VOL. XXXV
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1934
NUMBER 66
Hundreds Find
Jobs Through
Work Bureau
Applications Up 50 Per
Cent in Fall Term
SEEK CASH FOR FEES
Employment Secretary Secures an
Average of Seven Odd
Jobs Per Day
Highlights of the report from
the employment agency for the
fall term are indicative of the fi
nancial status of the students.
Nearly twice as many applicants
for jobs were accommodated this
year as there were last.
A great demand for odd jobs
was voiced by the students direct
ly before a payment of the reg
istration fees was required. This
year the employment office se
cured 621 odd jobs paid for by
cash and 62 odd jobs paid for in
meals at the rate of one hour’s
work per meal. This is an aver
age of a little better than seven
odd jobs located each day since
September 17.
Wide Range of Work
These jobs have ranged from
taking care of babies to building
bleachers for prize fights, from
weaving rugs to picking grapes.
They have included transplanting
trees to washing dogs, from soap
ing books to decorating birthday
cakes. “We try,” said Miss Janet
Smith, secretary of the employ
ment office, “to fill every request
that is phoned in.”
This number of odd jobs does
not include the permanent posi
tions filled. Thirty students are
working for room and board, 146
students for board only and eight
for room only. The average hour
ly wage paid to student workers
is 30 cents. During Christmas va
cation 35 students received special
work through the employment of
fice and were paid from the stu
dent relief fund. Twelve girls
were situated in stores during the
holidays through the efforts of the
secretary.
Five Hundred Apply
During the fall term of last year
a total of 342 students applied for
work through this office. This
year 509 applications were received
and filed.
According to Miss Smith most
of the money obtained by the stu
dents from these jobs is used to
pay installments on the registra
tion fees. It may be surmised,
then, that the University itself
benefits through the efforts of this
department.
It is hard to figure the exact
number of jobs obtained by stu
dents through this office. One stu
dent reported having secured thir
ty odd jobs due partly or entirely
to the fact that he obtained three
jobs through the bureau, including
carpentry work, shingling roofs,
transplanting trees, splitting wood,
washing windows, etc.
“It is our aim to have the coop
eration between the students and
their employers as perfect as pos
sible,” stated Miss Smith.
Orators Vie for
Contest Chance
Four University students will
orate on peace at 3 o’clock this af
ternoon in Friendly hall in compe
tition for the right to represent
the University in the state peace
oratorical contest.
Geraldine Hickson, Pauline
George, Max Carter, and Winfield
Atkinson are the aspirants.
Thienes Finds Beggary Bad;
So Did Cla ude Raines— Once
Perhaps it is a good omen fori
Bill Thienes that he is playing the
role of Oogno in “Gods of the
Mountain,” which was given Wed
nesday night at Guild theater.
No less a person than the cele
brated Claude Raines, whose fine
portrayals of unusual characters,
chiefly in plays of horror and the
grotesque, have been the talk of
the New York stage for the last
three seasons, appeared as Oogno
in the original production of “Gods
of the Mountain” in London. Mr.
Raines appeared recently in his
first star part in the films as “The
Invisible Man."
Thienes’ part calls for a good bit
of acting. Oogno being a fat stu
pid beggar who finds times hard
for his beggary, and threatening
the unheard of thing among mem
bers of his craft—buys a shop and
“sits at ease in the shade and
barter for gain.”
The seven beggars supporting
Agmar, their leader, portrayed
their characterizations of whining,
slovenly loafers with a great deal
of finesse.
The second performance of
“Gods of the Mountain” will be
given Saturday evening at the
Guild theater at 8 o'clock. The
cast will be the same, except for
Agmar, the leader of the beggars,
which will be played by Bill
Schloth, and the Frightened Man,
which will be portrayed by Ted
Karafotias.
Saturday Last Chance
For Second Payments
Of Registration Fees
Students are reminded that
Saturday, February 3, is the
final date for second payments
on winter term fees, also that
it is the deadline for non-resi
dent fees.
After February 3 fines o^23
cents a day for delinquent Ru
dents will be levied. Students
are subject to disqualification
from the University if payment
is not made by February 10.
Marian Miller to
Be Main Speaker
For Matrix Table
Invitation to Affair Is Considered
Great Honor; About 250
Will Be Issued
Marian Miller (Mrs. Joseph
Hill), well-known member of the
Oregonian staff, is to be the guest
speaker at the annual Matrix
table banquet, sponsored by Theta
Sigma Phi, national women’s fra
ternity, which will be held Febru
ary 22, it was announced last eve
ning by Lillian Rankin, general
chairman.
