Russo-German
Speech Slated
For Assembly
Whiting Williams to Be
Here January 26
SPEAKER IS EXPERT
Author-Lecturer - Consultant Gets
Information While Visiting
In Europe
Whiting Williams, author, lec
turer, and industrial consultant,
will deliver a lecture to a student
assembly in Gerlinger hall, Janu
ary 2G, taking as his subject,
working conditions in Germany
and Russia,,- Karl W. Onthank,
dean of personnel work, announced
yesterday.
Williams, who spoke on the
campus several years ago, has
spent much time as a v/orker in.
America and foreign countries,
examining conditions which pre
vail in factories and mines of the
United States, France, Great Brit
ain, Germany, Italy, and Russia.
His services have been in demand
as an adviser in industrial rela
tions for concerns employing hun
dreds of thousands of workers.
He has attended international la
bor conferences in Geneva, Ha
vana, and Williamstown.
Bast summer Williams visited
Russia and there secured the
frank attitude of coal miner and
steel maker to their Red masters.
Other summers he has spent in
the coal mines and steel plants of
Britain, north France, and of Ger
many’s famous Ruhr and Saar
valleys.
In the railroad strike of 1922
he sought, first in the striker’s
and then in the strike-breaker’s
camp, insight into one of the most
serious industrial disputes in the
nation’s history.
Whiting Williams is the author,
of a number of books, among
them “What’s on the Worker’s
Mind,” “Horny Hands and Ham
pered Elbows,” "Mainsprings of
Men,” and such magazine articles
as “Workers' Speakeasy,” in the
Survey-Graphic, and “Russia and
Italy Pin Their Hopes on Amer
ica’s Ways of Work,” in Nation's
Business.
Outstanding Freshmen
Will Help in Ushering
That outstanding freshmen men
shall be chosen to help in usher
ing at basketball games and con
certs was decided upon at the
meeting of Skull and Dagger,
sophomore men's honorary, in the
Journalism building last night.
In addition to the fact that at
this season there are a large num
ber of events requiring ushers, it
will provide training for the pros
pective members of the organiza
tion next year.
Douglass Leaves for Seattle
To attend a meeting of the ex
ecutive committee of the Pacific
Northwest Library association, of
which he is treasurer, M. H. Doug
lass, head of the University li
brary, will leave tonight for Seat
tle. He expects to return to Eu-|
gene Sunday. ‘
O Shades of Lily
Langtry! And He
Just Watched It
There was nothing,* in the days
of torchlight parades and temper
ance pledges, more certain tc
arouse fierce resolutions of future
heroism in the minds of men, than
the sight, from the fifth row, ol
wondrously beautiful Lily Lang
try, when Lily was in the clutches
of the villain.
No relative of the fair “Jersey
Lily” is Virgil Langtry, third-year
lav/ student at the University.
But Virgil may have thought of
his namesake when, Monday eve
ning, old-fashioned, t h r il 1 i n g
drama was enacted before his
startled eyes.
As he reached the corner where
Kilyafd street intersects Thir
teenth, he saw an attractive girl
snatched by an unknown assailant
into the old building which stands
on the north side of Thirteenth.
All this happened across the street
from where Langtry wTas stroll
ing.
The girl screamed, ran towards
an old man who was at that time
making his way down the avenue.
It seems that the old fellow eluded
her would-be hysterical grasp and
went on his way. She kept on
running, and so did her unknown
attacker—he wasn’t following her.
Langtry says that he does not
know either the villain or the
heroine of the play and adds that
he did not run away. After all,
it was free entertainment and he
was a Langtry.
YWCA to Replace
Cabinet Members
Through Election
Aspirants to New Offices Will Be
Interviewed; Nominations
Scheduled for Feb. 27
Present members of the Y. W.
