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Top-notch Ranked as an are-high music critic, nationally know tune detec tive Sigmund Spaeth will address | Oregon students a week from to j day. J World News A new Emerald feature column by campus leader Tex Thomason will bring readers world-wide news covera ge. VOLUME XXXVII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1935 NUMBER 31 STAGE of the WORLD JU vj« l|l> tjj ijrf t 4> * * By Tex Thomason Whether the editor came to me or whether I went to him is im material. I'm here. For a while, anyway. The purpose of this column is many fold. Among- its most ideal istic intents is that of interpreting the news, and the events making that news, in the world outside the campus. Of course none of you will get hotter than a little red wagon about this endeavor and there is really no need to remind you that this is only a very feeble effort to emulate Edwin C. Hill and Frederick Wm. Wyle. But, like sulphur and molasses in the spring time, it is intended for your own good. There is one boon this column hopes to grant to the catch-as cateli-ean college student. It is that of being able to instantaneus ly start up a conversation with an unknown “sororite” through the expedient of an intelligent discus sion of world and national events without the aid of what all con firmed swains used to use, “Let’s go peel a banana,” or “Shall we take a dip in the pool?” Answers to the best of our abil ity will be given as to why Italy is on the make for Ethiopia, why peace is a really big-time racket, what the general election in Eng land means in the pattern of world affairs, why Senator Borah is called “the fence-straddler magnif icent,” why China is singing the blues while Japan strums the guitar of imperialism, why Hitler poses kissing babies while Musso lini stands arms akimbo playing the meanie, and so on. These are happenings in the world of today. Every educated person should know the whys and wherefors of them. Yet how many read only the comic section of the paper. It is read because it is in teresting, but how much more in teresting is thp real life swirling and eddying all around us. If what people are doing can be informa tively yet interestingly interpreted we believe it will be read. That, then, is our initial goal—to put before you the national and inter national affairs of the day in the vernacular of our times. Your un derstanding of them will follow. Three New Patients Added to Infirmary With three new occupants, the total number of patients in the in firmary was raised to nine. Those who entered yesterday were Edwin Waisanen, William Sanford, and John Brocher. Those who have been in for sev eral days are Mary Arnspiger, Pearl Johansen, June Towers, Bar bara Ketchum, Frances Johnston, and Frank Goodin. They are all re ported to be improving. Campus •> •> •> ^Calendar Panhellenic will meet today in 110 Johnson hall at 4 o’clock. Frosh Orientation group will meet at 110 Johnson at 5 o’clock today. Alpha Kappa Psi special busi ness meeting in room 106 Com merce at 7:30 p. m. * * * The officers of Westminster as sociation will meet for a supper Thursday at 6 p. m. at Westmin ster. Please bring a covered dish or 15 cents. * * * Christian Science organization at 8 o’clock in the YWCA bungalow. * * * American League Against War and Fascism will not meet tonight in deference to the L.I.D. meeting at the Episcopal church. * * * Alpha Delta Sigma members will meet today at 3 o’clock in Professor W. F. G. Thacher’s of fice in the journalism building. (Please him to page two) Music Critic Spaeth Talks November 21 Piano Illustrations To Feature Talk of Radio’s Famous ‘Tune Detective’ By VIRGINIA ENDICOTT Termed America’s most popular speaker and writer on music, Sig mund Spaeth will brine: a novel kind of lecture to this campus when he addresses a general as sembly Thursday, November 21, in Gerlinger hall. Dr. Spaeth will discuss the art of enjoying music, and will illus trate his subject plentifully at the piano. Those who enjoy music in its lighter phases will find enter tainment in his informal style. Famous as Critic Although best known as the “Tune Detective” of radio, Dr. Spaeth is famous as a music critic. He wrote for the New York Eve ning Mail, New York Times, and Boston Transcript, as well as for several leading magazines. He is now music editor of McCall’s mag azine. In addition to his writings and radio program, Sigmund Spaeth has appeared in the screen in a number of short pictures of his own creation: some are still to be released by Vitaphone. He ap peared early this season at the Radio .City music hall, and current ly in the revue, Sunday Nights at Nine, at the Barbizone-Plaza. Writes Thirteen Books Of the thirteen books he has written, his latest is most popular, “The Art of Enjoying Music,” just published by Whittlesey House, New York. His “Comon Sense of Music,” “Read 'Em and Weep,” and “Barber Shop Ballads” are still popular with those who like the lighter touch of humor with