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VOLUME XXXV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON* EUGENE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1933 NUMBER 13 Idaho Eleven Hopes to Upset Ducks Tonight i Game on Hayward Field To Start at 8 OREGON FAVORITES Smith Expected to Make Trouble For Callison Team; Pozzo, Van Vliet Crash Lineup By JACK MILLER "Beat Oregon!" With these words echoing in their ears Leo Callancl and some 30 odd Idaho pigskinners, includ ing Willis “Little Giant” Smith, triple-t treat quarterback, en trained for Eugene early Thursday morning for their twenty-fourth annual gridiron battle with the University of Oregon tonight at 8 o’clock on Kayward field. Rain is predicted for the contest. Coach Calland will bring one of the finest and heaviest football squads ever to represent the Uni versity of Idaho in recent years. The key man of the Vandal eleven is Smith, said by Idaho backers to be the greatest football player ever to wear the red and white. The "Little Giant” weighs but 145 pounds and is elusive and will un doubtedly cause "Prink” Callison and his proteges trouble. uucks jpavorea This will be the Webfoots’ first chance this year to play a team using the Jones system. Coach Calland, who played under the U. S. C. coach, uses practically the same style of play as his former tutor, with the quarterback doing the majority of the ball packing. The Vandal coach also uses a shift similar to that of the Trojans. Past records indicate that the Ducks are heavy favorites to swamp the lads from Moscow, but psychologically speaking the Van dals have the edge. Three weeks ago Idaho was completely drubbed by Washington to the tune of .33 to 6, but since then the Idahoans have come back in championship form to take Whitman by an over whelming' score of 60 to 0 and beat the College of Idaho by a 13-to-0 score. In both these frays Calland’s grid scholars have shown a great deal of improvement, and the Vandals should be at their peak tonight. Idaho Peppy These victories have put lots of spirit in the Idaho squad. The Webfoot eleven had a tough tussle last week when they edged oat Washington 6 to 0 and Callison’s men are still somewhat tired, with (Continued on Page Four) Women’s Debate Team Adds Three Members Three new debaters were added to the women’s debate squad at an informal meeting held last night in Friendly hall. Elinor Henry, Marjory Kissling, and Lois Smith j are the new squad members. The meeting was devoted to an | informal discussion of plans for! this year's forensic activity. 1 Socks Victory - ■■■— ' Frink Callison, Oregon football 1 coach, who is seeking his second ! conference victory tonight against 1 the Idaho Vandals. i Milk Cut Demand Will Be Appealed By Chamber Body Lindstrom’s Ultimatum Causes Committee to Appeal Case to Governor The agricultural committee of the Eugene chamber of commerce was preparing to appeal to the gov ernor and the state purchasing ■ agent yesterday, following a de mand for lower milk prices to the dormitories by J. O. Lindstrom, assistant business manager of the University. Lindstrom demanded a lower milk price than the 32 cents per gallon rate which the agricultural committee and local milk distrib utors had agreed upon with Mrs. Genevieve Turnipseed, director of dormitories. The agreement was that if the price was found too high or the University found that it would not be able to pay it, the committee would be notified and a meeting would be arranged to dis cuss a new price. In Mrs. Turnipseed’s absence, however, Lindstrom delivered an ultimatum Wednesday declaring that if the distributors did not re duce the price of milk within 24 hours, the University would ship milk in from Portland. Yesterday the 24-hour ultimatum was re scinded but the demand for lower prices was maintained. When called last night, Lind strom had nothing to say on the Data on Oregon Hotels Hard Material to Find Information on almost any sub ject is to be obtained in the ref erence department of the library, but a request Wednesday had Miss E. Lenore Casford, reference li brarian, “stumped.” I Data on the history of hotels in | Oregon was wanted. Suggestions j as to sources where this material : may be found will be gratefully 1 received at the libe. Succulent Sinkers for Dads To Be Sold at Football Game Oregon Dads need nut chew their finger