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VOLUME XXXIV__ UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1932 , _NUMBER 39 Choirs of 130 Wi Present ‘The Messiah Oratorio Will Be Givn December 11 BOARDMAN LEADER l^olyphonic Groups Combined fo: Third Christmas Season Concert The third annual presentation ol Handel’s “Messiah” will be pre sented by the University poly phonic choirs at McArthur court on the afternoon of Sunday, De cember 11, it was announced yes terday by Arthur Boardman, head of the music school voice depart ment. Fusion of the polyphonic choi’ with the larger polyphonic chorus, directed by Roy Bryson, will give Boardman a chorus of 130 voices for the “Messiah" concert. The full University symphony orches tra of 65 instruments will accom pany the choirs. ' “The Messiah,” for 150 years the world’s favorite oratorio, is suited in theme and music to the obser vance of the Christmas season. It was first presented by the poly phonic choirs in December of 1930. An overflowing music audi torium that year caused the scene of the concert to be shfited to Mc Arthur court last year. The 1931 presentation was attended by a crowd of 2,500, and similar atten dance is expected this year. Outstanding students in the voice department of the music school will fill the four solo roles. Their names are to be announced by Boardman before the end of the week. Management of the concert has been placed in the hands of Asso ciated Student oficials, working under Ronald Ro’onett, assistant graduate manager. Ticket sales for townspeople will open the first of next week. Delegations of music lovers came last year from Salem, Al bany, Roseburg, and other points equally distant. Announcements of this year’s presentation are be ing sent to the newspapers of other cities, and a good represen tation from points outside Eugene is expected. Noble To Deliver Lecture Tuesday Dr. Harold J. Noble, assistant professor of history and an author ity on the Orient, will deliver the first of a series of lectures on in ternationalism to be sponsored by the University of Oregon Interna tional Relations club. Dr. Noble will speak Tuesday, December 6, in Guild hall, on “Manchuria in View of the Lytton Report.’’ Not only has Dr. Noble made a thorough study of this and other current documents, but he has travelled recently in the Ori ent. He has also done considerable research work on Chinese and Ori ental history. A small admission for the lec tures will be charged and the pro ceeds used by the International club for its work on the campus. Webfoot Team Wins Webfoot intramural hockey team won the game last Monday afternoon against the Mud Turtle team with a score of 5 to 0. It is the Webfoots’ second victory this season against the Mud Turtle’s one. The season will be closed with a final game Thursday after noon. ?--——. . ' He Spikes Rumors This is Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, president of the University of Oregon, who wired the Emerald from Washington, D. C., yesterday explaining that Hugh Iiosson originally was employed as graduate manager, and not also as director of athletics. This killed rumors and reports that were heard on the campus yesterday following the Emerald’s advocacy of a director of athletics for the University. j Affair To Be Held By Wesley Group Tonight at Church Warren Smith To Address Students at Banquet This Evening Honoring students of the Inter national house, the Wesley foun dation will sponsor a banquet to night at 6:30 o’clock at the First Methodist church. Dr. Warren D. Smith, head of the geography de partment, will speak on “The Basis for an Enduring Peace.” Donald Saunders, president of the Wesley foundation, will be toastmaster at tonight’s affair, which is the third annual banquet given by the Wesley group in I honor of the International house. Toasts will be responded to by Kazumi Hirao, president of the International house, who will speak for that group and for the students from Japan; Francisco Tubban, who will speak for stu dents from the Philippine islands; Sally Frederick, representing the people of the Hawaiian islands; and Jack Bellinger, representing ; the International Relations club. Michael Haimovich, of Russia, j will play a group of piano selec tions, and Claudio Cendana, of I the Philippine islands, will sing. Townsend Will Speak To Discussion Group Professor H. G. Townsend will speak to the graduate discussion group at the Y. W. C. A. bunga low tonight at 7 p. m. on some phase of the controversy between realism and idealism. This will be followed by an in formal discussion to which all graduate students in school are invited. Hall Says Football Receipts May Show Large Decrease By PARKS HITCHCOCK | Estimates by Robert Hall, pres ident of the Associated Students, on the approximate profits of the 1932 football season, were released yesterday. Hall estimates that profits from football this year will be considerably below the profits