Bonfire
Construction of the annual fresh
man bonfire or flaming; “O” with
the collection of materials on Skin
ner's butte. See story on page
four.
VOLUME XXXVIII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1936
NUMBER 13
The
Passing Show
Militant Europe
FDR in East
Hawaii Clipper
China-Japan
By DARREL ELLIS
Europe Bristles
The “war craze" in Europe swept
inexorably on yesterday as Fascist
insurgents pressed toward “sure”
victory in the Spanish civil war.
Russia, shouting her loyalty to the
Spanish government, threatened to
denounce the neutrality pact and
send war planes to aid in the de
fense of Madrid.
Germany, bristling in her denial
of Nazi meddling charged Russia
had already violated neutrality
agreements by aiding the Spanish
government. Reports in Rome said
Italy and Germany were ready to
recognize any government the “vic
torious” Fascists might set up.
Cheers for FDR
Crushed against police lines by
force of sheer numbers, a surging
crowd awaiting the arrival of
President Roosevelt in Worcester,
Massachusetts, last night tore an
800-pound police traffic pole from
its base, injuring five persons.
Earlier in the day, at Boston, a
crowd estimated at 175,000 jammed
the Boston common to cheer the
president at his appearance there.
In Los Angeles, meanwhile, 16
year-old John Dobbins was re
leased to the custody of his moth
er after being arrested the preced
ing night for a “bottle-throwing
incident" at Gov. Alf M. Landon’s
coliseum rally.
First Passengers
Formally inaugurating regular
transpacific air passenger service,
the Hawaii Clipper, carrying seven
passengers besides her regular
crew of seven, took off from Ala
meda, California, yesterday at
3:15 p.m. for Honolulu. The huge
ship is scheduled to span the 2400
miles over water by early this
morning.
13 Miles to Madrid
Madrid government militiamen
yesterday made a forced retreat
from Navalcarnero to Mostoles,
only 13 miles from the Spanish
capital, after a seven-hour bom
bardment by fascist artillery and
planes. In a dramatic air battle
being fought at the same time
over the airport just outside of Ma
drid, two government war planes
were shot down by fascist aviat
ors.
Diplomats ‘Stumped’
The Chinese-Japanese diplomatic
situation appeared “hopeless” yes
terday, it was said by Shigeru Ku
wagoe, Japanese ambassador, af
ter a three-hour discussion with
Chang Chun, Chinese foreign min
ister.
YMCA Cabinet to Meet
At.Mossy Maples Camp
A YMCA meeting, at which the
complete program for the rest of
the term will be assembled, will be
held Saturday afternoon at Mossy
Maples camp.
Members are requested to be at
the Hut at 12 o’clock.
Rally Program
Complete for
Friday Night
Police to Escort Parade;
Thomas Orders Floats
To Stay in Line in
Homecoming March
Although plans for the theatre
rally program Friday night are
complete and houses are busy
working on their floats, for the
Homecoming parade, committee
men are still rounding up the
edges and attending to minor de
tails.
Don Thomas, head of the rally
committee, announced Wednesday
that drivers of floats are not to
leave the line of march after they
have started.
Vic Rosenfeld, theatre program
chairman, announced yesterday fi
nal plans for this affair. The
screen play,' “Pigskin Parade,”
will begin about 8:30, as soon as
the parade breaks up. A second
feature, “Thank You, Jeeves,” will
(Please turn to page two)
State Rock Designs
Subject of Address
"Petroglyphs of Oregon” was the
subject of the paper delivered by
L. S. Cressman, professor of an
thropology and retiring president
of Sigma Xi, science honorary, at
the first meeting of the term held
in Condon hall Tuesday night.
The material for the paper was
based on field work in Oregon over
a period of three years.
Professor Cressman named the
three major areas of the state in
which the two types of curved
rock designs are found. The Wil
lamette valley and the southeast
ern part of the state are petro
glyph areas and the north cen
tral section with a corridor run
ning down through the Klamath
basin is the pictograph area.
“Composition as a form of pre
sentation is more readily perceived
in the naturalistic designs than in
the geometric,” said the speaker,
mentioning a dancing group on a
large boulder in the Jordan River
gorge as one of the more striking
examples.
The various types of segins used
were described and then illustrated
by projection on a screen.
