On to Seattle
Webfoot gridsters, bandmen,
and team supporters trek north- i
ward today for the annual battle j
with the Washington Huskies in
Seattle Saturday.
VOLUME XXXVII
Dancing
Today’s letter to the editor ad
vocates the offering of ballroom
dancing courses for University stu
dents whose dancing is a trifle
wobbly.
NUMBER 37
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*> By Tex Thomason *
Civilian leaders in the Japanese
government yesterday peeked out
from behind the robes of Emperor
Hiro Hito, squeeked boo! at the
Japanese army just loud enough
to cause a pause in the very me
thodical business of said army in
bestowing a new regime on 95,
000,000 Chinese.
Choice Morsel
For some time prim little mili
tary bigwigs have eyed five prov
inces in northern China encompass
ing over 400,000 square miles ana
including luscious iron and coal de
posits. Since that great January
day in 1934 when Pu Yi was car
ried by his divine right and the
Japanese into number one position
as ruler of Manchukuo, North
China has caused be-medaled Jap
anese to fidget. Should the Jap
anese wait until January, 1936 to
establish the “new regime” double
celebrations would be in order. For
t'would not only be the great
dawning of the Nippon sun for
the alleged heathen Chinese but
t'would be the second anniversary
of the magnificient statement is
sued from Tokyo on January 10,
1934 on the occasion of the deal
sealing rites of Manchukuo’s salva
tion; to wit: “The Japanese gov
ernment has no plans for annexa
tion of North China,”
Sanctions Pinch .
II Duce yesterday turned
thoughts from the preparation for
shred and slaughter to dwell on the
need for bread and butter when he
granted leave to 500,000 Italian
soldiers, thereby cutting Italy’s
army in half. Friend Benito would
return farmers to work of acceler
ating industrial production.
Two enemies now harress the
Italians: one is the jumpy Ethio
pian and the other the rapidly
baring cupboard. Mussolini, who
for the past six months has
shouted himself hoarse, grimaced
at the world at large, and ushered
beaming blackshirts aboard Italian
transports bound for the great
black way, now takes in a notch
on an ample belt. Fifty-one na
tions, advancing behind the bared
fangs of the royal British lion,
have signified their belief in an
old but untried theory that modern
wars are not won with pitch-forks,
that a hungry nation is a good
nation, and that Ethiopians have a
right to be savage.
Czechoslovakia business men
say nothing and have shipped
300 carloads of coal a day into
deeply appreciative Italy.
Netvspapers Fume
In the mean time, sporadic and
uncertain reports trickle from the
typewriters of chafing newspaper
men in Ethiopia about battles
thought to have been fought, vic
tories thought to have been won,
and drinking water that is certain
ly bad.
Aside from piping hot telegrams
pouring into President Roosevelt
from purple-faced lumber men—
protesting the reciprocal trade
agreement with Canada — quiet
reigns in this best of all possible
worlds.
Build Broad
Union Says
iMiss Strack
Student Organizer
Asks Campus Unity
In Fight for Peace,
Freedom, Progress
■Rv VETMA E. McINTYRE
Celeste Strack. a vivacious, en
thusiastic. and well-informed stu
dent lead"’’, who was excelled
from the University of California
at Los Angeles for radical activi
ties, deported from Cuba when
students from America made an
attempt to aid the student move
ment there, and who was one of
the members of the American stu
dent delegation to the student
peace conference in Brussels, and
dressed an assembly in Villard hall
Thursday night and presented the
vital problems that are facing
American students today in their
fight for "freedom, peace, and
progress.”
Miss Strack advocates an Amer
ican Student Union, an organiza
tion which is being formed by stu
dents on campuses in the United
States for a more effective means
of combatting the "war menace,”
and to carry on a fight for "aca
demic freedom.”
Progress Cited
Three phases of the student
movement were presented by Miss
Strack: the history of the student
movement; what the student move
ment is accomplishing; and the
type of work and the problems
that are confronting those who are
working for a greater student or
ganization.
Miss Strack contrasted the
“sham battle” between liberal stu
dents and R.O.T.C. students in Los
Angeles, seven years ago, which
brought strong opposition from
the administration, with the peace
mobilization of November 8, 1935,
in which 500,000 students in Amer
ica made an open declaration to
“fight for peace.”
Difficulties Outlined
Miss Strack cited four causes for
the ineffectual student movements
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Lief Jacobsen
Goes to Hospital
Lief Jacobsen, substitute left
end for the varsity squad, was
taken to the Pacific hospital for
an appendicitis operation yester
day afternoon.
