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V Fight ’em Oregon The Webfoots and Beavers will tangle in the second game of tfceir i series at McArthur court tonight 1 at 8 o'clock. Be there to cheer the Ducks on. VOLUME XXXII The Weather Maximum . 49 Minimum . 33 Precipitation .08 NUMBER 82 PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SUNDAY, HIGHLIGHT OF A.S.U.O. CONCERTS, FREE TO STUDENTS A. W. S. Plans Four Vacation Social Affairs * Adele Wedemeyer Chosen General Chairman Of Dances Spring Functions on List For Portland and 3 Other Cities With the announcement of the appointment of Adele Wedemeyer as chairman of the spring vaca tion dances to be given by the Associated Women Students, and with the organization of commit tees in three of the four cities in which the dances will be given, plans are getting well under way. Miss Wedemeyer was recently appointed chairman of this impor ^ tant project by Margaret Cum mings, president of the A. W. S. Dances in f our Cities Under the plan to be used this year, the dances will be given in only four cities in the state. Last year, according to Miss Wede meyer, the college affairs were put on in 12 or 15 towns through out the state, with the result that several failed to make enough profit to warrant attempting them a second time. With their efforts concentrated on fewer dances, a more considerable profit is ex pected. The dances will be very infor mal and are expected to be a big drawing card for University of Oregon students living in and near communities where they will be given. They will be sponsored in Portland, Astoria, Klamath Falls, and Medford. Last year was the first time the A. W. S. attempted this form of getting funds. Portland Chairmen Named Irma Logan and Slug Palmer f have been appointed by Miss Wedemeyer to be in charge of the affair at Portland. In Klamath Falls, Maryellen Bradford will have charge, Alice Holmback in Medford, and Maxine Reid in As toria. Committees appointed by the chairmen are as follow: Astoria—D e c o r ations, Roland Larson; refreshments, Edith Pe terson; music, Stan Brooks; fea ture, Fred Hellberg; patrons, Helen Laitanen. Klamath Falls—Tickets, Hubert Hatton; patrons, Jane Garcelon; publicity, Betty Zimmerman. Medford—Publicity, Ed Reames; orchestra and hall, Chuck Thom as; patrons, Beulah Gore and Edna Moore; tickets, Dorothy Eads. Deuel, Swenson Speak Ai Honorary Luncheon Merrill Swensen and Bud Deuel, ^ both members of Phi Delta Phi, national professional legal honor ary, were speakers at the meeting of the organization Thursday night at the College Side. They confined their talks to legal questions. Plans for future meetings and speakers who will address the group at those times were an nounced by Lester Johnson, presi dent of the honorary. He Pans ’Em, and How They Like It uIIE pans collegians, and they like It.” Such were the words used by the California Daily Bruin in describing L. C. Ward, lightning caricature art ist, who is now working the University of Oregon campus, drawing caricatures and por traits of the members of the liv ing organizations. A profile view, a few quick lines, a flick of the wrist, a dash of ink, and presto! There you are as others see you. That de scribes Ward’s method. The artist’s first stop yester day was at the Phi Sig house, where he was kept hard at work for nine hours, drawing carica tures and portraits of the mem bers. Doc Robnett, Professor Louis Artau, and Dr. Meno Span were among his victims. Ward, who is a newspaper man, musician, radio whistler, tap dancer, and artist, has spent a number of months traveling around among the larger univer sities of the country, and plans to visit nearly every organiza tion on the campus before he leaves. Opening Matinee Of ‘Twelfth Night’ Is Set for Today Two Performances on List For Shakespearean Comedy "Twelfth Night” will open today with two performances, a matinee starting at 2:30, and an evening performance at 8 p. m.. The time is set earlier than usual in order to give people time to attend danc es or dates after the play. There will also be evening performances Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The National Collegiate players are combining with the Guild Hall players to give this romantic com edy. There were also open tryouts and many who have not appeared before in campus productions have parts. Many in Cast The cast is as follows: Orsino, Duke of Illyria, Carl Klippel; Se bastian, brother to Viola, Addison Brockman; Viola, Nancy Thielsen; Olivia, a rich countess, Norma Ja cobs; Maria, Olivia’s woman, Jean Williams; Antonio, a sea captain, Ralph Engberg; another sea cap tain, Howard Ragan. Valentine and Curio, gentlemen attending on the duke, Harvey Welch and Harold Batchelor; Sir Toby Belch, uncle to Olivia, Gene Love; Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Charles Jones; Malvolio, steward to Olivia, Eldon Woodin; Fabian, servant to Olivia, James Hughes; Feste, a clown, Donald Confrey; sailors, Max Kaffisieder, Stanley Elliott, and Ethan Newman; cour tier, Edwin Cruikshank; officers, Robert Loomis and Burton