sound information. Dean Landsbury Chosen Critic To Judge Piano Contest At Seattle Music Meet While thousands of others are passing their plates for second helpings of Thanksgiving turkey, John J. Landsbury, dean of the University school of music, will push back his chair and dash for a train to Seattle, according to plans which he announced yester day. Dean Landsbury has been chosen judge of piano competition in the eleventh annual Seattle-King county music meet on Friday, No vember 29. Grade and high school musicians will compete morning, afternoon, and evening in the con test, which will take place in the auditorium of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce building. The other principal judge will be Fred LaFond, widely-known Spo kane violinist. Library Honors Authors at Tea Recognition of this year’s “Read ing for Fun” National Book week will be evidenced by the tea given in the alumni room of Gerlinger hall at 4 o’clock Tuesday, Novem ber 19, honoring campus authors. Among those honored at the tea sponsored by the University li brary are Mrs. Alice Ernst, author of “High Country,” Dr. Ernest Moll, and S. Stephenson Smith, whose “Command of Words” has just been published. Displays of all books by local writers will be exhibited. Students, faculty mem bers and townspeople are invited to attend. Old Publications Received at Library Works of John Donne, D.D., and a memoir of his life by Henry Al j ford, has been received at the Uni j versity library. Donne was dean ' of St. Paul's church in London from 1621 to 1631. A partial set j of magazines, a German publica | tion Ludwig Herrig. published in I 1883, has also arrived. Betrothed Such is the fate of Bill Cottrell who portrays Prince William, the young nobleman whose engage ment to the daughter of “The Queen's Husband” is the cause of many a humorous situation in the University theatre’s play which opens Friday. Tickets on Sale For Play Friday j ‘Queen’s Husband’ To Run Two Weekends Tickets are now on sale in the box office in the administration building for “The Queen’s Hus band,” the University theatre’s fast - moving comedy - satire of royal life starring Alice Hult and Prof. John Casteel. The first per formance is scheduled for Friday evening at 8:00 p. m. Seats are priced at thirty-five cents for general admission and fifty cents for reserved. Seats may be obtained by either calling at the box office in the administration building or telephoning 3300, local 216. The box office will be open today from 1 to 4 p. m. and Friday and Saturday from 10 a. m. until curtain time. Under the new playing schedule “The Queen’s Husband” will be presented twice this weekend, No vember 15 and 16, and will be re peated the following Friday and Saturday, November 22 and 23. NYA Students Receive $17,215 Student relief amounting to $17,215 under the NYA has been paid 1148 students in 23 Oregon institutions of higher education for one month’s work. Of the total amount, Oregon State college received $4,335 for 289 students. At the University of Oregon, 280 students received $4,200 in aid. Willamette univer sity got $930 for 62 students. At the University 11 graduate stu dents received a total of $150, and at the college, $160 was given as aid to 10 graduate students. Dahlberg Directs Speech Program Under the direction of Prof. W. A. Dahlberg, of the speech divi sion, who is also Lane counj/ chairman of the Oregon Tubercu losis association, speech students are inaugurating a campaign of county speaking in order to get more support in the Christmas seal sale from outlying communities. Kessler Cannon, student of speech, has already addressed : three groups: the Lowell P.T.A. on November 5; the Coburg P.T.A. on November 6, and the Lorane high school P.T.A. on November 7. Orval Etter addressed the Roose* : velt junior high school general | assembly Wednesday, November 113. ! Onthank to Address | Mothers in Portland Karl W. Onthank, dean of per sonnel, will go to Portland Friday, where he will address the mothers 1 of freshmen at a tea given them ; by the Portland Mothers' club. His : topic will concern the two boys ; who are attending University this year on Portland Mothers’ club 1 scholarships. Emerald W ill Be ; Published 15 More j Times This Term Only 15 more Emeralds will be published this term. The last issue is on December 7, nine days before final exams. There will be no papers on the Friday and Saturday following Thanks giving day, November 28. De Villiers Here Monday To Address Student Groups During Stay , Cornelius de Villiers, visiting professor under the auspices of the Carnegie Endowment for Interna tional Peace, will arrive on the University of Oregon campus No vember 18, where he will remain for one month. Dr. de Villiers is dean of the faculty of science at Stellenbosch universitv in South Africa. He was educated in Africa and in EuroDc where he attended the University of Zurich, receiving there his doc tor's degree. While on the campus Dr. de Vil liers will address the