With only two additions in the
infirmary yesterday the total has
dropped to six. Betty Tubbs, an
Emerald reporter, and Rachel
Kropp, are the new patients.
The remaining four are Mary
Arnspiger, Harvey Thompson,
Harry Ragsdale, and Bill Reese.
Alpha Delta Sigma
Pledges Two Men
Two men, Andy Anderson and
Pete Garrett, were pledged to Al
pha Delta Sigma, men’s national
advertising fraternity, at a lunch
eon yesterday noon in the College
Side. Formal initiation of the two
will take place some time during
the week of December 2.
Hendricks Hall Women
Hostesses at Formal Party
By LILLIAN WARN
As if some magic artist ha.1
suddenly dipped his brush into the
rainbow, a garden in full bloom
was the vivid picture portrayed in
the living room of Hendricks hall
at its formal reception honoring
Mrs. James M. Miller last night.
To one of the most brilliant as
semblages since the reception of
President C. Valentine Boyer hon
oring Chancellor Frederick M.
Hunter last month, the girls of
Hendricks hall played hostess.
There was color everywhere, lovely
ladies sparkled and charm radi
ated trhoughout the huge room.
Even the men were at ease in their
handsome “tuxes.’
500 Attend Event
Townspeople, faculty members,
heads of living organizations, and
house mothers were those include!!
among the five hundred guests.
Among the many exquisite
women gowned in every color and
fabric stood out Mrs. James Miller
in a dress of soft blue, shot with a
barely perceptable metal thread,
that matched the pink in her
Pink roses formed a dainty corsage
cheek and did honor to her gray
hair. Mrs. Hazel P. Schwering was
Grecian in dark purple with silver
trim and white gardenias. Mrs. C.
Valentine Boyer was lovely in light
blue lace.
Formats Dazzle All
Mrs. Jane Thacher, who has just
arrived home from the South,
charmed her observers by appear
ing in a trailing velvet gown of
black, which formed a stunning
background for her blonde hair.
Mrs. Genevieve Tumipseed was
oustanding in white lace, Mrs.
Hugh Miller very ‘Trenchy” in a
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Oregatia Week
Draws to Close
a Houses Unofficially
Hurdle 100 Per Cent
As Oregana week drew to a
close yesterday, five houses had
unofficially reached the 100 per
cent mark, sending subscriptions
to what staff members expected to
be much over that of last year.
The names of the houses were
not divulged, as Circulation Man
ager Dick Hill said that the
blanks had not been checked; the
winners of the two cups will not
be divulged until after the contest
closes today noon. In order to
compete, house representatives
must be sure that all blanks are
with Hill by noon.
It was thought that the stand
ings of living organizations pub
lished earlier this week would be
changed considerably at the close
of the campaign. Percentages will
again be figured and printed in the
Emerald early next week.
Editor George Root has stressed
the importance of signing for the
annual this week so he will know
how many to order. Last year
several students waited until the
last moment, he said, and were dis
appointed. The response of the
students in subscribing will par
tially gauge the enlargement of
this year’s features, he added.
State Examiner
Remains Here
Two More Days
The state examiner of opera
tors and chauffeurs will be in
Eugene for two more days to
receive applications for drivers’
licenses and permits. He will be
in the city hall tomorrow be
tween 8 a. m. and on Saturday
during the same hours. Appli
cants must furnish their own
cars.
Skull and Dagger
Pledges 3 Sophs
Charles Barclay, Bob DeArmand
and Sam Fort were pledged to
Skull and Dagger service honor
ary this week.
Usually the organization pledges
spring term at the Frosh Glee, but
each year several members fail to
return to school, making it neces
sary to pledge a few more during
fall term to fill the membership
quota.
Membership is gained by being
outstanding in extra-curricular ac
tivities during the freshman year.
Luncheon Club
Is Reorganized
The group of students who eat
their lunches at the Y hut have
changed the name of their organi
zation. The name of the Digest
club will take the place of the
Luncheon club. The new name was
chosen by the organization at a
meeting Wednesday. The election
of the club’s officers and policy
will be made next Tuesday.
The present plans call for the
newly organized group to meet ev
ery day except Wednesdays, upon
which day they will meet with a
similar group of women students
for dancing.
MISS BAKER AT BONANZA
Lorna Lee Baker is teaching
English and music in the Bonanza,
Oregon, high school.
