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VOLUME XXXV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1933 NUMBER 28 University Graduates Begin Annual Trek Back to Scenes Of College Days Spent Here First Activities Of Homecoming Slated Tonight Rally Parade Scheduled For 6:30 P. M. | I - i FLAMING O AT 7:30 Registration of Alumni to Begin At 1 M. in Johnson Hall; Jamboree Tonight The University of Oregon's 18th traditional Homecoming will com mence when a massive bomb is set off at precisely 6:45 this eve ning, signaling the beginning of a rally parade unprecedented in the history of the University. Forming on Kincaid between 13th and 15th streets, the parade will get under way with the Uni versity band leading the proces sion. Floats will be placed in line as they arrive at the formation headquarters with the members of each women’s living group driving in cars immediately behind their respective floats. Men in Pajamas All men students will be in pa jamas to take part in the pajama parade which will follow imme diately the last float in the line of march. Ten Eugene Boy Scouts will assist at the formation point of the parade, and another 40 will aid with the downtown rally. All freshmen are required to be in the parade tonight with pajamas, says Fred Hammond, president of the yearlings. Cars which will carry prominent alumni and judges of the rally pa rade will pick up their passengers at exactly 6:30 p. m. in front of the administration building and continue to 13th and Kincaid streets, where they will follow di rectly behind the band. A police escort will accompany the parade along the line of march. Parade Downtown The parade will continue down 13th street to Alder, where it will turn north to 11th street. It will continue down 11th to Willamette, and there will turn north again to Broadway. A huge rally will take place at Broadway and Willam ette. The judges’ stand will be lo . cated in front of the First Nation ' al bank building. Another bomb will be set off at 7:30 to mark the lighting of the frosh flaming O on Skinner’s butte, and the beginning of the rally. Speakers at Rally Speaking at the rally will be Baz Williams, prominent Oregon alumnus; Tom Tongue, president of the Associated Students; and Hugh Rosson, graduate manager. Judging the floats will be Mrs. Harry Gordon, Ray Jones, and Mr. Morseof Broadway, inc. The women’s house of the first prize winning float will receive the Mrs. Walter Cook trophy and the men's house will receive the Bristow trophy. Forty admission tickets will be given both to the men’s and to the women’s house of the prize winning team by the ' McDonald theater. A $2.50 merchandise order from I (Continued on Page Four) Homecoming Schedule Today 1:00 p. m. — Registration of j alumni, Johnson hall. G:30 to 7:30 p. m.—Rally pa rade. 7:30 p. m.-Frosh flaming O and rally. 0:00 p. m.—Journalism Jam, Campa Shoppe. Tomorrow 10:30 a. m.—-Alumni meeting, Johnson hall. 13:00 m.—Alumni luncheon, at John Straub Memorial hall. 2:00 p. m.—Utah-Oregon foot ball game, Hayward field. G :00 p. m. — Fraternity din ners at chapter houses. 9 .'00 p. m.—H omecoming dance, McArthur court. Sunday 3:00 p. m.—Band concert, mu sic auditorium. Registration Will Open for Alumni Today at 1 o’Clock Tickets for Homecoming Dance, Alumni Luncheon May Be Obtained at Booths Registration of alumni for Homecoming weekend will com mence1 at 1 o'clock today in the hallway of the administration building, under the direction of Elizabeth Bendstrup, reception chairman. Tickets for the Alumni luncheon, to be held tomorrow noon at John Straub Memorial building, and tickets for the an nual Homecoming dance tomorrow evening at McArthur court will be on sale at the registration booths and the alumni secretary’s office in Friendly hall. Registration subcommittees and the hours they will have charge are: Friday: 1-2 p. m., Barbara Smith and Virginia George; 2-3 p. m., Marjorie Leonard and Meta Kistner; 3-4 p. m., Gretchen Gregg and Mary McCracken; and 4-5 p. m., Betty Graham and Marga ret Keene. Saturday: 9-11 a. m., Staala Pasuiss; and 11-12:30 a. m„ Fran ces Watzek and Margaret Dag gett. Subcommittees for information: Friday: 1-2 p. m„ Gladys Rob ertson and Ruth Heiberg; 2-3 p. m., Lillian England and Bar bara Brenhalts; 3-4 p. m„ Cynthia Cornell and Marjorie Smith; 4-5 p. m., Virginia. George and Helen Hangster. Saturday: 9-10 a. m., Bette Church and Bunny Wilson; 10-11 a. m., Martha McCall and Bette Galagher; 11-12 a. m., Jean Mc Cusker and Betty Read. Committees Appointed To Plan Alumni Dance Tom Tongue, chairman of the alumni dance to be held in Port land, Saturday, November 11, has appointed Tom Clapp as his as sistant. The members of the com mittee handling the publicity for the dance are Cynthia Liljequist, Marylou Patrick, Dorothy Dibble, Edward Schweiker, Mickey