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LAST FEE PAYMENT ill be due at the cashier's office on or before Saturday, May 6. Students not paying by this date will be charged 25 cents a day extra. After Saturday, May 13, students with unpaid fees will be dropped from the University. e*. 'o QUEEN ELECTION; Will be held today at the polls be tween Oregon and Commerce halls. Polls will be open from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. Student body members only will be al lowed to vote. A.S.U.O. card must be presented at the polls. VOLUME XXXV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1934 NUMBER 108 Polls to Open At 9 for Junior Queen Election ASDO Cards Necessary For Voting NOMINEES LISTED Aspirants Presented in Parade Around Campus; Larson Provides Comedy The balloting- for Junior Week end queen and attendants will be held today between 0 and 3 o’clock at the polls situated midway be tween Commerce and Oregon .ac cording to Bob Zurcher, chairman of elections, who stated that all University students who have stu dent body cards are eligible to vote. The nominees are as follows: Virginia Gaddis, Virginia How ard, Miriam Henderson, Margaret Ann Howland, Cynthia Liljeqvist, Marytine New, Lucille Stewart, Elaine Untermann, Lucy Ann Wen dell, Josephine Waffle. These ten junior women who were nominated last week were borne around the campus yester day sitting on top of sporty road sters for campus approbation. Crowds of students issued from all living organizations as the proces sion passed. Members of various fraternities drove the cars. The spectacle rivalled an old fashioned 4th of July celebration as it moved by the new men’s dorm. Paces rapidly emerged from the upper story windows. Boys with towels in their hands, pens, books, thrust these aside as the display of pulchritude slowly moved below. Blondes aiid brunettes were evenly divided and all waved and smiled blithely up at their friends. Chief of all amusement was a mod ed T Ford coupe of aged vintage which was decorated lavishly with Scotch bloom and other wild flow ers. Sitting high and queenly on the ricketty top was Campbell Larson, Sigma Chi, dressed in a lovely flowered gown, picture hat. and radiantly smiling and throw ing kisses at the appreciative crowds. The parade wound around the (Continued on Page Three) ‘The Chief Thing’ Rated By S. Stephenson Smith As Riproaring Comedy S. Stevenson Smith, associ ate professor of English, phoned the Emerald last night at about 9:30 to report that “The Chief Thing,” the Guild hall produc tion which will open tonight at the Guild theater, is one of the most riotous comedies he’s ever seen, professional or amateur. He declared the comic high spot was the sequence depicting the behind-scenes view of a production of "Quo Vadis.” Smith will write the critical article on the play which will appear in tomorrow’s paper. Directs Play Horace W. Robinson, instructor in dramatics, who directed “The Chief Thinj>,” drama division pro duction to open at the Guild thea ter this evening. Two Communists Sell 200 Editions Of'Daily Worker9 Without even one single solitary policeman to protect or deter them, two genuine campus communists yesterday made almost $6.00 for their party unit. Standing on the Co-op corner, they sold nearly 200 copies of the May Edition of the Daily Worker, official organ of the Communist party. Each nickel paid out by student, faculty member, or passerby bought 24 pages and a small slip sheet of flaming revolutionary reading matter. Apparently, most buyers were more curious than communistic, for even a promi nent campus D.A.K. paid out five cents. The two young salesmen were Richard Boiling, senior in sociol ogy, and Clayton Van Lydegraf, freshman in social science. Freshman Picnic To Be Celebrated At Goshen May 20 No-Date Affair Is Open Only for First Year Students; All (Events Free The Frosh Picnic will be held on Sunday afternoon, May 20, instead of May 13 as announced in the Emerald last week. It will be at Swimmers’ Delight, near Goshen on the Pacific highway. The picnic will be a no-date af fair, with only freshmen eligible to attend. Drastic punishment is promised for any sophomore or upperclassman who dares 'to at tend by Dave Lowry, genera! chairman. Expenses will be taken care of by the freshman class and there will be no charge for any of the events. No charge will be made for any of the program, the entire expense being paid from the freshman class treasury. Free transporta tion, free dancing, free refresh (Continucd on Page Tivn) Was This Prof. Dumb or Was He Fooling? Anyway He Won By HOWARD KESSLER Riding into office as fire and police commissioner of Tulsa, Ok lahoma, with hundreds of votes to spare, Colonel Oscar Winslow Hoop, head of the school of gov ernment at the University of Tul sa, must have puzzled his brain considerably to account for the evident failure of the theory he had impounded into the minds of his students insistently and to prove which he had entered the lists as candidate for the office named. “Graft, extravagance and inef ficiency are due to the indifference of the public,” propounded the learned professor, who gained his master of arts degree in history at the University of Oregon in 1928. “The machinery of politics and party organization remains in the hands