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VOLUME XXXII
NUMBER 122
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Free Yourselves From Straight Ticket Evil—Vote Today for Whomever You Please—Put Only the Best Candidates Into Office
Committee To
Feed 3,000 at
Campus Lunch
^ Large Quantities of Food
Will Be Used
More Workers Listed To
Assist in Opening
Week-End Event
Gallons and gallons, pounds and
«. pounds of food are being prepared
in order to feed the 3000 people
expected for the campus luncheon,
the opening event of Junior Week
end. according to Carolyn Haber
lach, general chairman of the
event.
Six hundred pounds of meat, 175
gallons of fruit salad, 200 gallons
of punch, 66 pounds of butter,
6000 rolls, 115 pounds of potato
^ chips, as well as Dixies, Hershey
bars and pickles have been se
cured to feed the anticipated mob,
according to Miss Haberlach. Nine
hundred dollars is the estimated
cost of the luncheon.
Sub-committees recently ap
pointed complete the luncheon di
rectorate. Dulcie Lytsell, chair
man of the serving, has appointed
Helen Louise Martindale and Fran
ces Jordan to assist her.
Carl Gerlinger, chairman of
cleanup, will be assisted by Henry
Heyden, Dan Longaker, and Bill
Klinger.
Connie Baker, in charge of the
entertainment, announces that the
features will not be revealed until
the luncheon.
The serving will be done from
four long tables, which will have
the complete service to be used on
each, in order to insure quicker
service. Thespians, service honor
ary for freshman women, have
been asked by Maryellen Bradford,
in charge of service, to assist the
Kwamas in serving. Members of
Skull and Dagger, sophomore
men's honorary, will assist Tom
Moran, who is in charge of
grounds. The luncheon will be
served in cafeteria style.
Jack Edlefsen, assistant chair
man, is the other member of the
luncheon directorate.
Candidates for Drum
Majors Asked To Study
Hear ye! Hear ye! drum major
candidates. Mr. John Stehn, band
director has issued another edict
in his campus-wide search for ba
ton-wielding talent for the Univer
sity band next year.
In his latest message to pros
pective drum majors Mr. Stehn ad
vises candidates to become thor
oughly familiar with military
training regulations 130-5, 130-10,
and 130-15 which pertain to band
formations, and regulation 420-20
pertaining to dismounted ceremon
ies, parades, reviews, etc.
Information regarding handling
of the baton can be obtained from
W. J Peterkin, Alpha hall, who
has served in the position for three
years on the Oregon band and three
years at military training camp. A
baton for practice may be secured
from Mr. Deeds, property custo
dian at the R. O. T. C. building.
Examinations and tryouts will
be held Monday, May 11 at 3:00
o'clock in the R. O. T. C. barracks
under the personal supervision oi
Mr. Stehn.
Gamma Phi Beta First
In Spring Dime Crawl
Gamma Phi Beta won the spring
term dime crawl last night with a
collection of $8.12, Louise Ansley,
in charge, reported.
^ Alpha Phi placed second with
* $8.02, and Delta Gamma came
third with $7.30. The $102.80 col
lected at all sororities and halls on
the campus will go to the A. W. S.
foreign scholar fund.
Advertising Honorary
Elects Two Members
Hal Elias, exploitation director
for the Northwest for Metro-Gold
wyn-Mayer film company, and W.
B. McDonald, manager of the Co
lonial theater, were elected into
associate membership by the W.
F. G. Thacher chapter of Alpha
Delta Sigma at the noon meeting
of the group at the Anchorage
{ yesterday.
Reser \ Library
To Be C> *ed for
Week-Enc vents
¥>ECAUSK of Junioi ‘ek
end festivities the I ”e
departments of the library . dl
be closed on Friday from 12
noon to 1 p. m. and on Friday
and Saturday from 6 to 10
p. m. Reserve books for over
night use Friday and Saturday
may be drawn between 5:30
and 6 o’clock.
The circulation and reference
departments of the library will
be open as usual all day Friday
and Saturday.