of last year, $23,000. Hall stated, however, that these figures might vary a great deal either way before final data was available, and that furthermore, they were only his personal opin ion. The budget for this year’s sea son calls for a profit of approxi mately $10,000. Hall said he thought the student body would be fortunate if the profit reaches that peak. As the figures on the Oregon State, U. S. C., and St. Mary’s games are as yet incom plete, no definite assayal of the season’s profits can be made, Hall added. Advices from the graduate manager’s office indicated that al though the present season was a financial disappointment, the stu dent body was nevertheless in as good a shape as some schools in the Northwest. N. Thomas Stoddard, assistant graduate manager, said that the student body was working on the most economical budget since 1926, and that every attempt was being made to hold down all expenses. Complete figures on the season’s profits will be published at a later date. The team has yet to meet L. S. U. at Baton Rouge. Scandal Mongers To Gather Latest Dirt On Campus If you hear stealthy footsteps outside your door in the dead of night, if you suspect that you are being shadowed, if you have a pre monition of evil, do not be unduly alarmed, unless you do have some thing to conceal from the prying eyes df the public. It may be only a scandalizing newshawk haunting your footsteps in search of material for the “scandal sheet" souvenir program, and special feature of the Journal ism Jam at the Campa Shoppe, December 3, to be released, hot from the press. Thornton Gale, master dirt col lector, has been named editor of the sheet and promises it will be all that the name implies—all the snappiest scandal (within certain (Continued on Page Two) , __ Students To Wear University Suits Efforts started here Monday to obtain permission from the physi cal education heads for students to wear their personal wool swim ming suits at the social swims in the women’s pool Friday nights received a big setback yesterday when the permission was denied by Dr. John F. Bovard, dean of the school of physical education. The permission was denied on the grounds of sanitation, it was said by Miss Florence Alden, head of women's education, who has charge of the social swims. Keep ing the pool hygienic is extremely difficult even when suits are steri lized between each use, it was pointed out. Groups of students, town people, faculty members and life-saving classes use the pool practically every night In the week. If stu dents were allowed to use their personal suits, it would be neces sary to let all others do the same, it was explained. This would greatly increase the problem of guarding against the spread of | disease. New Discussion Group To Be Held at YWCA — The newly formed graduate dis-! cussion group for men and women ; will hold a meeting at the Y. W. C. A. bungalow this evening at 7 o'clock. At that time Pro i fessor H. G. Townsend of the philosophy department will lead informal discussion on the general [ subject, “Beauty." This topic is an outcome of a j question put to the group two weeks ago by Novvland B. Zane. ; associate professor of design, who | asked, “Is there anything univer sal in art?” I . Rosson’s Post Clarified By Dr. A. B. Hall Ex-President Sends Wire Ts> Oregon Emerald RUMORS ARE SPIKED Report on AtVetio Director Situation Is Killed by Proxy's Message Unverified reports and rumors that Hugh E. Rosson, graduate* manager here, had been employed two years ago by Dr. Arnold Ben-' nett Hall to act also as director of athletics were spiked by a mes sage from Dr. Hall himself yester day. In reply to an interrogation i sent him by Dick -Neuberger, edi tor of the Emerald, Dr. Hall wired the following message from his office at Brookings institute, Washington, D. C.: “Position of athletic director was abolished two years ago. Hugh Rosson was elected graduate manager by the executive council. Under authority of student consti tution, I approved his appointment after securing the approval of the Oregon State Board of Higher Education. I warmly recommend ed Mr. Rosson to the executive council, but it was that body that actually exercised the authority of election. “Arnold Bennett Hall.” The telegram of inquiry was sent to Dr. Hall at his new home when Professor Herbert Crombie Howe, Oregon faculty athletic rep resentative, said he was under the impression that Mr. Rosson had been employed to act as athletic director, as well as graduate man ager. This was the only development whatsoever in the Emerald's ad vocacy of an athletic director for the University yesterday, and it cannot come under the classifica tion of unexpected news, as the Emerald did not mention Mr. Rosson in its editorial, nor referred to his office at all. Mr. Rosson, as mentioned above in Dr. Hall’s telegram, took the office of graduate manager two years ago. Since that time the A. S. U. O. debt has been reduced