Hurrah!
With mid-terms almost over
class-weary collegians shout hur
rah for two assemblies. Homecom
ing weekend, and Armistce day
holiday all rolled into^ one.
Last Day
Today is the last day for stu
dent card holders to get reserved
tickets which they must have for
the Oregon State game.
VOLUME XXXVII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER ^935
NUMBER 27
Penthouse Is
Homecoming
Dance Motif
Alumni Attendance
Cups to Be Given;
Friars Will Take
Honored Senior Men
A roof garden surrounded by
towering skyscrapers of a metro
politan city is to be the theme of
the Penthouse Homecoming dance
which is set for Saturday night in
McArthur court to pay homage to
returning alumni.
Garden furniture, ultra-modern
in design, is to be spaced around
the court and a railing is to sur
round the floor to add the effect
of the dizzy heights to which the
dancers are supposed to believe
they have climbed to frolic.
To Give Cups
A leading campus orchestra has
been engaged to play, Eleanor
Norblad and Stan King, co-chair
men, have announced.
Features are also being arranged
to be presented during the evening,
including the presentation of the
two Homecoming cups to the liv
ing organizations having the larg
est number of alumni registered by
5 o’clock Saturday evening. Merle
H. Chessman, president of the
Oregon alumni association, is to
make the presentation.
Friars to Pledge
Friars, senior men’s honorary, is
to tap on the shoulder during the
intermission those upperclassmen
whom they think are eligible for
membership.
Tickets for the dance are being
distributed to all men's living
organizations, Bill Hutchinson,
chairman of the sales, announced
yesterday.
The men who are in charge will
receive a free ticket, provided they
sell 25 before the deadline 6
o’clock Friday. They are: Alpha
Tau Omega, Howard Patterson;
Beta Theta Pi, Percy Freeman;
Chi Psi, Bob Wilhelm; Delta Tau
Delta, Art Hill; Delta Upsilon,
Jack McGirr; Kappa Sigma, Jim
Perkins; Phi Gamma Delta, Dave
Maguire; Phi Kappa Psi, Don
Brooke; Phi Sigma Kappa, Cecil
Barker; Phi Delta Theta, Arthur
Brownell; Sigma Phi Epsilon, Bill
Angell; Sigma Chi, Mel Johnson;
Sigma Nu, Jack Enders.
Others Named
Theta Chi, Bill Paddock; Pi
Kappa Alpha, Bill McCarthy;
Yeomen, Fred Gieseke; Alpha hall,
Sam McGaughey; Gamma hall,
Beryl Holden; Zeta hall, Jack
Casey; Omega hall, Ray Dalyrym
ple; and Sigma hall, John Parker.
Hutchinson said last night that
any who have not reecived their
tickets may receive them from
Bud James, head chairman of the
Homecoming committee.
News Room Phone,
Warren D. Smith’s
Numbers Confused
The number of the Emerald
news room is local 353, and not
355, as registered in the direc
tory.
Number 355 is the number of
Warren D. Smith, professor of
geology. Professor Smith has
been complaining bitterly be
cause of the numerous calls he
receives every day which should
go to the news room.
King Bedlam to Reign
Over Rally Parade9 Dance
By KING BEDLAM i
Seven-thirty Friday night is to
be the zero hour before the bom
bardment starts. All the noise 2500
students can make on a multitude
of noise-making contraptions will
echo and re-echo across the town
and reverberate between the
mountains of the Coast and Cas
cade ranges. King Bedlam takes
his throne.
The hour has been moved from |
7 to 7:30 p. m. to give more stu
dents and cars time to gather for
the assault on the walls and sanc
tity of silence.
Any fraternity and sorority or
other living organization that
cares to enter a “bedlam float”
will be grouped in the parade with
their noise entry in the parade
contest at the front of the group.
This entry will not only preceed
its respective living organization
but must bear the name of that
organization on top. Only the first
car in each house group will be
judged.
Laying down a barage of sound,
the parade will start the advance
from 13th and Kincaid streets at
Breakfast to Be
Alumni Event
Past Emerald Editors
ASUO Heads Are Guests
A new and novel feature of
Homecoming weekend Is to be the
special breakfast set for Saturday
morning at 9 o’clock at the An
chorage for all past editors of the
Emerald and student body presi
dents of the University who are
present in Eugene at that time.
Outstanding among those ex
pected to be present is United
States Senator Frederick Steiwer
who was student body president in
1905-06. Karl W. Onthank, pres
ent dean of the personnel division,
who was editor of the Emerald in
1912-13, Carleton Spencer, law pro
fessor, who was ASUO president in
1912-13, and Tom Stoddard, assist
ant graduate manager and recent
student body president are to rep
resent the faculty at the event.
