, and Potwin
brought loud laughter from the
room.
Attendance at the meeting was
pronounced by Potwin the largest
he had ever seen.
Tliacher Named as Judge
Of Short Story Contest
W. F. G. Thacher, professor of
advertising and short story writ
ing, has been named as a judge
in a contest planned by Foster and
Kleiser company, on "How Adver
tising Has Increased My Happi
ness." This contest will be part
of a general educational campaign
which the company now has In
project.
The judges will act as a com
mittee of five. The others are Dr.
Vernon McKenzie, dean of the
school of journalism, University of
Washington, chairman; Herman
Nater and Don Francisco, both ad
vertising men of Los Angeles; and
one judge still to be named.
“Oregon? That’s Out Near
Cal.,” Says Columbia Stude
"Oregon—that’s out west some
where—near California, isn’t it?”
Spoken by a “darn good looking
girl" at a Columbia university
dance, this statement impressed
Gifford "Buck” Nash as indica
tive either of the failure of the
geography professors of the east
or of the reluctance of Oregonians
to advertise their native wares.
However, it was only a minor
incident on a trip that started
June 20th when Jim Raley, Jack
Hempstead, and “Buck” Nash sped
out of town in a light roadster for
points east with the ultimate in
tention of arriving at Columbia in
time for Hempstead and Raley to
take in the summer session there.
Their itinerary included Yellow
stone park, Chicago, Indianapolis,
Cleveland, Niagara Falls, New
y York, Washington, and St. Louis.
"In Chicago,” according to Nash,
"the first thing, a policeman mo
tioned us to the curb and warned
us about leaving our car alone.
He said that if we did when we
returned there might be no car
left. Aside from this slight indi
cation we saw nothing of the re
ported lawlessness.”
The beauty of Michigan avenue
impressed them but in New York—
"The size of the foreign element
in New York’s population impress
ed me greatly,” Nash continued.
“In the subways sometimes as
many as 20 foreign newspapers
might be seen—Magyars rubbed
elbows with Patagonians—I don’t
know, for sure,” he broke off with
a laugh, “whether they were from
there or not but they very easily
could have beeen.
Another interesting thing is the
' manner in which the different na
: tionalities cling to their identities.
As an illustration of this point—
(Continued on Page Two)
Lower Music
Fees Attract
New Students
Dean Landsbury Attributes
Large Registration to
Smaller Expense
Dr. Hall's Interest Brings
Reductions; Instruments
Purchased To Rent
In order to bring courses in mu
sical education within the finan
cial reach of every student in the
University, the school of music
has inaugurated this year a new
low price policy which cuts course
fees to one-third and less of their
traditional size.
Heretofore nearly all class-room
courses at the music school bore
a “lab” fee of $9. This year none
are over $3 and some run as low
as $1.
“The school is now in a finan
cial position to take the major
share of the course fee load off the
pocketbooks of the poor students,"
Dean John F. Landsbury, the dean
explained.
A student registration which ex
ceeds the figures of any previous
year is apparently one of the re
sults of the new low cost of a mu
sical education, according to
Landsbury. A larger percentage of
students majoring in other schools
are taking musical theory than
ever before.
To the active interest of Presi
dent Hall is due most of the credit
for the ability of the music school
to make these reductions, says
Dean Landsbury.
"Dr. Hall has a splendid attitude
toward the place of art and music
in a general college education and
without his assistance we would
not have been able to lower our
fees.”
A less restricted budget has en
abled the school to purchase a
number of valuable instruments
which will be rented to students
who do not wish to buy their own
for the nominal sum of $1 a
month. Six cellos, six violas, six
double-basses, and four French
horns are now on hand for this
purpose, and more will be purchas
ed if there is a demand for them.
Courses affected by the reduc
tion in fees include the following
groups: harmony, history and ap
preciation of music, counterpoint,
composition, orchestra and band
organization, and musical litera
ture.
