VOLUME XXXIV ___UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1933 _____" _ NUMBER 6'j
Webfoots Will
Face Idaho In
Igloo Tonight
Browbeaten Oregonians
Out To Conquer
LINEUP TO BE SAME
Reinhart’s Brand New Attack To
Be Used ; Tip-off Scheduled
Fcr 7:30 Sharp
Ey MALCOLM BAUER
Idaho’s fast-stepping quintet in
vades McArthur court tonight
where it meets Oregon’s Webfoots
in the first of a two-game series.
Rich Fox's five has been coming
along fast after a slow start, num
bering among its three victories
this season a 40-to-20 victory over
Washington State. The other two
wins were at the expense of Ore
gon’s Ducks on their northern
jaunt two weeks ago.
Reinhart’s cagers are tired of
being battered around in the hold
of the ship, and Tuesday’s defeat
at the hands of Oregon State put
the spark in the Webfoot attack
which means a change is in order.
Same Line-lip Planned
Commodore Bill will probably
start the same line-up that out
scored the league-leading Beavers
(in field goals). “Cap” Roberts
will, of course, be in his usual role
at the pivot position. He will have
his hands full, however, as the
6-foot-5>4 Howard Grenier, Van
dal center, is one of the most rug
ged men in the league and is a
sure-fire point-getter near the
basket.
Gib Olinger and Jim Watts
should be in at the guard posi
tions. Olinger, one of the smart
est players in the conference, will
probably have his hands full
checking the diminutive Heath
Wicks, Vandal sharpshooter, who
embarrassed the Webfoots so
many times last year with his
scoring splurges. The other Idaho
forward, “Sweet Afton” Barrett,
is half a foot taller than his run
ning mate, and Fox’s chief scor
ing threat.
Stevens to Start
Kermit “Warwhoop” Stevens
cannot be kept off the starting
five. His ball-hawking tactics
have placed him alongside Roberts
as the driving force behind the
Webfoot attack. His size ham
pers him, but has not seemed to
cut down on his scoring.
In the other forward position
Bill will either start Bill Berg,
fast coming sophomore, or
“Spook” Robertson, star of the
Multnomah club game last week.
The Idaho guards, Edward Hur
ley, and Edgar Lacy, each have
two years of varsity experience
behind them and will be tough
to cope with.
“The Commodore” will use his
new style of attack, the same that
conquered Multnomah club and
held the Beavers in check. This
will be the second conference
game in which the system has
been used and the first on the
home court. Eugene fans will get
their first real opportunity to take
a squint at the Webfoots’ new tac
tics.
The tip-off will be at 7:30 sharp.
Out for Blood Tonight
When Oregon’s basketball team, now ungracefully languishing
at the bottom of the conference standings, makes its bid to break
into the win column tonight, these two players will play lead roles
in the attempt. At the left is “Spook” Robertson, guard, and at the
right is “Cap” Roberts, crashing center.
Blocking of 13th
To Vehicles Out
Say City Officials
Council Anticipates No Such Plan
Coming Up; Reasons Given
Show Impractibility
The suggestion advanced by
campus leadeis that Thirteenth
avenue where it runs thtough the
University grounds be closed to
all traffic except University vehi
cles, falls on deaf ears as far as
Eugene city officials are con
cerned.
This idea has been advanced by
student officials on numerous oc
casions, but has never been taken
up by the city. It was proposed
that the street be closed between
8 and 5 o’clock, the hours during
which students are crossing the
street most frequently, with chains
or similar barricades.
"I have heard nothing to indi
cate that such a proposal is to be
brought before the council, and I
do not think any action of city
officials on such a plan is prob
able,” said R. S. Bryson, city re
corder, in comment.
Bryson indicated the objections
to such a course. The campus
and the cemetery cut off all
streets between the railroad tracks
on the north and Eighteenth
street on the south, with the ex
ception of Thirteenth. Under the
proposal the street would be
closed during the hours when traf
fic was heaviest, and traffic would*
be congested on the other streets.
Other municipal officials, in
cluding Mayor Elisha Large, and
City Engineer W. C. Clubb Jr.
