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VOLUME XXXII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY. JANUARY 31, 1931
NUMBER 67
Webfoot Hoop
Squad To Meet
O.S.C. Tonight
Reinhart's Cellar Quintet
Y Determined To Break
Into Win Column
Dope Favors Orangemen
To Take Opener of
Annual Series
Oregon’s basketball team, confi
dent .that it will give the well
dented dope bucket a vigorous
kick this time for sure, will de
part at 5:30 o’clock this afternoon
for Corvallis, where the first of
the four big battles of the year
will be staged with the Staters
tonight.
The Beavers are conceded a dis
tinct advantage when season's rec
ords are considered, but records
I don’t generally decide these tradi
tional contests. Also the Orange
men claim that several of their
first string men are laid up with
injuries. This report has been re
garded as purely “bear" growls,
by Reinhart, Oregon coach, al
though it is likely that Ed Lewis,
the O. S. C. star center, will not
see service.
Eberhart Favored To Start
If Lewis is out, Reinhart will
probably start Jean Eberhart at
center instead of Cap Roberts, for
he is more experienced at getting
the tip-off. Roberts Is almost cer
tain to see service in the game,
however, for his floor work has
been very good. Eberhart can be
shifted to forward if desired.
The two regular Webfoot for
wards, Vince Dolp and “Windy”
Calkins, are in good shape for the
opening whistle. Kerm Stevens
and Hank Levoff, veteran guards,
• will be in the starting lineup too.
Oregon State and Washington
State are fighting for second place
^ in the circuit. Because the Beav- I
ers upset the leading Husky team i
Tuesday night, their stock has
gone up considerably. However,
they have lost games by just as
large scores as Oregon has to the
same teams, so the dope may
prove unreliable.
Oregon Winner Last Year
Last year Oregon took three
contests out of four from the
Staters. In the last game between
the two schools on the floor at
Corvallis, Oregon won by a one
point margin due to a sensational
rally which netted six points in
the final two minutes.
Among the reserve men who
will make the trip along with the
regulars are: Bill Keenan, Wally
Boyle, Red Rogers, Cliff Horner,
Red Rotenberg, and Ken Potts.
Bond To Address Class
At Congregational Cliureli
V “Causes of Jesus’ Baptismal
Vindication” will be the subject
for a talk by Jesse H. Bond, of
the school of business administra
tion, at 10:15, when he addresses
the adults’ Sunday school class at
the Congregational church.
The talk is one of the series be-'
ing given by Mr. Bond on the gen- J
er'al subject, “The Psychology of
Jesus in the Light of His Probable
Occupational Experiences.”
Possible British Downfall in
India Seen by Dean Sheldon
“If the Hindus and the Moham
medans of India can get together
politically, the English will have
to leave that country, but the
present situation points toward
► continued British rule,” Dean
Henry D. Sheldon, of the school
of education, said yesterday in dis
cussing the past week’s affairs in
India.
“England doesn’t want a war,
but she wants to maintain her con
trol of India. To maintain peace
she will grant India almost every
power except complete independ
ence. It will take a great crisis,
perhaps a war, to dislodge her hold
completely. The English control
the railroads and many of the in
dustries, and they have an army
of three or four hundred thousand
men with which to maintain peace.
India demands the removal of
these troops, but England knows
that compliance would mark the
^ end of her regime,” Dean Sheldon
believes.
“Mahatma Ghandi’s grip on the
situation is due largely to his rep
utation for sanctity, and in India
no one gains so great a reverence
and respect from the people as
does the holy man, who takes no
money, lives on a handful of rice
daily, and spends much time in
meditation. All India’s great
teachers have been that way.”
The Indian leader, the instructor
said, is a combination of the an
cient Hindu philosophy with a
technique learned from Western
civilization. "He advocates ‘the
simple life,’ the abolition of things
Western. He is a skilled lawyer,
having gained renown when he
gave his people rights in South
Africa; he knows the theories of
modern agitation, the strike, the
boycott, the picket, and other
means of economic warfare.