Invitations to the Matrix Table
is considered by many to be a
great honor. Invitations will be
limited to the outstanding fresh
man and sophomore women ma
joring in journalism; two upper
class women in each living organi
zation, and outstanding faculty
members and townspeople who are
prominent in journalism, litera
ture, or the arts. About 250 in
vitations will be issued.
Committees in charge of the af
fair include Miss Rankin, general
chairman; invitations, Margaret
Brown, chairman, Margaret Van
ess; hotel, Frances Hardy, chair
man, Dorothy Dykeman; speaker,
Ruth McClain; decorations, Cyn
thia Liljeqvist; publicity, Mary
Louiee Edinger, chairman, Janis
Worley.
Paging Solomon
LevilThey’dBuy
Your Ulsterettes
Pawn shops have been combed,
and second-hand stores ransacked
by eager students searching for
attractive or unusual additions to
their costumes for the Beaux Arts
ball tonight at Gerlinger hall.
Stalking art students for days,
disguised in a flowing green robe
and dark glasses, the Emerald re
porter has been trying to find out
just why everyone has been so se
cretive and mysterious about the
decorations for the dance.
For all this stalking and ques
tioning, only one thing has been
learned, namely that one of the
features of the decorations is to
be caricatures several feet high of
famous artists, done by art stu
dents.
One thing that art students are
glad to tell, however, i3 that Al
umni hall has been procured for
the dance until 9:15. Here in the
spacious lobby the costumed
guests will gather until time for
the Grand March which will be led
by Ed Hicks, president of the Al
lied Arts league.
Wesley Club Meeting
Led by Holly Seavey
Sophomores have charge of the
church night party of Wesley club,
Friday night at 8 o’clock at the
Methodist church. Marguerite Da
vidson, Katherine Harvey, Kenneth
Reeves and Charles Grimes are
serving on the committee.
The committee would make no
announcement of their plans but
promise an interesting evening.
Dillinger Gang in National Headlines
i
On the left Is a photo showing; the potent guard which surrounded four members of the Dillinger gang, held in the Tucson, Arizona,
jail. The weapons were formerly in possession of the “mob,” but are being used to prevent any possible escapes. On the right is a pic
ture of Indiana state officers at Tucson, arranging extradition of alleged members of the gang to Indiana, where they face murder
charges. From left to right are Nicola Makar, chief of police of East Chicago, Indiana; Carroll Holley, Lake county, Indiana; and Clar
ence Huston, district attorney of Pima county, Arizona.
Honoraries Slate
Dinner and Dance
For Tlii^ Evening
Kwama and Skull and Daggers
Sponsors of Formal Affair
In Eugene Hotel
The two sophomore service hon
oraries on the campus, Kwama,
and Skull and Dagger, are holding
a closed formal dinner-dance at 7
o’clock tonight at the Eugene ho
tel.
A1 Nielsen and Ann-Resd Burns
represent each organization as
general cochairmen of the dinner,
with Cosgrove La Barre, Jeff
Howard, and Adele Sheehy assist
ing.
All past Kwamas and Skull and
Daggers have been invited to at
tend the dance, although the din
ner itself will open only to pres
ent members of the honoraries and
their escorts.
Patrons and patronesses are Dr.
and Mrs. Leslie Schwering, Mr.
and Mrs. Harold J. Noble, Mr. and
Mrs. Carlton E. Spencer.
Harry Visse Passes
First Test for Degree
Harry Visse, student of busi
ness administration, and president
of Beta Alpha Psi, struggled
through his preliminary examina
tion for a master’s degree with
flying colors yesterday afternoon.
His exam included accounting,
finance, and statistics. Professors
H. V. Hoyt, C. L. Kelly, O. K. Bur
rell, J. M. Rae, and A. B. Still
man formed the committee who
conducted the examination.
Dr. Bowen Nears Kobe
On Trip Around World
Dr. Ray P. Bowen, head of the
Romance language department,
who is at present on sabbatical
leave from the University, will ar
rive at Kobe, Japan, on February
8, according to a letter just re
ceived by Dr. C. B. Beall, associate
professor of Romance languages.
Dr. Bowen is sailing to Kobe
from Honolulu, where he visited
for a short time. He left Eugene
last fall.