nails at tonight's foot ball game. University girls will provide heaps of doughnuts upon which the dads can pour out their excitement and excess energy. The sale of doughnuts betv/een halves of the game will mark the official opening of the 1933 Dough nut week sponsored by the Y. W. C. A., announced Joyce Busenbark, general chairman. Thirty girls have been selected to sell the spicy, fluffy things, all wrapped up in sugar, and cries of “Daddy, caii you spare a dime’’ will pierce the uttermost corners of Hayward field. Doughnuts are to rule the cam pus supreme for a week, and any one who wants to be “someone’’ and crash the gates of the cam pus “400” should, according to the sale directorate, tuck away at least a dozen of the sinkers, which just by way of formality, will sell two for a nickel. Wednesday of next week has been named as Campus Day sale, and Friday, the “Yankee staff of life” will be sold in all campus liv ing organizations. Several features and innovations are being arranged to make the week a time of fun and doughnut feasting. Peggy Chessman, assistant chairman, is in charge of sale at j tonight’s game. Two other women assisting Miss Busenbark are Al berta Baldwin, chairman of pro motion committee, and Henriette Korak, chairman of publicity. Oth er members of the doughnut direc torate will be announced later. The following girls have been selected to sell and are requested to report at the YW bungalow Friday at 12:30 for final instruc tions: Chrysanthe Nichachiou, Katherine Eisman, Gladys Robin son, Ruth Vannice, Louisa Perry, Betty Ohlemiller, Lucy Ann Wen dell, Barbara iienkle, Betty Mc Candless. Helen Dodds, Alice Tillman, Jean Pinney, Mary McCracken, Eliza beth Rix, Doris Bird, Peggy Mc Namara, Sally Seigrist, Maluta Read, Charlotte Ollitt, Ruth Ford, Frances Rothwell, Helen Doyle, | Bernadine Franzler, Elinor French,! Dorothy Rinehart, Dorothy Kinzel, Gretchen Gregg, Ruth May Chil-j cote, and Virginia Younie. | Seventh Annual Dads’ Visits to Begin Tonight Oregon-Idalio Game to Be First Event I SMOKER COMPLETE Mrs. Walter Pierce Will Speak For State Board Saturday Evening at Banquet, The seventh aiyiual University of Oregon Dad’s day is scheduled to get under way this evening when dads will be special guests of their sons and daughters at the Oregon-Xdaho football battle on Hayward field. I A mock football game between 1 halves of the game tonight has been planned with one team rep resenting the dads and the other the students. Alton Hakanson, in charge of boxing at the Dad’s smoker Sat urday afternoon annouced his card last night. In the 170 pound class, Battling Kelley is scheduled to mix with “Two-punch” Cross. “Knockout” Hendrickson will go the limit with Warton Swanton. The law school has entered “Gentleman” Bradshaw on the smoker card, but as yet no oppon ent has been announced. Brad shaw hails from the Multnomah clqb in Portland with a wonderful reputation as an amateur fighter. He is now boxing instructor at the Y.M.C.A. and will fight in the 165 pound class. Another fighter who has yet to select his opponent is “HalfTpint” Poney, who weighs 135 pounds, and is reported to be plenty fast and a hard slugger. Mixed Bout on In a mixed bout, Joe Renner will meet Ed Kendell, with Renner boxing and Kendall wrestling. Mahr Reymers will announce the contests, and Bill Goodwin referee. Tom Mountain, in charge of the wrestling on the smoker program announced last night that Red Roberts would meet Ed Goodnougn in a 10-minute match. Both weigh 145 pounds. In the second ten-minute match, Fred Mourstam, 150 pounds will meet Ray Clapp, 145 pounds; and Tom Mountain, 160, will mix 15 minutes with Chuck Johnson, 165 pounds. Olympic games rules will be in order. Frosh Will Battle As a grand finale, 12 freshmen, led by Ben Grout, will battle a “tie-up" with 12 sophomores, headed by Laomo King Newport, who insists that the sophomores will npt take a beating. All men on the two teams will be required to weigh between 150 and 180 pounds. Mickie Vail and his band of stunters will interweave the smok er with tumbling. Mrs. Walter M. Pierce will speak in behalf of the state board of higher education at the Dad’s day banquet at John Straub Memorial hall Saturday evening, according to an announcement yesterday by Earl M. Pallett, registrar. After the game tonight, dads will be admitted free to the Co lonial