students in general assembly, as well as var ious groups, on international rela tions and on scientific matters. He will speak at the joint meeting of the University and OSC chapters of Sigma Xi, science honorary. Dr. de Villiers will address the medical school in Portland, and also give a general speech in Port land on international relations and the peace movement. As a visiting professor in this series, Dr. de Villiers served at the University of New Mexico Septem ber 23 to October 19 and at the University of California at Los Angeles October 21 to November 16. S. S. Smith Asked For Style Rule By Prisoners From an inmate of Michigan state prison comes a request to Professor S. Stephenson Smith for a copy of the style-rule which Pro fessor Smith designed last year for use in English classes. The rule is to be used in the class in rhetoric of the prison school where several students are seeking to realize their ambition of learning to write for publica tion. This convict-student, having read a description of the style-rule in a recent issue of the Christian Science Monitor, believes that it will be a definite guide for him and his classmates toward their goal of successful authorship. This device was brought out by Professor Smith last spring. The cards which are put together in the form of a slide-rule contain the fundamentals of grammar, rhetoric, punctuation, and capital ization. The technical terms of old formal grammar are largely re placed by every day language. This style-rule is being used at present in the freshman English composition classes at the Univer 'MartinMay Veto Optional Fee Bill Developments in Salem yester day indicated the optional fee bill recently passed by the state legis lature may be cancelled by the governor’s veto. An opinion to this effect was written Wednesday by Ralph E. Moody, deputy attorney general. Moody contended the legislature acted without authority, since a successful referendum on the pro posal had been carried on last spring. Should the governor heed Moody’s opinion the fee question will go before the voters in the general election of November, 1936. PHI SIGS GET DUCKS A duck dinner was enjoyed by the Phi Sigs last night, pledge Stan Barlow furnishing the ducks. Barlow went hunting over the week-end and returned with 14 ' birds. Members requested that he go hunting again soon. Amendment to Constitution Should Be Defeated Last spring there emerged from the political fiasco a victor ious political party, one of the platform planks of which was the creation of a position on the executive council for the independent student. Now a petition has been presented providing an amendment to the constitution creating an “elective office on the executive council known as the independent executive position . . . who shall not be a member, pledge, or associate member of any living organization during his term in office.” President Blais and his political colleagues are to be compli mented on their attempt to fulfill the campaign promise of last year. No doubt they are sincere in wishing that active participation in student government be more widely distributed among both affiliated and unaffiliated persons. But the proposed amendment as present is wrong in principle. Do those students who are inclined to favor this amendment actually believe that it will provide increased opportunity for stu dent activity ? What fs to prevent independents from being ignored from further consideration in "ticket” politics if they have been “adequately taken care of” by special legislation ? The Emerald believes that these students, (and this body in cludes those without fraternity and sorority walls) who at present are overlooked by the tight political system, really want active participation in student affairs. They do not want an isolated posi tion on the executive council whose business is in the main appel late and without direct contact with the appointment of dance and function chairmanships. They want an equal hearing as possible candidates for office. They want JOBS that offer prestige and publicity and contact with other people. To place them in the executive council does not accomplish this. The Emerald realizes that all University students are not given an equal chance in activities. It is a result of the political dominance of certain groups and a direct outgrowth of the method of exchanging favors among the politicians. This too is inevitable, who played the major roles in placing him in office. This situation Try as he may the student body president cannot overlook those must and will be remedied. However this proposed political “plum” is sour. And regardless of the good intentions of those behind it—it SHOULD BE DEFEATED. Change in Photo Schedule Made Deadline for Oregana Portraits Is Dec. 15 With the studio photography for the 1936 Oregana well under way at the present time, Margaret Ami Morgan, sororities editor, an nounced yesterday a re-schedule of appointments for those organiza tions which have not had