"He has also picked up the idea
of democracy, not as we know it,
but as it was taught by Christ,
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150 Students Per
Hour To Pay Fees
1 QNE HUNDRED AND FIFTY
students per hour will have
1 to visit the cashier’s • office be
| tween the hours of 8 and 12 to
day if all the fees are to be paid
on time, E. P. Lyon, Univer
| sity cashier, announced today, as
there are 600 who have not yet
come through with the custom
ary assessments this term.
The window closes promptly
at 12 today, and after that time
a late payment fine of $3 for the
first day and 25 cents for each
subsequent day will be imposed.
Mansfield Story
On Third English
Reading Sunday
Professor Timelier Will
Reatl ‘Daughters of
Late Colonel’
"The Daughters of the Late
Colonel,” a short story by Kather
ine Mansfield, will be read by W.
F. G. Thacher, professor of adver
tising and English, Sunday evening
from 7 to 8 o’clock in the women’s
lounge of Gerlinger. This will be
the third in a series of Sunday
evening English readings to con
tinue throughout the winter term.
“The Daughters of the Late
Colonel" is considered to be one of
Mansfield’s best stories. It is
whimsical, delicately humorous, al
most entirely without plot, dealing
with a little episode in the life
of two spinsters, Constantia and
Josephine, following the death of
their father.
Katherine Mansfield, (1883
1923), was born in New Zealand.
She received her education, how
ever in London and spent most of
‘her life there. She wrote a num
ber of well-known short stories
and upon the appearance of “The
Garden Party” she was establish
ed and heralded as one of the most
famous short story writers of her
generation. Others of her short
stories are “The Dove’s Nest,”
“The Little Girl,” “Prelude,” and
“The Canary.”
Pi Lambda Theta Dinner
To Honor Julia Spooner
Education in elementary schools
will be the subject of an address
by Miss Julia Spooner, director of
the Holladay Demonstration school,
who will speak to the members
of Pi Lambda Theta, national edu
cation honorary, at a dinner to be
given by them next Tuesday eve
ning. The dinner, which is sched
uled for 6 o’clock, will take place
at the Anchorage, and Miss Spoon
er is to be the guest of honor.
Members of the organization are
asked to make reservations before
Monday by calling Mrs. Katherine
York, 2478-J, or Mrs. Ralph Leigh
ton at the school of education.
Scholarships Awarded at UCLA
Thirty-six students at the Uni
versity of California at Los An
geles were awarded scholarships
for the present year by the re
gents of the university. The value
of the scholarships, as announced
by President R. G. Sproul, is
$2905.
I
Reames To Be
Chairman For
Frosh Dance
Class Hopes To Make Glee
One of Big Dances
Of Year
Full Directorate Will Be
Announced Next Week;
February 27 Date
Ed Reames, freshman in pre
law, will be chairman of the di
rectorate of the annual Frosh
Glee, John Ken
dall, president of
the f r e s hmen
class, announced
last night. The
date for the af
fair has been set
for Friday, Feb
ruary 27.
In making the
appointment of
Reames public,
ns* Kendall stated:
Ed Reames “i am sure that
Reames will make a most capable
chairman. Inasmuch as the fresh
man class was greatly restricted
in making plans for the bonfire on
Skinner’s Butte during homecom
ing, this will be the first chance
for the class as a whole to show
the campus what they are capable
of and also to set a standard for
following classes. I am sure that
Reames will make this possible.”
The Frosh Glee is one of the
leading social events of the year.
It is an informal dance and pre
vious ones have been noted for
their success.
Plans for the Glee, Reames stat
ed, will get under way immediately.
Announcement of the complete di
rectorate will be made next week.
“I sincerely hope that through the
cooperation of the committees and
the freshman class as a whole we
will be able to make this dance an
affair which will leave a lasting
memory with all who attend,” he
said.
The motif for the dance has not
yet been decided upon, but the
chairman stated that it would con
form with the nature of the affair.
