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NUMBER 53 ASUO To Vote On Names For Oregon Teams Dean Gilbert Suggests Use of ‘Trappers’1 Campus Poll Tomorrow To Show Feeling Toward Change Webfoots or Pioneers? Trappers or Yellowjackets ? Lumberjacks or what? Students will have a chance to decide for themselves tomorrow what Oregon’s athletic teams shall Walt Evans uc caneu wnen a campus-wide poll will be taken to determine senti ment towards any proposed change, Walt Evans, vice-presi dent of the stu dent body, said last night. Voting p 1 a ces | will be stationed on the campus at the Co-op corner, Detween commerce and Oregon halls, and in front of the old li brary and the administration building. They will be open from 9 till noon, and from 1 till 3, ac cording to Evans. Student body cards must be presented and ^ punched at the polls. Results of the vote will go to the A. S. U. O. executive council next week. Ballots will list the five names “Webfoots,” “Pioneers,” “Trap pers,” “Yellowjackets” and “Lum berjacks,” and students will be in structed to vote for one. Space will be left at the bottom of the ' ballots where voters may suggest still additional names for the teams. > New Names Up In a letter to the Emerald today. Dean James H. Gilbert suggested “Trappers” as a new name for Oregon teams. His letter will be found on page two. Webfoots, adopted by the execu tive council some ten years ago as the official name of Oregon’s teams, was brought into disrepute last fall by sports writers, and new names were suggested from many sources. “The purpose of this vote tomorrdw,” said Evans, “is to de termine the exact student senti ment and either restore to favor the name ‘Webfoots’ or select some new name that will meet with wide acceptability. The vote will not be binding in any way, but merely i ( i 1 i i 1 1 will serve as a barometer of stu dent feeling.” 1 ROTC Summer Camp Set ! I For Vancouver Barracks The location and date of the en- \ campment for the Senior Advance; ; Reserve Officers’ Training corps in j < 1932 for the local unit was an- i \ nounced yesterday by Major Bar- \ j ker. j t Advice received from headquar- 1 ters of the Ninth corps area at 1 the Presidio of San Francisco in- s dicates that the senior R. O. T. C. t infantry units of the University of j Oregon, Washington, and Oregon State college will be in training \ at Vancouver barracks during the jl period from June 14 to July 25, j c inclusive. Campus P’ayers To Present Broadway Hit i , . ft?: rrl!>f'.'i‘i the ca<* to present Shorriff’s famous anti-war drama, “Journey’s End,” opening to in Guild theatre. Standing, left to right: Charles Shoemaker as the company sergeant-major; VVilhur walker, as Private Mason; Gene Love as L'eutenant Osborne; Warren Gram as Second Lieu tenant Raleigh; Walden Boyle as Second Lieutenant Trotter. Seated, left to right: Ethan Newman as Laptain Hardy; Col) Ferguson as the German soldier; Leonard l>art as Captain Stanhope; Martin Geary is the colonel; Jack Stipe as Second Lieutenant Hibbert; and Elden Woodin as Private Spelvin, aif orderly. r Gaelic Dramatist Traces Beginning Of Irish Theatre Lennox Robinson Speaks Before Student Crowd In Guild Hall With a subtle wit and attitude of personal contact with his audi ence, Lennox Robinson, Irish actor playwright, last night in Guild theatre described the humble be ginnings and the gradual develop ment of the theatre movement in Ireland. The humor which kept the audience smiling to themselves or laughing Softly seemed to be merely a projection of the person ality of the speaker. Beginning with the early Gaelic culture of ancient Ireland, Mr. Robinson pointed oyt the intricate art of the old Gaelic language and its literature, which was dying out in the early nineteenth century. Carrying the revival of |his an cient culture from 1890 'through the Irish political and religious struggles up to the present day, Mr. Robinson described the begin nings of the theatre movement and the part which Edward Martin, W. B. Yeats, and Lady Gregory played in this work. He described the sacrifice, the hard work, the small compensation received by the faithful few who were pioneers in this field. Particularly interesting o u t comes of this early movement were pointed out by Mr. Robinson as the development of a new type of play, purely Irish in its nature, written about the poor peasant people of the country. Along with this new type of play came the trend toward the natural, intimate type of acting lacking what the speaker called the splashy, spec tacular