Long; priest, Russell Cook. Played in “Holiday” Many of these performers were seen last term in “Holiday.” Nan cy Thielsen and Carl Klippel had the leads in this play also, as Lin (Continued on Page Two) From The President’s Pen Habit of Critical and Intelligent Observation Valuable One, Doctor Hall Points Out. A t By ARNOLD BENNETT HALL In a recent national campaign one of the national campaign com mittees issued several million cop ies of a card which on one side promised the laboring men that they would cut down the cost of living until it was reduced to the size of their pay check. On the other side of the card they prom ised the farmers more money for their grain, beef, poultry, milk, and other necessities of life that the farmers sold. I was called in by one of the national campaign offi cers to criticize the campaign lit erature. I called attention to the fact that the promises on the op posite sides of this card were con tradictory. They obviously could not lower the price of poultry to the wage earner and yet raise it for the farmer. The campaign officer smiled when this was called to his atten tion and said, “.Well, it is too bad that we put them on opposite sides of the same card.” At the close of the campaign the same officer told me that no one else, not even their political opponents, had called their attention to the impossible char acter of these two conflicting promises. Yet five million copies had been sent out throughout the country. This was a striking evidence of how most of us are lacking in the habit of critical observation. We don’t observe inconsistencies in campaign literature. We permit ourselves to be misled by prepos terous campaign proposals. We buy advertised articles where the advertising on its face shows glar ing inconsistencies. We accept be liefs that ripen into convictions in the very face of evidence to the contrary on every hand. This ap parently is due to our failure to form the habit of observing and (Continued on Page Three}, •Minstrel Show, \todern Music ill Vie on Air Ome^ Plan for Old-Time Southern Songs and Black-Face Act Alpha Upsilon, Delts, and Delta Gamma To Give Radio Skits Sunday McMorran & Washburne’s nine tube Majestic radio, Wetherbee Power’s overstuffed Birchfield Cogswell chair, White-Marlatt’s $50 lamp, Fox McDonald theatre's two free line parties, Densmore Leonard's and Paul D. Green's sil ver loving cups, and the leather insignia wall-piece offered by the Oregon Pharmacy will be the priz es that the four living organiza tions presenting half-hour radio programs tomorrow night will have in mind as they offer their talents. College Side Inn will be the scene of this regular Emerald KORE contest program which will last from 5 to 7 o’clock. Palmer To Announce “Slug" Palmer, last year’s an nouncer, will be ip charge of the contest tomorrow night in the ab sence of Art Potwin, director, who will leave late tonight on a debate tour through Washington and Ida ho. Organizations to appear before the College Side microphone Sun day are Alpha Upsilon, Delta Tau Delta, Omega hall, and Delta Gamma. Alpha Upsilon will reveal how modern music composers get inspirations for their songs by means of trio,,saxophone, and pi ano numbers. Fritz McKinney is director for the radio hour, and Gene Laird will act as master of ceremonies. Delt Plans Forming Entire plans for Delta Tau Delta had not been completed at a late hour last night, according to Mau rice Kinney, director of the Delt program. However, something good is promised by Kinney for Sunday night with Bob Holmes and Joe Hughes taking leading parts in the musical production. Omega hall will bring to its au dience a real old-time minstrel show. Known as the Silver Palace Minstrels, the Omegans will repro duce a genuine black-face act with negro dialect, all southern songs, and banjo numbers de luxe. Roy Sheedy is in charge of arrange ments and is assisted by Ivan Ka foury. Sheedy will serve as inter locutor. “River Idea” Planned The Blue Danube, the Swanee, and no doubt the Willamette river will roll over the microphone when Delta Gamma presents their "Riv er Idea.” The Delta Gamma sex tette, Louise Marvin, tap dancer, and Jane Holt and Edna Bird in piano solos will be features of the nautical skit. Sally Addleman has arranged the continuity which will be announced by Theresa Gauntlett and Mary Jane Mills. March 1 will see the final pro gram of the Emerald contest prior to the finals which will be held March 8. Alpha hall, Kappa Alpha Theta, Oregon Yeomen, and Delta Zeta are the contestants for this final broadcast. Out of State Cars To Be Checked for 1931 Permit Students who drive cars with out-of-state licenses are advised by Capt. Jay Saltzman of the traffic division in Eugene to call at the statistician’s office for 1931 per mits to drive in Oregon. The permits, in the form of wind shield stickers, will be ready to day, and will be good until July 1. An extension of three months from the usual closing date of March 1 is given to students attending any school of higher learning in Ore j gon. When applying for the permits, all