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Join the Band One more organization is added to the forces that will implant traditions and guard them with their lives. The temperature of the Oregon campus is rising rapidly. _ VOLUME XXXVI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1935 NUMBER 87 Resume of the Day’s News By the Associated Press MAUdI 5 Bonus Plans Dabated WASHINGTON — An urgent plea that the uncertainties and controversies of inflation be di vorced from the question of cash ing- the soldiers’ bonus was ad dressed to the house ways and means committee today by Rep resentative Vinson (D-Ky). The Kentuckian asked the com mittee—itself sharply divided—to approve his own bonus bill, backed by the American Legion, calling simply for payment, with the treas ury left free to provide funds in any way it considers advisable. Ananda Accepts Throne j BANGKOK, Siam — Shy Prince Ananda, 11 year old nephew of for mer King Pradjadhipok, today ac cepted the invitation to mount the throne left vacant by the abdica tion of his uncle, it was announced here. The official announcement said the boy was awaiting further de tails from Bangkok, at Lausanne, Switzerland, where he is attending school. Italy, Ethiopia Agree ROME — A preliminary Italo Ethiopian agreement to neutralize the African border zone where hos tilities have occurred recently was announced in Rome today, but five more ships sailed from Sicily and Naples carrying men and muni tions, to East Africa. The government announcement said “The basis for an accord" to set up the neutral zone, which will be six kilometers (about four miles wide, had been reached at Addis Ababa.” Further negotiations to settle points of difference will be con tinued, the spokesman said. Senate Gets Relief Rill WASHINGTON— Reinforced by desertions from the opposition, confident administration forces to day took the $4,880,000,000 work relief bill to the senate floor for another test of strength. All surface indications were that this time the White House follow ers would succeed in throwing out the McCarran prevailing wage amendment, the inclusion of which in the measure caused it to be sent back to the committee for a 10-day period. But well laid plans narrowly es caped being scrambled before the till got out of the senate appropria- j ticns committee by a 12 to 12 vote j —the closest possible margin. And (Please turn to page three) Ytnrri Will Head Spanish Society Antone Yturri, first year law student, was elected president of Sigma Delta Pi, national Spanish honorary, at a meeting of the or ganization yesterday afternoon. Laura Goldsmith, senior in Ro mance languages, was re-elected secretary. Yturri will take over the posi tion left vacant by Juan B. Rael, former Romance languages in structor, at the University, who is r.ow taking graduate work at Stan ford university. Annual election of new members will be held at their next meeting spring term. June Sanders to Talk At Pi Delta Phi Meeting June Sanders, graduate of Ro-; mance languages, will be the prin cipal speaker at the meeting of Pi! Delta Phi, national French honor ary, to be held at the home of Dr. and Mrs. O. B. Beall tomorrow night at 7:30. Miss Sanders will speak in French about her days as a board ing school student in Paris. Mem bers may ask questions and all con- j versation will be carried on in the French tongue. Miss Sanders has taken numerous trips in France j and in 1921-22 was awarded an ex change scholarship to Paris. Marie Saccomanno is in charge of arrangements for the meeting. Campus Calendar Athletic managers will have their Oregana pictures taken at John son hall at 12:45 today. Intramural managers will have their Oregana pictures taken at 4 today at the men’s gym. Alpha- Delta Sigma will meet Thursday at the College Side for luncheon instead of today. Phi Mu Alpha will meet at 5' o’clock today in the music build ing. Pledging ceremony. Cosmopolitan club to hold im portant business meeting Thursday evening, 7:30, in room 104 Journal • ism building. All members, whe ther initiated or not, asked to be present. Faculty Will Decide Military Education Question Today at 4 X 40 Petitions Released; 200 Names Already Submitted Brief Lists 6 Points Students Declare Military Courses Propaganda Anti-military enthusiasts were speeding their petition work today as the deadline for signers draws near. When the faculty meets this afternoon at 4 o’clock it will face the optional drill question for the second time in two years. Several hundred names are as sured for the petitions and op tional leaders are still hoping fo'' a majority of the ^tudent body. Forty petitions were released. Eight have been turned in with more than 200 names listed. Brief to Be Printed Should a hearing be granted the military education committee at the faculty meeting this afternoon, two or three of the optional lead ers will be on hand to present their side of the controversy. A brief will be presented along with the petitions. It lists six major points. 