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12 In a Row
Oregon’s hoop machine rolled up
its twelfth consecutive pre-season
victory last night when it thund
ered over Union Oil by a 55 to 31
count. Details on the sports page.
VOLUME XXXVII
Deadline
Today and tomorrow are the
final deadline days to order Ore
gana or have pictures taken. See
story.
NUMBER 49
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Bong!
I quote Ross’ “Changing Amer
ica.” “In view of their suppression
and misrepresentation of vital
truth, the big daily papers, broadly
speaking, must be counted as al
lies of those whom—as Editor
Dana reverently put it—‘God has
endowed with a genius for saving,
for getting rich, for bringing
wealth together, for accumulating
and concentrating money.' In ral
lying to the side of the people
they are slower than the weeklies,
the magazines, the pulpit, the plat
form, the bar, the literati, the in
tellectuals, the social settlements,
and the universities.” Right!
Yes, He Did
What does this mean? Just this.
Roosevelt now has among his foes
the majority of one of the most
potent influences upon public opin
ion—newspapers. For if the above
quote be true, which I believe it is,
then the metropolitan dailies are
preponderantly anti-Roosevelt. He
has fought the bankers, he has
castigated the industrial czars, he
has encouraged investigation of
the munitions makers, he has
lowered the rich man’s tariff walls.
Even if these acts do not convince
the people that he is the “peepul’s”
friend, which there is ground for
saying any politician is not, they
have at least sufficed to perman
ently alienate any affection the
“Haves” ever had for him.
Boxes
This is offered with no other
purpose, then, than to defend the
act of the President in utilizing his
voice and personality via radio?
Yes, that’s right. If you knew that
on the majority of editorial pages
of the country you were getting
the ears of your policies soundly
boxed, would you not launch your
own canoe upon the ether waves
and go to their defense? And is
it really being the meanie to time
that attack in such a way as to
make it most effective? No, “fel
low-students,” pardon me, Chan
cellor, it is not nearly as bad as
painted. And the advice tendered
is that the savory dish of editorial
slush be not quite so guilibly and
gluttonously gulped. Just take it
easy. There’s lots more.
Play, Don
On with the ballad. Republicans
say the Democrats have five bil
lion dollars to spend. Or as Gen.
Smedley D. Butler says, “Of
course Roosevelt will be re-elected.
Any man with five billion dollars
can be re-elected. Give me five
billion dollars and I’ll elect a
Chinaman!” That being the case
why was it necessary to haul ole
Andy Jackson’s rugged skeleton
out of the muck—accompanied by
the wails of pinched office holders
who had to cough up 50 little de
flated wheels to plaster on the
donkey’s tail?
True, it’s all screwy as a back
stage stairway, but just to keep
the record straight—
Sipe Slated for
Talk February 4
The fifth lecture in the popular
science series will be given Febru
ary 4 in Villard hall by Professor
F. P. Sipe. His topic will be “Ram
bles of a Naturalist in Oregon in
Winter Time.”
Major R. H. Back delivered the
last talk on “Some Elements of
Small Arms Ballistics” Tuesday
evening in Villard hall. He dis
cussed the firing of rifles, their
range, the course of bullets, and
explained how accuracy and dis
tance could be increased.
Few Car Licenses
Issued This Term
Only 243 cars are registered to
far in the license bureau behind
Friendly hall. By the end of last
terra, 518 were listed in the office.
This decrease is said to be due
to the fact that there was only
one registration day this term and
that many students have not yet
secured new license plates.
>Dr. Hunter
Challenges
Modern Youth
Economic, Political,
Problems Confront
Students; Constants
Of Education Named
By GORDON CONNELLY
Outlining the challenges” facing
youth and listing six constant laws
of education necessary to answer
them, Dr. Frederick M. Hunter,
chancellor of the state board of
higher education, spoke before Ore
gon students yesterday in Gerlin
ger hall on the “Creative Urge of
Studentship.”