considerably. No Flunk Courses May Be Dropped No students will be allowed to drop courses this year in which they are flunking, it was stated yesterday by Clifford Constance, assistant registrar. Students who are passing in courses, but who wish to drop them in order to con centrate on others, may do so, provided they have the statement of the instructor that their grade up to that point is satisfactory. No courses may be dropped af ter examinations start, regardless of standing. Incompletes made must be completed the next term the student is in attendance, if credit is to be obtained for the in complete work, otherwise the stu dent will be required to take the course over if he wishes credit for it. Tugman Will Addre§s Socialist Organization j William M. Tugman, managing j editor of the Register-Guard, will speak on “Politics in the News paper” at the Socialists’ club meeting Thursday night at 7:15 in the lounge of the Y. M. C. A. hut. Everyone is invited to attend the talk. Speakers who appear before this organization aren’t necessar ily socialists: however, member ship in the club is an indication of the socialist party membership. Elections will be held at this meeting. Oregana Pictures Must Be Taken by End of Fall Term All persons who intend to have their pictures in the 1933 Oregana must have them taken before the end of this term, Virginia Wentz, editor, declared today. Persons desiring to appear in the annual may arrange with Kehnell-Ellis, Oregana photog raphers, to have their portraits taken, even though they may hove missed their scheduled dates. Photographs this year have been reduced to 20 cents, and 15 cents for additional appear ances in the annual. Christmas Revels Dance Scheduled For December 9 Hop Will Be Last Campus Affair Before Week Eiul Exams Tentative plans and committee members for the Christmas Revels, annual all-campus dance and en tertainment, were drawn up yes terday at a meeting of student representatives, which was pre sided over by Karl W. Onthank. The dance is scheduled for Fri day night, December 9. This is to be the last campus affair before settling down to closed week-end end exam study. As planned now, the annual frolic will be a no-,date affair, with campus clothes in or der, and will be very informal. A program is to be arranged to be interspersed with the dance. Admission for the dance last year was 25 cents, but indications yesterday were that a slightly lower charge would be made this year. The meeeting also named 17 stu dents and 12 faculty members as a tentative list from which the committees for assisting with the affair will be chosen. The list of students includes: Ethan Newman, Helen Raitenan, Helen Binford, Nancy Suomela, Geraldine Hickson, Betty Allen, Bob Zurcher, Walt Gray, Clark Ir win, Mickey Vail, Jay Wilson, Eliz abeth Scruggs, Marygolde Hardi son, Mary Snyder, Tom Clapp, Jane Cook, and Ed Schweiker. Faculty members chosen by the meeting include S. S. Smith, Rob ert H. Seashore, N. B. Zane, John Stark Evans, George L. Andreini, Andrew Fish, Rues Cutler, Ken neth Shumaker, John L. Casteel, W. A. Dahlberg, Robert Oliver, and Florence D. Alden. A meeting of the committee is to be held today at 4 o’clock in 110 Johnson. Spanish Club Will Meet At Westminster House Corrida de Todos, Spanish club, will hold a meeting this evening at 7:45 at the Westminster house. The program will consist entire ly of musical numbers to carry out the spirit of the Christmas holi days. Marie Saccomanno will sing two Spanish songs. Neva Lois Thompson will give a group of three selections on her singing saw. At the close of the meeting the entire group will sing a num ber of Christmas carols in Spanish. Laura Goldsmith, president of the club, extends an invitation to anyone who wishes to attend. Stu dents of Eugene, Coburg and Springfield schools are invited. Nancy Archbohl Named Sophomore Secretary Nancy Archbold was elected over Margaret Ellen Osbourne yesterday, for the office of secre tary of the sophomore class. Miss Archbold's home Is in Port land, and she is an English major. She is a member of Kwama and has participated in numerous cam pus activities. Campus Calendar Joint meeting of Theta Sigma Phi and Sigma Delta Chi today at 4:45 in 104 Journalism. Final plana for Journalism Jam will be discussed. Askelpiads will meet at Phi Psi house at 7:30 tonight. Theta Sigma Phi meeting today at 4 o’clock at 104 Journalism. Final plans for Matrix Table will be made then. Very important. The drama group of Philomelete will meet Thursday evening at 9 o’clock at the Pi Phi house. W. A. A. mass meeting this afternoon at 4 o’clock in Westmin ster house. Program and ..refresh ments, All members come. Graduate discussion group meets tonight at the Y. W. C. A. bunga low at 7:00 p m. Graduate discussion group for men and women will meet at Y. W. C. A. bungalow tonight, 7 o’clock. — The Young Democratic league will hold a meeting tonight at 8:00 (Continued on Page