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VOLUME XXXIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1931 NUMBER 43 Sino-Japanese Debate May Be Held Tuesday Acceptance of Challenge Sought by Chinese Wu Tang Offers To Present ITis Country’s Staiul On Manchuria A public debate on the Manchur ian situation, in which the campus will hear a Chinese and a Japanese student in the University present their nations’ views, may be held Tuesday night if a Japanese or American student accepts the chal lenge of a’Chinese and administra tive officials grant permission for the forum, it was learned last night. Students from the International house on the campus and Professor Harold S. Tuttle, faculty sponsor, will lay their request for the de bate before University officials to day. In a letter to the Emerald today, Wu Tang, third year law student on the campus from Hankow, China, offered to debate the Man churian question if a Japanese or American student would accept his challenge. Clifford L. Constance, assistant registrar of the University, will be asked today to permit the use of Guild theatre, Villard assembly, 105 Commerce, 105 Journalism, the music auditorium, or a similar large room for the proposed de bate. A similar open forum on the Manchurian question, in which Wu Tang debated against Plirosi Acino, Japanese consul in Portland, was held at the Students’ Conference on International Affairs at Reed Col lege last week-end. Commendation of the debate plan here was voiced last night by students and faculty men. Four Squads in Running For ROTC Rifle Honors Elimination Match Ousts Teams In Cup Competition The completion of the second elimination in the intramural rifle shoot leaves four teams in the run ning for the silver loving cup do nated the winners by the local R. O. T. C. unit. Gamma hall was high scorer in the second round, amassing 1G52 points to blast the hopes of Friend ly hall, the high scorers in the first round, who had 1477 hits to their credit. Alpha hall eliminated their neighbors, Sigma hall, with a score of 1497 to 1490. In the three-way match between Delta Tau Delta, Phi Delta Theta, and Beta Theta Pi, the' Delt and Phi Delt teams were the two highest and earned the right to enter the semi-finals. The scores in this tri angular match were: Delt, 1469; Phi Delt, 1429; and Beta with 343 dropped automatically from com petition. The pairings for the semi-finals are Gamma hall vs. Alpha, and Delta Tau Delta vs. Phi Delta Theta. These matches will be shot next week. Mourning In Vain As Victim Awakes From Deep Sleep By JACK BELLINGER ^ LONE student lay still and I inert. His body was cold and stiff. “Is he dead?” one student asked another. “I fear he has breathed his last,” was the reply. There was no outward sign of life. The two students hovered over him for ten minutes. Still he did not move. Then one of them gathered some flowers while another made a wreath of greenery. They placed these expressions of their sorrow upon the pros trate body. • One jf the grief-stricken youths then began to write an obituary, for he was a journal ism student, and wanted to do justice to his friend. ...The other mourner, a co-ed, overcome by emotion, began to cry. And then, hearing the sobs, Parks Hitchcock awoke from a long period of slumber. __ i Oregon Debaters Travel Through Disorderly China Executions and Robberies Common Occurrences, Says Letter Chinese bandits, train robberies and murders furnished plenty of excitement for the Pacific Basin Good-Will debaters, Roger Pfaff, Robert Miller, and David Wilson, on their way from Nanking to Pe king, China. Pfaff in a letter to Dean James H. Gilbert of the University of Oregon told of their experiences. “The train travels at a snail’s pace and one almost imagines that a good sprinter could out-distance it. There are also minor annoy ances such as bandits stopping the train by piling logs on the track and then robbing the passengers, perhaps killing a dozen or so. A train was held up several weeks ago and 30 people were killed. China in Chaos “China is in a chaotic condition at present. Soldiers are every where. Many of them are mere boys less than 16. The students of China are stirred with a desire to fight for their country and the ter rorists are making life very un certain. Soldiers camp on farms and eat up the farmers’ produce. Communists are quickly made away with and you can buy post cards showing all the gruesome de tails. "One realizes the immensity of China in seeing the miles of culti vated land on .both sides of the track stretching away into the dis tance. When one learns that this land is divided up into small acreages of one and two acres, each belonging to different individ uals, the complexity of the whole situation is revealed. Attend Institute “We attended the latter part of the Institute of Pacific Relations and met there some very interest ing people. Dr. Notobe of Japan was a delegate in addition to fam (Continued on Page Four) Science Discovers Another Means To Smash Poor Atom Atom-smashing as a sport seems due for another rise in the world. A return of some of its old-time glamor is seen in yesterday’s an nouncement by the old master, Professor Robert Andrews Milli kan, that a "bigger and better” way to smash atoms has been dis covered. After being treated to a