Vote The Ticker ?
Is the campus “ticket” system so
good? See the lead editorial oc
page two today.
VOLUME XXXII
The Weather
Unsettled Friday, rising humid
ity.
Maximum . 68
Minimum . 39
NUMBER 113
JOIN THE PEP PARADE TO REINMART FIELD TODAY AND MAKE THE OPENING GAME CROWD A RECORD
JACKSON, GALE, BAILEY GET POSTS
* Oregon9 O.S.C. To Open Baseball Season Today
Reinhart Field
Will Be Scene
Of Initial Fray
Gigantic Parade To Start
Season on Campus
Mayor To Pitch First Ball
To Professor Turnbull;
Earl Will Catch
By PHIL, COGSWELL
(Emerald Sports Editor)
Baseball will be king on the
campus today, when Oregon and
Oregon State nines clash on Rein
hart field at 3:45 this afternoon in
the opening game of the 1931 sea
son.
The Webfoots, coached by Billy
Reinhart, are starting the season
two weeks in advance, the north
ern baseball schedule having been
revised with the entry of Wash
ington.
Rally Parade Set
Unequaled in the history of the
school will be the inaugural base
ball ceremonies which will fitting
ly start the 1931 season. The
blare of bands, the glitter of Rolls
Royces, the rattle of the humble
campus flivvers, will join in a gi
gantic parade, starting at Fifth
and Willamette streets at 3 o’clock
and leading up through the city
^ to Reinhart field.
Harriet Kibbee, secretary of the
associated students, who has had
charge- of issuing invitations to
auto drivers to join the parade,
estimated last night that 90 cars
or more from houses on the cam
pus would be on hand, besides
those of the townspeople. It is
expected that 5000 spectators will
be at the park to witness the
game.
Mayor To Pitch Ball
Mayor H. E. Wilder will be on
deck to pitch the first ball towards
the home plate, and George S.
Turnbull, professor in the school
of journalism, will attempt to hit
it, providing it comes near enough.
Virgil Earl, new dean of men, will
be asked to catch behind the bat
ter, while to prevent any monkey
business being pulled, William
Tugman, managing editor of the
Register-Guard, has been invited
to be the official arbiter,
j. Enthusiasm over the opening
game celebrations has been run
ning high both on the campus and
among the down-town merchants.
DeNeffe’s will give a new hat to
the first Oregon player who should
happen to knock a home run, and
the Heilig theater offers a double
pass to every Webfoot who gets
a two-base hit.
As to the line-up which will
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All Quiet Along Political Front
After Sudden Party Upheaval
Mimnaugh and Knowlton
Uneasy Heads Hoping
To Wear Crown
By THORNTON GALE
Following the cataclysmic up
heaval of the Knowlton, nee Pot
win, ticket yesterday, all is com
paratively quiet along the politi
cal front. Rumors hinting of ad
ditional changes in the present
ticket proved untrue upon investi
gation.
Mimnaygh and Knowlton, the
uneasy heads that hope to wear
the crown, still continue to hold
their power, and the possibility of
another major change in either
party is extremely unlikely. That
another man of the hour could
arise at this time, even with the
aid of several alarm clocks, is
doubtful.
Results of the party switch are
problematical, and as whether it
weakened or strengthened the
ticket, one man’s guess is as good
as another’s.
Two Co-op board positions still
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remain open on the tickets, with
little if any bidding from compet
ing houses, but they will be spread
out somewhere along the line as
pacifiers.
Both parties held support meet
ings last night, the Mimnaugh
camp at the Alpha Chi Omega
house at 8:30, and the Knowlton
backers at the Kappa Alpha Theta
house at 9:30. The usual promises
of a hundred per cent vote were
given by the backers of the two
sides, and some of the “fence sit
ters" made timid declarations of
tepid support.
Throughout yesterday, M i m -
naugh and Knowlton continued
their organization attempts among
the undecided houses. What effect
they have had so far on weaken
ing the resistance of the "in be
tweens” will be more definitely
known in the next day or two.
The first of the short biographi
cal sketches to be published in the
Emerald will start tomorrow. The
first will deal with Brian Mim
naugh and Chet Knowlton, candi
dates for president.
Debate Tonight
In Villard Ends
Forensic Season
Chain Store Question To
Be Argued; Willamette
Upholds Affirmative
Oregon’s forensic season, which
has included debates with schools
of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and
California, will close tonight with
the decision debate between the
men’s team of Oregon and Wil
lamette college in Villard hall at
7:30 o’clock.