Dr. Hall To Speak
At Convocations
Two Frosh Assemblies on
Sked for Month
Two assemblies designed espe
cially for freshmen, at which Dr.
Arnold Bennett Hall, president of
the University, will speak, have
been scheduled for October 14
and 28.
It has become a custom for Dr.
Hall to give a series of lectures
for the freshman class only since
he came here four years ago.
These lectures are designed for
the guidance and benefit of the
freshmen, and have proved among
the most popular addresses which
the president delivers throughout
the year. Last year Dr. Hall gave
two such addresses at the invita
tion of the freshman class.
The first of the assemblies
comes next Tuesday at 9 o’clock
in- the music auditorium. John
Stark Evans, assistant dean of the
school of music, is to play the pipe
organ. There will be no other pro
gram. All 9 o’clock freshman
classes will be dismissed.
Dr. Townsend Will Talk
At Crossroads Meeting
Dr. H. G. Townsend, of the phi
losophy department, is the princi
pal speaker scheduled for the first
meeting of the Cross-roads club
to be held tomorrow evening at 8
o’clock in Alumni hall.
“Freedom In or Out” will be
discussed by Dr. Townsend in the
20-minute lecture period. At each
meeting the members hear papers
by various University professors.
After each talk a general discus
sion follows in which timely topics
are analyzed.
Hello Yourself!
Adele Wedemeyer wants the entire University of Oregon to know
there’s going to be a “Hello” dance at the Igloo Saturday afternoon.
So she’s packing around a giant “hello” tag that looks like the ones
to be worn by students at the “jig.” A. W. S. is sponsoring the event,
and Adele is general chairman.
Community Chest
Drive Starts on
Campus Monday
Robert Hall, Chairman,
Has Selected Assistants
Among Faculty
The Community Chest drive on
the campus will begin next Mon
day, it was announced last night
by Robert C. Hall, associate pro
fessor of journalism, who has been
appointed chairman of the Univer
sity division of the Eugene Com
munity Chest.
The canvass will be a short, In
tensive one, lasting for only three
or four days, according to Mr. Hall,
and it is hoped that the quota for
the University employees will be
reached in less than a week. Mr.
Hall has appointed the following
committee which will meet with
the downtown group on October
10 to work with him in the cam
paign for funds:
L. Kenneth Shumaker, Group I
of the college; Dr. Victor P. Mor
ris, Group II of the college; Prof.
E. E. DeCou, Group III of the col
lege; Dr. Ralph R. Huestis, Group
IV of the college; Prof. Maude I
Kerns, architecture and allied arts;
Prof. Arthur B. Stillman, business
administration; Dr. Nelson L. Boss
ing, education; Prof. George Turn
bull, journalism.
Prof. Charles G. Howard, law;
Roy G. Bryson, music; Dr. John F.
Bovard, physical education; Drj
Dan E. Clark, extension division;
E. P. Lyon, administration, includ
ing A. S. U. O. officials; A. H.
Foote, janitors; A. P. McKinzey,
depot and grounds; M. H. Doug
lass, library; Mrs. Genevieve Tur
nipseed, dormitories.
Household Arts School
Proud of New Equipment
The household arts department
reports the acquirement of new
equipment consisting of a carpet
for the dining room, glassware
china, serving tables, two new
stoves with heat regulator ovens
an electrical beater, electric toast
er. and table linen.
Miss Lillian Tingle, head of the
department, announced that the
tasteful furnishings of the dining
room in which the practice meals
are served were planned to har
monize with carrots, since thej
comprise a large part of the win
ter menus. The colors are made
up of orange shades which wil
also blend with table decorations
of marigolds and daffodils.
I
U. of O. Students
Teach Cadets at
University High
1 Principal’s Report Shows
Oregon Teachers in
All Departments
Forty-eight University of Ore
gon students are doing cadet teach
ing at University high school this
term, a report released from the
office of the principal, R. U. Moore,
shows.