Work To Start on
Igloo Decoration
For Junior Prom
Ken Jetle Issues Call for
Assistance To Make
Preparations
Preliminary work on decorating
the Igloo for the Junior Prom will
start this afternoon, it was an
nounced last night by Ken Jette,
assistant chairman, and all junior
men who can help in the work to
day are asked to get in touch with
him at 565.
The technical men from the
Stark Decorating company of Port
land will be in town and will as
sist the committee in working out
the details of the construction
work necessary in preparing for
the dance.
A list of women who will speak
at men’s organizations today to
advertise the dance was issued yes
terday by Jette. The list is as fol
lows:
Frances Rupert, Dorothy Mut
zig, Betty Barnes, Marvin Jane
Hawkins, Helen Kaufman, Jean
Leonard, Helen Chaney, Marie My
ers, Mary Ellen Foley, Marian
Jones, Almona Kerry, and Zora
Beaman.
Freshman Class
Picnic Committee
Chosen at Meet
Four Students Will Select
Date and Place for
Annual Affair
Carrying out tradition, a fresh
man class picnic will be held some
time this term, it was decided at
a meeting of the class Monday
in Villard assembly. A committee
consisting of Sheldon Dunning,
Gretchen Kegal, Dorothy Cunning
ham, and Jim Flanagan was se
lected to set a date and place for
the affair.
At the suggestion of John Ken
dall, president, it was decided that
the class would set aside a fund
for making awards to men and
women freshmen debaters. An
executive committee consisting of
President Kendall, Vice-President
Billie Eastman, Secretary Joan
Cox, and Professor Hoeber will
choose the award to be given.
Henry Levoff, representing the
Order of the O, talked to the men
explaining what will be expected
of them in carrying out the paint
ing of the O, burning of frosh lids,
and tug of war, during Junior
Week-end.
Mickey Vail, Hugh Williams, and
Neal Bush were appointed to as
sist him in obtaining the coopera
tion of the freshmen.
Twelve Girls Pledged
By Amphibian Group
Twelve girls were pledged this
week by Amphibian club, women’s
local swimming honorary, accord
ing to Helen Dunshee, club presi
dent.
On Monday Margaret Reynolds,
Margery Thayer, Patsy Lee, Elea
nor Thurston, Joyce Busenbark,
Harriett Saeltzer, Mary Margaret
Hunt, Lois Jean Rasch, and Doro
; thy Goff were pledged,
j On Tuesday Fanny-Vick Pearce,
j Barnace Quimby, and Madeleine
Gilbert were pledged, while Helen
| Raitanen completed her require
j ments. Initiation will be held next
[Tuesday at 7:30.
Negro Problem
To Be Solved
By Economics
Race Equality Near, Says
Frank Crosswaitli
Colored Workers Have
Common Interest
With Whites
When the day comes that white
workers realize the negro worker
has a common economic interest
with them, the so-called negro
problem of America will be solved,
said Frank Crosswaith in his
speech on “The Economic Basis of
' Negro Problems” last night in
■ Commerce hall.
The colored labor organizer has
been among the working classes in
America during his entire adult
life, and has formed strong opin
ions on the question of the negro's
position in American labor. He
said that the only reason the ne
gro race was considered inferior
to the white man was the fact
that the negros had been enslaved
during their first 245 years in
America and the slave-master
complex still persisted. Mr. Cross
waith stated that the day was now
not far distant when the white
race will recognize the equality of
the negro.
“The effect of color is only psy
chological,” he said. Mr. Cross
waith is a strong socialist and be
lieves that interests should be op
erated for the welfare of the com
mon people and not for the profits
of the few.
Mr. Crosswaith is to be guest of
honor at a luncheon of the Cos
mopolitan club today. He is on the
campijs through the efforts of the
faculty committee on free intel
lectual activities.
Only 200 Canoe Fete
Seats Left for Campus
With only about 200 left last
night, reserved seats for the canoe
fete will soon be gone, says “Doc”
Robnett, assistant graduate mana
ger. Tickets are on sale as long as
they last at the Co-op and the A-.
S. U. O. office in Friendly hall.
This morning, he announced, the
1500 general admission seats go on
sale at the same places. These
seats, which are not reserved, will
be in the bleachers to be set up
over the highway, and will sell at
50 cents apiece.
