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Go to Jinx
Tonight the Junior class is in
augurating a new all-campus
dance, the Junior Jinx. Everybody
go, make it a huge success and
it’s bound to tally as the initial
number of an annual event.
VOLUME XXXII
NUMBER 31
OREGON SPIRIT IS ON THE WAR PATH!-RALLIES ARE THE ORDER OF THE DAY-ANY TIME-ANY PLACE
RALLY SPIRIT SWEEPS OVER CAMPUS
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Choppie Parke
Likely to Start
At Kitz’s Half
Spears Concentrates on
Aerial Defense for
Beaver Passes
Forsta Scheduled To Call
Signals; Men Peppy
During Workout
Despite the drizzling rain and a
water-soaked gridiron, Dr. Clar
ence Spears Webfoot football team
showed plenty of spirit in the last
hard workout on Hayward field
Thursday night before the crucial
‘‘Civil War” battle with the Ore
gon State Beavers at Corvallis Sat
urday. Doc had the boys on edge
for the battle and they ran through
their plays with lots of pepper.
Doc spent the afternoon working
his team on a suitable defense
against the highly touted Beaver
passing attack and the Webfoot
backs were consistently knocking
down passes from the Oregon
State formations. Some time was
also spent ironing out the rough
spots in the Oregon offensive
plays and drilling the Webfoots on
their own aerial attack.
Kitz Still Out
Meanwhile Captain Johnny Kitz
miller, the Webfoot backfield ace
who was injured in the U. C. L. A.
game here last week, discarded his
crutches for a cane and was re
ported to be improving steadily
under the care of Bill Hayward,
varsity trainer. Whether or not
Kitz will be able to play against
the Orangemen is still a problem
and both Hayward and Spears
have about given up hope of hav
ing him in shape for the battle.
Hayward has rigged up an artific
ial tendon for his leg but Kitz is
still unable to walk.
Spears has been working hard
with his backfield trying to find
the strongest combination to put
on the field again the Beavers and
it is likely that he will start Chop
pie Parke at the halfback post left
vacant by the injury to Kitzmiller.
Parke has shown great improve
ment during the practice sessions
this week and has moved up from
third string berth to the first
string. Parke is built along the
lines of Howard Maple, who made
football history for Oregon State,
and is a shift open field runner.
Jack Erdley, Sam Rotenberg, and
Ed Moeller round out the probable
starting backfield.
Forsta Calls Signals
Eric Forsta, who has played
great football at center for the
Webfoots, will probably call the
signals for the Oregon eleven
against the Beavers. Forsta is a
great man when it comes to diag
nosing plays and he is considered
one of the brainiest players on the
squad.
The Staters are expected to have
a big job on their hands if they
elect to try and advance through
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Four Girls Stage
Nocturnal Battle
rpUE advent of winter to some
means snow and icy pave
ments and skiing in the hills, to
others it means “term shirts”
and slickers and leather coats,
to others it means long sessions
in Condon cramming for exams,
but to the frosh of Susan Camp
bell hall it means—mud!
And mud, to these same frosh,
means ammunition. Facing the
prospect of waiting until after
Christmas before snowballing
can begin in earnest, Marguerite
Blake and Catherine W'attson
last night challenged Mary Dan
iels and Barbara Gabriel to a
battle of the ages, in the form
of a mud-slinging barrage. Kin
caid field, in the shadow of the
new museum, was chosen as the
scene of ihe conflict, and pa
jamas and overalls, miscellane
ously assorted, were the garb of
combat.
Mud flew, screams rang out in
the dark, and the fighting soon
came to close quarters. At the
cessation of hostilities, the out
come was still a matter for
speculation, and possibly argu
ment, among the ringside spec
tators.
Monday Will Not
Be Holiday Even
If Oregon Wins
11 o’Clock Classes Will Be
Dismissed Saturday for
Rally Train
Monday will not be a holiday,
even though Oregon should be vic
torious over O. A. C., Hugh L.
Biggs, dean of men, announced
yesterday.
As a result of a meeting of rep
resentatives from the faculty and
student body yesterday afternoon,
it was decided that classes will be
held Monday, since all 11 o’clock
classes are to be dismissed Satur
cay morning to enable students to
catch the rally train.
The committee, which was com
posed of Dean Biggs and Dean
Karl W. Onthank from the admin
istration, George Cherry, president
01 the student body, John Creech,
yell leader, and Brian Mimnaugh,
rally chairman, request all stu
dents to cooperate in enforcing
their decision.
