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VOLUME XXXII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1931
VTTH/IDPD -tor;
Education Body
Meeting Is Set
For Tomorrow
Postponed Session To Be
k In Portland
r _
Action .on Consolidation^
Budget Reductions
Is Expected
The eyes of persons interested
in the future of higher education
in Oregon will be turned to Port
land tomorrow, when the state
board of higher education will
meet at 10 a. m. in the Univer
sity club to renew its parleys on
the recommendations of the recent
federal survey, and the answers of
Presidents Arnold Bennett Hall of
the University, and W. J. Kerr, of
Oregon State.
Consolidation Move in Air
The meeting, originally sched
" uled for April 29 and then post
poned because all members of the
state board could not attend, is
expected to bring some sort of
action on the proposed consolida
tion of the five institutions under
the control of the education body.
At the close of the last meeting
of the group, held in Salem April
20, it was moved that the consoli
dation be effected, but the vote
on the motion was not taken.
Budget Cuts Up
Budget reductions will come in
for their share of consideration at
the meeting tomorrow, for presi
dents of the schools will be asked
to submit suggestions as to how
expenses can be cut $i,500,000 in
the next 18 months to comply with
the action of the board and Gov
ernor Julius L. Meier.
Contents of the supplementary
briefs filed by the University in
answer to the reply briefs com
piled by Dr. Kerr are expected to
be released to the public at the
_ board's meeting.
Women Will Edit
Emerald Friday
To Squeleli Men
Betty Anne Macduff Editor;
Lenore Ely and Jessie
Steele, Helpers
Ways and means of permanently
squelching the masculine element
around the journalism shack will
be discussed at length with much
heat, no doubt, when all women in
terested in working on the wom
en’s edition of the Emerald will
meet today at 5 p. m. in 105 Jour
nalism.
The men put out an extremely
inferior sheet, in an attempt to
prove their superiority some weeks
ago, according to all the women
* who inhabit the shack, and the
ladies are out. to show what a real
ly good paper is. The women’s edi
tion is scheduled to appear Friday
morning.
Betty Anne Macduff has been
appointed editor for the day, and
she has announced Lenore Ely as
managing editor and Jessie Steele
as day editor. Other members of
the staff will be named after to
day’s meeting.
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Pegasus Takes
Long Flight°for
Gotham Display
T>EGASUS, the winged horse
of legendary fame, is flying
high in this ultra-modern age,
preferring the bright lights of
Broadway to the midnight oil
burned on a college campus.
Once he quietly eyed college
students, ambling by the Co-op
where he used to be on display;
but now he seeks greater fame
in New York, displaying his
master’s artistry at an art ex
hibit. For Pegasus is a wood
carving by Archie Clough and
is to be presented to the most
outstanding student in the
Latin department at the Pi
Sigma banquet Thursday night.
It is not known whether
Pegasus will fly back or will
arrive by earthly means. Any
way, it is hoped that the bright
lights will not prove too fasci
nating.
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Junior Week-End Prize Winners
First prize in the annual canoe fete, one of the highlights of Junior Week-end on the campus,
went to this float, “The Silver King,” entered by Delta Delta Delta and Sherry Boss hall. Marie Meyers
rode the huge polar hear down the race. Inserts show Helen Chaney, winner of the Gerlinger cup, and
Brian Mimnatigh, winner of the Koyl cup, awardel each year to the outstanding woman and man in
the junior 'class.
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Junior Co-eds Will
Treat Seniors to
Annual Breakfast
Women Representatives
Will Sell Tickets
In Houses
Tickets have been placed on
sale today at the various women's
living organizations for the Jun
ior-Senior breakfast, an annual
affair at which the junior women
stand treat, and which is sched
uled for May 17, according to ■
Louise Webber, chairman. The
breakfast will be held in Gerlinger
hall at 8:30 next Sunday mornfng.
It is essential that all juniors,
planning to attend, be signed up
with the Y. W. C. A., or their
house representative and their
tickets paid for, before tonight,
says Miss Webber. The tickets
are on sale for 75 cents, and each
admits two girls. Independent
women may sign up at the Y. W.
C. A.
The committee in charge of the
event is: Louise Webber, chair
man; Betty Jones, tickets; Janet
Osburne, attendance; Margaret
Hunt, programs and decorations;
Helen Hallowell, service.