Charles Roberts and R o 11 a
Reedy, both of whom are sopho
mores, will uphold the negative of
the question, “Resolved, That the
expansion of the chain store is det
rimental to the best interests of
the American people,” while the
Willamette debaters will argue the
affirmative.
Rolla Reedy has debated before
this year for Oregon, but this is
the first time that Charles Rob
erts, who is also center on the
basketball team, has taken part
in a forensic contest. This is right
in line with the policy of the de
bate department, which has been
to train and use just as many men
and women in forensic activities
as possible, and not simply a few.
Dr. Robert H. Seashore, associ
ate professor of psychology, will
act as chairman for this last de
bate, and Denver Garner, Corval
lis high school debate coach, will
, serve as critic judge.
Avenging Co-Eds in Full Sway
As Senior Leap Week Starts
By RUFUS KIMBALL
With the avenging co-eds now in
full sway over the campus, and
the men powerless except for lis
T
tening hopefully for the telephone,
Senior Leap Week has descended
upon the social life of the Univer
sity.
The “Co-ed’s Revenge” got off
to an auspicious start at the Delta
Gamma house last night, and will
continue mercilessly today in va
ried forms, beginning with the an
nual Kappa Koffee between 3 and
5 this afternoon, and winding up
with the all-campus Mortar Board
ball. For many of the victims it
will be practically a continuous
affair, with formal dinners at va
rious sororities filling in the in
tervening hours this evening.
The Kappa Koffee, an informal
function for seniors only, is to be
a date affair, according to Gladys
Clausen, general chairman for
Leap Week festivities. The Mortar
Board ball, a formal dance at the
Eugene hotel, is the only event of
the week-end to which not only
seniors but the entire campus is
invited. 4
Today, as in years past, will
doubtless find a large number of
co-eds desperately scouring the
vicinity for “campus crates” of any
and all descriptions, in order to
avoid paying taxi fares tonight to
the hotel. Fraternity houses will
enjoy the annual pleasure of “look
ing ’em up and down” as they come
to call for their men, and perhaps
engaging them in casual chit-chat
while the latter quite deliberately
adjust tux ties and put on the fin
ishing touches upstairs. And on
; top of that, the male victims are
net forgetting that for once the
women pay all the bills!
“Co-ed’s Revenge,” perhaps—
but it isn't only the women who
are taking advantage of the Leap
Week scourge to “get even” with
■ the other half of the University.
Water Carnival
Committee Named
By Jack Rollwage
Drawings for Canoe Race
To Be Held Tomorrow
At Old Library
Plans for this year’s water car
nival received a shove forward
when a committee was announced
Jack Rollwage
yesterday by
Jack Rollwage,
chairman of the
meet. The carni
val is to take
place on Saturday
morning of Jun
i o r Week - end,
May 8, 9, and 10.
The committee
is as follows:
Jane Munk, sec
retary; Paul Laf
fer t y , men’s
swimming race; John Dodds, fea
tures; Frances Rupert, women's
swimming race; Charles Stocklen,
canoe race. Sub-committees will
be announced later.
Drawings Held Today
Drawings for the canoe race are
to be held today in front of
the old library at 12:45. All men’s
and women’s living organizations
are asked to have a representative
there, said Rollwage, so that they
may find out what organization
! they will be paired with in the
race.
“Although the canoe race will
be the same distance as last year,
from the portage to the Anchorage,
the distances for the swimming
contests will be shortened to about
half the old length,” Rollwage said.
"This should allow more swim
mers to enter.”
New Timing System
Several other features were an
; nounced by the chairman. Prizes
j will be given to the winners in the
j various contests. Entertainment is
to be offered the spectators be
j tween races, although its nature is
| not yet determined. The commit
tee intends to find a system of tim
| ing the canoe race which will be
I an improvement over the old man
ner.
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College Nite Tickets
On Sale at Pharmacy
—
Special student rate bargain
tickets for the Fox McDonald Col
lege Nite were placed on sale last
; night at the Oregon Pharmacy,
882 Thirteenth avenue east. The
price of the tickets has been set
j at 35 cents.
The Oregon Pharmacy is the on
ly place that the special tickets
| can be secured, the lower price not
i being in effect at the theatre box
‘ office.