1. Other lower division courses having greater general merit, in our judgment, are elective. 2. Military training is not fun (Please turn to page three) Debate Group Will Hold Radio Forum James Ringrose, John Lundin, and Edward Meserve will give an analysis and plan for county school equalization in the weekly broad cast held - tonight at 8:40 over KOAC. This student forum is one of a series by the speech division which have been broadcast during winter term. They have been in vited to continue the program spring term John L. Casteel, direc tor of speech and supervisor, said. He has not yet definitely accepted. Present supervision and fina.nces in the elementary schools will be set forth and illustrated in the j broadcast. The county equaliza-1 tion plan which will be discussed j will be a combination of the plan j first proposed by the state com-1 mission on education and Gover-j nor Martin’s plan. Magazines Lautl Sports Pamphlet The “Handbook of Intramural Sport,” published by the school of physical education of the Univer sity, under the direction of Paul P„. Washke, professor of physical education, has attracted the atten tion of educators in this field in all parts of the United States, requests for the book and mention of it in professional journals indicate. The February issue of “Health and Physical Education” says of the book: “The University of Ore gon school of physical education has gotten out a very practical ‘Handbook of Intramural Sport.’ ” The news letter of a national asso ciation of workers in this field also says: “It is a very fine pamphlet, and contains valuable data.” The booklet describes the work in intramural athletics at the uni versity, and tells how the program is organized and carried out. It is attractively made up, with a num ber of illustrations, and is printed in convenient size for handling. Teachers, Principals Hold Education Meet A district conference of high school teachers and principals in terested in the problem of develop ing better facilities for vocational guidance of their students was held in Oregon City Saturday with Prof. Howard R. Taylor, acting [ head of the psychology department, in charge. The meeting was the second of a series resulting from the find ings of a sub-committee of the state principals and teachers com mittee. Before holding these con ferences the members of the sub committee made a preliminary survey of what a representative group of Oreogn high schools are doing to give the students educa tional and vocational guidance. The conferences at which the prob lem is discussed is a direct out growth of their findings. Date for A.S.U.O. Fee Debate JSot Definitely Agreed Upon as Yet Definite assurance that the compulsory student body fees would be held Thursday evening was still lacking last night. The debate, originally scheduled for Tuesday evening, was tentatively set ahead to Thursday because of a conflict with the Amos Burg lectures now taking place. Reason for the date still being indefinite was because it was still uncertain whether Gerlinger hall would be available for the argument. Optional A.S.U.O. Fee Supporters to Meet at 9 Tonight Plans Made for Financing Referendum of Bill Students who want A. S. U. O. fees kept optional have been in vited to meet with the Student Relief committee at the Y hut this evening at 9 o’clock. Howard Oh mart, chairman of the committee announced that the complete roster of the group will be drawn up to night, and those desiring to be come members will be acquainted with their duties. At the meeting plans will be made for raising funds to finance a referendum of senate bill 204 which would give the state board (Please turn to pac/e tivo) Frosh Glee Queen Will Be Selected A Greek goddess, to be chosen from candidates selected from the freshmen of every women’s living organization on the campus, is