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w e Freshmen Vote For Candidates At Polls Today Campaign Free of Any Fireworks Whatever 3 OUT FOR PREXY Wall, Paddock, and Johns Enter Rice for Highest Office In Class of ’3(1 The Candidates President Claude Johns Bill Paddock Allan Wall Vice President Ruth Byerley Florence Kelly Secretary Portia Booth Elsie Reed Treasurer Frank Levings Herman Metcalfe By JULIAN PRESCOTT After one of the quietest fresh man campaigns in history, the class of 1936 will go to the polls today to elect Its first officers. Whether it was a reaction from the. cyclonic political endeavors of last year or the coming of the Washington football game in the same week that put a damper on the youngsters’ zeal is not known. But it stands that on the eve of the elections, not a sign had been seen, not a battle cry had been heard. Upper Classes Quiet The statements issued last week by the candidates for president did not indicate that upper classmen had entirely forsworn working be hind the scenes in freshman poli tics. However, it is evident that the older men have been taking it easy. Though there are three candi dates in the field for president of the class, only two aspirants have appeared for the other posts. The one candidate who is running without a ticket is bucking cus tom by not lining up a group of houses behind him through the men and women running on his ticket. Lone Nominee Interests Political observers who have noticed the startling change in campaign methods are watching with interest the candidacy of this lone nominee. Will lie be able to win on his personality and plat form alone or will he lose out to the organized tickets of his op ponents ? Polls will be open from 9 to 3:30 o’clock today in Johnson hall, it was announced yesterday by Bill Bowerman, vice president of the A. S. U. O., who is in charge of! the election. Madeleine Gilbert I will be in charge of the polio. | Election committees and counting boards were to be named today. | Duck-Ucla Shrine Benefit Tilt To Be Boosted by Rally More than 15,000 Portland higf school students will stage a rallj today to boost the Oregon-U. C. L A. football game to be played at Multnomah stadium Saturday. Portland high school student body presidents were the guests of A. G. Riddell and other Shrine of ficials at the Shrine hospital this week-end. They spent more than three hours with the children, watched the work that is being done, and returned to their schools with plans to assist in making the attendance at the game a record one. The student body heads with the cooperation of the University of Oregon Alumni, the Shriners, and the school officials, have arranged the pep rally for their schools. Rob ert Hall, president of the Oregon j student body, and the University quartet will be presept at each high school rally. Officers of YWCA Will Be Elected at Thursday’s Polls Groups To Be Formed for Discussion on Any College Problems The first active project of the Y. W. C. A. college year opened to freshman girls today with the nomination of frosh commission of ficers for 1932-33. Polls will be open from 12 to 4 Thursday at the bungalow, and freshmen who have signed membership cards are eli gible to vote. Nominees are: for president, Ann Reed Burns, Gladys McMillan, and Margaret Van Cleve; vice-presi dent, Maxine Goetsch and Ebba Wicks; secretary, Roberta Moody, Alice Ann Thomas, and Helen Wright; treasurer, Mary Freeburg, Helen Good, and Ruth Vanniee. In troduction of candidates will be made during a meeting of fresh men at the bungalow Wednesday at 5 o’clock. Freshman discussion groups will he formed following the election of officers in that division of the project. The groups are composed of 15 or 20 freshmen, each led by an upperclassman and formed to discuss college problems and to ex change ideas. A few of the top ics lined up are: “What Shall I Wear,” “Personality and How It Grows,” and “College Traditions.” Part of the aim of the groups is to initiate and strengthen friend ships as a feature of the Y. W. C. A. policy. Upperclass leaders for this fresh man program, chosen for their in terest and activity in the Y and who have had previous training as leaders through the Y-sponsored vourse, are: Barbara Conly, Jean Failing, Betsy Steiwer, Polly Pol litt, Elizabeth Scruggs, Ellen Hickson and Nancy Suomela. Freshmen who did not sign for the discussion group project may be added to the active list by leaving their names at the bungalow. U.S.C. Leads Pacific Coast Race9 Stanford Following By BRUCE HAMBY (Emerald Sports Editor) Two weeks and still the Univer sity of Southern California leads the coast conference race, it took a long pass from Orv Mchler to Ford Palmer and a place-kick by Ernie Smith to defeat a fighting group of Oregon State Beavers 10 to 0 Saturday at Los Angeles, but the Walls of Troy, crumbled and slightly weaker this year, held out against the determined Stat ers. In the only other conference game Oregon managed to stave off a revengeful Washington Husky for four quarters at Multnomah stadium in Portland. The result was a scoreless tie. As a result of the encounter the teams are still even in the matter of all-time