C. A. cabinet will vacate their po
sitions within the next few weeks
to make way for a new set of offi
cers to be elected March 1, accord
ing to Helen Binford, president of
the Y. W. C. A. All women stu
dents who are interested in holding
offices in the organization next
year are urged to call at the bun
galow to'make appointments for
interviews.
These interviews, which will be
conducted for the purpose of nar
rowing the field of candidates for
the numerous offices open, will be
conducted by the senior members
of the present cabinet, who will
compose a nominating committee.
Final nominations will be made
February 27, and elections will fol
low three days later. The new offi
cers will assume their positions
he first week of spring term, after
a cabinet training conference of
one day, which will be held outside
the city.
Seniors who compose the nomin
ating committee are: Louise Bar
clay, Helen Binford, Lois Green
wood, Virginia Hartje, Eileen and
Geraldine Hickson, Eula Loomis,
Polly Pollitt, and Hermine Zwanck.
Miss Binford declares that criti
cism,, both constructive and de
structive, is especially solicited for
ways of improving the service of
he Y. W. C. A. on the campus, and
students are urged to present any
original contributions which they
nay have for organization, or new
iobs to be created.
The jobs now open, for which
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Orchestra to Present Jovial
Prelude by Wagner Sunday
It is difficult to imagine Rich
ard Wagner in any mood other
than a colorful, tremendous, over
powering mood, musically speak
ing. Yet in “Die Meistersinger,”
or in English, “The Mastersing
ers,” he is in a distinctly jovial
frame of mind.
This is reflected in the prelude
to that opera, which heads the
program of the University sym
phony orchestra to be given next
Sunday in the Igloo at 3 p. m.
Wagner, of course, loves the
brass and kettle drums too well
not to give them many bars, even
in a comic opera. They are cer
tainly present in this prelude,
though much more gay in spirit
than one usually expects from his
work, and not so heavily dra
matic.
Both the text and the music of
"Die Meistersinger" are by Wag
ner. His idea came from one of
Hoffman's novels, as did his con
ception of “Tannhauser." Indeed.
"Die Meistersinger" was intended
to burlesque the Minnesinger con
test in "Tannhauser.”
The humor of this work is Ger-t
man, touching upon playfulness;
while satire, practical jokes, occa
sional seriousness, and consider
able romantic interest succeed one
another in sounding the tone of
the music and action.
All of these elements should ap
pear in the prelude to the opera,
since Wagner was one to observe
certain of the conventional rulings
of operatic form as long as he
didn't think up some new form
of his own.
On the matter of musical form,
Wagner was considered quite radi
cal. His abandon to impression
ism and his intense dramatic mu
sical sense was considerably be
fore his own time. Contemporary
musicians were quite scandalized
at his radical notions.
Today, however, we recognize
him as one of the greatest com
: posers in musical history.
1 "Die Meistersinger’’ was first
produced in Munich, June 21, 1868.
The first English production was
under Richter at Drury Lane, May
30, 1882, and the first American
I presentation was in New York on
, January 4, 1886.
State Editorial Executives
Above are some of the officers of the Oregon State Editorial association, which will meet on
the campus for its annual conference on January 18, 19, and 20. They are (1) Harris Ellsworth of
the Koseburg News-Review, president; (2) II. G. Ball of the Hood River News, vice-president; (3) Ben
Litfin of The Dalles Chronicle, treasurer; (4) Jack Bladine of the McMinnville Telephone-Register,
director; (5) E. B. Aldrich of the l’endleton East Oregonian, director; (6) Verne McKinney of the Hills
boro Argus, former president; and (7) George Aiken of the Ontario Argus, director. 4
Newspaper Folk
Invited to Press
Conference Here
Main Topics of Discussion for Meet
Will Be NBA Codes for
Printing
Invitations are being issued by
the school of journalism to editors
and newspaper folk of this state
to attend the annual press confer
ence, to be held here January 18,
19, and 20.
