Oregon daily emerald., February 01, 1933, Page 3, Image 3

Public Holds
Interest For
Grid Contests
Research Shows Popular
Demand for News
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Sport Declared Xo Passing Fad as
Support Continues Despite
Effects of Depression
NEW YORK. Jan. 31—(Special)
—Colloge football as a public spec
tacle is apparently showing no de
cline in public favor in spite of
some falling off in attendance at
games since the depression began,
according to Dr. Jesse F. Steiner
of the University of Washington,
one of the investigators of the
president's research committee on
social trends. Dr. Steiner's analy
sis of public interest in football is
contained in a chapter of the com
mittee’s report entitled “Recrea
tion and Leisure Time Activities.”
“Football can hardly be regard
ed as a passing fad which will
soon give way to something else,”
he states.
“Among athletic sports which
are popular public spectacles,
college football has outstanding
public support,” writes Dr. Stein
er. “The whole nation demands
information concerning victories
and defeats of better known
teams, and the accomplishments
of the more successful players also
receive wide publicity. During the
past few years, in spite of record
breaking crowds at some of the
games, considerable discussion
has arisen concerning the future
of college football and its possible
decline in public favor. Critics
are pointing to the fact that stu
dents in general seem less excited
than formerly over the outcome
of games, and that the public
quickly loses interest in teams
which fall below championship
calibre.”
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By BOB GUILD
Three jittering young members
of the feminine contingent sitting
j behind me last night at the Mac
underwent such agonies of appre
| hension, both volubly and against
' the back of my seat, that by the
time they left for something more
| light and pleasant at the Heilig
. my mood of appreciation was al
most hopelessly shattered. But
I they did leave, and in company
j with the rest of the audience I set
! tied into my examination of the
soul of Mr. Marble with something
of the proper spirit. But one mur
der had already passed, and it was
sometime till I caught up.
Seriously, however, Charles
Laughton, without quite being at
any time cockney, managed to
portray all that is horrible about
the whining English middle class.
It was an enthralling thing, simply
watching him go. A villain can be
sleek and handsome, and no mat
ter the degree of his villainy, an
audience will tolerate him. But a
fat one—there was something hor
rible about his metamorphosis, his
slow and ponderous downfall.
“Payment Deferred” is a psycho
logical study of murder, morality
and strychnine.
And honestly speaking, you
won't like it. I hat to say that, be
cause of my regard for the Laugh
ton ability. But for sheer dismal
darkness it couldn’t be excelled.
The action is British and slow, de
spite the Metro-Goldyn-Mayer tag.
And in spite of all its dreariness,
its slowness, and its general sooty
atmosphere, when there was a
good moment it was genuinely
good, mainly because of that hor
rible Laughton man. I wouldn't
want to risk stars on this, because
it’s a matter of taste.
* * *
“A Waltz by Strauss" is Ger
many’s latest gift to America's
movie-going public, and the Colon
ial is Eugene’s little silver platter
tonight and tomorrow. The best
thing about foreign pictures gen
erally is their music; the worst
their lighting, photography and
acting. But praise the gods of
movieland, the story oi “A Waltz
by Strauss’’ is light enough not to
interfere with the music, and the'
phtography and lighting, poor as
I usual, are incidental to the really |
good Strguss melodies.
The picture supports very few j
English captions; but as the trail
er says, "the theme of this story.
is so slight and simple that all can \
understand it perfectly." WTell, al
most perfectly, at any rate. Mr.
Neuberger says “if you just close
your eyes" . . . He means the mu
sic is swell.
* * *
Dat old debbil Laughton says
American women are “just a mass
of indistinguishable blondes." He
is also credited with the remark
that “Hollywood is a place where
they drink anything with gin in
it.” We gather he doesn't care
much for tilings as he finds them
here. But his contract is a fat one.
Charlie will stay, as most of the
other foreign stars who feel Amer
ica’s limitations so deeply. Nice
idea—and some of them do make
good pictures.
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leges cooperate with Dr. Steiner
in an effort to throw light on the
situation. Forty-nine institutions
reported that football attendance
admissions more than doubled be
tween 1921 and 1930, the increase
being 119 per cent.
