Merry Christmas
To you all . . . and it’s only 18
days more. Annual Christmas Rev
els will mark the University cele
bration of the event December 13
in Gerling-er.
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VOLUME XXXVII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1935
NUMBER 46
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Analogy
A procedure used by economists
in analyzing- business movements
is that of specific historical anal
ogy. For instance, before the
crash Barron’s spectacularly stat
ed that the bull market of the mad
20’s was unnatural, and based
their assertion on what had trans
pired in previous post war periods.
Not that any attention was paid
to those analysts, but still history
was repeating itself.
Again and •
Over and over again have reoc
eurred events long since passed.
They will continue to do so, and
on that ground I predict the crush
ing defeat of Italy. Maybe like Ir
ving Fisher, who forecast contin
ued prosperity only a few days be
fore October’s Black Monday of
1929, my prediction will be a boom
erang of ridicule. Yet I do say it.
For in 1914 a kingdom called
Germany, and now about re
named, a la Admiral Byrd, Hitler
hind, went to knock on the doors
of the nations of the world. Her
knuckles were encased in a glove
of steel, and her resounding rap of
long range Krupp guns startled
dozing sentinels into slashing ac
tion. The rap should never have
been made. The mailed fist should
never have been brandished. For
a sleeping world awakens in a
mean humor, and ere long, Ger
many, the marauder, was caught
up with and annihilated. The po
licemen who chased and slugged
Deutschland were themselves se
riously wounded. But they had
done their duty—seen their duty
and done it!
Slowly, slowly, the world is
again seeing its course. Awak
ening, it is even now lazily stretch
ing its long ham-like arms. Those
arms will lower with the speed of
lightning, and the cuff thudding
upon the jaw of Mussolini will be
a cuff into oblivion.
Wisdom
People are a little older and
much wiser since the last great
conflict. They want no war. Their
governments want no war, and
whereas those governments were
slow in formulating strategy to
pluck the flower of German youth,
they now know that it isn’t the
flower that counts so much—it is
the water that makes it grow.
So the water is shut off, and the
flower dies. It’s roots in the
homeland shrink and shrivel. Soon
its head is bowed in defeat.
Italy’s water supply of interna
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Co-op Decorated
For Holidays
The University Co-op has
dressed itself up in Christmas
splendor in order to be in keeping
with the holiday spirit. A Christ
mas tree, decorated with the neces
sary ornaments, holds the atten
tion of the middle of the room.
The display and sale of Japanese
prints, imported from Tokyo con
tinues today at the room the first
door west of the College Side. A
number of small prints have been
mounted for use as Christmas
cards.
Marion McClain, manager of the
Co-op, said that another grab bag.
such as was held last year will
probably be featured under the
Christmas tree again this year.
❖Calendar
Second practice for Christmas
carols group to be Monday at 4
p. m. in the YMCA hut.
College Poetry society, Oregon
chapter, meets at 1 o'clock today
in the men's lounge of Gerlinger
hall. Prospective members asked
to be present promptly.
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YMCA cabinet will meet Mon
day at 3 o’clock to discuss the
fireside forums and the program
of the International Relations com
mittee.
Smith Unfolds
Russian Life
At Assembly
Lecturer Attacks
Attempt to Place
People on Level
By Making Laws
“You cannot make human peo
ple equal by legislation, for after
all, people of superior ability stand
out,” was the forceful statement
made by Charles Stevenson Smith,
retired Associated Press writer in
concluding his address on Russia
before Oregon students yesterday.
“I think Russians are happiest
when they are sad,” Smith said.
The soul of the Slav is different
from the Anglo-Saxons. Many
tourists who go to Russia pity the
people, who seldom laugh, simply
because they do not realize the
difference in their make-up.
Military Power Great
“Russia is a very formidable
force in this world, and I should
think Germany and Japan would
be very slow in moving against
her,” Smith said in telling of the
Soviet’s vast military power of a
million men, capable officers, and
a competent air force.
