VOLUME
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XXXIII
-ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE REPORT
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY. MAY 24, 1932
NUMBER 131
STATE BOARD BANS STUDENT AUTOS
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Three Classes
Will Elect New
Officers Today
Polls To Be Open From
9 Until 3
Constitutional Changes Up;
Seniors May Vote on
Separate Ballot
By JULIAN PRESCOTT
Freshmen, sophomores and juni
ors will go to the polls today to
elect their class officers for the
coming year. The polls of all three
groups will be open from 9 to 3
o’clock.
The freshmen will vote in the
Y. M. C. A. hut. Polls for the
sophomores will be in Villard hall,
probably in the lobby at the north
end. Juniors will mark their bal
lots in room 201A Condon hall.
The two constitutional amend
ments will be voted on at the
same time that ballots are cast
for class officers. Separate bal
lots will be provided for the
amendments.
Seniors May Vote
Seniors may vote on the provi
sions at the junior class polls. They
will be required to show their stu
dent body cards.
Eligibility of voters and class
designation has been checked by
the registrar’s office against class
cards filled out at the beginning
of this term. Thus, if a student
is listed as a sophomore on his
class card, he will vote the sopho
more ballot.
Candidates for president of the
2932 senior class are Orville Bailey
and Cecil Espy. Other names on
the senior ticket will be Betty j
Anne Macduff and Marjorie Swaf- [
ford, vice president; Esther Hay-i
den and Helen Raitanen, secre
tary; Bob Needham and Charles
Stryker, treasurer; Bernie Hughes
and Mahr Reymers, barber.
Junior Race Hot
The junior presidency rests be
tween Neal Bush and Ed Schwei
ker . Running mates of the lead
ers are Evelyn Kennedy and Max
ine Reed, vice president; Virginia
Hartje and Nancy Suomela, secre
tary; and Les Dunton and Julius
Rehal, treasurer.
Competing for the leadership of
the sophomore class, Bill Davis and
Bob Ferguson have been a bit
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Seniors Will Award
Albert Cup Tomorrow
Decision as to the winner of the
Albert prize will be made at the
meeting of the senior class tomor
row night, it was announced yes
terday by Hobie Wilson, president.
The meeting will be held in room
105 Oregon building at 7:30
o’clock. This will be the last
meeting of the class of 1932.
Last Mu Phi Epsilon
Meeting on Tonight
Mu Phi Epsilon, national wom
en’s music honorary, will hold its
last program meeting of the year
at 7:15 tonight at the home of Mrs.
Josephine Chapman.
Mrs. Samuel Jameson will talk
on ‘‘Musical Therapy.”
Vote ’No’
T/'OTE “NO” today on tin? amendment to flip consti
’ lutioji regard in" the eligibility of candidates for
student body office.
The amendment in its present form is even more
ambiguous than the article of the constitution it is sup
posed to clarify. In the first place, there is the ques
tion of interpretation of the term ‘ completed” in the
proposed amendment. The amendment reads that can
didates for office “must have completed at least seven
and not more than nine terms at the University of Ore
gon at tlie tinu* of nomination.” The question arises
■whether a “completed” term shall mean merely a term
of residence at school, or shall mean the passing of so
many term hours.
But more important still is that the proposed
amendment leaves the way open for considerable diffi
culty on another point. A student might, if this revi
sion is made, attend some school other than the Univer
sity of Oregon for two years, then transfer here and
in seven terms be eligible for student body office, lie
would be eligible even though he were a senior and
due to graduate in one more term. He would be eli
gible even though it were his sixth year in school.
The present article in the constitution reads simply
that candidates for student body office “must have
completed at least seven terms at the University of
Oregon and must be of junior standing at the time of
nomination.” Obviously, what is needed is a defini
tion of junior standing. Since the amendment does not
clarify this point, and since it is open to criticism from
other angles, it should be voted down. The constitu
tion as it stands is the lesser of two evils.
Parliament Will
Convene at Last
Meeting Tonight
Ronald Robnett To Speak;
Two Resolutions Will
Be Discussed
The student parliament will
wind up its affairs for the year at
its final meeting at 7:45 tonight in
Guild hall. Ronald H. Robnett,
assistant graduate manager, will
be present to answer questions
concerning the graduate manager’s
office.
Two resolutions will be discus
sed by the body. The first pro
vides that the present steering
committee of the Parliament re
main in existence through to the
first meeting of next year.