General and chronological con
siderations and the meanings and
significance of the carvings were
given.
A general discussion followed.
Guild Hall Players Offer
Unique Opening Play
One of the special homecoming weekend features will be the open
ing performances of “Bury the Dead”, the University theatre’s season
opener scheduled for 8 o’clock Saturday evening.
Tickets will be on sale all week.
The play is one of the most unusual attractions that the campus
group has ever produced. It has no leading parts. The cast, one of
t,he largest in recent years, numbers close to forty. The story is prin
cipally concerned with six dead soldiers who refuse to be buried and
arise from tneir graves to haunt the memories of the living, telling
why they have no right to be killed
when they have lived so little.
"Bury the Dead”, is -written by
Irwin Shaw, a former radio script
writer and this his first play was
produced last spring in New York
with great success. This will be
its first production anywhere in
the Northwest. It is not written
in the conventional three-act form
but rather as a series of moving
sequences.
To accomplish this difficult task,
Horace W. Robinson, technical de
signer for the theatre, has devised
an abstract, impressionistic setting
in two levels. The upper level is a
part of a war-scarred battlefield,
with sandbags, and barbed wire
barricades. The lower fore-stage is
used for the motivation of the rest
of the characters who endeavor to
find ways to make the dead men
lie down in their graves.
Blackouts are used instead of
curtains and there are no intermis
sions or waits. The action merely
shifts from one portion of the
stage to another. This is accom
plished by the concentration of bat
teries of flood and spotlights which
in turn illuminate various stage
areas.
Specialization is the one keynote
of the characterizations and the
group has had to call for help from
many outside sources. The Roman
Catholic and the Jewish churches
of Eugene have given both proper
ties and advice for the roles of the
priest (played by Robert Vosper of
the Latin department) and the
rabbi. Likewise the military de
partment on the campus has lent
properties and advice in regard to
military procedure in the play.
Saturday night’s performance
will start promptly at 8 o’clock and
will be over in time for patrons to
attend the homecoming dance. The
play runs about an hour and a
quarter. ’’Bury the Dead” will also
be repeated the following Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
Last-minute additions to the
cast include: Beatrice Evans, the
child, Donna Theda, acting as a
street walker; Clifford Gruning,
newsboy; and Mr. D. E. Hargis,
speech instructor, as the priest.
Comparison Shows
U 0 Conservative
Polls From U of W, Idaho
Reveal Strong Vote for
Communist, Soeialist
Oregon's few communist sup
porters, unearthed in this week’s
Emerald poll, showed little
strength in comparison with other
universities, it was revealed when
1 straw vote results from northwest
universities rolled in yesterday.
Significant political trends were
seen in the tabulations which
showed varied support for several
of the nation’s well-known figures.
Roosevelt carried the University
of Washington with 2330 votes to
618 for Landon. Browder, com
munist candidate, received 108
votes, and Socialist Thomas netted
137.
Undergraduates at the Univer
sity of Idaho endorsed Governor
Landon with 193 to 148 for Roose
velt. At the Moscow college, Earl
Browder, communist candidate,
came in third, with 88 votes out of
a possible 453, almost 20 per cent
of the total.
Morse Points Way
To Labor Ills Cure
Working Class Security Will
Alleviate Troubles, Says
Dean of Law School
A workable solution of many
features of the labor problem can
not be attained until both sides ap
proach the problem more realisti
cally and less emotionally, Wayne
L. Morse, dean of the law school,
told the junior chamber of com
merce Monday night.
‘‘We are just beginning in the
field of American labor to see the
effect of our free educational sys
tem and high standard of living
and of the strict'immigration pol
icy of the last few years,” said
Dean Morse. "The effects are not
ed in a more enlightened laboring
class than exists in most coun
tries,” he continued,
“The result,” Dean Morse said,
“is a very interesting paradox.
Business is urging the public, which
is after all composed of a large
percentage of laborers, to buy
more and labor demands that it
have more with which to buy, so
that the basic paradox is the prob
lem of distribution of wealth.”
Dean Morse observed that the
difficulty of talking on such a sub
ject is that many people approach
it emotionally and the very sug
gestion of a more sensible distri
bution of wealth raises the bogy of
communism which is not the case
at all.