Present and recent officials who
are to act as hosts are: Jim Blais,
ASUO president; Bob Lucas, Em
erald editor; and Bill Phipps, sports
editor of the Eugene Register
Guard.
Knitting Bag Appears
Among Lost Articles
Somebody will not be able to
carry her knitting around until she
calls at the University depot and
collects the green knit knitting bag
there among the lost and found
articles.
If you’ve lost your notebook,
call at the depot and see if one of
the four will help you. There is
also a black fountain pen and an
economics book.
Faculty Holds First
November Meeting
The questions of Optional fees
and compulsory military training
were not discussed at the first No
vember meeting of the faculty yes
terday afternoon.
Plans for the Homecoming week
end were viewed, and it was decid
ed to hold another faculty meeting
soon.
Rumor of Oil and Sand
On 'O’ Upsets Frosh Plans
As rumor of invasion breezed
around the campus yesterday,
frosh bonfire vigilantes rushed to
defend Skinner’s butte's sacred
“O,” watching and waiting for
mauraders and the break of dawn.
Other groups of cold and sleepy
freshmen guarded campus build
ings and statues.
Guarding of the “O” was not
scheduled to start until tonight but
news that a group of sophomores
were to cover the “O” with sand
and oil brought freshmen running
from every campus living organi
zation. Their arrival at the butte
was welcomed by sophomores, who
were a trifle indefinite as to their
Intentions.
The sophomores’ reticence in ap
plying the solution was due to a
phone call allegedly from a pro
fessor, received by a prominent
sophomore class officer. The un
known sophomore advisor made it
known that any effort on their
part to deface the ‘‘O’’ would be
followed by a session on the well
worn dean of men’s carpet.
As no oil had been spread by
the sophomores when the fresh
men arrived, conference was held
between the two groups to decide
“what the score was." The sopho
mores then unwound their tale
about the mysterious phone call
(Please turn to page 4)
7:30 p. m. Throwing itself into
high gear it will charge down Kin
caid to llth, make a left turn and
carry all before it down llth to
Hilyard. A right turn at Hilyard
and past the shaking walls of what
is left of the Alpha Phi, Gamma
(Please turn to fane four)
Jury Acquits
Paul Grace
Youth Plans Return
To University Soon
By PAUL DEUTSCHMANN
Voting unanimously for acquit
tal, the jury freed Paul Grace, of
Pomona, California, at 3:30 o’clock
yesterday afternoon in the circirt
court of Judge G. F. Skipworth.
Grace was being tried on a grand
larceny charge in connection with
the robbery of the home of E. It.
Hall on October 2.
The jury reached its decision
without dissent after a short de
liberation. Lack of positive iden
tification caused the case of the
prosecution to fall through. Judge
Skipworth nearly stopped pro
ceedings Wednesday morning on
the grounds of insufficient evi
dence.
May Start School
Grace plans to reside at Sigma
hall of the men’s dormitory where
he was staying before the arrest,
until he completes his plans for
the future. He hopes to enter the
University, but has not yet had
enough time to make definite ar
rangements.
Grace expressed relief at being
out of jail, where he has been since
October 5 awaiting trial, and at
having a clear name at last.
Warm Weekend
Is Predicted
Rising temperatures during the
past 48 hours gives hope of more
moderate weather during Home
coming weekend. Earlier in the
week many feared that cold wea
ther would continue to the week
end and materially lessen the
crowds of alumni who have planned
to visit.
Mrs. G. M. de Broekert, govern
ment observer, reported last night
that Wednesday’s maximum tem
perature was 42 degrees and that
on Tuesday night the mercury
sank to the 24 degree mark, con
siderably above that of previous
nights. The McKenzie pass, al
though open at present, may close
at any time.
MUSEUM HAS SPECIAL
The Murray Warner art collec
tion will be on display Friday from
2 to 4 o’clock and also on Sunday
from 3 to 5 o’clock, as a special
Homecoming feature.
The room with woodblock prints
will also be open on these days.
Of the 8000 students at CCNY,
only 3 per cent are communists,
according to a survey recently
conducted by the American Legion
Post No. 717, composed of Dr. Ir
ving N. Rattner, commander; fac
ulty members and graduates. It
is Dr. Rattner’s plan to reform all
the student communists, who are
really just misguided boys, he says.
Campus •> •>
❖ ❖ Calendar
i
Women’s rally committee meets
at 5 o’clock today in the College
Side. Both the men and women’s
rally committee will meet tonight
at 9:30 in the College Side.
