VOLUME XXXIII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1932 _ NUMBER 88
Assembly Plan
Will Continue j
In Spring Term;
Success of First Med
Brings Prediction
Floor Discussion Spirited;
May Filter Viewpoints
On Subject
Student body assemblies will be
continued next term. Yesterday’s
first open forum discussion group
Art Pot win
on campus poli
tics was success
ful enough to
I warrant continu
| ing the plan.
; These were the
|opinions of more
than 250 students
who gathered in
Villard hall yes
terday afternoon
|to hear Janice
I Hedges, president
of heads of hous- |
es, outline the stand taken by the
women against political organiza
tion and Art Potwin defend the
present system.
Mimnaugh Opens Meet
Brian Mimnaugh, student body
president, opened the meeting by
explaining the purpose of the new
assembly plan.
“These discussion groups will
^ train leaders and educate interest
ed students in self-government,”
Mimnaugh said. “If we can get
100 or 200 students interested in
the A. S. U. O. we can continue
this assembly plan. Wfe have hun
dreds of problems ready to‘discuss
here.
“The Oregon student body or
ganization is one of the six out- I
standing in the country. We have |
one great defect, there is no train
ing for students who are to be fu
ture officers of the A. S. U. O.
We can remedy this situation
through these assemblies which
will acquaint those interested with
the fundamental problems facing
their great business organization.”
Hedges Asks for Individualism
Miss Hedges, in discussing the
recent action of women students,
said: “It is individual voting that
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Callister Gets New Term
On State Education Board
^ SALEM, March 2.—(Special.)—
Governor Meier today reappointed
F. E. Callister, of Albany, for
another term on the state board
of higher education. Callister will
serve for nine years, pending ap
proval of his appointment by the
state senate.
The Albany man is at present a
member of the state board’s im
portant curriculum committee,
which will report its findings on
allocations of courses to the board
next Monday. Although final ac
tion on the report is due at that
time, it may be postponed a week
awaiting the return to Salem of
members of the board who are
now out of the state.
Director To Talk
At AWS Meeting
This Afternoon
jyi'ISS AVIS T.OBDELL, direc
tor of personnel and public
relations for the Union Pacific
railway, will address the Asso
ciated Women students mass
meeting- at 4 o’clock this after
noon in alumni hall, Gerlinger
building. She will discuss the
subject of “Vocational Oppor
tunities in Personnel Work for
Women.”
From 3 until 4 o’clock in the
afternoon, Miss Eohdell will be
in the dean of women’s office
available for student interviews.
Peggy Sweeney,
Jane Kanzler To
Perform Tonight
The school of music will present
Jane Kanzler, pianist, and Peggy
Sweeney, violinist, this evening at
8 o’clock at the music auditorium
in the second student recital of the
week. Edna Whitmer will accom
pany Miss Sweeney.
The program is as follows: First
group—the Allegro Risoluto from
the “Suite for Violin and Piano”
by Schutt, with Peggy Sweeney
and Edna Whitmer.
Second group: The Bach-Hess
Chorale, “Jesu, Joy of Man’s De
siring,” the Caia-Bartok “Primo
Terns,” and Beethoven’s "Contra
Dance,” to be played by Miss
Kanzler.
Third group: The Dvorak-Kreis
ler “Slavonic Dance No. 2,” Rim
sky-Korsakov's “Hymn to the
Sun,” and the Corelli-Kreisler
“Sarabande and Allegretto,” by
Miss Sweeney.
Fourth group: Miss Kanzler will
play Chopin’s “Nocturne in E-ma
jor,” and “Polonaise in E-flat
minor.”
Fifth group: Miss Sweeney will
play the first movement from
Wieniowski’s “Concerto in D
minor.”
Sixth group: Miss Kanzler, con
cluding the program, will play
Brahm’s “Rhapsody in G-minor,”
the Brahms - Grainger “Cradle
Song,” and the Delibes-Dohnanyi
“Walzer” from the “Naida” bal
let.
Photo of Oregon Debaters
Graces Magazine Cover
Pictures of Oregon’s Pacific
basin good-will debate team com
pose the front cover of the March
issue of the Mid-Pacific magazine,
just received here by Dr. John R.
