Ballot Page 1
The voting ballot for choice of
models for the coming Gamma Al
pha t’hl dance appears on the first
page.
VOLUME XXXVI
Debate a la Octopus1
The Octopus slithers into the hall
of debate, and gets an eye full. He
reports his findings on page two.
NUMBER 89
Lettermen Get
Enforcement
Of Traditions
Decision Follows Line-up
Of Many Organizations
Behind Move
Skull and Dagger Assists
With Committee
The Order of the "O” will lead
the concentrated enforcement of
Oregon traditions, to begin spring
term, it was revealed yesterday af
ternoon by Robert Parke, president
of the organization.
The decision of the. lettermen to
aid in the effort to revive the tra
ditions of the University came af
ter other campus groups, notably
the inter-fraternity council, heads
of houses. Associated Women Stu
dents, and Skull and Dagger, had
signified their intention of sup
porting the move to restore color
to the campus.
Groups Combine Efforts
Assisting the Order of the “O”
will be Skull and Dagger, sopho
more service honorary for men,
and the traditions committee, head
er by Bill Berg. Other members on
this committee are Robert Miller,
Craig Finley, Parke, Ed Meservs,
William Russell, Robert Zurcher,
Miles McKay, Arne Lindgren, Mal
colm Bauer, Grant Thuemmel,
Keith Wilson, Ray Mize, and Wil
liam Phipps. These three groups
will combine their efforts to report
violations of the customs to a cen
tral committee within the Order of
the “O.”
Committee Picks Police
“At the last meeting of the tra
ditions committee, groups were
considered for enforcement and it
was decided to ask the Order of
the “O” to do this with the help
of Skull and Dagger and commit
tee members. However, actual en
forcement will be in the hands of
the Order of the “O,” Berg said
yesterday.
Telling of the definite stand of
the lettermen, Parke issued the
following statement last night:
“All traditions will be back except
the green lids and they will be
back next fall. All the names of
the defenders will be turned in to
three members of the Order of the
“O” who will decide whether the
violator is really an offender; and
if the charge is found to be a
frame-up, it will be dismissed.”
Campus Calendar
All independents must turn ii.
their Oregana activity cards by 5
o’clock today. They should be
printed and returned to the ballot
box placed in the Co-op for that
purpose.
Amphibians will have Oregana
pictures taken at the women’s
gymnasium at 4 o’clock today.
Pan-hellenic Oregana pictures
will be taken at 12:45 today at
Johnson hall.
Alpha Kappa Delta will hold in
itiation at 3 o’clock Sunday at the
home of Dr. P. A. Parsons. Ail
members must be present.
Living representatives must turn
in senior ball ticket proceeds to
Fred Fisher or the graduate mana
ger’s office by Saturday noon.
Alpha Delta Sigma luncheon at
College Side. All members request
ed to attend.
Representatives of all the cam
pus Christian groups will meet at
Westminster house, Saturday af
ternoon at 3, to discuss the “Chris
tian Youth Building a New World’’
program.
Amphibian members meet at wo
men’s gymnasium this afternoon
at 3:45 for Oregana picture. Ah
must be present.
Alpha Kappa Psi, men’s business
honorary, will hold a short, im
portant meeting Friday at 4
o’clock in room 106 Commerce
building.
All householders, who are those
people having students boarding,
rooming or working for them, are
to meet in Villard assembly haT
at 2:00 today. Roll call will be
taken. J
j Cadet Honorary
! To Oppose Drive
j Of Optional Move
Scabbard and Blade Make
Resolution
Unified opposition to the current
move for optional military training
on the University campus was in
itiated yesterday by Scabbard and
Blade, military honorary. The or
ganization, composed of cadet of
ficers, framed a resolution favor- j
ing the presently existing six-term |
compulsory training at a meeting;
Wednesday night at the College
Side.
. “The present arrangement, al
lowing for qualified exemptions,
should be satisfactory to all con
cerned," stated Cadet Major Burke
Tongue, president of the group.