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Alpha Kappa Psi in room 107
Commerce at 7:30 tonight.
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There will be an Amphibian
meeting tonight in the women's
gym.
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Pi Lambda Theta, women's na
tional education honorary, meets
in Gerlinger hall tonight at 7:30
to vote on the names of prospec
tive members.
(Please turn to page lour)
Blais Calls
Student Body
Meet Friday
Finance Officer
Nominations to Open:
Callison, Williams,
DePittard to Speak
There will be a student body
meeting Friday, November 8 at
1 o’clook in Gerlinger hall. Nom
inations for junior finance offi
cer and other student body bus
iness will occupy the first few
minutes of the meeting. The
rally chairman will then preside
and introduce the features of
the pep assembly prior to home
coming.
Signed:
JIM BLAIS.
Nominations for junior finance
officer, stopped by technicalities
two weeks ago, will be made at 1
o'clock Friday in Gerlinger hall
when a regular student body as
sembly will be called by Jim Blais
to outline a program for home-,
coming week-end and to complete
student business started several
weeks ago.
Nomination credentials have
been filed in the ASUO office by
Frank Nash but as yet no new
opponent has been made known.
Disqualification of Kermit Paul
sen, October 24, was effected by
a judgment of the judiciary coun
cil which stated that any business
carried on during the student body
meeting the previous day was not
legal as it had not been duly an
nounced by James Blais, student
body president.
(Please turn to page four)
Future Football
Star Is Born to
John Kitzmillers
A potential all-American half
back was born to Mr. and Mrs.
John Kitzmiller at 10:40 yesterday
morning. He weighs 7 1-2 pounds,
is husky, has “web-feet” and all
the ear-marks of a triple-threater.
The boy, John Westley Kitzmil
ler Jr., is the first son of the for
mer grid star, now backfield coach
of the varsity. Kitzmiller played
football for Oregon from 1928-30
and later starred as a professional
player.
Mrs. Kitzmiller and John Jr. are
reported in fine condition. Both
are at the Pacific Christian hospi
tal.
Meanwhile coaches are petition
ing eligibility for young John, who
might follow his dad’s footsteps
and run up quite a score against
the Beavers in the coming game.
Facts show that he won’t have
any competition for the position,
for his dad is the only one of the
football coaching staff who has a
son. Howard Hobson, head basket
ball coach, has two, but he says
they are going to leave football
alone and devote their entire ath
letic career to basketball.
Infirmary Receives
Six New Patients
With only minor colds and sore
throats as ailments, the list of
patients in the infirmary changes
rapidly. There are only five of the
patients there who were in yes
terday.
The six new patients are: Norma
Rising, June Towers, Guy Simpson
Ray Lopez, J. Edward Roy and
Jack Berry.
Barbara Ketchum’s condition
remains the same. Muriel Homer,
Lorranie Space, Dorothy Carlton
and Jack Bryan are still in the
infirmary.
Men’s Debate Squad
Takes War Question
The question “What policy of
neutrality can the United States
follow in event of another inter
national war” has been chosen by
the men’s debate squad for its
second question. The first question
was “Propaganda and its influence
on public opinion."
The squad will be divided, one
section to study the new question
for public symposium, and the
other section to continue with the
first question.
Federal Aid Cheeks ,
Will Be Distributed
From H Till 3 Today
—
NY A (federal student aid)
checks will be ready for distri
bution at window 2 at the ad
ministration buildin<;', today at
8 o’elork.
Of fire hours are from 8 to
12 o’cloek and from 1 to 3
o’eloek. No ehecks will be is
sued after 3 p. m
Peace March]
Killing in Air
Council Abandons
Campus Program
City officials? last night refused
to say definitely whether or not
peace organizations will be al
lowed to hold their own parade
Armistice day directly behind the
civic celebration. The Student
Christian council, representing 30
student organizations, and the
League Against War and Fascism
were both refused permission to
carry banners in the civic parade
itself.
The general committee on the
1935 observance was polite but
firm in its barring of the Chris
tians and the league. Con S. Dil
lon, general chairman, informed
both yesterday that he would al
low only a banner carrying the
name of the organization, and an
American flag.
Students Meet
The Christian council met yes
terday afternoon and authorized a
letter of withdrawal to Mr. Dil
lon. However, no other action was
taken. Plans for a demonstration
on the campus Friday were can
celled on the recommendation of a
committee chosen last week to in
vestigate such a move. All plans
for any downtown parade or pro
test meeting were also cancelled.
The sentiment of the council was
that any Armistice day action be
dropped, and emphasis be placed
on a demonstration next spring.
