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VOLUME XXXIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1932 NUMBER 101 Fairest Junior SoughtToRule AsPromQueen Campus Will Nominate Co-eds Today Louise Webber, Chairman, Selects Committee For Week-End Who’s the most popular and beautiful junior woman? That’s the question that Louise Louise Webber Webber, yester day named chair man of the Q u e e n’s Reign commit tee for' Junior Week-end, asks today, and every student on the campus ■will be given the chance to answer. The ballot to ex press prefer ence tor Junior Prom queen is pro vided in this issue of the Emerald, and the ballot box is situated in front of the old library. Ten To Be Chosen From the score or more of fair juniors who win the greatest sup port today in the nominations, the names of the ten who rank high est will be placed upon a formal ballot next week to decide who will rule the Junior Prom in regal magnificence on May 6 and hold the position of honor in the Canoe Fete on May 7. Four attendants will also be selected. Coincidental with the announce ment of the election, Miss Webber gave out the list of appointments of the committee which will guide the queen in her breif but eventful week-end reign. Committee Is Chosen The complete list is as follows: Chuck Gillespie, assistant chair man; Dorothy Esch, secretary; (Continued on Page Two) ♦ ------ Alpha Kappa Psi Elects New Officers at Meeting Charles Gillespie was named new president of Alpha Kappa Psi, national professional business ad ministration honorary, when the organization met for elections at its regular meeting last week. Gillespie is a junior in the school of business registered from Port land. Other officers elected in clude Robert Loomis, vice-presi dent; Jay Brown, secretary; and George Blodgett, treasurer. Polyphonic Choir Gives First Portland Concert Portland music lovers thronged the Shrine auditorium in that city last night to hear 40 members of the University first division poly phonic choir present their initial off-campus program. The concert, sponsored by Port land alumni, sorority mothers, University Dads, University ex tension, and the Portland Parent Teachers, was directed by Arthur Boardman. The choir will return to the campus this afternoon. Two Fijis, Lights And What an Alibi! ! Brothers Collide 'HE BRIGHT lights proved too dazzling for two Fijis early Sunday morning. Driving west on 15th avenue, went Boh Johnson, sophomore in business administration. South on Alder went Harry Cooper, junior in art. Lights of other cars blinded them. The ears crashed. Little damage was done. Johnsoti blamed the crash on his colored goggles. Fraternity brothers refuse to comment. Edison Marshall Student Contest Winners Named James Crissey Wins First Prize; Lumpee, Guild, Williams, Place Winners in the annual Edison Marshall short story contest were announced yesterday by W. F. G. Thacher, professor of English and advertising, who was in charge of the contest. James Crissey, senior in econom ics, was v/inner of the first prize of $50, with his story entitled, “Faith.” Honorable mentions went to Henry Lumpee, David Williams, and Robert Guild. All the winners are members of Mr. Thacher's short story class. Judges in the contest were Phil lip H. Parrish, of the Oregonian. Portland; Ed Turnbull, of Shelton TurnbuU-Fuller, Eugene, and Miss Florence Thompson, head resident of Chi Omega, Eugene. Mr. Parrish made a criticism of each story in judging the entries, and manuscripts and criticisms may be obtained at Mr. Thacher’s office, he announced yesterday. Game Commission Entirely Revised PORTLAND, Ore., April 11 -0 (AP)—Complete reorganization of the state game commission and appointment of a new state game supervisor were announced fol lowing a meeting of the commis sion here today. Frank B. Wire, well known Portland sportsman, is the new supervisor. He succeeds H. L. Kelly, resigned. The commission announced his appointment, effec tive immediately, was for a period of one year. The commission issued a general order setting up a state game de partment with four divisions: Fisheries, game, executive, and auditing and records. The new plan entirely replaces the old or ganization of hatcheries, game farms, office, research, engineer ing, legal and education. “Four co-ordinating divisions have been provided, each with a definite function,” said a state ment issued by the commission, “and each subject to the super vision of the state game super visor, who is made responsible for | all departmental activities under the direction of the commission. Student Cast Engrossed in Work on 'Beggars Opera’ By BOB GUILD A certain bunch of boys, and girls, too, as far as that goes, are whooping it up these days in the truest of eighteenth century man ner, from Villard to Gerlinger, from men’s dorm to the music au ditorium. "Beggar’s Opera.’’ First performed in 1728 in London, it became a perennial, a drawing card whenever it w'as played, till its grand climax was reached al most 200 years later, when a re vival of John Gay’s famous old comic opera ran for seven years in the Lyric theatre at London. The cast, working under Mrs. Darathi Bock Pierre these after noons and nights, will produce the fine old show in May. It will be Eugene’s only musical show for the season. An exceptional cast has been se cured for the performance, headed by such well knowns as Sally Ad dleman in the part of Mrs. Peach um, the startling wife of; Guy Wernham, playing the old fence Peachum; Gifford Nash as the ro mantic highwayman, MacHeath, “who must have women;” Grace Burnett, doing the melting, gra cious, and otherwise Polly Peach um. Carl Klippel in the part of Lockit, Agnes Petzold as Lucy Lockit, S. S. Smith as Filch, and Bob Guild as Drawer complete the cast. Not only those principals, but eight doxies (too old-English ?) trulls, huzzies, jades, what have you—tavern wenches, who “like a little nip now and then, like a lady you know,” MacHeath’s villainous gang, and a chorus of Womer About Town, the eighteenth cen tury prototype of something fam iliar to us, appear in a variety ol animated numbers. No Candidates? But It’s April, Time for ’Em Two Weeks Remain Till Nominations Assembly Campus Election Comes oil May 5, Yet What’s Holding Up Show? Editor’s Note: This is the first of a series of artieles on campus polities. By DAVID WILSON "What, no politics! What sort of an April is this? We’ve got warm weather, bud ding trees, white knickers and filmy dresses, but we have n’t any candi dates! The nomina tions assembly of April 28 is just over two weeks away, and the elec tion of six stu dents to man the controls of the A. S. U. O. next year is scheduled for May 5. Yet no Joe Politics candidate for the student body presidency, or for any of the other offices, has declared himself. In past years the second week of April has seen the major can didates openly in the field, with (Continued on Page Two) Sigma Delta Chi Pledges 12 Men To Organization Pre-Initiation of Embryo Journalists Will Be Held Next Week The pledging of 12 embryo jour nalists to Sigma Delta Chi, men’s national professional journalistic fraternity, was announced last night by Sterling Green, newly elected president of the organiza tion. Pre-initiation, including the time honored ritual on the library steps, will take place the first of next week. Formal initiation will be held the following Sunday, Green said. The list of pledges, all of whom are journalism majors, follows: Joe (Continued on Page Four) FILM STAB UNDER ARREST LOS ANGELES, April 11—(AP) —Bench warrants for the arrest of Mary Nolan, film actress, and her husband, Wallace T. Macreary, broker, were issued today when they failed to answer a municipal court summons to be examined concerning their assets. The case grew out of two judg ments against them, one for $783 worth of dresses and the other for furniture valued at $1,700. i Charley Offers Martial Advice To Politicians Hoch der prasident Hindenburg wins again. Nationalists may parade and Communists may exhort, but it take a good old war hero to win the hearts of the people and keep Germany on an even keel. The 84-year-old general came through in the pinch and saved the day. Win or lose, we always raise monuments to our idols of the battlefield. The praises of the peace makers go unsung. A biologist saves a million lives and we snap our fingers. A general slays a million and every hamlet from Talahassee to Tegucigalpa engraves his name on granite in the public square. Grant won a war and they made him president. Hinden | burg lost a war and they made him president. Food for thought, Mr. Hoover, food for thought. Paradoxically, WEB FOOT CHARLEY. Co-ed Scribe W alks Inner Corridors of Arts Museum First Picture of Unknown Building on Campus Brought Students By CAROL HURLBURT I have walked where angels fear to tread. As far as the Emerald can learn only two students have ever pene trated that Holy of Holies, that vast, mysterious and well-nigh im penetrable vault, the Fine Arts museum. The first of these students was a man and he is dead. I am the second and if I follow in the foot steps of my predecessor, I may not live much longer than the space of time it takes you to peruse this article. What is it like? You have seen the outside . . . high walls; three doors, all locked; no windows. The r entrance from the court into the hall is, as you know, barred with wrought-iron doors. The main entrance hall is of va riegated marble with wide curved stairways leading up to a laby rinth of dark hallways and darker rooms. The walls of all the rooms are hung with a fine quality monks cloth. At first glance these rooms are not impressive . . . small rath er than large. One, as I recall it, is circular. The doors have auto matic locks which close on the in ner side, and it may be that when