Numerous petitions advocating
optional military training have
been circulated on the campus
during the past week, and it was
against this movement that the
action was taken by the Scabbard
and Blade men.
Nine Men Pledged
To Phi Mu Alpha;
Officers Elected
Lewis, Garretson, G i 1 f r y
Are Pledge Leaders
Nine University men were
pledged to Phi Mu Alpha, men’s
national music honorary, in the en
semble room of the music building
Wednesday afternoon at 5 o’clock.
The pledges are Maxwell Morse,
Wayne Gilfry, Wilbur Jessen, and
.Tames Lewis, all of Eugene; Robert
M. Garretson and Robert Collins,
Portland; Robert Freed Bales, Wal
lowa: Jim S. Whinple. Drain; and
Charles Fahey. Oak Grove. Fol
lowing the pledging ceremony the
pledges elected officers: Lewis,
president: Garretson, vice-presi
dent; Gilfry, secretary.
1.75 Average Reauired
Pledges of Phi Mu Alpha are re
quired to have a 1.75 grade aver
age before they are initiated, the
result of a recent measure to raise
the standard of the group.
The local chapter of “Sinfonians"
will be in complete charge of the
Oregon high school band contest to
be held in Eugene next term. Schol
arships in piano, violin, voice, or
gan, and woodwinds will be given
to students entering the Univer
sity next year. Part of the money
needed for the scholarships was
the result of the Jane Thacher
Gertrude Graves Martin concert
conducted by the chapter.
Potter Is Lender
A Phi Mu Alpha orchestra and
a quartet of men picked from the
entire campus for their, ability is
being organized by Paul Potter,
member of the group.
Plans are being laid for an en
semble concert in April and one of
modern American music in May.
Dr. Rebec Attends
Graduate Council
Dr. George Rebec, head of the
philosophy department, attended
the state college graduate council'
meeting at Corvallis yesterday.
A joint graduate council meeting
composed of the Oregon State col
lege graduate council and the Uni
versity graduate council, was ten
tatively planned for Tuesday,
March 19. A joint meeting is held
once a term.
Women Have 10:30
Pemission Tonight;
12:30 Saturday Eve
—
Announcement is made from
the dean of women’s office that
women are to have 10:30 permis
sion tonight and that 12:30 per
mission will he given Saturday,
March 9 because of the Senior
ball.
Next weekend, Friday, March
15, is to be closed at 10:30 and
j Saturday, March 16, at 12:15.
|Term Concert
Season Ends
In Crescendo
Next Fortnight to Bring
Choir, Orchestra and
Band Programs
Four maior items of importance
are scheduled on the music calen
dar for the last two weeks of win
ter term or for early spring semes
ter.
Sunday afternoon, March 10, at
3 p. m., the University band, unde'1
the baton of John H. Stehn, is
playing in concert. This program,
the bright-spot of the music sea
son for Stehn’s organization, is
under sponsorship of the ASUO
but all students and townspeople
caring to attend, will be admitted
free. KORE will broadcast the
program.
I'rogram Listed
Th ecomplete program to be
played follows:
Messenger March.Baruhouse
Light Cavalry Overture.Suppe
Atlantic Zephyrs
Alvin Templer, soloist
Bolero .Ravel
Polka and Fugue from "Schwan-..
da” .Weinberger
Grand March and Battle Hymn. .
.. Wagner
The University symphony or
chestra, under direction of Rex
Underwood, will appear in concert
Thursday evening, March 14 at
8:15 p. m. at the music building.
All students and others interested
are invited to attend.
Petri Leads Choir
Early next term, the Polyphonic
choir, under direction of Prof. Paul
Petri, will present the '•Elijah,”
by Mendelssohn, one of the out
standing compositions of the great
composer’s life. The “Elijah,” rap
idly becoming acclaimed the equal
cl that ageless number, “The Mes
siah,” is expected with the efforts
of Professor Petri and the talent
to be one of the finest choral works
ever offered to music lovers on the
Oregon campus.
April 12 and 13, the Oregon
state band contest will be held
here with over 40 bands present.