Education, the development of
the love within all men for the good
and beautiful and a curiosity an.1
desire for something that doesn’t
exist, is the promoting factor in
man for his realization of a con
scious or unconscious ideal which
may be pictured within a professor,
a football coach, a great profes
sional man, a mother, a father, or
a great world character.
Refers to Christ
“A Nazarene carpenter in three
years’ time instilled more idea's
into the life of youth than any oth
er person that ever lived,” Dr. Hun
ter said. “Abraham Lincoln in th;
country may be the ideal of the
student.
“I am confident in saying that
the most of you students desire to
find your ‘place in the sun,’ to be an
addition to society. Most of you
would say to your college or
university education is to prepare
you for a calling, a vocation, or a
career, that is to give you the op
portunity to create something in
society that wasn’t there before.”
Science Progresses
In the field of science the rate of
progress is astounding. Thousands
of years passed before Copernicus
discovered that the world was
round, but it has only been during
the last 300 years that man ha=
actually begun to climb, Dr. Hun
ter showed. He referred to ihe
change in communication from the
time news traveled just as fast as
man or animal could run, perhaps
50 or 75 miles a day, to the present
when the spoken word circles the
world in the split second.
“While we attempt to prevent
the leadership of demagogues and
spurious doctrines, we must remem
ber six universal, instinctive laws
that hold us constant. Our institu
tions are built around the basic
needs of the people and around psy
chological selves that don’t change.
These constants will remain for
ages and eons,” Dr. Hunter empha
sized.
Names God’s Existence
The existence of a scientifically
proved God of the universe is the
first, he explained, indicating the
failure of past theories to rule Him
out. Second he listed the monoga
mous family, describing it as the
most secure unit of our social
structure. Next he rated patriotism
as a necessary result of the instinc
tive love of the habitat even to the
extent of a sound base for interna
tionalism, but at the same time re
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Dr. Stork Delivers
Baby Girl to
Former Students
Nancy Lee Ragan, red-haired
and pug-nosed, was delivered by
the bespectacled Dr. Stork to Pa
cific hospital, January 7 in care
of Janet and Howard Ragan, ex
University students.
Janet Ragan will be remembered
as the titian-haired Janet Hughes,
former Pi Phi. Howard Ragan may
be congratulated in the men’s de
partment of McMorran and Wash
burne.
Home Economics
Enrollment 300
Enrollment in the home econom
ics department of the Unlversitj
has increased to 300 this terra, ac
cording to Miss Mabel Wood. I^asl
term’s enrollment was 276. This in
crease has been evident in all class
es of the department.
Graduate Students’
Fees Due Saturday;
! Fine Set at $1 a Day
Graduate students must pay
their fees by Saturday, January
11, or pay a fine of $1 a day un
til they do pay, the cashier's of
fice announced yesterday. E. P.
I.yons, cashier, asked that grad
uate students call before Satur
day to pay their fees to avoid
confusion. The office closes at
noon on Saturday.
‘Little Colonel’
Still Unknown
Paddock. Wall Deride
To Keep Name Secret
Although student votes yester
day determined the “Little Colo
nel,” honorary queen of the Scab
bard and Blade military ball Sat
urday night at Gerlinger hall, her
identity will be kept a secret until
the eve of the dance, it was an
nounced last night by Bill Paddock
and Alan Wall, co-chairmen.
To insure keeping the secret, the
votes will not be counted until
Saturday. The fortunate girl who
has been elected will then receive
the trophy which has been on dis
play in the window of the Co-op.
In the meantime plans for the
dance progress. Tickets are now
on sale at all fraternity houses and
may be obtained from any member
of Scabbard and Blade, according
to Dave Morris, ticket chairman.
Tickets may also be obtained at
the dance, he announced.
Gerlinger hall, scene of the for
mal, will be appropriately decor
ated in the military motif. The
lounge will also be open for the
occasion.
Distinguished military men of
Oregon and Washington will be
present or represented by their of
ficial aides. Major Summers of
Vancouver barracks, the aide of
Governor Martin, and the aide of
General Parsons, also of Vancou
ver barracks, will be present, it
was reported.
