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VOL. XXXV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1934 NUMBER C5 New Vocation Conference Is SlatedByAWS Session Under Direction Of A. W, S. WOMEN WILL SPEAK All Students Invited to Participate In General and Round-Table Discussions to Be Held The first vocational conference ever to be held at the University will take place February 14 and 15, under the direction of the As sociated Women Students, Mary golde Hardison, chairman of the conference, announced yesterday. Round-table discussions and gen eral speeches, all dealing with wo men’s relation to vajrious fields of business, professions, and society, will be held during the two days of the conference. Women from Portland and other Oregon cities who are outstanding in particular fields will speak on the various kinds of work open to women and will lead the group discussions. Students Invited All University students are in vited to attend the meetings of the conference, all of which will be free. Arrangements will be made for students to have personal in terviews with the speakers, in or der to secure more definite infor mation about certain fields of work. Both the general speeches and the round-table discussions will deal with the requirements and qualifications for a certain field, the opportunities for women in that field, chances for advance ment, average pay, and other such questions. Mass Meets Replaced This conference will replace the vocational mass meetings held by the A.W.S. last year, when each month one speaker discussed some field of work open to women. Three round-tables will be held Wednesday, February 14, and two on Thursday, February 15, accord ing to the schedule as now planned. On both nights general speeches will be made, followed by discussions. A detailed program and the speakers will be announced later. Committee chairmen in charge of the conference are Marygolde Hardison, general chairman; Mar gery Thayer, assistant chairman; Marie Saccomanno, secretary; Janet McMicken, contacts; Ann Reed Burns, publicity; and Rosa lind Gray, special conferences. j Master Dance Takes Four New Members Tryouts were^ held yesterday at 4:30 for Master Dance, campus dance honorary, and resulted in the election of four new members. Those elected to the honorary were: Roberta Moody, Lois Howe, Maxine Goetsch, and Marion Shel don. An original dance, execution of technique, and improvisation to music with two terms of creative dancing are the requirements. Try outs will be held again spring term. I Would-Be Sigma Delta Chi’s Begin Annual Torture Would-be Sigma Delta Chis should add one more little item to the familiar list of journalism re quirements. A proficient public speaker should have little to fear —in case he is recognized as one of the five most prominent Junior majors in journalism. Neophytes of the national pro fessional journalism fraternity will make their debut as campus in tellectuals when, attired in “soup and fish,” they will declaim on “The Bearing the Amount of Wa ter That Goes Over the Dam Has on the Price of Yams in Yugo slavia,” and kindred subjects. Time: 11:50. Place: old libe steps. Weapons: well-ripened vegetables. For nearly a week five earnest young men sporting lead linotype slugs in their lapels have paced the campus paths mumbling under their breaths. Now and again they pause and gesticulate elo quently. The following orators will make their initial and pos sibly their last campus public ad dresses Friday: Reuben “Red” Radabaugh, Art “Silk Hat” Derby shire, Guy “Shady” Shadduck, Les “Stuttering” Stanley, and Bill “Tubby" Aetzel. Casts of Spanish Plays Completed Final casts have been selected for the Spanish one-act plays which are being produced by the University Spanish club, under the direction of Marie Saccomanno. The casts, which were finally chosen at the last tryouts held yes terday afternoon, are as follows: “El Joven Medico Infortunado,’’ with Bill Starr, Harvey Field, Lo rayne Blackwell; “La Broma,” with Salvador Miramontes, Tony Yturri, Flora Urquiri, Dorothy Hindmarsh; “La Primera Disputa,” with Tom White, Maxine McDon ald. and Laura Goldsmith. These plays will be given at three consecutive weekly meetings of the Spanish club, beginning in about two weeks. O. F„ Stafford Leaves Today for California O. F. Stafford of the chemistry department will leave today at noon for San Francisco, where he will Attend the meeting of the ex ecutive-committee of the Pacific division of the American Associa tion for the Advancement of Sci ence. The committee will make arrangements for the national meeting of the association to be held in Berkeley, California in June. Stafford will visit the Stanford campus on Saturday. ’32 Alninus Changes Name to C. L. Condon Something new in the way of alumni news was the information revealed yesterday by the alumni records clerk yesterday to the ef fect that Clifforw Le Roy Horner, University graduate in 1932, by a recent order