to be the queen of the Frosh Glee of 1935, to be given on April 20. The winning contestant is to be picked by a secret committee of impartial judges, which will con sider all candidates on points of classic beauty, personality, and charm. Each contestant will be in terviewed next term by the Em erald, and the winner will be an nounced at the dance. Women’s organizations wishing to enter a contestant are asked to see Regan McCoy at the Kappa Alpha Theta house for further par ticulars. The publicity committee for the dance, which is in charge of the contest, is headed by William Jones, chairman, and Marjorie Stith, assistant chairman. Assist ing them are Edward Hanson, Regan McCoy, Norris Stone, Signe Rasmussen, and Jerry T. Smith. University High School Holds Girls’ League Day The girls will rule University high school for a day on the tra ditional Girls’ League day, Thurs day, March 15. All girls will wear hair ribbons and will present a special program for the assembly, each class pre senting a skit written by students. Elisabeth Stetson, president of the Girls' League, is in charge of the events for the day. Committees include: matinee, Beulah Chapman, Maxine Glad, Hazel Spurlock, and Doris Hack; candy sale, Marguerite Kelly, chairman, Lois Masters, and Billie Crawford; publicity, Sue Flegel and Ann Rader; sophomore stunt, Mar tha Meyers; junior stunt, Jane Hall; senior stunt, Jeanne Bovard. Today’s Emerald is brought to you by the following advertisers. University Co-op Ford Motor Co. Camel Cigarettes Chesterfield Cigarettes Senior Class Campus Shoe Repair New Service Laundry Domestic Laundry Eugene Farmers Creamery Best Cleaners Oregana Confectionery Eugene Laundry C’atronize them. Examination Schedule Is Announced Final Exams Will Begin Saturday Afternoon March 16 Registrar’s Office Gives Out Test Schedule The examination schedule for winter term has just been released by the registrar’s office. Final ex aminations start Saturday, March 16. The schedule is as follows: Saturday, March 16: 2- 4—General Hygiene for wo men. Monday, March 18: 8-10- 10 MWF. 10-12 Physical Science Survey: Elementary Psychology Laboratory. 1- 3—10 TuThS. 3- 5—4 MTuWThF. Tuesday, March 19: 8-10—11 MWF. 10-12—First-year, second - year, third-year French. 1- 3—HTuThS. 3- 5—Physical Education activ ity courses. Wednesday, March 20: 8-10—8 MWF. 10-12—Constructive Accounting; French Composition and Conversation. 1- 3—8 TuThS. 3- 5—1 MTuWThF. Thursday, March 21: 8-10—2 MWF. 10-12—Corrective English; Eig glish; English Composi tion;-Business English. 1- 3—2 TuTh. 3- 5—General Advertising. Friday, March 22: 8-10—9 MWF. 10-12—Background of Social Sci ence. 1- 3—9 TuThS. 3- 5—3 MTuWThF. The MWF groups include classes meeting on any two of those days, or for any four or five days per week. The TuThS groups include classes meeting on two or three of those days only. All classes at 1, 3. or 4 o’clock taxe examinations at the times indicated. Examinations scheduled by subject take prece dence over those scheduled by hour of class meetings. Examinations are held in the regular class room unles otherwise announced. In structors should* be consulted about any conflicts that may occur. According to faculty regulations, no examination is to be given be fore the regularly scheduled time. I lieatre Passes Given Workers This week the movie pass for the best story appearing in the Em erald goes to Ruth Lenore Mc Clain. The story, winning the Mc Donald theater ticket, was the re view on “David Copperfield” which appeared in the February 26 issue of the paper. Other McDonald ducats were awarded 'to James Morrison, who wrote the best headline during the past week. Mohan V. Raj was the best night editor, and Marian Ken nedy turned in to the Emerald the largest number of personal items. Awarded the second time this term, the tip pass went to Gordon Con nelly. Jack Gilligan, was selected as best night editor in the sports department. Colonial tickets were given to five staff members. Betty Shoe- [ maker wrote the most stories for the paper during the last week, and Victor Dallaire, led headline 1 writers in the contest. From* the sports department the pass for the ' oest all-round work went to Don Casciato. The two proof readers who won tickets for the cleanest ; paper were Betty McGirr and Dor othy Adams. He's Embattled! Joseph Renner, president of the student body, who, with the aid of Marshall Harrison will uphold the side of the compulsory fee faction in the impending debate with Richard Neuberger and Howard Ohmart. The tentative date for the debate is set for Thursday. A def inite selection of the date will be made in tomorrow’s Emerald. 