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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1935)
In Memory In response to a letter to the Emerald, Editor Robert Lucas ad vocates on the editorial page a simple ceremony in reverence to the memory of Walter Back at sometime during the Idaho game. VOLUME XXXVII Speech Continued The second and final part of Dr. Boyer’s speech to the students which was begun in last Tuesday’s Emerald is published on the edi torial page today. NUMBER 10 Walter Back Dies from Leg Infection U. of O. Coaching Staff, Entire Student Body Shocked by Sad News Of Player’s Death While his teammates were fight ing a losing battle against Cali fornia on the Multnomah gridiron Saturday afternoon, Walter M. Back, with his life at stake, was also fighting a losing battle in Emmanuel hospital, not far from the stadium. Back died at 2:53 p. m. Sunday, following an operation performed Tuesday in an attempt to arrest a leg infection. Hundreds of Back’s friends on the University campus were mourning his death Monday and recalling that he attended classes here but a week ago. The funeral arrangements had not been an nounced late yesterday afternoon but will probably be held in Palo Alto where his mother and 14 year old brother reside. Transfusions Fail A driving, smashing fullback on the football field, “Blondie” fought death with all the resources of his sturdy young body. Two blood transfusions, one Saturday and another early Sunday, failed to save his life. The handsome, blonde athlete came to Oregon last year from San Mateo junior college where he was an all-northern California junior college selection. He was born in Chicago in 1912 and would have been 23 on November 5. Back graduated from Palo Alto high school in 1932 and spent two years in junior college before com ing north to Oregon. As a reserve fullback last year he saw consid erable action and showed thatr- he had the rare combination of abil ity to punt, pass, and run the ball. At fullback he was outstanding, both on defense and when on the offensive. News Shocks Coaches The Oregon coaching staff, headed by Coach Prink Callison, Trainer Bill Hayward, and Back’s teammates were all surprised and shocked when news of his death reached them in Eugene Sunday. Forced out of practice this year when x-rays revealed a bone growth on his knee resulting from an injury received last year, Back attended classes on the campus until Monday of last week when he went to Portland for what was considered to be a minor operation. Back was a member of the Ph’ Delta Theta fraternity. Although majoring in physical education, he planned to take up aviation after graduating from college. His mother, rushing by car from Palo Alto to be with her son, did not arirve before his death. ENROLLMENT LARGE Lower division classes in geog raphy and geology department have almost double the enrollment of last year, Professor Warren D. Smith, head of the department, said yesterday. Campus Calendar NYA student payroll checks will not be paid until word is received from the head office in Washing ton, D. C. This refers to the student relief work sponsored by the federal government. Phi Beta members and Philo melete presidents are to hold a short but important meeting this afternoon at 4:30 at Kappa Alpha Theta. Outdoor discussion group of Philomelete will meet today at 4 o’clock at the Pi Beta Phi house. Pot and Quill meets at 7:30 to night at 1841 Kincaid. Yeomen swimming aspirants who wish to compete in the first intramural swim meet on Wednes day are to meet at the YMCA hut (Please turn to patje two) Law Students To Aim Telling Skits at Faculty i Annual Smoker Slated For 7:30 Tonight With "give 'em the works” their echoing cry, law students have been zestfully rehearsing the skits which they will present to night at the law school smoker, and faculty members can expect the worst panning of their career when first, second, and third year students turn on the big guns. The smoker is an annual stag affair and gridiron party. The affair will open at 7:30 in the Green Parrot Palms with law students, faculty, and, in accord ance to long established custom, members of the Lane county bar in attendance. The skits themselves are always kept secret before and after the smoker, never to be heard by out siders, but according to the stu dents they have some acts that will bring a tinge of red to faces of many instructors. Bob Hunter, president of the law school stu dent body, will act as master of ceremonies. Those in charge of the program are Otto Vanderheit, chairman; Ray Mize and Orville Wilson, third year stunt; George Birnie and John Clabaugh, second year; Sid Milli gan and Fred Hammond, first year. Refreshments and smokes will be supplied by the