of politicians only because of the negligence of voters.” Anxious to further demonstrate the infallibility of his premise, the professor decided to roll his Hoop into the political ring and prove to his 150 attentive students that in active yote-getting just wasn't be ing done this season. “I shall make the race with no expectation of being elected,” de clared Hoop in what should have been a sonorous, Demosthenic nom inating speech. But pearls of wis dom were not to be a part of this quaint campaign. ‘‘I will pay my own expenses, make no promises, kiss no babies, conduct myself like a gentleman and congratulate my successful opponent,” and Hoop sat back to wait for the elections and say “I told you so,” to his pu pus. Just what were his emotions when the city of Tulsa showed their preference for Hoop over two campaigning opponents, can only be guessed. Possibly chagrin over the fallacy of his teaching min gled with satisfaction that the cit izens of Tulsa were not gullibly «wayed by stumping or stamping, were his predominant feelings. While stationed as an army of ficer at the Vancouver, Washing ton, barracks, Hoop wrote his mas ter’s thesis on “The History of Fort Hoskins,” located west of Cor vallis, and received his degree at the University. ‘Ch^ Thing’ Ope/* 't Guild Hah icnight Lavish Selling, Unusual Effects Featured ROBINSON DIRECTOR Play First Comedy Produced This Term; Has Scenes Fa id In Russia Lavish settings and unusual lighting effects characterize “The Chief Thing,” which is being pre sented by the University players in Guild hall tonight at 8 o’clock. This Russian comedy, under the direction of Horace W. Robinson, will also be given Friday and Sat urday evenings. This comedy is the first major production presented by the drama division this term. Written by Ev reinov it expresses the playwright’s philosophy—that “life is but a stage, and the men and women merely players.” The play opens in a fortune tell er’s room where many persons come to receive advice. To this room come the Lady with the Dog, Dorothy Parks, whose husband has three wives; the Landlady, El len Galey, who is worrying about her daughter, Barbara Reed, the student, Wm. Dougherty, who at tempted to commit suicide; the deaf mute, Evelyn Davis, and the fallen woman, Helen Campbell, who are married to the same man. Ted Karafotias has the princi pal role of Paraclete, the man with many faces. He will be re membered for his outstanding per formance as Agmar in “Gods of the Mountain.” Gertrude Winslow supporting as the Dancer and Nev ille Biden as the Lover have im portant roles. The setting introduoea for “The Chief Thing,” several new ideas in stage design, a black and white motif, painted shadows on the wall, and a raised stage. Painted shad ows on the wall were seen used most effectively in the motion pic ture “Nana.” This is the first time that Mr. Robinson has appeared as director of rehearsal in Eugene, although he has been technical director and stage designer for all plays given by the department this season. Park Block Scene Of Demonstration By 'Red9 Speakers A crowd of about 150 or 200 persons, one-third of whom were University students calmly lis tened to several speakers at the “red” demonstration held last night in the park blocks in down town Eugene. The Oregon radical club was not officially represented, although a large percentage of their member ship attended. Other students were those from classes in political sci ence, social science, and editing, and those only casually interested. The meeting passed with no vio lence or hard words, the various speakers telling of conditions lo cally, and in Germany, France, and Russia. Very few policemen were present in uniform. Yeomen Officers to Be Elected on Thursday Election of officers for the com ing year will take place at a meet ing of the Oregon Yeomen, men’s independent organization, Thurs day night on the third floor of Gerlinger hall. Plans and organization for the building of the queen's float for the canoe fete will be discussed. Each year the Yeomen have un dertaken the task of building the royal float. George Bennett, who was president of the independent men until this term, Howard Oh mart, and George Teltoft are in charge of the construction. Pan Xenia Will Initiate New Members Tonight Initiation of new members will take place at a meeting of Pan Xenia, national foreign trades hon orary, tonight in the men’s lounge at Gerlinger. The meeting will be gin at 4:45 this afternoon. At 6:00 a dinner will be served in honor of the new members at the Anchorage. At this time offi cers for the coming year will be elected. Arthur Dudley is presi dent of the organization at the I present time. The Revolt Against Drill A Loiter to the Emerald from Oswald Garrison Villard, Loading Liberal Publisher and Former Editor of ‘The Nation’ To flic Editor of the Oregon Emerald, Sir: There are many reasons to justify the increasing revolt in colleges ami universities where there is enforced military train ing. In the first place, the juxtaposition of the military and the civilian in the curriculum is contradictory and un-American, and often leads to direct contradictions in teaching. The viola tion of freedom of conscience in the matter of bearing arms is obvious, yet nothing could be more sacred than that in any liberal and democratic community. There is no possibility for reconciling the military ideals and the ideals of a free society cf scholars and pupils, certainly not in a democracy. The plainest proof of that lies in the following excerpt from the official War Department Manual on “Citizenship, prepared for the instruction of military officials detailed to colleges. It is this definition of democracy: Democracy: A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of ‘direct’ expres sion. Results in mobocracy. Attitude towards property is communistic—negating property rights. Attitude towards law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard for consequences. Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy. If tliis is not treason to American institutions what could bei Is it conceivable that any civilian instructor in any American college would teach such stuff? Certainly at best it shows such a gross misconception of what the American democracy stands for and what it actually achieved that it seems incredible that even the most stupid Secretary of War could permit such a thing to go out with the approval of his department. Against the training itself there are numerous arguments that can be made. In the first place, it is as remote from mod ern warfare as anything- could well be. It is not only no prep aration for’the trench warfare of the last war, it bears no rela tion to the new tactics which are being evolved in Europe, notably in Germany, which make the Germans feel that they can bid defiance to even the newest French fortifications. No one denies that in the next war poison gas. and possibly even bacteria of deadly diseases will be the chief weapons. What instruction can there be given on a University campus in gas warfare, except perhaps the use of gas masks, as to which no (Continued on Pat/r Two) Cameras, Sound Truck to Feature ~ U of O Canoe Fete Paramount Company’s Experts Will Photograph Floats of Historic Times Paramount newsreel men will have their cameras focused on the University’s canoe fete this year, according to a letter received by George H. Godfrey, associate in in formation service, yesterday, from W. P. Montague, assignment edi tor for the film company. A sound truck with a crew of experts will be sent here either from Seattle or San Francisco. Since the photography and sound must be "picked up” at night, the enterprise will call for a great deal of skill and ingenuity on the part of the cinematographers. Unusual interest has been aroused in the canoe fete this year. Each float will depict some stage in development and growth of Ore gon. The first float will go back to prehistoric times, and will graphically depict the eruption of Mt. Mazama, which formed Crater lake. Subsequent floats will show Indian life, early pioneer struggles and the climax will be a vision of the future. A special section on the millrace will be set aside for taking motion pictures, and it is probable that other companies will fake advan tage of this opportunity to film one of the outstanding college events in the United States, ti is stated. Paramount newsreel is distribut ed to thousands of theaters, not only in the United States but in foreign countries as well. Polivka Chosen As President of . Sigma Delta Chi Honorary Elects Officers and Formulates Flans for Spring Activities Officers for Sigma Delta Chi, men’s professional journalism fra ternity, were elected at a meeting of the honorary Tuesday afternoon at 4 :00 in 101 Journalism building. They are president, Douglas Poliv ka; vice-president, William Phipps; secretary, Leslie Stanley; treasur er, Charles Aetzel. The position of Quill correspondent was left open, and will be filled by the incoming administration. William Phipps reported on the contest for the best editorial among weekly newspapers in Ore gon. The award, Paul R. Kelty cup, will be made at the conven tion of the Oregon State Editorial association in Roseburg June 22 and 23. Arne G. Rae, assistant professor of journalism and field manager of the Oregon State Edi torial association, is working with Phipps on this contest. The Gridiron banquet will not be given this year, and instead a joint "get-together” will be given with Theta Sigma Phi, women's profes sional journalism fraternity. Plans for this year’s Green Goose, and spring pledging was discussed. Sigma Delta Chi scholarship awards will be presented to Joseph Saslavslcy, Sterling Green, and Eli nor Henry at an Emerald banquet at the end of the term. Pins and shingles were given to four recent ly initiated members: Rueben Rad abaugh, Leslie Stanley, Guy Shad duck, and Charles Aetzel. The fraternity will meet again Thursday afternoon at 4 in 101 Journalism building. Spring pledg ing will be further discussed. Campus Calendar Dill Pickle club meets today noon in the YWCA. There will be a program. Dr. E. S. Conklin’s 2 o’clock psychology class will not meet to day, except for those students who did not take the questionnaire given last Wednesday. Henriette Horak’s Frosh Coun sellor group will meet today at 4, room 3 Johnson hall. All girls must attend. Heads of houses’ meeting is postponed until next week. Oregon Radical club will hold its regular weekly meeting in the Y hut at 7:30 tonight. This is an exceptionally important meeting and the