Alice Ernst’s
Book Praised
Dramas Interpret
Alaskan Frontier Life
Alice Henson Ernst, assistant
professor of English on the Univer-1
Sity of Oregon faculty since 1926,
has recently published her first
book, “High Country.” It is a work
of which Oregon may well be proud, ]
according to a review of it in the i
October issue of the “Northwest!
Literary Review.”
“High Country” interprets fron-1
tier life as lived in Alaska a genera
tion ago. The book contains four j
plays, three of which present ele
mental aspects of so-called civilized 1
men lured by the lust for gold.
The first of the shorter plays, j
“Spring Sluicing,” was a prize win
ner in the Drama League-Longman
Green playwriting contest of 1927.
“The Wooden Wife” deals with the
Alaska Indians, and one play, “Out
Trail,” is a full-length drama.
Edward Reed in reveiwing her
book for the “Theatre Arts Month
ly” says “her one-act plays are as
good as the best short plays of the |
country in character delineation, in I
evoking atmosphere, and in sus- |
pense and climax.”
Cressman Makes
Ancient Writings
Dr. L. S. Cressman, professor of
anthropology, is just completing
an extensive research study of
Oregon's petroglyphs and picto
graphs made hv her pre-civilization
inhabitants. It is interesting, he
says, but baffling too. Dven the
heiroglyphics of ancient Fgypt
can be read and interpreted but as
yet the Oregon writings are still
secrets of the long-dead.
The completed manuscript will
be a descriptive study showing the
distribution of these old drawings
and paintings on rocks throughout
Oregon combined with critical
comments on their archaeological
significance and a discussion de
voted to interpretation. Tt will also
contain maps of Oregon showing
their location, and illustrative
drawings by Frances Helfrich,
Oregon art student.
Dr. Cressman began this study
three years ago, locating the old
"writings” through communica
tions to postmasters, newspaper |
editors, state police, highway en-1
gineers, and others familiar with !
their locale in the different com-1
munities throughout the state. On
his tour he took numerous pictures
of both the petroglyphs and picto
graphs.
They probably represent, Dr.
Cressman surmises, accounts of
historical events, communications
between tribes or persons, draw
ings for amusement, etc.
Dr. Cressman's anthropological
research work in Oregon has
brought national attention to this
state.
of Oregon’s
Calendar
(Continual from I’age One)
them to an unknown destination.
Old clothes are in order.
Classical club meeting at 3
o’clock Friday in Mr. Dunn's office
in the Oregon building.
* * *
Freshman groups in all living
organizations are to meet today
at 4 o’clock in 110 Johnson hall.
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Phi Mil Alpha meeting in the
music building today at 5 o'clock.
Very important.
* * *
Camilla Phi Beta will be hostess
at a tea at the chapter house for
all freshman women this afternoon
between 4 and 6 o’clock instead of
between 3 and 5 as previously an
nounced.
Net cost of the World war to the
United States was $'27,600,000 a
day; including loans to the allies,
the sum rises to $38,500,000 daily.
HALLOWEEN
DANCE
TONIGHT
(The hall will he decorated
to portray a Hallowe’en
atmosphere.)
50c per couple.
ART HOLMAN AND
HIS BAND
GREEN PARROT
PALMS
Chet Jamison, Prop.
Famous Designer
Will Visit Campus
Philomelete Is Sponsor
Of Campus Style Show
Miss Hollywood Junior, famous
clothing designer from Hollywood,
will give a vocational talk on dress
designing, and display 16 of her
latest creations at an all-campus
style show, in the alumni hall at
Gerlinger, Wednesday. November 6
at 4 o’clock.
Since Miss Hollywood Junior
features college wardrobes she is
making a special trip to Eugene to
exhibit some of her most interest
ing and clever garments. Eight pop
ular coeds, who will be selected to
model, will be announced Tuesday.
All girls are invited to attend
the style show and to hear the vo
cational talk which the noted de
signer will give. Mary McCracken
is in charge of arrangements for
the program which is being spon
sored by the Philomelete Charm
school. She is being assisted by
Helen Bartrum and Dorothy Hagge.
Frosh to Take
Steadiness Test
Psych Experiment
In ROTC Classes
To determine whether natural
steadiness is a factor in shooting
accurately, R. M. Martin, graduate
assistant to Professor Howard Tay
lor of the psychology department,
will test approximately one hun
dred freshman military students
with the Seashore steadiness test
er. The experiment will start to
day in the ROTC classes.
Last year, using this machine and
others recording body steadiness,
Lloyd Humphreys, at present at
tending University of Indiana on a
fellowship, tested the members of
the rifle team. The steadiness rec
ords agreed almost entirely with
the comparative scores of the squad.
This established the fact that by
determining the steadiness of a
trained individual his shooting abil
ity could be competed.
This time, using only untrained
students, the test will try to deter
mine whether natural steadiness is
necessary to shoot accurately or
whether control can be acquired
through practice. The steadiness
records of the 100 will be compared
with their rifle scores, conclusions
being reached through this proced
ure.