season of highly artistic line smashing by big Mike Mikulak of the Oregon varsity, this campus ought to view with added zest this new approach to the art of smash ing. According to Professor A. E. Caswell of the physics department, one of the University’s own atom smashers, Millikan is one of the two great proton penetrators in the world. The other is Sir Er nest Rutherford of England. So the event takes on an added inter national flavor. Professor Caswell also pointed out that the fact that atoms can be smashed is itself nothing new. Millikan, using the now out-of date alpha ray, succeeded in dev astating the nucleus of a nitrogen atom some time back, and formed another element, hydrogen out of the nitrogen. But he did not change the nitrogen completely over ipto hydrogen, a The action of the alpha ray up on the protons and electrons of the nitrogen atom nucleus was like that qf a bullet, Professor Caswell stated, bursting the well-organized planetary system within the atom, and causing a change in atomic weight of the nucleus. All ele ments are distinguishable by their electronic organization and atomic weight. When these are changed the structure of the element changes, just as the nitrogen elec tronic and protonic arrangement (Continued on Page Four) I Old Carols To Be Featured in Yuletide Frolic Over Sixty To Serenade Town and Campus Professors, Students Plan To Put on Stunts And Dances Plans for the Christmas frolic December 12 were discussed and approved at a meeting of the com mittees in charge of the affair, yesterday afternoon. Plans were fast rounding in shape and indi cations pointed toward a highly successful night, according to the opinions of those attending. The ghost of old-time English Christmases will stalk about the city when the Revels Carolers, an organization of sixty or more voices to sing old English Christ mas ballads at the frolic, will ser enade the townsfolk. S. Stephen son Smith is in charge of rehears ing the carolers in the proper manner of rendition. Carolers To Serenade Following the picturesque sere nade by the black-gowned carol I ers, the frolic proper will com mence sharply at 8 when the song sters gather outside Gerlinger hall and regale the campus with selec tions of festival nature. At 8:30 the group will enter the building and lead those attending to the main floor, where festivities will commence. The Order of the “O” has come to the aid of the party and will bring a huge yule log as its con tribution. The Oregon Yeomen will perform the yeoman task of rolling huge barrels of cider in for refreshment. Professors To Gigolo During the intermission a group of faculty members will demon strate how the old-time gigolos strutted their stuff when they do a square dance. If time allows, they will execute a pre-prohibition Virginia reel. During this time Mac Miller, a (Continued on Patjc Four) Exam Schedule Arranged For Best Accommodation More Students Have Classes in Morning Hours Effort to accommodate the largest number of students was the deciding factor in scheduling examinations for morning classes early in the week with the result that afternoon classes have quizzes late in the week, Earl M. Pallett, registrar, explained yesterday. Dean Eric M. Allen had written to the registrar urging that exams for afternoon classes be set earlier in the week in the future to some what compensate students for tak ing courses at the more unpopular hours. He cited the effort made in recent years to popularize af ternoon classes and expressed the opinion that early exams would aid in the experiment. The majority of classes and those with the largest number of students come in the morning, it was explained. If some of these had exams on Friday it would work hardships on instructors having to grade a large number of papers between that day and the next Monday noon when grades are to be in. The exam schedule committee considered the possibility of such a plan as that suggested by Dean Allen, but found it impossible for this reason. Three Juniors Appointed To Select Tentative Show Plans for presenting a musical comedy to take the place of the traditional Junior vaudeville were discussed last night at a junior class meeting in Villard hall. Not enough members were present for a quorum so a regular business meeting was not held. A committee comprising Ethan j Newman, chairman, Isabelle Crow | ell, and Gifford Nash was appoint ; ed by President Robert Hall to make tentative plans for a musi jcal comedy. “The Red Mill,” by Victor Herbert is the first comedy the committee will consider. Phi Beta Program Combines Modern and Classical Music Large Attendance Marks Fluent Interpretation Of Great Masters Modern and classical music com bined last night in the Phi Beta recital played by Laura Teshner, Hex Underwood, Aurora Potter Underwood, Frances Brockman, Roberta Spicer, and Howard Hal bert. Varied instrumental combin ations in the Schubert quintet created a pleasing impression on the large audience. Laura Teshner showed a large, solid tone in Sammartini's Sonata, played Faure’s "Apres un Reve” with meditative beauty, and spark led in the brilliant “La Lileuse” by Dunkler. Reckless abandon featured Au rora Potter Underwood’s first two violently modern numbers, “Toc cata” by Casella was startling in the heavy contrast of melody