presence of all members, as well as other interested stu dents, is requested. Box-office in Guild theater will be open from 9 till performance of play, "The Chief Thing," today. A. W. 8. speakers’ committee will meet at 5 this afternoon in the College Side. Peggy Chessman’s group of frosh counsellors will meet in 4 Johnson today at 4 o’clock. Tickets for Oritles spring infor mal, Friday, May 4, are on sale at the Co-op or by Helen Nicka chiou, phone 2436-W. Webfoot Team To Meet Idaho VandalsToday U. O. Nino Determined To Keep Title Clean FOX CROUP STRONG Prospect for Pitching' Duel Scene; Tilt Scheduled for 3:80 At Heinhnrt Field The Oregon Webfoot varsity baseball nine will meet it second opposition of the season in confer ence play when they clash with the Idaho Vandals today at 3:30 on Reinhart field. Coach Bill Rein hart's team has two conference vic tories to its credit as a result of 5 to 1, and 10 to 8 defeats handed Oregon State college last week and will go into the contest deter mined to keep their path to the conference title clear. Coach Rich Fox’s Vandals boast the strongest aggregation the northern team has had in many seasons. In a preconference sched ule of 13 games the Idaho nine lost only three. Their first conference clash ended in a loss to Washing ton State but was a short inning affair stopped early by rain. The second game scheduled with the Cougars was also rained out. McFadden to Hurl Prospects of a pitching duel in today’s game seemed likely with an Ashland, Oregon, boy, Neil Spears, a two-year letterman for the Vandals and the ace of their staff, in the box for Idaho and Don McFadden, who limited the Bea vers to five hits in the season’s opener last week, slated to see mound duty for the Webfoots. Ike Donin, who hurled ten inn ings of good ball against thg Ore gon State nine in Saturday's game, and Ron Gemmell will be ready to support McFadden. with Ossie Ed wards and Ear} BUCknurr al8o available for duty. The catching job for the series will again be di vided between Mickey Vail and Con Fury, with the former slated to work in today’s contest. Outfield Shifted The infield, with Harry McCall, Ray Koch, Joe Gordon, and Mark DeLaunay starting, will be the same as in previous tilts. However, in last night’s practice Reinhart was working several men in the outer gardens. Wes Clausen and Mike Hunt were in left, Maury Van Vliet and Bud VanDine in center, and Marvin Stroble and Bob Thune man in right. Familiar faces on the Idaho nine will include the Geraghty brothers, Cy and Wally, who delighted bas ketball fans last winter in the hoop contests in McArthur court. AWS Installation To Be Tomorrow Officers of the AWS for 1934-35 will be formally installed at an A.W.S. mass meeting at 4 o’clock tomorrow afternoon in Gerlinger hall. The installation will be fol lowed by a tea. Jean Failing, A.W.S. president, will install the new officers. Each officer will be presented by the girl who has held that position this year. Virginia Hartje, vice-president of the A.W.S., is in charge of the mass meeting and the tea. She announced that both old and new Kwamas will serve, this being the first function in which the new Kwamas, pledged last Saturday at the Mortar Board ball, will partici pate. The officers to be installed are Catherine Coleman, president; Vir ginia Howard, vice-president; Reva Herns, secretary; Ann-Reed Burns, treasurer; Elaine Cornish, ser geant-at-arms; and Margery Kiss ling, reporter. Everyone taking part in the installation or serving at the tea will wear formals. Following the meeting, a formal banquet for the old and new A. W. S. council members will be held at the Delta Gamma house. This is in accordance with a custom ob served in the A. W. S., that a ban quet for outgoing and incoming council members be held at the house of the outgoing president after installation. Measles at Infirmary Measles have necessitated a stay In the infirmary for Dorothy Dill and Guy Benson, while severe colds and fatigue are responsible for the presence of Gretchen Gregg, Frances Fearnley, and Bernadade Franzen. Letter from V illard Denounces Military Drill at Universities Epistle Received by Emerald Expresses Hope That Compulsory Training Here Will Be Dropped i. . Oswald Garrison Villard, former editor of The Nation and recent visitor and lecturer on the University of Oregon campus, has turned his fiery pen on compulsory military training at Oregon. The Emerald yesterday received from Villard a 1600-word letter, administering a stinging slap to military drill in general, and more, particularly to the system of compulsory training. Villard emphasized his profound hope that Oregon would abolish at least the compulsory feature. ‘‘The University of Wisconsin,” bis letter says, ‘‘has abolished compulsory military drill, and within the Japanese Seeking U. of O. Delegates To Foreign Meet Two Students Urge Attendance; Transportation Is Only Expense of Trip At noon Thursday, two Japan ese students, Mr. Harue Endo of Waseda university and Mr. Edwin T. Tabata of Keio university, will arrive on the campus. The students are traveling through the North west to interest students in the America-Japan Student conference to be held in Tokio, Japan, from July 19 to July 26. Coming from the University of Washington, where ten delegates to the confer