Vagabond Reporter
Recounting his interesting ex
perlences, Howard Kessler, the
Emerald’s vagabond reporter now
on an extended tour of Europe,
continues his series of articles be
ginning with this issue. See page ‘i.
VOLUME XXXVI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1935
NUMBER 91
Resume
of the
Day’s News
By the Associated Press
..APRIL 9-____
Forbids War Profits
WASHINGTON — A bill to for
t i d war time profiteering',
ftrengthened and invigorated
through the persistent efforts of a
bioc of youthful independents, to
day received the overwhelming
approval of the house.
Successful in forcing leaders to
include a potentially severe excess
profits tax, the young progres
sives, just before passage, rallied
their forces again and struck out
the measure’s authorization for a
conscripted army.
While the bill as it now stands
would prohibit the president from
ordering a draft, it could not pre
vent a wartime congress from en
acting a conscription law.
Work Program Ready
WASHINGTON— A giant work
program designed to put trees
where none grew before, set rivers
to flowing in new channels and all
but move mountains to give work
to 3,500,000 men awaited only
word from President Roosevelt to
night before getting under way.
All developments indicated that
the administration, its plans awry
because of the long delay in enact
ing the bill,* planned pressure to
begin work projects as soon as
possible.
As a move in that direction, Sec
retary Ickes today said there
would be a greater degree on home
rule in the selection of rojects
than there had been before.
Liquor Code Changed
WASHINGTON — Complaints
cf a “whiskey trust” and protests
from states which have joined re
peal ranks today caused the feder
al alcohol control administration
to relax attempts to control liquor
production.
Suddenly reversing its policy of
attempting to limit liquor making
to estimated production, FACA
with President Roosevelt’3 approv
al, amended the distilled spirits
code to allow present permit hold
ers to increase the capacity of
their plants.
Work Plan Approve$
ROCHESTER, N. Y. — On the
eve of its active start, Rexford G.
Tugwell tonight termed the ad
ministration's $4,800,000,000 work
program “a third economy” need
ed ‘‘if we are to avoid another war
or a destructive upheaval of social
resentment at home.”
Campus Calendar
Another wholesale millracing of
all beardless sophomore men will
be conducted in front of the Gam
ma Phi house at 12:30 this after
noon. Everyone is invited.
Skull and Dagger meet today in
the College Side at 4 p. m. All
members must be present.
Junior Prom directorate will
meet today at 4 upstairs at the
College Side.
Master Dance group will meet
tonight at 7:30 in Gerlinger hall.
Every member must be present.
Phi Mu Alpha will meet tonight
at 5 p. m. in the band room at
the ROTC barracks. Very impor
tant. Information concerning the
band contest will be given out at
this time. John Bribble requests
that all members be present.
MargaretAnnSmith,
Ann-Reed BurnsTop
AWS Election Ballot
Choice of New Officers
Set for Thursday
From 9 to 5
Winner to Go East
Suggestions of Council
Get Full Support
Interest in women’s activities
1 reached a peak yesterday with the
nomination of candidates for A. W.
S. offices for the coming year at
the spring term mass meeting of
all women students. Elections will
take place Thursday from 9 to 5
at polls to be placed in front of
the old libe.
The slate advanced by the sen
ior executive council of the Asso
ciated Women Students was re
tained by popular vote of the
assembly, no additional nomina
tions being made from the floor.
Candidates for the offices in
clude:
The following women were nom
inated for offices:
President: Ann Reed Burns and
Margaret Ann Smith.
Vice-president: Reva Herns and
Virginia Younie.
Secretary: Starla Parvin and
Lillian Warn.
Treasurer: Pearl Johansen and
Martha McCall.
Reporter: Jane Lee and Betty
Rosa.
Sergeant-at-arms: Gladys Bat
tleson and Jean Ackerson.
Elections for the new officers
will be held from 9 until 5 o’clock,
Thursday, April 11, in front of the
old libe. Elaine Cornish, A.W.S.
sergeant-at-arms, is in charge of
the elections.