Goodwill Dance After Election
To Be Given at Grove Tonight
After the election comes
whoopee. Tonight, while the vote
counters toil over the marked slips,
the candidates of both parties will
be swirling lightly over the ball
room floor at Cocoanut Grove
pausing to moan, groan, smile or
cackle only when the hottest dope
from the counting house is an
nounced. With the candidates will
be their staunch supporters and all
other students who are not broke
and who have the time and inclina
tion to shake a hoof.
The goodwill dance is a new idea,
for the benefit of both the losers
and the winners. It will give the
winners a chance to celebrate in
a respectable manner and also will
act as balm to the losers.
Chet Knowlton, when approached
on the subject, rendered the state
ment: "This dance is just what we
need after elections. Let's all be
there and have a good time.”
His rival for the student body
presidential plum, Brian Mim
naugh, was likewise optimistic:
“I’m all for it. Let's all get to
gether, forget our differences of
opinion and enjoy ourselves."
The dance wili begin at 8 o'clock
and will last until 10:30. By that
time the final results should be
tabulated. As soon as they are an
nounced the orchestra will furnish
appropriate music.
Admission charge is 25 cents
(two-bits) per each person 50
cents per couple.
University Band
Plans Concert on
Mill Race Sunday
New Bandstand To Be Used
For First Time on
Mothers’ Day
The Mother’s Day concert by the
University band will be played
Sunday from the new mill-race
band stand. The concert will com
mence at 7 p. m., and will be free
to everyone, John Stehn, director,
announced yesterday.
This will be the first concert
to be played from the mill-race
band stand. The idea of holding
the summer series on the mill-race
is credited to Hugh Rosson, grad
uate manager. Having the music
played across the water from the
bleachers will make the concerts
unique in setting.
“The place is ideal for band con
certs,” said Stehn. “There is am
ple seating capacity, excellent
acoustics, and a most beautiful
and picturesque scenic back
ground. The setting is somewhat
comparable to the famous Lake
Harriet concerts in Minneapolis,
which can be heard either from
canoes out on the lake, or from
seats on the roof garden of the
park.
“The Long Beach, California,
concerts are played from a shell,
set against the Pacific ocean. But
our setting on the mill-race I be
lieve to be superior.
“It is hoped that all our future
spring concerts can be played
from the mill-race band stand. I
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Onlliank Outlines
Big Sister Task
At Group Meeting
Acquainting New Students
With University Given
As Important Duty
Big Sisters on the Oregon cam
pus have an important function to
perform in helping the process of
orientation of the entering stu
dent, in aiding her make broad
and stimulating associations on
the campus, and acquainting her
with the extensive field of student
activities, in the opinion of Karl
Onthank, dean of personnel ad
ministration, who spoke to the
third group meeting of Big Sisters
yesterday.
“It is essential that the Big Sis
ter impress the entering women
students with the need for definite
objectives in college life,” Mr. On
thank stated. These worthy aims
concern studies,- activities, person
ality development, friends and as
sociations, a life career, and a re
sponsible public spirited attitude
toward the University as an edu
cational institution, he explained.
To be a success in college, Mr.
Onthank commented, the fresh
man women must realize that an
intelligent and determined effort
on her part is required. She can
no longer follow the lines of least
resistance and rest on past repu
tation.
In general, Mr. Onthank empha
sized the desirability of assisting
the entering student in making
contact with professors, advisers,
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Committees,
Features Are
Ready for Fete
Lights, Construction and
Cron in Is Lined Up
Firo Dives, Singers, and
Dancers on Program for
Canoe Display
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With the appointment of super
vising committees anil the an
nouncement of the entertainment
features, the details of the Canoe
Fete are well in hand.
Walt Evans, general chairman,
last night announced the following
committees:
Lighting: Dick Givens, chair
man; Laura Drury, secretary; Bob
Steiwer, Jim Blair, Leo Ross, Bob
McCulloch, Norville Hamilton, and
Mart Allen.
Construction: Paul Austen,
chairman; Ira Brown, assistant,
Wilson Jewett, John Painton, and
Denzil Paige.
Grounds: Chuck Weber, assist
ant.