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AWS President
Gets Place On
ASUOCouncil
Executive Body Position
To Be Non-Voting
Additions Made to Duties
Of Student Body
Secretary
A permanent resolution will be
added to the A. S. U. O. constitu
tion to the effect that the presi
dent of the Associated Women
Students each year shall have a
non-voting place on the executive
council, it was decided by vote of
the executive council at its meet
ing yesterday. The resolution will
become effective next year.
George Cherry, president of the
associated students, and Bill
Whitely, vice-president, in making
known the decision of the council,
released the resolution as follows,
taken from the minutes of yester
day’s meeting:
“On the recommendation of the
constitutional revision committee,
a motion was made and passed
that the president of the Associ
ated Women Students be entitled
to attend meetings of the A. S.
U. O. executive council, with
power to participate in discussion
but not to vote.”
“The committee felt that this is
a wise move,” Whitely, who is
chairman of the revision commit
tee, told the Emerald last night,
“with the purpose in mind of se
curing for the women students a
definite representation on the ex
ecutive council, and making for
closer cooperation between the A.
W. S. and the A. S. U. O.”
A. W. S. Constitution Approved
At its meeting yesterday, Cher
ry revealed, the executive council
passed favorably upon the new A.
W. S. constitution, which has been
drawn up and is now pending, and
which was submitted to the coun
cil for its approval. The docu
ment was approved with two
minor changes, he said. The con
stitution as revised will be voted
on Tuesday by the Associated
Women Students.
Provides for Student Contacts
The executive council took ac
tion yesterday on a proposal to
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William Ludlow,
| Former Oregon
Student, Injured
Youth Crushed Under Tree
Falling Through Roof
Of McKenzie Cabin
William Ludlow, 19, former stu
dent in the University, who suf
fered a dislocated hip, badly in
jured knee, and severe shock when
he was pinned to his bed in his
| father’s cabin near McKenzie
Bridge by a huge falling tree
which crashed through the roof,
was reported in a poor condition
at the Eugene hospital late last
night.
Ludlow sustained his serious in
juries about midnight Wednesday,
being crushed under the weight of
the tree and frantic with pain un
til rescued at 5 o’clock Thursday
morning by a neighboring woods
man, Dee Wright.
Ludlow was brought to the Eu
gene hospital at 1 o’clock yester
day afternoon after crews of men
worked to remove fallen trees
I from the highway in order that
J the relief truck and ambulance
t carrying the injured boy could get
I through to Eugene.
Ludlow entered the University
I in the fall of 1929 as a freshman
in pre-law, but did not register
last fall. He was well known for
j his ability in tennis, having re
j ported for the freshman net team.
Cold Reception
Greets Visitors
At Friendly Hall
A N epidemic of water bagging
broke out at Friendly hall
last night, and disaster followed
in the wake of anyone ap
proaching the building.
Residents of the top floor
vied for long distanee honors,
hurling balloons of eold water
far out in front of the hall.
Seventy feet was the furthest
record created up to a late
hour. One unlucky dweller on
the first floor unwisely stuck
his head out of a window and
was accurately and thoroughly
water-bagged.
Wet pavements surrounding
the building gave mute evidence
that Friendly hall was none too
friendly last night.
Band i lined Up
For Big Program
Tomorrow Night
Musicians Para<lc Campus
To Advertise ‘Bust’
At Colonial
With the ticket sale started off
with a big band parade on the
campus yesterday afternoon, and
finishing touches completed for the
vaudeville stage program, every
thing is in readiness for the first
annual “Band Bust” tomorrow
night at 11 o’clock at the Colonial
theatre, it is announced by Carson
Mathews, in charge of the event.
Show at 11
The concert and parade demon
strated that the band’s share of
the entertainment will be well
worth while. The group will open
the show at 11, when after a short
concert in front of the theatre,
they will play a couple of special
ly prepared numbers inside.
During the band numbers horns
and noisemakers will be passed to
everyone in the audience, and from
that time on the “lid will be off.”
The entire audience will take part
in singing one of the popular
“screen songs.” This will be fol
lowed by some rapid-fire magic
by the famous Virgil Mulkey. A
mysterious tap dancer will then
trip some unusual steps, and the
Oregon Rhythm Boys, with some
brand new numbers, will wind up
the stage performance.
Comedy Feature
One of the outstanding talking
picture hits of the year, "Follow
the Leader” with Ed Wynn, will
be the feature cinema of the eve
ning. This is crammed with hu
mor and is one great laugh from
start to end.