of the Lane county court has had his name changed to Clifford Le Roy Condon. In the petition it was cited that his name was changed from Con don, his true name, to Horner early in life without his consent. Performance of Lead Player And Settings of Play Praised Two items worthy of high praise in connection with the Guild thea ter presentation of “Gods of the Mountain" last night are the sets and the dramatic work of Ted Karafotias. Only two scenes were used, and they were laid out in such a man ner that only a few shifts of the properties were necessary to change the locale and atmosphere entirely. The lighting was not only ar ranged artistically but in a man ner which produced a most effect ive atmosphere. The effect of changing seven men into sever jade statues was produced entirely by clever lighting. Much of the drama of the piece was brought about by the use of light and shad ows supplemented by backgrounc sounds. Credit for these clever and ar tistic arrangements goes to Hor ace W. Robinson, instructor in dra matics, who acted as scene de signer and technical director. Ted Karafotias, who played the part of Agmar, the leader of the | beggars, has been active in dra j matic work for some time. He performed several times during ! the latter part of his high school ! course in Portland and is now one of the most active students in the i drama division. | His was the part of a leader who ] succeeded in passing off six beg gars and himself as the “Gods of the Mountain." He must do the thinking for the group in all emer gencies. In the end, when the sev | en are given their just punish ment by the gods themselves, he j is the last to succumb to their power. In his portrayal of the struggle between the strong personality of the beggars’ leader and the power of the gods, Karafotias produced , a very strong bit of drama. I Gertrude Winslow, who is gen erally considered one of the finest actresses on the campus, had a j small part as the priestess. | “The Gods of the Mountain" : will be given once more next Sat I urday night in the Guild theater, (Continued oil Page Four) Urst Municipal Ski Course Dedicated With dedication of Snoquahni ski park at tli ■ summit of the Snoqualmie pass highway in the Cascade range 40 miles easi of Seattle, that city ;s believed to lx* the first American municipality to have established a city winter sports playground. In the above photograph, Mayor -John F. Dore of Seattle, who presided at the dedication, is pictured with Queen Marguerite Strizek and other ski en thusiasts. . Lawrence Takes Interest in Dance Slated by Artists Dean of Fine Arts School Speaks On Beaux Arts Ball Friday In Gerlinger Hall Ellis F. Lawrence, dean of the school of fine arts, showed his in terest in the Beaux Arts ball, to be given tomorrow in Gerlinger hall, in a brief talk before mem bers of the Allied Arts league yes terday afternoon. Dean Lawrence emphasized the ideas that the Beaux Arts ball is not only a lot of fun because it is the only costume dance of the year, but also that the decorations will show the ability of the artists in the school, being an example of the type of work they are doing. Elaborate and artistic decorations are being planned. Tickets are 75 cents a couple, but “stags” may pay an admission price of 35 cents for women and 40 cents for men at the door, it was announced at the meeting. Ed Hicks, president of the league, reports that all University students may attend the dance. Books In Braille Used Extensively By Blind Students Magazines as well as text-books and classical literary works are included in the library’s collection of Braille books for the use of blind students. Their use is ex tensive, although few students are now regular users, said Mrs. May belle Rietman, librarian in charge of the English reserve, yesterday. Requests to borrow Braille books coome in frequently through the mail, so that if the books are not in use on the campus they can be sent to other readers. Recently a request for a French grammar in Braille came from a student in Raleigh, North Carolina. A blind student interviewed yesterday said that she reads a great deal in Braille, having learned to read it when she war, a small child, and that she par ticularly enjoyed reading Braille magazines such as the Reader’s Digest, a subscription to which has been donated to the library. This student said that music could be obtained in Braille, but that reading it is a rather slow process. Reading . in Braille is somewhat slower than reading print, anyway, she said, although she can write her class notes in Braille about as fast as a person can write longhand. Cornish Arranges for Eastern Scholarships Arrangements are being made by Prof. N. H. Cornish of the Uni versity school of business adminis tration with Dr. Norris A. Erisco, dean of the school of retailing at New York university, to secure five scholarships for graduates of University school of business ad ministration. Students winning the scholar