I he causes for the average
working man’s insecurity must be
removed if business is to enjoy con
tinued prosperity and if our eco
nomic institutions are to function
in a way which will promote the
general welfare,” said Dean Morse.
Dean Morse stated that a very
important patriotic duty rests upon
business men, labor leaders, and
citizens generally to approach this
complicated social problem in a
spirit of realism.
Amphibian Tryouts Are
Slated for Tomorrow
Amphibians will hold try-outs for
prospective members in Gerlinger
pool Thursday evening at 7:30
o’clock.
Girls who attended the last meet
ing and did not make the test are
invited to try again, Jean Steven
son, president, announced yester.
day. Girls interested n swimming
who were unable to attend last
Thursday's tryouts are urged to
come also.
Museum Library Offers
Russian Book Display
A collection of rare Russian
books will be on display in the art
museum library this weekend in
connection with the concert of the
Don Cossack chorus and the Rus
sian motif of the homecoming
dance.
The art museum will be open to
the public Saturday morning from
10 to 12 and Sunday afternoon
from 3 to 5. The museum library
will be open Friday afternoon and
Saturday morning.
I
Dave Says ‘OK’
Dave Lowpy, left, “the thinker", scrutinizes the Russian costume
worn by Helene Jones, and gives unreserved approval of the knee
length garb. Lowry is chairman for the homecoming dance in Mc
Arthur court, Saturday night. Decorations for the affair are built
around a “Russian Rendezvous” theme. —Courtesy Register-Guard.
Final Tabulations
In Emerald Poll
Responsibility for the optional military vote of students in the Em
erald straw poll Monday and Tuesday can be credited to the indepen
dents, tabulations made yesterday in Johnson hall indicate. The bar
barians rallied more than 2 to 1 against conscription, but this majority
was almost wiped out by the fraternity and sorority vote for compul
sory drill. The unaffiliated went optional, 368 to 170, and the Greeks
favored compulsory 424 to 235.
An error in tabulating the total optional-compulsory vote was dis
covered yesterday which cut the optionalist lead from a 27-vote margin
to one of 15 votes. The freshmen and graduate classes were the only
ones to give a majority vote for optional drill.
Alfred M. Landon carried the Greek votes, but President Roosevelt
won the election on the basis of his independent support. The busi
ness administration, law, and physical education schools were the only
ones to sanction compulsory ROTC, while architecture and allied arts
was the only school giving a majority to Landon. Norman Thomas was
strongest in the music school drawing four votes to six for both Landon
and Roosevelt, but he failed to get one vote in the 348 cast by the
business administration school. There was but one Communist vote in
the entire school of journalism, second largest in the University.
The Emerald poll had 1277 ballots marked, representing 44 per cent
of the school. Exactly 49 per cent of the men voted, and 32 per cent
of the women. The law, journalism, and social science schools had over
50 per cent of their enrollment represented. Only 13 per cent of the
science majors found sufficient interest in the poll to vote.
Final tabulations:
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AL .
BA .
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Law .
Mus .
PE .
Sc.
SoSc.
Affiliation:
Independents
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GRAD COMING FOR WEEKEND
Harold Bates, recent graduate of
the business school who is now
working for the Westfir Lumber
company, will be among the grads
who plan to return this weekend
for homecoming.
RYTA ESH’S BROTHER DIES
Ryta Esh, Portland, education
major, was called home Saturday
because of the death of her bro
ther, who was killed in an auto
mobile accident.
Dance Chairman
Releases Names
Of Honor Guests
Tickets Going Fast, Says
Bales; Some Houses
Already Over Quota;
Sale Closes Friday
Molly White, chairman of pa
trons and patronesses for the Rus
sian Rendezvous, has announced
a roll of special guests to be in
vited to the homecoming dance in
McArthur court Saturday evening.
Topping the list of distinguished
guests are Chancellor and Mrs.
Frederick Hunter and Mayor and
Mrs. Elisha Large. Others are:
Mrs. Alice B. Macduff, Dean and
Mrs. J. H. Gilbert^ Dean and Mrs.
Eric Allen, Coach and Mrs. P. G.
Callison, Dean and Mrs. Virgil B.
