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EXTRA! VOLUME XXXIII EXTRA! m-amn'^mmmiaamaixsssxassnamaaa UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1932 NUMBER 115 14 Honor (tries, Clubs Invited to Forum Student Group Faces Definite Organization Campus Representatives To Meet Monday Credential Blanks Allotted Living Groups To Insure Delegations Fourteen campus honoraries and ! clubs will be asked to send a representative apiece to the stu dent forum meeting at Guild hall Monday evening, it was decided at the meeting of the forum commit tee held Saturday afternoon at 1:30. Those approved by the commit tee pending final decision by the forum itself are: Congress club, Cosmopolitan club. International Relations club, Order of the “O,” Philomelete, Delta Sigma Rho, Newman club, Pan Xenia, Phi Beta, Sigma Delta Chi, Theta Sigma Phi, Kwama, Skull and! Daggers, Scabbard and Blade. “We are announcing these *■ groups today,” said Dave Wilson, chairman of the committee, “be cause it would be difficult to get j credential blanks to their presi dents before Monday evening. “The presidents of all houses, halls, independent groups approved j by the committee, and other large ; organizations such as the A. W. S. I and the Y. M. C. A., will receive ! credential blanks by messenger i service Monday afternoon.” The forum meeting has been j called by Brian Mimnaugh, A. S. U. O. president, for Guild hall at 8:00. Groups Get Representation Until the forum accepts a per manent plan for representation, the organization committee is ask ing all living organizations to send two official delegates to the Mon day meeting. Credential blanks will be sent to all house and hall presidents and to heads of independent organiza ^ tions Monday which will entitle the bearers to voting power at the meeting. “These credential blanks must be properly signed,” said Dave Wilson, chairman of the commit tee, “and will entitle the bearers (Continued on Page Three) Pioneer Mother Arrives on ('unions, Inspects New Home By PARKS HITCHCOCK A lady we know in the upper circles of the University, tipped us off that the Pioneer Mother was arriving secretly on the campus. Alarmed, we investigated. The Pioneer Mother, you know, is the statue that Burt Brown Barker will dedicate on Mother's day. It, and the panels on the side of the base were done by A. Phimister Proctor, of New York. Workmen, surrounded by the usual onlookers, were putting the statue on the pedestal when we arrived. It seems the entire statue is hollow. I “There's room in there for three | men,” one of the workers com | mented. When they were going to seal j the statue to the pedestal, some l one was inspired with a brilliant | ! thought. It seemed a shame to, waste all that space. A hurried ; j search was made for something I | to stick into it. Something to pre- J1 I serve for wondering posterity. At i this point, L. H. Johnson, comp- 1 troller emeritus, discovered a copy of yesterday’s Emerald in his pock et, and generously dedicated if for I j the filling of this vast cavity. | “It would have been nice if all ! (Continued on Page Two) ‘ Heads KOAC Alfred E. Powers, who will be dean of the general extension' bureau of Oregon’s system of I higher education, under the plan adopted today by the state board. Among his duties will be the supervision of station KOAC, Cor vallis, owned by the state. Dean Powers is at present dean of the University extension division. Porter Accepts Crete. Nebraska, Ministerial Post YMCA Secretary To Leave Next Month To Take Pastorate Coincident with his return from Chicago, where he attended a con ference of young Methodist min isters, the Rev. R. B. Porter, ex ecutive secretary of the campus y. M. C. A., announced that he had received and accepted a cal! to be the pastor of the Congrega tional church at Crete, Nebraska. The fact that this field offers him a chance to get back into his chosen profession, the ministry, and at the same time work wit.