and harmony. A surprise ending, com bined with a mildly humorous read ing, made Elanchet's “Etude de Concert" an enjoyable piece of pro gram music. Mrs. Underwood's ac curate and finished technique, em ployed with a free and fluent in terpretation, gave Debussy's “Joy ous Isle” the charm of a pastoral poem. The program closed with Bee thoven's Trio opus 97. Rex Under wood, Laura Teshner, and Mrs. Un derwood brought to it the certainty and mature musical judgement which its formal dignity demanded. Frosh Debaters Show Promising Ability at Tryouts Eight Discourse oil Federal Industrial Proposal At Hearing Eight freshmen argued the pro and con of the question, "Resolved, that the federal government should provide for a system of coopera tive control of industry to supplant our present system,” to meet the judges’ decision at the debate try outs held at Villard hall last night. Those who will form the fresh man squad this year are Herbert Skalet, Brittain Ash, Parks Hitch cock, Harold Holmes, Theodore Pursley, Bernard Asheim, Robert Ferguson, and Orval Thompson. The speeches, according to Rob ert Oliver, adviser for the team, showed unusual ability and com pared very favorably with the var sity tryouts. The affirmatives contended that government cooperative control of industries will eliminate waste and distribute wealth more evenly throughout the nation, while the negative side held that in America every man should be given a re ward in proportion to his ability. Judges for the contest were John L. Casteel, associate professor of English, Robert Oliver, graduate assistant in speech and freshman debate adviser, Dr. Nelson L. Boss ing, professor of education, and Calvin Crumbaker, associate pro fessor of economics. All members of the squad will start to work immediately on the question and their regular sched ule will begin about January 20. Law Student Body To Mix At Smoker This Evening Speeches and Friendship Hour Are Planned for Gathering Freshman pre-legal students to night will meet the law school fac ulty, during the course of the pre law smoker to be held at Crafts men club at 7:30. In addition to informative talks by faculty members several of the older men who are now doing up per division work will acquaint the freshmen with the law school from the standpoint of the student. Charles G. Howard, professor of law, Sam Van Vactor, president of the law school student body, and one member of each of the upper division classes will talk. Joe McKeown will represent the seniors, Otto Frohnmayer the jun iors, and Charles Dolloff the law school freshmen. All first-year pre-legal students have been invited. Historical Society Meeting Will Be Held at Berkeley The annual meeting of the Pa cific coast branch of the U. S. His torical society will be held soon at the International house on the University of California campus at Berkeley, Professor John T. Ganoe, of the history department and member of the program commit tee of the association, said yes terday. Among the professors of the de partment of history who expect to be present at the meeting are: Dr. Harold J. Noble, Dr. Andrew Fish, who will read a paper on a phase of European history, Dr. Ganoe, and Dr. Dan E. Clark, president of the coast branch of the associa | tion. Comedy by Barry To Be Presented By High Students Zora Beaman Is Coaching Play To Be Given by Senior Class A three-act comedy, "The Youngest,” by Philip Barry, will be staged by the senior class of the University high school on De cember 12, at 8 o’clock at Roose velt junior high. The play is coached by Zora Bea man, student in drama here, under thje supervision of Mrs. Ross, drama supervisor at the Univer sity high school. The play is well cast and shows how the youngest son, George Nash as Richard Winslow and Stew Milligan as Alan Martin, who both represent the downtrodden minority in the family, turn the tables on the rest of the group, and take charge of affairs. A charming house guest is one of the chief schemers of the plot at^d this part of Nancy Blake is portrayed by Betsy Sallee. Helen Tillman has the role of the sophis ticated bored, older sister, Augusta Martin. Comedy is introduced by Guy Taylor in the part of Mark i Winslow when he continually teases the younger brother Rich ard. Muff Winslow, portrayed by Le nore Wood, is a live wire and has a bright remark for every situa tion. Oliver Winslow, the recog nized head of the household, a self satisfied, irritable character, is played by Jerry Denslow. The mother role is carried by Mary Jane Jenkins and Katie, the maid, is played by Connie Elliot. Advertising Group Honors Widely Known Merchant Alpha Delta Sigma Will Initiate Merriman Holtz Merriman Holtz, president of the Portland Advertising club, will be formally initiated as associated member of the W. F. G. Thacher chapter of Alpha Delta Sigma, na tional professional advertising fra ternity, at a luncheon at noon to day at the College Side Inn. “Holtz is well known in adver tising and merchandising circles," isaid Harry Schenk, president of I the society, “and for a number of j years has been general manager of i Proctor’s women’s wear in Port land.” He is also a member of tlje executive board of the Pacific Coast Advertising Clubs associa ! tion. At 11 o’clock this morning Holtz ! will speak before the general