The second resolution calls upon
the president of the student body
to appoint the steering committee
of the Parliament as a permanent
committee on constitutional revi
sion.
There will be discussion from the
floor on plans for the organization
of the body next year.
Recommendations of the com
mittee on rules and credentials re
garding additional organizations
to be represented in the Parlia
ment will be considered.
Delegates without credential
cards will be admitted by giving
their names at the door, accord
ing to Arthur Potwin, president.
Students Asked To Call
For Oreganas at Once
A number of students who have
paid for Oreganas have not as yet
called for their books, it was re
ported yesterday by Roger Bailey,
manager.
These books may be obtained at
the graduate manager’s office, in
McArthur court, and Bailey urged
that students call for them at once,
so that they may be distributed be
fore the end of school.
Bicycle Built For Two Takes
Michigan Boys On Long Tour
Riding all the way from Michi
gan to Oregon on a tandem bi
cycle may seem a lot of unneces
sary trouble to most people in this
day of fast cars and trains, but
according to Carl and Royal Akins,
campus visitors yesterday, it’s a
lot of fiin.
The two brothers rolled into Eu
gene yesterday morning after hav
ing travelled 7,000 miles on their
way around the United States.
They left Bellaire, Michigan, on
August 30, last year and reached
Oakland, California, their destina
tion, just before Christmas. They
plan to go on to Portland from
here and then go back home
through Yellowstone national park
The old song, “A Bicycle Built
for Two” was the idea inspiring
j young Atkins to do their stunt.
They purchased an old 1890 Pierce
Arrow tandem and left home with
nothing but bedding, a pup-tent, a
camera, a musical saw and a har
monica.
During the whole trip they have
earned their expenses by enter
taining on the saw and harmonica
at various clubs, theatres and over
radio stations. They can play any
tune requested, from “The Moon
Comes Over the Mountain" to any
recent tune.
While on the campus they were
j guests of Cap Roberts at the Sig
ma Alpha Epsilon hcuse. They met
j Roberts’ family in Texas last
summer, visited them last winter
in Oakland and immediately looked
up the basketball captain on ar
riving in Eugene.
Governor Moore
To Order Reward
For Kidnapers
Special Bill To Be Passed
By State Legislature of
New Jersey
By FRANCES JAMIESON
HOPEWELL, N. J., May 23.—
(AP)—A $25,000 reward loomed
ahead of the man hunters engaged
in pursuing the Lindbergh baby
killers tonight as they opened up
new channels of inquiry by mail.
At nearby Trenton leaders of
the state legislature, which recon
vened during the day, cleared the
way for passage of a bill empow
ering Governor A. Harry Moore to
order a reward. The governor was
prepared to act immediately.
“We think,” said the govenor,
“and hope the reward may cause
someone who knows something to
squeal.”
While he pointed out the state
of New Jersey could not make a
grant of immunity he said the
measure authorizing the reward
jvould have “more latitude” re
garding its payment than the
statute limiting routine rewards to
$1,000.
Reviewing the wide-flung search
in progress and commenting on
the-reward, the governor said:
"Then we will have done every
thing it is possible for the state to
do to bring the perpetrators of this
crime to justice.”
Meantime law enforcement
agencies throughout the nation
were circularized with specimens
of handwriting contained in two
ransom notes believed to have been
j received from the abductors of the
I infant through the aged Dr. John
I F. Condon.
Hendricks Tea Today
Honors 6 Departments
\ The all-campus tea given by
i Hendricks hall will take place to
; day between the hours of 4 and
j 5:30.
| The music, languages, biology,
j physics, chemistry, geology de
I partments have been invited as
i special guests.
“During the rush and cramming
this week, it will be well worth
one's while to drop in for a chat
and a cup of tea,” said Ivy Wal
kem, chairman of the affair.
“Since this tea is the last one of
the year, we are hoping that
everyone comes.”
Clara M. Smertenko will pour.
Eidrid Wold will act as assistant
! hostess and the girls who will
! serve will be Rose Himelstein,
Linda Hango, Mary Ella Hornung,
Helen Bellani, Gwen LaBarre, Fern
j Jefferies, and Peggy Vest.
Senate Votes in Favor
Of Lumber Tax in Bill
WASHINGTON, May 2.— (AP)
—The senate tonight retained the
lumber tariff in the revenue bill.
;Hardwood flooring was excepted.