* students in Doane college, which is supported by the Congrega tional church, swayed Mr. Porter to accept the position. Unsettled j conditions of future “Y” work on I the Oregpn campus also brought pressure to bear. Doane college is a liberal arts school of limited enrollment and Mr. Porter believes that within a (Continued on rage Three) Quiet Rules In Politics After Day’s Activity Campaigns Expected To Open Monday Plans Made by Houses To Hear Candidates at Group Meetings By JULIAN PRESCOTT Quiet prevailed in campus poli tics yesterday after several days of strenuous activity lining up tickets and preparing nominating speeches. Campaigns are expected to break out with restored vigor ear ly Monday after the week-end rest during which political steam will be worked up. Managers of the two tickets will be getting in fuel for the high pressure needed on election day, Thursday. Leaders of the Hall ticket were busy, however, lining up their fol lowers behind Bill Bowerman and Gordon Day, new candidates for vice-president and senior executive man. Bowerman and Day were named by the Hall party after Ned Kinney and Orville Bailey had been declared ineligible. The Wilson party confined its efforts to the publication of a pa per in which it is planned to pre sent ramifications of the party platform. The first edition, which ippeared late Friday, contained ar ticles on ineligibility and the For .im and suggestion of a ball game (Continued on Pape Three) AWS Schedules All - Campus Tea Tuesday, May 3 Final Spring Social Affair To Be Scenes of Eating Of Foreign Student The final A. W. S. social func tion of the year will be held on ruesday from 4 to 5:30 p. m. on :he lawn in front of Gerlinger hall, it will be an all-campus tea hon oring Mrs. Hazel Prutsman Schwer ng, dean of women, and Nella Ros er, A. W. S. foreign student. As a special feature of the after loon the Associated Women Stu lents officers for the coming year vill be installed. Virginia Grone is in general loon the Associated Women Stu dents officers for the coming year vill be installed. charge of the affair, and will be issisted by Harriette Saeltzer, re freshments; Gretcheq Kegal, flow ms; decorations, Jean Failing, Margaret Hunt, and Mary Van '■less; initiation, Violet Walters. The receiving line will consist of Mrs. Schwering, Mrs. Arnold B. Tall, Louise Webber, Nella Ros er, Mrs. Nelson Macduff. Several numbers from the physi :al education dance recitals, will >e given under the direction of Marjorie B. Forchemer, of that de •artment. Members of Mortar Board, sen or women’s honorary will act as (Continued on Page Two) Dean Allen Makes Statement “The action of the board is, of course, extremely gratify ing-, especially because it was (unanimous and accompanied by cordial and friendly statements from board members. “Our job now must be to live up not only to the oppor tunity that has been extended to us, but to the high degree of confidence that has been expressed in the school by the news paper editors and public, not only in this state, but elsewhere. This is a heavy responsibility, and can be fulfilled only by united and definite effort on the part of faculty and students alike. “The plan proposed by the editors and adopted by the hoard is entirely practicable and should allow the school to go ahead with no loss of efficiency, provided enrollment is not seriously affected by the announcements that have gone broad cast to the effect that the school was abolished. The board re quires that the school be largely supported by fees, just as lias been the case in the past. This can undoubtedly lie done, though some little time may be required to counteract the idea that the school has been abolished. It may take a year or so. “YVe have heard many tales of high school seniors who were deciding to go to other states because the school of journalism was abolished. I hope that all University stu dents and alumni will help to spread the word that the school has not been abolished, but that it is to go ahead with a most decided effort to make it more efficient than ever. The new curriculum will be in some respects an improvement on the old one.” ' ERIC W. ALLEN. Guild Hall Hamlet Production j Wins Audience's High Praise t Depictions by Love, Stipe Said To Be Unusually Well Done By BOB GUILD and S. STIOPHENSON SMITH The Guild Hall company played Hamlet to a full house last night in Gerlinger hall, which had been transformed by George Andreini and his lighting assistants into a close approximation of an Eliza bethan theatre, with a larger fore stage, and a stylized palace inte rior for the inner stage. The di rector, Mrs. Seybolt, had worked out a practicable and intelligible] acting version, and she had per formed something close to a mir r aclc with the help of a cast which we thought