theater with their son or daughter. Economics Prof To Give Lectures Dr. Victor P. Morris, professor of economics, will deliver the first of a series of six lectures to the Portland branch of the League of Women Voters at the Public Serv ice building auditorium in Port land. The topics of the lectures will bn “Economic Changes in 1933,” “Sta ble Money,” “The Working Out of the NRA,” “Indications of World Pvecovery,” “Conclusions Concern ing the World Economic Confer ence,” and "The Crisis in Democ racy.” This series will be a continua tion of a similar series given fqr the same organization last0 year. Publication Received 0 c A new Leagpe of Nations pub lication of the economic intelli gence service, entitled “World Economic Survey, 1932-1933,” was received yesterday at the League of Nations department in the li-’ brary. This book gives a general' view of such subjects as the American banking crisis, the movement toward the reduction, of hours, international indebted ness, and the decline in interna tional trade. Fete Reserved Seats Left in Dad's Section For Grid Tilt Tonight I _ Tickets for the Oregon-Idaho L game Friday night are selling ' ! rapidly, according to Hugli Kosson, graduate manager. Students wishing to secure re served seats for their dads in i the special dad’s section in the west grand stands should da so at once. Dad's tickets sell for $1.6ov whether they sit in the w'est/ stands or with students. Stu 1 dents holding student body cards will be admitted free to1 Friday’s gapie. Reserved seat tickets at $1.65 and general admission tickets at $1.10 are on sale at the A.S.U.O. offices, in McArthur court, the Co-op, the Ciub cigar store and Obak’s* restaurant in downtown Eu | gene. Margery Thayer Named President Of Independents Fifty Unaffiliated Women Gather At Dean of Women’s Home To Form Group No longer '‘unaffiliated” in the strictest sense of the word, the independent women of the Univer sity of Oregon last night elected Margery Thayer, senior in sociol ogy, to head a permanent organi zation. Nearly 50 women attend ed the informal meeting at the home of Mrs. Hazel P. Schwering, dean of women. Other officers elected included: vice-president, Laura Goldsmith; secretary, Janette Hughes; treas urer, Margaret Robertson. The committee set-up and future elec tion times will be worked out in a constitution to be presented to the group at its next meeting. Monday night* at 7:30 was scheduled as the regular weekly meeting time. The first regular meeting will be held week froAi next Monday, on October 23. The place will be announced next week in the Emerald. Suggestions for a meaningful name for the organi zation will be considered, the con stitution adopted, and committee appointments made at this meet ing. Dean Schwering spoke briefly to the women, describing the ideals she held for them. She ex pressed the hope that they would use the organization to help each other, never fer selfish ends. She told of many opportunities for service and activity offered to wo men at the University, and pointed out the important place of the union in helping individuals to take advantage of these oppor tunities. Mrs. Alice B. Macduff, assistant dean of women, was also present at the meeting. Unger Perfects Light Equipment Hilbert J. Unger, research as sistant to Dr. Will Norris, head of the University physics depart ment, recently perfected a ther mocouple, an equipment which is used to measure very small quan tities of light. Dr. Norris and Dr. Unger had been working for near ly six months to make a success ful thermocouple. It is used in connection with the absorption spectrum, and is made of wires so fine that binoculars have to be used to See them. The equipment is so sensitive that in complete darkness the heat of a hand placed near it will make it register. According to Dr. Nor ris, there are very few thermo couples in the United States, and perhaps none so sensitive as this one. The value of the contrivance lies in the fact that it opens a new field, with the possibility of several discoveries. Musical Recital Given at Y.W.C.A A group of University women sat before a glowing fireplace in the Y. W. C. A. bungalow, listen ing to' a program of piano music played by Marjorie Scobert. Miss ’Scobert succeeded in choosing mu sic that fitted with the atmos phere. The numbers featured by Miss Scobert were “After a Dream” by