ad ’ vertising class in room 105 Jour nalism on the topic, "Advertising in Our Times.” W. F. G. Thacher, professor of advertising, has ex tended an invitation to interested students and faculty to attend. Employment Bureau Aids Students to Earn $16,297 A total of $16,297 has been earned by men students this term from regular and odd jobs secured through the Y. M. C. A. employ ment office, Mrs. Charlotte Don nelly, employment secretary, re ported yesterday. This is $865 less than was earned last year, when the fall term total was $17,162. Men in regular part time employment have earned $14, 947, and odd jobs have brought in $1350 this year. The figures for last fall term show that $2870 of the total was for odd jobs, and $14,292 from regular work. Tax Decrease Grows Less in Closer Analysis Sherrill Doubtful Aboul Hoped-for Relief House Manager Union Says Little Chance for Proposed Cut “The hopes of the house man agers that the fraternity tax bur den would be greatly lightened fell to a low ebb on closer analysis,’ Lloyd Sherrill, manager of the Oregon Union and past president of the house managers’ associa tion, said last night in comment ing on the story which appeared in yesterday's Emerald. “Fraternities will still pay ex cessive premiums for the privilege of providing unit dormitories foi the state,” he declared, “until some kind, understanding, and powerful person sees fit to give them relief. May Be Beneficial “If it is true that a reduction of 10 per cent is allowed all residents of Eugene, representing to the fra ternities a decrease of that amount on the $21.00 paid per affiliated person annually, then we are bene fited a little at least.” Total city, county, and state taxes paid by fraternities during 1930 amounted to $23,565.70. This figure includes only the 32 houses which partially own the buildings which they occupy, reducing the number of students actually bear ing this tax burden to 1118. Not Applicable Yet Even though the tax cut actu ally was accomplished, it would not be applicable until 1932 taxes were due in 1933. “Students would not object tc paying for value received,” Sher rill concluded, “but what is their return when a group pays $250 annually for the upkeep of a junior high school?” Business Ad Reserve Has Large Periodieal Library Magazines Offer Information for Many Departments Magazines and periodicals of a highly specialized nature that should prove of interest to stu dents in many departments of the University are to be found in the school of business administration reserve library. For the student of foreign trade there are: The Nautical Gazette, Marine Review, American Export er, and the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce reports. For the student of merchandising there are: Women’s Wear Daily, The Chain Store Age, Advertising Arts, Printed Salesmanship, and Sales Management. The school has complete equip ment for investment analysis in cluding Standard Statistics, Poor’s and Moody's manuals, the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, The Com mercial and Financial Chronicle, and the Survey of Current Busi ness. There are also periodicals of a more general character such as Fortune, Business Week, and The Journal of Business. Eric Allen, Jr., Receives Book Set as Contest Prize Eric W. Allen Jr., 11-year-old son of Dean Eric W. Allen of the school of journalism in the Uni versity, received a set of books from the Doubleday Doran com pany of Garden City, New York. These sets are prizes he won re cently in a reading contest spon sored by Olds, Wortman & King of Portland and McMorran & Washburne of Eugene. Ilearst Man Stops Here For Thanksgiving Dinnet Franklin S. Allen, ’13, who ha: charge of the Pacific Coast offic< of Heart's American Weekly witt headquarters in Los Angeles stopped off in Eugene on Thanks giving for dinner with his parents Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Allen of Eu gene. Allen was on a hurried busines: trip to New York, but plans t< stop again on his way back to Lo: Angeles about December 15. Big Sisters Urged To Assist Frosh In Examinations ) ^LL BIr S,stprs will moot for half an hour today at 5 o’clock In 105 Journalism to discuss work which the Big Sis ters may do for freshman women l>efore the end of the term, Betty Anne Macduff, chairman, announced yesterday evening. “Big Sisters should he able to help their freshman proteges considerably in the next week by showing them effective and efficient methods of studying for exams,” the chairman said last night. Eugene Students Making Plans for Christmas Dance Affair Friday December 25 Promises Success as Social Function With promises of staging one of the best off-campus dances of the year, the Eugene students have bonded themselves together in a temporary organization to sponsor, for the first time, the Eugene Christmas ball, Friday, December 25, at the Osburn hotel. The general chairmen, consisting of Marion Chapman, Kathryn Lis ton, Bob Hall, and Sherwood Burr, have set the nominal price of $1 per couple for the ball and have announced that the dance will be formal for women and informal for the men. The general theme of the decorations will carry out the Christmas motive, and the Yuletide spirit and atmosphere will be further promoted by the tune ful strains of Sherwood Burr’s