The woman selected for 1935-36
president will leave with Catherine
Coleman, outgoing president, on
April 20 for- Indiana to attend the
annual conference of all A.W.S.
presidents April 24-27.
Further business attended to at
the mass meeting was the reading
of the reports of A.W.S. officers
and committee chairmen for the
past year.
Campfire Executive
Will Interview Coeds
Miss Elaine Gorham, Portland
campfire executive, will arrive in
Eugene Thursday morning to con
duct interviews with Oregon coeds I
interested in becoming counsellors
at Camp Namanu, near Portland,
this summer.
Those girls who are capable of
handling camp music and nature
work are especially needed, Miss
Gorham stressed in a letter in
forming the campus of her visit.
Any girl desirous of becoming
an aide at the camp is urged to
see Miss Gorham from 10 to 2
Thursday at Miss Florence Al
den’s office in Gerlinger hall.
Little Art Gallery Shows
Work of David McCosh
Today is the last day to see the
drawings and paintings character
ized by vivid colors and a variety
of subject matter, now on display
in the Little Art gallery of the
school of architecture and allied
arts. The display is the work of
David J. McCosh, Chicago artist
and instructor in drawing and
painting at the University.
Scenes of the Willamette valley,
the Oregon coast, and the hills of
New Mexico done in water col
ors. oils, and tempera are included
in the exhibit. A few of the more
recent paintings are of landscapes
bordering the northern part of the
campus.
The artist has taken for his sub
ject in almost every case simple,
everyday scenes and uninteresting
places. Some of the water colors
which bring out this quality are
‘'Joe’s Place,” “Gas Works,” "Lum
ber Yard,” “Red Building,” and
‘‘Yellow Truck.” Some of the
others are “Drifted,” “Low
Clouds,” “Transplanted,” “Two
Streams," "Mill Race,” “The High
way,” and “Lumpy Trees.”
Among the oil paintings perhaps
the scenes of New Mexico are the
most outstanding and colorful.
These include “Chinayo,” “Storm,”
“Back Road,” and “Interior.” They
portray the arid hills, the sage
brush, the Indian dwellings, and
other simple things of New Mex
ican life. As one enters the gallery,
the large oil painting of “The
Foreman,” hanging in the center
of the back wall, attracts the eye
because of the life-like attitude
and expression of the man in the
painting. Other oil paintings are
“Warm November,” “Silver Dish,”
and “White House.”
McCosh received his early train
ing at the Chicago Art Institute,
and spent a year traveling in Eur
ope on a travel scholarship. In
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Junior Shine Day
Will Be Postoned
Says James Blais
.Junior Shine day which was
scheduled for this week has been
postponed indefinitely according
to James Blais, general chair
man.
The decision was made by the
directorate last night. The num
erous activities which are to
take place this weekend, and the
tempermental weather were
given as the reasons for the
change.
Sophs Decree
Racings for
Suit Wearers
Second Year Men Must
Wear Pioneer Garb
To Whisker Dance
All sophomore men who wear
suits or good clothes to the Whisk
erino this Friday night will be
dumpted into the millrace the fol
lowing day, it was decided at a
meeting of the sophomore class
last night. The class members
went on record for the move to
make campus clothes the principal
garb of the sophomores especially.
Members of other classes may
wear anything they want to and
sophomores are urged to dress in
clothes typical of the “Days of.
’49” idea being used to carry out
the decorations.
David Lowry, co-chairman of
the dance, addressed the group
telling them of the plans for the
annual affair. Sophomore class
tickets will entitle their owners to
free admission to the event, the
regular price being 70 cents a
couple.