The conference this year is to be
made up mostly of floor discussion
and a more or less informal pro
gram. The main topics of discus
sion will be along the lines of the
NRA codes for printing and pub
lishing, which are being prepared
at the present time.
According to Dean Eric W. Al
len of the school of journalism,
telegraph and air mail facilities
will be such that the latest news
of the codes will be immediately
received by the conference for dis
cussion.
Various interesting features, in
cluding a banquet, are being sched
uled and the entire program is
nearly finished.
Delegates to the conference have
been invited to bring their wives,
for whom entertainment is also
being planned.
Dr. Fontainerose Will
Teach Greek at U. of O.
Dr. Joseph E. Fontainerose has
just arrived in Eugene to take the
position of instructor in Greek at
this University, replacing Dr. Clara
M. Smertenko, Greek and Latin
professor, who has withdrawn for
the remainder of the year.
Dr. Fontainerose, who received
his doctor’s degree from the Uni
versity of California, taught at
Cornel! university before coming
here.
Advertising Honorary
Announces 8 Pledges
Gamma Alpha Chi, women’s na
tional advertising honorary, has
announced the pledging of eight
majors in that field. They are
Katherine Goulet, Alice Wede
meyer, Helen Stinger, Anne Chap
man, Peggy Chessman, Millicent
Owen, Ethel James, and Margaret
Thompson. *
Formal pledging will take place
at Gerlinger hall next Sunday aft
ernoon at four.
Deadline for Pictures
To Be Used in Oregana
Set for This Saturday
This Saturday will be the last
day on which individual pictures
may be taken for inclusion in
the 1934 Oregana. Any one who
has not had his or her picture
taken is urged to do so some
time this week, as the time ele
ment in the publishing of the
book would make it impossible
to use pictures taken later than
Saturday. o
The pictures are to be taken
at Kennell-Ellis studio on Wil
lamette street.
_
‘Neither a Borrower
Nor Card-Lender Be
Says Tom, W’arningly
Student body cards presented
at the gate of the Oregon State
game Saturday will be taken
up if presented by other than
the rightful owner, according
to Tom Stoddard, assistant
graduate manager.
Students are warned not to
Joan their tickets, as, , if they
are once taken up, there is no
way that they may be re
deemed, and all student privi
leges for the rest of the term
will be lost.
Warner Essay
Contest Awards
Number Seven
Improved IT. S.-Asiatic Relations
Is Object; Last Year's
Rules Modified
More prizes will be offered this
year in the Warner essay contest,
sponsored annually on the campus
by Mrs. Gertrude Bass Warner.
Although the first award is less
than in the previous competitions,
there are seven cash prizes given
to American students instead of
the two heretofore allotted.
“We urge everyone who can
qualify in this contest to partici
pate,” said Harold J. Noble of
the history department, chairman
of the committee in charge of the
competition. “This is one of the
numerous ways in which Mrs.
Warner attempts to maintain stu
dent interest in the affairs of
Eastern Asia.
“Another feature of this year's
contest is that, for the first time,
Mrs. Warner has arranged to per
mit students entered in the com
petition to take books out of the
Oriental library for a period of
five days. Heretofore books could
be used only in the library itself.”
First prize for American stu
dents will be $100, and $50 for
foreign competitors. There are
additional awards amounting to
$250.
The contest is open to any stu
dent who has taken one class
room course dealing with the his
tory, economic and social, or in
ternational relations of countries
of the Far East, and the essay is
to be 5,000 words in length. Es
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j All Students Must
Register Number
Of New Licenses
Penalty for Failure to Comply Will
Result in Withdrawal of
Automobile Permits
All students with automobiles
must register the new license num
ber at the automobile office, 14
Friendly hall, before 5 o’clock Mon
day, January 15, Cdiltort E. Spen
cer, chairman of the enforcement
committee, announced yesterday.