Mez, associate professor of econ
omics and political science.
The magazine is published in
Honolulu, T. H., where the tearr.
spoke before the Pan-Pacific club
of that city on December 14, 1931.
The full text of their talks on
this occasion is printed in the
Pan-Pacific Union Bulletin, which
is included in the Mid-Pacific
magazine.
'White Devil’, Faculty Movie,
Called Rare Entertainment
T
(Editor's note: The following re
view of the Faculty club cinema,
“The White Devil,” to be shown
this afternoon at the Colonial thea
tre, was written following a pre
view showing of the picture yester
day afternoon.)
By ANDRE ISOTOFF AND
S. STEPHENSON SMITH
The UFA director, Alexander
Volkoff, has turned Tolstoi’s story
of ambition, Hadji Murad, into a
spectacular melodrama with its
setting in the Caucasus mountains;
and has added a few women, close
ups of the Czar Nicholas I, and sev
eral scenes in St. Petersburg, for
good measure.
The picture is excellent enter
tainment, even by Hollywood stan
dards. The leading actor was the
Russian who played Michael Stro
goff a few years ago.
The Don Cossack choir, who ap
pear as soldiers, church singers,
and Caucasion tribesmen, sing bits
from Rimsky - Korsakov, from
“Glinka,” and the famous Volga
Boatmen song.
' There are spirited battle scenes,
many dashing pursuits, and hand
to hand fights in the best tradi
tion of the American westerns. In
fact, the war throughout its of the
kind which Shaw laughed out of
court in “Arms and the Man;”
mostly glory, enthusiasm over des
perate charges, and the like.
Why the directors did not keep
to Tolstoi’s original story is a little
hard to make out: Tolstoi called
his technique in this story a “peep
show” method. As it is, the pic
ture is good spirited, lively melo
drama, very much to popular
taste.
Lil Dagover, who is played up in
the headlines, plays a minor role
in the play. She is the Czar’s titu
lar mistress, and like the czarina,
has an awkward habit of catching
the czar just as he manages to get
alone with a ballet dancer whom he
fancies.
The ballet dancer, as it happens,
is a girl from the village in the
Caucasus from which Hadji Mu
rad has also come. This creates a
tangle, and Hadji finally returns
to his own people after a check
ered career following on his sur
render to the czar's troops. But
the plot is incidental to the lively
action scenes.
Sten Victorious
In Presidential
Race ofYWCA
Lucille Kraus Is Elected
Vice-President
Kennedy Heads Upperelass
Commission Group;
Races Close
In a closely-contested race for
the presidency of the Y. W. C. A.,
Aimee Sten emerged victorious,
according to tabulated results re
leased last night following elec
tions held yesterday.
Lucille Kraus was elected vice
president; Helen Binford, secre
tary; and Eleanor Wharton, treas
urer.
Evelyn Kennedy was voted pres
ident of the upperelass commis
sion, the officers for which were
elected yesterday accompanying
the general Y. W. C. A. elections
Lois Greenwood won the vice
presidency of upperelass commis
sion, and Marygolde Hardison was |
elected secretary-treasurer.
“I shall do all I can to follow
the precedent set for me by this
year's president, Helen Chaney,”
said Aimee Sten, “and will try to
enlarge both the scope and mem
bership of the Y. W. C. A.” Miss |
Sten was a member of Frosh com
mission during her freshman year,
a student member of the Y. W. C.
A. Advisory board, and treasurer
of the Y. W. C. A. during her
junior year.
The newly-elected officers will
be installed during the first week
of spring term, the date to be
announced later.
Oregon Debaters
Meet Montanans
In Varsity Debate
Reedy and Campbell Talk
Central Industry Topic
Before Congress Men
In a contest marked by frequent
verbal clashes in the cross-examin
ation periods, the Oregon varsity
men’s debate team argued the af-'
firmative of the question of cen
tralization with the team from the
University of Montana last night.
The debate was a no-decision one
before members of the Congress
club.
The question was: “Resolved,
That Congress should enact legis
lation providing for the central
ized control of industry.”