pictures taken. Completion of the list includes: November 14, Alpha Phi; No vember 15, Kappa Alpha Theta; November 18, Omega hall; No vember 19, Gamma hall; Novem ber 20, Alpha Omlcron Pi; No vember 21, Sigma Kappa; No vember 22, Phi Sigma Kappa; November 25, Orides; and No vember 26, Yeomen. No individual pictures of stu dents registered this term will be accepted for publication in the (Please turn to page two) Ted Karafotias Is Class Leader Ted Karafotias, former student and star of many University pro ductions, has been chosen presi dent of the entering' class at the Pasadena Community Playhouse, where he enrolled for the first time on October 18. He left the Univer sity the early part of this term. Karafotias will be remembered for his Paraclete in the "Chief Tiding,” and as Stanton in “Dan gerous Corner.” A more recent role and one in which he was laud ed for his display of talerit was h<s interpretation of Shakespeare’s Mercutio. His election as head of his class came at a meeting of the entire student body which was attended by such notables as Eddie Guest and Bulgoskova, director of the Moscow Art theatre. ‘Toastmasters’ To Organize A discussion group, tentatively named the Toastmaster club, will be organized November 21 at the Y hut. The club, to which both men and women of college age are welcome, is being planned by a committee composed of Glen Griffith, YMCA secretary; Betty Hughes, YWCA secretary; and Howard Lee. At the meeting next Thursday, officers will be elected and organi zation plans made. In all probabil ity a discussion will be held on the topic, "Relationships of Young Men and Women in Marriage and Home Preparation.” Any student interested in a dis cussion group is urged to attend the first meeting next Thursday at 7:30 at the Y hut. ASUO Card Good At Portland Game Seattle Game Tieket Sale Opens Monday No tickets will be needed by stu dents for the Oregon-University of Portland football game next Sat urday, Tom Stoddard, assistant graduate manager, declared yes terday, as admittance will be by student body card. Tickets for the Oregon-Washington game will go on sale Monday morning at the graduate manager’s office. Word received here made known that no special student train will be dispatched from Eugene to Seattle, however a cut-rate will be in effect. Plans for a special Uni versity of Oregon caravan are now under way to take students en masse by automobile to view the Duck-Husky clash, Saturday, No vember 23. Plans for the caravan, which will have a special state police escort, will be completed before the end of the week, student directors stated. Tickets for the Oregon-Washing ton game may be obtained any day next week for $1, tax included, to students having ASUO cards. Perreten Speaks To Law Students Law school students are receiv ing helpful suggestions in the use of law books and particularly their indexes and bibliographies this week in four lectures by Paul H. Perreten, representative of the West Publishing company of St. Paul, Minnesota. Mr. Perreten is a graduate of the University of Missouri law school and has prac ticed law four years at Oakland, California. Similar lectures are being spon sored in all law schools through out the United States, Mr. Per reten said yesterday. Plans Formulated For ‘Relations’ Meet Plans for a meeting in the near future of all students interested in the International Relations confer ence will be formulated at a meet ing of the International Relations committee at three o’clock this af ternoon in the Y hut. The meeting will be for the pur pose of contacting all University students who expect to attend. Cities’ League Mails Recent Bills Bulletin The League of Oregon Cities, with offices located in Friendly hall, is mailing the final bulletin discussing the bills passed during the recent session of the legisla ture. Bulletins will be sent to 750 city officials of Oregon. f Third Installment On Student Fees Must Be Paid Today Today Is the final day for payment of the third install ment of student fees. Students who do not pay today are sub ject to a fine of 25 cents a day until they pay. Anyone who is still delinquent in payment next week will he liable to suspension from the University. Fees may be paid at the cashier’s office in Johnson hall from 8 a. m. until 12 noon, and 1 p. m. until 3 p. m. Infirmary Bid Waits Final OK Hammond Company Low With $153,267 Oregon’s new infirmary came a step closer to actual construction yesterday with the announcement that the Ross B. Hammond com pany, Portland contractors, had filed the lowest bid, $153,267. Awarding of the contract will be delayed for two or three days pending the decision of the state board of higher education. An alternate bid providing for elimination of the third floor of the proposed building was also submitted by the Hammond com pany at a figure of $107,626. The same company has the contract for the new library which is now be ing constructed. Construction on the infirmary, which will be located at the cor