The ticket representatives in
the various houses are:
Kappa Alpha Theta, Margherita
Hay; Alpha Gamma Delta, Mar
rian Jones; Chi Omega, Mary
Ellen Foley; Zeta Tau Alpha, Ruth
Dickey; Kappa Delta, Madeline
Snider; Susan Campbell hall, Em
ma Belle Stadden; Delta Delta
Delta, Marvin Jane Hawkins;
Alpha Phi, Carolyn Haberlach;
Phi Mu, Louise Galton.
Delta Gamma, Marjorie Wil
helm; Alpha Omicron Pi, Dorothy
Illidge; Beta Phi Alpha, Ruth
Clark; Kappa Kappa Gamma,
Janice Hedges; Gamma Phi Beta,
Marjorie Biswell, Delta Zeta, Fern
Baker; Sigma Kappa, Almona
Kerry; Alpha Chi Omega, Frances
Rupert; Pi Beta Phi, Lois Nelson;
Alpha Xi Delta, Barbara Lieuel
len; Hendricks hall, Elizabeth
Hall.
Independent Students
Canoe Race Winners
Ed Thurston and Ruth Johnson,
representing °the ° Oregon Yeomen
and the Independent Women, sped
down the mill-race in a canoe to
set a new record for the canoe
race of the water sports’ carnival
Saturday morning. The winning
team’s time was 8:58, 12 seconds
faster than the old mark.
Carey Thompson, representing
Sigma Phi Epsilon, and Camille
Clemenson, of Alpha Omicron Pi,
took second, tying the old record
by moving the mile and a quarter
in 9:10.
The men’s swimming race was
won by George Rischmuller, Chi
Psi, while the women’s contest
was taken by Marion Seltzer of
Susan Campbell hall. Times of
the swimming races were lost.
Permanent possession of cups
was given to the Oregon Yeomen 1
and the Independent Women by
the Eugene Fruit Growers’ asso
j ciation and Smartt’s Jewelry store
I for winning the canoe race. The
winners of the men’s and women's
i swimming races were each pre
! sented a silver cup by the junior
class.
Caps and Gowns
May Be Ordered
Until Wednesday
rpHEKE will be 100 seniors
without caps or gowns un
less they put in their order at
the Co-op before closing time
Wednesday. The deadline which
was set for last Saturday has
been extended to Wednesday to
enable seniors who have not
placed their orders to get them
in. Caps, gowns, commence
ment booklets and invitations
may be ordered at the Co-op.
The 5000 invitations which
have been ordered have arrived
and may be had at the Co-op
now. Any additional invitations
must be ordered before the
store closes Wednesday.
May Old Oregon
Is Off Press With
The May issue of Old Oregon,
alumni publication, is just off the
press with a cover portraying a
cool, McKenzie trail.
“High Points in the Survey of
higher Education in Oregon,” is
the title of the first article, by
Malcolm Epley, ’29. A story on the
Oregon debate tour of the Pacific
which will take place this summer,
announcement of the winner of
the Sorority-Old Oregon campaign,
and a story on “Books to Read
Aloud With the Children,” by S.
Stephenson Smith, are some of the
most interesting articles.
“Intramural Sports at the Uni
versity of Oregon,” by E. E. De
Cou, contains a summary of the
results of the faculty survey that
was conducted last fall by Dr. ‘De
Con.
Life of Constantine
Dunn’s Lecture Topic
The life and times of Constan
tine the Great will' be presented in
an illustrated^ lecture by Prof.
Frederick Dunn, head of the Latin
department, in Portland tomor
row before the Classical Club of
Teachers. .
on Survey
H. Ayres To Play
Piano Recital at
8 o’Clock Tonight
Appearance Will Be Third
For Senior Music
Student Here
Tonight at 8 o’clock in the mu
sic auditorium Harold Ayres will
present the result of nearly 700
hours of hard work. That is to
say, he will play his third annual
piano recital, which he has been
preparing for the past eight
months.
Ayres is a senior student of
Louis Artau, music instructor, and
though he will graduate in the
business administration s c h o oJ
next month, a major in account
ing, he has spent 690 hours in
practice for this program.