com ' petition, started in 1900. Each has won eleven games and four were tied. California, as yet to play a con ference game, showed southern critics that it will be a serious con tender for title honors by match ing touchdown for touchdown with the strong St. Mary's Gaels. The final score was 12 to 12 at the Berkeley Memorial stadium. Stanford’s week-end appearance resulted in a 14 to 0 win over San ta Clara. Pop Warner's proteges managed to keep all their razzle dazzle formations under cover in defeating the Broncos. Idaho took a 20 to 7 trimming in a non-conference game with its ancient rivals, Gonzaga. college of Spokane. Montana won a non league encounter against Carroll college 14 to 6. The Golden Bears swing into ac tion next Saturday against Wash ington State in the first confer ence game for northern California this season. The Cougars lost their initial conference start 20 to 0 against Southern California. Hopes of Golden Bear followers have ris en since their teams showing against the Gaels. Oregon meets U. C. L. A. at Portland and Idaho faces Montana at Missoula in the other confer ence games of the week. The West wood Bruins have played their best games against Oregon since their debut in the conference four years ago. They scored their sec ond conference victory last week I in those four years against Idalio. Idaho and Montana each have a defeat chalked against them. U. C. L. A. downed the Vandals 6 to 0 at Los Angeles two weeks ago and Washington reserves swept through the Montana line for a 26 ! to 13 win on the same day. The Trojans take on a breather 1 Saturday in Loyola of Los Ange i les. Stanford meets West Coast Army in a non-conference game. Standings of conference teams: W L T P AG South. Cal.2 0 0 30 0 Stanford .1 0 0 27 0 U. C. L. A.1 0 0 6 0 Washington .1 0 1 26 13 Oregon .0 0 10 0 California .0 0 0 0 0 Idaho .0 10 0 6 Montana .0 1 0 13 26 Wash. State . .0 1 0 0 20 Oregon State ... 0 2 0 0 37 o Papa, Is That An Armored Car? “Yes, Oswald, and they’re off to Salem, where the big bold mans won’t take thetr petitions.” Yes, indeed, them thar’s the very petitions that Mr. Zorn and Mr. Maepherson had taken all the way to Salem in an armored ear so that those nasty ol’ men wouldn't make believe to steal them again. Future Conditions Chosen at Topics Of SCC Lectures Dr. Kerr Praises Program For Diseussion Offered Whole Campus “The World Tomorrow" will be the title of a series of eight lec tures to be given by prominent members of the faculty before the Student Christian council, begin ning tomorrow night. The talks will outline the probable condition of the methods and morals of fu ture generations. The discussions are open to ev eryone and the entire campus is invited to attend. The hours are from 7 to 8 o’clock every Tuesday evening in the main lounge at Ger linger hall. The introduction will be given by Dr. Nelson L. Bossing tomorrow night. The next week Dean J. R. Jewell will talk on “Education,” and in succession after him there will be lectures on “Science,” "Arts,” "Economics,” “The Home,” “Religion,” by Dean George Rebec, and a concluding lecture by Dr Bossing. The movement is enthusiastical ly supported by Chancellor Kerr as he indicates in the following letter to the council: “The problem to %e presented this term by the Student Christian council, under the general topic, “The World Tomorrow,” it appears to me is an excellent one. I am sure that the students taking ad vantage of the opportunity to par ticipate in these discussions will derive great benefit from them (Signed) V/. J. Kerr, chancellor. Geraldine Hickson, president of the council, appointed Mary Ella Hornung, Margery Thayer and Rolla Reedy, as the committee in charge of arrangements. Class Publishes Coleridge Poem Fifty board-bound copies of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’’ by lampel Taylor Coleridge, were printed for private distribution by the class in typography last year, under the direction of Robert Hall, associate professor in journalism, and Robert Lane, graduate student in printing. A mottled green and white litho graph paper, resembling ocean waves, covers the outside of the book. The paper inside is executive lext, a heavy rag substance, old style. The type is cloister and hand set. Marginal notes in the volume are printed in green ink, to be in harmony with the outer covering. Students in the class which pro duced this work are: Philip Cogs well, Embert Fossum, Vinton Hall, Eugene Mullins, Oscar Munger, Robert Patterson. The typography class, this year, Hall said, is doing miscellaneous work now and will start its pro ject winter term. No definite plans have been made yet. Psych Exams Wednesday The last chance for students to make up psychology entrance ex aminations will be given today at 4 o’clock in Villard assembly, it was announced yesterday by Clif ford Constance, assistant regis trar. Make-up English entrance ex aminations are scheduled for 4 p. m. Wednesday, it was also stated. Petition Hoax, Armored Car Make Entertaining Reading By DAVID EYRE The editor of your daily paper got the idea yesterday that in habitants of the campus, deep down in the bottom of their hearts or deep down