This announcement is in accord
ance with rule three of the student
automobile regulations, a copy of
which is given to every student on
registration, All students are held
responsible for knowing these reg
ulations, since everyone signs a
card, stating that he received a
copy of the regulations, knows and
understands them, and will abide
by them.
The penalty for failure to regis
ter a new license by Monday will
be the same as if the student had
not registered his car at the first
of the term, and will result in the
withdrawal of permission to drive
an automobile.
Group Requirements '
In Languages Studied
Undergraduates may be able to
fulfill language group require
ments by taking a second year
course in a foreign language, rath
er than the third year course,
which is now required.
This possibility is being studied
by Dr. L. O. Wright, Romance
language professor, and Dr. E. G.
G. Schmidt, head of the German
department, who have been ap
pointed by Dr. C. V. Boyer, dean
of the college of arts and letters,
to consider the advisability of such
a change.
Scabbard, Blade Make
Plans for Military Ball
Plans for the annual Military
ball to be held later on this term
were discussed at a meeting of
Scabbard and Blade, national mil
itary honorary, Tuesday night at
the Kappa Sigma house.
The exact date and place have
not as yet been decided upon, but
it is understood that the affair will
be of an invitational sort.
Next Wednesday night 12 new
pledges of the Scabbaril and Blade
will undergo formal initiation into
the honorary.
Campus Calendar
There is room for advertising
solicitors on the business staff of
the Emerald. Anyone interested
in soliciting ads is asked to see
Grant Thuemmel, business man
ager of the Emerald, any day this
week between the hours of 2 to 3
in the Emerald business office at
McArthur court.
A meeting cf tht? V. W. C. A.
upperclass commission has been
announced for 1 o’clock sharp to
day at the Y. W. hut.
All house presidents are invited
to the dance given by the “hill"
federation on January 19, 1934, in
Gerlinger" hall at 9 p. m. Infor
mal.
Executive council meets at 11:50
a. m. today on the steps of John
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Second Series
Of W.F. Jewett
Contest Slated
Extempore Competition
February 22
FRIZES TO BE GIVEN
American Education Chosen Topic
For Talks; Kules Announced
1!\ Speech Division
The second of the year’s series
of W. F. Jewett speaking contests,
the extempore contest, will be held
February 22, the speech division
announced yesterday. The contest
is open to all undergraduates, men
and women, excepting those who
have won first prizes in previous
extempore competition in the var
sity series.
The general subject, “Whither
American Education,” will include
all phases of recent developments
in elementary, secondary, and col
legiate education in the United
States: the effect of the depression
upon the status of education, new
experiments and movements in ed
ucation, and the relation of educa
tion to modern society.
In the announcement the speech
division outlined six important
points of information that persons
interested in the contest are urged
to consider:
1. Contestants should sign up
for entry at once in the speech di
vision offices.
2. Students wishing to earn
credit for work in preparation for
the contest should register for
English 308, intercollegiate rra
tory.
3. Regular meetings of contest
ants will be held, and a def te
amount of preparation in gather
ing material and in practice speak
ing will be required.
4. Preparation for the contest
should be made by reading the gen
eral field (see bibliography at main
library reference desk) and by col
lecting materials carefully. Ade
quacy of information will weigh
heavily in the judges’ decisions.
5. Speakers will draw in turn
for subtopics one hour before the
time of each speaker to appear on
the platform. Drawings will be
made from a list of twelve sub
topics, prepared by members of
the faculty. Each contestant will
draw three topics, and return the
two he wishes to reject.
6. Length of speeches shall be
not less than eight or more than
10 minutes.
Prizes of $15, $10, and $5 will
be awarded first, second, and third
places, respectively. A speaker to
represent the University in the
state extempore contest on March
9 will be chosen from among the
three winners.
Spencer to Speak
At Pre-Law Meet
^aruon Uj. hpencer, professor of
law, will speak at the first meet
ing this term of the pre-legal stu
dent association, to be held at
7:30 p. m. Tuesday, January 16,
in 105 Oregon.