Practices Many Hours
For two hours a day during fall
term, three hours every day win
ter term, and four hours a day
this term Ayres has worked and
worried over the pieces he will
play for the public tonight. Be
sides that, he has spent an hour
a day in coaching with Professor
Artau.
Ayres, who is only 19 years old,
has been studying piano for nine
years. He studied for five years
with Mrs. J. B. Patterson, of Eu
gene, and for four years with Pro
fessor Artau.
“Out of more than twenty mu
sical works, this program has been
built,” said Ayres when asked
about his recital.
Bacli Numbers Out
“There is not a single Bach
number on the program,” he con
tinued, “but there is variety and
interest in the opening group,
usually devoted to Bach.
“First I will play ‘The King’s
Hunting Jig,’ a composition of
John Bull. This particular John
Bull was an organist at Oxford
university about 1600. He enter
tained Queen Elizabeth there with
a few ditties on the harpsichord,
| and this hunting jig may have
| been one of them. The opening
I group will also contain a Handel
J gavotte.
I “The closing number will be the
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Jewett Speech
Contests Put in
Four Divisions
Campus-Wide Scope of
Competition Told
May 20 Opening Date for
Public Speaking Tilts,
. ° 0 Says Dr. Hoeber
The W. F. Jewett public speak
ing contests for this year will con
sist of four separate contests
which will be campus-wide in their
scope, Dr. R. C. Hoeber, assistant
professor English and head of the
speech division, announced yester
day. These meets, the result of a
permanent endowment, have taken
place every year since 1926 and
are held to stimulate interest in
public speaking.
After-Dinner Contest First
The first of the series of four
will be an after-dinner speaking
contest with members of the var
sity speaking squads of any year
except freshman, first prise win
ners in a W. F. Jewett contest for
any previous year, and any who
have had four hours or more of
advanced speech or drama courses,
eligible. The subject for this con
test will be “The Great American
College Band Wagon,” taken from
the idea of college life presented
in Metz’s book, “The Great Amer
ican Band Wagon.”
The speakers will be allowed to
choose their own phase of the
question, and must be signed.up
in the speech division office, Room
4, Friendly hall, by May 19. The
preliminaries will be held May 20
at 4 o’clock in 105 Commerce, and
the finals will take place at a
banquet the next night, the time
and place to be announced later.
Prizes All Same
Four women and four men will
be chosen for the finals, and the
judges will be instructed to vote
for two women and two men in
their choice of the four winners.
The prizes will be the same for all
four contests: first, $35; second,
$25; third, $15; fourth, $10.
The second contest, which is to
be held at 4 o’clock in 105 Com
merce on May 25, will be for the
members of the introductory
speech course. It will be an open
extemporaneous contest, with the
entrants choosing their own sub
jects. Two speakers will be se
lected from each one of the sec
tions in introductory speech and
will speak for sijf minutes.
Two Contests Extempore
The third and fourth contests
are somewhat similar in nature,
one being for men and the other
for women. The men’s contest will
include a representative from each
fraternity, hall, and the Interna
tional house. It will be extem
poraneous in style and the subject
will be the same as that to be
used by the men’s varsity debate
squad next year, “Political Parties
in the United States.”
Contestants will take this as
their general topic and will draw
for some particular phase of the
topic three hours before the pre
liminaries, and three hours before
the finals. Two sets of prelimi
naries will be held, both at 4
o’clock on May 26, one taking
place at 105 Commerce and the
other at 105 Oregon. The finals
will follow on May 28 at 7:30
o’clock in Villard hall. Speeches
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When They Become Alums
The next big event of interest to mothers an 3 fathers of University of Oregon students is com
mencement. Exercises for which parents are extended a cordial invitation will be held on the campus
June 15.
Brothers Drop 1
Ex-Prexy Potts t (
Over the Brink
17KN POTTS, who Is a senior I
and also a member of the
Order of the O, was neverthe
less dropped into the mill-race
last night at dusk by a loving
hand of fraternity brothers—
and the newest tradition of
spring term came into being.
For Potts, although he doubt
less is more used to mill-racing |
than to being mill-raced, last I
night was the central figure in
a ceremony more unique than
it was dignified—namely the
official termination of his ca
reer as president of Sigma Pi
Tau, by means of a bath. Down
Alder street from 13th on will- '
ing shoulders, then over the
rail and in from the Kappa Sig
bridge. A new tradition!