Campus •> ❖
^-Calendar
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Gerlinger pool will be open to
men and women from 7:30 to 9
tonight for recreational swimming.
Progressive games party, start
ing at 7:30 Friday evening, will
be held by the senior young people
of the First Baptist church,
Broadway and High strets. All
young people are invited.
Westminster house will hold
open house tonight. Bring a nickel
for refreshments.
Before Footlights Again
_
Deep-voiced Alice Hult, playing Ihp role of the domineering queen,
and John Casteel, the king who awakens to his rightful powers, lead
the student-actor cast in tonight and tomorrow night’s final showings
of Robert Sherwood’s “The Queen’s Husband.”
Guild Curtains Again
Part on 'Queen's Husband’
The rollicking, satirical comedy,
“The Queen’s Husband,” is to
open its final run on the Univer
sity theatre stage tonight, the cur
tain scheduled to part at 8 o’clock.
Tomorrow night will see the final
showing. Admission is set at 25
and 35 cents.
Royal stage settings designed
and constructed by Horace Rob
inson, drama assistant, provide
fitting surroundings in which the
plot of the frets of a king will be
again unwound.
Two capacity audiences ac
claimed the first showings of
Sherwood’s production last Fri
day and Saturday, giving promise,
of a successful year for the thea
tre, Ottilie Turnbull Seybolt, drama
coach, has said.
Alice Hult and John Casteel are
cast in the title roles of the dom
ineering “power behind the throne”
and the king, at first a hen-pecked
weakling, but finally a ruler in
his own right.
Other prominent roles are tak
en by student actors: Portia Booth,
Charles Barclay, William Cottrell,
George Batterson, Bud Winstead,
Lester Miller, and Virgil Garwood.
Love winds its way through the
three acts, occasionally emerging
to break the tense moments pro
vided by the revolutionists who
threaten the toppling monarchy.
The absolute despot supposedly
reigns on an imaginary island in
the North sea.
Usually high drama is unfolded
before the footlights as the can
nons of the royal navy threaten to
open fire on the capital itself. The
high - strung would-be dictator
overrules the weak king by order
ing the seamen to open the bom
bardment, only to be toppled from
his ambition by the sudden resolu
tion of the king to take the situa
tion into his own hands.
10 Months Will See
Completed Libe
Concrete Pouring
To Be Over in 12 Weeks
....The construction work on the
new University library will be
completed in approximately ten
months. The concrete pouring will
only last three months longer,
weather permitting the maximum
work to be done. At this time the
large steel tower will be convert
ed into a hoist for the brick-layers
to use in putting brick veneering
on the concrete foundation.
The excavation has not yet been
completed since a new contract
has to be made by the PWA office
in Portland. This contract is ex
pected within the next two or three
days.
The main thing that has been
taking the most time up to this
point in the construction is the
forming of underground tunnels
for plumbing, steam, and heating
transits.
So far 530 cubic yards of con
crete which nets a weight of two
tons to the yard, have been poured.
Nearly 35,000 board feet of lum
ber has been used to make tem
porary forms for the concrete.
This concrete constitutes about
one-seventh of the total amount
that has to be formed into the
building which will be 75 feet over
all from the foundation.
Allied Arts League
Holds ‘Gab Fest’
A “gab fest” was held by the
Allied Arts league Wednesday eve
ning from 7:30 to 9:30 in the
architecture building.
Professor Vincent, Assistant Pro
fessor Hart, and Instructor Mc
Cosh in the drawing and painting
department, discussed v a r i o u i
phases of art in which the group
was interested.
Plans for a weekly meeting of
the group will be made by a com
mittee which will be appointed
later.
Dean Eric W. Allen
To Go South
Professors to Attend
Journalism Convention
Dean Eire W. Allen, accompan
ied by Professors George Turnbull
and Charles Hulten of the Univer
sity school of journalism, have
made arrangements to attend the
west coast journalism convention
to be held at Stanford university,
Palo Alto, California, on Novem
ber 29 and 30.
Delegates from the universities
of Washington, Oregon, Idaho,
Southern California, and Nevada
are expected to attend.
The convention, according to
Dean Allen, is the outgrowth of
the expressed wishes of the dif
ferent journalism heads for an ap
portunity to exchange ideas relat
ed to the enlarging field of edu
cational journalism. Such a meet
ing has not been held for several
years.
