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VOLUME XXXII_UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE. THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1931 NUMBER 107
UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUBS AND ORCHESTRA IN JOINT CONCERT TONIGHT AT M’ARTHUR COURT AT 8:15
DUNIWAY NAMED EMERALD EDITOR
University Will
Make Effort To
Keep Sciences
Dr. Hall Outlines Plans
At Assembly
Great School Is Impossible
Without Department,
President Says
A vigorous effort to keep pure
science courses at the University
instead of transferring upper divi
sion and graduate work in them
» to Oregon State college, as pro
posed in the recent federal survey
of higher education in Oregon, will
be waged before the state board
at its meeting Monday, Dr. Arnold
Bennett Hall, president of the Uni
versity, told students gathered in
a general assembly yesterday at
Gerlinger hall.
The statement of the /president
brought applause and cheers from
the students. “We can’t have a
great University without a great
science department,” Dr. Hall said.
"To take away the department is
unheard of in the history of edu
cation. There is not one state uni
versity in the country but has full
sway over such work.”
Rumors Cleared Up
The assembly was called by
George Cherry, president of the
associated students, after conflict
ing rumors about the federal sur
vey had gone the rounds of the
campus and interested students
had asked that existing misunder
standings be cleared up.
Explaining the difficulties con
fronting the University, Dr. Hall
urged a renewal of confidence and
loyalty on the part of students
and faculty members. Courageous,
whole-hearted support of a seri
ous-minded student body and fac
ulty, imbued with the heroic spirit
of the past built up by the late
Prince L. Campbell when president
of the University, will bring the
University through its present
crisis, Dr. Hall said.
Large Cut Necessary
The University may have to cut
expenses heavily as its share in
the economy program of the state
board of higher education that the
schools under its control reduce
their budgets $1,200,000 in the last
18 months of the biennial period,
the president said. This must
bring serious curtailment of Uni
versity activities.
Four Results Outlined
« Present financial difficulties be
gan with the veto of $500,000 of
the legislature’s $1,181,000 appro
priation, and when r taxpayers’
leagues decided to invoke the ref
erendum against the remainder.
Four possible results of the loss
of finances were outlined by Dr.
Hall as follow:
1. The University w’ill have to
get along without a faculty mem
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Buy Your Vodvil
Ticket Via Mail
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■^jVfAYS, means, and requisites
for obtaining seats for the
Junior Vodvil, to he presented
May first and second at the Hei
lig theatre, as enumerated by
Bob Holmes, ticket manager for
the event, are as follows:
First, all orders must be placed
either through the mail or at the
box office of the Heiiig.
Second, cash and seif address
ed stamped envelope must ac
company all mail orders.
Third, in order to obtain the
best seats it is necessary that
orders be placed at once. All
orders to be filled in the order
in which they are received.
Fourth, houses ordering in
blocs will receive personal de
livery service.
Last night over 250 orders for
seats bad been received and any
number of persons had called in
asking for information, Holmes
said.
A.W.S. Listens to
New Constitution
Read at Meeting
Six Officers Are Installed;
Committee Chairmen
Are Appointed
The proposed revised constitu
tion and by-laws of the Associated
Women Students were presented to
the women students for the first
time at the installation mass meet
ing of the A. W. S. yesterday at 5
o’clock in Alumni hall.
The constitution will be printed
in full in the Emerald and a special
election will be held within the
next two or three weeks to pass
;he document. A committee headed
by Bess Templeton, in charge of
the revision, which was one of the
major undertakings of the A. W.
S. this year.
Six officers of the A. W. S. were
installed and three standing com
mittee chairmen were appointed.
Dfficers are: president, Ann Baum;
vice-president, Virginia Grone;
secretary, Ellen Sersanous; treas
urer, Lucille Kraus; sergeant-at
arms, Nancy Suomela; reporter,
Madeleine Gilbert.
Louise Ansley was appointed
chairman of the foreign scholar
committee by Ann Baum. She suc
ceeds Carolyn Haberlach. Carol
Werschkul was announced as
chairman of the Peters Lodge
committee, succeeding Bess Tem
pleton. Big Sister chairman will
be Betty Anne Macduff, who fol
lows Dorothy Eads in this posi
tion.