Japan, he wagered, will not
press a war issue with the Soviet
in the near future. At the time of
the walkout from the league pub
lic opinion in Japan seemed to be
evenly divided upon possible ac
tion to take against Russia. Some
thought differences should be set
tled by military means, but the
other group held diplomatic means
should be used. The latter group
is apparently stronger, the speak
er said, telling of the amicable set
tlement made between Japanese
and Russian interests in Manchu
kuo.
Three Questions asked
After returning from Russia last
March, Smith said three questions
were almost invariably asked of
him: Will the Soviet government
endure, what has become of the
old aristocracy, and how has Rus
sia managed to abolish unemploy
ment?
“Anybody’s guess is as good as
another’s,” the journalist answered
as to probable chances for the
longevity of the government. “At
first it was the common feeling it
would blow over any day, but now
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Yeomen Receive
Cup at Assembly
For inspiring greater interest in
cross country at Oregon, having
recently won the annual track
event, the Oregon Yeomen, inde
pendent men, were presented the
Hayward trophy at the assembly
yesterday by ASUO President Jim
Blais.
Tonqued Dance Plans
To Be Made Tuesday
There will be a mass meeting of
the Tonqueds Tuesday night at
7:30 in the Kappa Alpha Theta
house. Elizabeth Stetson will be
in charge, and the final plans will
be made for the Christmas dance
and rummage sale. Virginia Endi
cott, president, ask3 all members
to be present. Tickets for the
dance may be bought at the Co-op
for $1.
JSYA Students to Get
Work W inter Term
If CPA’s Exceed 2.75
Undergraduate students em
ployed by the NYA program
will be automatieally employed
for winter term work if they
have the required grade point
average fall term. Old students
must have an average of 2.75,
and new students, who are
those who entered fall term,
must have an average of 2.25
to be eligible for employment.
These students will be noti
fied between December 25 and
30 of their employment. The
committee in charge plans to
meet December 30 to appoint
other students applying for
work and graduate students.
Green Addresses
Sigma Delta Chi
Journal Writer Gives
Tips to Journalists
Sterling Green, editor of the
Emerald in 1933-34, gave a spark
ling talk on newspaper experiences
and practical journalistic advice
to members of Sigma Delta Chi,
professional journalism honorary,
Friday night at a banquet at the
College Side. Mr. Green is now a
reporter on the Oregon Daily
Journal.
Mr. Green told those at the ban
quet that a journalist with a col
lege education has a big “head
start” over those who do not go
to college. He said the four years
spent at the University are usual
ly more than made up in quick ad
vancements on a newspaper staff.
He stressed the fact that to be
come a good newspaper man prac
tical experience accompanying
class work is invaluable.
While telling those at the table
of the pranks members of news
paper staff play on each other and
of the good times reporters can
have, he was presented with a
bouquet of vegetables from his fel
low workers on the Journal staff
in Portland, done up in ribbons
and bearing the cryptic message,
“To Sterling ‘By-line’ Green, come
up and tell us all about it, some
time.”
YWCA Cabinet
To Meet Monday
Members of the YWCA cabinet
will meet Monday evening at the
home of Miss Elizabeth Hughes,
executive secretary of the YWCA,
for the last meeting of the term.
Reports of outstanding committees
will be given at that time.
Plans for the program of winter
term will also be discussed and a
tentative program will be planned.
All freshmen women who would
be interested in working on fresh
man committees next term are
asked to meet at Miss Hughes’
home, 613 East 13th street, be
tween 4 and 6 o’clock Sunday.
Teaching Placement
Service Ends Dec. 16
Registration for teaching posi
tions next year are open until De
cember 16, for those who plan to
use the placement service.
Blanks may be obtained at the
placement bureau from the secre
tary, Ida M. Pope.
Clark9 Marsh Columns
Take Emerald Spotiight
Quirping columnists Clark and
Marsh rate tops in arousing read
er interest of Emerald followers,
results of the recent survey con
ducted by the editing class show.
Innocent Bystander drew approxi
mately 80 per cent of the readers,
leading his contemporary by about
10 per cent.