YMCA To Elect
Cabinet Officers
At Meeting Today
Six Positions To Be Filled;
All Men on Campus
Eligible To Vote
Officers for next year’s cabinet
of the campus Y. M. C. A. will be
elected this afternoon at 3:45
when members of the “Y” are to
convene in the hut for a mass
meeting.
Positions on the cabinet to be
filled at this election are president,
vice-president, secretary, treasurer,
and two members at large. The
meeting will be open to nomina
tions from the floor, and election
will follow immediately.
All men on the campus are con
sidered members of the “Y,” it is
pointed out, and all who are inter
ested are encouraged to attend the
meeting.
The “Y” advisory board will se
lect four new members to replace
its retiring one-third, at a lunch
eon this noon at the new men’s
dormitory. Candidates for execu
tive secretary are being consid
ered by the board, and it is ex
pected that a selection will be
made soon so that plans can be
made for next year’s program.
Annual Festival
Of Strawberries
Tomorrow Night
Faculty Tennis Court To Be
Scene of Dance in Case
Of Fair Weather
The Strawberry Festival will be
an event of tomorrow night, to
be held on the faculty tennis
courts if the eather is fair, and
at the men’s gym if it rains. The
arrangements essential for success
are maturing splendidly, according
to Edith Jessop, chairman.
There will be enough ice cream
and strawberries to feed from five
hundred to a thousand persons,
and Eva Nelson, in charge of that
feature, promises that the serv
ings will be plentiful and well
worth the charge of 15 cents.
Bernice Wainscott, who is han
dling the serving details, has se
lected a competent group of girls,
and promises excellent service.
The Midway orchestra has been
secured, and the courts will be
prepared for dancing. The dances
wili be jitney, as is customary;
however, a new feature will be in
troduced with the innovation of
bargain dances. The dances, which
usually cost 5 cents each, can be
obtained at the rate of six for a
quarter.
House managers have been re
quested not to serve desserts to
morrow night at the living organi
zations, in order to insure a better
patronage of the festival, which
will be from 6:30 until 7:30. This
is a usual request and all are ex
pected to comply with it.
The committee handling the ar
rangements of the festival is;
Edith Jessop, general chairman;
Frances Haberlach, music; Helen
Shingle, courts; Eva Nelson, ice
cream and strawberries; Bernice
Wainscott, serving; and Esther
Hayden, publicity.
Speakers Committee
Of 15 Senior Men Will
Control House Talks
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Hiss Helen Park 1
To Speak at AWS
Mass Meet Today
3regon Graduate To Tell of
Decorating as Fiehl
For Women
Miss Helen Park, former drama
najor at the University of Oregon,
t'ho at present has complete charge
>f interior decorating for Olds,
>Vortman and King department
store in Portland, will address as
sociated women students this af
ernoon at 4 o'clock in Gerlinger
lall on the field on interior decor
iting as a vocation for women.
For two years Miss Park was as
sociated with the Lorenzo Mans
’ield Studio in Portland, working
is assistant under Mr. Mansfield,
decorator in charge of contract
vork. She has also to her credit
:wo years’ experience in Meier and
Frank Portland department store.
The average decorator in a de
aartment store is expected to do
£2,500 business per month, accord
ing to Miss Park, and men and
.vomen will not succeed unless they
have ability to sell in her opinion.
Fields Listed
Hotel, lodge, and club decorating
offers a wonderful field in con
tract work, Miss Park believes,
and there is an excellent opportun
ity for the woman to succeed in
the field of importing, of furniture
xnd drapery design, and of resi
dential interior decorating, Miss
Park believes.
Miss Park will discuss qualifi
cations for the successful decora
to(r, training and preparation re
quired, as well as remuneration,
and opportunity for advancement.
Tomorrow another A. W. S. vo
cational guidance speaker will ap
pear on the program. Miss Eleanor
Sense, chief dietitian for the
Charles B. Knox Gelatine company
at Johnstown, New York, will talk
m the opportunities for the woman
dietitian.