■ also showed the impracticability
of the suggested move.
Wisconsin Prof Transforms
Moonlight to 'Juice’ in Work
By E. L. ALMEN
MADISON, Wis., Feb. 9.—(AP)
- By transforming the light of a
star into electric current, Dr. Joel
Stebbins of the University of Wis
consin has detected a vast expanse
of invisible haze in the depths of
space.
He finds there is a lot more of
this haze—probably dust and gas
—than astronomers have gener
ally believed. A new instrument,
the photo-electric vacuum ampli
fier, gives the readings of this
cosmic haze.
Upon the discovery Dr. Stebbins
bases the conclusion that esti
mates of distance of certain stellar
bodies must be reduced.
The instrument is so sensitive,
Dr. Stebbins says, that it can mea
sure one thousand million mil
lionth part of an ampere of elec
trical current.
The photo-electric cell, in effect,
catches the light of a star and
transforms it into electrical cur
rent. An amplifier steps up .this
slight current about a million
times. At that volume a galvano
meter accurately measures the
current.
When light travels vast dis
tances through a slightly hazy
space it becomes reddened like the]
setting sun and for the same rea
son. The haze in both cases cuts
out more of the other colors than
of red rays. This reddening is too
slight for the best trained eye to
recognize.
In one direction, that in which
the eye looks when a person
gazes upward of the Milky Way,
there is more of this reddening
than in other parts of the sky. It
is in that direction, very far off,
that the gas and dust haze lies.
“The small particles, gas or
dust, which obstruct and scatter
the light from stars in and beyond
this region,” Dr. Stebbins says,
“do not blot them out completely.
But because of this absorption of
part of the light, the evidence is
that some objects, like the globu
lar clusters of stars, hitherto have
been estimated to be as much as
four times as far away as they
really are.”
The sensitive instrument was
developed at Washburn observa
tory, ©f which Dr. Stebbins is di
rector. T6‘‘ make the discoveries
about the haze it was attached to
the world’s largest telescope, the
100-inch instrument of the Carne-j
gie institution of Washington on
Mt. Wilson. I
Lettermen Asked
To Meet Tonight
Before Ball Game
All lettermen who were
elected to membership in the
Order of the “O” last night and
all old members are to meet on
the east side of McArthur court
at 7:15 this evening, before the
Oregon-Idaho basketball game,
Orville “Red” Bailey announced
last night. The men are re
quested to wear their “O”
sweaters.
The purpose of the gathering,
Bailey stated, is to get the let
termen to form a solid mass in
the rooter section for the pur
pose of stimulating student
spirit and inspire the basket
ball team.
Onthank Desires
Advising Course
Hope that scholarship chairmen
of all houses on the campus would
take advantage of a special course
of instruction sponsored by Karl
W. Onthank, dean of personnel,
was expressed at a meeting of
house managers yesterday at the
Kappa Delta house.
The course is designed especial
ly for those who are responsible
for scholarship attainment in their
respective house and the house
manager’s organizations recom
mended that all scholarship chair
men acquaint themselves with it.
General satisfaction was voiced
for the results of Y.W.C.A. plan
of informal evening discussions
with faculty members at each
house and it was moved that the
practice be continued.
Announcement was made of a
Thespian tea to be given for all
freshman girls next Thursday and
of the Mortar Board tea honoring
all women faculty members and
all junior girls next Friday.
Housing Committee To
Meet at Corvallis Today
Plans for uniform housing reg
ulations for University of Oregon
and Oregon State college campus
es will be made at a meeting of
the housing committees of both
schools at Corvallis today.
Karl W. Onthank, chairman of
the housing committee of the Uni
versity, said yesterday that no rad
ical changes are expected, but the
procedure involved would be made
the same for both schools. The or
ganizations regarding permits to
live outside of living organizations
will be the main topic of the dis
cussion.