Vaif? and Bill Schloth. Jack Benefiel, member of the alumni association, has charge of the dance. Oriental Museum Reopening 4s Feature of Homecoming Si From 10 a. m. to 12 and 5 to 6 • p. m. on Saturday and from 2 to 4 p. m. Sunday, the Oriental art museum in the Prince Lucien Campbell memorial building will be open to the public. This new feature of 1933 Homecoming week-end was announced last night by Mrs. Gertrude Bass Warner, museum director, who returned Tuesday from the East. Opened with official ceremonies during commencement week-end last Jitfie, the museum has re mained closed during Mrs. War ner's absence. During the briei period it was on view during June interested persons came from all parts of the state and the North west to see the exhibit of rare anc .beautiful Oriental art in the Mur ray Warner collection, j • Several visits are necessary to appreciate the many things on dis play as individual artistic crea tions, but alumni who are able to spend only a short while in the museum will find much to interest them. ' To students and graduates used to traveling on smooth roads in high-powered automobiles, there may come a feeling somewhat apart from an aesthetic experience aroused by intricate carving and luxurious upholstery as they gaze into the Japanese alcove where a princess of 300 years ago stands (Continued on Fage Three) Journalists to Offer Dance at Campa Shoppe i Annua] jamboree Slated For Tonight STARTING TIME AT 9 Event Will Climax Homecoming Rally, Fireworks; Charges 33 and 40 Cents % Hopes for a rah-rah renaissance will bloom tonight when the cam pus spends the evening in a Home coming rally night climaxed by the annual all-campus informal bust, the Journalism Jam. Starting at 6:30 with the forma tion of the parade of floats at 11th and Alder, the evening’s festivi ties will include two hours of ral lying downtown, the frosh fire works O on the butte, topping off the program with the Jam at 0 o’clock. The charge will be 40 cents for men, 35 cents for women. Atmosphere Journalistic The Campa Shoppe is to be the Scene of this year’s Jam, and Sig ma Delta Chi and Theta Sigma Phi, professional journalism hono raries, will have transformed the hall into a riot of things journalis tic. College newspapers from all parts of the United States will paper the walls, while typewriters, stereotypes, matrices, and tons of newsprint will adorn every avail able inch of the walls and ceiling. Work Progresses Bill Eberhart, general chairman of the dance, had his workers ready to descend upon the Campa Shoppe this morning to prepare the place for a rally crowd. Work ing with Eberhart are Ruth Mc Clain, Lillian Rankin and Patsy Lee of Theta Sigma Phi, and Huber Phillips, Doug Polivka, Don Caswell, Dudley Lindner, Paul Ew ing, Larry Whytal, and Sterling Green for Sigma Delta Chi. The Journalism Jam, once called by its full and proper name of “Journalism Jamboree,” has been an annual campus tradition at Oregon for more than 10 years. On the last five occasions it has become definitely established as a regular Homecoming weekend fea ture. Doughnut Sales Close Saturday The Homecoming game with Utah on Saturday afternoon will mark the close of the traditional doughnut sales for this year. Grads will have an opportunity to feast on sinkers that afternoon and revive old memories in so doing. j Co-eds who are selling dough nuts will meet Friday evening at . ; 5 o'clock in the Y.W.C.A. bunga low to make final plans. Joyce ' | Busenbark is general chairman of ; sales this year. Alberta Baldwin 1 | is promotional chairman, and ! Peggy Chessman is game chair | man. Graduate Gets Position Pedro A. Zaragoza, who was graduated from the University last June, recently obtained the posi tion of assistant principal of the [ San Fernando elementary school I at Masbate, in the Philippine is lands. I i t i a is 12:30 to Be Deadline For All Women Tonight Says Dean Schivering Through special concession from Dean of Women Schwer ing all ) rls have permission to remain out until 12:30 tonight, in order that they my attend the midnight showing of "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi" being sponsored by Alpha Delta Sigma and Gamma Alpha Chi at the Colonial theater. Yearling Grid Teams Resume Battle Tonight Frosh and Rooks to Play In Corvallis DUCKLINGS FAVORED Coach Schulz Selects Three Full Squads to Make Trip; Injuries Numerous 4 Thirty-three frosh football play ers will invade Corvallis tonight intent upon scoring their second victory over the Oregon Statb rooks. The game will complete the frosh grid schedule this fall Coach Irv Schulz is taking his en tire squad for the trip since in juries to the first team will make it necessary to use reserves. Bill Reinhart, who has been handlihg the coaching together with Schulz, is reported to be in bad shape yet, suffering from a serious cold. Tonight’s game would have been Reinhart’s only chance to see a football game from the coaches’ bench, since he has been scouting Oregon varsity opponents all season. Schulz said yesterday, “We are looking for anything from the rooks, that 39 to 0 beating they got from Southern Oregon normal doesn’t mean a thing to us. They still have a good ball club.'’ Frosh Favored The frosh are paper favorites having previously beaten the rook team, 7 to 3, here. Southern Ore gon normal bfeat the rooks, 39 to 0, and the frosh, 7 co 0. Injuries have cut down the margin some what, several of the frosh players being hurt in the S.O.N.S. game. Schulz could not announce def initely his starting lineup Iasi, night, with injuries so numerous The starting eleven will include the following, however: Cross right end; Bjork, right tackle; Estes, right guard; Farrar or Ber ry, center; Hardisty, left guard; Fury, left tackle; Wilson or Adams, left end; Owen or Penn, quarter back, Bishop or Jacobs, fullback: Borden, left half; Nye or Shinin ger, right half. Injuries Numerous Farrar is reported to have a bad hand, hence the possible substitu (Continncd on Page Three) Rhodes Scholar Candidates Must Sign by 5 o’Clock Examination Committee Will Send Four Students to Portland For State Meeting Candidates for the Rhodes schol arship must sign up before 5 o’clock today. The examination will be held Sunday afternoon and evening in the graduate office, in 107 Johnson. The examination committee will select four students who will be sent to Portland, where they will compete with representatives from the entire state. Two students are chosen from this group and are sent to the district meeting. Last year, a University of Ore gon student, Don Stuurman, who came from Washington, was one of the four to go to Oxford. He received his M.A. last year on this campus. Letters received by friends state that he has been given enough advanced standing to admit him to the candidacy for the D.Phil. without taking the B.A. Stuurman is in Balliol college, which is one of the most scholarly and difficult of the Oxford col leges. Other University of Oregon stu dents now at Oxford are Robert Jackson, 1929, and David Wil liams, 1932. Jackson took his M.A. in 1931 on this campus. Dr. George Rebec, Professor S. Stephenson Smith, Dr. Andrew Fish, Dr. R. R. Huestis, and Dr. Clara Smertenko make up the ex amination committee. Annual Election Will Be Held by Nature Group Members of the Philomelete na ture group will have a picnic-sup per near the Willamette river to ! night, if old "Jupe withholds his I rainstorms. The group will meet at 5 this afternoon in the AWS room, each girl bringing her own lunch. In j case it rains, they will remain in doors. Minor Sports Accepted by ASUO Council Clue Sweater With O to Be Aw ard GIVE REQUIREMENTS Awards in Gn!f, Tennis, Swimming, Cross-Country Must Be Karncd In I’CC Competition The minor sports program has been approved by the executive council of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, ac cording to Tom Stoddaid, assist ant graduate manager. The pro gram provides that minor sports awards in golf, tennis, swimming and cross-country shall be earned only in competition in Pacific coast conference contests, or con tests which, in the opinion of the athletic committee, are of that calibre. In golf, for the receipt of the regular minor sports award, a con testant must win at least half of all the points scheduled. In tennis the player must win a match in at least half the match es competed in the draw, provided he or she wins matches in at least two meets. Swimming Requisites Given In swimming the contestant must win first place or six points m conference meets, or meets of equal calibre. The relay musl count one and cne-qua.rter points per man if the game is one. In cross-country the runner must place in the first half of the field in any conference meet and must place among the first six men who finish in said race. Golf, tennis and swimming will have student managers in charge who wiil be provided with the reg ulation managerial sweaters. The track manager will handle the cross-country competition. Major Awards Available The major award will be given to any contestant in the above fields who, in the opinion of the athletic committee, competes in national competition, receives na tional recognition, or who wins a Pacific coast conference champion ship in his sport. The minor sports award is a (Continued on Page Three) Rally Tie Buyers Urged to Don New Neckwear Today Original Supply of 500 Sold Within Twenty Minutes; More Ordered For Prospective Sales Purchasers of rally ties are urged to wear them today to all events, in honor of the newly des ignated rally tie day. Mickey Vail, University yell king and rally leader, made this request last night. The original supply of 500 ties