Stanford Aptitude
Test Offered Here
The Stanford Aptitude test,
which must be taken by all stu
dents who wish to enter or trans
fer to Stanford university, will be
given Saturday, March 1, in 301
Condon hall by Prof. Howard R.
Taylor, acting head of the depart
ment of psychology.
The same test will be given in
Portland a week later for the con
venience of people in that district
All those intending to take the test
should bring the $5 fee.
Campus 'Big Shots9 Comment
On Current Tradition Revival
“What do you think of the cur
rent revival of Oregon traditions9'’
was the question* popped at sev
eral of the past, present, and fu
ture “big shots” on the campus
recently in order to ascertain
whether general student opinion is
the same towards this question as
that of oatstanding campus or
ganizations that have already an
nounced their intention of helping
to enforce them.
Virgil Esteb, tall and stately
president of the Oregon Yeomen
group breathed into the mouth
piece of his telephone that “The
revival of traditions will add a good
deal to the real spirit of college
life and that it should be support
ed by all the students.”
Wants Customs Back
Ann-Reed Burns. Kappa’s con
tribution to the staff of the Daily
Emerald, said, “I think that tra
ditions revival is one of the best
things for the campus and that it
would be a big mistake not to en
force them.”
One of the big shots from the
Theta Chi house on the hill, Bill
Paddock, in person, gurgled over
the microphone of the telephone,
that ‘‘During the past several
years I think it has been a detri
ment to our school the way tradi
tions have been dying out. I think
it will help to arouse the old Ore
gon spirit once again.”
Between Bites, Yes!
Kay Buck, Pi Phi’s champion
blonde, paused at the College Side
between bites of her dinner and
! hurriedly stated, ‘‘I think that tra
i ditions are a good part of a col
i lege education and above all thev
I should be brought back."
Elizabeth Bendstrup, one of the
inhabitants of the Alpha Chi house,'
thinks that "traditions should not ,
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Campus Votes J
For Fashion
Models Today
Emerald Coupons Will
Entitle Holders to
Vote for Five
Twelve inners to Model
Spring Styles
Voting for the twelve Gamma
Alpha Chi models will take place
from 8 o’clock this morning until
5 o’clock this afternoon at the Col
lege Side. The ballot' box will be
just inside the door, together with
a list of the 50 candidates who
have been submitted by the wo
men’s living organizations.
Every boy or girl possessing an
Emerald coupon is entitled to vote
for his first five preferences. The
winners will be announced in the
first Emerald of spring term. The
j girls selected will model the new
spring styles from various down
town stores. The models will be
escorted across the stage by boys
cn the campus who will be selected
later.
Dance First Formal
The Gamma Alpha Chi fashion
dance is the first formal of spring
term to which women ask men.
The dance, which will be carried
out in the idea of the annual New
York automobile show, will be
given at the Igloo on Saturday,
April 13. Tickets for the affair
will cost 99 cents, and a 10 cent
charge will be set for balcony
seats.
The following girls have been
appointed on committees for the
dance by Peggy Chessman, general
chairman: decorations, Ethel
James and Helen Singer; models,
Betty Coon; showings, Marjorie
Kissling; tickets, Mary Starbuck;
programs, Kathleen Duffy; public
ity, Helen Bartrum; music; Milli
cent Olim; patrons, Peggy David
son; secretary, Joyce Snead; na
tional advertising, Elizabeth An
derson and Mary Banks.
--
Martins to Attend
Young Demo Fete
Governor and Mrs. Charles H.
Martin will be the guests of honor
at an informal banquet sponsored
by the Eugene Young Democrats
club in the Osburn hotel Saturday,
March 16.
Following the banquet which is
to be served at 6:30, there will be
entertainment, speeches and danc
ing. Governor Martin and C. V.
Boyer, president of the University
are among the speakers.
Although the public is invited
to attend, only 250 tickets are
available. These are on sale at 75
cents each at the ASUO offices.
Thomas Stoddard, assistant grad
uate manager, is in charge of the
ticket sale.