Dunn To Continue Lectures
Frederic S. Dunn, professor of
Latin at the University, is con
ducting a series of lectures at the
Y. W. C. A. bungalow each Mon
day evening at 9:15. He is lec
turing on the “History and Liter
ature of the Bible” from a historic
and literary point of view. Two
lectures have already been given;
the series is to continue through
out the term.
iUniversity First
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Division Band
To Play Sunday
It’s a brilliant program, and a
difficult one, that Director John
Stehn has mapped out for the con
cert to be given by the first divi
1 sion of the University band at
McArthur court Sunday afternoon.
A year or two ago it would have
seemed way beyond the reach of
the University bandsmen, but the
first division has 37 veterans this
year, nearly all of them with two
to five years of experience to their
credit.
Highlights on Sunday's program
are Litolff’s “Maxmiliam Robe
spierre Overture,” a fantasia from
Wagner's “Die Walkure” opera,
and the brilliant finale from
Tschaikowski’s Symphony in F
Minor.
The “Robespierre" overture is
said to be one of the most stir
ringly dramatic compositions ever
written, and it received an ovation
when it was played by the 140th
Field Artillery band in the Na
tional Guard band concert at
Portland recently.
The Finale from the Tschaik
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Bar Association
Schedules Radio
Speeches on Law
| Professor Charles Howard Urges
Students To Listen To Series
On “Lawyer, Public”
—
With the purpose of acquainting
the public with what work is actu
ally being undertaken to improve
the administration of justice and
the personnel of the bar, the Amer
ican Bar association is sponsoring
a series of radio broadcasts by
leading members of the profession
under the general heading “The
Lawyer and the Public.”
Professor Charles G. Howard of
the Oregon law school released
this information yesterday in an
nouncing that the law school is
particularly anxious that all stu
dents who are interested in this
subject listen to the broadcasts.
The series will begin on Lincoln’s
birthday, February 12, at 3 p. m.,
P.S.T., over the Columbia broad
casting network, and will be con
tinued on succeeding Sundays at
the same time for a period of 11
weeks. The program will be given
under the auspices of the National
Advisory Council on Radio in Edu
I cation, which organized last fall
three interesting programs on gov
ernment, economics, and labor.
The broadcasts have been arranged
by the bar association’s council on
legal education, whose chairman,
Mr. John Kirkpatrick Clark of
New York, will have charge of a
10-minute question and answer
period following most of the dis
cussions.
Announcements will be issued
from time to time as to the speak
er of the week and the law school
hopes that all students will listen
to the lectures.
KOAC Presents U. of O.
Violinist and Pianist
Over KOAC the University of
Oregon . music department last
night presented Vivian Malone,
violinist, and Sally Porter Reed,
pianist, in the weekly 8 o’clock
radio program.
Miss Malone played Vevacini’s
“Sonata in D-minor,” Glasounov’s
“Melodie Arabo” and Manen’s “Le
Bou-Cou." Chopin’s “Nocturne in
C-sharp minor,” Debussy’s “The
Sunken Cathedral” and Shumann’s
“Novelette in F-major” composed
Miss Reed's selections on the pro
gram.
KORE To Feature Debate
The “Road Ahead” program un
der the management of Wallace
Campbell and Rolla Reedy, given
each Sunday at 2:30 over station
KORE, will feature a debate on
“Socializing Medicine.” Pauline
George and Geraldine Hickson,
members of the varsity debate
squad, will participate.
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Report Shows
Financial State
Of Fraternities
House Managers To Try
Lowering of Bills
FIGURES WITHHELD
124 Living in Average Greek-Letter
Organizations, Report at
Meeting Shows
Opening guns were fired yester
day afternoon in the campaign of
House managers to lower frater
nity and sorority house bills to a
figure in line with recent reduc
tions in board and room charges
at the dormitories. The meeting
was held in Johnson hall.
A complete analysis of the fra
ternity financial situation given by
Jack Cate, chairman of the inves
tigating committee, showed that
the average fraternity and sorority
on the campus has only 24 mem
bers living in the chapter house,
and that the average active mem
bership of Greek-letter organiza
tions, inside and out of the house,
is 32. These figures are complete
for 29 and 28 houses, respectively,
the numbers giving information on
these questions.