Five Sigma Delta Chi
Initiates Will Orate on
Old Lihe Steps Today
I act like a clown
While the world crashes
down
And Asia is seething in
chaos;
But perhaps it is best
To laugh and to jest
For weeping will sure
‘ never pay us.
The foregoing might well be
the philosophy of five Sigma
Delta Chi neophytes when they
appear before their campus
public at 10 minutes to 12 to
day on the old libe steps. A
week’s careful polishing of
phraseology should make profi
cient orators of each prospec
tive journalism fraternity mem
ber at today’s preinitiation.
Reuben Radabaugh, Art
Derbyshire, Bill Aetzel, Guy
Shadduck, and Leslie Stanley
will be formally initiated Sun
day, February 11.
Famous Author’s Children
Attend University ofOreg<
on
Dr. Leoriard Stromberg, Swe
den’s best-loved and one of its
most widely known authors, does
not live in Sweden at all, but in
the little town of Oakland, Nebras
ka, where Eleroy, Eugene, and
Bernice grew up and went to
school before coming to the Uni
versity of Oregon. Eleroy is now a
graduate assistant in the depart
ment of psychology here, Eugene
a graduate student in sociology,
and Bernice a freshman in music.
The Portland Oregonian recent
ly published an article about Dr.
Stromber from which the follow
ing was taken:
“In the little town of Oakland,
in the midst of the great Nebras
ka plain, there has been produced
a literary phenomenon almost
without a parallel as the tremen
dous reception accorded Hervey
Allen's ‘Anthony Adverse,’—yet
which is entirely unknown to the
smart literary intelligentsia.
“Although thousands of miles
from the audience he addresses in
his novels and writing of charac
ters and an environment strange
to his native land, Dr. Leonard
Stromberg, Oakland pastor, is the
most prolific producer of “best
sellers” in the Swedish literary
world.
"... his 43d novel, ‘Goran
Malmsjo,’ . . . has been accepted
for publication ...
“Not the least phenomenal as
pect of the situation is the fact,
that many of his books are inter
pretations of the life of early Swe
dish settlers on the barren prair
ies of the Middle West in frontier
days."
An article in the December is
sue of a Swedish magazine men
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Municipalities in
Oregon Find New
Sources of Cash
Occupational Taxes and Public
Utility Revenues Swelling
Depleted Coffers
Many Oregon cities are resource
fully meeting their tax delinquen
cy situation by evolving new
means of raising revenue, accord
ing to a survey made recently by
Herman Kehrli, director of the
University's bureau of municipal
research.
Kehrli has made this observa
tion in connection with an investi
gation of the financial situation of
Oregon municipalities, one of sev
eral the research bureau Is con
ducting through funds made avail
able by a late CWA allotment.
Occupational license taxes and
profits from public utilities are
the two most prominent new
sources of revenue that many Ore
gon cities are utilizing to meet
their difficulties caused by tax de
| linquencies, that in many cases
i amount to as much as 60 or 70
I per cent, according to Kehrli.
Phi Bete Proves
Success Can Be
Won by Endeavor
Donald Smith Graduates with High
Honors Despite Partial
Optical Defect
Donald Smith, a graduate of the
University of Oregon and member
of Phi Beta Kappa, national scho
lastic honorary, is an interesting
figure.
At 10 years of age Donald lost
his eyesight. Later on when he
was 25, due to an operation, it
was partially restored.
From then on he could see ob
jects and distinguish colors, but
could not read. One of his most
disappointing reactions from re
stored vision is that automobiles
are not the things of beauty that
he had imagined them to be.
Donald received his education in
the Oregon School for the Blind
and later in Beaverton high school
before entering the University of
Oregon, where he graduated with
honors.
Pie is now attempting to study
law, although he finds it very dif
ficult to meet the expense of high
priced law books and other costs.
Campus Calendar
Social swim this evening at
7:30 in women’s swimming pool.
Suits and towels are furnished.
All alumni of Skull and Dagger
meet at Chi Psi lodge tonight at
8, preceding the dance. Everyone
please bring back dues.
Open house will be held tonight
at Westminster house, beginning
at 9:30.
Coed Capers directorate meets
at 12 today on steps of old library
for picture.
Pi Lambda Theta members meet
in front of Education building at
1 o'clock, for Oregana picture.
Freshman basketball squad Ore
gana picture will be taken at Mc
; Arthur court today at 3:45 p. m.
Intramural managers and Beta
Theta Pi basketball teams meet
for Oregana pictures at 2:50 p. m.
today at men’s gym.
