Vanguard Of
Musicians To
Arrive Today
Band Contests Will Start
At Igloo Tomorrow
700 ARE EXPECTED
John H. Stelin To Be Chairman
For Tenth of Annual Slate
Band Tourneys
Seven hundred high school musi
cians will begin to gather today
for the 10th annual Oregon state
high school band contest, which
will take place at McArthur court
Friday and Saturday. During the
next two days the campus will be
the musical center of the state,
and championship bands in three
divisions will be determined for
the present year. John.H. Stehn,
director of the University band, is
chairman of the affair.
Heading the list of 20 bands that
will participate are the champions
of three divisions of last year.
Jefferson high of Portland was
judged the champions in class A
when the contest was held at Ore
gon State college last year, Silver
ton won the championship in class
B competition, and Hill Military
academy of Portland was named
title holder in class C. All three
bands will be back to defend their
trophies against the best bands in
tne state.
Bands Listed
Other bands that will partici
pate in the contest are: Grant
high of Portland, Medford, Klam
ath Falls, Salem, Woodrow Wil
son junior high of Eugene, Eugene
high, Albany, Corvallis, Marsh
field, Irrigon, Oregon City, West
Linn, LaGrande, Estacada, Bea
verton, Seaside, and St. Helens.
Judges for the contests are all
outstanding musicians and band
leaders. They are Glenn H. Woods,
supervisor of music, Oakland, Cali
fornia; Frank Mancini, director of
band at Modesto high school and
junior college in California; and
L. A. McArthur, supervisor of
music and director of bands at
Willows, California.
Bands Compete Saturday
The band contest will be run off
Saturday in three divisions. Class
A will consist of schools that have
a student enrollment of 600 or
more; class B, those schools with
enrollments between 400 and 600;
and class C, schools under 400.
The bands will be required to play
one selective number and one re
quired number besides a warm-up
march which will not be judged.
The warm-ups will be significant
as several of the bands will each
play a number, composed by their
bandmasters, who intend to enter
the compositions in a composition
contest for bandmasters.
The band masters are taking
advantage of the unlimited choice
of the selective numbers this year
and the audiences are assured of
hearing many of the finest over
ture and contest numbers.
Solos On Friday
Friday afternoon the solo con
tests will be held in the Music'
building. The contests will be di
vided into two groups with all
students eligible for the senior
division, but the junior division is
limited only to students in the
ninth grade or lower. Approxi
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'Mrs. Partridge
Presents9 To Be
Given Tomorrow
Fith a final dress rehearsal to
night, “Mrs. Partridge Presents”
will be ready to open tomorrow
for two evening performances.
George Andrieni and his group
in the theatre workshop have ar
ranged an effective setting for the
two scenes representing Maisie
Partridge's apartment in Wash
ington Square and her select la
dies wear shop on Fifth Avenue.
On this occasion Herbert King
will act as stage manager. Like
most professional stage managers
he also acts with the company, as
do his assistants, Tom McMahon
and Ed Patton.
The technical staff is made up
of thoroughly experienced people.
Charles Purcell is in charge of the
lights, Althea Peterson and Boyd
Jackson have assembled the prop
erties, Virginia Wappenstein, Vir
ginia Hancock, and Constance Mc
Kenzie are working on sets. Neva
Lois Thompson and Ruth Dickey
are the script girls.
Pairings Drawn
For Canoe Fete
Junior Week End
Hull Presides Over Drawing Held
On Library Steps; Twenty
Four Group:; Compete
Twenty-four living organizations
were paired for work on floats for
the Canoe Fete yesterday morn
ing at the drawings on the main
library steps.
Bob Hall, student body presi
dent, presided over the drawings
and announced the partners. The
pairings were as follows:
Pi Beta Phi and Alpha Tau
Omega; Alpha Phi and Chi Psi;
Delta Delta Delta and Phi Gamma
Delta; Delta Gamma and Sigma
Chi; Kappa Alpha Theta and Phi
Delta Theta; Chi Omega and Sig
ma Alpha Mu; Alpha Omicron Pi
and Delta Tau Delta; Beta Phi
Alpha and Theta Chi; Alpha Chi
Omega and Friendly hall; Alpha
Xi Delta and Omega hall; Gamma
Phi Beta and Sigma Nu; Delta
Zeta and Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Professor Lacks
F'aitli in Own Ways
“I haven’t any time to bother
with such stuff!” Thus declared a
certain faculty member when he
was asked to fill out a short ques
tionnaire which is being used as
part of a term project in W. F. G.
Thacher’s space selling class.