The visiting representatives
were Grant Kelleher and Edward
Alexander, who are making a tour
of the Northwest, in which they
will compete with all the major
college forensic squads.
Rolla Reedy and Wallace Camp
bell of two and three years’ ex
perience, respectively, in varsity
debate were the Oregon team.
The affirmative case was built.;
on the crying need for some sort
of government management of
industry. The fact that the gen
eral trend of industry is to cen
tralization was also dwelt upon.
German Student To Speak
At YWCA Meeting Tonight
World Fellowship Group To Hear
Sigfried Schleuning
Sigfried Schlenurxtng of Berlin,
Germany, will be the principal
speaker tonight at the Y. W. C. A
World Fellowship group meeting
to be held at 9 o’clock in the “Y” 1
bungalow, according to Helen Bin
ford, chairman.
Sigfried Schleuning has only
been in the United States four
months and is a junior here in pre
medics. In his talk tonight he will
tell about student life in Germany,
the universities, customs of stu
dents, the political interest preva
lent in the universities, and the re
lations of the men and women stu
dents.
Norma Pickles will add to the
German atmosphere by playing the
selection, “Auf Wiedersehen, My
Dear.”
Reports will be given of the va
rious committees that have worked
throughout the winter quarter.
Helen Chaney will speak to the
group concerning its progress and
her plans for next term.
As this is the last meeting of
the term all members are request
i ed to be present.
Parsons9 Morse Urge Death
As Penalty for Kidnapers
Agitation for Act Increases
With Disappearance of
Lindbergh Child
Capital punishment as a penalty
for kidnaping is seen as the an
swer to the problem of disposing
of convicted kidnapers by Dean |
Philip A. Parsons, and as a result
of excited emotions by Dean
Wayne L. Morse.
Dr. Parsons, dean of the school
of applied social sciences and
author of “Crime and the Crimi
nal” and “Responsibility for
Crime,” and Dean Morse, of the
law school, expressed their opin
| ions of the suggestion recently
1 made in Congress of making kid
naping a federal crime with death
as the maximum penalty, in inter
views for the Emerald yesterday.
Agitation for the measure re
| ceived impetus yesterday by the
report of the kidnaping of Charles
A. Lindbergh, Jr.
“Past experience has shown
that the death penalty has not
helped as a deterrent to the com
mission of crimes,” Dean Parsons
stated. "However, criminologists
have become of the conviction that
in view of the prevalence of crime,
the nation will have to waive prece
dent and resort to the use of more
drastic penalties in combatting the
gangster and criminal.
'“Certainly those kidnapers con
victed will be dead and will not
steal any more children. Those
not caught and who are profiting
by kidnaping will continue their
activities, however, in spite of the
more drastic penalty.”
Apprehension and conviction of
kidnapers will probably be facili
tated by making the crime a fed
eral offense, it is believed by Dean
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Smallpox Case Is
Discovered Here;
Students Warned
People Having Contacted
Ray Foss Queried About
Vaccination Date
There is a case of smallpox on
the campus. Ray Foss, junior in
business administration, has been
ill for some time, but it was not
known until Wednesday that his
case was diagnosed to be smallpox.
Anyone who has come in con
tact with him during the past week
and who has not been successfully
vaccinated within the last five
years is required to either be vac
cinated at once or be quarantined,
Dr. Fred Miller, director of the
University health service declared.
All those who have been in the
same classes or have otherwise
been known to have come in con
tact with Foss will be checked
v/ith the individual records on file
at the dispensary.
The University now have a re
quirement that all entering stu
dents be vaccinated, but this rule
has only been in effect for the last*
two years. Foss entered before
that time.
It is believed that Foss came in
contact with the disease about a
week and a half ago when he was
in the vicinity of Mapleton and
Cushman, where there is an epi
demic of smallpox.
Foss is quarantined in a sepa
rate room in the infirmary, and
his case is not serious, states Dr.
Miller.