War Is Topic of UO
Radio Forum
“The Where and When of the
Next War” will be the subject of
the University debate squad’s first
radio forum to be presented this
evening over station KOAC at Cor
vallis, from 8:45 to 9 o’clock. The
speakers in the informal “bull ses
sion” will be Scott McKeown,
George Tichy and Howard Kessler.
Four weekly broadcasts are
scheduled to deal with the debate
problem, “Can the United States
Remain Neutral?”, and these are
to be followed by a series in which
the second men’s debate question
will be considered, “The Influence
of Propaganda on Public Opin
ion.”
“What form of Government Re
lief Should Be Made Permanent in
America,” the ladies’ debate prob
lem, will also be the subject of later
radio forums.
Leighton Working for
Adult Survey Course
Dr. R. W. Leighton, who is in
charge of the Carnegie grant funds,
is now preparing a survey of the
appreciation courses in art, litera
ture and music, which have been
sponsored over a five year period by
the Carnegie foundation, to be of
fered to the adult population of
Oregon during the summer school
session.
The title of the course will be
“The Development of Apprecia
tion” and will be composed of ex
amples from each of the courses
now given to University students.
Order of ‘O* Asked
To Meet Today Noon
At Kappa Sigma House
All members of the Order of the
O, Oregon lettermen’s club, are re
quested by President Harry Mc
Call to be present at a meeting at
Kappa Sigma fraternity today at
noon. Plans (or a smoker withOSC
to be given here will be discussed
at the meeting.
Committees for the annual Order
of the O dance will also be appoint
ed.
Oregana Gives
Last Call
For Pictures
Greater Oregana
To Be Distributed
Junior Weekend
During Spring Term
Pictures for the 1936 Oregana
must be taken either today or to
morrow in order to be included in
the yearbook, it was announced
yesterday by George Root, editor.
Absolutely every proof must be in
the hands of officials at Kennell
Ellis studio by next Wednesday.
This includes everyone, last term
students and those newly enrolled
this term. Fraternities or sororities
who have pledged additional stu
dents, officials who have been
asked to pose for special photo
graphs and senior cap and gown
pictures should avail themselves of
this last opportunity to insure
themselves inclusion of their pic
ture in the Oregana, it was warned.
May Yet Subscribe
Because of the request of several
students, Oregana executives have
reopened the books to include the
names of those who yet wish to sign
for a copy of the 1936 edition. When
the office of the g raduate manager
closes Saturday noon, the last op
portunity to secure a “greater Ore
gana” will be gone. Only the exact
number of copies to be sold will be
ordered and as the mechanical
work has already been underway
for a time, it is necessary to finally
close the drive.
Winter term registration brought
the subscriptions of the Oregana
to the highest figure it has known
in history. The book will be dis
tributed on Junior Weekend spring
term.
Underwood Sets
Symphony Date
Rex Underwood of the Univer
sity school of music faculty an
nounced last night that the next
University Symphony concert will
be February 15. The symphony is
one of the best that has ever been
assembled at the University and it
is expected that the coming con
cert will be one of the musical
high-lights of the year.
Underwood, also director of the!
Eugene Junior Symphony orches
tra, one of the finest of its kind
on the coast, announced that the
next concert in their series will be
given March 1 in the school of
music auditorium.
Full details of both concerts will
be announced at a later date in
the Emerald.
Three Leaving
Today for Y Meet
Mary Nelson, Ruth Weber, and
Betty Hughes are leaving for Port
land this morning to attend tne
meeting of the YWCA and YMCA
field council of Idaho, Washington,
Montana, and Oregon, to be hetd
in Portland Friday and Saturday,
January 11 and 12, to help plan the
program of the annual Seabeck
conference which is held each June
on Hoods canal at Seabeck, Wash
ington.
Genevieve Turnipseed, director of
dormitories, and Mrs. D. L. Lewis
of the Eugene YWCA advisory
board will leave Saturday morning.
Oregana Snapshots
Needed Badly by
Publication Staff
Snapshots of clear-cut quality
which will interest a large num
ber of students' on the campus
are much needed to make the
11)36 publication the book at
which officials have aimed.
