VOLUME XXXVIII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EU.GENE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1936
NUMBER 25
The
Passing Show
St anti in Madrid
Barrymore W eds
Wall Street Buys
In JSaziland
By DARREL ELLIS
300 Yards to Go
Nervous government defenders
cheeked the sweeping assault of
Spanish Fascists within 500 yards
of Madrid proper, as Monday's
battle in the Spanish capital closed.
Twenty-five persons were killed in
the second day of Fascist bombard
ments.
Leftists clung desperately to the
city's outskirts in a last defense
stand as Moorish legionaires
crossed the Manzanares river—
Madrid's moat—to halt at the
city's gates.
* * *
John Is Tired
“I’m going back to the hotel and
go to sleep. I am worn out;” John
Barrymore, who said marriage
“pushed King Edward off the front
page” told reporters after return
ing from midnight ceremonies
Monday in Yuma, Arizona.
The 54-year-old actor spent the
entire day of his fourth marriage
in feed. His bride is Elaine Barrie
Jacobs.
Boom-Boom
The second broadest market in
the history of the stock exchange
was recorded on Wall street Mon
day, when a whirl of buying
jammed the ticker-tape to predom
inate over an early selling rush.
‘Putsch’ Scene
The steamer Isis was reported
down with all but one of the sea
men drowned in the North Atlantic
area last night. An unidentified
youth who was so sick he could
only say he thought all his ship
mates were lost was picked up by
a passing freighter.
* * *
Adolph Hitler Monday revisited
the scene of his defeat in the abor
tive Munich beer hall “putsch” of
exactly 13 years ago yesterday.
Hitler led that additional parade
to the spot where 16 of his follow
ers were shot down as they
marched to Berlin. Reichswehr
soldiers fired a salute. The spot
marks where the street slaying of
the Nazi “heroes” ended the ill
fated uprising, but three years lat
er Hitler was made chancellor of
Germany.
Helium Balloon
Inflations Prefect
Gopher Smokers
Helium, 17 tanks of it, was used
in balloons at the Minnesota home
coming game Saturday to make
balloon-waving safe for cigarette
smokers. The 20,000 inflations cost
$500. Formerly hydrogen had been
used by hydrogen is inflammable.
Minnesota is the first university
to use helium for this purpose. It
is sent from Dexter, Kansas.
UN Tradition Revivalist
The University of Nevada is
starting a move to revive recently
abolished traditions. Campus men
are 100 per cent in favor of requir
ing freshmen to wear dinks and
carry frosh bibles.
The return of campus traditions
seems to promise a new era for U
of N students and it is one of many
universities attempting to revive
traditions.
Trojan Women Rooting
Trojan coeds as well as men
now help in card stunts at the
University of Southern Califor
nia. The women students wear
white blouses and are admitted
to the rooter section.
A Real Aerial Attach
The Loyola football team may be
the first in history to fly across
the ocean to keep a football date.
Because of the maritime strike
plans are being made to ship the
team to Honolulu on one of the
Pan-American Clipper planes to
meet the University of Hawaii De
cember 11.
Prof. Frederic S. Dunn
Is Reported Improving
Frederic S. Dunn, head of the
classics department, is making a
gradual but steady improvement,
according to a report received yes
terday.
Professor Dunn has been serious
ly ill with pneumonia for several
weeks.
Touch Football
ToBeRetained,
Says Washke
Injuries Exaggerated,
Scarce in Supervised
Plav, States Direetor
Of Men’s Gym
Touch football, as a supervised
sport, will continue to be played as
usual, according to a statement
made yesterday by Paul R. Wash
ke, director of the men's gym.
Injuries from touch football have
been emphasized beyond their real
seriousness, Mr. Washke says. Most
of the injuries have come from un
supervised play, and, according to
fraternity men with whom Mr.
Washke has talked, these were
largely from games played out in
the street or on the sidewalks.
only one injury
When the game is played in su
pervised gym classes, Mr. Washke
says, the same rules are used as in
other schools where it has been a
success. In supervised ball there
has been only one serious injury
this term, and the physical educa
tion department can neither pre
vent or be blamed for injuries re
ceived outside of class periods, he
says.
Vernon Sprague, who was in
jured in a street game last Wed
nesday, is improving and is now
fully conscious, according to a re
port from the Sacred Heart hospi
tal yesterday. He will be in the
hospital for an indefinite time.
Experiments on
Streptococcus
Inspection Begun
A research project, the final aim
of which is to find a method of
killing the streptococcus organism,
the cause of blood poisoning and
esysipelas, is being started by W.
A. Miller, instructor in physics,
Keith D. McMilan, pre-medic stu
dent and pathologist for the Sa
cred Heart hospital, and Harry
Brady and Jack Huddleston, also
pre-medic students.
The study will be of the bacteri
cidal or killing action of ultra
violet light rays which have been
already used in the process of mak
ing irradiated milk. The ultra-vio
let light rays are known to increase
vitamin D content and to have a
tendency to kill micro-organisms.