ships will receive $500 a year to ward their expenses at the New York university. For the remain ing costs they will be allowed to do part time work in one of the big retail stores of New York City. Cornish is hopeful of obtaining the scholarships. Floivers, Spring Days Come Here A dangerous and unusual (espe cially for winter term) epidemic is menacing the campus. Many students are suffering severe at tacks of the malady; that is, spring fever. When students loll on the grass by the old libe and cameras begin to click, it is a sure sign spring is here, whether or not the cal ' endar declares it the middle of winter. Even the law students’ curb has been more crowded than usual the past two days, and the Gamma Phis donned their bathing suits yesterday afternoon for a dip in the “Old Mill Race.” Rose bushes that have not lost their withering winter blossoms yet are beginning to show signs of new spring foliage, and not in the memory of Sam Mikkleson, University gardener, have the for sythia and the Japanese plum trees behind Friendly bloomed as early as they have this year. F. W. Wilkins, an old citizen of Eugene, said that in his 85 years of life he has seen only a dozen such winters in Oregon. Mountain Heads Wrestling Squad Exponents of wrestling met at the men’s gym recently, and de cided to petition the executive council for recognition and a coach, according to Tom Moun tain, who was elected captain. About 15 were present and sev eral more are working out. The team needs more heavyweights and light-heavies, stated Moun tain. The committee which will formulate the petition is being se lected, and will presecit it some time in the near future. At Unusual Time Calendar Alpha Delta Sigma meeting this afternoon at 4 in Professor Thach er’s office. Alpha Kappa Psi meeting this afternoon at 4 in 106 Commerce. Westminster Guild meets to night from 9 to 10 at Westmin ster house. Everybody is welcome. Skull and Dagger alumni meet ing at the Chi Psi lodge Friday night at 8 o'clock preceding the dance. Tuxedos are required. Phi Mu Alpha members and pledges meet in the music lecture room tonight at 7:30. Tau Delta Delta Oregana pic ture to be taken at 12:40 in the patio of the Art building. Thespian Oregana picture to be taken at 12:45 in the patio of the Art building. Debate Oregana picture sched uled for 12 noon on the back steps of Johnson. Drama department of Wesley club meets at 8 at Dorothy Ny land's. All interested in dramat ics attend. Christian Science organization holds its regular Thursday eve ning meeting tonight at 8 in the l Y. W. C. A. bungalow. Contest of Photos Opens for College Student Amateurs! Wisconsin Camera Club Sponsor Of First Salon; Prizes to Be Presented Information concerning- the First Annual National Collegiate Pho tographic Salon was received yes terday by Dean of Men Virgil D. Earl. This salon, which is spon sored by the University of Wiscon sin Camera club, is open to any amateur photographer enrolled in an American college or university, and was inaugurated “to foster a i stronger relationship between the ! colleges and universities of this | nation.’’ March 2.1 to April 15 is the date of the exhibit to be held at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union at Madison, Wisconsin, and the entries close March 16, accord ing to the application blank, copies of which may be had from the bulletin board in the journalism building. Dr. Max Thoreks of Chicago, president of the Photographic So ciety of America, will be judge, and medals are to be awarded to prints which the judge deems worthy. There is an entry fee of 75 cents to defray costs of mailing and gallery expenses, and no en trants may submit more than three photographs, none to exceed in size 16 by 20 inches. All prints will be returned to the entrant and the exhibit will be insured while it is hanging. “V\e feel that a salon of this kind, which we hope to make an annual affair, is what the thou sands of amateur photographers in the colleges and universities of this nation need to foster a strong er relationship between them, and in the end we hope to lead to the organization of a national organi zation of collegiate camera clubs,” says James A. Schwalbach, pres’i | dent of the University of Wiscon sin Camera club. Honoraries Schedule Formal Dinner-Dance Kwama and Skull and Dagger, I women’s and men’s sophomore ser-1 vice lionoraries, will have a formal dinner-dance tomorrow night at 7 at the Eugene hotel. The dinner will be closed, only members of the honoraries and J their escorts being admitted. Past I members of Kwama and Skull and ' Dagger are, however, invited to dance afterwards. Patrons and patronesses are Dr. and Mrs. Leslie Schwering, Mr. and Mrs. Carlton E. Spencer, Dr. and Mrs. Harold J. Noble. In charge of arrangements for the dinner and dance are Al Niel sen, Jeff Howard, Cosgrove La Barre, Ann-Reed Burns, and Adele Sheehy. Dr. Wright Appointed Substitute on Council Dr. L. O. Wright, professor