Others confined in the infirmary
Wednesday were: John Zehntbauer,
Lawrence Wingard, Edwin Roll,
Arthur Jones, Virgil Larson, and
Mary Wilber. i
Course in Camp Cooking
Offered to Men Students
Women’s Section May Be Formed j
For Those Interested
All men interested in taking a i
course in camp cooking spring
term should see Miss Lillian Tin
gle at the household arts build
ing as soon as possible in order
to arrange hours and to secure a
place in the class. The roll will be
limited because of the size of the
laboratory.
The time the course will be
given will be arranged to suit the
majority of those enrolling. The
course consists of one lecture a
week and one lab from two to
three hours. Two hours of credit
will be given.
There is a possibility of a sec
ond section for girls if sufficient
women are interested and time
can be arranged. All women who
would like to take the course
should also see Miss Tingle at
once..
Lutheran Young People
To Gather This Evening
The Students’ club and the
Young People will have a joint
social evening at the Grace Luth
eran church tonight from 7:30 to
10 o’clock. A blackboard talk on
Holland will be given by Mr. Van
der Vate.
Pastor Simon will give a 10 min
ute book review. Games and re
freshments will complete the eve
ning. The church is located at
11th avenue east and Ferry street.
Condon Fossils
Need Exhibition,
Says W. 13. Smith
y
Geological Treasures Now
Hidden From Public
In Storerooms
The need of an adequate place
in which to exhibit the collections
of the geology department of the
University, including fossils rep
resenting the life-time gathering of
Dr. Thomas Condon, Oregon’s first
geologist and faculty member for
30 years, is felt by that depart
ment, according to Warren D.
Smith, professor of geology.
Today is the 110th anniversary
of the birth of Dr. Condon.
At present a large part of the
collection, containing most of Dr.
Condon’s specimens of fossil mam
mals from the famous John Day
basin of central Oregon and mate
rial obtained by University geolog
ical expeditions, is in storage in
various campus buildings, due to
lack of space. Only a small por
tion encased in the ground floor
corridors and lecture rooms of
Condon hall is available to the pub
lic.
Dr. Smith believes that the fos
sils, if properly exhibited, would
make an interesting display. When
he became a member of the faculty
in 1914, the geology equipment and
Dr. Condon’s collections were lo
cated in the large lecture room in
Villard hall, the department’s head
quarters. After moving to the new
ly constructed Administra t i o n
building and from there to the
present location in Condon hall,
much of the material was stored.
The geology department hopes
that its plans for a special place in
which to exhibit the noteworthy
collection will materialize in the
future. At present the plans are
indefinite, although the need is
deeply felt.
GROUNDS IMPROVED
More filling in of the various
low spots on the grounds around
the Fine Arts building is under
way. The dirt being used is exca
vated from the new road being
cut through from University street
to Eleventh just north of the Ar
chitecture building. Students are
doing the work.
AmericansTake
Heroes Seriously,
Charley Learns
Peculiarly American
Charles Augustus Lindbergh,
Jr., has been kidnaped.
S’funny. A hundred thousand
people die in India from the
plague and we go serenely on
our way. A half million in
China are wiped out by floods
and we don’t even notice it. But
one of our great American
heroes gets the short end of the
good old Chicagoan game, and
hell breaks loose. We even yell
“death penalty for kidnapers!”
now.
I’m really sympathetic, but
as my art prof say3, “We must
have perspective.” We may
have our head in the clouds, but
let's keep our feet on the
ground.
Solidly,
WEBFOOT CHARLEY.
Pan Xenia Men
Leave Friday
For Conclave
Lomax in Running for
World Presidency
Foreign Trade Fraternity
To Meet on Board Ship;
6 Student Delegates
Six students and a faculty ad
viser will leave tomorrow after
noon for Seattle to attend the
A. L.. Lomax
fifth bi-annual in
ternational con
vention of Pan
Xenia, foreign
trade honorary
fraternity.
The conclave is
one of the most
unique of its kind
as it is to be held
on the S. S. Presi
dent Madison as
the vessel leaves
ior an extended irip to me urient.
Delegates will board the liner Sat
urday at Seattle and will travel as
far as Victoria, British Columbia,
where they will take another
steamer back to Seattle.