Prizes for the blondest, reddest,
blackest, ongest, least, and most
distinctive beards will be awarded
at the Whiskerino, being donated
by the following downtown mer
chants: Hoffman Jewelry store,
which will donate the silver loving
cup for the grand prize for the
best all-around beard; College Side,
Oregon Pharmacy, De Neffe’s,
Montgomery Ward. Seymour’s,
Babb Hardware, C. J. Brier, West
ern Thrift, Eric Merrell, Univer
sity Barber shop, University hair
cutters, McMorran and Wash
bume, Tiffany Davis Drug store,
and the Eugene Cleaners.
Women’s Faculty Club
Holds Election Today
The annual election of officers
of the Women’s Faculty club of
the University of Oregon will take
place today in Alumni hall, Ger
linger building. Following the bus
iness meeting the Eugene club will
entertain the members of the Ore
gon State College Folk club at tea
in Alumni hall, following an an
nual custom of the two campus
clubs meeting together.
During the afternoon the guests
will be conducted through the Mur
ray Warner museum. Mrs. J. R.
Jewell is in charge of the program
at the museum. Mrs. W. G. Beattie
and Miss Mabel Wood, head of the
home economics department, are
planning the tea with the assist
ance of Mrs. O. F. Stafford, pres
ident of the Women’s Faculty club.
University Art League
Has Exhibit in Portland
The alumni of the department
of architecture and allied arts of
the University of Oregon, recently
organized under the name of the
University Art league, are exhib
j iting their work at the Portland
! Museum of Art. Exhibits have
been received from Oregon gradu
ates scattered throughout the
i country. A special edition of Old
| Oregon is soon to be published
which will contain material on the
| exhibits and exhibitors.
Kappa, Sigma
Nil Get Full1
A
Membership
Yellow Affiliate Tags
Mark Student Body
Card Holders
ASUO Drive Still Under
Full Steam
Kappa Kappa Gamma and Sig
ma Nu announced yesterday that
everyone in their respective or
ganizations had joined the student
body, bringing the total to five
houses that have gone over the top
in the intensive campaign. Sigma
Alpha Mu, Alpha Xi Delta, and
Delta Delta Delta had previously
announced 100 percent member
ship in the ASUO. Only one mem
ber of Pi Beta Phi has not secured
her membership card, it was re
vealed yesterday.
Yellow tags were numerous on
the campus yesterday, revealing
that the wearer had joined the
ASUO and was “100 percent for
the University.” Officials refused
to disclose the total number of
tickets sold yesterday, waiting un
til the close of the campaign for
the final check.
A banner urging membership in
the student organization has been
stretched across Thirteenth street
in front of Condon hall and num
erous windshields on the campus
automobiles are decorated with
eyllow paint: “100r/r ASUO.”
Students desiring membership
cards may secure them in Johnson
hall any time today as the attempt
to equal or beat Oregon State in
the number of membership cards
ends.
YWCA Elections
Will Be Tuesday
Nominations for the Y.W.C.A.
officers for the coming year will
be listed in this Saturday’s issue
of the Emerald. The offices to be
filled are that of president, vice
president, secretary, and treasurer.
Elections for these officers will
be held next Tuesday at the Y.W.
C.A. All girls belonging to the or
ganization are entitled to vote.
Nominations for the offices will be
made by the nominating commit
tee, which is composed of all the
senior girls on this year’s cabinet.
Numan Club Officials
Make Tentative Plans
The tentative program ' for
spring term was outlined at the
meeting of the officers of the Nu
man club Monday evening. This
organization is composed of all
Catholic students on the campus
who are interested.
It was announced last night by
officials in charge that a general
meeting is to be held this coming
Sunday morning at 9 o’clock at the
Parish house. All students inter
ested have been invited to attend.
Defies Mother
Vigorous maternal objections, in
cluding an appeal to the law, failed
to swerve Frances Farmer, above,
pretty 21-year-old Seattle co-ed,
from her resolve to visit Russia, a
trip won in a subscription contest
from a Seattle newspaper. She de
nies she is interested in Soviet gov
ernment, but wishes to study Rus
sian drama.
