VOLUME XXXII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1931 NUMBER 96 The Weather Rain. Moderate temperatures. Maximum . 60 Minimum . 53 Precipitation .32 Registration up With a record number of stu ] dents enrolled fall and winter terms, the University’s enrollment j for spring is expected to show fur ther gains. Watch for them. Cellist To Open Spring Music SeasonTonight Franz Kuschan Here On Campus From East Compositions of American, French Composers To Be Played By DAVE WILSON The spring music season, always a brilliant one on the University campus, will be opened auspi ciously at the music auditorium this evening with a concert recital by Franz Kuschan, noted ’cellist from Des Moines, who will appear under the auspices of the school of music. Mr. Kuschan will be accompa nied at the piano by Aurora Potter Underwood, member of the music faculty. His program will feature compositions by French and Amer ican composers in the main. All Seats Reserved All seats for this recital will be reserved. Tickets will be on sale all day at the Co-op, selling at 50 cents. Those that are left after the advance sale closes will be sold at the door before the concert, which will begin at 8 o’clock. Proceeds from the recital will be used to defray a part of the ex pense of Mr. Kuschan’s long trip to Eugene. Tonight’s program will be opened with Sonata Op. 36 by Grieg, the Norwegian composer. This is one of Mr. Kuschan’s fa vorite works for the ’cello. “A former teacher of mine once played it for Grieg, who advised him as to the reading he intended the work to have, and the teacher passed it on to me.” Modern Music Chosen Saint-Saens’ concerto in A-mi nor, which is complete in one movement, will follow. Other nine teenth century French composers to be represented on the program are Debussy (Menuet) and Faure (“Apres un Reve”). The modern French composer, Ravel, who re cently startled the symphonic world with his “Bolero,” will share in the program with “Piece en forme de Habanera,” which, as (Continued on Page Four) Infirmary Confines Ten During Vacation During: examination week last term, according to infirmary offi cials, the infirmary annex was opened for the first time this school year. An epidemic of influenza I which filled the University infirm ary to capacity and caused ten other students to seek admission, necessitated the opening of the an nex. Patients were confined to the r care of the infirmary throughout the holidays, ten being registered there at one time. Mary Canipar oli, senior in music, who was con fined all vacation due to typhoid fever, was yesterday taken to her home in Saint Helens. She is not, however, in a serious condition at the present time. There were no patients in the care of the University health ser vice yesterday: “Such a condition,’’ says Helen Fleming, infirmary nurse, “is quite welcome at the present time, for the spring vaca tion period was the busiest I've had while in service at Oregon.” i I Pla ° Tonight Franz Kuschan, noted ’cellist from Des Moines, who will open the spring music season with a concert recital at the University music auditorium this evening, starting at 8 o’clock. Two Films Slated For Faculty Club Show Thursday ‘Turksib,’ ‘Escape’ Next In Series of Foreign Cinema Productions Two of the most unusual pic tures of recent times, “Turksib,” a spectacular Russian film, and “Escape,” the famous talking pic ture of the Galsworthy play, will both be presented by the Univer sity Faculty club tomorrow after noon as the next in the series of cinema programs the club is spon soring. The admission price will be 25 cents, which will include both films. The films will be shown at the Colonial theatre. The double bill is made possible by the fact that both pictures are quite short, and may be played in two hours. Both had been con tracted for, the producers over looking the fact that no program would be offered during spring va cation. The committee thus decid ed to play both rather than omit one. Start at 1 P. M. The films will be presented one each hour starting at 1 o’clock. Thus patrons may enter on the hour during the afternoon and see the beginning of either one or the other of the pictures. “Turksib” will be shown first, with “Escape” following at 2 o’clock. The popular “supper matinee” will afford those who cannot come earlier in the afternoon an oppor tunity of seeing the pictures. Those who enter at 5 o’clock or after may order the “Green Parrot” special supper, to be delivered to them while in the theatre, and may have their dinner while watching the show. “Escape” will be played from 6 to 7, should anyone wish to see this picture at that time. Smith Is Enthusiastic S. Stephenson Smith, chairman of the faculty committee, has seen the pictures offered, and is enthu siastic over them. “ ‘Turksib’ is the epic Russian film showing the building of the Turldsh-Siberian railway through the desert," says Mr. Smith. “It has some amazing shots of the flood-waters pouring into the great new irrigation canals which the Soviet engineers built to sup ply the cotton fields of Turkestan. But the main interest of the pic ture is centered in the laying of (Continued on Page Two) Three Students Make First Ascent of Icy Middle Sister __ Three University of Oregon stu dents, George Bishop, Harold Ar nold, and Fred Sears, pioneered the way t£> the summit of the ice covered Middle Sister, as far as the 1931 hiking season is con cerned. Contending with bitter temperatures and one fierce bliz zard, and plowing through six inches of soft snow which covered the icy crusted surface of the mountain, they made the earliest ascent- of the year, on Monday, March 23. After traveling two days from Eugene, the three made camp Sun day night two miles down the Sky line trail from Frog Camp, in seven feet of snow. Their fire burned through to the ground, and the night was cold. The following morning, they made their way as far as the tim ber line through the alternate use of one pair of skis and one pair of snowshoes, and from there they scaled the rest of the way on foot. The slippery surface made the go ing hard, they said, but the return trip was a simpler matter. On the way down, they merely bal anced themselves on their feet and slid down the long ice-covered slopes. Although there was a piercing east wind blowing, the day was perfectly clear, and there was a good view from the summit. They took several photographs while on the mountain, and returned to Eu gene from their camp the follow ing day. 9 High Schools To Compete in Drama Contest Annual Stage Tourney Will Start Tomorrow Guild Hall Trophy, Won By Lincoln Last Year, Grand Prize Again More than 50 high school actors and actresses with their directors, representing nine high schools in the state, will arrive on the cam pus tomorrow to contend for the Guild Theatre cup, trophy in the fifth annual high school drama tournament, to be held Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, according to Dan E. Clark, assistant director of the extension division. The tournament is being sponsored by the extension division and drama departments. The tourney will open Thursday evening at 8 o’clock in Guild hall with the presentation of plays by Cottage Grove, Corvallis, and Med ford high schools. The three eve ning performances will be open to the public and University students for a small admission charge, Mr. Clark stated. Burns Out of Meet The Friday evening program will include presentations by Gar diner, Milwaukie, and Eugene high schools. Burns high school, which was to have appeared on this pro gram, wras forced t'o withdraw from the tournament. Baker, Med ford, and Lincoln high school, Portland, will present the plays of the Saturday evening bill. Lincoln high, winner of the cup in 1930, will present Austin Strong's play, “The Drums of Oude,” this year. Constance Roth, graduate of University of Oregon, is director of this play. Best Actor Back Don Bennett, of Corvallis high school, winner of the Portland (Continued on Pape Three) 4Dig a Dime for a Doughnut’ To Be Slogan on April 8 Sale by Frosh Commission To Pay for Y.W.C.A. High School Tea “Dig up a dime and dunk a doughnut” will be the motto for the Y. W. C. A. Frosh commission, Wednesday, April 8, when the doughnut-dunkers, both on and off the campus, will be catered to in a city-wide sale. “This is the biggest thing the Frosh commission has undertaken,” said Nancy Suomela, Frosh com mission chairman, who is in charge of the sale, "and if it is a success, it will become an annual affair on the campus.” “Dean Schwering started our campaign right off by ordering the first dozen,” Miss Suomela stated, “and already a great many of the sororities and fraternities have or dered several dozen, as well as a number of townspeople, and it is hoped that 300 dozen will be sold in all.” Miss Suomela’s staff consists of Betsy Steiwer, assistant chairman; Joan Cox, secretary; May Master ton, town soliciting; Joyce Busen bark, campus booths; Jean Failing, halls; and Margaret Pollitt, deliv ery. Sub-committees will be an nounced later. The profits from the sale are to go to the Y. W. C. A. annual tea, which is held in Portland for all high school girls planning to enter the University. Sixty-Seven Sign for Commercial Aviation A capacity enrollment of 67 stu dents have signed up for the com mercial aviation course offered by the business ad school, Dean David E. Faville announced yesterday. A number of aviation experts are be ing scheduled for lectures to be given at intervals during the term. Each, it is planned, will discuss separate phases of commercial