Second ‘Penny Review’
To Go on Sale Monday
The second issue of “The Penny
Review,” newly established organ
of campus criticism, will appear
Monday, March 11. Criticisms of
ail current campus dramatic pro
ductions will be featured in this
second “red ink” number. The
new issue includes many added
features.
The publication is edited by
George Root, Margaret Davidson,
and Miriam Eichner. Members of
Stephenson Smith’s class in criti
cism form the staff. Velma McIn
tyre is sales manager.
KIItBY PAGE TO COME
Kirby Page, former editor of
"World Tomorrow” and well known
lecturer and author will speak on
the Oregon campus April 9. Four
years ago he was barred from
speaking at O.R.C.
GAMMA ALPHA CHI MODEL
CONTEST
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Prosecutor!
(». Parks Hitchcock, as he ap
pears in the current Guild theater
attraction, “The Trial of Mary
Dugan.” The opening perform
ance was given last night and it
will he repeated tonight.
Fee
Group Makes
Petition Plan
Referendum Campaign
Fund Is Swelled by
Contributions
The referendum on senate bill
No. 204 rolled steadily forward last
night as between 40 and 50 stu
dents met at the Y hut to lay fur
ther plans for circulating of pe
titions. Names of 14 outstanding
Oregonians were announced as
members of the citizens’ commit
tee on optional student body fees.
.. Three large upstate contribu
tions swelled the war chest to $35
with considerably more pledged
As the sum passed $30 immediate
printing of the petitions was as
sured. They will be off the press
and ready for circulation by Wed
nesday, it is believed.
Portland Support Strong
Richard L. Neuberger, state
chairman, reported unexpected re
sponse in Portland. On the citi
zens’ committee are Ben T. Os
borne. executive secretary of the
Oregon state federation of labor,
Senator Peter Zimmerman, Miss
Caroline Stafford, president of the
Portland mothers’ peace groups,
Rev. S. C. Williams, Rev. Ross W.
Anderson, state chairman of the
American Civil Liberties union,
Rep. A. W. Bull, Dr. C. H. Bailey,
Charles E. Hansen, Dr. Albert
Slaughter, Mrs. Emelia L. Wood,
A. M. Church, David Epps and
Samuel Lockwood, Jr.
Roseburg Dates
Women Debaters
The women’s public discussion!
group has just been dated for five i
appearances in Roseburg for the
coming week. At each of the places
booked they will give an analysis
of public censorship of the movies
a current problem which has fig
ured largely in public discussion
since it was inaugurated.
The schedule slated was secured
by Geraldine Hickson, former j
member of the women's debate
team here on the campus, and now
teaching in the high school at
Roseburg.
University Infirmary
Harbors Nine Patients
The infirmary is nearly back to
its quota with nine new patients.
Eugene Hunt, Edgar Goodnough,
Benjamin Chandler, Gerald Smith,
Eldred Glaspey, Stuart Stockton,
Carroll Hood, Sally Reed, and
Ruthalbert Wolfender are in at
present.
FERA Pay Ready
At Business Office
For Student Help
FERA pay roll checks for the
month of February are avail
able at window No. 2 of the bus
iness office, second floor of John
son hall, from 8:00 to 12:00 and
from 1:00 to 3:00. Students are
asked to call for checks as soon
as possible.
Course Withdrawal
Deadline Is Set for
Saturday, March 16
Students who desire to with
draw from courses, must do so
by noon, Saturday, March 16 at
the business office on second
floor of Johnson hall. Students
are permitted to withdraw only
from courses which they are re
ceiving- below a passing grade
or otherwise they must have a
petition acted upon by the aca
demic committee.
Sopli Wliiskerino
Will Use ‘Wicked
Gold Rush’ Motif
Class Will Conduct Annual
Beard Growing Contest
Dave Lowry and Muriel Gabriel,
recently appointed co-chairman of
the Sophomore Whiskerino to
be held April 12, yesterday an
nounced that the theme of
the annual dance will be the “Days
of ’49.” Sophomore men, as be
fore will not shave from the open
ing of spring term until after the
dance. Prizes will be given for the
longest, shortest, and darkest
Beards grown.