The enterprising student who
was canvassing various residences
in the endeavor to have these ques
tionnaires answered received this
rebuff in a slightly dazed and in
a very surprised manner. That
student was especially surprised
because he knew that this certain
faculty member himself super
vised research problems and uses
questionnaires supplied to his
classes for the purpose. Evidently
that professor does not have much
faith in “such stuff” although he
uses it himself.
Professor Called Away
W. P. Riddlesbarger, assistant
professor in the school of business
administration, was -called away
from the campus by the sudden
death of his father-in-law, John
Rickels, of Lebanon. Professor
Riddlesbarger remained in
Lebanon Tuesday and Wednesday.
Women of Persia Succumb
To Appeal of French Heels
By HENRIETTE HORAK (
Silk stockings, French heels, and
cigarettes — as essentials to femi
nine contentment, are not unique
to the women of America, or to
milady on the continent; these es
sentials are required by women in
practically all four corners of the
world—at least so thinks David L.
Foulkes, ’29, graduate of the Uni
versity school of architecture, who
recently returned from an extend
ed trip to Persia.
“Women of Persia,” said
Foulkes, “cling to their traditional
veils and shawls, which protect
them from the wandering gaze of
men, but they have succumbed to
certain western customs to the
extent that under their shawls
they wear silk stockings, high
heeled shoes, and now and then
may be seen on the streets puffing
serenely upon cigarettes protrud
ing from the veils.”
Foulkes went to Persia in
March, 1931, and spent 22 months
there in the employ of the govern
ment in a railway construction
project.
He designed all stations, shops,
homes of officials, section houses
and store houses for the southern
section of the South Persian state
railway now being built from the
Gulf of Persia to the Caspian sea.
The country in which Foulkes
worked was some of the most
desolate in the world, and without
vegetation of any kind. The tem
perature remained 120 degrees for
months at a time.
The hundreds of Arabs em
ployed in the building work, who
were the only people who could
stand the temperature and condi
tions, hauled the dirt necessary
for construction, in sacks or on
stubborn burros.
Foulkes lauded the efforts of the
shah of Persia, who is trying to
make his country strong commer
cially by building railroads and
highways, and maintaining an ef
ficient army for military protec
tion.
Foulkes’ present home is in
Portland.
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Yosuke Matsuoka Visits the Home Town
Co-op Ready for
Orders on Senior
Caps and Gowns
SENIORS should place orders
^ for graduation caps and
gowns and announcements at
once, according to Marion Mc
Clain, manager of the Co-op.
Special arrangements have
been made concerning the caps
and gowns, and consequently
rental prices will be reduced
from $2.50 to $2.00. This
amount must be paid when the
order is placed, and a deposit of
$2.00 will be required when the
outfit is delivered to the stu
dent before commencement.
This will be refunded when the
outfit is returned.
Announcements this year will
be formal, with the invitation
of the class engraved. They
bear the Oregon seal in gold.
The paper used is of a newer
rough texture with a paneled
effect and deckled edges. Two
large envelopes will come with
each announcement. These are
to sell at 11 cents each.
Co-op Announces
Few Changes in
Texts'Next Term
Very few changes are to be
made in text-books next year. This
was revealed yesterday by Mr.
Marion McClain, manager of the
Co-op.
By the cooperation and help of
the faculty, the Co-op has secured
a partial list of books which will
be used next fall. This list, which
is now about 45 per cent com
plete, is to be posted on the Co-op
bulletin board for the convenience
of students who have books they
wish to sell before next year.
The Co-op offers to buy books
which appear on this list and are
in good condition at the maximum
price of one half the original
value. All current editions that
are brought in will be accepted at
the store, however, even though
not on next year’s list, but these
will be bought at something less
than half price.
Miss Kneeland Lists
Summer Job Hunters
Katjierine Kneeland, employ
ment secretary, said yesterday
that her office was compiling a
list of students desiring work dur
ing the summer. No definite in
formation regarding jobs is avail
able at this time, but the office
plans to make the list of appli
cants as complete as possible.
Several salesmen’s positions
have been offered to students for
the summer. Miss Kneeland has a
list of these on file and those de
siring to look over the list may
do so by calling at the employ
ment otfice in Johnson hall.
Dr. Smith Takes Field
Trip To Examine Rock
Dr. Warren D. Smith conducted
a field trip to W'indberry, last Sat
urday for the purpose of examin
ing the rock of that locality for
! gold.
This district, which is above
Fall creek about 35 miles from Eu
; gene, has been creating quite a
bit of interest of late, as it is sup
posed to contain gold-bearing rock.
The results of Dr. Smith's findings
j are not yet available. The field
I geology class accompanied Dr.
