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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1935)
No Derby Bunion derby trotters of pre vious years receive easing news in today’s Emerald as they are told that there will probably be no open house this year. Lovesick! Troubled romancers received ad vice today in Promenading Polly from Dolores. This will be a reg ular weekly feature of the Emer ald. VOLUME XXXVII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1935 NUMBER 12 Traditional rBunion Derby9 Taken Off Slate Freshmen Climax Political Battle At Polls Today McAvoy, Burnett Head Two Determined Parties on Evening Before Election The members of the freshman class who have been writhing- in political turmoil for the past weeks are to go to the polls today to cast their votes for one of two tickets. The scene of the ballot battle will be the YMCA hut, and hours are to be from 9 until 3 o’clock. The ticket headed by Arnie Mc Avoy has intimated that it will urge, in the event of a successful campaign, that “the freshman class should be granted a greatef proportion of activities.” This tic ket also carries a plank promising an administration which will not operate on the patronage political policy. The opposing group, headed by Bud Burnett, advances promises of impartial appointments "not by the president, but by a freshman executive committee composed of the class officers and advisers,” closer cooperation with the soph omores, and more freshman activ ities. Battle Waxes Furious No new developments were ex posed yesterday in the set-up of living organizations, each group evidently sticking to the original party. The yearling class, the largest in years to enter the Uni versity, has held the campus spot light during its torrid campaign for several weeks, especially since the nominating of the group in Villard hall last Thursday evening. The first “political plum” will be dished out by the leader of the class a few hours after his elec tion. This appointment will be con cerning the part of the first year class in the annual homecoming events the weekend of tha Oregon State game. Every year the class builds a bonfire or fireworks dis play on the south slope of Skin ner’s butte to light the way of the rallying students in their down town pep demonstration. P ii Campus •> ❖ Calendar There will be a formal banquet for Scabbard and Blade at the Chi Psi lodge at 6:15 today. Activity chairmen of women’s living organizations will meet to day at 5 at the College Side. * * * A meeting of the International Relations committee has been called for Thursday at 3 p. m. at the YMCA hut. Paul Plank is chairman. Meeting of Purpose and Contact group at YWCA today at 4:30. Important. * * * Christian Science organization will hold its regular meeting to night at 8 in the YWCA bungalow. All those interested in Christian Science are welcome. There will be an important members meeting afterwards. * * * Alpha Kappa Psi members and pledges please meet today at 5:00 p. m., men's lounge, Gerlinger. » * * Alpha Delta Sigma will have a business meeting in W. F. G. Thacher’s office Thursday after noon at 3 o'clock. Ed Labbe, pres ident, urges all members to be present. CANDIDATES When the polls close at 3 o’clock today the freshman class will have as its first of ficers in the University half of the group of students compos ing the two tickets below: Arnie. McAvoy, president June Brown, vice president Faye Buchanan, secretary Robert Bailey, treasurer Bud Burnett, president Helen Labbe, vice president Phyllis Gardner, secretary Dick Sleight, treasurer Oregon Campus Receives Funds For Landscaping SI7,846 Allotted by PWA Total Cost to be $21,849 Allotment of $17,846 in PWA funds for landscaping the grounds on the University campus has been made by the federal government, according to word received by Vic tor Todd, WPA engineer for Lane county. The total cost of the project will be $21,489, the University furnish ing $3,643. The project is one of the larger recently submitted from Lane county, and will give employment to 395 men for several months. Work will be started as soon as the necessary details are com pleted and crews are assembled. It is expected that men will be employed on the project all fall and winter. Vincent Receives Award in Seattle Professor A. M. Vincent, in structor in drawing and painting in the school of art, announced yesterday that he had received no tice from the Northwest Artists’ exhibition in Seattle that he had received first honorable mention for an oil painting he entered in the exhibit. “The painting was an oil land scape of the Bailey hill district west of Eugene. It was painted in early spring and was a typical Oregon early spring landscape,” Mr. Vincent said. The Northwest Artists’ exhibi tion is being held in the new Mu seum of Fine Arts in Volunteer park in Seattle. Sociology Head Goes to Portland Dr. Philip A. Parsons, head of the sociology department, has gone to Portland to meet his extension class, sociological aspects of relig ion, which meets every Wednesday night. Dr. Parsons will spend Thursday