avi ation, particularly as it is on the Pacific coast. Lee B. Jamison, traffic man ager for the Pacific Air Transport, of Portland, will open the series with a talk on "Late Developments in Aviation on the Pacific Coast.” Hard Rains Swell Mill-Race Waters ^WOLLEN by heavy rains and the rush of water from the melting snow at the headwaters of the Willamette, the niili-raee was nearly out of its banks a Inin; the campus late last night. Seepage from the race flooded basements in the Zeta Tau Alpha and Alpha Delta I’i sorority houses to the depth of about one foot. Girls in the Z. T. A. house were foreed to move trunks from the basement floor to shelves above previous high w ater marks. With sewer drains clogged, a miniature lake more than a foot deep was formed at the foot of University street, below the Uni versity depot and art school, last night. Automobiles plowed their way through the water slowly, and pedestrians were forced to make a detour in cross ing the street. Others of the nine fraternities and sororities along the mill-race were preparing for possible flooded basements last night as the mill-race crept higher and higher to the point of overflow ing canoe landings and concrete retaining walls. Virgil Earl To Aid Biggs in Work of Spring Quarter New Dean of Men To Take Over Position at Eml Of Academic Year The transfer of Virgil D. Earl, director of athletics for the Uni versity since 1923, to the office of the dean of men will take effect immediately, it is ann o u n c e d by Karl W. On thank, dean of personnel admin istration. Throughout the spring term Mr. »<»*■•-••••• garj win work Virgil Earl with Hugh L. Biggs, present dean of men, who recently announced his resigna tion upon the expiration of his appointment at the end of the aca demic year. At that time, pend ing the approval of the board of higher education, Mr. Earl will be come dean of men. During the term Mr. Earl will assist Dean Biggs in the dean of men’s office, his office hours being from 10 to 12 a. m. daily. The position of director of athletics will be left vacant, it is an nounced. Commenting on the appoint ment, Mr. Onthank gave the fol lowing statement to'Ttfe Emerald last night: Onthank Statement “The transfer of Mr. Virgil Earl to the personnel division of the University with his appointment as dean of men brings to it his long experience and intimate knowledge of the University, espe cially in its student relations. We should have been very happy to have had Mr. Biggs remain with the University, but he has con cluded to carry out his original objective of the practice of law, toward which he has been study ing during his years in the Uni versity. “Those who are acquainted with Mr. Earl do .not need to be told that he brings to the office excep tional qualifications. He possesses to a rare degree familiarity with the local situation and under standing of student problems and sympathy with the student point of view, and that combination of tact with firmness and unwavering adherence to worthy standards and objectives necessary for success as dean. “Mr. Earl will devote approxi mately half his time during the spring quarter to the dean of men’s office. He will have regu lar office hours and will take over a portion of the responsibility for the office.’’ Biggs Outlines Plans Dean Biggs, who at the end of : this school year will have com pleted his course of training in law, w'ill go to Ontario, Oregon, to join his uncle, M. A. Biggs, who is practicing law there, he told the Emerald last night. He will (Continued on Faye Two) Eleven Women Nominated for A.W.S. Offices Election Will Be Held W ednesday, April 8 Other Co-eds May Be Put in Kaee at Mass Meeting Tomorrow Afternoon The name of Ann Baum, secre tary of the Associated Women Stu dents, was presented by the nom inating committee for president of that organization during the com ing year, at a meeting of the ex ecutive council Monday night. No other nominations for the office were made. At a mass meeting to be held at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon fur ther nominations will be made from the floor. Ten Others Named Other nominations presented by the committee are: vice-president, Dorothy Eads, Virginia Grone; sec retary, Maryellen Bradford, Ellen Sersanous; treasurer, Lucille Kraus, Adele Wedemeyer; ser geant-at-arms, Dorothy Hughes, Nancy- Suomela; reporter, Betty Davis, Madeleine Gilbert. Elections will be held a week from today on Wednesday, April 8. The president-elect and Mar garet Cummings, this year’s lead er, will leave sometime this month to attend the national convention of Associated Women Students at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Classes Are Represented Candidates for the offices of president and vice-president are from the junior class; for