Sophomores will be admitted free
to the dance on presentation of
their class tickets, others will be
charged 75 cents per couple. The
dance will be held in Gerlinger, the
orchestra will be announced later.
Dean Hoyt Ready
For KORE Speech
"Credit Education” is the sub
ject of a talk to be given by H. V
Hoyt, dean of the school of busi
ness administration, over radio sta
tion KORE March 12, 6:30 to 6:45
p. m.
Dean Hoyt will emphasize the
importance of mutual understand
ing between both creditor and
debtor, each remembering that he
is equally valuable to the other.
He will also point out that 90
per cent of all our business is done
on the credit basis, by what is
known as "confidence money.”
Students Launch
Grass Offensive
And the green grass grows all
around. So does the moss, it seems,
after seeing the huge piles of it
that have been raked from the
lawns on the campus.
The annual battle to discourage
the spreading of the moss is now
being waged by student workers
under the guidance of campus gar
deners.
Previous to the raking, sulphate
ammonia is freely sprinkled over
the region where the moss is the
thickest, which partially deadens
the growth, making it easier to
yank from the clutches of the
grass. Besides this the powder
serves as a fertilizer to the
summer, before the moss growth of
next winter begins again.
Library Meeting Calls
Douglass to Portland
M. H. Douglass, University li
brarian will attend the executive
meeting of the Pacific Northwest
Library association of which he is
treasurer, to be held Saturdav,
March 9, in Portland. This com
mittee will discuss problems anil
plans for the coming year.
Fee Cla k Marked
By Flasi^ Oratory,
Galaxy cL Opinion
Campus Groups
To Give Banquet
Honoring Bartlett
Students Will Hear Noted
Explorer Monday
International Relations club and
Sigma Delta Chi, journalism fra
ternity, are giving a banquet ir
honor of Vernon Bartlett, lecturer,
author, and adventurer, who will
be on the campus Monday and
Tuesday, March 11, 12. The ban
quet, which will be held at the An
chorage, Monday at 6 p. m„ is
epen to all faculty members, stu
dents, and townspeople.
The topic of Mr. Bartlett’s lec
ture Monday evening at Villard
hall at 7:30 will be “Dictators or
Democrats.” Tuesday at 11 a. m.
he will talk on “War Again in
Europe" at a student body assem
bly, in Gerlinger hall.
Mammoth Dance
Alumni Program
Spring Holidays
Affair Is Set for Friday,
March 29, Portland
Announcement was made last
night of a hnammoth free “spring
frolic” dance to be held in Port
land during the spring holidays at
v/hich students, alumni and guests
will gather for what promises to
be one of the biggest all-university
affairs held in recent years in Port
land.
The dance, according to tenta
tive arrangements, will be held the
evening of Friday, March 29 at
the Masonic temple. All holders of
winter term student body cards,
members of the Alumni associa
tion and invited guests will be ad
mitted free.
The committee chairmen, as an
nounced by Wellington last evening
are: decorations, Bill Schloth; ar-1
rangements, Jack McGirr; invita
tions, Virginia Proctor; and pro
grams, Ann-Reed Burns. Mem
bers of the organization's execu
tive committee are: Wellington,
Bill Russell, Pearl Base and Jo
Waffle.
Beside the students, as sponsors
of uTe dance, will be the Univer
sity of Oregon Federation, the Al
umni association, and the Port
land Alumni association.
A nominal charge will be made
for others who wish to attend who
de not come under the “free” clas
sification.
Mrs. Landros Takes
Ph.D. Exam Saturday
Mrs. Edna Landros, assistant
professor in Latin, will take her
doctor of philosophy examination
Saturday afternoon, March 16, at
2:00 o’clock. Spanish is her ma
jor with philology and Latin as
first and second minors. Her the
sis subject is “The Latinity of Isi
dore of Seville.”