Professor Spencer’s speech will
be on “Some Interesting Sidelights
on Ancient Law.” He has devel
oped this subject in a light vein,
and will present many points of
vital interest to students who are
planning to study law.
The program for tne rest of the
year will be announced at the
meetihg, according to Orville
Thompson, president of pre-legal
students.
The pre-legal association is made
up of students who are preparing
to study law, but are not yet in
the law school itself.
Senior Activity Cards
For Oregana Must Be
Completed by Friday
Senior representatives of all
houses and halls are requested
to call at the Oregana office at
the Igloo and get the senior ac
tivity cards immediately. These
cards must be returned to the
Oregana office by Friday after
noon.
All unaffiliated seniors are to
go to the Oregana office and
fill these cards out by Friday,
tt is important that this be done
at once so that senior activi
ties may be listed in the Ore
gana.
CampusEtiquette
Presented in New
Book No w on Sale
“The Curtsy,” a book of campus
etiquette published by Phi Theta
Upsilon, women's upperclass hon
orary, goes on sale today: and the
search for the most polite man
and woman on the campus, which
is being held in conjunction with
the sale, continues.
The winners of the “most po
lite" contest will be announced
next week in the Emerald, and
they will each be awarded a ticket
to the Gamma Alpha Chi fashion
dance. Phi Theta Upsilon urges
all students interested in the con
test to buy “The Curtsy,” which
tells the polite thing to do in
every case from eating noodles to
proposing to one’s girl friend.
Copies of “The Curtsy,” which
deals with campus etiquette, cus
toms, manners, and traditions, are
on sale in living organizations and
in the Co-op for 15 cents each.
Louise Barclay is general chair
man of the sale and the contest.
She is assisted by Mary Snider,
chairman of house sales; Margaret
Ellen Osborne, chairman of Co-op
sales; and Ann-Reed Burns, pub
licity.
Faculty Refuses
Motion Limiting
Class Absences
Thirty-One Seniors Recommended
For Degrees at Regular
Session Last Night
The University faculty denied
the motion limiting the number of
absences for students, at their reg
ular meeting in Johnson hall last
night.
The motion, which was present
ed by Professor James D. Barnett
of the political science department,
read: "No credit for any course
.shall be given to a student who
for any reason has been absent
from class a number of times equal
to the weekly number of class
hours plus two!"
Thirty-one students were rec
commended for degrees at the ses
sion.
A discussion of proposed chang
es in this year’s University catalog
was being held when the meeting
was adjourned until next Wednes
day evening.
Symposium Will
Hold First Meet
The social science symposium
will hold its first meeting on Jan
uary 16 in the men’s lounge of
Gerlinger at 4 o’clock. This is a
change of time, placing the meet
ing one week earlier than January
23, the time previously arranged.
At this time Professors A. L. Lo
max and W. D. Smith will present
material to the group which will
serve as a basis for subsequent re
ports from other departments.
Interested instructors and stu
dents enrolled in the social science
symposium, course 508, are asked
to attend, and departments in the
school of social science, the schools
of law, journalism, business, and
education, are requested to have
representatives present, if possible,
to assist in arranging for the pro
gram which will follow as a result
of the material to be presented at
this first meeting.
Present Term
Emerald Staff
Choices Made
Changes Made in Upper
Positions
LISTING TENTATIVE
Caswell Associate Editor; Bauer,
Phipps, Blais, Have New Jolis
On Campus Daily
The news and editorial staff of
the Emerald for the present term
was completed in tentative form
yesterday by Sterling Green, edi
tor, and Joseph Saslavsky, man
aging editor.
Changes were made in execu
tive positions, but the staff as a
whole remains practically the
same as it was during the fall
term.
Don Caswell, news editor of last
quarter, was named associate edi
tor. Doug Polivka is the holdover
associate editor. Merlin Blais was
added to the editorial board, which
is composed also of Guy Shadduck,
Parks Hitchcock, and Stanley
Robe.