the final opening of the museum takes place the corpse of some poor soul will be found, for, if you were once locked in, no one would ever be the wiser. This, when analyzed, is all that the museum is: a building with artificially lighted rooms and halls. (Continued on Pacje Four) Men Will Invade Women’s Houses For Dime Crawl Sports Clothes Appropriate For Affair Wednesday, 6:30-7:30 With the initiative in the men's hands again, all the women’s liv ing organizations on the campus will entertain tomorrow evening from 6:30 to 7:30 at the annual spring term dime crawl, it was an nounced by Louise Ansley. The crawl, it is expected, will be unusually well attended in view of the spring weather. Sports clothes will be strictly in order for the hour of dancing. The heads of houses organiza tion has cooperated in arranging for five-thirty dinners in all the organizations in order that the dancing may start promptly at 6:30. All women’s houses are re quired to furnish their own music for the event. House representatives who are responsible for turning the money in to the Chi Omega house before 8:30 Wednesday evening are: Al pha Xi Delta, Lorent Christensen; (Continued on Page Two) Skull, Daggers To Pick New Members Tonight Skull and Daggers, sophomore honorary, will hold a meeting to night at the Sigma Phi Epsilon house at 7:15. Fifteen outstand ing freshmen will be elected to membership at that time, it is announced by Neal Bush, presi dent. The selection will be based on participation in campus activities, willingness to cooperate in aiding the University through the service honorary, and character and per sonality. The organization also has its function training men for upper class honoraries. Announcement of the 15 pledges will be made during an intermis sion at the Frosh glee Saturday at McArthur court. Faculty To Be Guests at First All-Campus Tea The first of the series of all campus teas will be given by Hen dricks hall this afternoon from 4 to 5:30. “These teas are given as a means of bringing about an in formal contact with the faculty members and the students, as well as bringing about a closer associa tion of the girls of the hall with the rest of the campus," stated Anna Marie Fraedrich, chairman of the teas. The faculty members and their wives and the majors of the social science, political, history and ex tension departments have been in voted as special guests. Edwina Anderson will act as hostess, assisted by Louise Mc Munn, Ruth Smith, Floye Garri son, Linda Hango, and Rose Him ; elstein. Mrs. George Rebec will ; pour. An invitation is extended to ev eryone on the campus to attend the tea. Committee Urges Students To Invite Mothers to Fete Dedication of Statue Added To Other Features of Previous Years Students are urged to write to their mothers immediately and extend the hospitality of the cam pus to them for the week-end of May 6-8, at which time the Uni versity will he celebrating Moth er’s day in conjunction with the traditional Junior week-end. Orville Bailey, assistant chair man of the Mother’s day commit tee, asks that these invitations be sent at once, in order to precede the announcements sent out by the University. Early notice must be sent so that the mothers can make arrangements to attend the festivities. The week-end this year will be more impressive than ever before, as the beautiful statue, “The Pioneer Mother," will be unveiled and dedicated then. In addition to this ceremony, there will be the (Continued on Taf/e Two) College Students Identify Assailant KNOXVILLE, Tenn., April 11.— (AP.)—Five Arkansasd collegians who were ejected from Kentucky yesterday while seeking to enter the coal fields to aid striking min ers, today tentatively identified a newspaper photograph of Lee Flee nor as that of one of the fnen they charged with beating them in Har lan county. Fleenor, a deputy sheriff of Har lan county, was accused of killing two miners last August and re cently was indicted for murder charges. Sheriff J. H. Blair said tonight Fleenor had been dismissed two weeks ago when more than 80 deputies were ousted, but since then he has been re-sworn. Lucien Koch, 24, director of Commonwealth college at Mena, Ark., and leader of the ejected group, at first said Fleenor was the man who beat Sam Sandberg, 29, a commonwealth student. Later Sandberg said that he was not certain Fleenor actually beat him, but that he saw him standing nearby holding a stick before the beating started. Brown Wins Fellowship For Advaneetl Art Study The C. R .B. fellowship for ad /anced study in art was won by Syler Brown, assistant professor n architecture. This award en vies the student to study any par ‘icular phase of art for one year n Belgium. Brown plans to study etching. The scholarship is an unusual sonor as only six awards were giv en in this country for the advanced ;tudy in art. Professor Brown is indefinite ‘about the date for his departure for