Following the meeting Margaret
Cummings, retiring president, was
hostess at the Pi Beta Phi house
for 25, including members of last
year’s executive council, this year’s
officers and committee chairmen,
Mrs. Hazel Prutsman Schwering,
Mrs. Alice B. Macduff, and Miss
Eula Duke.
Warm Spring Air of Eugene
Praised by Visiting Chemist
“Oregon brings to me memories |
of the Black forest and Baden,” I
said Dr. Heinrich Wieland, Ger
man chemist and Nobel prize win
ner for 1927, as he stood on the ;
T steps of Villard hall, sniffing the '
warm spring air appreciatively.
“This is my first visit to Ameri
ca, but I intend to come again if
I possibly can.”
Dr. Wieland is a large and im
posing figure, wearing a broad,
black derby, and dressed other
wise in European fashion. But be
neath his austerity, he is genial and
kindly. His warm smile appears
frequently.
“I hope that my work in the
field of bio-chemistry will be of
benefit to science,” continued the
doctor. “I have been studying bio
chemistry of free radicals and have
spent a long period of work on bile
acids. It was for the latter that I
4 received the Nobel prize. My time
has also been occupied with prob
lems of biological oxidation.
“I have finished lecturing at
Yale university and the University
of California, and am now on my
way east. I will go by way of
Seattle, Vancouver, and Chicago
to New York, where I will take
the steamship Bremen on April
24 for Germany.”
Dr. Wieland spoke yesterday af
ternoon on “Oxidation Processes in
Living Organisms.”
New Students To Take
Psych Exam Today
New undergraduate students who
have transferred from other
schools and freshmen entering the
University for the first time spring
term will required to report for a
psychological examination today at
Condon hall. The examination will
be given at 4 o'clock in room 101.
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Commonwealth
Meet To Begin
With Luncheon
President Hall To Speak
To Representatives
Four Sections To Consider
Problems; Sizable
Crowd in View
Coming from all parts of Oregon
to discuss problems of community,
city and state, representatives
will arrive on the campus this
morning to attend the annual
Commonwealth conference today
and tomorrow.
Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, presi
dent of the University, will give
the address of welcome at the
joint luncheon at 12:15 p. m. to
day in the new men’s dormitory.
R. A. Booth, of Eugene, will pre
side.
Registration of all delegates will
take place in the Administration
building at 10:30 this morning.
Allen To Head Group
At 2:30 this afternoon the dele
gates will divide into four sections
to consider problems common to
the individual groups. Eric W.
Allen, dean of the school of jour
nalism, will preside over a group
which will discuss conservation of
Oregon’s scenic and recreational
resources. One section, presided
over by Thomas Potwin, editor of
the Albany Democrat-Herald, will
hold a round-table discussion on
community organizations. Another
group, presided over by A. L. Bar
bur, president of the League of j
Oregon cities, will discuss city and
town problems. At the same time
administration of public welfare
and relief will be discussed by a [
group to be led by Miss Lucille
Montgomery, executive secretary
of the Linn county chapter of the
American Red Cross.
Lampman Will Speak
Burt Brown Barker, vice-presi- j
dent of the University, will pre- ‘
side at a dinner to be given in the
new men’s dormitory for all visit
ing delegates at 6:30 this evening.
Ben H u r Lampman, editorial
writer, Morning Oregonian, Port
land, will be the speaker. Stu
dents of the school of physical ed
ucation will present a folk dance,
members of the drama department
will present a one-act play, and
music will be furnished by stu
dents of the school of music.
At 8:30 p. m. the delegates will
be entertained at the concert in'
McArthur court given by the Uni
versity Glee club and the Univer
sity orchestra.
Interest Is Aroused
Tomorrow the groups will be
again divided into four sections,
for round-table discussions, ad
dresses, and considerations of top
ics of special interest to the va
rious groups. At noon each of
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Student of Underwood
Adjudged Best of 226
Frances Brockman, a violin stu
dent of Rex Underwood, member
of the school of music faculty, won
a distinct honor at Spokane last
week when she was adjudged to
be the best musician of a 226-piece
orchestra recruited from the best
high school players of Oregon,
( Washington, Idaho, and Montana.
This recognition carried with it
; a $150 scholarship in the summer
| orchestra camp at Interlachen,
! Michigan. The formation of the
! orchestra and the competition be
tween its members was a feature of
the Northwest Music Supervisors
conference which met for three
days in the Washington city.