The council is sponsoring a peace
play Sunday night, and will con
tent itself for the present with this
action.
The League Against War and
Fascism still awaits a definite de
cision by city authorities. Mayor
Elisha Large and Police Chief Carl
Bergman both expressed hope last
night that the difficulty could be
ironed out, but refused a definite
answer.
Doughnuts, Cider
Sale Friday Night
In place of selling doughnuts at
the Oregon-OSC game as previous
ly planned, doughnuts and cider
will be sold at the rally dance Fri
day night in Gerlinger hall, an
nounced Jean Stevenson, chair
man of the YWCA doughnut sale,
yesterday.
Isabelle Miller, in charge of con
tacting faculty members, will sell
doughnuts to the faculty today.
Her committee consists of Maude
Edmunds, June Hust, Betty On
thank, Betty Lou Drake and Bar
bara Castle.
Girls helping Dorothy Dill, chair
man for contacting living organi
zations, are June Brown, Helen
Weidmer, Frances Olson, Jeanne
Urfer, Betty Funkhouser, and Hel
en Labbe.
Homecoming Edition
Of Old Oregon Issued
The Homecoming edition of Old
Oregon, monthly publication of the
University alumni association,
came off the presses yesterday.
Replete with homecoming events,
this issue includes nine pages of
news about the classes. A picture
of Frederick W. Steiwer, '06, U. S.
senator from Oregon, and termed
Oregon's No. 1 alumnus for 1935,
features the cover.
Miss Kerns to Speak
On Modern Painting
Miss Maude I. Kerns, instructor
m normal art, will address mem
bers of the American Association
of University Women tomorrow in
Portland at the University club.
The subject of her lecture is to be
“An Approach to Modern Paint
ing.”
House May j
Join Senate
On Fee Stand
Optional Basis Uphold
For State Schools;
Compulsory Military
Forces Strengthened
Corridor opinion in Salem last
night said that the house will join
hands with the senate in making
student body fees optional in all
state educational institutions. The
house rules committee, which
failed to report the bill out earlier
in the week, sent it to the house
yesterday with the expectation
that it will receive a favorable
vote today.
It took two hours of heated de
bate in the senate today before a
vote of 20-8 maintained military
training in the college and univer
sity as a compulsory course. Sen
ator Peter Zimmerman, father of
the bill, predicted that a referen
dum might be involved against
compulsory drill this fall.
Enactment of the optional fee
bill, if it clears the house, will
write finis to a colorful controver
sy which enlivened both state in
stitutions for the past two years.
Fees have traced a history during
the present century, beginning
with 31 years of compulsion, a
year of option because of a legal
opinion by the attorney general,
then a re-enactment of the com
pulsory feature, followed by a
statewide student referendum.
The referendum measure, which
was to be voted upon in Decem
ber, 1936, will automatically be
cancelled if the state legislature
passes the fee bill now being con
sidered by the house.
Dancing of Today
Is Simple Rhythm
Form Says Dean
Dancing as done by college stu
dents and other American young
people today has become a monot
onous “one-two, one-two” double
beat rhythm, the same as that
which has come down to us through
the ages as the simplest rhythm
form.
So declared John J. Landsbury,
dean of the University school of
music, yesterday afternoon in the
second of eight lectures before the
Eugene Adult Music Study club at
the music school auditorium.
Concrete illustrations of the
rhythm of pulse and the rhythm of
design were presented by four
members of Master Dance, bare
footed and dressed in simple long
costumes in shades of blue and
lavendar. The dancers were Max
ine Goetsch, Elaine Unterman,
Ethel Johnson, and Josephine Over
turf. Miss Theresa Kelly, grad
uate of the music school, accom
panied them and explained the
rhythm patterns.
Phi Sig Freshman
Missing Last Night
Information as to the where
abouts of a pack of Phi Sig fresh
men was requested late last night
in a phone call received by the
Emerald. Upperclassmen of the
house were offering a reward of
five cents for return of the walk
out gang.
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Armistice Day
And Student Display
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Foolhardy Drivers
And Student Safely
•
Sherwood Eddy
Speaks Today
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Featured in Today’s
Emerald:
The femmes page-polite so
ciety, marriages, and stylea.
Editorials T<
Discuss:
World Economic
Political Situation
Eddy’s Subject
Welcome Guest
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Famed lecturer and world trav
el, Sherwood Eddy is a welcome
guest speaker at student assembly
in Gerlinger at 10 today..
Seats for Game
Still on Reserve
Plans for Handling
Of Crowds Completed
Only 4.000 tickets remain for the
Oregon-Oregon state game Satur
day and arrangements for handling
the large homecoming crowd are
being completed, Tom Stoddard,
assistant graduate manager, an
nounced yesterday.