Faure, “Playfulness" by Thome, Rogers's “Etude Melodique," Ru binstein's “Kanmenoi Ostrow,” and Thome’s “Tarentelle.” These musical half hours are presented every Thursday at 4:45,! replacing the meditation of former ! “Vespers.” If these recitals prove popular, they will be continued. Candidates for I Rhodes Honors To Take Tests First Week in November Set for Examination REQUIREMENTS SET Stale Committee to Choose Two Men to Represent Oregon In District Meeting The examination to select can didates from the University of Oregon for the Rhodes scholarship to Oxford university in England will be held during the first week in November. It is conducted by the foreign scholarship committee, of which Dr. Geotge Rebec is chairman. These scholarships are open to men students who are juniors and have completed all their sopho more requirements, are citizens of the United States, unmarried, and by October 1 of this year have reached their eighteenth birthday. If the candidates are selected after the district examination, they will be given a stipend of $2000 a year, and the scholarship may be held for three years. Each institution of the state se lects not more than five candi dates, in proportion to the enroll ment. These candidates go to the state tryouts in Portland, where a state committee chooses two representatives from Oregon. These two are then sent to the district meeting, which is usually held in Spokane, Washington. Here they compete with represent atives from Idaho, Washington, Montana, Wyoming, and North Dakota, 4ach of Which sends two candidates. At the district meeting a proc ess of elimination is so conducted that four candidates are selected to go to Oxford the fall of the next year. The exact date of the examina tion will be published later. Committee Meets To Discuss Rules A general survey of the work to be covered in the task of rewrit ing the A.S.U.O. constitution was undertaken yesterday at a meeting of the constitutional revision com mittee in Johnson hall. A partial list of changes which will be necessary in rewriting the document were reviewed, and many suggestions as to the improvement of the old constitution were made. Regular meeting of the commit tee will be held Thursday after noons, declared Glenn Hieber, chairman. A statement of the work accomplished will be pub lished every week on the editor ial page of the Emerald, in order that the student body in general may follow the course of the work and offer suggestions. Caswell to Head Sigma Delta Chi Don Caswell, senior in journal ism and news editor of the Em erald, was elected president of Sigma Delta Chi, national profes sional journalistic honorary, at a meeting yesterday in the Journal ism building. Doug Polivka, jun ior in journalism and associate editor of the.Emerald, was elected secretary. At the session, it was decided to call another meeting Sunday morning at 10 in the Journalism building to discuss plans for the annual Journalism Jam, which is offered under the auspices of Sig ma Delta Chi and Theta Sigma Phi, women’s journalism honorary Caswell urges all menders to at tend the meeting. Former Oregon Man Wing Position in East Don Swanson, who took a mas ter of arts degree in psychology here in 1930, is now head of the clinical reading work for fresh men at the University of Iowa. Mrs. Swanson is instructing in the speech department there. Swanson received this appoint ment last year when he was study ing here and assisting in the psy chology department. He first went to Iowa as assistant in clinical psychology. Statement Made Wednesday By Registrar Is Contradicted By Group of Janitors Here Dispute About Working Time Adds Turmoil Administration Remains Noncommittal DENY EXPLANATION Members cf Faculty Favorable Toward Reduction of Laboring Hours A day of increased turmoil and mounting interest in the question of the 9 1-2 hour working day im posed upon members of the Uni versity’s janitorial force had at a late hour last night brought the requests of the janitors no nearer to satisfaction. Administrative officials had re mained quiet, and refused to make further comment on the charges of the Emerald that the janitors were going to work at 6 a. m. and quitting at 6 p. m., and were work ing an hour and a half longer than the minimum stipulated by state law. Pallett Silent Earl M. Pallett, executive sec retary, who yesterday issued