movements of the English plays of this period. In connection with this trend to ward the truly Irish drama, Mr. Robinson mentioned the beginnings of the American Little Theatre (Continued on Tage Four) Cops9 Hallyhoo9 and Caesar W in Honors at Co-ed Capers “We are bold and sturdy and tough, College days near through; Now we’re strong and bully enough To be the Senior Cops. Four long years it took to get rough, You’ll learn some day too. Let us teach all of the stuff— For we’re the Senior Cops.” Accompanied by a catchy tune, decidedly original dance steps that only cops could achieve, and 20 of the toughest senior women a la cords and mustaches, the above t versicle started off the first Co-ed Capers last night in Gerlinger hall with a zip-boom-bang that carried throughout the program to make it one of the most outstanding given on this campus in many years. (And that’s not blurb.) “Hallyboo,” the junior class I stunt, with its Dot Esch as Charles j Zilch, Otto Zilch, Langhorne Zilch. ! Percy Bysshe Zilch and Zilch ad infinitum, “Sweet and Lovely” Kraus, Esther “La Belle Zilch” Baird, carried off the Laraway cup for the best stunt. Elizabeth Scruggs was in charge of the skit, which might well be called the “Little Visits to the Offices of Great Magazines.” “Et tu Brute, This breaks my heart That my best friend should end my life By stabbing me with a carving knife; I wish I'd stayed home with my \ wife. Oh! Goodnight! (Tune—Three Blind Mice.) (Continued on Page Pour) Pedestrian Crash Results in Broken Jaw for Student Although the fact that when two swiftly moving bodies meet, some thing must give, is a physics ax i >m, a chemistry student can some | times be tremendously affected by 'it. At least, this seemed the case when George H. Goodyear, grad uate student in chemistry, collided head-on with another body in the form of a rapidly running man something gave all right—Good year’s jaw. It was broken. I The collision occurred at night near the Pacific Christian hospi tal—conveniently enough. The man with whom he collided was an employee of the hospital. Goodyear, who is now back in school, fractured jaw and all, is not of the opinion, however, that the hospital is drumming up busi ness in this manner. Philomelete Will Initiate At Gerlinger January 24 Plii Theta Upsilon Will Honor Initiates at Sunday Tea Plans for the annual initiation of the new members of the Philo melete hobby groups were com pleted at the meeting of Phi Theta Upsilon, junior - senior women’s honorary, held Tuesday evening at the home of Alice B. Macduff, as sistant dean of yomen. The ceremony will be held in the women’s lounge of Gerlinger hall, Sunday, January 24, at 7,! Helen Evans, president of the hon orary, stated. Edith Luke was ap pointed chairman of the event. Miss Evans said that they ex pected to initiate about one hun dred. She further requested that ihe presidents of each hobby group give the names of those in their group who are to be initiated to the invitation chairman. Phi Theta Upsilon will honor the initiates at a tea on the fol lowing Sunday, February 7. Janet Osborne will be in charge of the tea. Prose and Poetry Croup To Hear Japanese Verse Japanese poetry will be read and discussed from both the Japanese and American points of view by Richard Funii, at the first meet ing of the term of the Prose and Poetry group of Philomelete, to night from 9 to 10 at the Kappa Delta house. Funii will be dressed in his na-; tive costume and will sing Jap-; anese songs. Tea will be served. by girls in costume, according to Eleanor Wharton, who is in charge of the program. MANY ASK DEGREES Dean Henry D. Sheldon, of the school of education, announced yesterday that there are 17 candi dates for master degrees in edu-1 cation. Preliminaries will begin next week. Holmes’ Retiring Draws Comment From Law Profs Judicial Leader Withdraws Amid Plaudits of Admiring Nation “No appreciation I could express would even feebly represent the gratitude of the American people I for your whole life of wonderful ! service,” wrote President Hoover j when accepting the resignation Tuesday of Justice Olver Wendell Holmes from the bench of the su preme court. He retires after 50 years of ser vice on the bench, first in the state of Massachusetts, and since 1902 as a justice of the supreme court of the United States. Wayne L. Morse, dean of the University school of law praises Justice Holmes’ work as contain ing “cardinal principles of socio logical jurisprudence.” Yesterday he commented as fol lows: “His resignation has brought to an end a