students must present their cer tificates of registration in their home states. At the beginning of the week there will be a thorough check on all out-of-state cars, and automo biles without permits will be tagged. Their owners will be brought up before the justice court. Janitor Lifts Too Much, Hurts Arm JN rase students who have elasses in Johnson hall ean't. get into their classrooms be cause of waste paper being knee high, it’s their own fault. * Last week C. B. Denison, jani tor at the Administration build ing, sprained his arm severely attempting to carry out all the waste paper which students left in their classrooms. With a large gunny-sack of paper, Mr. Denison struggled up from the basement to the sec ond floor. He tugged at the bag vainly until, without a warning, it slipped, and fell down the steps, leaving Mr. Denison with a sprained left arm. Health Nursing Will Be Subject Of A. W. S. Talk Elnora Thomson Will Be Principal Speaker On Program Public health nursing is the sub ject of next week's vocational guidance talk, it was announced yesterday by the Associated Women Students committee, which is sponsoring the series of talks. Miss Elnora E. Thomson, profes sor of applied sociology and direc tor of nursing education at the school of applied social science in Portland, will be the speaker at Tuesday's meeting. Miss Thomson has been on the University of Ore gon faculty, at the school of ap plied social science, for eight years, from 1921-23, and since 1925. “Keep Well” Is Theme “Public health nurses,” ex plained Dr. Philip A. Parsons, dean of the school of applied social sci ence, “have charge of health edu cation in an entire county. They conduct well-baby clinics, and teach mothers how to keep their children healthy. Public health nursing is, in the main, preventive work, teaching people how to keep well.” Miss Thomson is considered very well equipped to speak on her work as a vocation for women, as she has had extensive training in the field. She took a regular nurse’s training course in a Chi cago hospital, and also took pub lic health nursing in psychiatry in that city. She was executive sec retary of the Illinois Society for Mental Hygiene for some time, and also director of the public health nursing course in the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. In 1917-18 she was a member of the American Red Cross Tubercu losis commission to Italy. Held Other Offices In 1921, Miss Thomson came to Portland to accept the position she now holds. Two years later j she was in charge of the San ; Francisco office, Pacific division (of the American Child Health as sociation. In this work she en deavored to stimulate child health work in the West. She later took over the supervision of health edu cation and public health nursing in the Commonwealth foundation demonstration in Marion county. Returning to the University in 1925, Miss Thomson has remained here ever since. She teaches a course fall term on the campus for freshman girls who are taking the five-year course in public health nursing. In the spring term she teaches another class here for sophomore women taking the pub lic health course. In Portland, as well as being in charge of the public health nursing course in the school of applied social science, she has charge of the extension work of the school in two Port land hospitals. President of N. A. N. The coming speaker has been prominent in activities of the Na tional American Nurses' associa tion, and last year was elected [president of the national organiza tion, which position she will hold 'until June. She has been on sev eral national committees for a | number of years, i The talk will be held in Alumni hall, Tuesday at 4 o’clock. It is not known how long Miss Thom son will be here, but announce ment will be made in Tuesday’s ; Emerald when appointments may i be made to confer with her, HoogstratenTb Direct Concert Here Sunday Conductor Will Bring 70 Musicians to Campus On ASUO Program Immortal Music of Noted Composers Selected For Collegians Enjoyment of the immortal mu sic of Beethoven, Wagner, and Tschaikovski will head the activity list of the Oregon student body to morrow afternooon, when the Portland Symphony orchestra will appear in concert at McArthur court. The concert will be free to all students, but. presentation of stu dent body cards at the door will be a strict requirement for admis sion, warns Ronald Robnett, assist ant graduate manager. Concert at 3 o’clock Playing under the direction of its distinguished conductor, Wil lem van Hoogstraten, the sym phonic ensemble of 70 will present a two-hour concert, beginning promptly at 3 o’plock. For this concert, the third that the Portland orchestra has given on the University campus in the last five years, Director van Hoog straten has arranged a program designed especially for a college audience. Beethoven’s Fifth Sym phony, one of the best known of standard symphonic works, will be the “piece de resistance,” and as such it will have the closing place on the program. Although it is perhaps the most popular sym phony by Beethoven, the "Fifth" is refreshingly original in its con struction and orchestration. The ^principal theme, which, was sug gested to Beethoven as he heard the song of a yellow-hammer in a Viennese park, is introduced in the first measures of the first move ment, without a vestige of the us ual introductory passage. Tschaikovski Number Listed The opening place on the pro gram is taken by Tschaikovski's “Romeo and Juliet" overture, which has been termed "one of the most richly melodic symphonic compositions ever written." Its contrasting themes are tone-poems of the dramatic elements of Shake speare’s famous tragedy. Sharply contrasting compositions from two of Wagner’s operas will follow. The introduction to Act III of the “Meistersinger” reflects a spirit of profound brooding sor row, and is "almost Bach-like in its somber power.” The soft “Wald weben” (Forest Murmurs) from the “Siegfried” depict quite an other aspect of Wagner’s genius. They represent the “meditation of a forest, captured and made lyri cal.” The third part of the program will be the overture to Weber’s “Dei’ Freischutz,” considered to be the best work of its kind ever writ ten. Admission for townspeople and faculty members will be $1 for re served seats and 50 cents for un reserved. Women Debaters Win From Idaho Oregon Co-eds Expected Back Tomorrow Bernice Conoly and Mary Cani paroli, women varsity debaters, de feated the University of Idaho at Moscow last night, a wire to the Phi Mu house said. The Oregon co-eds who left on the debate tour Monday, upheld the negative of the question, “Re solved, that Gandhi has been a benefit to India.” Washington State college de feated Oregon's touring debaters yesterday on the same question. Tonight Miss Conoly and Miss Caniparoli will meet Whitman col lege at Walla Walla to finish their tour. They will return to the cam pus tomorrow. The debaters were cordially re ceived in Seattle where they de bated the University of Washing ton on February 17. They stayed at the Olympic hotel while there and greeted Seattle audiences over the radio. Distinguished Conductor «Sf A recent photograph of Willem van Hoogstraten, noted eonductor of the Portland Symphony orchestra, who will direct the concert which will he played at McArthur court Sunday afternoon. He is the holder of an honorary Doctor of Music degree from the University of Oregon. l_ Jury Article by Morse Appears In Law Review Oregon Professor Presents Details Concerning Trial Method The first authentic collection of bjective data relating to the grand jury system in the United States, conducted under the auspices of the Social Science Research coun cil of America, by Wayne L. Morse, associate professor of law, is included in "A Survey of the Grand Jury System,” leading arti cle in the Oregon Law Review, which was released from the press yesterday. Moley Directs Work This study is a part of the larg er survey of the methods of init iating criminal prosecutions in the United States, attempted by the Social Science Research council, and directed by Dr. Raymond C. Moley, professor of public law at Columbia university, who was a visitor on the campus and who gave a number of addresses on le gal topics early this term. Dr. Moley invited Professor Morse to prepare a survey of the grand jury system, and this month’s Law Re view contains the first of a series of articles which set forth the re sults of that study. The law journal also contains "Some Suggestions for Improving the Administration of Justice in Oregon,” by the government or ganization and public finance sec tion of the Portland city club. This article recommends that the judg es of the district, circuit, and su preme courts should be appointed by the governor. Many Students Contribute Law students who have contrib uted case notes and other articles are Walter Durgan, William East, William Kuykendall, Theodore Conn, John D. Galey, William W. Knight, Francis Coad, Joe Mc Keown, Fred Finsley, C. F. Shi manek, Avery Thompson, Harvey Jenson, H. E. Green, John W. Berg, Thomas T. Chave, Jr. The Law Review, which is edit ed by Charles G. Howard, profes sor of law, also contains a “Sum mary of the Proceedings of the Oregon District Attorneys’ Asso ciation.” Social Science Initiation Will Be Held in Portland The annual initiation ceremonies of the school of applied social sci ence will be held in Portland on February 28, at 8 o’clock In the evening, Dr. Philip A. Parsons, dean of the school, announced yes terday. Invitations for the event have been sent to a number of students and faculty members of the school of applied social science and the Portland school of social work. Ur. INag I resents Rise of India’s Art In Picture Form Professor From Calcutta Shows Slides, Speaks On Native Land Dr. Kalidas Nag\ of the Univer sity of Calcutta, India, brought to an interested group of listeners a chronological view of the gradual rise of "Art and Archaeology of India,” at Villard hall last night Doctor Nag, a native Indian, told his story through slides and a run ning discussion on the pictures. His flashing smile and charming personality fascinated