The list is as follows:
English: Lucille Bowman, Min
nie Elmer, Myrtle Hubbard, Mrs.
Rena Holdman, Dana Logan, Wen
dell Smith, Beatrice Tabke, Vura
Whitsett.
Social science: Evelyn Carey,
Dorothy Eberhard, Rufh Lawrence,
Gwen Panton, Amy Van Horn.
Languages: Harriet Medernach,
Wilmadene Richolson, Margaret
Moss, Saverino Teresi, Miriam
Swafford, Beulah Jensen, Harriet
Kane, Anna Blom.
Library: Doris Hardy, Helen Os
burn, Jean Williams, Georgie Boyd
stun, Juanita Hannah.
Mathematics: Glenn Kimberling,
Grace Wharton, Ralph Hill, Holly
Fryer.
Commercial: Ruth Galloway, Lu
cille Husby, Myra Jordan, Velma
Matthes, W'ilbur Peterkin, Grace
Vath.
Science: Arthur Mason, Ednalois
Maxon, Robert Poucher, Gilbert
Sprague, Lillie Strom.
Art: Dorothy Shaw, Elvira Jen
sen.
Physical Education: Boys—Hal
Hatton. Girls—Evelyn Hamilton,
Lucille Hill, Mary Patricia McGow
and Orp^a Ager.
Congress Club Will Hold
Initial Meeting Tonight
The Congress club, campus pub
lic speaking organization, will hold
the first session of the year tonight
at 7:30 at the College Side Inn,
Merlin Blais, president announc
ed yesterday. At this time the
nomination officers will be held.
The subject for discussion will
be “Should all water power re
sources be owned and operated by
the government?” “This question
is of timely importance, because of
its place in the coming guberna
torial race,” the president said.
All freshmen interested in bet
tering their speaking abilities and
in broadening their views on cur
rent questions are invited to at
tend the first three open meetings.
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Oregon.)
Phil Metschan
Speaker Here
This Morning
Portland Man, Republican
Nominee for Governor.
To Discuss Issues
Sigma Delta Chi Schedules
Breakfast Meeting;
Adams Speaks
Phil Metschan, Republican can
didate for governor, will present
his platform and discuss state po
litical and economic developments
at 8 o'clock this morning before a
breakfast meeting of students and
faculty at the Anchorage. Sigma
Delta Chi, national professional
journalism fraternity, is sponsor
ing this second of addresses by
gubernatorial candidates. After
the breakfast, which will be open
tr all interested, Metschan will ad
dress Dean Eric W. Allen's class in
editing, and all others who may
wish to remain at the Anchorage
into the 9 o’clock hour.
Lester Adams, editorial director
of the Portland Telegram, who yes
terday presented the views of Ju
lius Meier in the absence of the
independent candidate, explained
Meier’s stand on public power de
velopment and conservation. Meier,
he said, as an associate of the late
Senator George Joseph had with
Joseph always been deeply inter
ested in and thoroughly informed
on the power situation.
Oregon, with a great proportion
of the potential waterpower in the
country, Adams declared, has been
held in check by the slow develop
ment of sites by private power
companies. Yet the public service
commission has favored these com
panies by guaranteeing them prof
it, he said. Other private enter
prises are not so guaranteed.
Abolition of the public service
commission will not leave the state
or municipalities without an ade
quate check, Adams said, for the
right to establish publicly owned
companies will prove a barricade
to rate increases.
"The last two weeks of the cam
paign,” the Telegram man fore
cast, "will see, it is my belief, a
still greater frenzy of mud-sling
ing."
Edward Bailey, Democratic nom
inee for governor will speak before
students in the near future.
Interest Shown in
Traditional Sale
Orders Will Be Taken Till
Friday Noon
With representatives in eacl
living organization on the campuf
keeping busy with orders foi
chrysanthemums for the Oregon
Washington game October 18, th<
traditional A. W. S. sale is going
strong. Orders will be taken un
til next Friday noon, at whicl
time all money must be turned ir
to Ann Baum.