and Friday in Portland conferring with V. B. Stanbery, executive sec retary and planning consultant of the Oregon state planning board. Dr. Parsons is general chairman of the Advisory Research council which is made up of 14 sub-com mittees. Last week Dr. Parsons worked on unemployment insurance bills in Portland; also he conferred with Governor Martin, Glen Leete, of the American Welfare association, and E. R. Goudy, administrator of the state relief committee. The purpose of the meeting was to amend Oregon laws to conform with the national securities act. 1 Full Calendar Will Eliminate Open House Affair May Be Held Later if Enough Students Desire It, Says Dean Schwering Open House will not be held at any time during this month be cause of a conflicting schedule, ac cording to an announcement made by the dean of women's office yes terday. It was revealed, however, that if enough students desire the tra ditional get-together event, the dean of women’s office could schedule it later this term or dur ing the first of winter term. Dean Hazel P. Schwering said that this does not mean that there will be no Open House. Out of town games have been the main reason for not holding the dance, as a majority of students were out of town during these week-ends. Many students have expressed the opinion that Open House should be held for the benefit of the increased enrollment in the freshman class and for other new students. Open House is an Oregon tradi tion in which all students in liv ing organizations have the oppor tunity to meet. Contacts made during this occasion are important to new students who have no other way of getting acquainted social ly early in the year. Last year 42 organizations par ticipated in Open House. Each men’s living organization visited each women’s organization in the order of a list published in the Emerald. After the first group had danced ten minutes, it moved on to another house, letting anoth er group move in as it left. Hours were from seven to midnight. There was no charge at any time for dancing. M. De Bellefon Will Be Campus Guest Today Monsieur Ives Meric de Belle fon, French consul at San Fran cisco will be speaker of the eve ning and guest of honor at an in formal reception given him by Pi Delta Phi, French honorary, to which some fifty guests have been invited to be present tonight in Gerlinger hall at 7:45. In order that all guests who have not already done so may meet Monsieur de Bellefon before he gives his entertaining account of “Les Voyages de Pierre Loti,” a short reception line has been planned. Friday morning at 10 o’clock Monsieur de Bellefon will speak before the advanced French classes in French on the Ethiopian ques tion. All others who can follow a lecture in French are invited to attend in room 105 Oregon. Evans’ Condition Remains Same Condition of John Stark Evans, of the University music school, was scarcely changed yesterday, according to his associates in the music school. Evans was, however, resting more easily, following a blood transfusion Tuesday to which he reacted favorably. Evans is professor of organ at the school of music and is also director of the noted Eugene Glee men. He has been ill for over a week, following a severe attack of ptomaine poisoning resulting in stomach hemorrhages. Although his condition is no worse, it is still described as dan gerous and critical, and no visit ors are allowed to see him. From Dole to Jobs Anxious to substitute jobs for the charity they had been receiving, more than 10,000 formed lines leading to the New York offices of the Works Progress Administration. This is only the beginning of the task of transferring great numbers of unemployed from direct relief to $55-a-month federal jobs. Leads Named For New Play Presentation to Be Satirical Comedy Three talented players have been chosen from the ranks of Guild Hall actors to portray the princi pal supporting roles in the Univer sity theatre production of Robert E. Sherwood’s satirical comedy “The Queen’s Husband” in which John F. Casteel, professor of speech, will be starred. Hult Gets Feminine Lead Alice Hult will play the part of Queen Martha, the would-be dom ineering ruler of everything and everybody around her. Miss Hult has had prominent roles in several campus productions and has re cently completed a summer season at the Cornish school in Seattle. Princess Anne, modern edition of a discontented daughter of roy alty will be played by Portia Booth, who had1 a leading role in the University theatre’s spring production of “Small Miracle.” “Small Miracle” Man Supports As Charles Granton, Charles Barclay will portray King campus productions including “The Trial of Mary Dugan,” and “Small Mir acle.” Granton and Anne are only two of the characters who help to put (Please thru to pat/c three) Vocal Recital Is Tonight Margaret DeLoe, Soprano, Presented Three music honoraries and the University school of music are co operating to sponsor the recital of Miss Frances Margaret DeLoe, so prano, in the music auditorium Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. Members of the Eugene