Both student body and game
tickets will be required for admit
tance.
No student tickets will be re
j served ajfter 5 o’clock this after
noon; all remaining tickets will be
put on sale to the public. Three
thousand general admission tickets
will be put on sale at noon Satur
day.
Oregon alumni seats on the south
end of the west grandstand are
completely sold out as are Oregon
State student and alumni seats on
the north ends of the east and
west stands All remaining seats
are located in the north grandstand
where many good seats still re
main. Bleachers will be put in
front of the west stand and will
be divided between Oregon State
students and members cf the Or
der of the “O.”
Contrary to other reports the
game will start at 2 o’clock as
scheduled, Hugh Rosson, graduate
manager declared.
Eddy Luncheon
Is Cancelled
The faculty luncheon in honor of
Sherwood Eddy, noted world trav
eler, scheduled for Thursday, No
vember 7, has been definitely can
celled.
Dean Karl Onthank received a
wire from Eddy stating that al
though he will appear at the as
sembly Thursday morning, he will
be unable to attend the luncheon.
Charles Darwin spent eight years
dissecting over 10,000 barnacles.
He became interested in the struc
ture of one species, and because of
erroneous knowledge and lack of
information proceeded to do this
great work.
10 o'Clocks Excused
For Noted Lecturer’s
Speech on Changing
Conditions of Nations
World traveler Sherwood Eddy
will hold the spotlight of student
interest today as he gives his in
terpretation of the meaning of the
world’s present changing econom
ic and governmental situation at
an assembly in Gerlinger hall at
10.
All classes are excused for the
noted lecturer’s address. Follow
ing the talk persons especially in
terested will have an opportunity
to query Eddy at an informal for
um in alumni h:Ul.
Buck From Europe
Eddy, famed for his wide inter
ests in peace, has just returned
from a tour of Europe where, in
intimate conferences and personal
interviews with statesmen and
economists, he gained a working
knowledge of government, indus
try, and collective agriculture.
Author of 20 Books
Dr. Eddy is author of some 20
books, and since the beginning of
his present tour reprints have been
made from three of his most popu
lar books, and have been put on
sale for students in dollar editions.
These books are “The Challenge
of Europe," “The Challenge of
Russia," and “The Challenge of
the East.”
He will arrive this morning from
McMinnville, with his co-worker,
Samuel Franklin, by automobile.
Because of an accident, Dr. Eddy
will not keep his luncheon engage
ment with the faculty club, but
will address the students this
morning and an assemblage of Eu
gene people at the Methodist
church this evening.
Law Honorary
Elects Officers
At the first semi-monthly meet
ing of Pi Alpha Delta, newly re-in
stalled law honorary, Ray Mize
was elected justice, Alton Ha
kanson, vice justice, Herman Hen
dershott, marshal, Philip Hayter,
treasurer, and Keith Wilson, clerk.
Formal installation of the Wil
liams chapter of this fraternity
was held last Friday at Phi Gam
ma Delta.
The Germans act Shakespeare
better than anyone else, in the
judgment of Professor Elliot of the
English department at Amherst.
2 A.M. Permission
On Saturday Night
Is Just Fairy Tale
The rumor that 2 o’clock per
mission has been granted to wo
men students Saturday night is
absolutely unfounded, the dean
of women’s office announced
yesterday. Women will be given
the usual 12:15 permission for
the week-end.
No consideration was given
to hours later than 12:15 and
the rumor was stopped as soon
as it reached the office.
Policies of Universities
Condemned by Tugman
William M. Tugman, managing
editor of the Eugene Register
Guard, in an address yesterday
morning before Dean Eric W. Al
len’s class in editing, condemned
the policies of American colleges
and universities in their seeming
trend away from a thorough treat
ing of the fundamental sciences,
arts, and historical backgrounds.
“To be ‘civilized’ Uptimes like
these," he said, “a person must
master a certain minimum amount
of fundamental material.'. ,He must
have a comprehensive knowledge
of history and an adequate, founda
tion in economics and the vvorking
sciences in order to understand
what is happening in the world to
clay. He must be well supplied
with a knowledge of language and
literature or he cannot have that
ready grasp so necessary to an un
derstanding of conditions as he
finds them.
“But,” he continued, “the col
leges and universities are failing in
that they are not compelling the
students to master these funda
mental things; they are turning out
a certain per cent of graduates,
muddled in mind and totally unfit
for business.”
Tugman recommended the Eng
lish system of education, highly
praising their substantive treat
ment of the classics, the sciences,
languages and the basic arts.