This is her sixth year of teach
ing at the University in the Latin
department.
Acting of 'Mary Dugan’ Play
Appeals to Large Audience
We have just returned from a
court room where a life hung in
the balance—pending the jury’s
decision. Had Mary Dugan mur
dered her lover, or was the bril
liant, bitter, district attorney pin
ning the crime on an innocent
girl ? This was the question that
faced the tense spectators in Guild
hall last night.
Outstanding in the trial of Mary
Dugan were the defendent Mary
Dugan, played by Cynthia Lilje
nvist, with consistent sincerity; G.
Parks Hitchcock, who gave an el
fective portrayal of a district at
torney, marred at times by an an
tagonistic attitude that would
surely have influenced his jury as
it did bis audience.
Defense Stars
The two attorneys for the de
fense, played by Harry Eide, with
smoothness and charm, and Charles
Barclay, with an enthusiastic, ap
pealing boyishness, won the con
fidence and good will of the jury.
Elinor Gullion, as Mrs. Gertrude
Rice, the dead man’s widow, pre
sented the character with great
restraint and thought. Her dynam
ic characterization held the court
room with hushed attention.
Minor roles contributed to the
realistic court room atmosphere
and were keyed to a pitch that is
indicative of the skillful direction
of Horace G. Robinson.
The press table and the court
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350 People Hear Debate
Between Compulsory,
Optional Group
Eloquence Reigns
Debate Orderly as Facts
Unfolded; Hollis
Presides
By Robert Lucas
and Peggy Chessman
Before 350 students, faculty
members, and Eugene townspeople
assembled in Gerlinger hall last
night, four students debated the
question: "Resolved: That the
ASUO shall remain on an optional
fee basis.’’ The affirmative was
championed by Richard Neuberger
and Howard Ohmart. The negative
was upheld by Joseph Renner and
Marshall Harrison. Orlando J. Hol
lis, professor of law, presided over
the debate.
Ohmart Opens
Ohmart opened the debate con
tending:
1. That hundreds of students on
the University of Oregon campus
cannot pay compulsory student
body fees.
2. That optional fees have forced
the ASUO to produce a better pro
gram than it did when fees were
compulsory. Hence It is to the ad
vantage of the student body mem
ber to have the optional fee con
tinued.
3. That neither the ASUO nor
the state board, nor the state leg
islature has any right to demand
that students be made to pay $15
a year for a program that is ex
traneous to educational pursuits.
4. That the entirely optional fee
is t',he only adequate means of
solving the problem. No evidence
for belief in the sincerity of any
compromise may be offered.
Compulsion Unfair
In developing his points, Oh
mart said that the whole idea of
compulsory fees was against the
basic fundamentals of American
liberalism and right; that the com
pulsory program was unsporting,
unfair, and unjustified and that
any compromise suggestion on the
part of the opponents must be
eyed with skepticism.
Harrison, speaking first for the
negative, explained the progress of
extra-curricular activity supported
by the students from its inception
in 1901. “At this time,” he ex
plained, “the students of the Uni
versity demanded extra-curricular
activities. Since the state would
not assume financial control, they
decided to install a system on a
self-taxation basis.”
ASUO Defended
He then said that this procedure
had been followed since that time
and that now the state was un
willing to bear the burden of extra
curricular activities imposed upon
it. He boomed point after point,
saying that the activities made
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Guess What?
(1) What fraternity has the
largest number of active
chapters? How many?
(2) What other two fraternities
have over 100 active chap
ters?
(8) How many of the 1932
Rhodes scholars were
Greeks ?
(4) What fraternity has the
most members? How many?
(5) What other fraternity has
40.000 members or more?
(8) What two fraternities own
the most houses?
(7) How many fraternities have
30.000 members or over?
(8) How many of the United
States’ 96 senators are
Greeks?
(9) How many Greeks were
there on Colliers All-Ameri
can football team in 1934?
In 1933?
(10) Eight of the last nine foot
ball captains at U.S.C. were
members of what fraternity?
(Answers on page 2)