4 Outstanding Men to Speak At Conference Authorities Will Discuss Planning, Housing, TV A Project Four men, outstanding for work in their respective fields, have ac cepted invitations to speak at the commonwealth conference on the campus March 25, 26, and 27. Her man Kehrli, director of the mu nicipal research bureau of the Uni versity and a member of the com mittee organizing plans for a suc cessful conference, commented that this insured “ a well-balanced pro gram.” Earl S. Draper, Gordon Whitnall, C. W. Ham, Earl Snell, and Gov. Charles H. Martin will speak at the joint meetings. (Please turn to pane tieo) Yeomen to Meet At 4Y’ Hut Tonight Discussion .of Yeomen plans for next term, and several desirable appointments for campus activities will be brought before members of the organization when they meet this evening at 7:30 p. m. at the “Y” hut. A resume of the past terms' ac tivities and those to be carried on for next term will be discussed and several important issues will also be settled. Virgil Esteb, president of the Yeomen, said last night, “I want to see every member at the meet ing in order that he may gain full benefit from membership in the Yeomen and I want to make appointments to capable men who are interested in the organization.” Deans Entertain AWS Council, Mortar Board Mrs. Hazel P. Schwering, dean of women, and Mrs. Alice B. Mac duff, assistant dean of women, en tertained members of the Morta" Board and the A. W. S. council at a breakfast Sunday, March 3 at Mrs. Macduff’s home. Dr. Clara Waffle, of Astoria, and Miss Dun can, Mortar Board adviser for campus affairs, were special guests. The Trial of Mary Dugan9 To Be Given at Lower Prices Play Considered Unusual By Director “The Trial of Mary Dugan,” last Guild hall production of the term, will be presented Thursday and Friday, March 7 and 8 at 8 p. m at the Guild theater in Johnson hall. A new low admission rate of 25 cents covers the cost of reserved seats. Horace Robinson, instructor in drama, is directing the play, which is considered the most unusual given by Guild hall in many sea sons. The atmosphere of a court room has been scrupulously re created even to the extent of there being no curtain. The cast includes: Parks Hitch cock, as the caustic district attor ney; Elenore Gullion, the red : iipped, dissembling widow of the murdered man; Cynthia Liljeqvist, : Mary Dugan, mistress and accused j murderer of Edgar Rice; Charles Barclay, Jimmy Dugan, the de i fendant’s brother; Harry Eide, at torney for Uik defense; Bill Cot trell, somnolent Judge Nash; Ma rie Saccomanno, Mrs. Rice’s French maid, Portia Booth, Marian Bauer. 1 Pauline Conradt, chorus girls; Dick Koken, as Inspector Hunt; Lester Miller, Captain Price; Leland Ter iy, court clerk; Alice Hult, Pauline (Please turn to page two) Hundreds See Burg Unfold Travel Story Will Repeat Talk Today, Tonight; Matinee Free To Card Holders Audience Carried Abroad On ‘Magic Carpet’’ Amos Burg, noted explorer, writ er, and former student at the Uni versity, revealed the magic ad ventures of the world wanderer to a capacity house of students and townspeople Tuesday afternoon and evening at the Colonial thea ter. He will give three more per formances today, at 3:30 p. ir. (Mr. Burg’s lecture will be preced ed by 40 minutes of regular short subjects and will be concluded in time for the regular dinner hour! and at 7 and 9 p. m. Mr. Burg’s lectures are sponsored by the ASUO and this afternoon’s show will be free to holders of ASUO cards. Starting with shots of his canoe trips down the Columbia and Mis sissippi rivers Mr. Burg carried his audience along with him on his “magic carpet” on his trip to Alas ka, around the world with him on Julius P. Fleischman’s palatial yacht, the “Camargo,” and finally down to the bottom of the world to see again with him those scenes he recently experienced at the lower tip of South America. Mr. Burk told his audience that on his canoe trips down the treach erous rivers of the United States and Alaska his companion and he had devised an “expert method” of controlling their canoe. “Our expert system,” said Mr. Burg, “was that we either capsized or we didn’t. “I have never capsized in