Theta Sigma Phi members will
have Oregana pictures taken to
day at 12:40 on the steps of Con
don.
Gamma Alpha Chi Oregana pic
ture at 12:45 today on Condon
steps.
Senior stunt rehearsal for Coed
Capers will be held on the stage
of Gerlinger at 4 today.
Members of the cast of the Jun
ior stunt in Coed Capers meet at
4 today at Gerlinger.
Orides will not meet Monday,
because of the basketball game.
Important Work
Accomplished at
Research Meeting
Plans for Activities in Colleges
lleltl 11s Prominent Topic
Of Discussion
Much important business was
transacted at the regular quarter
ly meeting of the General Re
search council held in Corvallis on
Wednesday, according to Profes
sor Howard R. Taylor of the psy
chology department, who is direc
tor of the personnel research di
vision and a member of the coun
cil.
Plans for supporting research
work in the future, the importance
of research activity in institution's
of higher education, considering
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Group Plans for
Active Weekend
Westminster house is this week
end offering- a number of varied
activities to students, beginning
tonight with a covered dish din
ner to be held at the Central Pres
byterian church. Presbyterian
students will be invited to the din
ner, which is to be followed by a
speech by Dr. McAfee. Open
house at Westminster house will
follow this entertainment.
Saturday night the high school
group of the church is having a
party, and on Sunday morning at
9:45, Prof. Jesse Bond of the
school of business administration,
will speak on the New Testament,
the first of a series of three lec
tures.
A social half-hour will be held at
0 Sunday evening, after which Dr.
Philip A. Parsons of the sociology
department will talk about "The
Place of Religion in Culture.”
Rue’s Class Inspects
Banks to See Works
To see what makes the big
banks tick was the purpose of
Prof. John M. Rae’s class during
its visit to the First National and
U. S. National banks yesterday
morning.
Rae’s class in bank manage
ment of about twenty-four divided
into two groups, one for*each bank.
One of the officials of each in
stitution conducted the tour point
ing out the items of interest to the
future financiers.
Final Grades Depend
On Mid-term Average
Says Karl W. Onthank
The importance of mid-term
grades should not be minimized
by the students, warns Karl W.
Onthank, dean of personnel
work on the campus.
"There is a tendency on the
part of students to regard the
mid-term as of minor impor
tance,” says Onthank. “This is
a mistaken idea. Those who
make poor grades for these ex
ams will be under surveillance
for the rest of the term, until
they can show their ability to
come within the minimum grade
requirements of the Univer
! sity.”
Lavp. Marriage Talks
Scheduled on Monday
Postponed One Week
The love and marriage lec
ture scheduled for next Monday
evening has been postponed un
til the following Monday, Feb
ruary 12.
At that time, two different
talks on the biological aspects
of the topic will be presentee*,
with women meeting in Ger
linger at 8:15 p. m. and men
convening in Villard at the
same hour.
Student Violinist
Will Play Difficult
Concerto Sunday
Work by Russian Master to Take
Entire Second Half of
Symphony Program
“The Tschaikowsky Concerto is
very long," stated Rex Under
wood, director of the University
Symphony, when questioned about
the material selected for next
Sunday’s program.
“It will take the entire last half
of our program—about forty-five
minutes.”
Frances Erockman, prominent
campus violinist, will play this
number with the assistance of the
orchestra.
This selection is considered one
of the most difficult violin con
certos of the present day.
Other numbers on the program
are the Rosamunde Overture by
Schubert and the Polevitsky
Dances from "Prince, Igor” by
Borodin. The latter number is be
ing repeated by popular request.
Barrister Babb
Asks Aid In Hunt
For rGolden Age’
Have you an attic--a very old
attic ? If so, it might be very
profitable to look in it for old
newspapers. A letter received yes
terday by M. H. Douglass from
James E. Babb, attorney at law,
Lewiston, Idaho, requests copies of
the Golden Age, a newspaper pub
lished at Lewiston in 1862-1865.
Copies of this publication are not
believed to be in existence unless
they are stored away and their
owners do not know they have
them.
The letter also seeks information
about the removal of the capital
of Idaho from Lewiston to Boise,
believed to have taken place about
October, 1865. This information
could most easily be found in con
temporary newspapers of the
northwest.
Douglass said that he would
have the latter data looked for in
the few newspapers dating back
that far which the library has.