Two) Burg Will Talk For Women’s Honorary Meet ! Author Starts Journeys At Apr of 14 WORLD TRIP TAKEN * Work Started on Story of Oregon To Re Used by Notional Geographic Magazine An explorer, photographer of un dersea life, a lecturer for learned societies, and an author and con tributor to the National Geograph ic magazine that is Amos Berg, who will be the guest speaker for the Matrix Table tomorrow eve ning. The formal banquet is being given by Theta Sigma Phi at the Eugene hotel at 6:30 to honor wo men in journalism, literature and the arts. When he wa3 only 14, Amos Burg, who is a former Oregon stu dent, joined the French Transport service and served between Indo china and the Mediterranean. In 1928 he photographed the caribou migration on the Yukon for Metro Goldwyn, "floating all the way from Lake Bennett down the Dawson and St. Michael trail to the Ber ing sea 2300 miles and then around the Bering sea islands and to Siberia in an Eskimo schooner," to use his own words. A canoe trip down the Macken zie river to the Pacific ocean was made by Burg in 1929, when he was accompanied by Dr. George Rebec, dean of the graduate school. Two years later he went with William Beebe on the New York Zoological society's expedi tion to Bermuda, when he photo graphed and made records of un dersea specimens. The biggest voyage which Burg I has made came in 1931, when he was sent by the National Geo graphic society around the world on the yacht "Carmargo,” on which he covered 30,000 miles and visited 110 ports. Pictures which he took on this trip will be shown at the banquet tomorrow evening. Burg has appeared before the National Geographic society in the giant public auditorium in Wash ington, D. C., twice, lecturing and showing his pictures to more than 5,000 people each time. In addi tion he has lectured at the Field museum in Chicago, the Philadel phia Geographic society, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and ! Sciences, University museum of I Philadelphia, the Explorers’ club ' in New York City, and other plac | es in the East. For the third time Burg will I .‘-peak before the Washington j members of the Geographic on j March 10 in the Washington audi [ torium, when he will tell the story ' of the “Carmargo's’’ voyage around the world, to show the pic tures of the Cocos island rescue. Having covered four assign ments for the National Geographic, Burg is now working on a story on the state of Oregon which will be used in the Geographic’s com mbonwealth series. He is leaving Oregon at Christmas for New York, where he will make his headquarters at the Explorers’ club, of which lie is a member, Kidwell Calls Frosli Leaders to Meeting A group of freshman leaders, drawn from fraternities, halls and independents, will meet with Bill Kidwell at the Y. M. C. A. hut Wednesday at 4 to begin organi zation work for the Frosh com mission. Working with Eugene Strom berg, secretary of the University Y. M. C. A., Kidwell is inviting representative freshmen to attend the meeting. Any frosh man who feels that he is qualified for execu tive work with the commission is invited to confer with Stromberg at the hut either today or tomor row. . Dr. Mueller Will Lead Discussion Thursday . Should the United States recog j nize Russia ? What bearing has I the five-year plan on world af i fairs ? These and other questions con ; cerning recent developments in Russia's international relations I will be discussed by Dr. John H. Mueller, associate professor of so ciology, Thursday night from 8:15 to 9:15 at International house. This will be the last meeting of the International Relations club during this term. The Dean's Pr * And he has a right to be. It’s Kills F. Lawrence, dean of the art school. The same art school that just received the Carnegie founda tion pri'/.e for the outstanding achievement in the West. Which makes the second year Oregon artists have come through in such a striking manner. 6St. Cecilia Mass’ Will Be Given by Methodist Choir Presentation Offers Treat For Eugene Music Lovers The traditional Christmas music of the "St. Cecilia Mass" will be given again this year Sunday af ternoon at 5 o'clock, when the choir of the First Methodist Epis copal church will be presented in a concert under the direction of John Stark Evans. This is the 13th annual presentation of the pi. vti-UHii 111 uugciic imuti nit. Evans' direction and is the only time this year that it will be pre sented in this city. The soloists will be Don Eva, tenor; Emilienne Roach, soprano; and Hershel Scott, baritone. This is the fourth time that Eva has sung one of the solo parts in the mass. "The St. Cecilia Mass" was writ ten by Gounod, a French composer of the 19th century. St. Cecilia is the patron saint of music, and the mass was originally written for a service honoring her. Singing Eliminations To Be Complete Today Preliminary eliminations in the intra-fraternity and intra-sorority singing contests are expected to be