my canoe,” he said showing a picture of himself being overturned in his (Please turn to page three) 30 Architecture Men to Take Trip In order to study estates, parks, and various phases of city plan ning, about 30 professional stu dents of landscape architecture from the University and Oregon State college are to leave the lat ter part of examination week for a five or six-day trip to San Fran cisco. The group has been given per mission to visit the finest estates in the Bay region through the co operation of Prof. John W. Gregg, ot the department of landscape de sign at the University of Califor nia, said F. A. Cuthbert, associate professor of landscape architecture, who is in charge of the trip. Both Stanford and the University of California will be visited and part of a day will be spent at Golden Gate Park. Professor Cuthbert will be as sisted by Prof. H. R. Sinnard, ol the Oregon State architectural de partment. Willard Morgan, senior in architecture and arts, is the stri dent manager, assisted by Richard Bowe, sophomore in landscape ar chitecture. Miss Marie Harbeck, a graduate of the department now practicing landscape architecture in San Francisco, has taken charge of many of the details. High School Will Give Comedy, ‘Cleopatra* "Cleopatra,” a vaudeville com edy, is being presented by the University high school glee club Thursday evening at 7:30 in the high school auditorium under the direction of Mrs. Anne Landsbury Beck, director of public school music. In conjunction with this comedy is “Tea for Two,” a musi cal skit and tap dance with a large, colorful chorus. The principle players in the comedy “Cleopatra,” include: Don ald Childers, Donald Pollock, Carl Craig, and Malcolmn Soasey, sup ported by a cast of about 40. Assistant director of the pro gram is Robert Laxon, University music major. Harold Ayres, graduate assistant in music, is accompanying at the piano. Miss Smith Asks for Odd Jobs for Students An appeal for more odd jobs for needy students was issued last night through the Emerald by Miss Janet Smith, employment secre tary. According to her report, more students have been looking for odd jobs lately than in pre vious times. Miss Smith can be reached by calling local 242. Traditions Parade Gains Full Support Of Skull and Dagger Date of Junior Shine Day Celebration Is Postponed by Blais Junior Shine day, scheduled for Friday, lias definitely been postponed until the second week of spring term, Janies Blais, general chairman, declared last night. “No sun, no shine” was the decision of the directorate which huddled around a barometer yes terday to discuss weather condi tions. * Vernon Bartlett To Speak on War At Student Meet Author, Lecturer to Visit Campus March 11, 12 Vernon Bartlett, author, lectur er. and adventurer, will be on the campus Monday and Tuesday, March 11 and 12. under the aus pices of Sigmo Delta Chi, to speak on “Dictators or Democrats” in Villard hall at 7:30 Monday. On Tuesday at 11:00 he will talk on "War Again in Europe” at a stu dent body assembly. Bartlett has had an Interesting career as a journalist. After serv ing in the World war he turned to journalism. He was first an ap prentice on the Daily Mail, and later covered the Paris Peace Con ference for Reuters. He served successively as Paris correspond ent for the Daily Herald, and as special correspondent for the Lon don Times in Switzerland and Rome. For 13 years Bartlett has been the displomatic correspondent for the London News Chronicle, and the London representative of the League of Nations Secretariat. Since January, 1928, he has giv en a weekly radio talk from all British stations on international af fairs under the title, “The Way of the World.” These talks have made him one of the most popular microphone personalities in the country, according to the British Broadcasting corporation. Bartlett is the author of "No Man’s Land,” "Calf Love,” “Mud and Khaki,” "The World—Our Neighbors,” "Behind the Scenes at the Peace Conference,” and a book of short stories about post-war Europe called “Topsy Turvy.” He also collaborated with R. C. Sher iff in rewriting the play, "Jour ney’s End,” as a novel. Alpha Kappa Psi To Make Survey Alpha Kappa Psi, national pro fessional business fraternity at the University of Oregon, is cooperat ing with the United States depart ment of commerce in its “Store Modernization” survey. The object of the survye is “to secure through samples, the