Figures Withheld
Most of the figures revealed to
the house managers were withheld
from publication, in order that fur
ther work of the committee might
not be impeded. Full reports were
given on average fixed budget
charges, average present monthly
fixed charges, average house bills,
average total membership, aver
age number living in chapter hous
es, and average monthly expenses.
Detailed figures for individual
houses were also read at the meet*
ing, but code numbers were used
instead of fraternity and sorority
names.
A report made by Bob Rankin
gave a complete list of the as
sessed valuations of all fraternity
and sorority buildings, this being
I the first time in the history of the
j house managers’ association that
such information has been made
available. This information will be
used in an effort to study possi
bilities of reduction in taxes.
A comparison of electric rates
between Eugene and Corvallis
showed that Eugene is favored
with much lower utility expenses
than the Benton county city. This
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Lutheran Group Plans
Party Sunday Evening
Lutheran students in the Uni
versity will hold a party and forum
discussion Sunday evening in the
community house back of Skin
ner’s butte, from 5:30 to 7:30. Re
freshments will be provided, and
entertainment features will be giv
en, including a comedy, "Left.”
The social part of the evening
will be followed by a forum dis
cussion on “The Dangers of Col
lege Life.” All who wish to at
tend will be provided with trans
portation. Cars will leave the cam
pus Y.M.C.A. hut at 5:30 and 5:45.
Julius Kusel, president of the or
ganization, is in charge of the pro
gram.
Congress Club Revived
After Inactivity Period
After a 10-week period of in
activity, the Congress club was
revived last night through the ef
forts of George Bennett, presi
dent. The initial meeting of the
new organization was held at the
College Side.
At the next .meeting of the
group which is to be held Febru
ary 23, Robert F. Jackson, Rhodes
scholar, will introduce a discussion
on Thorstein Veblen, who origi
nated the economic theory of
technocracy.
Campus Calendar
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I —. . ..
Skull and Daggers meeting to
day at 4:15 in 104 Journalism.
Members only.
Phi Chi Theta will have its pic
ture taken at 12:40 today in front
of Condon hall.
Rally committee will have its
picture taken at 12:30 today in
front of Condon hall.
Women’s tumbling meet at 4
o’clock today in Gerlinger hall.
All freshmen are invited to at
tend Frosh Glee, freshman get-to
gether, immediately after the game
at the Westminster house this eve
ning.
All Wesley club members who
plan to go to Corvallis to'night be
at the Methodist church at 7:00 p.
m. sharp.
* * *
Social swim this evening from
8:30 to 10 o’clock in the women’s
swimming pool. Men and women
are invited to attend.
There will be no open house at
the Westminster house this eve
ning.
Allen Calls Roosevelt’s Public
Works Plans fTrial Balloon’
By RUTH KING
President-elect Roosevelt's pro
posal for a public works program
on the grand scale, which he an
nounced to reporters at Warm
Springs, February 2. is what is
known in politics as a “trial bal
loon,” according to Eric W. Allen,
dean of the school of journalism.
“Trial balloons” are seat up by
political leaders to see which way
the wind is blowing.
“Roosevelt," said D^an Allen,
“is distinctly a political leader; he
has forgotten more politics than
Mr. Hoover will ever know if he
lives to be a hundred.
"Roosevelt’s 'trial balloon’ is a
proposition so phrased that if it
proves unpopular it can easily be i
interpreted on a small scale by
merely fixing up things a little j
in the immediate’neighborhood of
IV^uscle Shoals. On the other hand,;
if the public responds enthusiast!- j
cally to the general idea of a
large public works program, the
idea was so stated that it can be
applied almost at once, not only
to the Tennessee valley, but to
the Columbia, the Ohio, Arkan- j
sas, Mississippi, and other parts j
of the country.
“In other words," Dean Allen
continued, “Mr. Roosevelt has:
asked the country, 'Do wo want
to starve docily, or do vve want
to enter upon a great national
adventure that may cure, and may
kill?’ This is the Roosevelt
temperament; in his campaign
speeches he frequently said that
what this country needs is bold
experimenting that that is the
only way out.