ner of Thirteenth and Onyx, is ex pected to start soon, since all PWA project work must get under way before December 15. The building committee of the state board is again advertising for bids for the Oregon State in firmary as the lowest previous bid was $18,000 above the $93,000 al lotted. These bids will be called some time in early December. C. R. Wayman of Portland was second low bidder on the Univer sity infirmary contract with an estimate of $156,056. Stein Bro thers of Eugene were third at $157,000. Extension Work Becomes Habit In Watkins Family When three generations of a family take courses from the ex tension division of the University of Oregon, it seems that the ex tension work must be either ex cellent or have grown into a habit. According to Miss Mozelle Hair of the extension division, Mary Watkins of Arago, Oregon, who re cently enrolled in an English com position course, is the third gener ation of the Watkins family to take correspondence work from the University of Oregon. Mrs. Maryalice Hill Watkins, mother of Mary Watkins, took a short story writing course in 1928 and 1929. Mrs. Watkins was grad uated from the University of Ore gon in 1907 and received her B.A. degree. Becoming interested in her daughter’s work, Mrs. Myrtle Price Hill of La Grande, Oregon, enrolled in a versification course which she finished in 1933. Mrs. Hill had taken two years at Pacific college in Newberg, Oregon. Following her grandmother’s footsteps, Mary Watkins enrolled for a course from the extension division after she graduated from high school in 1935. Miss Watkins plans to attend the University of Oregon next year. Dean and Assistant To Speak Out of Town Alice B. Macduff, assistant dean of women, is leaving today for Grants Pass, where she will speak before tlje Business a^jl Profes-' sional Women’s club of that city. I She will return Friday. Dean Scbwering will address a a meeting of the Women’s club and the girlls league of Pendleton to day, and will go to Portland Friday j to attend the tea given by the. Portland Mothers' club for fresh-1 men mothers. She will return to j the campus Saturday. ' Quiet Marks Political Field Before Voting Question Arises Concerning Exact Definition of Term ‘Living Organization’ Proposed amendments to the ASUO constitution creating the position of independent representa tive on the executive council will be put before the students on the ballot Friday when they go to the polls to select a junior finance of ficer, it was officially ascertained last night. ASUO President James Blais announced last night that the names on the petition read before an association meeting Friday had been verified and that more than the required hundred students had signed it. Blais Defines Term Should the amendments, intro duced by student initiative, be passed, one student not affiliated as “a member, pledge, or associate member of any living organization during his term of office” will be added to the council. “In interpretating the wording of the petition, I would define a living organization as either a fra ternity or a sorority,” Blais stated last night. “I believe that the pe tition was designed to bring cer tain representation to all those students who live in the hall and the co-op,” the president stated in an attempt to explain the some what ambiguous wording of the petition. Dorms Claim Membership Students living in the dormi tories, however, when called last night, expressed the opinion that they were members of living or ganizations. Political Activity Slow Political activity was markedly quiet yesterday. Neither the group backing Frank Nash nor the faction behind Kermit Paulsen had indi cated that they would attempt to organize and force the campaign. Fear of a split in the present set-up before the usually hard fought spring election was ad vanced as the factor behind the sluggish state of campus politics. Voting will start with the open ing of the polls early Friday morn ing. A list of ASUO members is now being prepared in order to determine who shall have the right to vote. F. P. Catoy Writes Philippine Thesis Fausto P. Catoy, Filipino, work ing- for his master's degree in ed ucation, has completed a thesis which he has been working on for about four years. It is entitled “The Development of Education in the Philippine Islands.” Dean James R. Jewell, of the school of education, hopes to have it printed by the bureau of education at Washington. Dean Jewell says, “It will be an authoritative mine of information in the future,” and declares that there is no publication in Wash ington, D. C., at the present time that can equal it. He will take his master’s exam ination around Christmas time, and plans to return to the islands around March 1, when he will be made an official in the Philippine school system. Editorials Today Discuss: • Library Talking Is Out of Place • The *Queen's Husband’ Preens Himself • A Guinea-Pig For Dr. Townsend? • Featured in Today’s Emerald: Amendment to constitution should be defeated.