most brilliant judicial career. Justice Holmes’ decisions and legal writings have probably influenced the development of American jurisprudence to a great er extent than any other jurist who has ever graced the supreme bench.” “Basic in his legal philosophy has been his view that the law is a means for social control and not an end in itself.” (Continued on Page Three) l~ I Can t We 0et a Hair Restorer? Pleads Charley This hair oil, Buddy, Will help us study. Page Dr. Hall: A new way to raise money for colleges appears on the hori zon. Fr. James A. Gilmore of Gonzaga university at Spokane apparently rivalled Knute Rock ne as a money maker for alma mater. Gilmore (not the one of cir cus fame) turned down a for- ; tune for his hair restorer dis- i covery and gave the royalties to Gonzaga. A class demon stration on a student paved the way to success. Say, prexy, why not junk the football team and start some- . thing that pays ? F’rinstance, get the geology department working on a gold brick—should sell as well as hair restorer. Or turn McClure inside out for an odorless limburger. And make Dean Sheldon come through with a new bridge sys tem. Or have the art school get out a snappy "art” magazine for sale in pool rooms and bus terminals. Don't die for dear old Oregon —get some cash for it. Ingeniously, WEBFOOT CHARLEY Drama of War Opens Tonight On Guild Stage Student Players To Offer ‘Journey’s End' Presentation Will Be First Appearance of Play In Oregon "Journey’s End,” great war drama by H. C Sherriff, will open tonight on the Guild theatre stage for a four performance run. The Guild hall players under the direc tion of Mrs. Ottilie Seybolt, bring the production to an Oregon stage for the first time. Opening at the Henry Miller theatre in New York in March, 920, the production enjoyed a two year run on the great white way. In London it ran for four consecu tive years. Since its reception in New York, numerous stock com panies have presented the play in all parts of the country and it has been adapted to the moving pic ture screen. Box Office Open Ticket sales, under the manage ment of Chuck Jones, have been under way since Monday noon when the box office in the adminis tration building opened for the first time. The office will be open very afternoon this week and each evening of performance. There are four performances of the play scheduled. Thursday, Fri day, and Saturday nights of this week the curtain will rise promptly at 8:30. On Saturday afternoon a matinee will start at 2:30. Res ervations may be made for any performance, by phoning the box office, 3300 local 217, or by seeing or calling Chuck Jones. Cast Is Experienced A reiteration of the cast: Cap tain Hardy, Ethan Newman; Lieu tenant Osborne, Gene Love; Pri vate Mason, Wilbur Walker; 2nd Lieut. Raleigh, Warren Gram; Captain Stanhope, Leonard Dart; 2nd Lieut. Hibbert, Jack Stipe; Company Sergeant-Major, Charles Shoemaker; the Colonel, Martin Geary; 2nd Lieut. Trotter, Walden Boyle; German soldier, Bob Fergu son; Orderly, Elden Woodin. Congress Club Discusses Federal Taxation Problem Pacific Basin Debater Defends Government Measure A raise in federal taxes of the upper ranks of society, especially by an increased income tax, inheri tance tax, and gift tax, and a re duction of armaments would great ly help to reduce the government deficit, members of the Congress club decided last night when they discussed the question of “Federal Taxation” at the College Side. David Williams, senior in math ematics, opened the discussion. He defended the administration's pro posed tax measure on grounds that if only the upper classes were taxed, they would be less able to buy government bonds, and also would be less likely to invest in private industry because of the taxes. He also'pointed out that a person has more personal interest in the government when he knows he is being taxed. Roy McMullen, president, ap pointed David Williams, George Bennett, and Steve Kahn as a com mittee to revise the policies of the club. Morris To Discuss Money Crisis Before City Club “The Crisis in the World’s Mon etary System,” is the topic of a talk to be given by Dr. Victor P. Morris of the economics depart ment, before a meeting of the members of the City club of Port land, which will be held on Tues day, January 15. Professor Morris will discuss in particular the abandoning of the ?old standard by England and Ja pan and the consequent effect of :his action to trade and commerce is far as the United States is con cerned. STETSON IS SPEAKER Fred L. Stetson, professor