Advisory Board
Work Is Topic of
Pan Xenia Meet
Dr. Hall, Faculty Members
Will Attend Portland
Dinner Session
The work of an advisory board
to assist in the development of the
foreign trade activities at the Uni
versity will be the subject of dis
cussion for Pan Xenia, interna
tional foreign trade fraternity, at a
dinner to be held in Portland this
evening. Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall,
president of the University, asso
ciate members of the group, and
prominent Portland business men
and Oregon faculty members will
attend in addition to active mem
bers. .
As constituted at present, the
board on foreign trade includes L.
W. Hartman, Raymond B. Wilcox,
Wilson W. Clark, George Powell,
H. E. Sanford, and A. E. Valen
tine.
The bringing of the University
into closer contact with the needs
of the business community, the
assisting in choice of curriculum
on foreign trade and in the for
mulating of the research program
have been set as the object of the
advisory group. The board is one
medium through which the Univer
sity may meet so far as possible
the foreign trade problems of Ore
gon business men.
A play, “Simp or Simpatico,”
will be given at the dinner by the
following foreign trade students:
Cary Thompson, Buenaventura
Santiago, Francis Moon, Lionel
Lane, and Harold Johnson.
J. H. Mez Tells of Tours
At High Twelve Meeting
At a meeting of the High
Twelve club, an organization for
Eugene professional men, yester
day noon, Dr. John R. Mez, asso
ciate professor in economics and
political science, told of some of
his travels in foreign countries.
Dr. Mez recounted some of the
experiences he has had during his
extensive tours through Europe,
Florence Austral Sees End
To Europe as Vocal Center
Famous Soprano To Give
Concert Thursday at
McArthur Court
An end to the tradition of send
ing young American singers to
Europe for voice training is fore
seen by Florence Austral, the
great soprano who is to sing at
McArthur court next Thursday
evening under the auspices of the
associated students.
“Personally,” she recently said,
"I think a singer or instrumen
talist can train just as well in
America as in Europe. There are !
so many splendid teachers in this
country for all branches of the
musical profession that I see no
reason why any of th% younger
musical aspirants should go
abroad, except, of course, to get
operatic experience. And with the
development of more opera com
panies in the United States, even
that will no longer be necessary.”
This tribute to the advance of
American musical education is
especially significant in that Miss
Austral is an Australian by birth,
and obtained most of her training,
vocal and operatic, in London and
other European cities. She first
came to the United States in 1925,
after her sensational rise to fame
in England in 1924 had led to an
invitation to sing at the Cincin
nati music festival. Her success
in this American debut led to sim
ilar invitations in 1927 and again
in 1929, and she has appeared in
cities in every part of the country.
Miss Austral’s husband, John
Amadio, a concert flutist of inter
national standing, is to appear
with her on the Eugene program
next week. He was born in New
A recent portrait of Florence
Austral, “the greatest soprano of
the generation," who is to appear
on the associated students’ con
cert series at McArthur court next
Thursday evening in joint recital
with her husband, John Amadio,
concert flutist.
Zealand, and developed his musi
cal talent at so early an age that
when he was only 12 he played a
flute concerto with the symphony
orchestra at Wellington.
In spite of the unsettled life that
concert tours cause Miss Austral
and her husband to live, she ad
mits that she is rather domestic
by nature.
“My hobbies are needlework,
cooking, and gardening. And my
favorite pastime is bridge.”
University Press
Prints Pamphlets
Booklets Tell of Education
And Psychology
Two more of the University of
Oregon publication series have just
been printed by the University
Press, Robert C. Hall, superintend
ent of the press, announced today.
The pamphlets are “A Study of
Pupil Achievement and Attendant
Problems,” by Burchard Woodson
DeBusk and Ralph Waldo Leigh
ton of the school of education, and
‘‘A Volume-Year Check List of
Psychological and Allied Journals,”
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Student Is Hurt in
Basketball Game
Slight Concussion Result of
Head-on Collision
Daniel Gundran, sophomore Fili
pino student, was brought to the
infirmary yesterday suffering a
slight concussion of the brain. H«
was injured while engaged in a
game of basketball on the floor of
the men’s gymnasium. The game
was part of a regular class, in
which the members were practic
ing a two-handed pass. Gundran,
in an attempt to get the ball, ran
headlong into one of his class
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Despite Adverse Comment
We Still Call It 'Pigging’
Origin of Campus By-Word Is Uncertain, But
Explanations Are Offered; ‘Vulgar’
Expression Draws Opposition
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth
of a series of articles on Oregon
campus traditions.