' Smith on the trip.
The noted Japanese diplomat, graduate of the University and re
cent visitor on the campus, is seen here in some scenes at Portland,
where he spent his boyhood. Upper left—Mutsuoku arranges for a
tombstone for the grave of Mrs. Isabelle Dunbar Beveridge, his “sec
ond mother.” Bight—police escort visitor on arrival in the Bose
City. Lower—Worth W. Caldwell, chairman of the Portland Chamber
of Commerce, meets the visitor.
Espy Announces
Senior Meeing
For This Evening
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Class Gift, Ofegana, Treasurer
Other Important Business
To Be Considered
One of the most important meet
ings of the year will be held to
night by the senior class in room
107 Villard, Cecil Espy, president,
announced yesterday. A crowded
schedule of business is slated.
Virgil Langtry, chairman of the
gift committee, will report on the
program of work on the bust of
Dean John Straub, the gift of the
class to the University.
The class will take step* to nul
lify its recent action subsidizing
the Oregana, following advice
from Hugh Rosson, graduate man
ager, that the money will not be
needed. The money will remain in
the student loan fund.
Election of a treasurer will be
held, to fill the post left vacant by
the failure of Charles Stryker to
return to school. A recommenda
tion to christen the men's dormi
tory “John Straub hall,’’ will be
considered.
Several other items of business
are on the agenda, and Espy urges
every senior to attend.
Hicks Talks to (dub
At a luncheon held yesterday
at the College Side, Alpha Delta
Sigma, national professional ad
vertising fraternity, heard T. M.
B. Hicks speak on merchandising
and advertising problems and
policies. Mr. Hicks is the mer
chandising manager for McMor
ran and Washburne’s store.
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Dinner by Order
Of O’ Will Honor
Basketball Men
Lettermen’s Club, Student Body
Cooperate in Giving Banquet
For Hoopsters
The Order of the “O” will hold
a banquet this evening at G o’clock
at the Sigma Chi house in honor
of the basketball letter men, it
was announced last night by Or
ville Bailey, president of the or
ganization.
In addition to the basketball let
termen, the coaching staff, and
members of the organization are
urged to attend. The guests will
be Charles “Cap” Roberts, cap
tain; Gib Olinger, captain-elect;
Jack “Spook” Robertson, Bob Mil
ler, Hank Simons, William Ward
Berg, Kermit Stevens, Maurice Ro
tenberg, and Jim Watts.
This year the organization is
sponsoring the banquet in con
junction with the Associated Stu
dents, Bailey stated. A similar af
fair was given in honor of the
football lettermen last term, and
hereafter the banquet will be giv
en in honor of the athletes after
every athletic season. It is hoped
that all the Order of the “O” mem
bers will turn out for the affair.
Smith Article Published
A series of articles by Dr. War
ren D. Smith, head of the geology
department, is appearing in the
Pan-American Geologist, which is
published at Iowa City, Iowa. The
subject of these is geology and
physiography of the Oregon coast.
One has already appeared and two
others are now on the press.
Campus Calendar
The newly organized German
club meets this evening at 8:00 at
the Westminster club. An inter
esting program is planned.
Student Socialist club meeting
at 4 p. m. Friday. Alumni hall.
Lincoln Steffens will talk inform
ally and answer questions.
Congress club will meet tonight
at College Side Inn at 9:00. George
Bennett will discuss “Crime Con
trol.”
All women on Emerald staff
meet in room 104 Journalism
building this afternoon to make
plans for women’s edition.
Christian Science organization
holds its regular Thursday evening
meeting for students and faculty
members tonight at 7:30 in the
Y. VV. C. A. bungalow.
There will be a meeting of the
world fellowship group of the Y.
W. C. A. tonight at 9 o’clock.
Committees will be appointed.
Campus Play day Saturday. All
women’s living organizations are
to have a tennis, archery, or base
ball team ready for action on that
day.
Dr. Harold .1. Noble will give a
paper on “The Far East as Re
lated to American Economic Life"
■ at the Faculty Social Science club
Monday at the Faculty club,
Education Will
Be Subject Of
Steffens’ Talk
TVn «’(-locks Tomorrow
To Br Dismiss'll
ASSEMBLY IS SLATED
Reformers Often Found Worse
Tlii'.n drafters, First of Muck
Rakers Declares
By CYNTHIA LILJEQVIST
The man who made the inter
esting discovery that in many
eases reformers are a lot worse
than the men they seek to reform,
will speak at the assembly in Ger
linger hall at 10 tomorrow. He is
Lincoln Steffens.