Lane Acting President
Members of the Oregon chapter
who will journey north to the con
vention are: Alfred L. Lomax, pro
fessor in business administration
and adviser for the fraternity;
Frederic Kerr, treasurer of the
organization; Lionel Lane, Jack
Edlefsen, Howard Ragan, Walter
Williamson, and Harold Arnold.
Lane is acting head of the honor
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Nevada Students
Accept Challenge
Of Oregon Girls
Debate Slated on Statutes
Of Divorce Friday at
M. E. Church
The challenge issued by the Uni
versity women’s debate team, say
ing that the divorce laws of the
state of Nevada should be con
demned, has provoked a reply from
the men of the University of Ne
vada.
Nevada men state emphatically,
“They should not.”
The why’s and wherefore’s of
both sides of the cpiestion will be
presented in the Methodist Epis
copal church Friday evening at
8:15 o’clock. The decision will rest
with the audience.
Bernice Conoly and Geraldine
Hickson, avowed contenders that
Nevada statutes are detrimental
to the social welfare of the nation,
will maintain the affirmative for
the University. Both are 6f wide
experience in the intercollegiate
contest speaking field.
The representatives from the
Silver state are Granville Fletcher,
a junior in the college of arts and
sciences, and Vincent Casey, also
a junior in the same school. Flet
cher has two years’ experience in
varsity forensic work. Casey has
been a Nevada debater for three
years.
Reports from colleges in Wash
ington where the two men are now
debating indicate that they are up
holding the standard which they
have set in previous years. Ne
vada has won nine out of the ten
debates in which Casey has fig
ured.
Short, Hall Win Prizes
In Advertising Contest
Honorable Mention Is Awarded
Kimball, Fossum
Hal Short, junior in journalism,
was announced as winner of the
ad writing contest sponsored an
nually by McMorran and Wash
burne in Prof. W. F. G. Thacher’s
general advertising class. He is
to receive $10 as first prize.
Bob Hall, president of the junior
class, took second place, winning a
prize of $5.
Two men, Rufus Kimball, assist
ant managing editor of the Emer
ald, and Embert Fossum, journal
ism junior, were given honorable
mention.
Karl Thunemann, advertising
manager for McMorran and Wash
Iburne, judged the entries.
Freshman Class
To Hold Meeting
In Villard at 5:00
epHE FIRST freshman class
M meeting; of the term will he
held this afternoon at 5 in the
Villard assembly, according; to
Howard Steib, class president.
Business to 1m> taken up in
cludes the nomination of a class
treasurer to succeed Ed Tho
mas, who has left school, an
nouncement- of the head of the
Frosh Glee, discussion on the
pro|tosed N. S. F. A. amend
ment regarding; freshman elec
tions, and action to provide for
the frosh picnic.
All freshmen are asked to at
tend.
Loss of Portfolio
Brings Deep Grief
To Boyer's Heart
C. V. Boyer, department chair
man of English, lost his brief case
yesterday. For Professor Boyer
to lose his brief case may be com
pared with an ordinary man losing
his right hand.
Professor Boyer has carried the
case for years and years. It con
tained valuable lectures, text
books, and some University pa
pers.
Yesterday Professor Boyer left
the case on the running board of
his car, while he, with his arms
full of dog, papers, books, and oth
er articles of sundry nature, got
in the car and drove off. When he
stopped the case was gone.
R. B. Porter To Trace Life
Of Nationalist Movement
“Y” Secretary Speaks nt 8 Tonight
At International House
How the Nationalist movement
in India arose, how it is operat
ing today, and the direction it is
taking will be told by R. B. Porter,
secretary of the University Y. M.
C. A., tonight at 8 o’clock at In
ternational house.
This is the regular meeting of
the International Relations club
sponsored on the campus by the
Carnegie Endowment for World
Peace and is open to everyone in
terested, according to Margaret
Hammerbacher, president of the
club.
Library Has New Braille,
Rental Volumes on Shelf
Two rent books have been
placed on call at the library, and
three volumes of Braille of the
“Heroes of Literature” series have
been placed among other Braille
works.
The rent books are “Love
Throughout the Ages,” by Robert
Lynd, and "The Getting of Wis
dom,” by Henry H. Richardson.