The survey, originated and made
famous by Dr. George Gallup, i3
conducted scientifically. Each
member of the class contacts four
people, one from each class in
school, and has them mark the
material which they read in the
paper. The survey was made of
last Wednesday’s Emerald.
Social events drew top places
for news stories with one on a
campus dance drawing 70 per cent
of the readers. It was followed
closely by the story about students
petitioning for stop signs on Thir
teenth, and another notch down
the line was the article on frosh
lids.
The test showed that almost ev
ery reader scanned all the heads
in the paper and then read the
stories where the head caught his
attention. A decided preference
for stories of students doings
showed, with activities of faculty
members running low in reader
preference.
Pictures caught the eye of ev
eryone and drew a good percent
age.
The editorial with a local angle
drew approximately half the read
ers, while the outside one num
bered about 30 per cent. Tex
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! Bargain Ball
Opens Term
Tickets to Be Sold l»v
Honorary Members
Tickets for the “Bargain Ball’’
will go on sale January 2, only
two days before the night of the
advertising frolic, was the an
nouncement made yesterday by
Bill Schloth, dance chairman for
Alpha Delta Sigma, national ad
vertising fraternity.
Alpha Delta Sigma has the dis
tinction of being one of the first
honorary organizations to present
a dance on the Oregon campus.
The first affair was called the
“Krazy Kopy Krawl” and for some
years after that it carried the
same name.
Name Changed Again
Last year the group decided to
digress from the usual motif and
instigated the “Esquire Dance.”
The dance was deemed a success
by members and the fraternity de
cided to drop the traditional name
again this year.
Huge advertising displays will
be brought into the decorations
but according to the chairman of
the committee a surprise decora
tion scheme will be used.
fPigging9 Banned
As Students Get
Ready for Exams
The two weekends before exam
inations are closed, according to
rulings made by several student
advisory groups on the campus.
The hours for this weekend are
Saturday night, 12:15, Sunday
night, 10:30. Girls may have two
dates this weekend including Fri
day.
Next weekend girls may haye
one social engagement on Satur
day evening until 12:15. Friday
and Saturday nights are closed to
dates.
There can be no entertaining
during next week, including ban
quets, dinners, exchange desserts,
teas, benefits, or initiations. These
rules are enforced by the heads of
houses and the student advisory
committee.
Master Dance
To Give Program
A demonstration of the modern
dance will be presented by the
Women’s physical education de
partment next Wednesday, De
cember 11, at 8:00 p. m. in the
gymnasium of Gerlinger hall. It
is sponsored by Master Dance, as
sisted by the dancing classes.
The objective of the demonstra
tion is to show how the modern
dance technique grows from a
need manifested by the possibili
ties of the dance under considera
tion. This method of developing
technique is one of the outstand
ing points that distinguishes the
modern dance from ballet. Ballet
technique is built first, and the
dances are constructed with that
as a base, using a set of definite
bodily movements.
Toastmasters
Hear Me Bee
Approximately 15 students were
present at the Toastmaster club
meeting Thursday night to hear
Dick McBee present a paper, “In
timate Relations of College Men
and Women.’’ The meeting, the
third for the newly-organized
group, was held in the Y hut at
7:30.
Crawford Lyle and George Jam
ison will discuss “Agitation
Against Entrance in the Olympic
Games at Berlin” at the next
meeting of the organization.
3 New Patients
Enter Infirmary
Keeping up to Thursday’s record,
the infirmary had nine patients,
three of whom were new. Those
admitted yesterday are Frank
Prime, Bill Cooper, Frank Hitch
cock. .<
Ruth Byerly, Raymond McNair,
Paul Brainard, James Smith, Jerry
Kestly, and Alys Phillips are the
previous inmates.
Japanese Art and
Sociology Exams
Are Rescheduled
Two changes In the examin
ation schedule were announced
yesterday by the schedule com
mittee.
Japanese art and culture will
meet Saturday, December 14,
2-4.