Phi Mu Alpha Elects
Officers and Pledges
Phi Mu Alpha, men’s national
music honorary, elected officers
and pledged eight men at a meet
ing held in the Music building
lounge May 7.
The new officers are: Vernon
Wiscaron, president; John Finley,
vice-president; Gifford Nash, sec
retary-treasurer; Eugene Love,
warden; and George Kotchik, his
torian.
The pledges are: Eugene Pear
son, Karl Klippel, Victor Bryant,
Hugh Miller, Doiph Siegrist, Leo
Lohikoski, Hubert Totton, and
Amos Lawrence.
Vinton Hall, George Barron, and
Don Eva retire from office.
Phi Mu Alpha will give its an
nual concert of music by Ameri
can composers on Thursday at 8
o’clock in the music auditorium.
Cherry, ASUO President, |
Outlines Plan
Group To Abolish Practice
Of Soliciting Patronage
For Campus Functions
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A committee of 15 senior men,
appointed each year from now on
by the executive council of the A.
Cherry
S. U. O., will un
dertake to keep
all of the living
organizations on
the campus well
informed on the
affairs and prob
lems of the asso
ciated students,
and in addition
will have direct
supervision over
all student speak
ing of whatever
UUI.UIC ill Uicoc uigauifcauuuo.
A permanent resolutions to this
effect has been added to the A. S.
U. O. constitution by action of the
executive council, George Cherry,
A. S. U. O. president, revealed last
night.
The group will be known as the
speakers’ committee, Cherry an
nounced.
House Soliciting Banned
One of the effects of this meas
ure will be virtually to abolish the
practice of soliciting patronage
for campus functions through
speeches at the luncheon tables of
the organizations, he said. The
resolution, in its two parts, reads
as follows:
“1. There snail be no solicit
ing in living organizations by
student groups without approv
al of the Students Relations
committee. The Students Rela
tions committee is to periodi
cally report its actions in this
capacity to the executive coun
cil.
“2. The Student Relations
committee shall appoint, sub
ject to the approval of the exe
cutive council, 15 seniors, one
of whom shall be appointed
chairman. The purpose of this
committee shall be to work in
close harmony with the A. S. U.
O. and the University of Oregon
in disseminating information on
matters of student interest.”
Three Talks Set
The speakers’ committee is to
carry out its purpose of informing
the members of the A. S. U. O. on
matters concerning them, by ad
dressing all of the fraternities,
sororities, and halls on the campus
at various times throughout the
year, and also by sending out of
ficial bulletins, Cherry said. Each
of the 15 men selected will have
charge of this work in about three
organizations, and will talk before
them on these occasions. Cherry
estimated that about two or three
groups of talks will be given each
term.
At the same time, any necessary
soliciting in the houses and halls
for the A. S. U. O. activities will
be handled by the speakers’ com
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Ancestors of Indians Passed
Through Columbia Valley
(Editor’s note: This is the
third of a series of interviews
with Iir. Edwin T. Hodge, profes
sor of geology, describing the
migration of Asiatic man into
North America.)
By ROY SHEEDY
That the ancestors of every tribe
of Indians in North and South
America once passed through our
own Columbia river valley on their
way from Siberia to newer hunting
grounds is the contention ex
pressed by Dr. Hodge, as he con
tinues to trace the path taken by
the Asiatics.
“The earliest explorer to discov
er North America was an Asiatic
who, stepping on the shores in the
vicinity of the Bering peninsula,
called the land his own and him
self the first American. In his
stone age brain, highly intelligent
though poorly educated, he fully
appreciated the advantages of his
new home. Unlike the cold Sibe
i
rian coastland he had formerly
lived upon, the new country was
caressed by warm winds and here
was a bountiful table from which
he had only to select his choice of
fish or 'beast.
“In the land from which he had
come he had to run many weary
miles to chase down game, and of
ten after days of labor had to con
tent himself with an empty belly.
This first American might have
succumbed to the easy life of the
Alaskan coast but for the fact
that in his veins there still burned
the flame of exploratory zeal in
herited from his ancesters who had
wandered far from their “Garden
of Eden,” or their original home in
the vicinity of Tibet.
“The same urge that had
brought him to the new continent
caused him to go south along the
coast. He was able to do this in
comfort because the frequent in
dentations in the coast line gave
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