far better than the Stratford barnstormers: she had brought out the values of Shake speare’s verse, without slowing up the pace unduly or sacrificing the theatrical appeal. As usual, Will Himself was still the greatest aid to the cast, because he supplied i in this play enough good stage business and “sure-fire” situations for a dozen plays. But Mrs. Sey bolt and her cast took full advan tage of the chances, and the Mousetrap Play* Ophelia’s pathetic scenes, the duel, and the great soliloquies held the audience tense: no .small feat in a three-hour pro-1 duction. Coan’s overhead lighting (Continued on Page Two) Police Dog Found Suffering From Strange Malady A stray police clog was the cen tral figure of a dramatic "poison ing" episode on the campus yes-1 terday morning. The dog was found writhing i:i j convulsions in the art patio by I Professor Ira Brown and Bob Vau' Nice, student. The twitching was evidently I caused by strychnine poisoning. The good Samaritans carried the dog out to the lawn in front of McClure hall, laid him down tenderly and rushed for the dis pensary for an antidote. Dr. Fred N. Miller, who has re (Continued on Page Three) Phi Chi Theta Initiates Ten at Gerlinger Hal! Initiation for ten Phi Chi Theta j pledges was held yesterday after-; noon at 5 o’clock in Gerlinger hall, j A banquet was held at the An- j chorage after the ceremonies. Those initiated were: Dorothy’ Drecher, Hazle Fields, Evelyn Kennedy, Velma Parker, Kathryn Felter, Lois Greenwood, Hilda Fries, Alice Wederneyer, Adrath Hutchinson, and Mary Snider. Hamlet Contest Won by McKennon Claire McKennon was awarded first prize for writing the most> convincing essay submitted in the i Hamlet contest last night after a 1 conference of the three judges, Ernest G. Moll, Louis Myers, and S. Stephenson Smith. Winners of honorable mention j in this contest dealing with Shake- ■ speare’s play “Hamlet,” were In-! gram Kjosness and Charles Jones. McKennon will be given the, leather-bound volume of the com plete works of William Shake speare. This prize was offered by S. Stephenson Smith for the best; essay dealing with Hamlet as a j spectacular melodrama, a pro- j found psychological study of an introvert, or a problem play about revenge. Lonely Ring Reposes In Dispensary Drawer Out of its hiding place in the cash drawer at the University dis pensary an old ring came yester day. Dispensary nurses said the ring had been in their possession for about six months, waiting for its owner to claim it. ! Higher Education Body Unanimously Reverses Decision on Curricula Still Dean With the State Board of Higher Kdueat ion's decision to retain the school of journalism at the Uni versity, Erie W. Allen, shown above, retains his position as dean. Dean Allen expressed great pleas ure today at the hourd's action. Masculine Talent Turns to Editing Oregon Emerald The gentlemen of the press cursed unrestrainedly last night when copy was slow at the Emer ald desk. They exercised the man ly prerogative of swearing right out loud when Associated Press dis patches on the meeting of the state board of higher education were in complete. They uttered sulphur ous and extremely audible male dictions when a night editor was slow in showing up. And they did all this without a single furtive glance around to see if there were females in the offing. For the Emerald was decidedly not a co-educational enterprise it was the men’s edition. With Managing Editor Thornton Shaw covering the women's phys ical education beat and Editor Bill Duniway relegated to the infirm ary run, George Sanford and Parks Hitchcock, editor and managing editor for a day, organized a crew of masculine typewriter maulers and put out the daily without help or hindrance of a feminine nature. Other officials of this morning's paper were as follows: day editor, Ralph Mason; news editor, Oscar Munger; society editor, Jack Bel linger; sports editor, Joe Saslav sky; literary editor, Roy Sheedy; reporters, Jay Seahorn, Hubert rotton, Maximo Pulido, Dave Eyre, Francis, Pallister, Don Fields, J. Almon Ne*wton, Cliff Gregor, Ju lian Prescott, and Sterling Green. FOLK IN INFIRMARY Good weather yesterday made :he road to health quick for three University students, cutting the lumber confined in the infirmary from seven to four. Marvin Jane Hawkins, Curtis Jones, Warren Powell, and Dorothy Lou MacMil lan were still under