somewhere or other, vyould like to know the dope on the petition “theft” which filled front pages of Oregon news papers for some two months dur ing the summer vacation. And we agreed it was a good idea. After going back over the files of the Oregonian and Oregon Journal and a few other publica 1 tions in the state and asking Art I__ I Baggage Car on Student Special Scene of Dance A new use for baggage cars ] was put into effect by Walt Gray on the S. P. special Sun day night. Walt discovered a ! few band boys rehearsing in the empty car and ingeniously converted it into an ultra-mod ern dance-pavilion with sound effect by the Box-car Boys who wheedled strange syncopation from various instruments. The ratt-a-tat-tat of the train wheels gave a barbaric rhythm to the music (if such it may be called). Representatives from every living organization on the cam pus as well as a mass turnout of Skull and Daggers and Kwa mas were there. Even Doctor and Dean Schwering were in terested onlookers. The backers of the dance tried to collect t.en-cents from every couple; consequently the affair ended abruptly some where between Albany and Junction City. Douglas Polivka Hurt In Automobile Accident Douglas Polivka, sophomore in journalism, suffered a dislocated hip in an automobile accident near Jefferson Sunday evening. He was taken to the Albany hospital. Frank Lies, a freshman, and Chester Pritchard, junior in fi- ! nance, escaped with minor injuries, j while Earl Thomson, sophomore in j pre-law, and Ellis Thomson, senior i in education, were only shaken up. j I Potwin and Bob Allen, who are supposed to be in on the "know” on affairs of the Zorn-Macpherson school scrapping bill, If they had any solution for the “robbery” after several months of thinking it over, we decided there was none. Then we recalled our con ferences with parents of Oregon students from Baker to Bandon during the summer months in which we tried in vain to pick the guilty party, and we were con vinced that there was no solution to the question “who stole the petition?” because nobody really ever found out. In case you were working on a ranger’s station or were attend ing the Olympic games or doing something else that took you away from the doings of ttye Oregon press during vacation, we shall explain ' that the foregoing is re ferring to the' sensational “rob bery” of petitlbns from the offices of Slocum and Brownell in the Madison building at Portland on the noisy night of July 4. On that Independence night, at exactly 11:45 (some still say it was 11:30) three masked men entered the room, exhibited a gun to one Robert Tallman, night watchman, ransacked the vault (some still say it was unlocked) and made off with two suitcases full of 20,000 signature!! that were to place the Zorn-Macpherson bill upon the ballot November 8. Hal Hoss, secretary of state in Oregon, finds it necessary to have all peti tions in his office by July 7 in order to get them ready for the I voters’ check mark four months! later. Opponents of the school grab were immediately accused of steal ing the petitions. Opponents were branded as “racketeers” and “gun men” by the foes of higher educa tion. State-wide sentiment re garding the bill swept to the Marion County Tax Equalization league’s doorstep as voters clam ored to sign petitions just to prove to Oregon’s "racketeers” and “gunmen” that Pa and Ma Voter wouldn’t stand for any dirty work. And so the required number of signatures was obtained and the petitions were filed at the secre tary’s office in Salem. Here was another piece of colorful drama in the Zorn-Macpherson produc tion. Not satisfied with doling out 10c a name to a host of peti tion pushers, Hector and Henry decided to rent an armored car (Continued on Pane Three) Campus Calendar __ 0 Westminster Guild will meet to night at the house at 9 p. m. Sigma Delta Chi will meet at 4 today upstairs * in Journalism building. Ee there! Meeting of Pi Sigma Wednesday at 4 o'clock, 107 Oregon. Grace Lutheran church univer sity club will meet at 1065 Third street tonight, 7:30 to 8. - \ Phi Beta meeting in Gerlinger hall at 8 tonight. Knama will meet tonight up stairs in the College Side at 7:30. Very important that all members be present. Skull and Dagger meeting Tues day, 7:30 p. m., Journalism build ing, room 104. Temenlds will meet at 7 tonight at the Craftsmen’s dlub. Business meeting, very important. A “Franklin D. Roosevelt for President Club” will be formed at a meeting at 7 o’clock tonight in the Y. M. C. A. hut. Men and women who, regardless of their party affiliations, are interested in the democratic candidate are urged to attend. Spanish club meeting at West-1 minster house, Wednesday at 7:45 p. m. Faculty Club’s First Offering This Afternoon French Film To Show at Colonial SUPPORT IS ASKED Future Presentations To Hinge on Today’s Attendance at Two Matinees The first of the Faculty club cinema series, “A Nour, La Liber te” will be presented at the Colon ial theatre this afternoon, at 2:15 and at 4:15, it is announced by S. Stephenson Smith, chairman of the committee in charge for the organization. The picture, made by the pro ducers of ”Le Million," the French farce which was