Football receipts as reported to
Dr. Steiner by 65 institutions
grew from $2,696,345 to $8,363,
674, a gain of 210 per cent, be
tween 1921 and 1930. Both atten
dance and receipts increased with
considerable regularity during the
first nine years of this period with
a sharp falling off in 1930, the de
cline over the preceding year
amounting to six per cent in the
case of admissions and nine per
cent in receipts, Dr. Steiner re
ports. “While only a small num
ber of institutions supplied infor
mation on this phase of the
study,” Dr. Steiner remarks, “the
reliability of the results is
strengthened by the fact that they
included a large number of the
leading universities long promi
nent in football history.
Reports Cover Five-Year Period
“Moreover, reports for a five
year period, from 1926 to 1930,
which were received from 88 insti
tutions in the matter of atten
dance and from 102 institutions
covering receipts, corroborate in a
striking manner the results se
cured from the reports covering
the ten-year period. Available
evidence, therefore, seems to in
dicate that college football is not
on the wane unless the decline in
attendance and receipts in 1930
represents a turning of the tide.
The total attendance at all foot
ball games in 1930, estimated
from reports received from 109
institutions, was approximately
10,300,000. The total receipts
computed in a similar way from
data furnished by 129 institutions,
could not have been less than
$21,500,000. The average gross re
ceipts per school in 1930 ranged
from $5,565 for colleges of less
than 500 students to $245,417 for
universities of the largest size.
FACULTY STAND ON
MEANING OF RULES
(Continued from Page One)
such activities when such contin
uance is, in the judgment of this
committee warranted.
Athletes Have Own Code
The group said that participa
tion in athletics is not subject to
these conditions but to conference
regulations. The faculty decided
that the president of the A. S. U.
O. shall prepare a list of all stu
dents participating in activities in
cluded at the beginning of each
term and check the list with the
dean for ineligibility.
Rule 6E: No student who has
been in residence six terms or the
equivalent is eligible to hold any
elective office or to accept an ap
pointment in a student activity un
less he has received the Junior
certificate.
Definition: That student activi
ties within the meaning of rule
6E, be defined as applying only to
activities carried on under the aus
pices of the Associated Students
of the University of Oregon and its
subsidiary organizations as set
forth in the A. S. U. O. constitu
tion.
The definition went into detail
and included the following offices
to which the rule applies specifi
cally:
All Offices Listed
All elective offices, including
junior and senior class, A.W.S.,
etc., editor and managing editor
of the Emerald, business manager
and advertising manager of the
Emerald, editor and business man
ager of the Oregana, Homecoming
chairman, Homecoming dance
chairman, rally chairman, Dad’s
day chairman, junior week-end
chairman, junior prom chairman,
canoe fete chairman, Mother’s day
chairman, all other major chair
manships and all managerships ap- |
pointed by approval of A.S.U.O.
and what changes in the list as
called for from time to time be I
made by the scholarship committee.
For the enforcement of this
rule the group recommended that
students six terms in the Univer
sity be required by the A. S. U. O.
to secure clearance for candidacy
for election or appointment to of
fice from the registrar’s office
and the dean’s office, the develop
ment of detailed procedure being
referred to Mr. Constance and Dean
Earl and the N. S. F. A. commit
tee now engaged in revising the
A.S.U.O. constitution.
The sub-committee included Vir
gil Earl, dean of men, Mrs. Hazel
P. Schwermg, dean of women;
Wayne L. Morse, dean of the law
school; Clifford Constance, assist
ant registrar; Earl W. Onthank,
dean of personnel administration
and Robert Hall, president, A. S.
U. O.
SIXTEEN STUDENTS ARE
ENTERED IN CONTEST
(Continued from Page One)
final. First place winner will re
ceive $50, second place $25, and
third receives $15. Second and
third prizes are added by the law
school from a trust fund.
Frank H. Hilton, attorney of
Portland, has been the donor of
the first prize since 1922 for the
purpose of promoting the oral dis
cussion of legal problems.
One or two, or perhaps all three
winning speeches will be printed
in the Oregon Law Review.
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Wednesday
Thursday
Filmarte Guild of
San Francisco Presents
“A picture of distinction for
those who discriminate”
Waltz by
Strauss
Delightful German musical
production, with screen
translation for those who
do not know the language.
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All Scats
, I-1
Moll Completes
Compilation for
Literature Test
Book Based Upon Experimental
Results of Classes and
Carnegie Tests
, Professor Ernest G. Moll, in
structor in literature and poetry,
has just completed the compiling
of material for a text book which
will be used in appreciation of lit
erature courses. The material will
be printed in book form some time
this summer, and will probably be
available for the campus course
next fall term.