was sold within 20 minutes of the time that the sales force began working. Prospects for the sale of many more were reported as being bright. An order for 100 additional ties was placed with the manufacturing plant in Los Angeles. The new shipment is expected to arrive the first of next week and will be placed on sale at the Co-op store. The Fiji house is the first re ported to back the innovation 100 per cent, according to Roberta Moody, secretary of the directo rate. Campus Calendar There will be a meeting of all pledge trainers today at 4, in 110 Johnson. Nature group meets at .5 in W. S. room for a picnic. Mem bers bring own lunch. Asklepiads will hold a short meeting at 7 o’clock sharp to night, 107 Deady. Rally committee will meet today at the College Side, 6:15. There will be no social swim to night at the women's swimming pool. Nature group of Philomelete meets at 5 today in A. W. S. room : Mary Spiller hall. Bring your dinner. If it rains, meeting will be held inside. Roscoe Nelson Seeks Unity On Campus in Assembly Talk, Decries University Activities Eugene Faculty Scored in Talk At State College Emeral«l Also Criticized In Address BAROMETER LAUDED Speaker Praises Benton Audience For Reception Accorded by Corvallis School OREGON STATE COLLEGE, CORVALLIS, Nov. 2—Special) —Speaking^ to a large audience in the men’s gymnasium here, Roscoe C. Nelson, chairman of the state board of higher education, excori ated that section of the faculty and student body at the Univer sity which was hostile to the chancellor. He dubbed as carp ing, critical censoriousness the at titude of the Emerald, of an un named Eugene editor and paper, and of all those who held similar views. Nelson expressed his great pleas ure at the splendid reception ac corded him at the college. He assured his audience that the ma jority of the students at Eugene were like them, sound, clean and healthy. He said the same was true of the University faculty, who were being misled by two or three men with inordinate influ ence who, like the drum in a band, make an immense noise while be ing empty. Eugene Jealous The speaker assured his atten tive audience that one of the ma jor troubles at Eugene was owing to jealousy as to who should be president of the University, as well as here. He expressed his personal wish that no presidents should be appointed, but that each faculty should have as its repre sentative an elected chairman. Nelson did not indicate what men or what particular group he was referring to. He made plain, however, his belief that these un named men were responsible for the unsettled condition in higher education. He gave unstinted praise of the character and effi ciency of the chancellor. Resentment Felt Among other things, Nelson said his address at Eugene this morning had baen inspired by re sentment at a cabal which had set out to make miserable the life of the chancellor and to act con trary to the expressed will of the people of the state. He was deeply grateful for the way in which the students and faculty here had turned out to hear him. He said that when he became a member of the board he had determined that in justice to the college he would have to learn to love it, although he had been afraid that his professional train ing and background would cause him to lean toward the Univer sity. Pull Toward College “Ever since the first hour I came on the board something has pulled me toward the college,” he declared, “and when I came in sight of the precincts of this col lege and in sight of the faces of the boys and girls in this hall when I looked at this wonderful audience something thrilled me. I felt the wonderful affection, and I understood why this college (Continued on Paje Three) Girls Attending Game hi Portland Will Need Statement by Parents Any girl who plans to attend the Oregon-Oregon state game and does not live in Portland or Eugene, must get permission from her parents and turn the written statement into the dean of women’s office. Girls are not allowed to stay in the hotels without a chaper on. If they have a chaperon she must be approved by the dean of women’s office. Spooks Twice Roscoe C. Nelson, chairman ot the state hoard of higher educa tion, spoke on the Eugene and Corvallis campuses yesterday. Speaker Predicts New World Strife In Twelve Years Kirkpatrick Discusses Causes of Overproduction in Tails Last Night A war \vithin 12 years more devastating than the last war was the prediction of George R. Kirk patrick, socialist candidate for senator from California, at a meeting in Villard hall last night. The world war, he stated, was waged for purely economic reasons as the outcome of the capitalistic system. Consumption by workers of the value which they produce has been artificially restricted due to the extraction of profits which they draw. These facts added together are