enthusiastically received last year, is regarded as the first truly International talk ing picture. While it is in French, actually only 1250 words are spoken, and the action is so clear that the story can be easily fol lowed whether the viewer knows the language or not. Future Series Tentative Upon the success of the presen tation of this picture will depend whether or not a regular faculty club series will be offered at the Colonial, Mr. Smith states. Fac ulty members and others will be asked at this time to express their opinion on shows to be included in the series this year. "A Nous, La Liberte” was made by Rene Clair, who received the credit for making “Le Million" such a success. The picture em ploys much the same technique of its predecessor, but has new music and an entirely different plot. The picture had its American premier two weeks ago in New York and was an instant hit. The New Yorker, all the leading news papers and other periodicals ac claimed it one of the sensations of the year. It has just finished a highly successful run at the cam pus theatre at the University of yVashington, and those who saw it there recommend it very highly. Critics Give Comment The picture, is well described by Thornton Delehanty, critic of the New York Evening Post, who wrote of "A Nous, La Liberte” the following: With this film M. Clair indisput ably establishes himself as one of the most arresting figures in the cinema world. He is a satirist without peer, and he is shrewd enough to cloak his devastating commentaries on contemporary manners and customs in the home ly garb of slapstick, so that if you are not watchful you might be led now and then to think that his ex travagant divertissements are merely exercises in rough and tum ble comedy. But they are a good deal more than that, and never have those celebrated chases of his been put to such richly subtle uses as they are in “A Nous, La Liherta.” "Even in his most outlandish pranks, M. Clair never loses sight of the underlying seriousness of his intention, and that is one reason why "A Nous, La Liberte” is so continuously provoking. The open ing scenes inside the prison are al most duplicated in the factory epi sodes; the workers, nominally free, are shown to be as shackled as their brothers behind the bars. They have their time clocks to punch, they are marshalled in the recreation yard and marched to their work benches, and there they sit for long hours, repeating min uate and seemingly senseless ges tures while the foremen watch over them and keep them relentlessly at their task. “This parallel is brought out with biting irony, and all through the picture one is aware of the kicks and digs which M. Clair lev els with such annihilating effect at (Continued on Page Four) Ducdame Will Be Out Before Xmas Ducdame, campus literary pub lication, is undergoing staff reor ganization and probably will ap pear at some date before the Christmas holidays, according to Eleanor Fitch, senior in English, who is its sponsor. Those working on it at present, are John Gross, Sterling Green, Janet Fitch, Thorn ton Gale, and Gretchen Winter meier. The contribution bo is to be done away with, Miss Fitch stated, but those interested in either ac tively working with th^ magazine or with material to present are, requested to get in touch with her. Yessir, I’ve Been Working on the R.R. Cries Rogers Peanertz! Peanertz! A mem ber of the glorious peanut vending profession was the great Johnny Rogers on Sun day night. But not by incli nation. For Johnny was doing his best to get home from the Oregon-Washington game, and with no dough, the going was tough. When the conductor came around ami Johnny discovered that he had overlooked pur chasing a ducat, things looked still darker. But not for long. The peanut purveyor at the lunch counter offered to cough up the price of a ride if he, Mr. Rogers, would assist him in selling peanuts and pop. And so far, far into the proverbial night rang the cry of “Pea nertz, Peanertz,” as another Oregon student was on his way home. Oregon Review Explained to Law School Students Contributions of Oregon Students Help To Seenre Positions of Value The Oregon Law Review was ex plained to all members of the law school at a meeting of that body held yesterday morning. The pur pose of the meeting was to point out the benefits of the periodical to the students, and to interest them in writing articles for the publication. Professor Orlando J. Hollis gave a short talk on the value of the Law Review in that it provided the student an opportunity to use law books to express himself con cisely and accurately. Professor Carlton E. Spencer gave a talk on "How the law students may be come nationally known by writing to the Review.” Each member of the student edi torial staff was introduced and each one gave a brief outline of his duties. In commenting on the students’ contributions to the Law Review, Professor Charles G. Howard, edi lor-ln-chief of the Review, said, “For the number of students in the University law school there are as many articles written in the Re view as those produced by law stu dents of larger schools in the United States.” Richard R. Morris, a graduate of the