of ed tcation, addressed, a group of about 70 professional teachers yes lerday at Roseburg. The group is n the process of planning a new iducational program for Oregon. Cocoa nut Grove Being Prepared For Kopy Krawl ^OCOANUT GROVE is being j made ready to accommodate any number of couples who may plan to attend the Krazy Kopy Krawl Saturday night, it was announced yesterday evening by Bob Holmes, general chairman for the event. I Tickets for the event are on | sale in the fraternity houses, and Roger Bailey, in charge of ticket sales, requests that all those purchasing give their names to the representatives and state definitely the number of people making up the par ties. Officials of Alpha Delta Sigma, sponsors of the dance, will prepare the tables and ar range to usher the guests to their proper places. ASUW Employees Agree to Salary Cut of 20 Per Cent Reductions in Parallel With Retrenchment Policy At Washington UNIVERSITY OF WASHING TON, Seattle, Jan. 13.—(Special) —Cooperating in a major re trenchment program to save $54, 000, all employees of the associat ed students here today voluntarily accepted 10 to 20 per cent salary cuts. James Phelan, head football coach, and all other athletic coach es under contract were affected by the reduction. All Employees Out Employees in every student ac tivity—major and minor sports, publications, debate, and dramatics —were also hit by the salary slashes. Intercollegiate tennis, golf, riflery, and all freshman competi tion except crew and basketball were wiped off the A. S. U. W. program for the remainder of the school year in a budget revision by the board of control finance com mittee. Other Sports Hit Systematic budget cuts in other sports to avert a financial crisis were also made. Baseball was slashed $1000 through equipment economies and the suspension of freshman turnout. Basketball took a cut of $1400 in operation expens es and assistant coach’s salary. Crew was stripped of $1800 through operation, equipment, and assistant coach’s salary savings. All training tables were eliminat ed on the assumption that they are “not vital to the continuance of the various sports.” Freshman debate was suspended and varsity forensics face serious slashes of finances. Failure of $50,000 hoped-for in come from football to materialize in the 1931 season brought the hur ried budget revisions. First Faculty-Student Tea Of Term Is Given Today National YW Secretary To Talk At Social Gathering The first of a series of informal faculty-student teas sponsored by the Y. W. C. A., will be held from 3 to 5 this afternoon at -the Y.-W. C. A. bungalow. These teas, of which there will be several each term, are being given in the hopes of fostering stu dent-faculty relationships. There will be a different group of fac ulty members and a different group of students at each tea, a student always escorting a member of the faculty. Today, Marcia Seeber, the visit ing national Y. W. C. A. traveling secretary, will talk on the relation of the student Y. W. C. A. to the educational community. There will also be violin and vocal selections. Janet Osborne is general chair man for the tea, Miriam Yoder and Mary Ellen Bradshaw have charge of the decorating of the bungalow, and Alma Tye and Alberta Bald win will serve. ART ROOM IMPROVED Improvements are being made at the Art building in order to make the composition classes more comfortable and less inconven ienced than in the past. Room 120 in the building is being cleared and made into a studio for these class es. Executive Council Slashes Tennis, Golf; Robb Grid Manager Sings Tonight Paul Engberg, baritone, who will sing 20 songs in six languages to night in the Music auditorium. Engberg Will Sing Concert Program Of Twenty Songs Seattle Baritone’s Concert Here Being Sponsored By Phi Beta Paul Engberg, operatic baritone, will sing tonight at 8:15 in the Mu sic auditorium. Phi Beta is spon soring his appearance, for the ben efit of a scholarship fund which supports three students in music' in the University. Tickets are 50 cents. He will be accompanied by Aurora Potter Underwood. Engberg’s program of 20 songs will be interestingly varied. It fol lows: I “Perdunta ho la speranza,” Stefan Donaudy; “Amarilli,” Giulio Cac cini (1540-1614); "Girometta,” Ga briele Sibella (16th century); “Nebbie,” Ottorino Respighi; “Nemico della Patria,” Gerard’s monolog from Andrea Chenier, Umberto Giordano. II “Wohin,” Franz Schubert; “Sonntag,” Johannes Brahms; “Und willst du deinen Liebsten sterben sehen,” Hugo W o 11 ; “Standchen,” Richard