26 Bands Will
Compete Here
In State Meet
Prep Students Will Vie
For Group, Soloist
Cup Awards
Twenty-six schools of Oregon
will send uOO prep school students
to the twelfth annual high school
band contest to be held next Fri
day and Saturday on the Univer
sity of Oregon campus.
The bands compete in four
groups dependent upon the size of
the bands. Each school is allowed
one soloist to enter in each of the
solo groups: cornet, clarinet, saxo
phone, baritone, flute, slide trom
bone, baritone, French horn, oboe,
bassoon, tuba and the snare drum.
Oregonian Cup Permanent
Class A bands, over fifty mem
bers, will compete for the Morning
Oregonian and Seiberling-Lucas
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Orides Will Have
Share in ‘Crawl'
Orides, organization of indepen
dent women on the campus, will
participate, this year in the Dime
Crawl tonight.
Their temporary dance quarters
will be in the dance room of Ger
linger hall. Men guests are re
quested to enter by the sun porch,
or the northeast doors, since these
are the only two entrances to the
building which will be opened for
the dime dance affair. Helen Nick
achiou is in charge of arrange
ments.
Recital of Aurora Underwood
Shows Understanding9 Skill
By Fulton H. Travis
Aurora Potter Underwood,
music school faculty member, ap
peared in a piano recital sponsored
by the University school of music
last evening: at 8:15 p. m. in the
music building,
Mrs. Underwood is one of the
people who has done a great deal
toward making the University
school of music the success that
it is. Her concert was well done;
her playing shows a thorough
understanding and mastery of the
piano. At times, she made the in
strument sound a great deal like
a pipe-organ, which is one of the
highest compliments your critic is
able to give to a pianist.
“Choral in F-minor,” Bach
Busoni was delicate, yet it had a
depth, an emotional quality and a
perfection of shading which gave
it real character and it wa3 well
received by the audience.
Hummel’s “Rondeau Favori”
was lively, control of moods and
expression were apparent through
out the rendition.
The major number of the eve
ning, Brahms’ “sonata," Op. 5, wa3
perhaps the best of the program
although to draw a line of
distinction between the works of
Chopin and those of Brahms is a
difficult task and especially when
the two composers are represented
in the same program by a master
musician.
“La Danse D'Olaf,” Pick-Man
giagalli was extremely well done
and the tempo, feeling and spirit
of the number were perfectly por
trayed.
Little need be said of the two
Chopin works, as well as the third
one which she used as an encore,
except that they represent the best
of his compositions and were given
by a finished performer.
It i3 difficult for a student, not
a music major, to criticise in the
slightest degree the work of a
faculty member, yet, there was, in
spite of the perfection, mechanical
in nature, a certain lack which
might be attributed to inability to
dramatize herself which took a
subtle something from the keenest
enjoyment that should have been
derived from the concert.
Therefore, your critic rates the
recital A THREE STAR PER
FORMANCE.
RevivedDime
Crawl Reigns
Tonight 6-7:30
Goal of Superiority Is
To Have Most Men;
Prize Offered
‘Open House’ Idea Being
\\ orked This Year
Tonight between 6 and 7:30 the
Oregon campus will again revert
to tradition, and help reinstate that
by-gone custom of Dime Crawl.
For the past two years, the pro
ject has been disbanded, but with
the clamor for mid-week and mat
inee dances, A.W.S. decided to
give Dime Crawl an opportunity
to fill the requests.
The goal sought by each and ev
ery sorority will be to have the
greatest number of men in attend
ance at their house in proportion
to the number of women living in
that organization. The reward for
their efforts will be a prize well
worth the time and trouble of any
house.
Margaret Ann Smith is general
chairman for Dime Crawl this
year. The plan being worked this
year will be that men will not have
to feel obligated to receive an in
vitation in order to attend Dime
Crawl at any sorority to which he
may wish to go.