Earl, Dean and Mrs. J. R. Jewell,
Dean and Mrs. Wayne L. Morse,
Dean and Mrs. Karl Onthank, Dr.
and Mrs. George Rebec, Prof, and
Mrs. O. F. Stafford, Dr. and Mrs.
Edward DeCou, Mr. and Mrs.
George Godfrey, Mr. and Mrs.
Arne G. Rae, Prof, and Mrs.
Charles Hulten, Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Schomp, Prof, and Mrs.
Stephenson Smith, Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Pallett, Colonel and Mrs. E.
V. D. Murphy, Prof, and Mrs. W.
F. G. Thacher, Prof, and Mrs.
George Turnbull, Professor and
Mrs Kenneth Shumaker, and Prof,
and Mrs. Carlton Spencer.
Emerald Charges
To Be Aired at Meet
The Oregon Liberty association
at an 8 p.m. campus meeting in
Gerlinger hall tonight will insti
tute a drive to place required mili
tary views before Oregon voters
and substantiate Qharges made
against Emerald editorial policies.
At the meeting, which is open to
the general public, reports from
committees and officers will be
read to determine progress made
in the campaign. New plans to
present required military views to
voters before the November elec
tion will be discussed and a course
of action will be determined.
Charges made against the Em
erald in broadcasts from the Col
lege Side during the straw vote
poll will be aired, Don Thomas,
chairman of the meeting said last
night.
Student leaders advocating re
quired military training will par
ticipate in the discussions.
Oregon Lettermen
To Sell Lids Today
Rooter's lids will go on sale to
day for the homecoming game. Or
der of the "O” members will have*
charge of the sale. As over 140
lids were sold for the Idaho game,
it is predicted more will be sold
for the Washington State-Oregon
tilt here.
Saturday noon calls to the living
organizations on the campus will
be made as a final drive to sell
lids before the game.
Don Thomas, rally committee
chairman, has devised several
stunts for students in the root
ing section, and* white shirts and
rooter's lids will be necessary to
gain admittance to this section.
Before the opening gun, alumni
lettermen wearing Oregon sweat
ers will hold their annual march
around the field to a special sec
tion reserved in their honor.
Dean Schwering Talks
On Frosh Orientation
Mrs. Hazel P. Schwering, dean
of women, spoke on freshman or
ientation to a group of freshman
.girls representing each of the wo
men’s living organizations last
Tuesday afternoon in Johnson hall.
She mentioned the importance of
friendliness and courtesy especial
ly toward housemothers, patrons,
and patronesses. Various activi
ties, hobby groups, honorary socie
ties and the do’s and don’t’s of
campus life were explained. She
placed an emphasis on scholarship.
Gum and Mums
Declared 6Out9
For Informal
Girls can wipe that worried
look off their faces now, for the
current campus problem of how
to wear a yellow chrysanthemum
with a red informal at the dance
Saturday night has been solved
by "Oregon’s own Emily Post,"
Isabelle Miller.
The solution? Mums will not
be worn. No flowers will be
seen on the long dinner dresses
which are in order, Miss Miller
and Dave Lowry, chairman for
the dance, have decided.
However, according to the
mum sales committee this is no
excuse for fellows not to send
girls a mum. Mums will be def
initely "in” at the game in the
afternoon.
According to Miss Miller, gum
chewing also will be out along
with mums at this first informal
dance of the year.
Square Treatment
Of Jury Advocated
Portland Attorney States
Supremacy of Oratory Is
Lost to Courts
The best way to win court ac
tions today is to treat the jury ab
solutely square, declared William
Morrison, Portland attorney, to a
combined audience of the law school
student body and faculty yesterday
morning.
Morrison, partner in the firm of
Maguire, Shields, and Morrison,
presented a complete outline of
the ordinary procedure followed in
the usual civil court action, giving
hints and suggestions on the va
rious ways to meet situations and
on handling phases of the suits.
Following his address Morrison
was feted by Phi Delta Phi at a
luncheon held at the College Side
Inn.
The rule of oratory is waning,
Morrison believes, because the
modern jury is intelligent enough
to recognize and weigh the impor
tance of facts. A jury no longer
is impressed by deliberate attempts
to browbeat witnesses, to mistreat
the opposition, and to show the
judge disrespect.