Oregon Player
Forfeits Year
Of Competition
Ted Giesecke Declared
Ineligible
Prof. H. C. Howe Makes
Announcement of Coast
Conference Action
By BRUCE HAMBY
Troubles are hitting the 1932
Oregon varsity football team even
before Coach Prink Callison starts
Ted Giesecke
LU 1UIII1 11CJVV.
fall’s Webfoot
eleven. Due to
his participation
in a soccer game
in Portland last
month Theodore
( Ted ) Giesecke
must forfeit a
year of eligibility
in the Pacific
coast conference.
The announce
meni or me ex-uommerce nign
school star's ineligibility was made
yesterday by Professor H. C. Howe,
Oregon’s faculty representative in
the conference. Giesecke was a
numeral winner on last fall’s
freshman team. During the past
spring practice he played regularly
in all four games. He was second
to Roy (Rosy) Gagnon in the num
ber of minutes played.
Rule Disqualifies Ted
The rule disqualifying Giesecke,
according to Professor Howe, is in
section 23 of the conference rules
and /egulations. The clause in part
is as follows:
“Ho athlete shall represent any
club, organization or team, other
than his own institution, in any
athletic contest from the opening
of fall term to the close of spring
semester ...”
The penalty for such an offense
is the loss of an entire year of
participation, future eligibility be
ing granted only if the athlete re
mains in college during the year
he is ineligible.
His Team Won, Anyhow
The game in which Giesecke
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Mott Has Margin
In Close Election
PORTLAND, Ore., May 23—
(AP) — Revised returns from one
of the closest election fights Ore
gon ever has seen, late today gave
James W. Mott, state corporation
commissioner, a lead of 86 votes
over Representative Wiilis C. Haw
ley, veteran congressman from the
first Oregon district. In the same
district William Delzell was only
53 votes ahead of Harvey Stark
weather in the race for the Demo
cratic nomination to congress.
The count in the Republican
race stood at 5:30 this afternoon:
Hawley, 30,734; Mott, 30,820. An
error in tabulation from Lincoln
county earlier had placed Hawley
in the lead. In the Democratic
contest Delzell had 11,858 votes,
Starkweather, 11,805.
Development of Auto
Industry To Be Shown
A talking motion picture show
ing the development of the auto
motive industry, will be presented
to all students interested, Wednes
day, May 25. The cinema is filmed
by General Motors, and brought to
the University through the cour
tesy of the Morris Chevrolet com
pany of Eugene, and the school of
business administration.
The reels will be shown in Cor
vallis Wednesday afternoon. The
time and place of the showing will
be announced tomorrow.
Max Adams Discusses
Commencement Talk
University high and Eugene higli
schools held their baccalaureate’
! services in the local churches Sun-'
[ day.
Rev. John Maxwell Adams, Uni
versity pastor, delivered the ser
I mon to the University high stu
dents at the Central Presbyterian
church. Rev. S. E. Childers spoke
before the Eugene high graduating
| class at the Christian church.
Singe Tonight
Nancy Thlelson, soprano, who
will appear in her farewell senior
recital at the music auditorium at
8:15 this evening.
Nancy Tliielsen
Will Give Senior
Recital Tonight
Songs by Brahms, Strauss
Included in Ambitious,
Varied Program
Nancy Tliielsen, soprano, will
appear in her senior and farewell
recital at the music auditorium
this evening at 8:15 in a program
which will be open to students and
the public.
Miss Thielsen, who has studied
voice with Arthur Boardman for
the past three years, is one of the
best known student singers on the
campus. She has appeared in sev
eral previous recitals and has
taken solo roles several times in
Polyphonic choir concerts.
She has also been very, promi
nent in campus dramatics, her fine
performance in the leading role in
“Holiday” and “Twelfth Night",
last year being still remembered.
Accompanied at the piano by
Lucile Cummings, Miss Thielsen
will present an ambitious and
diversified program. Opening with
a song by Giordani and an “Air
and Variations" by Proch, she will
then present a group of five Ger
man songs by Brahms, Strauss
and Hinken.
Firecrackers, Horns
Arouse Local Curiosity
Popping of firecrackers, honking
of horns, yelling and all the other
various and sundry noises that go
with political rallies brought a call
to the Morning News from a dis
turbed citizen last night and then
to the Emerald to find what the
excitement was about.
All the disturbance was, how
ever, merely the accumulation of
pre-election enthusiasm into ral
lies through the streets, as a last
demonstration before the class
elections today.