completed by tonight, Don Eva. chairman announced yesterday. Survivors of the elimination will be announced Thursday. It is expected that six or eight houses will enter the finals. These will compete before a board of judges composed of members of the school of music faculty. The finals of the contest will probably be held early next term, it was said by Eva. The closeness to the end of this term and exam inations is the reason for carrying over to next term. IUfle Teams Compete Intramural rifle teams started their second day of competition at 9 o’clock yesterday but as yet no scores have been completed. The Oregon Yeomen are leading with Delta Tau Delta tailing a close second and Friendly hall scoring third. Senior Class Meeting Called For Tomorrow Plan To Save Oregana Will Be Talked VILLARD HALL PLACE Subsidy To Year Book Proposed By Student Leaders; Money Available A special senior class meeting has been called for tomorrow night by Cecil Espy, president of the class, to present to the class a plan to save the 1933 Oregana. The meeting will be held in Villard assembly at 7:30. The proposal, endorsed by Bob Hall, student body president, Es py, and other prominent seniors, would cause the senior class to subsidize the Oregana to a maxi mum of $500, in the case that a renewed drive for subscriptions would fail to make the yearbook self-supporting. Money Is Available At the last meeting of the class it was decided to make disposition of the class treasury surplus by al lotting about $600 toward donat ing a bust of the late Dean John Straub to the University, and to allocate the remaining $500 to the student loan fund. Espy pointed out last nigtA that the money nec essary to assure the publication of the Oregana would be taken from the loan fund, but that it could re main in the loan fund until such time as it was necessary to meet yearbook bills, probably late in spring term. “The action would only be tak en,” Espy said, “in case a determ ined drive for additional subscrip tions should fail. In no sense is it to be construed as setting a prece dent for future senior classes. It is purely and simply an emergen i cy measure to safeguard the 1933 Oregana. Many Favor Plan a numoer oi prominent seniors have already expressed themselves as heartily in favor of the plan.” Until about 10 years ago it was the traditional policy of the senior class to subsidize the Oregana, Espy pointed out. Then the year book reached the point where it became self-supporting, and the custom of the senior class dona tions was discontinued and has neVer been resumed since that day. Apparently the fate of the Ore (Continued on Page Two) Frosh Finances Show Good Profit The financial status of the freshman class and the plans for winter and spring terms were brought before the last meeting of the group this term last night when Frank Levins, treasurer for the frosh, outlined the budget and expenditures incurred so far, and A1 Wall, class president, discussed the soph picnic and the Soph glee. Money has been saved on every class venture so far, stated Lev ins, and $143.70 remains of the sum allotted to the group by Wall, Levins, Dean Earl, and Doc Rob nett. A1 Nielson, chairman for the Frosh glee, asked the cooperation of all the freshmen in making the dance, scheduled tentatively for April 8, a success. The commit tees for this affair will be an nounced winter term, when final plans will be made. Guild Theater Will Present Performance for 'Kiddies’ Those versatile people over at Guild theatre are proving them selves this week-end with a bit of phantasy in the form of two whim sies to be done Saturday after noon at 2 o’clock for the kiddies. It's a bit of a new venture for the department, this matinee per formance. Half the caste will be supplied, by the class in dramatic interpretation, the remainder by embryonic artists from the Edison school, trying their wings for the first time in Stuart Walker’s "Nevertheless,” and Alice C. D. Riley’s “Ten Minutes by the Clock.” In "Ten Minutes by the Clock,” we have a conventional king, Kay Briggs, complete with beard, throne and crown, and the usual kingly addenda of ideas about ma jestic property, and we have an unconventional queen, Phoebe Thomas, who provides not only the antithesis, but the dramatic con flict, since it is this struggle of wills that provokes the play. Phoe be is the little girl grown up, nev er quite past the “greener pastures further” stage. For the rest of the cast, we have a gypsy (enter' romance), played by Marvel Twiss, who roles eyes, holds out the promise of better things to the discontented queen; and we have the inevitable Pom Pom, the butler, in daily life Mary Jane Burdick. Edison school con tributes Bitter Batter, the cook, Geraldyne Spurlock; the page. Ruby Jackson; Dux and Dox, Phil ip Campbell and Ralph Herestis; and the housemaid, Florence Jack son. "Nevertheless” is a much simp ler, no less charming piece—just (Continued on Patje Two)