Strauss; “In meiner Heimat,” Richard Trunk; “Ewig,” Erich Wolff. III “My Lovely Celia,” Munroe; “Oh, No, John, No,” (from Somerset); “In the Time of Roses,” Reichardt; "Blue Are Her Eyes,” Wintter Watts; “Gwine to Hebb’n,” Jacques Wolfe. IV “The Steppe,” Gretchaninow; “Fetes Galantes,” Renaldo Hahn; “Seguidilla Murciana,” Manuel De Falla; "Vision Fugitive" from He rodiade, Massenet. Engberg’s training under the leading voice pedagogues of four (Continued on Pane Four) Don Moe May Represent Oregon on Links Budget Cuts Necessitated By Previous Action of Other Schools Without a dissenting vote, the executive council of the associated students yesterday afternoon ac cepted the report of the athletic committee, removing tennis and golf from the University's 1932 sports calendar, and appointing Ted Robb, junior in economics, as senior football manager for next fall. j Hugh Rosson, graduate mana ger, read the recommendations of the athletic committee, Prof. H. C. Howe moved their adoption, Earl M. Pallett, registrar, furnished the second, and after short discussion a unanimous vote was polled. Oregon, Pacific coast champions , last year, have been conceded the | mythical championship for this I season by other colleges, it is re ported. While a University team will not play a golf schedule this year, it is possible that Don Moe, western amateur champion, may represent Oregon individually in coast or national competition. Oregon Follows Example Action of other northwest schools in cutting tennis, golf and other minor sports from their ath letic schedules this year, and the consequent inability to secure com petition made similar steps here advisable, according to the com mittee. Robb has worked as football manager in the sport for two years, and has made trips with the squad as a sophomore and junior. Com menting on Robb’s appointment, Jack Edlefsen, head sports mana ger, said: “It was hard for the committee to reach a decision be cause of the all-around abilities of each of the junior managers. Ted has been a very hard worker in his managerial activity, and his past record should forecast a very successful managerial staff, next year.” Bauer Appointed The executive council approved the appointment of Jack Bauer, senior in journalism, as orchestra manager for the balance of the school year, and of Gordon Fisher, sophomore in art, as band manager to serve until January 1, 1933. It was further voted that four singers, Merland Tollefson, Don Eva, George Bishop and Ed Fisher be recognized officially as the Uni versity male quartet for the bal ance of the school year. Foreign Trade Honorary Initiates Five Members Pan Xenia, professional foreign trade honorary, initiated five men at a recent meeting. The new members are Jack Edlefsen, Art Potwin, and Charles Foster, sen iors; and Lyle McCallum and How ard Ragan, juniors. Within the next month members of Pan Xenia will go to Portland where five business men compris ing the advisory board will be in itiated into membership. Irish Author Dislikes Meeting All ”Practicing Journalists” By ELINOR HENRY "Och, Johnny, I hardly knew y’ ” read Lennox Robinson, Irish dramatist, last night after his lec ture at Guild hall before an in formal gathering at the Very Lit tle theatre, the 13th avenue play house of Eugene and faculty folk interested in dramatics. “Yeats al ways admired this poem,” he add ed. “He would like to have written it.” If the line quote held Robinson’s name, it would be appropriate here. That the Little Theatre movement is young, we know. But this man is still under forty, slen der, dark, and quite tall, with a strangely boyish look at times. That he should be called "The Father of the Little Theatre” lays the foundation for all sorts of sur prises for those who build up a pic ture of the man from a knowledge of what he has accomplished in the years since 1908, when he first be gan to write his plays. “The world would be much bet ter off without newspapers,’’ he says, and evidently believes it. If modesty ever were a fault, it is his. In everything he says can be detected the tendency to under play his own genius, yet he shows it clearly in his easy, conversa tional way of saying the most im portant things concisely and inter estingly. He dislikes all reporters, but he especially abhors journalism stu dents who are “sent to practice on me.” Robinson, the actor, put on a glowering aspect as he described his feelings when such innocents i admitted that they “had not been able to get to my lecture,” and showed that they knew little or nothing about him.