Yank the Cotton
From Your Ears,
Warns Charley
The Chorus Swells
The voices in the wilderness
are growing louder.
To the cries of the discon
tented and the disgruntled were
added the sonorous statements
of two Americans who can be
called neither socialists nor
communists. Borah cracked the
ice by ominously declaring that
he wouldn’t join the Republican
convention next month. Disap
pointed in the G. O. P., Bill?
And Roosevelt sounded a
warning that social revolt
threatens unless something is
done to equalize the distribution
of national income. "Millions in
want will not stand by silently
forever,” he said, "while the
things to satisfy their needs are
within easy reach.”
To which I have nothing to
add.
Succinctly,
WEBFOOT CHARLEY.
Webtoots Bow
To Conference
Leaders, 3 to 1 j
Karl Norby Confines His
Foes to Two Hits
Tex Mimiiaugh Gets Both
Blows of W. S. C.
Mound Star
WASHINGTON-STATE COL
LEGE, Pullman, May 23 -(API—
Washington State college con
T«‘x Mlmnaugh
unuea its pen
nant-bound win
ning streak by
defeat ing the
Univer sity of
Oregon baseball
team, 3 to 1, here
today.
Karl N o r b y ,
Washington State
pitcher, allowed
only two hits, a
double and a sin
gle by Tex Mimnaugh, Oregon out
fielder. The winners garnered
seven hits off Donin.
Washington State scored in the
second inning when Mel Lee
singled and came home on Sarboe's
single. In the fourth inning Olmo
and Sarboe were walked and both
scored on a single and an error.
Mimnaugh scored Oregon’s only
run on an outfield fly after his
two-bagger put him on base. A
dust and wind storm made play
difficult.
The score:
R. H. E.
Oregon . 12 3
Washington State . 3 7 1
Donin and Shaneman; Norby
and McKay.
Orangemen Conquer Idaho
MOSCOW, Idaho, May 23--(AP)
Two wild Vandal pitchers gave
Oregon State college an ll-to-4
victory over the University of
Idaho in the opening game of
their conference series baseball
here today.
Spiers and Lacy gave eight free
passes, four each, and allowed 12
hits. Oregon State played error
less ball. Jensen, Beaver left
fielder, hit a triple in the fourth,
scoring two men ahead of him,
but was himself caught on the
stretch as he tried to force the hit
into a home run.
Geraghty, Idaho centerfielder,
hit two triples and a double and
walked once in five times at bat.
Rain Calls Off Band's
Last Mill Race Concert
The University second division
polyphonic choir’s presentation of
Haydn’s oratorio, “The Creation,”
proved to be the last major musi
cal event of the school year as
“Old Jupe Pluvius" succeeded in
having the University band’s last
outdoor concert scheduled for Sun
day evening at the mill race am
phitheatre called off.
Persistent drizzles and cloud
bursts made it necessary to cancel
the program which will not be giv
en this year because of a crowded
calendar for the remaining Sun
days.
’Tis Merrie Stuff,
Thursday’s Play
“Come and laugh at the very re
mote ancestor of the Mack Sennett -
comedies,” invites the drama de
partment.
Thursday afternoon, May 26, 1
"Gammer Gurton’s Needle,” de
scribed as a “Ryght Pithy, Pleas- !
ant, and Merie Comedie,” will be !
played on the lawn between the
old library and Deady.
This is the last campus dramatic
production of the year and is to
be given at 4 o’clock. No admis
sion will be charged.
The audience is requested to
bring their own “box seats" in the
form of pillows or rugs and to sit
on the grass.
The cast includes: Prologue,
Betty Buffington; Diccon Albert
'Culverwell; Hodge, William Ander
|son; Gammer Gurton, Margaret
jHunt; Dam'e Chatte, Louise Web
jber; Tyb, Beth Hurst; Cocke, Dor
iothy Esch; Doll, Dorothy Clifford;
Dr. Rat, Wilbur Walker; The Bay
jlye, Warren Cram.
Increases in Fees
Also Are Decided;
School Budgets Cut
- "-*
For Two Schools
Dr. Walter Taylor Sumner, Epis
copal bishop for Oregon, wasj
quoted in the Oregon State Baro
meter as saying consolidation of
the University and the state col
lege was “inevitable.” When the
Emerald talked to him, he pleaded
that he had not been fully quoted.
Bishop Sumner favors keeping the
two schools as they are unless the
higher education experiment tails.