Sociology, both sections, will
meet Wednesday, December
18, 10-12. Section 1 (Jameson)
will be held in 105 Commerce,
and Section 2 (Martin) in 101
Journalism. Section 1 was pre
viously scheduled for 8 o’clock
Monday, and Section 2 for 8
o’clock Friday.
Moving of ROTC
To Start Dec. 16
Barracks to Be Located
On Uorth Drill Field
Work on moving the ROTC bar
racks to make room for the new
ohysical education building should
begin December 16, according to
tentative arrangements. A definite
decision will be made as soon as
the bids are let for the gymnasium.
The main ROTC building is to be
located on the north end of the
drill field facing Fifteenth street.
The drill shed will be moved direct
ly back without changing its rela
tive position.
Preliminary tests, to see how
good a foundation the ground will
make, have already been made. The
moving should be completed by the
beginning of winter term, accord
ing to Colonel E. V. D. Murphy,
head of the Oregon ROTC unit.
The present group of ROTC
buildings were built during the
World War, when a military or
ganization was first established on
the campus. Decision tq move was
made necessary by the selection
of the corner of Fifteenth and Uni
versity as a site for the new fed
eral aided physical education plant.
Church Groups
Meet at Corvallis
Members of Westminster asso
ciation on the Oregon campus will
be guests of the Oregon State col
lege group Sunday evening at Cor
vallis. Donald Telford, president
of the Corvallis group, has extend
ed an invitation and about 25 are
expected to go.
At 6:30 there will be a forum
discussion on “The Purpose of
Westminster.” Cars will leave
Westminster house at 3, the trans
portation charges being 25 cents.
The Eugene association will
close its term's program Sunday,
December 15. The Westminster
players will present a play at 6:30
entitled “The Other Side of the
Door,” with Leonard Love direct
ing. Students will go caroling af
terwards.
Alpha Della Sigma
Pledges Parade
New pledges of Alpha Delta Sig
ma, national advertising honorary,
paraded the city yesterday loaded
down with their traditional bill
boards filled with ads which each
initiate was required to sell.
At noon the men spouted forth
the values of their products from
the libe steps in unison with a re
sult that rivaled the Tower of Ba
bel mixup of olden days.
The seven sign-bearing, value
spouting men who underwent the
pre-initiation frivolities and who
will be formally initiated into the
honorary Sunday were: Ed Han
son, Frank Bondurant, John Brun
ton, Pete Garrett, Bob Wilhelm,
Bill Jones, and Fred Anderson.
Phi Delta Kappa to
Send Boushey East
Earl E. Boushey, president of Phi
Delta Kappa, men’s national edu
cation honorary, has been selected
to represent the Oregon chapter at
the sixteenth biennial meeting to
be held in St. Louis December 27,
28, and 30. Boushey plans to leave,
Monday, December 23.
In addition Mr. Boushey is a del
egate to the AEP, press associa
tion on the campus, conference to
be held December 30 and 31 at the
Statler hotel in St. Louis.
Variety, Talent
Are Promised
In Concert
Christmas Carols
From Foreign Lands
To Be Presented by
Polyphonic Chorus
The annual Christmas concert of
the University polyphonic chorus
will be given at the music auditor
ium at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
Incidental solos will be sung by
Roberta Bennett Humphreys and
Mary Kem, sopranos; Cathleen
Conger, contralto; Bill Sutherland,
bass; and Charles Fahey, tenor,
director Paul Petri announced.
Ruthalbert Wolfenden will play a
violin obbligato and the chorus will
be accompanied by Phyllis Schatz.
“He Shall Feed His Flock,” aria
and recitative from Handel's "Mes
siah,” will be sung by Matilda
Holst.
Christmas carols from foreign
countries will constitute the bulk
of the program for the concert,
which is a traditional one with the
chorus. There will be no admission
charge.
“Music in the air” is emphatical
ly the case on the campus just at
present. Besides the polyphonic
chorus concert and two piano re
citals within the next three days,
the fall appearance of the Univer
sity symphony orchestra Thursday
evening will be an important finale
to the term’s musical events.