Tickets have been placed on sale
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Grads Made Members
Of Education Honorary
Seven graduate students became
members of Phi Delta Kappa, na
tional education honorary for men,
at its spring initiation held yester
day afternoon in Gerlinger hall.
Virgil D. Earl, director of physi
cal education and the new dean of
men, Philip B. Park, Franklin An
derson, and Aage B. Anderson
were elected from the school of
education; Lester Beck and Joseph
Trainor from the psychology de
partment; and H. B. Hunsaker
from the physical education de
partment.
After the completion of the in
itiation ceremonies 40 gathered at
the Anchorage for a banquet in
honor of the new members. Speak
er for the occasion was Henry D.
Sheldon, dean of the school of edu
cation, who discussed the effect of
propaganda on education.
Irving Mather, vice-president of
the group, acted as toastmaster.
Another initiation is planned by
the organization, which will take
place some time before the end of
the term.
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Junior Vodvil
Dance Slated
For Saturday
All-Campus Affair To Be
At Cocoanut Grove
Special Features Inchuliii£
Chorus of Twelve
Are Promised
An all campus dance will be held
Saturday night at the Cocoanut
Grove dance pavilion, it was an
nounced last night by Walt Rob
ins, who is in charge. The dance
is sponsored by the directorate of
the Junior Vodvil and will fea
ture excerpts from this year's pro
duction, Robins said.
The dance will last front 9 to 11
o’clock, and an admission of f>0
cents per couple will be charged.
The music will be furnished by the
"Ten Commanders,” who will also
provide music for "That New Idea"
when it goes on the stage at the
Heilig May 1 and 2.
Chorus To Feature
Some of the special features or
the dance will include the pony
chorus, made up of 12 of the Vod
vil chorines who will reveal a few
of the steps which will feature
their appearance in the show. The
“Rhythm Boys,” the well known
Oregon trio who will appear in the
Vodvil, will also perform at the
dance. They announce, however,
that they will not release the num
bers which they have worked up
for the revue. Marian Camp, danc
er and director of the girls’ danc
ing chorus will also be featured at
the dance as will Tory Shell, and
the Harmony Twins, "those banjo
playin' fools.”
This will be the first and last
opportunity, Palmer said, that the
students will have to get a line on
the 1931 Vodvil.
Palmer Will “M. C.”
“Slug” Palmer, chairman-direc
tor of “That New Idea” will be
master of ceremonies, and prom
ises that this will be the best dance
of the term, and that the features
will outnumber and outclass any
that have been seen this year.
“If you are looking for a good
time, good music, good features,
and an all-around good dance,”
Palmer said, “be sure to be on
hand Saturday night at 9 o’clock,
at the Cocoanut Grove.”
All profits, after paying for the
floor and the orchestra, Robins
stated, will go to the Vodvil fund.
Campus I no lo
Sing Over Radio
KGW in Contest
Oregon Rhythm Boys In
Oregonian - Orpheum
Competition Tonight
The Oregon Rhythm Boys, Kel
sey Slocum, John Smedberg, and
Bob Goodrich, will compete tonight
in Portland in the KGW-RKO ra
dio contest, first prize in which
will take the winners to New York
City where a national broadcast
audition will be given them.
The contest, sponsored by the
Morning Oregonian’s radio station
KGW, and the RKO Orpheum thea
tre, is being held to arouse interest
in the Rose Festival, to be held in
Portland in June, and also in the
On-to-Oregon movement.
Many radio acts have entered
the competition. The Rhythm Boys
sang over the Portland station for
the Hoot Owls last month and won
high praise for their performance.
The campus trio will go on the
air over KGW at midnight tonight
from the stage of the theatre. Dur
ing the day they will fulfill two
| other engagements in Portland,
I singing at the civic auditorium and
before a business men’s meeting.
Emerald, Oregana
Business Managers,
AnnualHeadNamed
Executive Council Approves
Committee’s Choice
A CCEPTING the recommendations of the publications committee
of the A. S. U. O., the executive council last night appointed an
editor for the 1932 Oregana, and business managers for both the Ore
gana and the Emerald.
Thornton Gale, junior in journalism, is the new Oregana editor.
Larry Jackson, junior in business administration, was chosen for busi
ness manager of the Emerald. Roger Bailey, sophomore in business
administration, will be business manager of the Oregana for the sec
ond successive year.