Public Demands
College Band
Due to the insistent demands of
the dancing public, Gary McLean’s
College band, composed of all Eu
gene boys, and now being recog
nized as one of the finest dance
bands in the state, will occupy the
band stand at Willamette park for
an indefinite time. The Eugene
people may well be proud of this
musical organization, as it com
pares very favorably with most of
the traveling bands. From now
on they will play at the park every
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Tune Detective Spaeth
To Appear Again
Dr. Sigmund Spaeth, who has
consented to stay over for another
day, will speak at the Roosevelt
junior high school this morning at
10:30.
All students are invited to hear
Dr. Spaeth again. A small fee of
10 cents will be charged.
League’s Bold
Sanctions Hit
By deVilliers
Morris Hopes Peace
Body Will Maintain
Prestige After Tiff
In Africa Settled
By ROY KNUDSEN
“Sanctions against Italy will not
work out as most people think,”
declared Dr. Cornelius de Villiers
in his open discussion with Dr.
Victor P. Morris of the University
in Gerlinger hall last night.
Dr. de Villiers, who is dean of
sciences at Stellenbosch university
in South Africa, vigorously de
fended Italy in its determined re
sistance to the sanctions.
Dr. Morris, while admitting that
Italy had a strong case, earnestly
hoped that the League of Nations
would maintain its prestige in re
gard to the Ethiopian trouble.
Italians Strong, Assertion
“The Italian people are a
strongly united nation,” said Dr.
de Villiers, “and are prepared to
go to any extreme in supporting
Mussolini’s plans. This fact alone
will make it difficult to extend ef
fective sanctions against her.”
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Campus Girts Must
Have Permission
For Seattle Game
All women students must
bring to the dean of women’s
office written permission from
home if they wish to leave the
campus tliis week-end, or to go
to Seattle for the game.
Sign out slips must also be
turned in to the office before
women leave the campus.
Infirmary Plans
Are Completed
Tentative plans for the new in
firmary call for a two story build
ing, with the main office and the
part of the health service now
known as the dispensary on the
first floor.
On the second floor provision
wil be made for 26 patients and
their care. The kitchen will also
be on this floor which wili make
it easier for the attendants and
assure hot food for the sick per
sons.
This new building will be known
as the student health service and
should be ready for occupancy by
next fall.
Miss Norton Speaks
To YWCA Group
Miss Lucy Norton, former stu
dent and teacher at the University
of Michigan, gave an informal talk
to the leadership discussion group
of the YWCA.
Miss Norton gave the group a
formula for successful leadership
and discussed with them the op
portunities for women in the busi
ness world.
A former resident of Syracuse,
New York, Miss Norton has
traveled extensively in this country
and abroad.
CHARLES IN SPOKANE
Edmund "Ed” Charles, who re
ceived his bachelor’s degree from
Oregon last January, is with the
Corn Products Sales company with
headquarters in Spokane. He
writes that "Bill” Goodwin, ex-’35,
is also with this company.
Editorials Today
Discuss:
•
Dr. de Villiera and
Campus Discussions
•
Japan Utilizes
Mussolini’s Smoke
•
Screen
Politics and
Lumber Tariff
Classes to Bo Hold
Friday, Saturday
This W eek and Next
University classes will not bo
dismissed this Friday or Sat
urday unless students make ar
rangements with their individ
ual professors to he excused*
Officials did not feel that
enough students were planning
on attending the game in Seat
tle to warrant a general dismis
sal of classes.
Thursday, Thanksgiving day,
will l»e the only holiday given
for that event. Students must
attend Friday and Saturday
classes, the personnel office an
nounced today. Charging of
cuts against students for these
two events will he entirely up
to the professors.
Spaeth Entertains
Music Lovers
Style, Form Explained
In Illustrated Lecture
Interpreting modern numbers in
the styles of different countries
and different musical forms, Sig
mund Spaeth, America's “tune de
tective,” last night kept an audi
ence of about 300 persons in the
music auditorium in rare good
spirits.
“Yankee Doodle,” played in the
style of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin,
modern American, and Debussy
jazz, rang through the auditor
ium’s rafters in hilarious fashion,
in spite of the excellent acoustics.
Spaeth used the popular number
of two years ago, “Smoke Gets in
Your Eyes,” to illustrate musical
form, which he classified as the
statement, contrast, and reminder.
This ABA form is the most com
mon in modern compositions, he
declared.
A second demonstration present
ed the words of Jack and Jill, vo
calized in the prevailing operatic
mode of America, Germany, Italy
and the early Whiteman period of
modern jazz. Spaeth's dialect in
terpretation of the vocals made a
big hit.
The audience left highly satis
fied, with some new ideas on mu
sic appreciation.