the of fices of secretary and treasurer from the sophomore class, while nominees for sergeant-at-arms and reporter are freshmen. Polyphonic Choir Will Sing Sacred Mass on Easter Boartlman To Lead SingcrB In Presentation of ‘Stabat Mater’ Easter Sunday, April 5, will be marked on the campus by the per formance of the sacred mass, Ros sini’s “Stabat Mater,” by the first division of the University poly phenic choir. Because it is Easter Sunday, no admission will be charged for the concert, which will begin at 4 o’clock, according to Arthur Boardman, who will direct. The first division of the choir held rehearsals for the mass dur ing the last half of winter term in order to be able to put on the program so early in the spring term. The text was written as a poem, “Stabat Mater Dolorosa,” in the thirteenth century, long before it was given a musical setting. A number of settings have been writ ten for it, the best known of which are Rossini’s and the two by Pal estrina (sixteenth century). The polyphonic choir included Pales trina's setting for a double-choir of 16 voices in a program given last year. The theme of the mass is in keeping with the Easter season, since it concerns the lamentation of Mary under the cross of Jesus. Five student soloists will be fea tured, and accompaniment will be by both piano and organ. Emerald Has Reporting Jobs Open This Term With several Emerald reporting jobs open at the start of the spring term, a call for new recruits was issued yesterday by Willis Duni way, managing editor of the stu dent daily. Students interested in doing Emerald work are asked by Duni way to report at 3:30 this after noon in room 104 Journalism. Jameson Talks to Club Dr. Samuel H. Jameson, associ ate professor of sociology, spoke before the Kiwanis club of Eugene last Monday noon on the subject, "Language"as a Factor in Inter national Peace,” a topic dealing with Esperanto, the universal lan guage. Their Lungs Are Good :: r Here from the University of Arizona, Paul Koea, left, and Sam Adams are out to prove that their home state's ellmate makes for Rood debating voices. The Arizonans will argue the affirmative of the ehain store question against Wallace Campbell and Walter Kvans, Oregon varsity debaters, at 7:15 tonight in Yillard hall. Oregon Debaters To Face Arizona Men Here Tonight Webfoot Forensic Team Wins in Contest With U. S. C. Oregon men debaters, upholding the affirmative of the question ‘‘Resolved, That the expansion of the chain store is detrimental to the best interests of the American people,” came out the victors in the first decision debate of spring term held last night with the Uni versity of Southern California. The Oregon men will follow up this debate with a contest with the University of Arizona at 7:45 o’clock in Villard hall tonight. Oregon Has Affirmative Hobart Wilson and Neil Sheeley upheld the affirmative in the de bate last night against Emil Steck Jr. and Glenn Jones of U. S. C. Walter Evans and Wallace Camp bell will debate the negative of the same question tonight against Paul Roca and Sam Adams of Ari zona. In the lively debate between Oregon and U. S. C. the contest ants carried the expansion of the chain store with its advantages and disadvantages into both small communities and large cities. The affirmative declared that ‘‘if the present rate continues in all retail fields the chain store would mo nopolize that field in 20 years.” Continuing in their argument, they pointed out the evils of the remote control and absentee ownership of the chain store, saying that it de stroyed American individualism. They offered as a better means the cooperative independents. Chains Said Aid In upholding the negative the visiting debaters said that the chain store met the economic de mand of the present day, aiding the producer, the retailer, and the consumer. They pointed out how the expansion of the chain store had aided in building up small communities by making modern equipment available for their use. Mr. Garner, debate coach for Corvallis high school, rendered the decision in favor of the affirma tive. The debaters from the Univer sity of Arizona who will take part in the contest tonight are on a tour which will include 13 schools in California, Washington, and Oregon. While on their tour the two men are arguing both sides of the chain store question and the question, ‘‘Resolved, That the nations should adopt a policy of free trade within twenty years.” Mr. Dahlberg, debate coach at Oregon State, will act as critic judge and render the decision. J. Bellinger Is» Editor Of Wesley Club Paper Jack Bellinger, sophomore in journalism, has been named editor of the Wesley Pioneer, new publi cation of the Wesley Foundation, students’ organization maintained by the Methodist church, it was an nounced yesterday