a statement that janitors have been working for 20 years on the basis if 1.0 hours a day, had no enlarge ment to make on his statement, and had apparently mapped out no course of action for the allevia tion of the working hours. He de clared, “I issued a statement yes terday that explained the situation, and I have no further statement to make.” Chancellor W. J. Kerr was out of town and could not be reached by the Emerald. But if the administration was remaining quiet, students and fac ulty members, not to mention the janitors themselves, were lining up lolidly behind the Emerald's plan for a rearrangement of the jani tors’ hours. .Janitors Dispute Statement Of principal interest yesterday was the denial by a number of (anitors that they had been con sulted by A. H. Foote, head janitor, before the new system of hours was installed this year. In com menting" upon the working sched ule, which imposes upon the jani tors a 2 1-2-hour “lunch” period ;n the middle of the day, Pallett declared in his statement Wednes day that “the arrangement was discussed with the janitorial force by Mr. Foote, head janitor, and was reported to be satisfactory.” .several of the janitors declared .datly that they had not been con culted by Foote, and knew of no other janitor who had. several faculty members, al though reluctant to enter the con troversy, declared emphatically they believed that a more humane schedule of hours should be ar ranged. Most of them believed that there was no alternative but to limit the number of hours, since the state law is definite and spe cific upon the point. Janitors Favorable The Janitors themselves were unanimous in agreeing upon the tevised schedule of hours suggest ed yesterday by Sterling Green editor of the Emerald. All de clared emphatically that the 2 1-2 hour layoff in the middle of the lay seriously interfered with the efficient performance of their du The statements df the following ^acuity members are typical of those given by many others: Assistant Professor Robert Horn: "I have always felt that the janitors should have the same deal that is given under the N.R.A. They should have every considera tion given other working men ” Supervisor L. Kenneth Shuma ker: "it looks pretty funny that janitors should work nine and one half hours when other people are trying to get more work and less tirne^ It is the greatest nuisance to the faculty to have the janitors oft at noon. I never realized be fore that the janitor of this build ing straightened the chairs and (Continued on I'aje t hree) SALIENT FEATURES OF EMERALD SUOUESTION 1. Elimination of present 212-hour recess sit noon. 2. Work of janitors to be completed by 3 p. in. instead of at 6 p. m. 3. Work of janitors to begin at 6 a. m. as at present. 4. Windows and doors to be locked by watchman instead of by janitors, with student as sistance if necessary. ‘Television Idea" Theme of Annual Freshman Party Different Phases of College Life To Be Presented in Skits For New Students A “television idea,” which is the theme for the annual "get-togeth er” party to be given for freshman women November 1 by frosh coun cillors in conjunction with Kwama, was explained by Henriette Horalt, chairman of the party, to mem bers of Kwama at a meeting last night. The television motive will pre dominate in the skits which are given at the party in order to ac quaint freshmen with the Univer sity. Four girls, each interested in a different phase of college life, will be shown by Dean Hazel Schwering, apparently through television, the tetails in which each is interested. The executive committee in charge of the party consists of Henriette Horak: chairman; Ebba Wicks and- Adele SheChy, • assist ant chairmen; Marygolde Hardi son, adviser. Committee chairmen appointed by Miss Horak are: chairmen of acts: Betty Allen, Roberta Moody, Louise Labbe, andd Valbourg An derson; publicity, Ann-Reed Burns, Eleanor Eide, Helen Dodds, Ruth Mae Chilcote; refreshments, Vir ginia Younie, Evelyn Hays; room arrangement, Betty Ohlemiller; decorations, Mary Jane Jenkins. Survey of Radio Programs Is Made To determine which radio pro grams are preferred by Eugene people, the statistics class of John M. Rae, associate professor of business administration, is calling on 500 townspeople. The survey in each case shows the name of the station being lis tened to at the time, the station