faculty. Orlando J. Hollis will act as faculty advisor. Stanley Darling and Gordon Campbell will assist Vanderheit. Lane county attorneys have been invited to attend. Drawing Course Scheduled for Science Majors A new course in drawing has been scheduled in the school of architecture and allied arts, ac cording to information received from Professor Andrew M. Vin cent, head of the drawing and painting department. A number of science majors en rolled in the drawing department of the school of architecture and allied arts have been organized into a special group for special in structions in delineation. The purpose of this course is to equip the students with the tech nical skill necessary for the type of drawing required of workers in their respective fields. The work will be done in differ ent media, beginning with black and white and possibly including color work later. Consideration will be given to the requirements of photo-reproduction for printing purposes. “So far as is possible the work will be done with material relating to the problems of the students may have in their respective de partment,’’ said Mr. Vincent. Four Escape Injury in Wreck Four University of Oregon stu dents, William Phipps, Margaret Reid, Peggy Chessman, George Jones, and Charles M. Hulten, in structor in the school of journal ism, narrowly escaped injury Sat urday morning when the car in which they were going to Portland was struck and overturned by N. R. Altermat of Tangent. Mr. Hulten was driving the Eu gene car. Both cars were badly damaged. H. R. Rehn Visitor At Varsity Friday Mr. H. R. Rehn, who received his master’s degree in business ad ministration on graduating from the University of Oregon in 1928 was a visitor on the campus last Friday. After graduating, Mr. Rehn at tended the University of Chicagc where he received his Ph.D. in pro duction management. He ther taught in the University of Texae for one year before going tc Shanghai, China, where for the last four years he has been secre tary and treasurer for the Fai .Eastern Match company. Tax Ex empt? I ' ' ' ' : The supreme court will decide this afternoon whether the W. E. Miner building', owned by the University, can legally be taxed by the city of Eugene and Uane county. The county appealed the case to the supreme court after Circuit Judge Skipworth earlier in the year decreed that the building was tax exempt. If the justices declare the building tax exempt $7,500, normally paid out in taxes, can be used for granting scholarships. Courses Sent Alaskan Prof Dog Teams to Carry Lessons Inti North Somewhere between here and Pilot-Station-on-the-Yukon, far up in Alaska, a group of correspon dence course lessons are on the way to J. F. Bannish, school teacher in this out-of-the-way place. He hopes that the material will arrive before the “big freeze” sets in. If the lessons, sent by the cor respondence department of the general extension division here, reach the mouth of the river be fore the ice sets in, they will go up to this school settlement by boat. If they are too late, they will have a trip by dog team. Settlement Far North The school settlement is located 200 miles south of Nome, and its only conection with civilization is an occasional boat during the sum mer, and about once in six weeks by dog team during the winter. Mr. Bannish is working for an advanced degree in education, and wants to put in the long winter evenings studying. He was just transferred to Pilot Station from Hamilton, where he formerly taught. The school house at Ham ilton burned. With his request for lessons in education courses, Mr. Bannish sent money for a subscription to the Emerald. He also offered to write some real “bear stories” that will be unrelated to football or other sports. Says Country Wild “Bears often come right into our school yard," he wrote to Miss Mozelle Hair, who is in charge of the correspondence work at the University. “They are not pets either, and I cculd write some real thrillers about escapes, and some encounters that were not escapes, that hunters have had with these animals up here.” Dramatics Group Will Meet Tuesday The dramatics group of West minster association has changed its meeting to Tuesday at 4 p. m., announces Mrs. J. D. Bryant, host ess at Westminster house. The group has been split up into sev eral sections, each working on its own separate play. Anybody wish ing to take part in acting or di recting of plays is invited to come. L Dr. Crosland Talks Tonight Sigma Xi Will Hold Business Meeting Interesting facts gleaned from experiments in attempts to under stand inefficient reading and con structive methods for improving and increasing reading speed will be given students who wish to at tend Dr. H. R. Crosland’s talk tonight. It will be given at 8 