“Education For a Changing
World” is the subject of his ad
dress, in which he will discuss the
type of education that is neces
sary to prepare the student for
the modern world.
“Whatever the title,” said Lin
coln Steffens in a letter to H. G.
Merriam, “my subject will be the
necessity, the difficulty, the
pleasure of changing our minds to
meet a changing world. My stor
ies, to illustrate, are from Wall
Street, Russia, Italy (Mussolini)."
Discussion Afterward
Directly after the assembly
Steffens will conduct an informal
discussion in Alumni hall for stu
dents on the subject of his address.
For 40 years he has conducted
investigations into political cor
ruptions, revealing many interest
ing facts about fraud in our social
structure. As a student of phil
osophy in Germany and France
and throughout his career as re
porter, he tried to decide for him
self what was right and wrong in
public life. His conclusions sur
prised and awoke a wondering
world.
j One interesting discovery is his
belief that big city bosses and
racketeers, who are looked upon
with scorn by the more righteous,
are in reality ready and willing to
carry out plans of public improve
ment while the more righteous,
striving for immediate reform,
only make matters worse by their
blind and sudden plans of improve
ment.
Bad Men Better
In his campaign of revealing
political corruption, Steffens
reached the surprising and almost
amusing conclusion that until we
reach economic democracy, it
would be better to employ effici
ent bad men regularly than inter
sperse our public offices with oc
casional impatient reformers.
Steffens doesn't believe in poli
tical sin as an absolute rather as
the natural outcome of our pres
ent system of political privilege.'1
Tn his estimation, reform in our
j present status is an impossibility.
Here, however, he sounds an opti
mistic note. He believes that our
economic system is undergoing a
great change for the better.
The “muckrakers” have delved
! deeply into many of the problems
! facing the world today and have
1 reached unprecedented conclu
sions. Their contribution to the
modern world lies in their report
that complete reform cannot take
place suddenly but must evolve
! gradually as our social system de
| velops. By using the experiences
of the past as example together
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State Hoard To Decide
Summer School Here
Definite information regarding
whether or not summer school will
be held this year will be given
shortly after April 17, when the
state board meets.
Possibilities of the situation in
clude the limitation of the summer
session to Portland only, the con
tinuance of the usual plan of sum
mer schools both in Eugene and
Portland, the limitation of the ses
sion to Eugene only or the elimin
ation of the summer session.
Ex-Dean of Economics
Dies Suddenly in Utah
Miss A. Grace Johnson, who was
head of the household administra
tion department of the school of
economics and acting dean last
year, died suddenly in Salt Lake
City yesterday. She was on leave
for her Sabbatical year.
Dean Milam, director of the
University extension home eco
nomics department and dean of
economics at Corvallis, left imme
diately for the East, where she
will take charge of the body and
interment.
l aces Inquiry
Plerpont Morgan, famed banker
and financier, who faces a possible
federal investigation info the af
fairs of his company as the re
sult of more activity by President
Roosevelt and his vigorous aides
in congress.
Heads for WAA
Campus Play Day
Teams Appointed
McMillan, Widmer, Untermann
Will Be in Charge of 1
Big Affair
The AWS and YWCA are sup
porting the WAA Campus Play
day to be held Saturday, April 15.
Both organizations are preparing
skits which are to be presented at
the 'tea from 4 to 5 in the after
noon.
Gladys McMillan is in charge of
the YWCA stunt, Mildred Wid
mer in charge of the WAA stunt,
and Elaine Untermann in charge
of the AWS skit.
The following girls are in
charge of their house teams
which are to be entered in the in
terhouse competition.
Alpha Chi Omega, Mary Hayes;
Alpha Delta Pi, Ruth Irvin; Al
pha Omicron Pi, Edith Clement;
Alpha Xi Delta, Mildred Ringo;
Beta Phi Alpha, Gwen LaBarre;
Chi Omega, Katherine Quitmeyer;
Gamma Phi Beta, Roberta Moo
dy; Delta Delta Delta, Geneva
Stafford; Delta Gamma, Edna
Murphy; Kappa Alpha Theta,
Anne Latourette; Hendricks hall,
Mildred Marks; Kappa Delta, Mil
dred Maida; Kappa Kappa Gam
ma, Ann Franks; Pi Beta Phi,
Greeta Kirkpatrick; Sigma Kappa,
Louise Beers; Susan Campbell hall,
Elaine Untermann; Zeta Tau Al
pha, Mary Tcresi; independents,
Irene Hoyman, and Bernice Scher
/.inger; graduate students, Juanita
Young.
There will bo a swimming hour
from 3 to 4 in the womens pool.
All participants in the tourna
ments are invited.