Although many have prom
ised, Lester Miller, snapshot edi
tor, has been forced to issue this
final appeal for the pictures for
his section.
Scarlet Fever
Tests Today
Free Cheek on Possible
Susceptibility Offered
A free Dick test will be given
students today as an indication of
whether or not they are suscepti
ble to scarlet fever.
Dr. Fred N. Miller, director of
Health Service, said that though
there was little danger of a campus
epidemic that precautionary meas
ures should be observed.
If the students feel that they
have in any way come in contact
with this disease they are urged to
come to the dispensary on Friday,
January 10, between 10 and 12 in
the morning or from 3 to 5 in the
afternoon, for their test.
If the Dick test finds traces of
the disease, scarlet fever toxin can
be given to immunize the body
against it.
U. of O. May Get
Coos Bay Land
The house has approved and sent
to the senate a bill which will con
vey to the University land forming
a part of the Coos head river and
harbor reservation, according to
reports received here. It is the pur
pose of the plan to use the land
exclusively for educational and
scientific purposes. As soon as the
CCC relinquishes the area the Uni
versity will receive title to the
land.
Dunn Honored
By Latin Group
Frederic S. Dunn, head of the
Latin department, was elected
president of the northern section
of the classical association of the
Pacific states at the annual con
vention held this year in Seattle,
December 27. Professor Dunn
played the leading role in organiz
ing the association in the West 25
years ago and has formerly been
secretary and president of the
group.
On his way to Eugene the next
day Professor Dunn gave a talk in
Portland at a luncheon of the Ore
gon State Teachers' association.
Starr, Johnson
To Teach Italian
William T. Starr, assistant in the
Romance language department, and
Carl L. Johnson, associate profes
sor of French, will teach all Italian
classes for the remainder of this
year, it was announced through the
language department yesterday.
They are taking over the duties of
Dr Timothy Cloran.
Fallen Poles at Anchorage
Put City in Darkness
A fallen pole carrying high volt
age wires along the banks of the
millrace possibly caused by the
highest Willamette waters in three
years and partially aided by rotted
wood in the pole caused the Uni
versity light service to be inter
rupted with spasmodic darkness
and partial light for exactly an
hour last night. Most of Eugene
suffered variously impaired ser
vice.
Greatest inconvenience was
caused the Emerald staff which
labored on the last processes of the
daily with the dimmed service and
candlelight, and the University
Press, which was without light
and power.
The libraries had just closed at
10 o’clock, minutes before the pole
fell between the Anchorage and
the canoe fete seats on the mill
race, causing complete darkness
for almost five minutes, then un
usually dim lighting, and finally
another period of darkness until
11:04 p. m. Observers reported see
ing a blaze of fire along the wires
for nearly a block’s distance as
the high-powered wires entangled.
One pole fell to a position alomst
parallel to the mlllrace and anoth
er was leaning near a 45 degree
angle.
Press Confab
Committees
Announced
Copies of Papers
In Sigma Delta Chi,
IIoss Cup Contests
Mailed to Judges
Student committees for partici
pation in the eighteenth annual
Oregon press conference, tradition
al session of Oregon editors, pub
lishers and writers, to be held on
the campus January 16, 17, and 18,
were announced yesterday by Dan
E. Clark II.
The high-spot of the convention
will be the Friday night banquet
when the Sigma Delta Chi loving
cup and the Hal E. Hoss memorial
award will be presented to the best
Oregon weekly or semi-weekly in
1935. Charles M. Hulten, professor
of journalism, will act as toastmas
ter at the banquet.
Copies Mailed to Editors
Representative copies of 21 pa
pers were mailed yesterday by the
SigTna Delta Chi contest commit
tee, made up of Robert W. Lucas,
Robert M. Moore, and Clinton
Haight, to contest judges of the
Oregon State Editorial association.
Frank M. Jenkins, Klamath Falls
News and Herald; Sheldon Sackett,
Salem Statesman and Marshfield
Coos Bay Times, and Harold M.