Miss Brockman is a senior in
University high school, but is a
member of the University Sym
phony orchestra. She recently at
tracted much favorable attention
on the campus with a recital she
gave at the music auditorium. She
is the daughter of Mrs. A. E.
Brockman, a teacher in the Eu
gene city high schools.
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Share Concert Directing Tonight
Above, left, John Stark Evans, director of the glee clubs, and
Rex Underwood, conductor of the University symphony orchestra,
who will share honors in directing the joint concert to be given by
the two organizations at McArthur court this evening. Students may
use their student body cards for admission.
ASUO Concert Season Ends
W ith Fifth Program Tonight
100 Conference Delegates
To Be Guests at Glee,
Orchestra Recital
Tonight the official concert sea
son of the associated students
closes. At 8:15, in McArthur court,
the combined University glee clubs
and the University symphony or
chestra will begin at concert pro
gram which is to be the last of the
series of five sponsored during the
winter by the A. S. U. O.
This is to be the only concert of
the series to be given by the cam
pus’ own musical organizations,
and for that reason is attracting
widespread interest among the stu
dent body.
Students will be admitted with
out charge, but must present their
student body membership cards at
the door, warns Ronald Robnett,
assistant graduate manager.
About 100 civic officials from
every part of the state who are on
the campus for the Common
wealth conference Thursday and
Friday will be guests of the asso
ciated students at the concert, and
will occupy a special reserved sec
tion.
The directors of the evening will
be John Stark Evans, glee club di
rector, and Rex Underwood, con
ductor of the orchestra.
The girls’ glee club will open the
program with a group of three
songs; the men’s club will follow
with three more; the orchestra will
play two major compositions, and
all the units will combine for the
finale, Coleridge-Taylor’s cantata,
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Debaters To Face
Washington Men
At Villard Tonight
Oregon Cross-Questioning
System Will Be Used
For First Time
The Oregon cross-questioning
system of debate will be used for
the first time on this campus this
year in the non-decision debate
between the men’s teams of the
University of Oregon and the Uni
versity of Washington tonight at
7:30 o’clock in Villard hall. The
question is to be, “Resolved, that
the expansion of the chain stores
is detrimental to the best interests
of the American people.’’
Robert Gamer and Rolla Reedy
will uphold the negative for Ore
gon, and James Bell and Robert
Eurns will maintain the affirma
tive for Washington.
Although this is the first time
the Oregon style of debate has
been used on this campus, Oregon
men debaters used this same form
while debating Washington during
their recent tour. Following their
constructive speeches the speakers
put each other, in a certain sense
on the witness stand and question
one another in turn on the various
points of the debate.
George W. Robbins, associate
professor of business administra
tion, will act as chairman for the
evening.
Arne G. Rae Leaves
On Newspaper Trip
Arne G. Rae, field manager of
the Oregon State Editorial asso
ciation, left yesterday on an ex
tended trip throughout Oregon to
visit many Oregon newspaper of
fices. He will be absent from the
campus ten or twelve days, re
turning about April 28.
While he is gone, he will attend
two district meetings of the asso
ciation. to be held this Saturday
and next Saturday. The first will
be in La Grande, and the other will
| be at Baker.
Varied Numbers
To Be Presented
At Dance Recital
Physical Education Group
To Perform on Stage
Tomorrow Night
Studies to be presented in the
annual dance recital of the physi
cal education department vary
from whimsical and humorous se
lections to moody and serious
numbers. The recital will take
place Friday night, April 17, in
Gerlinger hall, starting promptly
at 8 o’clock.
The public is invited to attend,
and admission is without charge.
There will be plenty of seating
space but no reserve sections.
Fifty people will appear on the
program, consisting of seven solo
dances and eight group composi
tions, under the direction of Miss
Marjorie Forchemer.
Chopin’s Work Included
Lucille Hill, president of Master
Dance group, will present a com
position, “Victory of D e a t h.”
Youth does not recognize death,
but later realizes its existence and
defies it. In the following conflict
death is the final victor, but not
in entirety, for youth is immortal.
At first the piano is used as a per
cussion instrument and gradually,
as the dance progresses, works in
to Chopin’s “Prelude No. 22.”
Gladys Clausen has created a
delightful composition to “Lento”
by Cyril Scott, from two “Pierrot”
pieces. The old Italian conception
of Pierrot was that he is the man
who came down from the moon.
