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VOLUME XXXU UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1931 NUMBER 119 3 DEBATERS TO TOUR PACIFIC BASIN f ‘Fete Moderne’ Will Be Staged On Race May 8 Annual Canoe Festival Plans Advance Decorations To Be Latest Modern Architecture; Lighting Changed “La Fete Moderne” is the title chosen for this year’s canoe fete, it was announced last night by Walt Evans, general chairman of the event. The canoe fete will be part of the junior week-end list of ac tivities, and will take place on the ^ millrace Friday evening, May 8. The title will be carried out in every detail in the presentation, and a number of improvements over last year’s fete have been sug gested. Decorations will be in the latest modern architecture, leaning toward the modern German work, with red-orange, blue and green as the prevailing color scheme. Modernistic Note Struck ¥ The arch, the stage, and throne, and Queen Eleanor’s float, will all be constructed in keeping with this general modernistic tone, Will Norman, who is in charge of con struction, said. A greater use of lighting has been planned. The arch will carry a unique interior lighting effect never before used on the campus. The footlights along the edge of the millrace will be done away with entirely, and there will be three spotlights instead of the cus tomary two, which will allow a wider range of color to be used. Lighting is under the direction of Dick Givens. Height of Floats Limited In answer to queries' regarding the bridge near the Anchorage, Evans said that the bridge would be raised to a height of 13 feet. The floats will be limited to 12 feet which will give ample clear ance. Copies of the rules for the event have been mailed to the par ticipant organizations, and Evans has urged that the entries begin construction on floats as soon as possible. Portland Westminster Group Visits Campus A group of men and women from the Westminster Foundation at Portland met yesterday at 11 o’clock in the Westminster house with faculty members, students, and representatives of the Presby | terian, Methodist, and Congrega tional churches in order to learn from local people how the founda tion could best serve the interests ^of the students in the future. Members of the foundation who came from Portland were Dr. and Mrs. H. L. Bowman, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Ross, and A. S. Pattullo. At noon a luncheon was served in their honor, and they returned to Portland in the afternoon. If. 'oncert Monday Jane Thacher, professor of piano in the University school of music, will play a concert of classical mu sic in the music auditorium Mon day evening. The concert will be free to the public. Art School Work To Be Exhibited At 2 Tomorrow Best of Student Effort Will Be on Display in Gallery Of Architecture Bldg. A number of paintings of ex ceptional quality, which have been done by students of the Uni versity of Oregon school of archi tecture and allied arts, will be pre sented in an exhibit to open to morrow afternoon from 2 to 5:30 o’clock, in the art gallery' of the Architecture building. The exhibit, which is of outstand ing quality and freshness, in cludes work done by Nellie Best, Lucia Wiley, Dorothy Derleth, Walter Pritchard, advanced and graduate students in art; and Clair Hamlin, Margaret Reynolds, W. Davies, Elliott Fletcher, Wilbur Bushnell, and William Proctor, un dergraduates. Approach Is Individual The paintings represent a very individual and modern approach to the problems of form, rendering, and arrangement. It is truly work of professional quality and these same paintings are being assem bled in preparation for fall and winter exhibitions on the west coast and in eastern galleries. The water colors which will be exhibited are a splendid example of the departure from simple illus tration, and reflect a keen under standing and appreciation of those things that are contributing to wards the establishment of a modern American art expressive of modern times and thought. Awarded Carnegie Prize One of the exhibitors, Miss Best, was awarded the Carnegie scholar ship at Harvard summer school last summer, where she attend ed the art lectures and studio classes. She received her mas ter's degree in fine arts from (Continued on Pape Four) Jane Thacher Gives Insight Into Coming Piano Concert By JACK BAUER “Every pianist must be an act or,” commented Jane Thacher, professor of music and former head of the department of piano in ythe school of music, during the course of an interview granted the Emerald yesterday. She will be presented in concert in the music auditorium Monday evening, May 4. Chopin’s funeral march will be one of the high points of the pro gram. The reporter listened while the pianist played several of the num bers which will be included in Mon day night’s concert. In the Scar latti “Pastorale,” he heard the pipes of a shepherd, lying in the shade of a bush, lazily wiggling his toes, and sighing as he played. In the “Capriccio,” he heard the lacework which Chopin later em ployed in the “Polonaise Militaire" for an interpretation diametrically " opposed to that of the Scarlatti music picture. “While I was studying in Vienna with Teodor Leschitizky, we used frequently to go up into the Ty rolean villages. I will play Sgam bati’s ‘Laendler,’ which is typical of the light heart and heavy boots of the Tyrolese,” she said. “My very good friend Ignace Friedman wrote the piano ar rangement from Mozart’s original score of ‘Romance’ for a string or chestra. It is extremely graceful. When it was finished she turned from the piano. “The next num ber on the concert program will be a gavotte. I always have an idea that Leschetizky was having a lot of fun when he arranged the | ‘Rameau Gavotte.’ An awful loi of fun. He is a wise man, and very full of good spirits and good fun. The music shows it.” The monumental “Sonata in B j Flat Minor” will be the centerpiece (Continued on Page Threel Mother’s Day Set for Junior Week End Date May 10 Is Scheduled for Annual Visit Trophies To Be Awarded to Houses With Best Attendance Oregon mothers from every sec tion of the state will be guests | of the University during Junior i Week-end, May 8, 9, and 10; and ! especially for the Mother's day { program May 10. Plans for the affair are rapidly being completed, announced Helen Chaney, chair man of the directorate, yesterday. Reservations for the banquet, to be held Saturday evening at Ger linger hall, are already coming in, according to Alexis Lyle, in charge, who has for her commit tee Margaret Walstrom and Bar bara Lieuallen. Jack Stipe and Wilson Jewett are arranging seat ing for the affair, and a special table is to be arranged for the Junior Week-end queen, Eleanor Lewis, and her attendants. Kuies sent uut Rules governing the annual Mother’s day competition were sent out yesterday to all the living organizations on the campus by Irma Logan, who is chairman of registration. Trophies will be awarded to the men’s and women’s houses having the largest number of mothers present, the cup for the men being awarded by Mrs. Charles Hall of Marshfield, and that for the women by M-rs. W. M. Cook, who is president of the mothers’ organization. All moth ers must be registered at Johnson hall between the hours of 9 and 6 on Friday and 9 and 12 Saturday, or they will not count in the com petition. Awarded at Banquet The prizes will be awarded""at the banquet Saturday, and Skull and Daggers, sophomore men’s service honorary, will assist the mothers in taking them to their respective places. Mrs. Charlotte Donnelly, secretary of housing, will also be present at Johnson hall to welcome the mothers, and will arrange for the housing of the guests in private homes. Tea Saturday A tea to be held Saturday after noon is also scheduled for the mothers, and the queen and her attendants will be guests. Mrs. Cook will serve in the receiving line for the tea. Special services in all the churches Sunday, and vespers at the music auditorium are another feature. Posters and signs are to be put up on the campus welcoming the guests, said John Painton, head of that committee. Special golfing privileges have been secured for the mothers at the Eugene Coun try club. A card allowing them to play free of charge may be pro cured at the time of registration. MOTHER’S DAY PRIZES 1. The base membership of an 1 organization from which will be 1 computed the percentage of moth ers returning shall be the official house membership list submitted ! at the beginning of spring term to the deans’ offices by the presi dents of the various living organi zations. 2. Only members actually living in the organization’s residence are counted. (a) Fraternity men and wom en living in halls of residence are to be considered members of such halls for purposes of this competition. (b) Fraternity men and wom en living with parents or rela tives in Eugene and not actually living in their respective fra ternity houses are not included in the house membership for purposes of this competition. 3. Only such mothers as are of ficially registered at 1 p. m. Sat urday, May 9, will be credited to i organizations for purposes of this competition. 4. Mothers having both a son (Continued on rage TwoX Pack Bags for Good-Will Debate Tour June 1 these three Oregon students will leave the campus on a 35,000-inile debate tour that will take them to nine nations surrounding the Pacific basin. They will fulfill 52 debate and lecture en gagements in Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, India, Siam, Philippine Islands, China, Japan, and Can ada. From left to right, the good-will debate tour members are ltobert T. Miller, Roger A. Pfaff, and David G. Wilson. __*___ I Approval Is Given ! AWS Constitution Revision in Poll Legalize Changes With 171 Votes Cast and Only Three Opposed Approval was given the revised A. W. S. constitution yesterday when 171 women students cast their ballots for .the new document, and only three voted against the changes. Voting took place at the old library, the polls being open from 8 a. m. to 3 p. ni. The light vote-was expected, since