Men Take Leave
As Mortar Board
Ball Approaches
Women To Turn Tables on
Men This Evening at
Formal Dance
A great many men are packing
their bags and leaving town for
the week-end. Destination un
known. Reasons? Also unknown,
but tonight is the night for the
Mortar Board ball (9 o’clock at
the Eugene hotel), and the women
are doing all the inviting, are call
ing for the men, sending them
flowers, hiring cars, dining them
afterwards.
"The tickets are going like wild
fire,” said Dorothy Eberhard, gen
eral chairman for the dance, “and
a great deal of enthusiasm is be
ing shown. Many of the houses
are holding formal dinners before
the ball."
The Mortar Board ball is an ex
ceedingly formal affair and one to
which every person on the campus
is invited.. "There has been a ru
mor," Miss Eberhard advised, "to
the effect that freshman men will
not be allowed. I want to deny
that rumor. The dance has been
advertised as “all-campus,” and it
is that.”
Those who have not already ob
tained their tickets may get them
at the Co-op or at the dean of
women’s office. The price is $1.25.
Tickets will also be available at
the door.
Those assisting Miss Eberhard
on the committee are: finance,
Bess Templeton; decorations, Mil
dred McGee and Kathryn Langen
berg Colin; publicity, Daphne
Hughes; music, Margaret Cum
mings.
The entire length of the dancing
floor at the Eugene hotel has been
procured for the evening. Decora
tions will be carried out in a color
scheme of red, green, and amber.
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the council acted upon the choices
of the publications committee,
111m11 tu ils mat
If meeting last
week. The names
of the appoint
ees were made
|| known last night
by George Cher
ry, president of
the assoc iated
students.
Jac k s o n was
chosen from a
field of three
Larry Jackson candi dates for
the Emerald managership, while
Gale was one of two running for
the editorship of the Oregana.
Jack Gregg and Harry Schenk
were Jackson’s competitors; Gale
was apposed by Gibson Danes.
Bailey was the only nominee for
his position.
A member of Sigma Delta Chi,
national professional journalism
fraternity, and of Ye Tabard Inn
chapter of Sigma Upsilon, na
tional writers' honorary, Gale has
had two years’ experience on the
student yearbook, as well as a rec
ord of two years’ work on the
Emerald staff. Last year he served
on the Oregana as section editor,
while his work on the 1931 edition
has been in the capacity of asso
ciate editor. On the Emerald, he
worked last year as reporter and
as news editor for KORE, this
year as day editor, and at present
holds the position of political edi
tor. His home is in Bandon, Ore
gon.
Has Active Record
Jackson has behind him three
years of service on the Emerald
business staff. As a freshman he
joined the staff as assistant cir
culation manager, rose to circula
tion manager when a sophomore,
and during the present school year
is national advertising manager.
His other activities this year in
clude circulation drive chairman
and advertising director on the
Oregana, and member of the Jun
ior Week-end directorate. He is a
member of Alpha Delta Sigma, na
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Republic’s Failure is King’s
Chance9 Says Miss Thompson
Ily RUTH DUPUIS
The King of Spain's only chance
for return as ruler of Spain would
be the failure of the Republican
party, is the opinion of Miss Anna
Thompson, assistant professor of
Romance languages, who has lived
10 years in Spain.
“The Spanish people are very
individualistic. In their history
they have shown themselves to be
united against the enemy, but
when they succeed, they break up
into factions.
“If the decent people of Spain
can sink their individual differ
ences, I think that the Republican
form of government will be a suc
cess,” said Miss Thompson.
“The Republicans can even get
the aristocrats to join them, un
less they should antagonize them
by confiscating property,” she
added.
A liberal republic, the return of
| the monarchy, or communism are
three alternatives for Spain, which
Miss Thompson pointed out.
“On account of their individual
ism, the Spaniards will not make
good communists,” she said.
Miss Thompson met one of the
members of the newly formed pro
visional cabinet, Fernando de los
Rios, minister of public instruc
tion, whose daughter was one of
her pupils in Spain.
Fernando de los Rios, formerly
a professor at the University of
Granada and a member of con
gress, is the nephew of Francisco
Giner de los Rios, an educator who
had much influence on Spanish
men of affairs. Desiring a reform
in Spanish education, he later
established the “Free Institution
of Teaching" in Madrid which was
located just across ,he street from
the Institut.o Internacional, where
Miss Thompson taught. It was
at this place that Miss Thompson
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