Bauer News Editor
Malcolm Bauer, former sports
editor, was appointed to Caswell’s
former position as news editor,
while Estill Phipps, a day editor
last term, replaces Bauer.
Other members of the upper
news staff include Cynthia Lilje
qvist, women’s editor; A1 Newton,
dramatics editor; Abe Merritt,
chief night editor; Mary Louiee
Edinger, society editor; Barney
Clark, humor editor; Peggy Chess
man, literary editor; and George
Callas, radio editor.
The staff of day editors is com
posed of Newton, Mary Jane Jen
kins, Ralph Mason, and John Pat
ric. One other member for this
group will be selected in the near
future.
Reporters Named
Feature writers are Henriette
Horak and Ruth McClain. Ann
Reed Burns, Roberta Moody, New
ton Stearns, and Howard Kessler
make up the group of executive
reporters.
The reporting personnel fol
lows: Clifford Thomas, Hilda Gil
lam, Helen Dodds, Mariam Eich
ner, Virginia Scoville, Marian
Johnson, Reinhart Knudsen, Pat
Gallagher, Velma McIntyre, Vir
ginia Catherwood, James Morri
son, Frances Hardy, Ruth Weber,
and Rose Himelstein.
Assisting Phipps in the sports
department are Bill Eberhart,
Clair Johnson, George Jones, Dan
Clark, Ted Blank, Don Olds, Bill
Aetzel, Ned Simpson, Charles Pad
I dock, and Bob Becker. Betty
Shoemaker is women's sports edi
' tor.
Copyreaders Selected
Elaine Cornish, Dorothy Dill,
Marie Pell, Phyllis Adams, Mar
gery Kissling, Maluta Read, Mil
dred Blackburne, George Bikman,
Virginia Endicott, Nan Smith, and
Corinne LaBarre form the copy
reading troupe.
Assistants for the women’s page
I include Betty Labbe, Mary Gra
ham, Bette Church, Marge Leon
ard, Donna Theda, and Ruth Hei
berg.
Acting as night editors are Al
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Guild Players Select Notable
Plays for Work This Quarter
Although Bill Ireland, Stewart
Riddell, and Guy Moniham are not
returning to school this quarter,
the Guild Hall players still have
a full quota of actors with the ad
dition of Earl Bucknum, William
Lewis, Helen Campbell, Mabel
Goodwin, LuCille Stewart, and
Helen Veblen.
Two plays are now going into
rehearsal, both to be presented
this quarter. The first is “Gods
of the Mountain,” the most spec
tacular and startling of the many
plays which Lord Dunsany has
laid in an ancient world which is
always peopled by desert dwellers,
dromedary men, foolish citizens,
and green gods. Dunsany’s gods
always laugh at man. The key
note of many of his colorful,
pseudo-legendary plays Is found dn
the mouth of an old beggar in the
present drama. It is the whim
pering old fellow Ulf, ignorant,
mean, but something of a seer,
who sums up the theme of the
play in wailing dread in the line,
“I think when man is high then
most of all are the gods wont to
mock him.”
"Gods of the Mountain” was
produced once before on the cam
pus five or six years ago with fine
effect. The present production is
to have an entirely new setting
with completely different arrange
ment of business. It will be pre
sented early in the quarter.
The other play is a translation
from the Spanish, Martinez Sier
ra’s unique drama of convent life,
“The Cradle Song,” in which Eva
Le Gallienne achieved notable suc
cess recently in New York and on
tour with her Civic Repertory
company. She is on tour this sea
son with “Alice in Wonderland,”
and with “Romeo and Juliet.” In
the meantime her place in the
“Cradle Song” is being taken on
the screen by the much heralded
German actress, Dorothea Wieck.
Casting for both plays is still
going on and will soon be an
nounced. For the present, Guild
Theatre seethes with tryouts.