Adult Music Study club are also backing the concert, the first of a series featuring guest artists on which the groups will cooperate during the year. Mrs. Underwood Accompanies Miss DeLoe, who will be accom panied by Aurora Potter Under wood of the music faculty, was in vited to appear by John J. Lands bury, dean of the school. She is a graduate of the Cincinnati con servatory and studied with Dr. John Hoffman, Alexander Von Kreisler and Mme. Marie Kirsan ova. In addition to two concert ap pearances with the Cincinnati symphony orchestra conducted by Eugene Goosens, she has studied grand opera for two years. Last year she was the winner of the contest sponsored by the Ohio state Federation of Music Clubs, (Plcasr turn to payc Hirer) British Ex-Army Officer Pays Campus Brief Visit The flash and color of war time preparation on the Oregon cam pus lived anew in the minds of the many friends of Col. John Leader yesterday, when word was re ceived through Prof. W. F. G. Thacher that he would arrive here today for a brief visit. Col. Leader, distinguished ex ofifcer of the British army and veteran of several wars, was in valided out of the service after the battle of the Somme. He was sent from London to Eugene in 1917 upon a request to the Brit ish war office by the University for the services of such a man to help organize an Oregon student body, which at the time was clam oring for military expression be fore the U. S. government took charge. Those who recall the dramatic tension of the pre-war period here, speak of the dynamic part played by Col. Leader in transforming the University campus into a veritable battle camp. Colonel Leader will motor to Eugene from Portland today, ac companied by Mrs. George Ger linger, well known in Eugene. Af ter a brief visit here the Colonel will return to Vancouver, B. C., to look after interests there. After that, his friends have grounds to hope, he will return’ to Eugene to locate. Mrs. Leader and youngest son, Derek, who was born during the Leaders’ stay here, and who are now residing in England, plan to join Col. Leader later in the season. Col. Leader is described by those who know him as a colorful per sonality in civil as well as in mili tary life. He is an able athlete, devoted to sports, and has the rep utation of being an interesting speaker and a story teller of no mean ability. Plans are being made to enter tain him during his brief visit here. Eddie Vail Is Reappointed As Yell King Executive Council Approves Position But Laeks Quorum For Appointment Eddie Vail was apparently back on the throne as Oregon yell king today to succeed Bill George, who was ruled out because of scholastic deficiencies. A meeting of the executive council yesterday afternoon ap approved Vail for the position, but there were not enough members of the council present for a quor um. Vail will lead the Oregon rooters during the Idaho game Saturday. Vail Promises Change Neither Vail nor President James Blais could be reached for state ments last night but Vail has in dicated that there will be a change in the yell organization if he is permanently appointed. Two years of experience is con sidered a qualification for the po sition of yell king. Vail plans to hold tryouts for freshmen, selecting the winners in a competition for yell staff. The yell king must also fulfill scholas tic requirements. Constitution Indefinite The constitution of the associat ed students apparently contains no information published for stu dents as to how the yell king is selected. The student relations committee is believed to have some power in recommending candi dates. Diminutive Vail who was last year’s leader had not planned to return to the University this year. Dean Allen Slated To Lead Forum On News Events Important news and its creators as see,n through the eyes of Amer ica is the theme of a discussion to be given by Dean Eric W. Allen, head of the journalism school, at the Y. W. bungalow, 9:00 p. m., Tuesday, October 22. This is the first of a series of discussions be ing sponsored by a new YWCA Current Events group. This group, organized last spring term, has planned a lecture of in terest by some well-informed in dividual every other week at the same hour. Informal discussions will follow each meeting. All journalism students, either men or women, history, and social or political science majors, as well as those “just plain interested” in current events are invited. Taylor to Attend Salem Meeting Dr. Howard R. Taylor, who is chairman of the counciling service committee for high school pro grams of vocational guidance will leave this afternoon for Salem where he will attend an evening meeting of the committee. The committee will draft a pro gram which will be submitted to the state high school principals' association which meets the next day. The program will be designed to assist high schools in establish ing personnel records of the stu dents so they can be given better advice when they enter the field of higher education. The counciling service commit tee is a subdivision of the high school contacts committee