Features announced by Mac
Gowan Miller, chairman, are:
University glee club quartet;
Merland Tollefson, Don Eva,
George Bishop, and Gifford
Nash.
Fire dives by Sam Henshal
Nigh, Mac Miller, Ladd Sherman,
and Gordon Corson.
Adagia dances by the team of
Knox and Fishel.
Tap dances by Jane Stange
and Louise Marvin.
The Miller-Nigh,Sherman-Corson
fire dive will be the most spectacu
lar feat yet attempted for the en
tertainment of a Canoe Fete audi
ence, Mac Miller stated, predicting
that the four-fold leap in flames
would start the fete off with a
blaze of glory.
There are only 200 reserved seats
left, Jack Gregg, assistant chair
man of the directorate announced
last night.
Oregana Distribution
Will Continue Today
Students who were unable to
secure their Oreganas yesterday
will have an opportunity to get
them between the hours of 8 and
11:50 this morning, according to
an announcement made by Roger
Bailey, business manager, last
night. The yearbooks will be dis
tributed from McArthur court to
students who have paid for them
in full.
“Approximately 1200 copies of
the Oregana were distributed
Wednesday afternoon and we hope
to complete the work of getting
the books out this morning,”
Bailey declared.
A long line of students was
formed when the windows were
opened at 1 o’clock yesterday aft
ernoon. The speed with which
the distribution was accomplished
was shown when 750 copies were
given out during the first 25 min
utes of distribution.
Oregon Recital Will Be
Given by Gould Tonight
Robert Gould, senior music stu
dent, will play an organ recital to
night in the Music building audi
torium at 8 p. m.
His concert will contain charac
teristic Yon numbers, "Eco” and
"The Primitive Organ,” two early
eighteenth century Bach composi
tions, the syncopated “Overture on
Negro Themes” by Dunn, the
Candlyn "Fantasia,” and the very
modern “Prelude and Fugue” by
Marcel Dupre.
The recital was originally sched
uled for last week, but illness pre
vented Gould’s appearance. He is
a student of John Stark Evans.
Professor Moll To Give
Talk on Mothers’ Day
As a special feature of Mothers’
day Ernest G. Moll, assistant pro
fessor of English, will speak Sun
day evening at the Westminster
forum meeting, choosing as his
topic, “The Religion of a Poet.”
The meeting is scheduled to begin
at 6 o’clock.
Sylvania Edwins has arranged
special music for the occasion. All
students and their mothers are in
vited to attend.
Political Race Finals
Get Under Way at 9
Today in Campus fY’
Polls To Be Open SixHoursfor
Annual ASUO Election
Student Body Cards Must Be Shown and Punched
To Vole; Leaders Hope New System Will
Eliminate Ballot Box Stuffing
By THORNTON GALE
YOU can pay your money and take your choice today, when the
grand political sweepstakes gets under way at 9 o'clock. The
campus Y. M. C. A., scene of many a bitter ping pong contest, will
be the battle field for the rival factions.
Because of the equal merits of some of the opposing candidates,
many voters will have to make a choice based on astrology, silent
prayer, or advice from Marian Miller.
Election Returns
To Be Bulletined
Hourly at Co-op
JJEGINNING at 5 o’clock this
afternoon, election returns
will be bulletined hourly in front
of the Co-op. Final results will
be available at about 10:30 this
evening, it is estimated by
George Cherry, president of the •
A. S. U. O., and Bill Whitely,
vice-president.
Students counting the ballots,
beginning with the closing of
the polls at 3 o'clock, will work
right through until the job is
completed, Cherry said. On
each ballot there will be 28
items to be recorded. Cherry
and Whitely will supervise the
counting throughout.
School for Yell
Leaders To Open
Sessions Today
A call for all men interested in
trying out for positions on the
varsity yell staff next year to at
tend the first session of the yell
leaders’ school today has been is
sued by Kelsey Slocum, present
yell leader.
The session will be held at 3
o’clock today in the wrestling
room of the men’s gym.
From the list of those attending
the school recommendations will
be made to the student relations
committee, which will choose the
yell king and his assistants.
It is very important that all
those desiring to try out be at the
session today, Slocum said yester
day, because this is the only
chance to sign up.