Finley, LaGrande Evening Observ
er, will judge the papers.
The Hood River News won the
Sigma Delta Chi cup last year and
the Redmond Spokesman holds the
Hoss award. The honorary’s tro
phy is open to a weekly or semi
weekly and the Hoss award is open
to those having less than 100 pop
ulation. Neither of last year’s win
ners can participate this year. Eight
of the 21 publications are entered in
both contests.
News Notables to Gather
Newspaper notables from all over
the state will gather at the meeting
which has scheduled on its pro
gram banquets, luncheons, speech
es, and informal round-table con
ferences.
Pertinent problems and questions
in relation to news-gathering, pub
lishing and advertising will be dis
cussed by various groups and in
general sessions.
Committeemen Named
On the Sigma Delta Chi enter
tainment committee is George Cai
las, Stanley Robe, and Bill Robin
son. Plans for the big banquet are
in charge of Bill Marsh, Don Cas
ciato, George Jones and Alfredo
Fajardo. A skit entitled "Get That
Scoop,” a satire on newspaper work,
presented by Theta Sigma Phi, a
gridiron affair and other enter
tainment is planned.
Bond Addresses
Portland Group
J. II. Bond, professor of business
administration here on the campus
spoke before the Council for Social
and Economic Research at a dinner
meeting at the YMCA in Portland
Wednesday night on the "Automat
ic Adjustment of Consumer Buy
ing.”
Many in Infirmary
As Term Begins
The University infirmary has
seven patients to start off the new
year. According to the nursing
staff the run of winter colds has
caused the usual temporary pa
tients.
Those in the infirmary now are
Ruth Leonard, Betty Bretscher,
Juanita Potter, Helyn Hoskins,
Eunice Bales, Charles Patterson,
Tom McCall, new associate editor
of the Emerald.
Social Swimming
To Be Held Tonight
In Gerlinger Hall
Social swimming for both men
and women of,the University of
Oregon is tonight from 7:30 to
9:00 in the Oerltnger pool..Eileen
Moore and Boh Chilton win be la
charge. Caps and swimming
suits will be furnished at the
hall.
Reporting Students
To Get Experience
On Register-Guard
Students studying reporting
will be given an opportunity to
experience the routine of a daily
newspaper, George Turnbull,
professor in journalism, said
yesterday when he announced
the completion of arrangements
with William Tugman, manag
ing editor of the Kugenc Regis
ter-Guard will take one student
each day as a guest-worker on
the paper.
Barracks Not Set
For Use Until 20th
Classes to Be Helil
In Igloo Until Then
The ROTC barracks will not be
ready for occupation until January
20, according1 to Col. E. V. D Mur
phy, head of the Oregon military
department. In the interim classes
are being held in the basement of
McArthur court. The staff is oc
cupying a room on the second floor
in the northwest corner of the
building.
The schedule for freshmen and
sophomore classes has been rear
ranged to omit drill. Freshmen are
receiving lectures on leadership,
while the sophomores are occupied
mainly with scouting and patrol
ling. The rifle team, coached by
Sergeant Harvey Blythe, cannot be
gin practice until the building is
moved.
Work on the new men’s gymna
sium, which will be built upon the
present ROTC site, will begin as
soon as the barracks are moved
down to Fifteenth and Onyx.
Toastmasters
Hold First Meet
First meeting for the winter term
of the Toastmaster’s club was held
Wednesday evening at 7:30 in the
Y hut. Feature of the meeting was
a talk, “Three Fundamental Prin
ciples of Group Organization,” by
Howard Lee, organizer of the club.
A short business meeting was
held to discuss plans for the group
and selection of subjects. Outside
speakers will be invited by the or
ganization to address meetings dur
ing the term as well as discussions
by members which have been a reg
ular feature of the group, it Was
decided.
All students are welcome to at
tend the club’s regular meetings
on Wednesday nights.
Former Students,
Profs Visit Here
The holidays brought both for
mer professors and students back
to the campus. Miss Mary Eliza
beth Starr, instructor in the home
economics division, who transferred
to Washington last fall, was a vis
itor over Christmas.