Janet Smith Seeks
Jobs For Graduates
Employment Secretary Is
Contacting Business Men
Of Portland
For the purpose of securing per
manent work for graduates, Janet
Smith, secretary of the employ
ment bureau, left for Portland,
Monday afternoon.
Last spring this service was
started in contacting long time
placement jobs for graduates in
response to a growing demand.
This does not replace anything
offered by the teachers’ appoint
ment bureau but is purely a service
tendered by the employment bu
reau.
Alumni are urged to contact Miss
Smith, if interested in this accom
modation.
Torrid Political
DebateExpected
At 11 o’clock
Assembly Planned to Put
Political Information
Before Student Body
In Unbiased Way
Oregon student political interest,
existing in varying degrees during
past weeks, will rise to higher in
tensity today when representatives
of Republican, Democrat, and So
cialist parties debate presidential
campaign issues at 11 o'clock in
Gerlinger hall.
Monroe Sweetland, state chair
man of the Socialist party, will
open the debate schedule with a
ten-minute review of socialist polit
ical ideas. W. L. Gosslin, secretary
to Governor Martin, will take up
the bludgeon for the Democrats,
and David Eccles, state chairman
of the Young Republican league,
will stump for Landon.
Speakers to Give Viewpoints
Concentrating their efforts on
specific issues and problems fac
ing the nation, the speakers will
reflect America’s political view
points.
wnen sups were drawn to deter
mine the order of speakers, each
was allotted ten minutes for con
structive speeches and five minutes
for rebuttal, but Republican repre
sentatives yesterday asked twelve
minutes for the first speech and
three minutes for rebuttal..
Casteel to Preside
Professor John Casteel, head of
the University speech division, will
preside over the debate. No formal
question will be up for considera
tion and no winner will be named.
The debate is an effort to put
political information before stud
ents in the most unbiased manner
possible, organizers said.
Members of the campus Roose
velt-Garner club have persuaded
Mr. Cosslin to stay over and ad
dress the group at a special meet
ing in Gerlinger hall at 4 o’clock
In the afternoon. He will also
speak at 7:30 at the city court
house.
Profs Unbend;
Give Burlesque
At Law Smoker
The annual law school smoker
was held Tuesday night with fun
and frolic quite out of keeping
with the average student’s concep
tion of the dignity of law school
professors and students.
The professors led the fun with
a burlesque skit of faculty meet
ings depicting the trials and tribu
lations necessary to enact needed
legislation. They also panned the
students in no uncertain manner.
Each law school class gave a
short skit. The seniors devoted
most of their time to putting the
professors in their places—accord
ing to the seniors' ideas, anyway.
Several musical numbers were pre
sented. The faculty provided free
cigars, cider and doughnuts.
According to Bob Miller, law
school student body president, this
is the only law school in the coun
try to have an affair of this kind.
Detective Delves Deep;
Defies Demure Dames
By FELKER MORRIS
Rally ’round/ Today we sauntered down to the Theta palace to see
what foolish children are wearing pins. Jerry May coyly displays her
Beta brass to those who don't know she has it, and speaks gayly of
the American league's chances for the baseball pennant next year.
The Hamley “Personality Kid" found fertile soil for planting, and
Dorothy Good is reaping the harvest. . . . And of course even the un
initiated know about Jo McGilchrist and Pete Buck; ditto that ravish
ing Barker gal and Dale Fisher.
The man in Ginny Koehler's
campus existence is the Sig X with
the dog, Hal Peterson. (That’s his
name, not the dog’s). The big shot
ATO that bothers Marg Baker is
none other than our own A1 Davis
—he of the hair cut!
That takes care of the Thetas
so we whip on down to the colon
ial mansion where the DG’s reside.
These Delta G’s are democratic,
they collect pins from all the lads.
Jeff Howard left his trinket with
Louise Carpenter, and Phil (I-am
a-law-student) Hayden hung his
pin on Norma Kolstead. Of course,
there’s Pearl Johansen and her
shadow from the Kappa Sig house,
and Constance Kletzer plus a
‘‘Five-armed Star.” Last but not
least we leave you with the thought
of Ruth (Henry) Ford and Ben
Grout.
Remember, ’tis better to have
planted your pin and have it given
back than never to have attended
Oregon at all!