Miller Speaks Here
Lowell Miller, underwriter for
the Hartford Accident and Indem
nity company, spoke to the law
students last night at the law
school on the practical application
of suretyship and underwriting to
lawyers. Mr. Miller stayed at the
residence of Dean Morse while in
Eugene.
2000 On Deck
But Not Lads
From Corvallis
Order of 40' Holds Card
Just tin* Same
HERB OWEN HELPS
Curl Lode 11 Refuse; To Permit
Orangemen To Perforin on
Program Here
By BRUCE HAMBY
More than 2,000 Oregon stu
dents, who are normally expected
to spend their evenings in . study,
and several hundred townspeople,
jammed McArthur court last night
hoping to see the heralded Oregon
Oregon State boxing matches on
the Order of the “O” smoker.
The affair nearly ftfll flat when
it was learned earlier in the eve
ning that Carl Lode’.i, director of
athletics at Corvallis, had refused
to allow the Beaver stars to par
ticipate. Hal Moe, Morrie Shep
herd, and Dave Perkins, all sche
duled to appear, were not per
mitted to appear. As coast con
ference officials had given their .
approval to the affair, no eligibil
ity question could have been in
volved.
Herb Owen, Eugene wrestling
promoter, came to the rescue of
Duke Shaneman and his aides and
provided several of his grappling
proteges for the evening. Owen is
to be complimented on the fine
spirit in which he aided in saving
the affair.
Not Such a Bad Night
Some of the bouts were good,
some were not. It would have
been impossible to have pleased
everyone, for little blood was
spilled and no one got knocked
out. Four wrestling and three
boxing matches, a battle royal
and a “badger" fight comprised
the program.
The outstanding match of the
evening was an unscheduled one
between Yaqui Joe, Sonora Indian
leg artist, and Harry Elliott, for
mer Webfoot grappling coach and
now a law student in the Uni
versity.
The bout, for one fall or 30
minutes, went to Joe in 24 minutes
with a flying body scissors. The
two professionals put up as good
an exhibition of straight, clean
•grappling as one could expect to
see anywhere in the country.
O’Reilly Struts Stuff
Joe astounded the spectators
with the almost unbelievable
power in his legs. Both men went
at a fast pace and there was no
stalling or ballyhoo on the part of
either. Almost every hold in the
books was used during the match
before Joe finally pinned his law
school opponent.
Art (What-a-man) O'Reilly put
on a fine show with the "Masked
Marvel,” who turned out to be a
professional by the name of Young
[ Callahan from Olympia, Washing
ton. O’Reilly gave the lads a fine
show, with his usual strutting and
grandstanding, and received his
usual chorus of boos from the gal
lery. The "Marvel” took the first
fall, but O’Reilly won the laurel
wreath by taking the final two.
For sheer enjoyment the widely
ballyhooed “Battle of the Bohe
moths" between George Christen
sen and Dutch Clark couldn’t have
I been beaten, imagine 470 pounds
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Students' Life in Manchuria
Found Different From Oregon
By HAZLE CORRIGAN
College education is practically
denied to anyone in Manchukuo
who is not a citizen of China or
Soviet Russia, George Telto, new
student at the University from
Harbin, China, said in an inter- j
view for the Emerald.
Polytechnic Institute, the col
lege owned by the Manchurian rail
way, is within reach of only a
very few of the young people of
Manchukuo, although many of
them long for an education. It
costs several times as much to go
to school there as here, and con
sequently it means a great deal
more to be a college graduate.
Among the 50 students in a
class there will be only perhaps
two or three co-eds. The women
students there are studying for:
teaching. The college life in Har
bin is vastly different from that
which Teltoft has found here.
Strict regulations are imposed
on college students in China, Tel
toft said, with no options in
courses. Graduation even from
high school requires four or five
years of Latin, algebra, and geom
etry.
The tragic conditions in China
Teltoft attributes to gross over
population. The government is not
at all stable at the present time.
"I think that the Japanese will
bring order,” he said. "The Rus
sian people of Manchukuo wel
come the Japanese, because they
are suffering under the Chinese.
The Chinese generals are selling
themselves for money.
"Ninety-nine per cent of the
Chinese inhabitants are uneducat
ed and very superstitious. Besides
Chinese, there are in Manchukuo
large numbers of Russians and a
few Americans. Business is con
trolled by Americans. The Rus
sians are of two hostile groups,
fighting among themselves and
with the Chinese.” Teltoft was in
two battles against Chinese.
“The city of Harbin has a popu
lation of 400,000 people, 300,000
of them being Russians, half white
and half red. Wherever American
influence has been felt, there are
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