o’clock in 101 Condon hall, and is open to the public. The lecture will be preceded by the first business meeting for 1935-36 of Sigma Xi, national science honorary, which will be held at 7:30. Dr. L. S. Cressman, new president, will preside. Dr. Crosland, associate professor of psychology, will illustrate his lec ture with charts he has made as a result of many experiments and he will point out some conclusions he has reached after many tests. Some of the presentation will deal with certain differences which exist between right-eyed and left eyed people, showing the advant age the right-eyed person has in reading English, because we read from left to right. The differences in the ability of Jewish readers will also be brought out, since many of them have been forced to learn to read Hebrew (from right to left) as well as English. New Weekly Paper Makes Campus Debut Barney Clark Editor Of Monday Publication A new publication made its ap pearance on the campus Monday morning', when The Bystander, with Barney Clark as editor, made its debut. The paper is a four page sheet carrying five columns. It is to appear each Monday, according to present plans. An editorial in the paper stated that it was not trying to run op position to the daily Emerald but merely was filling in the need for a Monday paper. Clark will con tinue to write his featured humor column “Innocent Bystander" for the Emerald as well as handle the editorial duties of the new publi cation. The Bystander staff heads in clude Ed Labbe, business manager; George Callas, managing editor: Ann-Reed Burns, news editor; Miriam Eichner, features; and Ned Simpson, sports features. The publications committee, in an emergency meeting last week went on record as “disapproving the project.” Campus reaction as to the ap pearance of the paper yesterday seemed decidedly favorable, with most comment of a complimentary nature. State Educators Invited to Salem For Conference All persons who stand in su pervisory or administrative rela tionships to secondary schools of the state, as well as those engaged in the training of teachers for high schools, or junior high schools, are invited to attend and take part in the discussion of the seventh an nual high school principals’ con ference to be held at Willamette University chapel, Salem, Oregon, October 18 and 19. The purpose of the conference is to present the plan for reorganiza tion of the curriculum of second ary schools, that the association has been working on for over a year. Dean J. R. Jewell, of the depart ment of education is both on the executive staff and the committee of experimental schools, of the Oregon high school principals’ as sociation. Sorority to Hold Founders’ Day ? When Zeta Tau Alpha holds its annual Founders’ day celebration at the chapter house Tuesday, Oc tober 15, it will have been 37 years since nine girls of Farmville, Vir ginia, established the sorority. The banquet to be held at 6:30 Tuesday evening will be preceded ty a ceremony and alumni from far end near will meet and be en tertained by present chapter mem bers. Decorations for the affair will be carried out as far as possible in turquoise blue and steel grey, the colors of Zeta Ta i Alpha. Bertha Shephard, general chair man, will be assisted by Hazel Mc h.wen. Chicken, Biscuits Food Specialties at Infirmary By BOB POLLOCK Break a leg and eat chicken—or else wait until Thanksgiving or Christmas. That, apparently, is the sad state of affairs on the University of Oregon campus, for upon investigation it was discov ered that the ‘fortunate’ inhabi tants of the infirmary have chick en “whenever they want it,” ac cording to the head, and in fact, the only cook of the place. Not only do they have chicken, but ham, that all but extinct table delicacy—and what is more, they have it at frequent intervals. There is also considerable grounds for suspecting that those who are able to sit up and yell for it get candy—and darned good candy at that. Margaret Callahan, who would be called genial if she were a man but out of respect to her sex will henceforth be referred to as motherly, is head nurse at the moan and groan establishment and when she is not soothing fretful football heroes and homesick coeds, can stir up a mean dish of succu lent sweetness not to mention bis cuits so light and airy they fairly float around the kitchen. Other dope gleaned by a hard working cub trying to do the im possible and please the editor, in cludes the interesting information that there are thirteen beds in the infirmary but that they aren’t numbered because it was feared some superstitious individual might up and die if he got bunk number thirteen. The patients, while they like the food, do not like the building itself—in fact sometimes refer to it as that "•!