Proceeds from the four chrys
anthemum sales which the A. W
S. will give this fall are to go t<
the infirmary fund.
Orders will be taken and paic
for in the living organizations or
the campus and at McMorran anc
Washburne's and the Co-op foi
others not in contact with thesi
groups. At Portland on the daj
of the game students will presen
their receipts at Tommy Luke's
6th and Alder, and receive thei
flowers. There will be no mone;
transactions in Portland save ii
case a change in the size of thi
flower is desired.
Tommy Luke is giving over i
part of his store to the sale, an<
that section will be decorated witl
Oregon colors. Co-eds will be oi
duty Saturday to give out th<
flowers.
Girls are to wear chrysanthe
mums in the student section o
the stadium at Multnomah fiel<
as a part of the stunts betweei
halves of the game.
Representatives not having re
ceived their order blanks are ti
get in touch with Alexis Lyle
Gamma Phi Beta.
Dr. Clark Honored
Dr. R. C. Clark, head of the his
tory department, has been electe<
as one of the directors of the Ore
gon Historical society to succeei
John Gill.
Speakers Listed
For House Talks
‘Hello’ Dance Committee
Makes Rounds Today
Announcement of the all-campus
“Hello” dance, to be given Satur
day afternoon at the Igloo by the
Associated Women Students, will
be made at all living organizations
this noon by a group of sophomore
women, including active Kwamas.
They are:
Carol Werschkul, Mary Ellen
Bradford, Marjorie Swafford, Lou
ise Webber, Julia Creech, Lucille
Kraus, Betty Ann Macduff, Betty
Jones, Ellen Sersanous, Marian
McIntyre, Peggy Slauson, Adele
Wedemeyer, Jessie Judd, Aimee
Sten, Ardis Ulrich, Elizabeth
Scruggs, all Kwamas, and Frances
Keene and Mary Lou Muncy.
Working with the general com
mittee for dance preparations will
be a poster committee composed
of Barbara Mann, Anna Katherine
Garrett and Alberta Rives.
Military Band To
Give Concert on
Tuesday, Oct. 14
United States Marines Will
Play at Matinee and
Evening Both
The United States Marine band,
foremost among the great military
and concert bands of this country,
and known as the “president’s
own” because it plays for all the
state functions at the White
House, will appear in matinee and
evening concerts at McArthur
court, Tuesday, October 14.
Although the band has been
making annual tours through the
United States since 1911, this is
the first time in 20 years that it
has come to the Pacific North
west. This year the band is being
brought to Eugene under the aus
pices of the chamber of commerce
and the. national guard organiza
tions.
The United States Marine band
is the oldest military musical or
ganization in the country. It was
formed in 1801 immediately fol
lowing the moving of the capital
to Washington, and has been in
continuous existence since. Dur
ing this time it has had nine lead
ers, one being Philip H. Sousa,
who became more famous after
wards as leader of his own band.
The present leader, Capt. Taylor
Branson, joined the band when 17
years old, and is the first leader
whose parents were both native
Americans. He served for many
years as violin soloist for the band
and is the composer of a number
of stirring military marches which
he has dedicated to the marine
corps.
The band is composed of 50
pieces and the average term of
service of 18 years for its entire
present personnel.
The ticket sale for the two con
certs began Tuesday. Tickets may
be obtained at McMorran & Wash
burne, Chamber of Commerce,
Bank of Commerce, Crown Drug
Co., or the University Co-op. Gen
eral admission is $1, reserved seats
$1.50, and student tickets 50 cents.
At Portland, where the Marine
band is to appear Thursday, an
advance sale of more than 10,000
tickets is reported.