Madalena Giustina, talented stu
dent violinist, will be soloist of the
evening, playing Vieuxtemps’ mas
terpiece, “Concerto in D minor.”
Mayo Sorenson and William Curry
will combine in Tittel’s "Serenade
for Flute and Horn.”
Beethoven's “Leonore Overture
No. 3” and the "Symphony in D
minor by Cesar Franck are the
other two numbers to be presented
by the orchestra.
Holders of student body cards
will be admitted free to the con
cert. Proceeds will form the nuc
leus of a scholarship loan fund for
orchestra members.
Yeomen to Meet
Tuesday Evening
Yeomen plans for next term, to
gether with plans for the Christ
mas Revels scheduled for next
Friday night, will be the subject
of discussion at a Yeomen meeting
next Tuesday evening at 7:30 in
the Y hut.
Because of exams, the meeting
will be for business only and will
be very short.
Yeomen dancing classes are to
continue next week, according to
announcement from Fred Geiseko,
Yeomen president.
Mrs. Ramsby Called Home
Mrs. Elizabeth Ramsby, house
mother at the Alpha Gamma Delta
sorority, was called early Thursday
to go to Klamath Falls because of
the illness of her mother. Mrs.
Mary Wiggins, house mother of
the Zeta Tau Alpha house is filling
in for the rest of the term.
Plays Monday
Harold Ayres, eoneort pianist
who recently made a highly suc
cessful tour of Oregon and Cali
fornia, will appear Monday, De
cember 9, in recital.
Harold Ayres Will
Give Piano Recital
Students Will Hear
Pianist December 9
Harold Ayres, pianist and well
known graduate of the University
music school, will appear in recital
Monday evening, December 9, at
the auditorium, it is announced by
Louis Artau, Ayres’ teacher for
the past several years.
A Beethoven sonata (Op. 27, No.
2), Casella’s Seven Satires (Pieces
Enfantines), and a sonata by Soler,
early 17th century Spanish compos
er, will be highlights of Mr. Ayres’
program. Music by Bach, Schubert,
Chopin Prokofiew, Vogrich, and
Liszt will also be included.
On a recital tour through the
coast states last year, Mr. Ayres
was widely acclaimed. Musical
West, San Francisco, says: "Mr.
Ayres, brilliant young American
pianist, proved himself to be an
artist with an elegance of touch
and style and a musical sobriety
that was lightened by his own ex
uberant vitality.”
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$25 Stolen From
Alpha Gam House
It was reported late last night
to the Emerald office that the Al
pha Gamma Delta house was
robbed of $25 during the dinner
hour.
Elsie Peterson, graduate student
in psychology, had just cashed a
check and left the money in her
room. The robbery apparently oc
curred during the dinner hour and
the prowler is thought to have en
tered by the basement, it being
possible to enter the house and
gain the second floor without de
tection at this hour.
Eugene police were called, and
up to press time last night had
thrown no light on the mystery.
This is the second robbery at the
Alpha Gamma Delta this term.
Wesley Club Banquet
Draws 200 Students
Nearly 200 students, including
over 30 foreign students who were
the guests of the Wesley club, at
tended the ninth international ban
quet at the Methodist Episcopal
church last night to sponsor better
international feeling and under
standing.
"North and South, West and
East, Youth of All Lands Unite
for Peace,” was the theme for the
banquet and the following pro
gram was given to carry it out:
"Mother Earth and Her Chil
dren,” a play offering a solution
to the international problems of
today, was presented by the Stu
dent Christian council as the mam
feature of the program. The cast
was as follows: Mother Earth,
Frances Mays; Pacifia, her daugh
ter, Lillian Warn; Militaria, an
other daughter, Hazel Lewis; Brit
tAnicus, Howard Ohmart; Ameri
cus, Leonard Love; Orientus, Mi
noru Yasui; and Utopius, Fred
Gieseke.