the causes of overproduction he asserted. He continued by saying that so ciety can be organized only along two lines, for the special benefit of part of the people or for the mutual benefit of all the people. Society up to the present time has been organized only along the for mer line, he said. Pi Lambda Theta Entertains at Tea A tea, honoring women interest ed in education as a profession, was given by Pi Lambda Theta, women’s eeducation honorary, Thursday in Gerlinger hall from 4 to 5:30. Mrs. Wendell Van Loan and Katherine Kneeland were hostess es and Mrs. F. L. Stetson poured. Those serving were Betty Har combe, Beth Bowerman and Ruth Melendy. Miss Lovisa Youngs presented a program of musical numbers. Her program was made up of a piano number by Marjorie Schofield, vio lin solo by Ellen Galey, and vocal numbers by Evelyn Hollis and Miss Youngs. Edith Luke was in charge of the general arrangements. Harmony Need Emphasized by Speaker Here Feuds and Prejudices Deplored CITATIONS ARE USED Iltuml Chairman Denies Intention Of Dictating What Campus Caper Should Say “What we need is organization of the friends of all the institu tions of higher education. We should face the real enemies and leave the windmills to the Don Quixotes.” So Hoscoe C. Nelson. •-? chairman of the state board of higher education, pleaded for har mony among Oregon schools in a ringing, often stinging, verbal on slaught on “carping censorious i ness” of militant organizations of | supporters and of editors, both on and off the campus, in an address yesterday morning before students and faculty members of the Uni versity in Gerlinger hall. “I deplore the perpetuation of feuds and the revival of hoary prejudices,” Nelson declared. “I might cite as a text the words of the late Dr. Alderman, president of the University of Virginia, 'There is no competition among lighthouses.’ Dr. Alderman be lieved that the finest aristocratic traditions are built around the Latin term, ‘magnanimitas,’ which means greatness of spirit.” Editorial Quoted As examples of smallness of spirit opposed to “magnanimitas,” Nelson quoted an editorial from the Oregon Spectator, which de scribed Chancellor Kerr as in a state of siege in the presidential residence on the Eugene campus, and referred to a clipped editorial and an anonymous letter printed in the Emerald. “Is that the Ore ■ gon spirit?” he asked. He denied, however, any inten tion to dictate what a student pa per should print, saying, “I edited ; one once myself.” He declared himself strongly for academic freedom, expressing revulsion to a type of university that would graduate mechanical robots. He argued, however, that the taxpay ers, in the interest of efficiency • and economy, had the right to place limitations on this auton . omy, that coordination and corre , lation were functions of the board , and its chancellor. He termed , "Catilines” the little coterie which, i he declared was seeking to frus trate these aims. I Sulking Decried Nelson urged that the Univer . sity “cease to fill the role of a giant Achilles, sulking in his tent, i above which flies a flag on which are emblazoned ‘negation and de l featism.’ Peevishness and chur ' lishness are not consonant with > sportsmanship and magnanimity.” A plan for faculty chairmen in 1 stead of presidents at the Univer i sity and the college was mentioned by Nelson. He also announced : that the next board of higher edu (Continucd on Page Three) Fraternity Men Dig Further Into Pocketbooks for'Grub’ Meals for men in fraternities at the University cost on an average of slightly more than 15 cents per person, while the food cost for wo men in sororities averages a bit more than 9 cents, a survey car ried on by the school of business administration here reveals. When the pay of the cook is added in the costs are increased to 18 1-2 cents and 12 1-2 cents per meal. Wnen all costs such as food, cooks, other employes, laundry and rent are added in, the average of the men’s houses studied comes to $23.52 per student per month, and the costs for the women are $28.77. The difference between men and women is largely due to rent, which in the case of men averages $7.73 and for women $12.01. Men aa a rule have larger member ships in their houses, thus cutting down the individual cost for this item. The survey was carried on in or der to give all fraternities and so rorities an opportunity to compare their costs with the average and if possible adjust them. The school of business administration is also aiding any organization that re quests it with accounting assist ance as part of the project, it is stated by Dr. V. H. Hoyt, dean. The study was made from fig ures obtained from eight men’s houses and three women’s houses. It showed that cost3 of different foods for men averaged as fol lows: meat and eggs, $.04273; (Continued on Page Three)