L. K. Shumaker to Give
Talk in McMinnville
L. X. Shumaker, supervisor of
the English bureau, will speak at
the Kiwanis club in McMinnville
Wednesday noon, February 7, on
remedial English.
Last term, Professor Shumaker,
made a diagnosis of students in
Linfield college at McMinnville
and left exercises for remedial
cases to follow. He will on this
trip check the results of the diag
nosis.
He will also confer with high
school teachers in McMinnville
about teaching grammar from a
functional point of view.
Duck Hoopers
Getting Ready
Forpext Tilts
Washington Huskies to
Furnish Opposition
GAMES TO RE HERE
Two Contests Will Bo Played in
Series Monday and Tuesday
Nights in Igloo
By BILL EBERHART
With the two-game series with
Washington only three days away,
Coach Bill Reinhart is still send
ing his hoop squad through their
practice steps. The workout last
night was in the way of a dress
rehearsal, for the hoopsters sup
plemented Bill's lecture on “bas
ketball appreciation" with demon
strations of how some of the
dance routines against other teams
go.
The whole hoop contingent,
from the freshman managers to
Reinhart himself, have spent a
typical preparation week, without
even a sprained finger to mar the
serenity of the practice sessions.
There is nothing particular to
work on to get in readiness for
the Huskies, for the Seattle team
plays a straight man-for-man de
fense, and no special offense, ex
cept an occasional block and a
batch of long shots.
Reinhart plans to take at least
his first team to Corvallis tonight
and tomorrow night to view the
Beaver-Husky clashes from the
stands. Oregon State presents the
most serious threat to Husky su
premacy at this point in the cam
paign, and Hec Edmundson, Wash
ington coach, will undoubtedly
give his boys instructions to open
up and give the Orangemen every
thing in the books.
The Webfoots hope to get
enough of an eyeful in Corvallis
to carry them through the first
of next week, when the league
leaders attempt to march through
Eugene without dropping a game.
Passes Awarded
To Emerald Staff
Belated recognition to hard
workers on the staff of the Emer
ald during the past two weeks is
hereby given. Ten passes to the
Colonial theater were awarded to
these zealous journalists for their
outstanding work on the campu3
daily for that fortnight.
Ann-Reed Burns won two passes
for her reporting efforts. Rein
hart Knudsen also captured two
ducats for his reportorial ability,
while Howard Kessler was re
warded with another.
Among the copyreading staff,
Marie Pell received two free ad
missions, with Margery Kissling
and Virginia Endicott w'.iners of
one each. Virginia Scoville joined
the charmed circle by turning in
the most tips, journalistic par
lance for suggestions of prospec
tive stories.
Student Undergoes Operation
Doris Heuser, Pi Beta Phi, made
a hurried trip to her home in Mc
Minnville Wednesday, where she
was operated on for appendicitis
yesterday morning. She will not
return to school until spring term
“She is getting along fine, thank
you,” say the Pi Beta Phis.
Morse Surrenders to Police
Who Arrange Special Guard
The dreaded “Black Marla” will
carry off some of the most re
spected University professors to
night, when, to the tune of wail
ing sirens and screeching brakes,
Dean Wayne L. Morse and several
members of the law school faculty
are escorted to the annual law
school dance at the Koko-Nut
grove, by a guarded police patrol.
It is reported that out of respect
to the sedentary nature of the oc
cupation of these men, they will
be allowed to bring sofa pillows
to augment the patrol wagon’s up
holstery.
Girls who attend the dance may
also be implicated with the police,
according to William Dashney,
chairman of summons. However,
as yet the “police is working on
the case,” and there is little
known definitely.
Don Eva's barfly quartet, “Zar
ioco,” danced by Ward Winter
meier; and a reading by Waltei
Hempstead, will be intermission
numbers stated John Kendall, in
charge of features.
The annual event of the “bar
rister’s ball,” the prize dances
will be held as usual. Competi
tion is expected to be especially
heavy for the waltz, since Prof
Carlton E. Spencer, last year’.'
winner, as well as Prof. Orlande
Hollis, runner-up, are both still ir
the field. Prizes are donated by
Eugene merchants.
The law school student body is
expected to attend the dance prac
tically 100 per cent, especially
since tickets are 50 cents a couple
Sig Seashore is general chair
man of the dance, assisted by
Genq Laird and Stan Brooks. Wil
liam Kinley is in charge of ticket
sales, Bill Dashney, summons
John McCulloch, dates, and Johr
Kendall features.