the bal loting was done merely to legalize the revisions, and no objections had been voiced. The revised constitution, making the secretary of the A. S. U. O. a regular member of the A. W. S. executive council, calling for the selection of a finance committee to plan an annual budget, extend ing A. W. S. membership to honor ary as well as student members, and reducing the number of stand ing committees to three: foreign scholar, Peters Lodge, and Big Sis ter, was drawn up by a committee of three women students, Bess Templeton, Betty Anne Macduff, and Alexis Lyle. It will go into effect at once. Eleven women presided at the polls yesterday. They were: Nancy Suomela, Caroline Hahn, Virginia Hartje, Elsie Williams, Helen Shingle, Betty Karkeet, Louise Barclay, Marjorie Bass, Esther Lofstedt, Eleanor Sheeley, and Madeleine Gilbert. University Band Will Open Spring Concerts Sunday _ Old Library Tennis Courts To Be Scene of All Programs The University concert band of 45 pieces, under the direction of John Stehn, will open its annual spring concert series tomorrow night at 7 o’clock on the tennis courts near the old library. The concerts will be continued throughout May, Stehn announced yesterday, due to the popularity of the series on the campus last | year. Each successive appearance drew larger crowds of students, faculty, and townspeople, the lis teners grouping themselves on the lawn around the tennis courts that forms virtually a natural amphi theatre. Band music alone will be fea tured in the first concert, accord ing to the director, but special numbers have been planned for later concerts. On the program for tomorrow night will be “Officer of the Day March” (Hall), “New Dawn Over ture” (Russell), “Faust” selection (Gounod), “The Hunting of the Snark” (Rollinson), “Isle o’ Dreams” selection (Ball), and “King Cotton March” (Sousa). Vodvil Players Are Egged on by Eager Audience JUST as Norman Jesse, noting; the part of A1 Caphony, was about to be “put on the spot” in the Junior Vodvil last night, six oderiferous eggs flew from the balcony, spattering the players and orchestra director. This token of appreciation was fittingly bestowed upon the scene entitled, “The Tragedy of the Bright Lights.” The volley was fired in characteristic Chi cago fashion at exactly 9:46 p. m., and perfect hits were scored upon Tory Shell and two co-ed members of the cast. Members of the Eugene po lice force hurried to the bal cony, but at an early hour this morning the department re ported that the perpetrators had not been apprehended. Donut Tennis Finals Monday The intramural tennis cham pionship match between the Yeo men and Zeta hall has been post poned until Monday, May 4, when the contests will be played at 4 p. m. The postponement was due to uncertain weather conditions. Nominations for Co-op Board To Be Made Today Candidates for Three Posts Will Be Named This Afternoon Candidates for three positions on the University Co-op board of di rectors to be voted on in the all campus election May 7, will be nominated this afternoon at 1 o'clock at a meeting in room 105 Commerce building. Every member of the A. S. U. O. who has paid his fees this term is a member of the Co-op association, and is eligible to nominate a can didate for one of these positions. Candidates Are Chosen Reports from the Mimnaugh camp last night indicated that the names of Adele Wedemeyer and Ethan Newman would probably be placed on the party ticket for Co op board members, along with an other which had not been decided last night. The Knowlton candidates were reported to have been pretty def initely settled upon, but the names of probable contenders were not available. A short business meeting of the association will take place follow (Continued on Page Two) They Make Vodvil Success “That New Idea,” the 1931 Junior Vodvll which closes at the Heilig tonight, came out of the hard work of these 12 students. They are, top row, left to right: Slug Palmer, chairman-director; Kelsey Slocum, assistant chairman; Marion Camp, chorus; 3arney Miller, author. Middle row, left to right: Treve Jones, business manager; Chuck James, theme song; Marvin Jane Hawkins, music; Boh Holmes, tickets. Bottom row, left to right: Martin Geary, stage manager; John Sraedberg, orchestra; Chuck Jones, assistant director; and Ted I Montgomery, publicity. r Miller, Pfaff, Wilson ToYisitEightNations On 35,000 Mile Trip Men Will Leave Campus June 1; ■piTTING their wits and oratorical ability against fellow students in eight nations of the Pacific basin, three University of Oregon stu dents will leave the campus June 1 on a debating tour that will take them over 35,000 miles during the next eight months, it was an nounced yesterday by Dr. Ralph C. Hoeber, head of the speech division of the department of English. 