She will also dance a study to
“Humoresque” by Tschaikowsky, a
bit of humor.
Ruth Johnson To Portray Whims
The whims of life, its emotions,
and the traits of human nAture
is the interpretation Ruth John
son will give to Schumann’s com
position. “Whims.”
Trying to catch the spirit of the
moonbeams, Eleanor Fitch has
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Eleanor Lewis
Elected Queen
Of Week-End
Dorothy Illidge, Velma
Powell Run Close
Coronation To Take Place
On Royal Float at
Canoe Fete
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Queen Election Winners
Eleanor Lewis .:. Queen
Dorothy Illidge . Princess
Velma Powell . Princess
Alice Redetzke . Princess
Jane Munk.Princess
With a substantial majority of
votes, Eleanor Lewis yesterday
won the campus-wide election for
Junior Week-end queen, and will
rule over the annual class festivi
ties as Queen Eleanor.
Princesses attending the queen
will be Dorothy Illidge, Velma
Powell, Alice Redetzke, and Jane
Munk, runners-up in the voting.
Crowned at Fete
Queen Eleanor will be officially
crowned at the Canoe Fete, to be
held Friday night, May 8. The
person performing the coronation
ceremony will be announced later.
The royal float will be one of the
outstanding features of the eve
ning, Canoe Fete officials said.
A formal appearance’ at the
Mothers’ Day tea will be made by
the royal family consisting of
Queen Eleanor, her princesses and
their mothers, who will go down
the receiving line together. They
will appear sometime in the after
noon on Saturday, May 9, as
guests at this tea in honor of Ore
gon mothers.
Honored at Banquet
At the banquet Saturday eve
ning the royal family will be seat
ed at a table of honor. Later, at
the Junior Prom, the queen and
her princesses will be seated on
their thrones on a raised platform.
At a signal from two heralds, the
male attendants of the royal party
will take their partners and the
prom will be officially opened.
They will also lead the grand
march during the evening.
“All events of Junior Week-end
will be in honor of Queen Eleanor
and her princesses,” Ann Baum,
chairman of the queen committee,
said last night.
Jesters To Be Picked
Two court jesters, as yet un
chosen, will precede the queen
wherever she goes, and will do
much to aid the general courtly
atmosphere of the whole plan.
Campus suggestions have al
ready been used in working out
the plans and more are wanted.
These may be turned in to any
merflber of the directorate, which
includes: Ann Baum, general
chairman; Marie Meyers, assistant
chairman; Karl Greve, coronation
chairman; Mary K. Fenton, queen
and princesses; Will Norman, ca
noe float; Elizabeth Strain, cos
tuming; and Art Adams, queen
and princesses at the Junior Prom.
Emma Belle Stadden Is
Chosen Teminids’ Head
Emma Belle Stadaen was elected
president of Temenids, collegiate
order of Eastern Star, for the
forthcoming year at a meeting
held Tuesday night of girls affil
iated with the group on the Oregon
campus.
Other officials elected at the
same time were: Georgine Gildez,
vice-president; Gertrude Larson,
recording secretary; Gladys Chase,
corresponding secretary; Norma
Huston, treasurer; Marion Jones,
editor; Willametta Logsden, guard
ian of gates; and Mrs. Pattee,
chaplain.
In addition to the social meet
ing, discussion was held for ex
pansion and extension of similar
organizations on other campi
throughout the state. Plans were
made, also, for attendance at the
national convention to be held in
Corvallis on week-end of May 28.
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Meeting of Big
Sisters Put off
'pHE Big Sister meeting sched
uled for 4 o'clock today in
Alumni hail has been postponed
until next week, it was announe
ed late last night by Betty Anne
Macduff, Big Sister chairman.
The first meeting at whieh
plans for the entire Big Sister
program for next year will be
outlined probably will he called
next Tuesday, Miss Macduff
added in making the announce
ment. At that time all girls
whose names appeared In last
Tuesday’s Emerald as Big Sis
ters will receive their first in
structions.
Two Advertising
Fields Open for
Women Workers
Theatre, Clothing Trades
Offer Opportunities,
Says Speaker
“Advertising today is subject to
all the changes in industry and in
vention that are occurring, and
two special fields—theatrical and
clothing advertisements—call for
the work of women,” Miss Eleanor
Cannon, advertising manager of
Bedell’s in Portland, who is visit
ing on the campus, said yesterday
in a short talk at a luncheon given
for her at the Anchorage by Gam
ma Alpha Chi, women’s national
advertising honorary.