the doctors’ ’are at the infirmary yesterday. Dean Powers Given Supervision Of Radio Station KOAC, Corvallis By DICK NEUBERGER PORTLAND, Ore., April 30—(Special to the Emerald)— The State Board of Higher Education reversed its field today and restored the school of journalism to the curriculum of the University of Oregon. It was the first important change made by the board members since they passed their detailed and drastic economy program a month ago. The re-establishment of the journalism school was a surprise to all concerned, for it was the consensus that the board had crossed the Rubicon and never would turn back. Unexpected though the move was, it was passed by a unani mous vote. The motion went through at approximately 11:45 this morning following a fairly prolonged discussion. -—«. $3,000 Operating Limit Four Convicted of Manslaughter in Lynching Affair Mixed Jury Asks Leniency For Defendants in Massie Case HONOLULU, April 29. (AP)-— The four defendants in the Joseph Kahahawai lynching case were convicted tonight of manslaughter by a racially mixed jury which asked leniency. A loud sob broke from Mrs. Thalia Massie, central character in the unusual chain of circumstances surrounding the case, when the first verdict was announced, -that convicting Lieutenant Thomas H. Massie, her husband. The maximum penalty for man slaughter is ten years imprison ment. They were charged with second degree murder, which calls for a penalty of 20 years to life imprisonment. When the defendants had ar rived, the jury, composed of five Americans, three Chinese, a Dane, a German, a Portuguese and an Hawaiian, filed in, solemnly Judge! Davis asked: "Gentlemen of the jury, have you reached a verdict?" "Yes, your honor,” said John Stone, American and foreman, ris ing. “We, the jury, find the defend ant, Thomas H. Massie, guilty of manslaughter. Leniency recom mended." The next verdict, the same as for Massie, applied to Mrs. For tescue. In rapid order the clerk then read the verdicts applying to the two enlisted men. Neither Lord nor Jones showed emotion. School Employee Joins Husband at Redmond Mrs. Olive Adams Young, who graduated from the University in 1929 and since then has worked in the registrar's office, has left the University and gone to Redmond, Oregon, where her husband is em ployed on The Spokesman, weekly newspaper published at that place. Mrs. Young is the daughter of Percy P. Adams, professor and as sistant dean of the school of archi tecture and allied arts. A condition set forth by the board in the retention of the school of journalism was that the department must operate each year on not more than $3,000 of the state’s money. The rest will have to be made up from fees and other sources. C. C. Colt, chairman of the cur riculum committee, praised the ac tion of the Oregon State Editorial association in urging the re-estab lishment of the school. “The edi torial association opened our eyes to (lie value of the journalism de partment and was very cooper ative in its work with us,” he commented. Secretary Training (Nit Several other important steps were taken by the board today, although they are overshadowed by the reinstatement to good grace of the fourth estate school. The secretarial training course at Ore gon State college was limited to two years, instead of four as it has been in the past. Hereafter all degrees in secretarial work must be obtained elsewhere than Corvallis. All training of commer cial high school teachers si o was transferred to the University along with the school of commerce. Another move announced for mally fur the first time was that radio station KOAC, now con trolled by the state college at Cor vallis, would be placed under the direct supervision of Alfred Pow ers, dean of the general extension bureau. Chancellor Not Chosen No action was taken on the naming of a chancellor to govern both the College and the Univer sity, but it is probable that C. L. Starr, E. C. Sammons, and C. C. Colt will go East in the near future to interview candidates for the office. Dispensary Will Help Indiscreet Sunbathers Sunburned? Then go to the University dis pensary. With Old Sol doing his best yesterday afternoon, Dr. Fred N. Miller, University physician, and his staff of doctors and nurses made ready with the latest salves, oils and ointments for the rush of sunburned students they expect to day and Monday.