Toastmaster Francisco Tubban
conducted a world tour. As the
voyagers made their way across
the uncharted seas of peace and
international understanding, stops
were made in several foreign lands.
At each stop a representative of
that country proposed a toast to
peace. Margaret Cormack spoke
for England, Phoebus Klonoff for
Russia, and .Joshmi Tanaka for Ja
pan.
“Kagawa, Christian Internation
alist,” was the subject for a speech
by Dorothy Nyland, director of
Methodist student activities at
Oregon.
Other numbers on the program
were: a song, “Swing Low, Sweet
Chariot," by Ardell English; a pi
ano selection by Mary Field; a mu
sical saw number by Vincent Mon
teralla; and numerous group songs.
Also at the banquet were 75
high school students who had
| gathered from surrounding towns
to attend the Epworth League in
stitute.
7 Little Colonel
Candidates
Are Chosen
Alpha Gamma, Theta,
Hendricks, Pi Phi,
Chi Omega, Alpha Phi,
Kappa Head List
Seven prospective “Little Colo
nels’’ were chosen yesterday when
1449 ballots deposited at the Col
lege Side designated the following
as candidates:
Elaine Sorensen, Alpha Gamma
Delta, 240; Marjorie Gearhart,
Kappa Alpha Theta, 167; Kay
Skalet, Hendricks hall, 143; Betty
Pownall, Pi Beta Phi, 130; Rhoda
Armstrong, Chi Omega, 119; Han
nah Crossley, Alpha Phi, and Rose
mary O'Donnel, Kappa Kappa
Gamma, 116.
These seven girls will be voted
on next term as candidates for the
final honor of "Little Colonel” of
the Scabbard and Blade military
ball, January 11. Bill Paddock,
Alan Wall, Bill Summers, and Tom
Aughinbaugh were in charge of
the election.
Interest was high in the elec
tion, which became a skirmish
among the sororities. Sound cars
and fair campaigners gave the
campus the appearance of a class
or ASUO election. Worried fem
inine “politicians” harrassed the
Emerald news office with tele
phone calls last night in an effort
to find out the latest news.
The executive council voted last
Thursday to raise the ban against
freshman tuxedoes for the formal
Military ball. This unprecedented
suspension of the traditional ruling
will officially give the freshmen
the right to appear in formal dre3s.
Although Paddock and Wall
have not selected an orchestra for
the affair, they are considering
Art Holman, Gary McLean, and
Jimmy Dierickx. The orchestra
will be decided upon in the near
future.
Buck McGowan
To Play at Revels
The Revels committee received
a last-minute announcement yes
terday that Art Holman and his
orchestra would be unable to per
form at the Christmas program,
owing to the fact that they have
an opportunity to play over a na
tional radio hook-up at Portland
Saturday.
Quick action on the part of Fred
Gieseke secured the Buck McGow
an orchestra to replace Art Hol
man’s band, and the program will
go on as originally planned.
Hanson Loses
Famed Chisel
Ed Hanson, staff cartoonist on
the Emerald, has lost his gouge.
The little steel and wood tool that
looks like an awl with the point
flattened out which he uses to
carve out his daily cartoons for
the Emerald is gone.
Hanson says that without his
gouge he is afraid the next time
he cuts out "Joe Duck" it’ll turn
out to be a cooked goose. The
gouge has Hanson’s initials “E.
H.” cut on the handle.
The cartoonist would appreciate
it if anyone finding the gouge
would turn it in at the S.A E.
house and promises an auto
graphed drawing of the finder’3
own choosing for its return.
/V YA Relief Checks
For Month’s Work
Due After Vacation
NYA student relief checks
for the period ending Decem
l>er 19 will l*e received at the
business office sometime during
Christmas vacation, Earl Pal
iett, executive secretary, an
nounced yesterday.
The payroll is made up De
cember 19 and is sent to Port
land where the checks are made
out. Students may have their
checks as soon as they return
to the campus. Those who wish
to have them forwarded may
make arrangements with the
business office and must leave
an addressed stamped envelope.