Europe as his leave of absence has not yet been granted. HERE’S YOLK PREFERENTIAL BALLOT FOR QUEEN OF THE JUNIOR PROM! I hereby place in nomination the name of ! for queen of the Junior Prom, 1932. This vote must be placed in the ballot box in front of the old library today. This is not the final vote. It merely indicates the preference of the campus. The 10 leading candidates will be voted upon next week. StudentVoters May Register Near Campus Rooks Close April on 19 For Elections Oregon Pharmacy Owners Are Deputized To Take Collegians’ Names Registration of students eligible to vote in the May primaries opened yesterday in the Oregon Pharmacy, 882 Thirteenth avenue East. Sid Claypool and Walter VanAtta, proprietors of the store, were deputized by W. B. Dillard, county clerk, to allow University students registration privileges near the campus. The Young Re publicans, sponsoring the registra tion, hope to get many University student electors on the rolls be fore the books close on April 19. Students may register at the drug store between 8:30 a. m. and 10:30 p. m. every day. There is no fee for registration as a voter. I’rexy Urges Voters “This is an election year, but many students will be ineligible to vote for national, state and local officers unless they register for the primaries,” Brian Mimnaugh, A. S. U. O. president, said last night. “Every Oregon student owes it to himself to register and exercise his right of franchise. The primaries and the presidential election in the fall will be impor tant. We must vote.” In addition to registration privi (Continued on Pape Two) Emerald To Print Special Editions In Three Weeks Annual Contest To Be Held Between Men’s Staff, Women’s Announcement of the dates for the three special editions of the Emerald to be published this term was made yesterday by Willis Duniway, editor, and Thornton Shaw, managing editor. The freshman edition will be published on April 16, Saturday of this week. The women’s edition will be pub lished on the following Saturday, April 23. The men’s edition will follow on the next Saturday, April 30. The men’s and women’s editions will compete in the annual con test held between the two staffs, and the staff putting out the best paper will be treated to a party by the members of the losing staff. The two issues will be judged by a board composed of George S. Turnbull, Arne G. Rae, and George H. Godfrey, members of the journalism faculty. A meeting of all freshmen de siring to work on the frosh issue will be held at 5 o'clock today In 105 Journalism. Japanese (onsul To Speak Today Hirosi Acino, Japanese consul at Portland, will outline the “Back ground of the Japanese Policy in China” at a student meeting to be held this morning at 11 o’clock in Guild hall. A dinner was given in his honor last night at Interna tional house. Acino took over the Japanese consulate in Portland late in 1929 and since that time has spoken at numerous meettings. He is speak ing here under the sponsorship of the Eugene Rotary club and In ternational house. At noon he will be guest at the Rotary luncheon. He will tell of the Japanese version of the trou ble in China at the luncheon and will also speak on this subject in a broadcast over station KORE at 2 o’clock this afternoon. GOODYEAR TO LEAVE George Goodyear, graduate stu dent in the chemistry department has received notice of appointment to a graduate assistantship in chemistry at Northwestern univer sity for next year. Mr. Goodyear obtained his B. A. at the University of Redlands, Cal ifornia, in 1930. He is working for his M. A. in the chemistry depart ment here, and will work for his ! Ph. D. at Northwestern. He is a (sponsor at Alpha hall. S.P. Plans Special Railroad Rates to Portland Concert CTUIJENTS planning to at k tend the Paderewski concert Monday, April 18, in Portland will he offered a special train and one-way rate if sufficient number sign up for the trip, Southern Pacific lias announced. Those interested will please call 2200 and leave their names and addresses. The train will return to Eugene the same eve ning after the concert. Paper Tells Facts Back of Rumors In Lindbergh Case r Washington Star Relates Activities Behind Past Wild Reports BULLETIN GREENWICH, Conn., Tups., April 12—((AP)—The propri etor ot a Greenwich bakeshop reported to police last night a woman had attempted to pass a $20 bill bearing the number of one of the Lindbergh ransom notes the official list at first failed to show the number she gave, but a subsequent cheek early this morning positively identified the note as one of the Lindbergh bills. The woman grabbed the bill and ran when the proprietor who had a newspaper list of the bills posted beside the counter, exclaimed: “Why, that’s one of the Lind bergh bills.” The bakeshop proprietor, a woman whose name was not made public, said the bill num ber was K. B. 03387529A. Police are now making every effort to apprehend