On the Monday after the Ore
gon-Washington game classes were
disrupted by an unofficial rally
which freshmen, unacquainted
with the University procedure
concerning the declaration of holi
days, started.
Since all requests for holidays
have been officially made through
this committee in past years, the 1
members desire uninformed stu- j
de.its to observe this plan.
If Oregon should win, however,
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Co-Eds Accused of Innocence
By Debater From Liverpool
By RUTH DUPUIS
“I was astonished by the atmos
phere of childish innocence at the
sorority houses. I would rather
have discovered some of your girls
than to have discovered America.”
B. J. Crehan, English debater from
1he University of Liverpool, receiv
ed some interesting impressions
from the Dime Crawl, which he
atteended Wednesday night. With
his colleague, D. Hope Elletson of
St. John's College, Oxford univer
sity, he was taken to several of
the sorority houses on the campus
for the Crawl.
"I was dancing with a young
lady at the Chi Omega house. I
told her that when I was in New
York I heard a lecture on Keats.
The young lady said, ‘Oh, yes. Mr.
Crehan, but what exactly are
keats?’ ”
“I hope that this is not a symbol
of the culture of the American wo
man,” Mr. Crehan said ruefully.
"The women are much shyer
than we would have thought,” he
said. “In England we were led to
expect the American women to be .
extremely broad-minded. The Eng
lish women are much the same as
your girls here except that the
American girls are prettier.”
Besides being astonished at the
childish innocence of the sorority
girls, the Englishman found the
girls to be curiously eager to give
| them the benefit of their inexper
i ience.”
Mr. Crehan says everything with
a twinkle in his voice as well as
his eyes, and it is rather hard to
! guess his meaning at times. The
, listener finds himself wary and
: listening very attentively for the
cleverly hidden double meanings
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t OREGON MARCHING SONG
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Students Object
^ MURDEROUS plot is brew
ing in the chemistry de
partment. The victims? Any
journalism student can tell you.
It seems that the chemistry
students first tried to drown the
promising young journalists by
letting the sink run over in the
laboratory. Water ran down in
torrents on the poor, unsuspect
ing students in a journalism
class room. Now it is acid!
Some young scientist, on mur
der bent, has spilled acid on the
laboratory floor and now it drips
down on those in the class room
beneath.
"I can stand to be hit in the
face with that awful gas they
make up there,” said one jour
nalism girl, tearfully voicing the
sentiments of her group,” and I
can stand to be drenched with
water, but when it comes to be
ing bathed in acid—I rise to pro
test!”
President Hall Is
Enjoying Hawaii
Drops of Acid
Message Received Telling
Of His Arrival There
A cablegram reporting the safe
arrival of Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall
in Honolulu was received yester
day by Mrs. Marian Ager, secre
tary to President Hall.
The message, sent at 10:30 in
the morning, was written in code
and consisted of two words:
ADBEI, AHAEL. When trans
lated according to the Western Un
ion code they read: “Arrived all
right. Pleasant passage. Advise
friends. Am feeling better.”
Dr. Hall plans to spend four
weeks in Hawaii swimming in the
surf and playing golf. He took the
trip on doctor’s orders as he had
had no vacation during the past
year.
Shortage on Bulletins
Along with the 40 per cent in
crease in enrollment in the grad
uate school this year, the graduate
office has exhausted its supply of
graduate bulletins.
This shortage will no doubt has
ten the publication of the 1931 bul
letin which usually put out in the
spring, according to Dean George
^ Rebec.
Emerald to Sponsor Contest
For Words to March Song
November 27 Set as Date
For Lyrics To Be
Turned in
. A new Oregon song is waiting
for words.
When a greater Oregon band
plays the “Oregon Marching Song"
for the future University, the stu
dent body will rise to sing the
words which some Oregon student
this year will write for the music
already written by John Stark
Evans.
The Emerald is sponsoring a
contest to find words for the song,
which has been played at rallies
and football games this year, and
is giving every Oregon student a
chance to learn the tune and sup
ply the lyric. Students may enter
as many verses as they wish, and
are given until Thanksgiving day
to hand them to contest manager.
The "Oregon Marching Song”
was written by John Stark Evans
this summer while visiting in Chi
cago. It was written expressly for
the students and at the suggestion
of George Cherry, student presi
dent. Several years ago "The
Pledge Song,” also written by Mr.
Evans, but for the glee club, was
adopted as an Oregon song.
At the beginning of this year the
music for the song was given to
John Stehn, director of the Uni
versity band, who arranged the
music for the band. At the Port
land and Seattle rallies previous
to the Washington game the song
was played and well received. Ore
gon students first heard the tune
during this game and found it
catching and inspiring.