ence were promised, and Reed col lege, where an additional five were added, Mr. Endo and Mr. Tabata hope to secure a delegation from this campus. Some 50 American students are expected to attend the meetings, at which economic, politics, relig ion, philosophy, education and in ternational problems will be dis cussed. Lectures will also be given on Oriental culture by professors from the large Japanese universi ties. The only expense to the Ameri can delegates attending the confer ence will be the cost of transpor tation from Seattle to Yokohama and return. All other expenses will be taken care of by the Japan Stu dent English association. Following the termination of the meetings, the U. S. delegates will be taken on a free trip through Japan, Korea, and Manchukuo. Leaving Tokio on July 28, the del egates will visit Kyoto, Osaka, Nara, Kobe .Kiroshima, Shimono seki, Keijo, Darien, Mukden, Hsin king, and numerous other smaller cities. Students who would be interest ed in having personal interviews with Mr. Endo and Mr. Tubata in order to make application for the conference, are urged to get in touch with Dick Near, 1718-J, or Jay Wilson, 3300, local 241. Art Students Travel Twelve students in the school of landscape architecture from this University are making a study trip to the gardens of Tacoma and Seattle this weekend. F. A. Cuth bert, assistant professor of land scape architecture, will head the party. current academic year De Pauw university has abolished its unit altogether, after abolishing the compulsory feature back in 1928. X hope with all my heart that the University of Oregon will do the same without loss of time.” Encouraged Student Group When he was visiting the cam pus March 5 and 6 this year, the militant pacifist extended full en couragement to those students who had just completed a nearly-suc cessful campaign against compul sory drill. At that time, he declared of his father, Henry Villard, who was in strumental in helping found the University, “If my father could re turn to this campus today, he would be shocked and disappointed to see young men here wearing military uniforms." The article received by the Em erald yesterday, which appears in columns four and five of page one, denounces military drill as a “vio lation of tlic ficcUuiii of con science.” Villard asserts that col legiate officers training corps units offer poor preparation for actual warfare; that it is, indeed, “as re mote from modern warfare as any thing could well be.” Not Physical Training The article, said to be one of the few which Villard has ever pre pared for publication in a college daily, charges that military drill has no defense as a method of physical development, but rather (Continued on Payc Three) Ducats for Canoe Fete Mow on Sale at Co-op, ASUO Office for Week Canoe fete tickets will go on sale today at the University Co-op store and the A.S.U.O. of fices in McArthur court, Tom Stoddard, assistftit graduate manager, announced last night. The tickets will for the entire week be distributed only at these two points, in order that students may have first choice of the best available seats. On Monday the remaining tickets will be placed on sale at down town establishments for Eugene residents. Until that time they will be held on the campus ex clusively. Tickets are 75 cents apiece. The fete will be held Saturday evening, May 12. Bloodshed and Riots Replace May Day Traditional Beauty By LESLIE STANLEY May day, a survival of one of the most ancient customs, came to us yesterday not in its natural beauty and simplicity as the orig inal occasion was intended, in its stead it came with bullets, air planes, and tanks, to break up demonstrations, so say the scream ing headlines that tell us of the riots, bloodshed, and clashes be tween laborers, troopers and po lice as the workmen sought to ob serve their annual celebration. How far May 1, the world’s bad i day, has traveled from its innocent origin will be seen as we follow the course of events which lead up to the present strife. Originating, it is believed in primitive times, when the natives worshiped the return of the warm days, because they thought their god had been angry through the winter, was now pleased with them. Out of this pre-histone custom developed the Roman idea of honoring Flora, the god of flowers. Great festivals, dancing, singing, and laughter came with the sacrifices which were offered in thanks for the many flowers. During the medieval times in France, England and Germany, the Roman festivals were changed in to a day and night of rejoicing. On May 1, called “going a may ing,” young men and women gathered Hawthorn flowers, sing ing as they merrily danced on their way and decorating the win dows of the houses which they passed, and on the next day crowned with the Hawthorn flowers the most beautiful maiden as "Queen of the May.” Today in the old countries this custom has been displaced by the carnival with its artificial enjoyment taking away the simple beauty. Ireland during the middle ages developed the "wishing well,” a custom borrowed from the Scotch. They thought if a maiden on May morning when the sun was shining brightly, looked into a well and saw the reflection of her lover any wish she made would come true. Though the commercialization (Continued on Page Two)