“A close watch upon the papers
coming to the school of journal
ism up to this time leads to the
conclusion that thp reaction of
public opinion is negative; that
the country is not yet ready to
attempt anything of this kind on
a large scale. However, we have
not heard as yet from the South,
from the great inarticulate masses,
from the economists, and the pro
gressives, or from the democratic
politicians. It would be rash to
declare at this time that Mr
Roosevelt will not receive a man
date to go ahead, but the indica
tions so far seem to be against
it.”
Pope Gets Stolen
Watch Back After
Trip to Corvallis
Valuable Found by Clarence Ilo«e,
High School Student, on
O.S.C. Campus
Oliver P. (Spook) Pope, varsity
football player, nas recovered his
$100 watch, stolen two weeks ago
by marauders who broke into 10
fraternity houses on the campus
and . helped themselves to the
watch, $148 in cash, and various
articles of clothing.
Pope went to Corvallis yester
day to get his valuable. It was
found on the Oregon State col
lege campus by a 15-year-old Cor
vallis high school student, Clar
ence Rose. Rose had found the
watch a few days ago but had
not known what to do with it.
Finally recognizing Pope’s name
as a member of the Webfoot grid
iron team, the Corvallis boy sent
a letter to Pope through Prink
Callison, Oregon football mentor.
Pope believes that the only rea
son that his watch had not been
pawned or otherwise disposed of
is that his name is engraved on it.
Early yesterday, Sergeant W. J.
Mulkey, of the state police force
here, investigated the letter in or
der to gain some clue as to the
identity of the thieves who victim
ized several Oregon students in
their vandalistic raids two weeks
ago. Pope decided to go to Cor
vallis to find out what he could,
and he returned with his watch
as a result of his efforts.
Two More in Infirmary
Totaling Three Patients
Two more students have been
snared by the infirmary. Dick
Neuberger, Emerald editor, and
Ted Bohlman, freshman in
architecture, yesterday in
creased the total to three pa
tients.
Something Neuberger ate
yesterday morning started a
battle with his gastric" juices,
causing the editor violent ab
dominal disturbances. George
Godfrey, assistant information
service director, sent a daffodil
to the patient, and also wo'rd
that he regretted it wasn't a
pansy.
Bohlrnan was too frisky on
the ice, and as a result hurt
his knee. His condition is not
serious. Paul Ewing, who has
become more or less a perma
nent resident, is recovering sat
isfactorily.
O. K., Roosevelt
Eric \V. Allen, dean of the jour
nalism school, who claims that i
"Franklin Delano Roosevelt has
forgotten more about polities than
Herbert Hoover ever knew.” (See
Interview elsewhere on page.)
Lid Abolishment
Decree To Stick,
Says Bowerman
Order of “O” Has No Authority To
Change Decision; Frosh
Want No ('ups
• Bill Bowerman, vice-president of
the student body and officer in
charge of traditions enforcement,
by whose action the green lid tra
dition was abandoned on this cam
pus three weeks ago, declared last
night that the Order of the “O"
would be usurping authority it
does not possess if it attempts to
reinstate the tradition.
“The A.S.U.O. constitution dele
gates the power of enforcing tra
ditions to no one,” Bowerman said.
"This leaves the enforcement up
to the president of the student
body, who in this case has turned
it over to me. I have appointed the
traditions court and the senior tra
ditions council to assist me, and
these alone have the power of en
forcing traditions on the campus."
Bowerman further declared that
he has a letter from the men’s
frosh commission, indicating that
the commission has gone on record
as favoring the bolishment of the
lids. The letter follows:
“Dear Sir:
"The Men’s Frosh commission
commend you upon your efforts in
bringing about the abolishment of
the freshman cap. We feel that it
is a definite move for the better
interests not only of the first year
students but also of the Univer
sity as a whole. We heartily agree
with you that a college is no place
for foolish customs which in no
manner contribute to the better
interests of the school but rather
defeat any purpose they might
have by segregating the freshmen
from the upperclassmen. Your
action in ending the demise of the
'green lid’ receives our most ar
dent support.”
Men’s Frosh Commission,
By A1 Henke, Sec’y.