Professor Moll has two classes
in this new literature course this
year and has based his book on the
result of various experiments made
with the members of these classes,
and tests made in conjunction with
the Carnegie institution.
This course undertakes the study
of elements which comprise a
reader's interest in literature by
taking up a study of the imagina
tion, poetic fusion of ideas, the
reasons for belief in poetry, and
the work of the senses in making
literature valuable. In addition, it
takes up the study of the tech
nique of poetry, both modern and
through the centuries.
Professor Moll has just finished
a collection of 50 sonnets on col
legiate life. He has also written
two other volumes of poetry.
"Sedge Fire" and "Native ‘Mo
ments."
He is at present working on
ideas for a long narrative poem,
30 pages of which he has already
aompleted. It is a study of the de
velopment of an individual, his
aomplete metamorphosis.
Into this poem, he is weaving
ris reactions to different situations
to add human interest to the plot.
Professor Jdoll's works have
reached out over various countries.
Recently he received a letter from
Leigh Gay Brerton, head of Eng-j
lish at the University of Sidney,
and the leading poet and scholar
af present day Australia, compli
menting him on his poetry, and
describing his works as the best
af the modern day.
EDUCATION NOW FACES
CRISIS IN LEGISLATURE
(Continued from Page One)
son). The state highway commis
sion has cut only 11.4 per cent;
the state penitentiary only 11.5
per cent; the Insane hospitals from
2.6 to 15.1 per cent; the national
guard 12.5 per cent.
Due to the burden of collecting
the new income and intangible
taxes, the state tax commission is
spending 44.2 per cent more than
in 1929, while the bureau shows
an increase of 14.6 per ceut. The
sum spent bv the state police de
partment. which did not exist ir.
1929, amounts to *442,000 a year.
An increase has been made in the
governor’s offices, due mainly to
the expense cf the executive in
vestigations with a view to oper
ating retrenchments in operating
departments.
"Another heavy blow on top of
the reduction of 31.9 per cent in
income already taken would be
ruinou s, unfair, and unjust,”
stated Mr. Sammons. "The only
way in which such a great cut
cou’d be assimilated would be to
close institutions. Do the people
of Oregon, in view of their vote at
the November election, which was
the most overwhelming decision
ever recorded by the people of
Oregon, desire to close institu
tions?
Sammons Gives Views
"Do they want their system of
higher education shattered in the
present, demand for economy,
particularly in view of the real
facts of the situation? The situa
tion of our higher educational in
stitutions in Oregon, -with the mu
tual responsibility of the educa
tional officers and faculty on the
one hand, and the representatives
of the people on the other.
"Those in charge of all the
schools must be willing to face
conditions as they are, to cooper
ate in discarding all unnecessary
expenditures, to analyze all proce
dures, and to carry forward on a
solid basis of economy. But the
schools must be carried on.
"Higher education in Oregon
stands at the cross roads. What
do the people of Oregon w-ant
done?” said Mr. Sammons.
Noble To Present
Instructions for
Warner Contest
Students Urged To Participate in
Competition: Donors Offer
Cash Awards
All students who are interested
in entering the Warner Essay
contest are urged to meet in room
1, Johnson hall, on Thursday,
February 2, at 4 o'clock. Dr. Har
old J. Noble, chairman of the
prize committee, will be present
to give instructions and advice to
the general rules governing the
contest.
The Warner Essay contest is
open to all undergraduate students
in the University who have taken
one classroom course dealing with
some phase of Far Eastern affairs
or problems. The University of
Oregon courses which meet this
requirement are: "International
Relat ion s," Dr. Waldo Schu
macher: “Geography of the Paci
fic," Dr. Warren D. Smith; “Trade
Problems of the Pacific," Dr.
Victor Morris; “History of Archi
tecture," Professor Nowland B
Zane; and “Far Eastern History,”
Dr. Harold J. Noble.
The purpose of the contest is to
stimulate interest among students
on this campus in the peoples of
Asia in order that a more under
standing and sympathetic atti
tude may be adopted not only to
wards international problems; of
the Pacific area, but also towards
individual Orientals with whom
University of Oregon students
come in contact.
It is the hope of the donor of
the prizes that Oregon students
will acquire something of the
courteous and friendly attitude
towards Oriental students on thi3
campus which is shown by Ori
ental students to Americans who
come among them. It is also the
donor's hope that Oregon students
will acquire not merely an ab
stract appreciation of distant Ori
ental things, but will show an ap
preciation directly on this campus.