It has been the practice of yell
leaders at the football games
where it has been played this fall
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Carnegie Representative to
Be in Eugene Next Tuesday
Miss Amy Jones Will Visit
International Relations
Club Here
Miss Amy Heminway Jones, di- !
vision assistant of the Carnegie i
Endowment for International:
Peace, will visit Eugene on Tues-1
aay, in the interest of the Inter-1
j rational Mind Alcoves which have j
j been established by the Endow-!
ment in the public library of this
j city, and the International Rela
tions club of the University, of
which she is national executive
secretary.
Miss Jones has been associated
with the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace since 1912,
and has been particularly active in
recent years in establishing Inter
national Relations clubs in colleges
and universities throughout the
United States. During the past
summer, Miss Jones formed six of
these student groups in colleges in
Mexico, where she was a member
ol the seminar at the University
or Mexico.
She has been active in interna
tional affairs since 1911 when she
became connected with the Amer
Mihs Amy Heminway Jones, of
ficial of the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace, will visit
the Oregon campus Tuesday, No
vemiier 18.
ican embassy in Berlin. She has
traveled extensively in Europe and
the United States doing research
and library work. She is prominent
in several organizations of national
and international character, and in
addition is interested in the pub
lishing angle of the international
question, serving on the committee
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Junior Jinx at
Igloo Tonight
New Tradition
Pep, Originality to Feature
All-Campus Informal
Following Game
First Big Affair Planned
As Bully Celebration
For Grid Tilt
Pep and originality will feature
the first annual Junior Jinx, an
all-campus informal dance to be
held at McArthur court tonight
from 9:45 p. m. to midnight, fol
lowing the Oregon Frosh-O. S. C.
Hook football game to be played
on Hayward field.
With the dance, the class of 1932
will Introduce a new tradition to
the campus, and one that it hopes
following classes will carry on. The
Jinx jubilee dance will be in the
nature of a rally celebration be
tween the two football games in
which Oregon and Oregon State
teams will meet.
The Jinx will be an informal af
fair, but campus clothes will not
be in order, Art Potwin, junior
class president, and Jack Edlef
sen, chairman of the dance corn
tee, said yesterday.
Dance Feature Planned
Jimmy Purcell’s eight-piece Old
Mill orchestra has been secured for
the affair and will play at the
south end of the Igloo floor under
a sound shell that will send every
note from the band to the farth
est corners of the hall. The feat
ure of the evening will be a tap
dance by Hal Hatton and Marian
Camp.
McArthur court will be trans
formed today by crews of decora
tors into a gala setting for the
dance. Decorations will be in the
football motif, pennants and gaily
colored signs being placed around
the walls. Spotlights in the bal
cony will add to the effectiveness
of the lighting.
A smooth floor is promised for
the dance by Sol Director and his
helpers. Spangles will be used on
the floor to improve the dance sur
face.
Tickets in Demand
Tickets to ‘the Jinx were going
fast yesterday in all men’s living
organizations, according to reports
received from the house and hall
representatives. Admission will be
50 cents a couple.
An invitation to the entire cam
pus to attend the first Junior Jinx
dance was issued last night by
Potwin. ‘‘In order to make this a
successful campus tradition, its in
auguration must go over big. The
whole campus is invited to join in
the rally spirit at the dance to
night. The committees under Jack
Edlefsen have worked hard and
have everything in readiness.”
4FIying Dutchman’
Receives Honor
‘Voice of the Air’ Features
Oregon Grid Captain
John Kitzmiller, star halfback
of the University of Oregon foot
ball team, was featured on the
front page of the last issue of
1 “Voice of the Air,” a national
photo publication.
He was pictured in a typical
position, that of making one of
his long punts. He was shown
i against a background composed of
a large stadium packed with spec
tators.
Quoting “Voice of the Air,”
"Johnny Kitzmiller, star halfback
of the strong Oregon team, who
is the leading scorer in the Pacific
Coast conference, is representative
of the type of husky individual
who exerts skill, strength and
stamina to give the country its
football thrills."
'Let’s Beat The Staters’
Is Student War Cry as
Mob Parades Streets
Bigger and Better Rally Is Planned for Tonight
In Front of Westminster House;
Baz William To Talk
BULLETIN!
A huge pep rally will be held at 7:40 this morning in
front of Condon hall and every student on the campus is
requested to be on hand. Rooters’ lids will be in order and
members of the Order of the 0 and the varsity yell staff
will be on hand to lead the affair.