of Romance languages, has been ap pointed temporary substitute for Dr. Clara Smertenko on the grad uate council by Dr. C. V. Boyer, acting president of the University. Dr. Smertenko, who was profes : stfr of Greek and Latin, is now on leave of absence. The graduate council, which con sists of representatives from the faculty of each college, decides on question concerning graduate study. Kind of Student Main Concern Of Oregonians Lions Club Hears Talk Hv Chancellor HISTORY REVIEWED Character of Oregon Graduates Stands Above Mechanical Organization The people of Oregon are in terested in the character and type of student produced by Oregon’s higher institutions of learning, rather than the mechanics of or ganization and the location of the schools. This was the essence of the speech Chancellor W. J. Kerr made before members of the Eu gene Lions club Wednesday noon. “The plan of organization is the cause of a great deal of worry on the part of some, and more than that on the part of others,” he said, “but it is the spirit, not the mechanics, that makes for unity.” Student Character Important “The people of the state are in terested in what kind of students are coming from the institutions. They want to know if the students are interested in the communities. They want to know what is the character of the students,” Dr. Kerr pointed out. He stated that to make the in stitutions the servants of the peo ple, . and to provide the best pos sible training for the youths who are to solve the many problems that are arising before the state, is the chief objective of the chan cellor, the presidents, and faculty members of all the institutions of higher learning in Oregon. Changes Take Place The history of the nation’s edu cational system was reviewed by the chancellor. He also briefly pointed out the causes for the present conditions existing in Ore gon’s system of higher education. Dr. Kerr called attention to the changes and experiments going on in the fields of education. "We must move on, we must do our best. The institutions of educa tion are adjusting themselves to meet the changing conditions in the social and economic fields in order to render the service the people need,” he said. Higher in stitutions of learning, especially, are undergoing great changes, he concluded. Faculty Members Clown at Annual Gleeman Dinner Three University faculty mem bers forgot their campus dignity temporarily Tuesday night to clown at the annual banquet of the Eugene Gieemen held at the Osburn hotel. Paul R. Washke, professor of physical education, appeared in the traditional “freshman” stunt and sang several songs, playing his own accompaniment on the ukulele. George Harrington, graduate assistant in the history depart ment, took part in the highlight event of the humorous program; the stunt burlesqued one of the Gleemen’s favorite songs. John L. Casteel, director . of speech, gave a number of humor ous readings. Beginning next Tuesday, the Gieemen will resume their regular v/eekly rehearsals for the remain der of their season concerts. Eastern Teachers Ask About Summer School A group of teachers in New York read an article in the February is sue of the National Geographic magazine containing scenes of Ore gon “which are most intriguing." As a result, one of the group wrote to the extension division of the University for information concerning summer school. One of the questions asked was, “Are automobile roads1 passable from New York to Oregon?” Also, “Are there any scenic trips around the University?” The writer inquired about rates to Alaskan points and asked if a trip to the North could be squeezed in betv^en the close of summer session and the beginning of school. Woman Candidate Clara Short ridge Foltz, sister of the former U. N. senator and a veteran political campaigner, will l>e a figure in the next Cali fornia gubernatorial race. She is a republican. Auto Enforcement Committee Denies Vehicles for Two Failures to Report 1934 License Numbers Lead to Action, Says Spencer Several students have been de prived of the use of their cars by Uie automobile enforcement com mittee because they had not re ported their new 1934 license num bers to the automobile office. Two or three students who ap peared before the committee and were able to show justifiable rea sons for not reporting licenses, such as illness in a hospital, were permitted to resume the use of their cars. Those students who were not regranted auto permits will not be allowed to drive under any condi tions unless the enforcement com mittee rescinds the action. Two University students were forbidden the use of cars perma nently, one for driving while under the influence of liquor, and the other for continually ignoring com munications sent him by the auto mobile enforcement office. Carlton E. Spencer, professor of law, is chairman of the enforce ment committee. Moll Scheduled To Give Lecture Prof. E. G. Moll of the English department is scheduled to deliver the