law schoo in 1930, has re ceived an appointment to one of the larger law firms in Portland, largely due to his contributions to the Review while he was student editor. Bliss Ansness, who grad uated in 1931, received a $1500 re search fellowship at Columbia uni versity through his work on the Review, and is now a faculty mem ber of law at the same institution. A. Beezer Visits Local Arnold R. Beezer, province pres ident of Phi Delta Phi, left for Seattle Monday morning after a brief inspection visit of the Uni versity chapter. He arrived in Eu gene Sunday. During his stay Mr. Beezer was entertained at a tea at the home of Professor Carlton E. Spencer, Sunday afternoon. Law faculty members and their wives, and Phi Delta Phi members also attended. Second Student Feels Grip of Driving Penalty Omar Hoskins Is Caught Piloting Automobile VIOLATOR EXPELLED Cottage Grove Resident Used Vehicle To Cover 22 Miles Between Home, Campus l — By DON CASWELL Omar Hoskins of Cottage Grove , yesterday became the second stu dent to suffer cancellation of registration for violation of the ban on student autos. Hoskins, who drives the 22 miles from his home to the University daily, was arrested by O. L. Rhinesmith and brought before the faculty enforcement board «at ! their meeting yesterday afternoon. He admitted not having made ap plication for a permit, and the registrar’s office was notified to cancel his registration. Shortly before Hoskins was brought before the board, the group had decided to reinstate Ruth Ardis Gorrell of Eugene upon her payment of the re-regis tration fee of $2. Re-registration Expected It was expected that Hoskins would make application for rein statement. During a long meeting of the board today, which lasted nearly four hours, between 50 and 60 petitions for driving permits were taken under consideration. About half of these were set aside for further investigation, and the temporary permits cancelled. All those whose permits were with drawn are to be notified immedi ately so that no arrests will be made until students fully under stand their standing. Board’s Work Difficult The work of the board is being complicated by a large number of questionable applications. The meeting today took up petitions relating to earning a living by use of cars.*Of these, numerous ap plications have been made on the strength of jobs which either do i not require the use of cars, or which have been obtained at little or no pay for the sole purpose of providing an excuse for obtaining a permit. The validity of such applications is tested by the board, and only bona fide positions will result in issue of permits. The following statement was issued last night by Carlton Spencer, chairman of the board, Id order to enable students to more clearly state their cases in mak ing application for permit for business purposes: • , Auto Ban Reiterated “The regulations governing stu dent use of automobiles promul gated by the state board of higher education provide that students who earn their living by the use of their cars will be exempted. In order to gain this exemption the applicant must file sworn affi davits proving that he is in fact earning his living by the use of his car. The burden of proof is upon him to establish that fact. Until that is done the committee has no authority to grant the ex emption. The student may file affidavits of any nature and from any source he chooses. The com (Coiitiiiiied on Pinjc Three) Very Little Theatre Actors Give Likeable Performances / - By BOB GUILD Skepticism, irony, and an ad vanced resignation were always the best weapons Schnitzler em ployed, says Mr. Julius Kapp. We saw it demonstrated ably Friday and Saturday nights at the Very Little Theatre program. Irony— “The Wedding Morning,” as de pressing as a—as a wedding1 morning. Skepticism—“A Fare-; well Supper,” as comic as a mad! warior without his weapons. Re-: signation — "An Episode.” as humorously futile as an exploded theory. Anatol (Mr. Bob Horn), in spitei of all his gay temper, was a little: melancholy, and very sensitive. He ■ was amorous but not casual, with-j al his life was episodic hurried, | now glamorous, now tawdry. Hej was the viveur, and be it Bianca, sweet and charming, or Ilona the' “damor.ische Frau,” who held his! wavering attentions, he was still i the vivid Anatol of the boule-1 vards. Helen Skipworth was the sweet Bianca very capably. There well Bianca very capably. There may well have been tears in her eyes, we felt, from Anatol’s violets. Florence Shumaker was all Ilona should or could have been, capri cious, passionate, complex, and charming. And Inez Simmons was the Mimi — we didn't know her nearly so well before—but we hate to say just "charming” again. All this will not give much of the indefinable personality of the pieces. Impressions flashing into one’s mind as vividly as memories — Anatol standing impatient at the window, looking out into twi lit streets — turning now at the rustle of silk in the corridor. Lingering overtones of moods, suggested by a phrase with over tones in it; flashing little hints of melancholy romance; ever the hint of much experience behind the apparently chance and frag mentary talk. _.