National Court
Star Enrolled
In University
Hope for Tennis Victories
Rises With Entrance of
Sidney B. Wood
National Rating Gives Star
Sixth Place in Singles
In United States
By VINCENT OATES
Oregon's otherwise shady hopes
for tennis supremacy on the Pa
cific coast suddenly shot sky-high
yesterday, when Stanley Almquist,
redoubtable Webfoot tennis star,
arrived on the campus with Sidney
B. Wood, Jr., recent conqueror of
Ellsworth Vines in the Seabright
tournament, and now recognized
as a seeded and possible Davis
Cup player among the youthful
court prodigies of the country.
Wood, slender, flaxen-haired and
still to see his nineteenth birthday,
enrolled in the University of Ore
gon yesterday afternoon. S. Ste
phenson Smith, coach of the Ore
gon racqueteers, was enthusiastic
over Wood’s appearance on the
campus, and said that the addition
of such a star to the Oregon team
would mean a probable champion
ship in doubles and certainly added
laurels in singles.
Summary of Wood’s Records
A long summary of Wood's rec
ords, victories and court triumphs
by Allison Danzig, New York
Times sports editor, gives a few
highlights on the young sensa
tion's colorful career. According
to that sports authority, if Wood
never does another thing on the
tennis courts, his fame is secure
as the player who crushed Vines
in the Seabright field of star
racquet wielders. His stunning
defeat of the all-conquering won
der from the sunny courts of Cali
fornia, is an accomplishment in it
self that will be remembered for
some time to come. Vines, gan
gling six-footer from Pasadena,
came out of the western courts
with a style of play that remained
unsolved until his precipitous fall
at the hands of Wood. Vines had
astounded the tennis world with a
meteoric rise in two weeks that
set followers of the sport to take
new life in the future of Amer
ica's lost supremacy on the courts.
He had marched triumphantly
through the metropolitan cham
pionship and Seabright’s best, tak
ing the measure of such stars as
Frank Shields and Frank Hunter,
when his last obstacle, and not too
formidable one at that, remained
in the path of a clean sweep. That
obstacle was none other than the
person of Sidney B. Wood, Jr. To
even think of defeating the un
beatable Californian seemed al
most presumptuous. It was an
accepted fact that the devastating
fire of Vines’ bullet service and the
piercing strokes of his volleys
could not be stopped.
Faced Handicap In Match
This was the psychological
handicap which Wood faced in his
match with the Pasadena wizard
of the turf. As thousands of spec
tators looked r.n, expecting to see
a sure victory for Vines, they were
startled, stunned and finally just
coming out of a mob lethargy,
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Team Will Fly to New York
If Tommy Can Get His Way
i “We’re going to the New York
« university game next year by
plane if I can talk “Doc” Spears
i into the idea. We woud save over
I a thousand dollars on meals
i alone!” Tommy Williams sank
l back on the Sigma Chi lounge and
> reveled inwardly at the thought
of a thousand dollar cut in ex
- penses.
r “Think of paying $31.90 for a
I breakfast for that bunch! And
l the same thing again for lunch
They ate a hundred dollars worth
■ of food in two evenings, and train
> ing rations at that.”
, The menus, Tommy Williams
recounted, were sent to the Union
Pacific officials of the Portland
Rose two weeks in advance of the
■ trip, and a special diner was at
I i tached to the train to serve the
-1 Oregon team. Extra precautions
1 :were taken that the drinking watei
I might not effect the condition oi
the players, and no one suffered
from the many changes in the type
of water used during the trip.
"The mineral water that the fel
lows had to drink in the various
states through which we passed
could have ruined their fine physi
cal edge in less than a day, but it
was watched closely all the time.
Tommy grinned at Johnny Lon
dahl, who was pulling “Firpo’s”
ear. "Of course ‘Doc’ Spears, Bill
Hayward and I ate real meals in
the regular style, but at the same
price. Johnny got some good meals
on the way home over the north
ern route, but he never will know
how good the meals were on the
way east.”
"At Pocatello a delegation of
Oregon alumni took the team to
the stadium of the University of
Idaho, southern branch, for a very
short signal practice, and rushed
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