52 Morris and Erb Scheduled for KORE Speeches Emerald Editorial Hour To Be Featured By Talks The Emerald editorial hour for next week will be featured by talks from two economics authorities of the University faculty, Ralph Da vid, radio director, announced yes terday. Donald Erb, professor of eco nomics, will address the radio au dience of Eugene over station KORE Tuesday afternoon at 4:45, the regular time for the daily broadcast. His subject has not been announced as yet. Victor P. Morris, also professor of economics, will speak on Thurs day, and his subject will probably be the business cycle. Both speak ers will be allowed to utilize the entire 15-minute period. Among the speakers being lined up for the following weeks will be Wayne L. Morse, associate pro fessor of law. Mr. Morse spoke over the radio last term on the state crime survey report which he has spent the past months in pre paring. The subject for his second (Continued on Cage Four) Library Workers Gel Better Grade Average It seems that if one is wishful for high grades he should work in one of the libraries, for statis tics prove that library students receive a much higher grade aver age than most of the students in the University. It also seems that working in the library tends to raise the average of individual grades, for the average is higher for the same students during win ter term than during fall term. The men and women working in the libraries show themselves equal scholastically, both receiving a 2.52 average for last term, which was the average of all library stu dents during winter term. This 2.52 average shows a decided in crease in grades over the 2.73 for fall term of the same students. y The team will be composed of Robert T. Miller, Pendleton, junior in pre-law; Roger Alton Pfaff, Eu gene, junior in pre-law, and David G. Wilson Jr., Portland, Junior in journalism. Members were se lected by a personnel committee of the University, which spent sev eral months investigating the qual ities of the applicants. A total of 52 debate and lecture engagements in Hawaii, New Zea land, Australia, India, Siam, Phil ippine Islands, China, Japan, and Canada have been scheduled by Miller, who will act as manager on trie venture. Miller, with the advice of Walter E. Hempstead, instructor in English and a mem ber of the Oregon world debate team of 1927, has been working on the project for the past 18 months, and has written more than two thousand letters to various in stitutions and individuals. The three men, in addition to being sponsored by the University, have the cooperation of several civic and commercial organiza tions of Oregon and the Pacific coast. Serving on the University per sonnel committee which selected the three men are: Burt Brown Barker, vice-president; Dr. James H. Gilbert, dean of the college of liberal arts; Hugh L. Rosson, grad uate manager of the associated students; and Dr. Ralph C. Hoeber and Walter Hempstead Jr., of the speech division of the English de partment. The three students have received appointments as good-will ambas sadors of the state of Oregon. They have secured the co-opera tion and support of such institu tions as the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace, Pan American Union, National Student Federation of America, and the United States Bureau of Educa tion. Miller, the manager of the tour, has served as assistant chairman of the Greater Oregon committee and has been a member of the varsity debate team for two years. He has been active in oratorical contests in addition to his activity as manager of the University or chestra and circulation manager of the Oregana, student yearbook. Pfaff, a varsity debater, has (Continued on Page Two) That New Idea’ Scores Hit; Junior Vodvil Ends Tonight I. By TEI) MONTGOMERY Following two months of stren uous preparation, "That New Idea,” the 1931 Junior Vodvil, played to an audience of about six hundred and fifty people in the Heilig theater last night in the first of three scheduled per formances. Opening with a snappy “State Street Stomp,” executed by the entire dancing chorus who ap peared in black and white pajama costumes against a black and white background, the show con tinued through two and a half hours of skits, one-act plays, mu sical numbers, dancing acts, tum bling and magic acts, to culminate in a Spanish fantasy, at the end of which the curtain was drawn on a grand finale with the entire cast of the production, singing and dancing to the tune of “That New Idea,” theme song of the vod vil. Outstanding in last night’s pro gram were two one-act plays. One, “We Leave No Stone Un turned,” featuring Don Confrey, Eleanor Lewis, Ken Lawson, Mar tin Allen, and Charles Jones, is a farce in which Confrey and Lewis as a young married couple seek to break the lease on their apartment. Lawson and Allen, as professional lease breakers, and Jones as the landlord, furnish 20 minutes of as good comedy as one could hope to see. The act is well cast and well directed, and went over very successfully with the audience. The second play, a rhythm act written by George Cohan, opens in a courtroom where Jane Clay, played by Jane Anderson, is un dergoing a cross-examination on the witness stand. The novel flow of the concert. It is one of the few works in which Chopin dared to ; (Continued on Togo Two)