created in 1921 by the state board of higher education to supervise re lations between it and the second ary schools of the state. jMo Annoucement Made as to Legality Of Eligibility Ruling U pholder •.wrai'iwx-w-vw Tom McCall, president of the Inter-fraternity council, which yes terday upheld the majority of fines imposed on houses for “dirty” rushing. Campus Awaits Heavy Migration Of Honored Dads Registration to Begin Tomorrow at 1:30 When the banner welcoming Oregon dads to the campus is stretched across the gleaming pil lars of Johnson hall today, every thing will be in readiness for the migration of dads from up and down the coast to Eugene starting tomorrow with registration at 1:30 o’clock. The executive breakfast will be held Saturday morning with the mass meeting coming at 10:30 in the Guild theater. At noon the dads will lunch with their son or daughter and after the game will spend the evening at the banquet in the John Straub memorial hall and visiting with the students. Hunter to Appear Chancellor Hunter will address the gathering at the banquet on “Education as a Resource.” Other speakers will be Margaret Ann Smith, AWS president, and Jim Blais, president of the associated students. Jean Stevenson, making ar rangements for the banquet, de clared yesterday that the menu would include fried chicken, mashed potatoes, string beans, tomato-celery cocktail, and pump kin pie with whipped cream. After the banquet the fathers will be guests of honor at the dance in McArthur court and Sun day they will be entertained at churches and various living organ izations for dinner. Boys, Girls Enjoy Luncheon at YMCA Boys and girls were equally rep resented at the luncheon club meeting of the girls’ Dill Pickle club and the boys’ Question Mark club, for which the latter enter tained at the YMCA hut Wednes day noon. There were 34 present. This was the second regular meeting of the groups. They will continue to meet each Wednesday noon for luncheon and a short pro gram. People Interested are in vited to bring their lunch and join the group. Science Survey Text Received at Co-op Physical science survey texts "Exploring in Physics” have been received at the Co-op. The new book costs only $1.50 instead of $2 as stated when ordered. Fines Due at Once; Council Will Hold Special Meeting Friday, McCall Says By LEROY MATTINGLY After consideration of the ap peals of five houses which were fined for violations of rushing reg ulations, the tribunal of the inter fraternity council rendered judg ment last night after two after noon sessions. The tribunal affirmed the coun cil ruling in the following cases: Sigma Nu, $45 fine. Fhi Sigma Kappa, $10 fine. Theta Chi, $20 fine, mitigated to $15. Delta Tail Delta, $5, with a second $5 judgment delayed. The case against Alpha Tau Omega, orginially fined $30, was dropped. Four other houses which were fined by the council did not appeal to the tribunal. No action was taken on the re voking of a Phi Sigma Kappa pledge which the house protested, as it was shown that the man had not pledged. No Decision President of the council, Tom McCall, and tribunal members re fused to release their judgment as to the legality of the motion which substituted the prep rating in place of the psychology decile formerly used to determine eligi bility for pledging. It was understood that they had reached some conclusion, not yet completely formed, which would be presented to a special meeting of the interfraternity council which will be held Friday, said McCall. At the beginning of this year, as in other years, each fraternity signed the National Interfraternity rushing rules. The fines were for violations of these rules. Penalty Named Revocal of membership in the council is the penalty facing any house delinquent in the paying of such fines. Other houses which did not ap peal and will be held for fines as they were originally imposed are: Sigma Alpha Epsilon, $10; Phi Gamma Delta, $5; Pi Kappa Al pha, $5, and Sigma Chi, $5. Fines are payable immediately after they are levied. The council will set a dead-line for their pay ment. YWCA Cards Sold On Campus Today In an effort to bring about clos er contact between the YWCA and campus women a booth has been installed between Commerce and Oregon and membership cards for the YWCA are being sold there today and tomorrow. Offering to the campus women a varied number of student activ ities and interests each coed is urged to join the YWCA. Discus sion groups are open to freshmen, sophomores and upperclass women. Offering to the campus women a varied number of student activi ties and interests each coed is urged to join the YWCA. Discus sion groups are open to freshmen, sophomores and upperclass wo men. Terminating the membership drive the latter part of next week, a membership banquet is to be held in Gerlinger hall, October 24. Doris Mabie has been appointed chairman of the annual affair. George W. Hug Is Visitor on Campus George Willard Hug of Salem, father of Wallace Hug, former varsity swimmer, was a campus visitor Wednesday. Mr. Hug is an Oregon graduate, B.A., class of 1907.