*)’ old shack”! Which may be one of the reasons University men are working almost night and day on plans for a new hospital. Two Parties Left in Frosh Political Fray McAvoy, Burnett Will Head Opposing Tickets; Line-ups Of Houses Indefinite Shadowy figures, cloaked in ut ter secrecy, and each with fresh man political ambitions, darted across the campus stage of politics again last night, marking the final days of hot campaigning before the yearling class elects its leaders at the polls this coming Thursday. ASUO President Jim Blais said yesterday evening that neither he nor other officials had received pe titions requesting the names of ad ditional candidates on the ballot, which definitely narrows the race between the two equally confident parties nominated last week. Groups Line Support One ticket, headed by Arnie Mc Avoy and supported by June Brown, Faye Buchanan, and Rob ert Bailey, intimated last night that they had lined up support from the following fraternal or ganizations: Theta Chi, Delta Tau Delta, Delta Upsilon, Phi Gamma Delta, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sigma Nu, Kappa Sigma, and men’s dormitory. equally as comment was ±sua Burnett’s ticket, composed of Hel en Labbe, Phyllis Gardner, and Dick Sleight, who claim as back ers: Sigma Chi, Phi Delta Theta, Chi Psi, Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Al pha Mu, Phi Sigma Kappa, Alpha Tau Omega, Beta Theta Pi, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Will State Policies The line-up of the above houses cannot be definitely banked upon, older politicians claim, citing last minute campaign dickerings which often swing groups to opposite sides. Both Burnett and McAvoy are to submit statements to the Emerald today for publication, in which they are to put forth to the stu dents their policies if elected. YWCA Discussion Groups Meet at 4 Leaders of the freshman discus sion groups which meet at the YWCA each afternoon, have been announced by Elizabeth Hughes, executive secretary of the Y. Euphemia Laraway is leader of the Monday group, Marjorie Thay er, Tuesday; Betty Rebec, Wed nesday; Edith Luke, Thursday; and Eugenia Hunt, Thelma Nelson, and Alice Henshaw are taking charge of the Sunday group which is open also to sophomores and up perclassmen. All freshmen who are interested in the freshman discussions are asked to drop in at the Y bunga low any afternoon at 4 p. m. and take part in the open discussions. Committees are' also being or ganized for the first freshman fireside which is scheduled for Wednesday, October 28. Mrs. Rob ert Denn of Corvallis is to be the guest speaker. Barrett Teaches Portland Classes Prof. Oliver Barrett of the art school is presenting a course in sculpture at the University of Ore gon extension school in Portland. Classes meet once a week from 7 to 10 o'clock on Friday nights. The first class was held last Fri day. For a beginning sculpture class the attendance was large, Professor Barrett said. Work in the class will be done in both stone and ceramics. Library Receives New Periodicals Among the sets of periodicals recently received at the University library are some volumes of Antiq uity, several translations of the Bibliographical Society of London, copies of the Polynesian Society Journal, and the works of the Royal Anthropological Society of Great Britain and Ireland from 1874 to 1904. Additional journals are expected in the near future. Students Are Fined For Late Payment Of Enrollment Fees Starting today a fine of 25 cents a day is being charged to almost 300 students for non payment of their second install ment of fees and out of state tuition. If the fees are not paid by the end of this week, a student is subject to suspension for non-payment of fees, said E. I\ Lyons, University cashier. First Regular Emereld Staff Meeting at 8 Organized Second String Help Planned The initial meeting of the newly organized staff of the Emerald will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in 105 journalism. A11 staff members, both old and new, are to be at the meeting. At this staff meeting, prospects of organizing a “second string” Emerald staff for purposes of re lieving the starting lineup will be discussed. It is requested, there fore, that all those who are de sirous of working on the sheet be present along with the regular staff members. The real "New Emerald” starts rolling tonight. Stafford Urges Cooperation in Scout Campaign Dr. Stafford, head of the de partment of chemistry of the Uni versity, and prominent district worker for the Boy Scout move ment in western Oregon, today urged the cooperation of all fac ulty members and others in assist ing with the campaign now in progress to raise funds for the scout movement in this section for the