By RALPH DAVID
At other campuses the men
buzz, coo, bill, dove, idle, queen,
or fuss, but at Oregon they pig!
To pig is to indulge in the gentle
art of pigging; and the act of in
dulgence makes you a pigger.
When an Oregon swain takes his
fair co-ed on a moonlight cruise
up the mill-race, any of the three
above terms will describe the sub
sequent action.
The Oregon pigging tradition
dates back to about 1903. It has
had continuous life since that time
in spite of the many attempts to
erase the “vulgar” term from the
campus vocabulary. Many edito
rial campaigns have been waged
against the word, declaring that it
is too undignified for a school of
higher education to tolerate. Fac
ulty and administration have voted
thumbs down on the expression
time after time. But its popular
ity has continued unabated and
Oregon students still pig.
How did the word start ? It
| has never been definitely deter
! mined, but probably the best and
most widely accepted explanation
is that given by George Hug,
graduate of the University in 1907.
; Through the columns of the Mid
night Doughnut, student publica
tion in 1909, he tells his story.
"I was a freshman at the time,
and was staying at the dormitory.
Among the students rooming there
was one fellow who had a sweet
heart living on a farm two or
three miles out in the country.
With other barnyard stock, this
girl’s father kept a lot of pigs.
“The student was a pretty ar
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Washington Not
Fair to Butler
Thinks Roters
Campus Center, Eugene, Jan.
30.—I see that the United
States has apologized for the
actions of one of her generals,
Mr. Butler, who said mean
things about Mussolini. From
what I can gather it isn’t that
Mr. Butler was telling lies about
the Italian prime minister, but
that he spoke out of turn be
cause no U. S. official is sup
posed to say anything bad
about head men in other coun
tries. Maybe Butler can't kick
because Mussolini runs over
little kids and drives on without
stopping to help, but all I can
say is that somebody ought to
squawk plenty. If Washington
court martials a guy for telling
the truth, it would be quite in
| line with everything else they
do up there—just' backwards
from the right way.
Yours,
BILL ROTERS.
Sigma Kappa,
ZetaTau Alpha
Out of Contest
House Initiations Cause of
Withdrawals From Radio
Prize Competition
Emerald-KORE Hour Will
Commence at Six on
Sunday Niglit
Due to conflict with house in
itiations, Sigma Kappa and Zeta
Tau Alpha announced last night
that they have withdrawn from
competition in the second annual
Emerald-KORE radio contest. This
announcement leaves only two
houses. Alpha Xi Delta and Sigma
Pi Tau, on tomorrow night’s radio
broadcast, and for this reason con
trols will not be switched to the
College Side Inn studios until 6
o’clock instead of the usual 5
o'clock.
Alpha Xi Delta will be the first
to come on the air. Something
new and different is being organ
ized by this sorority, although
Billy Gardner, house radio director,
would issue none of the plans for
the program last night.
A trip among the bright lights
of Broadway will be offered by
Sigma Pi Tau in their Vagabond
idea. Trips, duets, and solos will
predominate on the program, ac
cording to Ho Wilson, house rep
resentative. Kenny Lord and Wal
ly Telford, Emerald-KORE favor
ites of last term, will probably be
featured in new numbers.
Tomorrow night’s radio hour will
be the third of the contest. Art
Potwin, director of the contest,
again requested last night that all
students attending the broadcast
tomorrow night maintain absolute
silence during the presentations of
the contestants.
McMorran and Washburne are
offering as grand prize in the con
test the latest model nine-tube Ma
jestic radio on the market. Weth
erbee-Powers furniture company
will award a $50 overstuffed
Birchfield Cogswell chair as prize
for the winner in the opposite di
vision. Second and third prizes
have not yet been selected by the
contest directorate. Two cups, to
be presented to the outstanding
artist in both men’s and women’s
section, are offered by Paul D.