;Keep Two Schools’
Bishop States in
Correcting Story
State Board Should Resort
To Consolidation Only
If Experiment Fails
Statements attributed to him in
an interview in the Oregon State
Barometer, that “consolidation of
the two schools is inevitable,” were
corrected by Dr. Walter Taylor
Sumner, bishop of the Episcopal
diocese in Oregon, in a long-dis
tance telephone conversation with
the Emerald.
“My attitude is that the two
schools should keep their entity
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Oregon B.A. School Said
Among First in Country
Oregon is accredited with being
one of the first colleges in the
United States having a business
administration school, according to
a pamphlet recently received from
the Kansas university by David E.
Faville, dean of the school.
Frank Strong, president of the
University from 1899 to 1902, and
later chancellor at Kansas is cred
ited with having fostered the com
merce work.
£209,340 Will Be Saved
Through Changes
Faculty Members Agree to
Salary Cuts of 5 to
15 Per Cent
PORTLAND, May 23.—{AP)
3anning student automobiles, vot
ng to increase student fees, and
naking numerous slashes in bud
jet items the state board of higher
education held one of the most im
portant sessions of its history here
:oday.
The ban on student automobiles
>n the various campuses is effect
ve except in cases where students
pome a considerable distance to
their classes or earn a living
through the use of their cars.
This action was taken on rec
pmmendation of the student wel
fare committee, of which Mrs. Cor
nelia Marvin Pierce is chairman.
Deferred Pledging Postponed
The board agreed to let 35 jun
iors in pure sciences at Eugene
complete their work at Corvallis
but receive their degrees from the
University of Oregon. Juniors in
commerce and mines at Corvallis
will be permitted to complete their
work there and obtain their de
grees.
Action on the deferred pledging
proposal was postponed by the
board.
Increases in student fees voted
by the board are expected to yield
$29,000. Approximately $60,430
were cut from the budgets of the
various institutions.
Faculty Salaries Cut
Faculty members of the various
institutions of higher education
volunteered to accept a reduction
on a sliding scale of from 5 to 15
per cent. This alone will save
$120,000 a year, the board an
nounced.
The reductions and the expected
increase in revenue from student
fees totaled $209,430 and covered
an apparent deficit of $160,000.
The measures adopted by the
board were contained in a report
presented by E. C. Sammons,
chairman of the finance committee.
Of the $60,430 cut from the bud
gets, about $30,000 was cut from
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Theta Sig Publication
To Appear This Week
The Handshake, annual publica
tion of Theta Sigma Chi, is sched
uled to make its appearance this
week.
It circulates among actives and
alumnae of the honorary. All mem
bers, including recently initiated
pledges, are requested to make a
list of their journalistic activities
and leave them on the bulletin
board for Jessie Steele, editor.
Eleanor Jane Ballantyne has
been appointed assistant-editor of
the publication.
Chester W ashburne Relates
Geologic History of Oregon
An ancient lake the size of which
the Great Salt lake is just a hint,
and another which covered much of
northern Nevada and southeastern
Oregon, and still another above
whose waters Judkins point and
the Coburg hills barely rose, were
of the same geologic age and re
sulted from similar natural caus
es as a former immense body of
water in Bolivia, South America.
Lake Ticicaca is a mere remnant
of this.
This theory was advanced by
Chester Washburne, of New York
City, consulting geologist for pe
troleum companies the world over,
at the annual joint meeting of Sig
ma Xi, science honorary, and Ph:
Beta Kappa, scholastic honorary
Saturday evening in Gerlinger hall
Washburne, a brother of Carl G
Washburne of this city, completec
his education in geology, under the
famous Dr. Thomas Condon, ir
1905, and since that time has visit
ed practically every portion of the
world. He has held government
geological appointments, but has
spent the greater part of the in
tervening years locating potential
oil fields, particularly in South
America.
Oregon’s climate has become
wetter in the last 60 years, accord
ing to Mr. Washburne, as evi
denced by the fact that oak trees
some 300 years old are now com
pletely overshadowed by young
firs on the hills and mountains of
the Willamette valley.
Mr. Washburne lauded the works
of his teacher, Dr. Condon, whom
he characterized as an old-time
naturalist, and expert in no line,
but interested in every field of
science.
Preceding the lecture, the old
members and initiates of the two
organizations attended a banquet
at the men's dormitory. Lewis
1 Goodman, student at the medical
school in Portland, was presented
with the $25 Sigma Xi research
award at this time.