a green automobile which the woman en tered and which sped eastward, driven by a chauffer. HOPEWELL, N. J., April 11— (AP)—An "inside story” of (Continued on rage Two) Demos To Oppose ("ash Bonus Plea WASHINGTON, April 11—(AP) Democratic leaders in congress to day pooled their strength with ad ministration forces in a determ ined effort to block cash payment of the soldiers’ bonus. Representative Rainey, Demo cratic house leader, listened to bo nus advocates urge before the ways and means committee an issue of new currency to make the $2,400, 000,000 payment. He then assailed the plan as “uneconomic, unsound and destructive.” Almost simultaneously Senator Robinson, party leader in the sen ate, declared himself unequivocably against the bonus. These statements, coming after President Hoover's threat of a veto, cemented the leadership of both parties at the capitol against the bonus movement. The house committee began hearings today. Spokesmen for the bonus based their plea on the need of currency “reflation” in re storing prosperity. 15 Petitioners Seek Emerald, Oregana Posts Record Number Applies For Editorship Publications Body Starts Meetings To Choose Chiefs of Staffs With a record number of eight students applying for the position as editor of the Emerald for the school year 1932-33, the A. S. U. O. publications committee set itself yesterday afternoon to the task of selecting next year’s chief-of-staff of the student daily. Meetings will be held every afternoon until the position is filled. In addition to the Emerald edi tor, the committee must choose from a field of three candidates the paper’s business manager for next year. Two students have filed applications for editor of the Ore gana, campus yearbook, and two more are seeking the post of Ore gana business manager. The applicants are: Emerald Editor Jack Bellinger Stephen Kahn Rufus Kimball Betty Anne Macduff Dick Neuberger Bob Patterson Julian Prescott Dave Wilson* Emerald Business Manager George Branstator Harry Schenk Hal Short Oregana Editor Carol Hurlburt Virginia Wentz Oregana Business Manager Roger Bailey Tom Tongue From the above IT) applicants, the publications committee must recommend one person for each person for each position to the ex ecutive council not later than the third week in April. In case the highest tribunal of the associated students does not approve the rec ommendation of any candidate, the publication committee makes a new selection from the original list of applicants. Members of the publications committee are: Brian Mimnaugh, JVValt Evans, Orlando Hollis, George Godfrey, Thornton Gale, Jeannette Calkins, and Willis Duniway. ‘Diplomatic Mission’ By Dr. Clark Published Dr. R. C. Clark, head of the his tory department, has just received word from the editor of the Amer ican Historical Review, the official organ of the American Historical association, that his article en titled “The Diplomatic Mission of Sir John Rose, 1871,” has been ac cepted for publication in the forth coming October number of the quarterly. Sir John Rose, according to Dr. Clark, was the English delegate who was sent to the United States by his government to find an ami cable settlement of the Alabama Claims after the Civil war. He was instrumental in bringing about one of the best examples of a bitter dis pute settled by arbitration, Pro fessor Clark said. Bowman Defines Marriage To Faculty, Student Group "Marriage is an enduring rela tionship of love between a man and a woman, in which both are developed, ennobled, and enriched to fulfill the highest ideal.” Thi3 is the concept which Dr. Harold L. Bowman, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Portland, believes to be the foundation of happy marital life. Dr. Bowman spoke on the “Sociological Aspects of Love and Marriage” before a gathering of University faculty and students at the music auditorium last night. The failure of many marriages, Dr. Bowman attributes to emo tional immaturity. Jealousy and fickleness, the causes of broken relationships, are the results of “spoiled children” attitudes de veloped by the protective influence of family life and heterosexual friendships. He traced the history of mar riage from the early period when family control was centered wholly on the paternal side to the present day when the woman is the domi nant factor in the household. With the ambition of the Roman Catholic cSurch in the 12th cen tury to dominate life, marriage came under ecclesiastical super vision. The Renaissance saw the development of a romantic love that became a selective and ideal istic element of comradeship apart from formal marriage. It was not until the efforts of Martin Luther during the Reformation that ro mantic love and marriage were brought together. This period re stored marriage to its former social character, making it a civil rather than religious function. With the advent of the indus (Continued on Page Four)