The directorate for Dime Crawl
includes:
Margery Kissling, Alpha Delta
Pi, publicity; June Yates, Alpha
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Faculty to Decide
On Optional Drill,
Peace Exhibition
Vole Expected to Be Close
Oil Both Questions
Two significant documents will
lie on the table today when the
University faculty convenes for its
regular monthly session. It must
decide whether or not to recom
mend optional military drill to the
state board, and it must pass on or
reject cooperation with the peace
demonstration which students will
stage Friday morning.
Action on the R.O.T.C. question
should be speedy since the instruc
tors have agreed to vote without
discussion. The matter was laid
over from the March faculty meet
ing with the understanding that it
would be presented and voted on
without argument at this meeting.
Should a vote favorable to the
student petitions be returned it
will mean that the faculty recom
mends to the state board of higher
education that R.O.T.C. at Oregon
be placed on an elective basis.
More than 500 students have
signed petitions which are now in
the hands of the faculty. Many
downtown groups have also peti
tioned such action.
A faculty committee of three
will present a recommendation
concerning the Friday morning
peace demonstration.
Campus prognosticators believe
that the vote on both questions
will be very close. This is the first
time the faculty has been asked to
sanction such a demonstration as
that to be held Friday. It faced the
drill question once before, retain
ing the compulsory feature last
year by a 3G- 31 vote.
Annual Alumni Banquet
To Honor Bill Hayward
The annual banquet of the Uni
versity of Oregon Alumni will be
held at the Multnomah hotel in
Portland at 6:30 Thursday eve
ning.
This year’s guest of honor will
be Bill Hayward, coach of Oregon's
track teams for the past 31 years.
Other invited guests from the Uni
versity include President C. V.
Boyer, Dr. Richard B. Dillehunt
of the University medical school,
Prink Caliison, football coach, and
Bill Reinhart, baseball and basket
ball mentor.
Former Oregon lettermen are to
attend the banquet and the dance
which will follow it. Before the
banquet gets under way the Order
of the O plans a reunion, the first
which they have held in recent
years.
Anti-W ar Protest
Plans Lag Pending
Action of Faculty
Mannequins
Selected For
Style Dance
Twelve Coeds Chosen as
Models for Formal
April 26
In one of the closest popular elec
tions ever to be held in the history
of the University, 12 girls were
e'ected as models for the annual
Gamma- Alpha Chi fashion dance.
Due to the full social calendar,
this spring formal will not be held
this Saturday, April 13, as was for
merly announced but on Friday,
April 26.
The following girls have been
elected as models to display the
latest spring and summer styles
from various Eugene stores at the
dance: Beverly Burkitt, Marjorie
Smith, Josephine Waffle, Kay Ska
let, Cynthia Liljeqvist, Carmen
Curry, Echo Tomseth, Jean Ste
venson, Rosemary O’Donnel, Betty
Zehntbaur, Anne Hounsell, and
Betty Pownall.
The Gamma Alpha Chi formal
is the first women’s choice dance
of spring term. Only a limited
number of tickets will be sold.
Mary Starbuck, chairman of the
ticket sale, will distribute 20 tick
ets to the Thespian in each of the
girls’ houses and halls by the end
of the week. Peggy Chessman is
general chairman of the dance.
Yeoman Council
Discusses Plans
At the executive council meet
ing- of the Oregon Yeomen this af
ternoon, the members of the group
made several decisions of impor
tance relative to Yeoman activi
ties during the coming term.
Virgil Esteb, president, an
nounced that Ernest Savage has
been placed in charge of the Yeo
man booth for the AWS carnival.
There will be a dance in the
near future which may be held in
one of the downtown cafes. Plans
are not complete due to the fact
that actual details will have to be
referred to the Yeomen as a body
but it is expected the dance will
be an all-campus affair.
In the near future, there will be
a general meeting to nominate
and elect officers of the Oregon
Yeomen for the coming year.