Green and the Densmore-Leonard
shop.
Oregon Riflemen
To Start Gallery
Matches Monday
Team Will Compete With 8
Schools in Country;
Veterans Back
Oregon riflemen will enter the
ninth corps area intercollegiate
gallery rifle matches on Monday
in competition with eight rifle
teams in various parts of the
United States, according to a
schedule of shoots received recent
ly at the barracks from San Fran
cisco.
on February 7, after the first
week of shooting, the aggregated
score of the Oregon team will be
sent to each of the following com
peting schools: Mississippi Agri
culture and Mechanical college,
U. S. Military academy, W. L. A. C.
rifle team, Nashville, Tennessee;
University of Tennessee, Massa
chusetts Institution of Technology,
New Mexico State college, Kan
sas State Agricultural college, and
the University of Cincinnati. The
following week Oregon will receive
the score of each of the competing
schools. Although the team is weak
ened by the loss of some of the
best shots last year those who are
out have been attending practice
regularly, and Captain Bragg be
lieves the team should at least
duplicate the standing of last
year’s team, which was fourth
place.
Eight of the 13 men who are
out were on the team last year
and all of the others have had
some experience.
Those who will shoot during the
week are: Robert Reiling, Spencer
Raynor, Claud Conder, Gaylord
Cox, Edward Judkins, L. E. Smith,
Vernal Shoemaker, Howard Min
turn, Moynahan, Wayne Felts,
Carey Thompson, Dick Somers, and
I Harold Kinzell.
Students Asked
CALL to all men on the ram
pus to report this morning
at 8:30 o'oloek in front of the
administration building to form
a searching party which will
comb nearby hills for Mrs. Lila
Thatcher, housemother of the
Chi Omega sorority, who disap
peared mysteriously Wednesday
night, was issued laic last night
by Sheriff Harry L. Bown of
Eugene.
Bown will lead the search per
sonally, taking the men in
posses to Hendricks Park and
other places which Mrs. Thatch
er may have visited. Lloyd
Sherrill, senior on the campus,
will assist in direction of the
posse.
Men who have cars are urged
to bring them, and all students
who can possibly aid in the
search are asked to report this
morning.
AWS Draws Up
Work Guidance
Meeting Schedule
Search
Fourteen Lectures Slated
On Vocational Subjects
This Term and Next
Tentative schedules ■ for the vo
cational guidance program being
sponsored by the Associated Wo
men Students for the rest of win
ter term and spring term have been
made out by the personnel admin
istration of the University and the
A. W. S. committee.
Fourteen more meetings are
planned which will cover many
different phases of activities for
women. Speakers are being se
cured for these meetings already.
The second of the project meet
ings was held Thursday, when
Mrs. Miriam Truax Hamlin spoke
on clinical and educational psy
chology.
The tentative schedule is: Feb
ruary 5, interior decorating and
commercial art; February 12, li
brary; February 19, music; Feb
ruary 26, nursing and public
health; March 5, retail merchan
dising; April 2, foreign trade;
April 9, journalism; April 16, ad
vertising; April 23, secretarial
work; April 30, law; May 7, home
making; May 14, social work;
May 21, hotel hostess.
‘Masonic Origins’ Theme
Of Address by F. S. Dunn
Using "Masonic Origins" as his
theme, Prof. Frederic S. Dunn,
head of the Latin department,
spoke on the historical side of free
masonry at a meeting of the
Roosevelt lodge of the A. F. and
A. M. in Portland this week.
Professor Dunn has spent con
siderable time in research on the
subject of freemasonry in classi
cal and medieval times. He has
written a series of publications on
the topic and is still a contributor
to many Masonic periodicals.
Dr. Rebec Goes to Portland
Dr. George Rebec, dean of the
graduate school, has gone to Port
land for the week-end, where he
will confer with graduate students
there today.