loca tion, type, and modernization needs for retail stores, and prepare an analytical report for the use of the Federal Housing administration and others interested in backing store modernization.” The local chapter of Alpha Kap pa Psi has received 300 check sheets from the department of commerce, which cover such items as need store repairs, alterations, fixtures, and the like. About sixty members of the fraternity, together with some advanced marketing students in the University will take these check sheets to representa tive business men in Eugene to be filled out and then sent to Wash ington, D. C. Sigma Alpha Epsilon Wins Morris Contest Sigma Alpha Epsilon has been notified that it has won the group contest prize awarded by Philip Morris and company in their bas ketball forecasting contest. The prize, a sliver pitcher, which is now on display in the College Side, will be presented to the fra ternity before the end of the term by E. A. Bach, representative of the company. This is the second time that Sigma Alpha Epsilon has won the Philip Morris score forecasting contest. Last fall the fraternity won an electric eloesk for the most accurate forecasting of football scores. (■ - Group Says Sophomores Could Work With Order of O Meet Enthusiastic Finley, Davis, Johnson Explain Decision By Robert Lucas Falling in line in the grand pa 1 rade toward tradition enforcement | that has been sweeping the campus in preparation for the official ac tion spr ing term, Skull and Dagger, men's service honorary, last night sanctioned the action of the inter fraternity council, the A. W. S., and the heads of women’s houses in pledging unswerving support to the enforcement of traditions here spring term. The meeting was punctuated by sporadic outbursts of oratory on the subject of traditions. Several members of the group disclaimed the idea of enforcement by the Order of the O. They declared that in its inception, the idea of tradi tion enforcement was born in the Skull and Dagger organization. That in the absence of decisive ac tion on tradition enforcement, that the men’s honorary, in con junction with the sophomore class could take over enforcement and “give it a ride.” Order of O Backed One indignant member of the group declared after the meeting that he still believed that an ef ficient and spirited job could be done by the Skull and Dagger or ganization, but was anxious to back the Order of the O and the tradition court and “to see what they could do.” Craig Finley, president of Skull and Dagger, explained that al though the group would like to have the responsibility of tradition enforcement—believing that the or ganization realized the opportun ity had been “missed” and that in the absence of foresight and anal (Please turn to paiic four) 12 Models Will Be Chosen for Dance Twelve girls will be selected by popular vote Friday to model clothes at the annual Gamma Al pha Chi spring fashion dance at the Igloo Saturday, April 13, ac cordihg to Peggy Chessman, gen eral chairman. In tomorrow’s Emerald the names submitted by the girls’ j houses and halls will be listed with [ a coupon entitling its owner to one vote. A ballot bok will be placed | in the College Side, and voting may take place all day Friday. I Each person may vote but once | and must have an Emerald coupon I or his ballot will not count. Each voter may list .five girls in the order of preference. The spring fashion dance, under the sponsorship of the women’s national advertising honorary, i3 the first women’s choice dance of soring term. Guess What? (1) What ex-Oregon football and track star held the world record for the discus throw for a short time? (2) What city In the United States has the highest per centage of illiterates? (3) In what city in the U. S. is tile yearly cost of educating a public school pupil the highest ? (t) When and between whom was the first interstate foot ball game played on the Pa cific coast? (3) What library has the most items of any library in the world ? (6) The world’s five banks with the largest deposits are in what city? (7) The next four ranking banks in size of deposits are in what city? (8) What was the score of Ore gon’s first victory In football over the University of Cali fornia ? (9) How many divorces are there In the U. S. for every 1 100 marriages? (10) Has an Oregon or Oregon State football player ever made the All-America Football Board team? (Answers on page 2.)