the audi ence. “The past is not dead- it is liv ing,” said the professor. "We are going to review the art of the past. Art is a language in the literal sense of the word. Certain phases of art are key words in the language. They show the mi gration of culture.” Doctor Nag’s lecture concerned itself with the Indus valley, through which the Indus river flows. He denounced the Aryan and Nordic races as being destruc tive, and praised India for being a birthplace of such things as the wheel, etiquette, and others which he regarded as being the worth while parts of life. Doctor Nag showed through his slides the gradual rise in India of such phases of art as gold work, basket weaving, painted pottery, statu ary, sculpture, and architecture. Doctor Nag made his last public appearance in Eugene last night. Ducks To Face Orangemen in Game Tonight Encounter at Igloo Second Of Series; Play To Start at 8 Oregon State Holds Slight Edge Due to Record; Webfoots Improve In the second encounter of the annual four-game series the Ore gon and Oregon State hoop quin tets will meet tonight at 8 o’clock on McArthur court floor. Interest in the game has been shown by students of both schools and the graduate manager is plan ning on a record crowd. The Beavers took the first game at Corvallis two weeks ago and the Webfoots are out to even up the score. Orangemen Have Edge The Orangemen are slight fa vorites because of their record so far this season. They are tied for second place with Washington State, with eight wins and five de-. feats, while the Ducks are quite a notch below with only four wins in 13 starts. Principal reasons for the rise in Webfoot stock is because of the greatly improved showing made by the men in their last six games. Whereas before they usually start ed slow and lost after a second half rally, now they are starting out fast and keeping up the pace. The teamwork has been better and individual shooting.has shown an improvement. Uucks To Check In order to stop the Beavers, Coach Bill Reinhart will have to stop the Orangemen’s three sharp shooting scorers, Ken Fagans, Rod Ballard, and Swan Merrill. The Ducks have no sure-fire scorers to compare with these three, 'but Reinhart hopes that by close checking his men will be able to pile up a lead and turn back the invaders. The same lineup that has been used in the last three or four games will start tonight. Jean Eberhart will start at center, with Cap Roberts held in reserve. Vin cent Dolp and Windy Calkins will fill the forward positions. Calkins has played a consistent brand of ball in the last few games, and he is equally good on defence or of fense. Dolp has just hit his stride, evidently, for he has shown some outstanding ball in the last home games. He is perhaps the fastest man on the floor and has an un usual shot that is hard to stop. Horner Scoring Threat The guard positions will be filled by either Kerm Stevens, Cliff Horner or Hank Levoff. Of the three, Horner has been outstand ing. In the series against Idaho here, he was placed against Pete Wicks, one of the league’s leading scorers, and held him to four points per game in addition to developing into a real scoring threat himself. Stevens and Lev off are both very consistent play ers. Stevens’ specialty is sinking (Continued on Page Two) India Best Suited to Federal ! Government Form, Says Nag j By MERLIN BLAIS I - ] “When India formulates her na- j r tional government, she will adopt j ,; the federal form now used in the ! United States.” Such was the : -istatement of Dr. Kalidas Nag, of' - the University of Calcutta, when - interviewed yesterday on the in ; tluence of America on India. “At the recent round-table in London was gathered a group of men who were mostly eminent jurists, lawyers, and experts in po | litical science, many of them hold jers of government portfolios. All ■i had received their training in the - ; British school of politics; and yet, 1 in that atmosphere, it was con ? 'eluded that a federal form of gov , jernment, with a congressional leg- j - islature rather than a parliamen- j tary one, was best suited to In e idia’s situation. s i “Even the native maharajahs I lback the American system; in i : fact, it was one of their number Jwtao first, proposed its adoption. When in 1884 the Indian people formed a national group, they called it the Indian National con gress—not parliament. In a coun try where communal interests are so strong as they are in India, a strong parliament would be a curse,” Doctor Nag declared. “We want Americans who are experts on the United States’ con stitution and form of government to come to India to give lectures explaining the federal system, and pointing out its weaknesses along with its strong points. In this way India might pattern its own constitution, remedying, if possi ble, the weak points. “We also want American au thorities in other fields to come to India. We have studied about America in our books, but they have all been written from the British point of view; we want America’s point of view. An ex change of professors yearly would (Continued on Page Four}