Junior AAUW To Hold
Meeting at 8 Tonight
A meeting of the junior group
of the American Association of
University Women has been an
nounced for 8 o’clock tonight by
Kathryn Fry, leader.
Plans fpr the regular A. A. U.
W. garden party which will be
given by the senior and junior
groups will be discussed. A play
is to be read as a part of the pro
gram.
All those interested are invited
to attend the meeting at the home
of Miss Rose Robinson in the
Wilder apartments and are asked
to call Kathryn Fry at the school
of education or Miss Robinson at
the Fine Arts Museum.
Posters for Rhodes
Scholarship Are Out
New posters for the Rhodes
scholarship are just out, the grad
uate office has announced.
Dr. George Rebec, dean of the
graduate school, is urging those
students who expect to apply for
the scholarship to see the com
mittee and obtain a reading list
that they may use this summer
to advantage. Members of the
committee include Dr. Rebec,
chairman; Andrew Fish, associate
professor of history; S. Stephen
son Smith, associate professor of
English; and Ernst Gellhorn, pro
fessor animal biology.
r nusuiuteiy nu pruxy voting Will
be allowed,” Bill Whitely, vice
president of the student body, and
in charge of elections, warned last
night. A decision of the judiciary
committee yesterday supports the
stand. “The polls will be open from
9 to 3, and the student body tick
ets will be punched and double
checked. It is hoped that the new
system will cut down on the ballot
stuffing and corruption of the past.
We are going to try to make this
the fairest election ever held.”
“Forget Parties,” Says Cherry
George Cherry, president of the
A. S. U. O., in an official state
ment released yesterday, said,
“Those students with the best in
terests of the A. S. U. O. at heart
will pay no attention to party line
ups when they go to the polls.
“Voting for the candidate who
can do the best job should be the
only consideration. A student's
first loyalty is to the University
of Oregon. Party line-ups tend to
misdirect that loyalty and place
an election on a purely artificial
basis that can easily undermine
our own self government.”
Election judges selected by
Whitely are: from 9 to 11, Hal
Johnson, Kermit Stevens, and
Tony Peterson. From 11 to 3,
Lloyd Sherrill, Joe Freck, Chuck
Laird, Stan Brooks, Hal Paddock,
and Jack Edlefsen.
Election Board Chosen
The election board in checking
and challenging voters consists of:
Alice Carter, Kay Langenberg, Joe
Stofiel, Mary Myers, Joan Patter
son, Louise Rickert, Esther Ka
ser, Elizabeth Kaser, Connie Baker,
Dorothy Thomas, Virginia Ster
ling, Helen Chaney, Hack Miller,
Bob Holmes, Ralph David, Thorn
ton Gale, Hank Levoff, Bob O’Mel
veny, John Penland, Harry Van
Dine, Bill Preble, Larry Jackson,
Paul Grant, Roy Brown, and Ken
Siegrist.
The political situation still re
I nains comparatively dormant, with
no dark horses entered, and the
number of black sheep relatively
small. There is a probability, but
: no absolute certainty, that a com
] ple'te ticket will 'be elected. Be
, cause of the possibility of damag
1 ing one side or the other, the writ
| ter can make no prediction as to
the outcome of the election. It is
| suspected, however, that the vote
! will be light, and that one of the
i steam-rollers will go in with a ma
I jority of at least 200.
Candidates State Views
| On page four of tins issue ap
■ pears the platform statements of
the various candidates, as well as
! questions proposed by Oliver Po
litlcus, and propounded by dack
Bauer. The questions, although
they may seem somewhat confus
ing, are essentially fair. The an
swers may not satisfy everyone,
but that is probably due to the de
batability of some of the questions.
Whether or not a choice chn actu
ally be made on the merits of the
answers, the writer does not pre
tend to say. They at least bring
to the front some slight issues,
which so far have been lacking in
: this drawn-out campaign.
Whether the lack of interest in
this year’s election heralds the
passing of political parties and
ticket voting, can not be deter
mined, but it Is significant of the
trend. The lack of interest is ob
vious. Harriet Kibbee, present sec
: retary of the student body, and
woman politician extraordinary,
i said a few days ago, “This is the
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