The prizes offered this year are:
for American students, $250 and
This Athlete Does
Something Beside
Playing Basketball
| TRBANA, 111., Jan. 27.—(AP)
—Speaking of busy ath
etes, the University of Illinois
nominates Boyil “Red” Owen
as just about the busiest it has
known.
Besides captaining the Ulini
basketball team, the South
Bend, Ind., lad is president of
.wo student organizations, holds
down three separate and dis
tinct jobs, and keeps well up in
sis studies.
Groundwork for this kind of
in around-the-clock schedule
ivas laid during Red’s high
school and three years of post
high school days in South
Bend, where he supported his
family by construction-gang
work and peddling a cheese
route while starring in football
ind basketball.
His main revenue, here, comes
from his garbage disposal bus
iness. Making the rounds of
the fraternity houses to make
collections, he decided to kill
two birds with one stone, sc he
organized himself a grocery
route. His third job is ticket
taker at the university skat
ing rink.
$50; for foreign students, $50 and
$25. The committee of judges is
made up of Dr. Victor Morris, Dr.
Samuel H. Jameson, and Dr. Har
old J. Noble, chairman.
ADMISSION PARED TO
ONE DOLLAR FOR BALL
(Continued from Pape One)
Wilbur Thibault and Billy Siev
ers will be featured with the
“Rhythm Club,” 10-plece orches
tra which has been playing at the
Campa Shoppe.
Tickets for the ball may be se
cured from representatives in all
living organizations or from the
Co-op. Roger Bailey will take
care of alumni sale at the Valley
Printing shop.
Prize Stunts From
Co-ed Capers Will
Show at Colonial
Presentation Is Being Sponsored
To Raise Money for
Loan Fund
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Students and townspeople who
were unable to attend Cored Ca
pers, Associated Women's Stu
dents' costume party held January
11, will have the opportunity of
seeing the two best class stunts
presented again on Friday and
Saturday evenings at the Colonial
theatre. The Associated Women
Students are sponsoring this pre
sentation with the cooperation of
Glen Godfrey, promotion manager
of the theatre, to raise additional
money for the loan fund which has
been used so extensively this year.
The stunts will be given between
the first and second Shows, at a
few minutes before 9 oclock. The
feature picture to be presented ia
“Phantom President,’’ starring
Jimmy Durante, George M. Co
han, and Claudette Colbert.
The freshman stunt, which won
the cup for first place, is entitled
“The Burning Caldron’’ and shows
well-known campus figures in
Hades. Eleanor Norblad is chair
man, assisted by Ebba Wicks,
stage manager, and Virginia Proc
tor, costume manager. The cast
includes: Jane Bishop, Mabel Lee
Dawlin, Ann Reed Burns, Billie
Hammett, Bernice Scherzinger,
Helen Larson, Reva Hearns, Adele
Sheehy, Florence Kelly, Louise
Carpenter, and Marion Allen.
“The Big Broadcast,” to be pre
sented by the sophomore class,
consists of impersonations of
world famous artists given with a
local angle. Beverly Price is
chairman, Grace Nelson, assistant
chairman, and Marie Saccomanno,
stage manager. Beverly Price,
Cynthia Liljeqvist, Dorothy Parks,
Marie Saccomanno, Virginia How
ard, Roberta Piccard, Ivy Walkum,
Kay Colman, and Gwen Grover
compose the cast.
ILLUSION:
One of Napoleon’s soldiers rose to fame on the "Burn
ing Oven” trick. A roaring fire was built in an oven
...the temperature rose to 600° F. Into the oven
walked the "fire king,” M. Chabert, carrying several
raw steaks. A few minutes later the doors were flung
wide and out he stepped ... safe and sound... with
the steaks thoroughly cooked.
EXPLANATION:
Heat rises. When Chabert entered th# oven he hung
the steaks above the fire, in the center of the oven,
then dropped to the floor at the side, covering his head
with a hood made from his shirt. He breathed through
small air holes in the floor. When the steaks were
cooked he threw back the hood, grabbed the steaks, and
stepped out in triumph.
It’s fun to be fooled
...it’s more fun to KNOW
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I The first Camel cigarette was manu
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Every one of the billions of Camels
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essary heat treatment. But remember
that heat treatment never makes cheap,
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treatments, but in more costly tobacco
and fine blending, that Camels find
their appealing mildness and flavor.
It is a fact, well known by
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wameis are maae from tiner,
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You sense this quality in the mildness
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