The apparatus used was developed
two years ago by Robert Seashore,
who was a member of the Univer
sity psychology departmenet. It
consists of a disk containing 13
holes., varying in size, and a stylus,
electrically connected to the disk.
The subject places the stylus in
one of the holes. If it touches tin
sides an electric circuit is completed
and the contact is recorded by a me
ter. The amount of contact is the
steadiness score.
A huge clock is being built for
a South Africa airport will enable
airmen flying as high as 3000 feet
to read the time with ease.
There are 161,000 legally quali
fied physicians in the United
States.
NYA Grants ,
$4200 to t'O l
388 Students Will
Get Government Help
PORTLAND, Oct, 30—(Special)
—Through the National Youth Ad
ministration the University of Ore
gon is offering help to the extent of
$4,200 to some 388 students, all of
whom are working a definite num
ber of hours on some work project.
Approximately 110,000 college
and university students throughout
the nation are participating in the
1935-36 NYA program, said a re
port issued by Richard R. Brown,
assistant executive director of the
National Youth Administration.
A total of $16,890 is being earned
monthly by 1126 students in Ore
gon’s 23 participating institutions
of higher learning. Aside from
those being helped through the col
lege undergraduate program, some
6,000 post - graduate students
throughout the nation are earning
from $25 to $35 per month depend
ing upon the degrees for which they
are working. At the present time
the University of Oregon has 15
post graduates who are earning $25
per month in return for work in
some type of research in which they
are interested or in which they have
shown particular or outstanding
ability.
“We are highly gratified with
the progress being made by Oregon
institutions of higher education in
administering the college part of
our program,” said Mr. Jackson,
“and we believe some real benefits
will be derived from this effort of
our government to aid thousands of
students who might not otherwise
have had the opportunity of begin
ning or continuing their education.”
Dean Forecasts
Bright Future
Dean Eric W. Allen, head of the
department of journalism of the
University, in talking to members
of his class in editing yesterday,
voiced his optimism regarding the
seemingly brighter outlook for
members of the newspaper profes
sion during the next few years.
"However,” he said, "I was
rather surprised, in checking back
over the records, to see how many
former journalism students have
eventually received positions, even
during the years of depression.”
GRADUATE AT HARVARD
Norman T. McCaffery, political
science graduate of ’33, is now a
law student at Harvard. He spent
his vacation in Paris with his
brother and sister-in-law, and also
visited in Germany, Belgium, Hol
land, England and Ireland.
Send the Emerald to your friends.
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DANCE
at the
Winter garden
8th and Charnelton
Every Sat.
Afternoon
2-5 p. m.
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throughout the years—your photograph.
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Annual Conference
Of Journalists Revived
Thirteen years ago the Univer
sity of Oregon first played host
to a group of aspiring high school
journalists. Today after a lapse of
four years the annual meet has
been revived.
Meeting for the first time on
May 20, 1922 as guests of the Ore
gon school of journalism, 150 edi
tors and business managers of the
high school papers throughout the
state organied and framed the con
stitution of the Oregon State Hign
School Press association; their
written purpose being: “To im
prove high school journalism in
Oregon, to promote acquaintence
and cooperation among the differ
ent publication staffs, and to fur
ther the standards of journalistic
efficiency among high school stu
dents.”
Since that time the association
has met 11 times, and from among
the delegates to the different con
ventions have come journalists
who are making newspaper history
in Oregon, while others have
switched to different fields.
Notable among the members of
the first convention of the organi
zation are: Roy Bryson, instructor
of voice at the University: Orlando
Hollis, professor in the University
law school; Marian Lowry, society
editor of the Eugene Register
Guard; and Harris Ellsworth, edi
tor of the Roseburg News-Review,
and donor of the grand trophy
which will be presented to the out
standing newspaper on display at
the conference now in session.
Bryson, at the time of the first
convention, served as temporary
persident, Miss Lowry was editor
of the Medford high school annual,
Hollis represented the Eugene
(high) Daily News, and Ellsworth
served as chairman of the consti
tutional committee.
The conventions continued an
nually until 1931 at which time the
board of education decreed that
due to a budgeted decrease in ex
penditures, the press convention,
along with several others, would
have to be discontinued.
However, in 1932 agitation be
gan for the reinstatement of the
convention as an annual affair.. A
petition was drafted by Dan E.
Clark, II, in cooperation with Dean
Eric W. Allen to this effect and
signatures were obtained from all
Portland high school editors and
many others.
The petition was handed to the
board of education, which ap
pointed a committee to investigate
ways and means of promoting the |
event.
In the meantime, acting with j
the expectation that the board
would decide favorably, emergency
officers were appointed by Dean
Allen to serve in making arrange- i
ments and to officiate at the next j
convention should there be one.
The officers were: president,
Dan E. Clark, II, former editor of
the University high school paper;
vice president, David Prudnomme,
former editor of the Lincoln high
paper, Portland; secretary-treas
urer, Helen Bartrum, former editor
of the Grantonian, Portland.