“Floyd Maxwell, head of Fox
theatres in the Northwest, told me
that he was particularly interested
in seeing women go into the field
of theatre advertising because the
atre managers want to reach the
women of a community and get
the matinee crowd,” Miss Cannon
continued. “The appeal of a pic
ture to women determines its
financial success.
Retail Clothing Offers Chance
“Women advertisers are even
more necessary in the clothing
field, because of the necessity of
understanding constant changes in
textiles and popularizing fabrics
with women buyers,” she stated.
“I would recommend a thorough
knowledge of the textile industry
•for business women in advertising.
“The wit and human interest of
different types of women are prov
ing more and more valuable to
complement those of men in this
developing of an advertising field,”
Miss Cannon said. “When I first
went into business the advertising
manager was called the ‘ad-man,’
but now this person is always
called the ‘advertising manager,’
because as often as not, it is a
woman.”
Six Guests Present
Miss Cannon is a member of
Gamma Alpha Chi and has been
very successful in her work. She
was introduced at luncheon by
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Council Finds
Decision About
Position Hard
Long List of Candidates
Brings Deliberation
Present Managing Editor
Chosen From Field of
Six Applicants
In the hands of Willis Duniway,
of Portland, managing editor of
the Emerald, will be placed the
vj reins of editor
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||i ministration, ac
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, last night by the
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which acted up
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Duniway cision of the com
mittee was unanimous. Editor of
the Oregana and managers of the
Emerald and the Oregana were not
chosen.
Candidates All Qualified
Duniway was chosen from six
candidates for the office who were
nominated last week by the Emer
ald staff and petitions. In making
this recommendation the publica
tions committee announced that
the decision was difficult in that
each candidate was particularly
well qualified for the position. The
committee expressed the opinion
that the student publication might
safely be trusted with any of the
six aspirants. The candidates, be
sides Duniway, were Robert Allen,
Merlin Blais, Ralph David, Harry
Van Dine, and David Wilson.
Active on Publication
Since the latter part of fall term,
Duniway has been acting in the
capacity of managing editor of the
Emerald. Previous to that he was
one of the editorial writers, a day
editor, and reporter. Since enter
ing the University he has been act
ive on the student publication.
Outside of his work on the Em
erald, Duniway has been in the
employ of the Morning Oregonian
and News of Portland, and during
the past two years on the campus
has acted as correspondent for the
Portland News.
Others To Be Chosen
Although the executive council
has appointed the Emerald editor
nearly two months before the end
of the school year, Duniway will
not officially assume office until
the beginning of next fall term.
The publications committee an
nounced that its recommendations
for the remaining officers of cam
pus publications will be turned
I over to the executive council soon.
| A definite date has not been set,
| however.
Spring Gets Psychologists;
Ball Game Challenge Issued
By JACK BAUER I
The soft spring breeze and mel-'
low sunshine of yesterday had ter-!
rific effect on the faculty of the
psychology department. Witness
the following:
To members of the faculty of
the school of education:
We, the undersigned, hereby
challenge the school of education,
both professors of and students
majoring in education, to play a
game of baseball with the under
signed, under the rules and super
vis!on of the school of physical
education faculty, on any date, fol
lowing two consecutive days on
sunshine, and at any time that may
be agreed upon by the contesting
parties.
Signed: Faculty and majors in
psychology department.
The degenerative influence on
intramural and faculty ■ athletics
i is evident in the specification that
the game be played under the
rules of the physical education de
Dartment. It is not to be imagined
:hat any psychologist is unaware
jf the derogatory implications of
i bold challenge which specifies
hat a soft ball be used.
But the weather got the best of
;he psych teachers and graduate
issistants, and their sporting blood
will not cool until they have de
feated the education representa
tives in some sort of combat, be
it only cushion ball.
The requirement of two consecu
tive days of sunshine previous to
the date of the kitten-ball game
was made advisedly, but need carry
no suggestion of the fear of the
ihallengers. They are fuming like
[ions at the gate of the arena.
The issuance of this defy may
be only part of an experiment to
determine the reaction of civilized
man to an offer to play boop-boop
i-doop ball in the warm sunshine.
However, the tone of the note and
the aggressive attitude of the chal
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