ensuing year. The Lane < ounty scout council, Dr. Stafford pointed out,* is the rallying point for what is known as the Wallamet council which consists of Benton, Lincoln, Doug las, Coos, Curry, and Lane coun ties. Houses to Protest Fines at Tribunal Protesting the inter-fraternity council’s ruling made last Thurs day night which fined nine houses a total of $140 several of the liv ing organizations upon which fines were levied may appeal to the tribunal which meets in Dean Vir gil D. Earl's office this afternoon. The fines were levied as the re sult of violations of rushing rules reported to the council’s commit tee. The rules were drawn up last spring. Should their appeals fail, the houses must pay the fines at once, as they are now due. Oregon-Idaho Tickets on Sale Tickets for the Oregon-Idaho game to be played next Saturday, October 19, went on saie this morning at McMorran and Wash burne, Obaks, and Rich’s cigar store, it has been announced by Ralph Schomp, assistant graduate manager. Schomp also announced that a special section has been set aside for the dads. Tickets for this sec tion may be had at the dean of men’s office, price $1.65. Freshman Council Holds Meeting Today — The frosh council, recently re vived as an activity by the YMCA council, will hold its first meeting Tuesday at 3 p. m. at the “Y" hut lounge. All houses that have not ap pointed freshmen as their repre sentatives are asked to do so be fore the meeting in order that their houses may have a voice at the session. Dad’s Day Committee Lays Plans Bonrlurant Urges Students to Invite Fathers to Attend Vandal-Duck Game Anxious to make this Saturday the most successful Dads’ day Ore gon has ever known, Frank Bon durant, chairman, and the follow ing committee met last night at the College Side for general dis cussions of the program: Virginia Proctor, Mary McCracken, Jean Stevenson, Wayne Harbert, and Dan Clark II. “The formal invitations sent asking dads to be with us on Dads' day, October 19, has many fathers in a favorable frame of mind towards the event, yet par tially undecided to attend. Bondu rant intimated. “A moment’s consideration in the form of a personal letter of in vitation to each dad would move him to determination to be here. Saturday is his day, set aside in his honor, and every proud student should put forth every effort to in sure his dad’s presence.” Members Contact Dads Members of the committee, while in Portland over the weekend, con tacted many fathers over the ra dio stations, at the rally, and at the game. A slide l®being run all this week in one of the major Portland theaters. Any student desiring to reserve a ticket for his or her dad at the Idaho game may do so at the of fice of the dean of men, it was made known last night. Rule two governing the contest between fraternal living organiza tions is printed below. The other rules were correctly printed in Friday’s Emerald. Only dads of members of a liv ing organization are counted. (a) The dads of fraternity men and women who live in the halls of residence are to be credited to such hall for the purpose of competition. (b) The dads of fraternity men and women who live with parents or relatives in Eugene and not ac tually living in their respective fraternity houses are not included in the house membership for pur poses of this competition. (c) Out-of-town dads of mem bers not living in the organization shall be counted. YMCA Cabinet Plans Committee At a meeting of the YMCA cab inet Monday afternoon at the “Y” hut, Paul Plank outlined plans for the organization of an internation al relations committee. Reinhart Knudsen discussed plans for the organization of a ra dio committee to publicize out standing radio programs, which may be listened to at the “Y” hut. The gridgraf broadcast of the Oregon-California football game Saturday afternoon proved a big success, and plans are being made to hold similar gridgrafs for future Oregon games this season. Monday noon the luncheon club, consisting of independent men and women met at the “Y” lounge to hear the broadcast of Harold Ehrensberber. The weekly noon luncheon of the two groups will be held on Wednesday in the same building, when the men will again be hosts. Haberman Offers Circulation Jobs Several boys are needed to work In the circulation department of the Emerald, Eldon Haberman, Emerald business manager, said yesterday. A 50c commission will be paid for each Emerald sub scription turned in. Any boys interested are asked to see Don Chapman at the Em erald business office today at 4 o’clock. This is a good opportunity to make some cash for any enter prising student, Haberman de clared. He cited several instances where Portland boys working for Emerald subscriptions during the summer made considerable sums.