five-piece orchestra. Committee Named Don Caswell has been placed in charge of the ticket sale and has as his assistants on the committee Mary Gould Parson, Madeline Gil bert, Frances Johnson, Althea Pe terson, Clay Baxter, Peggy Reyn olds, Ethan Newman, Paul Town (('ontinned on l’atje Four) Alumni Secretary Busy Willi Burdensome Extras Oppressive Questionnaire Is Last (Jrlef Received In Office Along with the regular duties that come up every day in the alumni office, are a few “extras” which, says Jeannette Calkins, alumni secretary, take up much time. Today it was a 20-page question naire from the American Alumni council for the purpose of study ing fund-raising in the colleges and universities of the United States and Canada. At the time of the last meeting of the American Alumni council a committee was created and empowered to study the whole question of money-rais ing in connection with alumni funds and gift campaigns. The committee, of which Harold Flack of Cornell university is chairman, hopes to summarize the experience of all fund-raising organizations in a printed report to be presented to the members of the American Al umni council by June, 1932. Tired Webfoot Team To Have Scholastic Aid Order of ‘O’ To Support Move for Less Travel Far Flung Battles of Ducks Place Men’s Grades In Danger At a meeting of the Order of the "O" last night, the varsity letter men of the school decided to throw their entire support to the aid of the members of the order who ac companied the team on their 14,000 miles of travel this past football season in quest of football glory for the University of Oregon. At the conclusion of the present season, the grades of the men who entrained for the various sections of the country are in a precarious position, and in order to avoid fu ture difficulties of this nature, the order feels that some consideration should be given to the scholastic efforts of the personnel of athletic teams. Studies in Arrears In order to accomplish this, a resolution was passed to the effect that the order go on record as fa voring the placement of games played, in such a manner as would not seriously interfere with their attendance at classes as has been the case during the current season. Returning football men at the present time find themselves on the verge of ineligibility from the loss of time at the classroom be cause of the extended playing sea son of the Webfeet. Such a con dition if carried on in future sea sons would mean that studies, which are the prime objectives of I a man’s attendance at college, I would be relegated to the back ground by an inordinate playing season, and be the main reason for the ineligibility of the athlete for the succeeding season. Dr. Spears Favors Dr. Spears, head football coach, expressed himself as favorably im pressed by this action of his foot ball players in showing more con sideration for their school work than they are generally given cred it for. He also stated that he real ized that this year’s schedule was excessively strenuous and carried the men away from the campus for too long a time to do their school work justice; and that in the future it would no doubt be necessary for a closer correlation between studies and athletics. Final Talk on Law Books To Be Presented Today The last of a senes or five lec tures on the use of law books will be given today at 2 o’clock before the class in legal bibliography in room 209 Oregon, it was announc ed by Carlton K. Spencer, who con ducts the class. These talks, the first of which was given last Monday, are by Paul H. Perreten of the We3t Publish ing company. Legal bibliography students are being required to at tend, and others interested are wel come. Dave Williams First Phi Bete In Generation of Turf-Cutters By ELINOR HENRY ‘‘There’s a rumor that some of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but I imagine it’s false,” grinned 19-year-old David Carnahan Williams, mathematics major, would-be writer, and now one of th|s year’s Senior Six of Phi Beta Kappa. ”1 happen to know that the brothers Carnahan came over steerage from Dublin just in time to uphold the Union in the Civil war. “We're different about another thing, too. We're one of the few Irish families that aren't descend ed from kings. There were Fitz geralds and O’Brians and Fitzpat ricks, but no Carnahans. We must have been turf-cutters for genera tions, certainly not Phi Betes.” i But “the dead past should bury < its dead” is Williams’ motto. He is i even considering his own epitaph. His favorite just at present is from Shakespeare, his best-liked author, "Fear no more the heat of the sun,” from the Dirge in Cymbaline. Next to Shakespeare, Williams enjoys Somerset Maughum and H. G. Wells, both English authors, and P. G. Wodehouse is his favor ite humorist. Sherwood Anderson and Conrad Aiken are the Ameri can writers he follows with the i most interest. Time and the Outlook are his ! favorite magazines, and Colliers j is his choice among the popular ; periodicals. "Golden Book was my favorite in the literary field until it became poverty stricken and trimmed its sails,” Williams said. He graduated in 1928 from Lin coln high school in Portland, where he was features editor on the Car dinal, the school paper. His am bitions include the desires to be a (Continued on rage Three)