Class in Geography
Moves to Commerce
The class in Introduction to
Geography, which has the largest
enrollment in years, under the di
rection of James C. Stovall, in
structor in geography and geology,
has been forced to move to 205
Commerce where there will be ade
quate room for the 105 students.
Student Groups Ask for
Official Sanction of
Demonstration
Answer Due Today
Local Display in Sympathy
With Nation-Wide Strike
A dozen student groups had
joined in issuing a united protest
against war last night, calling for
an assembly before the steps of
the old library Friday morning.
The local demonstration, known
on many campuses as a strike,
awaits faculty recognition at the
meeting of that group this after
noon.
Dean Karl W. Onthank, Dean
James H. Gilbert and Prof. L. O.
Wright make up the committee
which President C. V. Boyer ap
pointed several days ago to in
vestigate the demonstration and
make a recommendation to the
faculty. The committee has met
with several groups of students
participating in the protest and
w’ill hold a final meeting this
morning before presenting the
matter at the faculty meeting.
Meanwhile plans are proceeding
for the protest. Participating
groups expect to stage the demon
stration Friday morning at 11
o’clock. Five speakers will talk
briefly. Charles Paddock is master
of ceremonies. He said last night
that John Luvaas will repreesnt
the Eugene high school student
body, and Louise Clark, Bill
Bruce and Howard Ohmart will
speak for the University students.
After the protest meeting in
front of the library, participants
will march downtown carrying
signs and banners.
Impetus was given the demon
stration by the appearances of
Kirby Page in Eugene. The famous
Christian pacifist asked the co
operation of townspeople and stu
dents in the protest, and, at. a mass
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McGirr Announces
Soph Dance Heads
Sophomores in the living' organ
izations who are to have charge of
tickets for the annual soph dance
have been announced by Jack Mc
Girr as follows:
Alpha Tau Omega, Ben Grout;
Beta Theta Pi, Don Reed; Chi Psi,
Pete Brooks; Delta Tau Delta, Ju
lius Scruggs; Delta Upsilon, Dave
Silver; Kappa Sigma, Fred Ham
mond; Phi Delta Theta, Ed Mor
row; Phi Gamma Delta, Newton
Stearns; Phi Sigma Kappa, Dave
Montag; Pi Kappa Alpha, Kermit.
Paulsen; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Gil
Schultz; Sigma Alpha Mu, Louis
Rotenburg; Sigma Chi, Catlin
Lawson; Sigma Nu, Jack McCul
lough; Sigma Phi Epsilon, Kenneth
[Thomas; and Theta Chi, Jack
I Rodda.
Frosh See Beardless Sophs
Millraced; Get Dunked Too
Wholesale dunkings of beardless
sophomores and numerous fresh
men, Including the class president
and the writer of this little tale,
were held on the banks of the mill
race Tuesday noon, marking the
first official enforcement of the
custom requiring males to grow
beards in preparation of their an
nual Sophomore Whiskerino to be
held Friday night.
The big splashing was scheduled
only for male members of the sec
ond-year class who had neglected
or were unable to grow sufficient
fuzz on their banal epidermis.
Then several freshmen forgot to
observe a sacred tradition. This
tradition provides a sound millrac
ing for any member of the year
ling class who ventures to witness
the wearers of the moleskins in
their embarrassment of being em
barked on the flood.
Frosh Too
Recently, the traditions, former
ly providing for much color for
the Oregon campus, have been al
lowed to be discarded, the result
being the lack of observance of
one of the most prominent tradi
tions by several brave freshmen
who were tossed into the stream.
Several hundred students turned
out to witness the big event, which
was heralded in yesterday morn
ing’s paper. Officials of the sopho
more class warned yesterday that
many impromptu tubbings in the
race will undoubtedly be held be
tween now and Friday evening for
members of the class who do not
“go back to nature," as far as
the "Days of ’49” which as far a3
facial styles are concerned, observe
the general theme for the annual
affair.
It was also held by soph “big
shots" that freshman men daring
to venture to the locale of any fu
ture sophomore mill racings will
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