fourth and final lecture of the series sponsored annually by the committee on free intellectual ac tivities on Friday, February 23, in Villard hall, it was announced yes terday. Moll will speak on "An Appreciation of Poetry.” The three qther speakers who have taken part in the series were Kenneth Scott Latourette, Yale professor who spoke last fall, Dr. Alexander Goldenweiser of the Portland extension center, and Roger Williams, professor at Ore gon State college. Large audiences attended all these lectures, which are open to townspeople as well as students. Broadcasts Of News in State To Be Offered Three ,Editing Students In Charge FIRST ON SATURDAY Presentation Over Station KOAC' By Malcolm Bauer, Tom Clapp And Elinor Henry The Oregon News Review, a project of Dean Eric W. Allen's senior editing class in the school of journalism, will be presented for the first time over radio sta tion KOAC at Corvallis from 8:30 to 9 o’clock Saturday evening. Three students, Malcolm Bauer, Tom Clapp, and Elinor Henry, have taken over the project as a substitute for the editing theses required each term of members in the class. A general summary of the week’s news in Oregon, se lected from the dailies and week lies of the state, will comprise the broadcast, which will be a regular Saturday evening feature over KOAC, beginning this week. Request Made The news review originated from a request of Dean Alfred Powers of the University exten sion division that such a broad cast of Oregon news be presented January 1. Dean Allen agreed to comply with the suggestion but requested at least a month for practice preparation and perfection of the work. As a result, four practice broadcasts have been prepared and presented before the editing class to stimulate criticisms of the listening members. A major dif ficulty which has been encoun tered is in fitting the desired ma terial into the time allotted. Plan Meets Approval The project was approved by the Oregon State Editorial asso ciation at the recent meeting of the sixteenth annual press confer ence on the University campus. The broadcast which had been prepared for that week was read first before a meeting of the ex ecutive committee and later be fore the general assembly of dele gates. Most of the editors greeted the idea enthusiastically, and the vote taken was favorable to the broadcast. Presentation of the first broad cast will be made by Elinor Henry, who will go to Corvallis Saturday for that purpose. Material for the review is gleaned largely from dailies of the county seats and from weeklies representative of all districts of Oregon. About 40 such papers are available every week to the three students work ing on the project. Dr. Smith Acts us Witness Dr. Warren D. Smith, head of ttie geography and geology depart ments, last week was expert wit ness in a law suit being tried in Vancouver, B. C. This suit grew out of the recent trouble about the oil well which was sunk here several years ago, investments be ing made by many townspeople. No oil has as yet been discovered. "Step Up9 Girls, Give Us Your Applications99 Say Lawyers By ANN-REED BURNS “Do your Christmas shopping early,” they say. Only this time it’s “Put in your dating applications early.’’ Such is the slogan of the law students for the coming annual law school dance tomorrow night. It seems, according to a person al private interview with the law school student body yesterday, that all women desiring to be invited to the law school dance must file formal applications with John Mc Culloch, giving such information as height, weight, coloring, age, and previous condition of servi tude. Law students wanting dates are then referred to this list, which is filling up rapidly, according to the law school. “Women must apply at once before all po.-itions are filled,” “emphatically stated the as sistant dance chairman. “Indeed, why not?” he went on to say. “You may quote me as saying that the law school student body admits that this will be the best campus dance all year long.” Competition for the prize dances, which is a regular feature of the law school dance, will be very stiff. Prof. Carlton E. Spencer, winner of the prize waltz last year, and Prof. Orlando J. Hollis, runner-up v/ill both be in the field again. In the prize fox-trot, though, the field will be open, as last year’s winner, Wally Lawrence, is no longer in school. The dance will be held at the Koko-Nut Grove, alias the Campa Shoppe, alias the Cocoanut Grove, stated the law school unanimously. There was some difference of opin ion, however, as to the orchestra. ‘‘We will probably have Anson Weeks,” announced one committee chairman. “Either Ted Fiorito or a phonograph,” stated another. The consensus finally seemed to be that the orchestra will be an nounced later. Committees are Sig Seashore, general chairman; Gene Laird, and Stanford Brooks, assistant chair men; John Kendall, features; Bil Kinley, tickets; Bill Dashney, sum mons; and John McCulloch, dates