which they think best, the one from which they get the best re ception, the favorite program, whether or not they have remem bered the name of the company sponsoring this program, whether or not they listen to the March of Time, sponsored by the Time magazine, and the suggestions of fered for changes in radio pro grams. Denials Made OfConsultation With Director Workers Refused Right Of Discussion STATEMENTS GIVEN Plan Offered by Emerald Editor Receives Commendation Of Employees Janitors of the University of Oregon yesterday denied that they had ever been consulted by A. H. Foote, building supervisor, when a new schedule of hours was im posed upon them at the beginning of this term making them work from 6 a. m. until 11 a. m. and from 1:30 p. m. to 6 p. m. They declared that the state ment of Dr. Earl M. Pallett, ex ecutive secretary, was inaccurate when he stated that “the arrange ment was discussed with the jani torial force by Mr. Foote, head janitor, and was reported to be satisfactory.” Janitors Approve nan The janitors also were unani mous in their approval of the plan of revised hours suggested yester day by Sterling Green, editor of the Emerald, which is reprinted elsewhere on this page. Each of the following quotations is the statement of an individual janitor. For obvious reasons, the names of the janitors will not be given, although they are on record in the Emerald office: "I think what Sterling Green put in the paper was very good. That is the proper thing. I just have to wait around during that two and one-half hours in the mid dle of the day while I could be getting my work done earlier.” “It would suit me much better if I could come at 6:30 or 7 and work the noon time and then I would not have to rush at the last minute, as I have six rooms to clean after 3 o’clock. If I could do two of these at noon, it would be much easier. The suggestion of the Emerald editor was O. K. The watchman could easily lock up. Why does Foote say we ap proved these hours when we never had a chance to have our say on them ?” Time Said Wasted ‘‘I object to wasting the time during the noon hour that we could use to do a lot of work. I would prefer to come at the same time and use the time in the mid dle of the day to shorten the hours at night. Green’s plan was (Continued on Page Pour) 'Unfair to Janitors/’ Declare University Undergraduates By ELINOR HENRY “It isn’t fair!” Briefly this seems to be the con sensus of student opinion on the treatment of janitors by the Uui versity of Oregon. Most of them expressed a personal interest as well as a social interest in the sit uation pointed out in the Emer ald. “I’m all in favor of their work ing under NRA rules, whether or not« a state institution is legally exempt,” Mahr Reymers, senior in advertising, remarked. Paulinp George, junior in jour nalism, intercepted in the main hall of the Commerce building, j leaned back against the door of Dean James H. Gilbert’s office and nearly fell through, since it wasn’t firmly closed. But she apologized to the dean and recovered her equilibrium in time to declare, “I think that they’re being forced to! work too long for the work they're doing and the pay they're getting.” “It seems to me that they could split it up some way so the jan itors wouldn't have to work such long hours,” said Betty Hentley, sophomore in arts and letters. “I don't think they're getting a fair break myself,” “Ossie” Nel son, junior in business administra tion, commented. “How do they expect the stu dents to support the NRA if our own institution doesn’t?” asked H. S. “Doc” Ireland, senior in busi ness administration. And Nancy Suomela, senior in sociology, "I think it’s a pity for them to have to get up at 5 o’clock in the morning.” In the usual lawyer’s way, Nor wood Nickols, second year law student, answered the reporter’s question with another. “Why should a janitor work any longer than anyone else?" he queried. He said he had transferred from Washington, where janitors work in shifts and have easier work and shorter hours. “I think that working janitors more than eight hours a day is making the University just like a sweatshop,” declared Betty Allen, senior in history. "A ten-hour day for students is bad enough,” she added facetiously. “I believe fhe administration of the University should cooperate with NRA just as merchants, man* (Continued on Page Four)