The Braille books are “Mill on the
Floss,” by George Eliot; "John
Bunyon,” by Lord Macauley; and
"Cervantes,” by James F. Kelly.
|New Tradition
Enforcement
Plan Up Today
Proposal To Be Judged
By Executive Council
Senior Basketball Manager
Will Be Selected; Ragan,
McKean Candidates
Machinery for the enforcement
of campus traditions is scheduled
to undergo a complete overhaul
ing this afternoon.
Meeting at 5 o'clock in the John
son hall committee room, the A.
S. U. O. executive council will take
action on a recommendation of the
student relations committee which
is understood to provide for an up
perclass traditions council and re
place “library steps” hacking ses
sions with some form of court.
Plan To Bring Harmony
Complete plans for the revision
could not be learned, although
these points were said to be high
lights of the proposal. Skull and
Daggers and the Order of the O
are expected to be brought into
closer harmony by the new plan.
Selection of a senior basketball
manager will be a second major
issue before the executive council
this afternoon. Two juniors, How
ard Hagan and Kek McKean, are
in line for the position.
Letters To Be Approved
Recommendations of the ath
letic committee for awards of let
ters and sweaters to varsity bas
ketball men and swimmers will
also be heard.
Colonel Bill Hayward, veteran
track coach and athletic trainer,
will receive a new "O” sweater
with 28 stripes honoring his ser
vice to the University since 1904,
if the executive council passes a
motion to be made by Mimnaugh.
The athletic, student relations,
and possibly finance committee
will hold meetings today preceding
the council session.
Parsons To Talk on New
Religion at Y Hut Tonight
Discussion Last of Study Scries
For This Term
Dr. Philip A. Parsons, dean of
the school of applied social science,
will speak tonight from 7:30 to
8:30 o'clock on “Religion for the
New Civilization” at the Y. M. C.
A. hut.
The commercial life and indus
trial organization of the modern
world have created significant
changes in religious attitudes, it is
claimed. Dr. Parsons will analyze
and criticize this shifting of re
ligious thought.
Dr. Parsons will also discuss
the problems arising from the re
laxation of restraints of home and
church.
This will be the eighth and final
meeting of the Y. M. C. A. winter
term study series on the general
topic of “The New Civilization.”
Dr. Condon Once Missionary
In Pioneer Oregon Territory
By RUTH McCLAIN
(Editor’s Note This is the first
of two articles on the life of
Thomas Condon, pioneer geologist
and one of the first teachers at the
University of Oregon. Tomorrow’s
story will tell the story of the
founding of the institution and
Dr. Condon’s 30 years of service
in Eugene.)
“Have to study at Condon” is a
familiar phrase in every Oregon
student’s four or more years. Con
don hall is a sturdy, strong build
ing in which one attends classes,
glances through a library book, or
hurries past long rows of glass-en
cased geological specimens and
maps. The name itself holds less
significance than “College Side”
and "Co-op.”
In the front entrance of the
building, little-used in the last
minute rush of collegiate life,
hangs a large portrait of an elder
ly gentleman with fine, searching
eyes and strong, firm hands
Thomas Condon, pioneer geologist
of the state of Oregon and first
teacher of natural sciences in the
University. Opposite, inscribed
under his name on a bronze tablet,
are these words: To his memory
this Hall of Science is dedicated.
“I Believe in Inspiration as a Liv
ing Force Now.”
Childhood play in an Irish lime
stone quarry where his father
worked made him a high priest of
nature during his 84 well-spent
years.
Eleven years after his birth on
March 3, 1822, the family left it3
home in southern Ireland to settle
in the wilds of what is now Cen
tral park, New York city.
The greatest adventure of his
life, culminating in content and
fame, began when he graduated
from Auburn Theological semin
ary in 1852 and was accepted as a
missionary to the wilds of un
known Oregon. Condon and his
young bride sailed aboard a trim
clipper ship on a long, perilous
voyage around Cape Horn, bound
for San Francisco. From Portland,
then a small pioneer town, the
young couple went to their first
assignment, St Helens. Two years
later they moved to Forest Grove,
where Pacific university had just
been founded.
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