The board saw fit to continue
the conferences and the executive
committee of the conference con
firmed Dean Allen's choice of of
ficers.
Clark, in speaking of the board's
decision, said, “There is a definite
need for a conference of this sort.
It is certainly gratifying to know
that the state board has seen fit
to give the University an oppor
tunity to help the high school
papers throughout the state im
prove their journalistic technique
and weld a closer bond among the
younger journalists of Oregon.”
New history will be made today!
New Libe Offers
'Talking-Book9
To the Blind
The “talking-book” is one of the
many facilities planned in the new
library to provide for the needs of
blind students. Separate study
rooms for Braille reading and the
students’ readers are being
planned in the basement of the
building. The Braille books are to
be shelved in the newspaper read
ing room, and will be in charge of
the cutodian of newspapers.
The three individual studies are
designed especially for the blind,
and the “talking-book” will be
established and operated in one of
the rooms. The machine is a com
bination of radio and victrola, and
is used mainly for playing “book
records,” or records of famoos
plays, and many literary works in
cludede in the blind students’
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Eugene Water Board
Early Winter
Hits Eugene
First October Snow
Is Recorded Here
Winter tightened its grip on Ore
gon yesterday with its unprece
dented blasts of October wind,
snow, and rain. A full inch of snow
was recorded in Eugene Thursday
morning—the first in all history for
October.
With dawn came a partial thaw,
but by noon, icy winds once more
whistled across the campus, turn
ing the misty morning rain into a
powdery, dry snow which contin
ued spasmodically throughout the
remainder of the day and last night.
Dark snow clouds scudded west
over the county last night, calling
to mind that the weather prophets
had forecast continued cold weather
with probable snow for today and
tonight. Today, the first of No
vember, finds the state of Oregon
the coldest it has been at such an
early date for unknown decades.
Snow blanketed all Lane county
west of the Coast Range mountains,
the coast section still enjoying
warmer weather, reports stated.
Twenty inches of the white crys
tals were reported to have fallen on
the Southern Pacific line over the
Cascades yesterday while the Mc
Kenzie pass was being kept open
by two rotary plows working on
either side of the mountains.
Between three and four inches of
snow was said to have fallen at
McKenzie Bridge, and unconfirmed
reports intimated that 20 inches of
snow blankets the McKenzie river
highway at the summit.
Officials warned that anyone
planning to drive over the high pass
should prepare for a slippery road
by taking chains, although it has
not yet frozen. It snowed in that
region all day yesterday.
course. The records are played at
a much slower speed than musical
ones, in order that the listener
may grasp fully the thought ex
pressed.
Although the study rooms are
built for the blind, other students
may use them for individual study.
We invite you to
try our fish and
seafoods at least
twice a week.
Delicious,
healthful, and
economical.
NEWMAN’S
FISH MARKET
Telephone 2.109
39 East Broadway
Program Of Twelfth High
School Press Conference
FRIDAY MORNING
Sessions in Room 105. Journalism Building
9:50 Registration and assignment to housing groups, hall of Journalism
Building.
10:00 Meeting called to order by Dan F. Clark II.
Appointment of committees.
10:05 Welcome to the University—Tames Blais, president A. S. U. O.
10:10 Putting Life. Interest, and Purpose Into the Paper—Dean Eric W. Allen.
10 ’45 Directing Student Oninion Through the F.ditorial Paul Deutschmann,
former editor Franklin High Post.
Discussion led by Orville Williams, editor Tillicum, The Dalles High
School.
11 :20 Pepping up the Paper with Pictures—Edward Hanson, cartoonist
Oregon Daily Emerald.
Discussion.
11:50 Adjournment.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON
1 .40 Report of nominations committee and election of officers.
1 :40 TTow to Make the Paper “Click”—Robert I.ucas, editor Oregon Daily
Emerald.
9-00 How We Meet Our Problems on the Large High School Paper—Jane
Dachtelberg. editor Blotter, High School of Commerce, Portland.
2:30 Building up the News End of the Paper—Professor Charles M. Hulten.
University of Oregon.
Discussion, led by Betty Jane Holt, editor Lantern, Pendleton High
School.
3:10 Sports Coverage: Making It Adequate and Attractive—Clair Johnson,
managing editor Oregon Daily Emerald.
Discussion, led by Gene Robinson, editor Klamath Krater, Klamath
Union High School.
3:50 Attractive Headlines and Dressy Make-up—Professor George Turnbull.
University of Oregon.
Discussion, led by Ila Silvis. editor Pine Murmurs, Bend High School.
4:20 Just How May the Adviser Advise—Miss Juliette Claire Gibson, Eugene
High School.
4:30 Adjournment.
FRIDAY EVENING
6:00 No-host dinner. Eugene Hotel. Dean Allen toastmaster.
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your old books. They also carry
a complete line of all kinds of
classical, technical, fiction, etc.
Cheap.
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