Webfoot Rooters
Begin Long Trek
To Huskys9 Lair
Hundreds of Oregon students
are risking their necks this week
end by treking to Seattle in the
ever-threatening rain and fog, de
termined to keep warm in the
northern city Saturday night with
the Husky pelt.
Cars loaded with the more for
tunate students preceded ihe team
in starting the long journey, leav
ing the campus yesterday, throw
ing scholastic cares to the winds
for a few days to back the pig
skin toters in their Washington
venture.
Special rates on the train are
expected to materially add to the
numbers of University students at
the tilt.
Both men’s and women's rally
teams are leaving to concentrate
the lemon-yellow rooters in an or
ganized rally section, even though
it be sparse due to the hundreds of
miles Oregon’s backers must
travel.
Ducks Head
North After
Husky Pelt
Sudden Appendicitis
Attack Eliminates
Jacobsen, Right End;
Jones Has Leg Injury
Thirty University of Oregon
football players sped out of Eugene
at 3 o’clock this morning and
headed into the northland, where
on Saturday they invade the lair
of the formidable Washington
Husky.
Conspicuously absent when the
Seattle-bound train set forth on its
journey through the night was Lief
Jacobsen, who had been expected
to start the traditional battle at
right end. Jacobsen, only Webfoot
to play all 60 minutes against
Portland university last week, was
stricken with appendicities on the
eve of his debut as a regular, and
at 3 p. m. yesterday underwent an
operation.
Jacobsen’s Loss Big Blow
Loss of Jacobsen came as a tre
mendous blow to Oregon’s hopes of
upsetting the Husky and put a
last-minute damper on the bright
spirit displayed by the players in
practice during the week.
With Budd Joes still suffering
slightly from a leg injury received
in the Oregon State game, the ex
Jefferson high sophomore had been
counted upon as the lad to fill the
right end spot. He was the most
improved performer on the Duck
roster.
Pain Comes Suddenly
Jaconsen worxea out witn nis
mates Wednesday night and was
apparently in good condition.
Shortly after midnight Thursday
he complained of side pains. Yes
terday morning a diagnosis by Dr.
M. B. Hesdorffer, team physician,
revealed a case of acute appendi
citis. In the afternoon Jacobsen
was operated upon at the Pacific
hospital, where he is recovering
rapidly and is not in serious con
dition.
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U.O.-W.U. Game
Tickets Available
Students may get tickets for
the Oregon-Washington game in
Seattle today and tomorrow by
phoning Hugh Rosson, graduate
manager, at the Olympic hotel. No
tickets for the game will be is
sued here.
Students must present ASUO
cards with their tickets at the
Seattle bowl.
James Hamilton of Reed
To Speak Next Monday
James Hamilton, directotr of ad
mission at Reed college, will speak
on the subject “To What Extent
Has Progressiva Education
Thought Been Accepted in the
Public Schools,” November 25, at
7:30 at the third open meeting
sponsored by Phi Delta Kappa, na
tional men’s honorary.
Mr. Hamilton has been a stu
dent of the progressive education
movement since its inception, and
he has kept in close touch with
the national and state programs of
experimental schools.
Italy’s Ethiopian Invasion
JustifiedSays de Villiers
By FRED COLVIG
He was sitting, sunk down in
a davenport in the lobby of the
Osburn hotel, a pleasant-looking
man. And then he stood up—all
six and a half feet of him, 250
pounds of muscle and not an ounce
to spare. Dr. Cornelius Gerhardus
Stephanus de Villiers? It had to
be. The clerk pointed him out
quite beyond all chance of a mis
take. But the speculation was in
evitable: what a bear of a heavy
weight boxer he would have made,
if he hadn’t decided to become a
research biologist.
“A girl at another university
made me look very foolish," he
was saying. “She reported me as
saying that Khaffirs—you know
our natives in South Africa—are
not black, but blue! You won't
say anything like that, will you?”
We reassured him. He smiled, and
we sat down.
Sympathizes With Italy
It was natural to ask a man
from South Africa for an expres
sion on the Italo-Ethlopian war.
He evidently expected the ques
tion, for he replied immediately
and with much force: "AH my
sympathies are for Italy. I think
that she has been very much ma
ligned. In the first place, she was
treated unfairly at Versaille.
There wa3 no fair division of spoils
after the World war. Italy was
given only Trieste and some influ
ence in the Adriatic. It was very
unjust. And now it is those na
tions who were the greatest grab
bers at Versaille who are fore
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