/"\RKGON SPIRIT is on the warpath ! Signs of a groat revival
of that old fight that lias hauled Oregon grid teams out of
the cellar into championship form, that fight that has shown
to thousands that games are not entirely won by a star half
back, broke forth last night with burning torches, hoarse cries,
and the wail of the well-known Aggie chant, as a howling,
victory-demanding mob serpentined the campus, in anticipation
of what will truly be the “battle of the century.”
Starting up near the Phi Dolt corner, a spark of enthusi
asm broke spontaneously, it caught fire, and before long the
Opening Events
Of Internationa]
Week Scheduled
Festivities Slated To Start
With Forum Hour in
Each House
A forum hour of side lights on
international affairs to be held in
each living organization on the
campus is me
opening event
planned for In
ternational week,
December 1 to 7,
lit was announced
;!ate yesterday by
Calvin Bryan,
president of the
directorate for
! the affair, and
, a Mildred Mcuee,
Cal Bryan program chair
man. The discussion hour, which
i‘i to follow immedaitely after din
ner on Tuesday evening, will be
conducted by a representative to
each house—fifty speakers in all.
Further plans in the preliminary
schedule include a general assem
bly on Wednesday night in which
pictures will be shown depicting
the work of the League of Nations
and the International Labor group.
Thursday is to be taken up with
speeches and addresses by various
speakers of importance. Friday
night schedules the banquet and
the talk by the principal speaker
of the week, who will be announced
l8ter.
Arthur Markewitz, the repre
sentative of the Cosmopolitan club,
is general chairman in charge of
the pageant to be presented on Sat
urday night. The theme will cen
ter around a night in a Bohemian
inn with the various nationalities
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hwhole campus was surging with
yells, and crys, the gist of which
seemed to consider that Beaver
meat was the order for Saturday
night dinners. Flaming torches
led the procession, the steady
boom-boom of a bass drum beat
time as several hundred men filed
through houses and halls.
Students Declare War
It was truly a declaration of
war. If all that coaches and play
ers say about half of a game be
ing won in the stands is true, the
Staters are as good as beaten,
’cause Oregon fight is at fever
pitch, and Oregon fight can’t be
beaten.
Signs about the campus seemed
to indicate that the flare was not
by any means a temporary one.
Houses were planning impromptu
pep rallies, the yell staff and rally
committee were making prepara
tions for the biggest and wildest
rally of the year, to begin just
before the Rook game tonight, at
6:30 in front of the Fiji house.
Biian Mimnaugh, chairman of
the rally committee, last night
issued an appeal to every house
and every individual to bring out
every type of noise-making device,
"everything from baby rattles to
steam engines.” After making the
rounds of the different halls of
residence, the rooters will finally
congregate in front of Westmin
ster house, where speeches are ex
pected to sway the crowd, and
yells to sway the brick walls of
the Fine Arts building.
Baz Williams To Talk
Baz Williams will be one of
those who will speak and he has
promised to do his utmost to bet
ter even the most fiery talk he
has made in past years. Williams
played on the Oregon football
team back around 1918 under the
regime of Hugo Bezdek and played
against Harvard in the greatest of
Oregon intersectional games.
With the campus in a state of
rally frenzie, it is expected that
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Vagaries of the Human Walk
Health Discussion Subject
Few people associate the laws
of gravity with the way they walk,
except that sometimes they might
consider their feet heavy. Like
wise not many folks know that
the Greek philosophers were also
dancers. These unusual facts
about human movements were re
vealed by Miss Marjorie B. For
chemer yesterday, while discussing
"Health Week,” to be observed on
the campus November 17-21 under
the sponsorship of the W. A. A.
How do you walk ? Miss For
chemer proposes the following test
questions: Do you shamble along
with loosely hinged joints, sagging
shoulders and top-heavy cranium,
or do you walk with real vitality
as man was made to walk ? Are
you down in the heels, flat of chest
and heavy in the head or do you
look the world in the face and
see two blocks ahead ? In rhyth
mic classes, she says, one discerns
walks and walks, but rarely, some
times never, does one find the
walk of beauty, the walk which
is free, energized, a composite of
grace and agility. Only the few
use the laws of gravity carrying
the weight forward, chest up, head
high and propelling the whole
from behind with an active intelli
gent push off from the ball of the
foot.
“Just watch the human drama
which passes before you in a walk.
It’s much more interesting than
palm reading!
"Did you know that the Greek
philosophers danced, the Greek
athletes danced, that all Greece
danced? In Sparta dancing with
music took the leading place in
the curriculum of the state schools,
the dance because it formed not
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