Green Lid Hue
And Cry Lifted
By Lettermen
Order of ‘O' Considers
Question at Meet
NO ACTION IS TAKEN
Thirteen Athletes Voted Members;
Group Aets To Re-establish
Caps, Then Reconsiders
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By ED STANLEY
Voted Yes, then No, on en
forcement of frosh lid tradition.
Voted 13 lettermen to mem
bership.
Adopted resolution to check
attendance of lettermen.
Elected "I> u k e” Shanenmn
smoker chairman.
The green lid controversy, which
was apparently settled for all
time three weeks ago when Bill
Bowerman, student body vice
president, decreed the abolishment,
of freshman lids, flared up again
last night at the meeting of the
Order of the “O” held at the Phi
Delta Theta house last night.
That organization first voted to
enforce the tradition if it were
given the power, but after some
discussion voted to leave the mat
ter alone, unless the freshmen
themselves decide that they want
to wear the lids.
Petitions Circulated
In the meantime it was reported
that the Skull and Dagger, sopho
more honorary, had circulated pe
titions among the freshmen to be
signed if the first-year men saw
fit to return to the abolished tra
dition.
Several of the petitions were
presented at the meeting and dis
cussed by the lettermen. From
reports of several of the men who
attended the meeting the petitions
included very few signatures,
Raymond “Butch” Morse, Chuck
Wishard, and Don Moe heartily
defended the abolishment of the
tradition since the decree has al
ready been made and the frosh
have not worn the lids for three
weeks.
13 Members Voted
The second item of business at
the meeting was voting in 13 new
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The Weather
With a minimum temperature
of 11 degrees Wednesday night,
the mercury reached its lowest
mark since the cold spell in De
cember. Although the sun shone
all day yesterday it seemed to in
tensify rather than mitigate the
disagreeableness of the biting at
mosphere. Some moderation was
noted by evening and slowly ris
ing temperature is predicted.
Dally forecast: Fair today with
slowly rising temperature for the
next few days. Moderate east and
northeast winds offshore.
Local Statistics: Minimum tem
perature yesterday, 11 degrees;
precipitation, .40 of an inch since
Wednesday. Willamette river, 1.5
eet. Wind from north.
Students Come From Afar
Statistical Machine Shows
By CYNTHIA LILJEQVIST
A machine that answers all
questions makes living incognito
at the University of Oregon an im
possibility. Records from the Uni
versity statistician's office prove
this a fact. In an interview yes
terday with Art Cannon, of the
statistical staff, the intricate sys
tem of mechanically tabulating 80
different facts about each Oregon
student was revealed.
"Many interesting conclusions
can be drawn about the University
from our books of statistics. If
published, many of the facts would
act like dynamite," Cannon stated.
A brief search in one of the'
books showed that the student who
hails from the farthest distance
was a former resident of Piset,
Czechoslovakia, where she attend
ed the College of the Society of
Jesus. Another Oregon student
attended Sloane school in Chelsea,
London, England. Three are reg
istered from China, one from Aichi
Ken, Japan.
Did you know that 141 students
were married 92 men and 49 wo
men? Did you know that 67 are
over 30 years old and 10 under 16
years? Did you know that 42.8
per cent of those attending the
university are self-supporting?
Ten students are attending Ore
gon whose homes are east of the
Mississippi. Three have come from
Alaska, two from Canada, nine
from Hawaii, and seven from the
Philippines. Other statistics showed
that practically one-third of the
students reside in Portland; one
third in Eugene; and the remain
ing one-third in other Oregon
towns and western states. Cali
fornia leads the coast by sending
five per cent of Oregon’s students.
Four hundred and six students
gave their preference of churches
to the Presbyterian denomination.
This signifies preference, not mem
bership.
Two years ago the University
installed at a cost of $8000 a Hol
lerith electric sorting machine that
compiles these statistics. Each stu
dent is represented by a card,
which he fills out at registration.
This is stamped according to the
various classifications under which
he falls. By the use of a code sys
tem the machine will sort the
cards according to the particular
information desired at the rate of
375 cards a minute.
“The machine works with abso
lute accuracy and the cards have
to be a perfect size," Cannon stat
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