Margaret Jewell, daughter of
Dean Jewell, of the school of edu
cation, who is now teaching danc
ing at the San Jose teachers’ col
lege, spent the vacation with her
parents. A tea was given in her
honor Friday, January 4.
C. A. Howard, Roben Maaske,
and D. A. Emerson, from the edu
cation division in Salem, were vis
itors at the education building
Tuesday, January 8.
Mr. and Mrs. David McDonald
spent the holidays in Eugene. Mr.
McDonald was graduate assistant
at the educational school last year,
and is now professor of education
at Whittier college, California.
Coeds to Attend YW
Meeting in Portland
Mary Nelson, Ruth Weber, and
Betty Hughes are leaving for
Portland Friday morning to attend
the northwest division of student
council meeting of the YWCA to
help plan the annual June Scabeck
conference.
Mrs. Genevieve Tumipseed, di
rector of dormitories, and Mrs. D.
L. Lewis, both members of the YW
i advisory board will leave Saturday
to be present when plans'ar^ made
for the conference held each year
I on Hoods Canal at Seab&ck, Wash
ington.
Trophy Goes
To Winner
Of ASUO Drive
Total Sold Now 1440;
Committee of 42
Named l>y Paddock,
Finley, Co-cliairmen
a loving cup win De presenieu ro
the first living organization re
porting its membership as 100 per
cent ASUO ticket holders between
now and next Friday, January 17,
Bill Paddock and Craig Finley,
ticket drive co-chairmen told their
committee at a meeting held yes
terday at the College Side. The
committee of 42 that has been
named by Finley and Paddock rep
resents every living organization on
on the campus.
In event that no organization
reaches the 100 per cent mark, the
house receiving the biggest per
centage will win the cup.
60 More Tickets Sold
A checkup of ASUO enrollments
revealed that 60 tickets were sold
Wednesday afternoon and Thurs
day morning and early afternoon
bringing the total to 1440 tickets.
This represents 58.8 per cent of the
total registration of 2446 compared
with a 53.7 per cent sale last winter
term complete.
Bill Paddock said last n ight, "It
is very encouraging to think that
already we have shown the appre
ciable increase of five per cent over
the total sales for last winter term.
Students are realizing the vab e
that they are receiving from their
student body tickets which gives
them more than double their money
in entertainment value."
Chairmen Say “Buy Now”
Paddock and Finley said that stu
dents should obtain their tickets
immediately so that they might
take full advantage of the basket
ball series which begins here next
Monday night.
They said that they expected
ticket sales to go well over the 65
per cent mark.
Schools Adopt
Howard Text
One hundred five universities
and colleges throughout the United
States have adopted the textbook,
"Principles of Business Law,"
written by Charles G. Howard,
professor of law at Oregon, and
E. R. Dillaveu of the University of
Illinois law school. The wide use
of this textbook was disclosed by
Paul R. Andrews, publisher’s rep
resentative for the Prentice-Hall
Co., who spent several days on the
campus during vacation holidays.
Professor Howard is editor of
the Oregon Law Review in addi
tion to his duties as a law profes
sor and conductor of many re
search projects.
Chapmans Parents
Of Baby Boy
Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Chapman,
both graduates of the University
some years back, were the parents
of an 8-pound boy January 3 at
Pacific hospital. The lad has been
named Harry Howard Chapman.
Dr. Chapman was a Beta at the
University. Mrs. Chapman be
longed to Chi Omega, and has been
active in Mu Phi.
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The 38-39 club is conducting open
house this Friday at Westminster
house. Entertainment will start at
8 o'clock, there will also be a pro
gram and dancing during the eve
ning. All students are cordially in
vited to attend.
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Order of the O will meet at Kap
pa Sigma fraternity today at noon.
OSC smoker, dance plans to be dis
cussed.
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Mail Is being held at the dean of
women’s office for Ria Barnes, Mrs.
Arthur Dewing, and Emmajeau
Stephens.