Housemother
Of Chi Omegas
Is Still Missing
Mrs. Lila Thatcher Last
Seen Wednesday Night
At Sorority House
Posses of 50 Men Students
To Start Search This
Morning for Woman
A posse of 50 to 100 men stu
dents, to be led by Sheriff Harry
L. Bown, will start out at 8:30
o’clock this morning to search the
wooded hills of Hendricks Park
and the mill-race for possible clues
to the whereabouts of Mrs. Lila
Thatcher, 50, housemother of the
Chi Omega sorority on the campus
for the past two years, who has
been missing since late Wednes
day night.
Mrs. Thatcher was known to
like to go on long walks frequent
ly, and it is the belief of her
friends that after she left the
house Wednesday night she met
with an accident or was seized
with illness. She was particularly
fond of walking through the hills
at the south end of Alder street
and through Hendricks Park, Bar
bara Conly, member of the soror
ity, said last night. Miss Conly
had accompanied her on two walks
last week during the sunny
weather.
Search Is Made
The south Alder street locality
was searched yesterday by Miss
Conly, Fletcher Udall, a close
friend of Mrs. Thatcher, and
James Travis, but no clues were
found.
This morning the posse will
work through the Hendricks Park
area, going over the hills with the
searchers moving ten feet apart.
The mill-race will be searched
from the headwaters to its mouth,
men going along the banks on
each side and also keeping a look
out from canoes.
Last Seen Wednesday
Margaret Frye, member of the
sorority, was perhaps the last girl
to see Mrs. Thatcher Wednesday
night before the housemother’s
disappearance. "Mrs. Thatcher ap
peared very composed and quiet,”
Miss Frye said last night. "We
sat and talked to her for more
than an hour.”
With Miss Frye at the Chi
Omega house Wednesday night
were Will Norman, sophomore,
and Dave Epps, second-year law
student on the campus. The three
were in Mrs. Thatcher's room for
some time, playing cards and talk
ing. When the house was locked
at 10:30 o'clock, Norman and Epps
left, and Miss Frye remained with
Mrs. Thatcher until about 11
o’clock, when she went to her res
idence.
At 6:30 o’clock Thursday morn
ing, Miss Conly said, Mrs. D. E.
Blair, 727 Fifteenth avenue east,
cook at the sorority, arrived to
prepare breakfast. She noticed
that Mrs. Thatcher’s windows
were closed and the curtains apart,
though Mrs. Thatcher customarily
has her windows open and the cur
tains drawn together at night.
When Miss Conly came home
Thursday morning after her 9
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Four Oregon Students Are
Rewarded After Hours9 Wait
By JACK BALER
Sixty Conrad Nagels, 30 Vic Mc
Laglens, 10 John Barrymores, 30
Ann Hardings, five Billie Doves,
and one Rex Bell and Clara Bow
showed up at the Guild theatre
yesterday noon to give Arthur Un
gar, associate producer, with Carl
Laemmle, junior, of Universal Pic
tures, when he arrived on the cam
pus in search of talent and beau
ty to replace that which the old
folks’ home has claimed in the past
two years.
The reward to the winners will
be a three-month stay in Califor
nia next summer, and work on the
Universal lot on a contract salary.
Mr. Ungar left town without re
vealing the names of the winners.
However, one of the prominent j
candidates was referred to by the
talkie mogul as “one of the most
charming, most vivacious, most
promising young women I have
met in many, many days.”
Those who saw "Holiday” com
pliment Mr. Ungar on his good
judgment, and express the belief
that our “Linda” will come up to
the requirements of the talkie
trade.
Mr. Ungar interviewed the long
line of applicants for the job in a
trifle more than one hour. This
was possible, he explained, because
of the high ratio of Wally Beerya
and "Bool” Montanas to the num
ber of Raymond Hacketts and Bob
Montgomerys, and because of the
scarcity of Charlie Farrells.
As to the women, Mr. Ungar was
so completely captivated by the
young woman mentioned previous
ly, he had little taste for the less
dynamic girls.
The trend in casting talking
pictures these days is toward tall
er women and huge men. The
vigor of a big man can be trans
ferred to the howling screen in
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