It is for further proof of the latter
that the experiment is being made.
Future Judges
Table Dignity to
Dine and Frolic
Studious law students and dig
nified professors cast off the ties
of formality and let go their
pent-up energy Saturday in what
they term the best law school
dance in three years.
An added feature of the dance
..this year was the Phi Delta Phi,
law honorary, banquet. Enter
tainment at the banquet was in
the form of “round - robin"
speeches, each person introduc
ing the one next to him. George
Bernie sang a solo and led the
group in several other songs.
Thirty seconds of silence were
observed during the meal for the
hapless “X-3” who failed to se
cure a date for the dance in spite
of the efforts of the date com
mittee.
The faculty prize dance was
won by Prof. Carlton Spencer
and his wife. Dean and Mrs.
Wayne L. Morse were runners
up.
Herb Galton and Felker Morris
copped the student prize. Bobby
Anderson and Nancy Ogden were
second.
In the prize dance between the
judges, Tony Yturri and his part
ner, Miss Harriet Sarazin, car
ried off the honors.
BA Honorary Will
Initiate 6 Pledges
Beta Gamma Sigma, business
honorary for men and women, will
initiate six new pledges Wednes
day, November 11 at 5:30 p.m. in
Gerlinger hall.
The initiates are Albert Henke,
Julia LaBarre, Robert Buzzard,
Lloyd Nicholson, Arno Peiterson,
and Avery Combs.
A banquet will be held at 6:15
at the College Side following the
initiating. Professor C. L. Kelly of
the business school, president of
the organization, will be toastmast
er and Victor P. Morris, dean of
the business school, will be the
main speaker. Albert Henke will
give the response for the initiates.
The program, of which Ruth May
Chilton and Elaine Cornish are in
charge, will be carried out in Ar
mistice day decorations.
Members of the business admin
istration staff and their wives as
well as alumni and members of
Beta Gamma Sigma are invited to
attend the banquet.
Submissive Freshmen
Shine Senior Bench
Shades of the class of 1909!
At last there has been found a class of freshmen who appreciate
their place on the campus. The class of 1940, presided over by John
Henry “Housemaids Knee” Dicx, recently of The Dalles, have accepted
the rule of their rightful overlords.
Evidence of the submissive attitude of the largest frosh group since
1929 is shown in the spotless, shining senior bench, which has been
decorated for tne past two weeks
with unsightly green paint, rough
ly spelling "class of 1940.”
Although the freshmen ignored
orders to clean the bench for some
time, an ultimatum from John R.
Lewis, president of the Order of O,
guardians of campus traditions, to
the effect that Dick would be
dunked in the icy mill race if ac
tion were not started brought im
mediate results yesterday.
"Sloppy,” w’ith a quintet of
stooges, labored most of the after
noon to restore the senior bench to
gleaming cleanness. His helpful as
sistants were found to be: Gordon
Amos Anderson, Charles Isaac
Schannep, Robert Elvin Young,
Clarence Ed Lucky, and John Hol
loway Skirving.
Passing freshmen were also
pressed into service on the job.
Dick Albert Litfin, right hand man
of the frosh prexy also awoke to
action last night, making prepara
tions for a cleaning party at 4
o'clock today in case the job was
not done good enough to satisfy
Lewis and the Order of the O.
Dick could not be found last
night. Sophomores, accused by the
frosh prexy as being the vandals
who profaned the senior landmark,
suggested that he was lying low in
fear of the Lewis threat of a swim
ming party.
Sigma Delta Chi
Pledge Speeches
Will Be Private
Remember the Sigma Delta Chi
pledge speeches from the steps of
the old libe? Well, like the dodo
bird, they seem to be doomed to
extinction. For this year, at least,
the new men will give their rather
dubious talks in the privacy of the
College Side.
All of which will take place
Wednesday evening at 6 o’clock
when the Sigma Delta Chis meet
for their fall pre-initiation ban
quet. The formal initiation will be
held Wednesday, October 18 at
Gerlinger hall.
Displaying their oratorical abil
ity at the banquet will be the sev
en pledges: Fulton Travis, Gerald
Crisman, Wayne Harbert, Leonard
Greenup, Lloyd Tupling, Robert
Pollock and Stanley Hobson. The
affair will be in charge of James
Morrison, acting president.
NAN WILEY TEACHING
Nan K. Wiley, B.A. ’35, has a
teaching position in the normal
school at Cheney, Washington. She
also supervises art in the public
schools of that city.
Lead Victim
John Lewis, above, Ameriean sol
dier, went down before a hail of
machine gun bullets in last night's
battle on the stage of the Univer
sity theater but he’ll be back to
give his life again tonight at the
final showing of “Bury the Dead."
‘Bury the Dead’
Repeats Showing
Performance to Be Given
Tonight in Observance
Of Peace Week
Repeated as part of the Armis
tice week peace observance, “Bury
the Dead” was played to a well
filled house Monday night in the
University theater.
The performance will be repeat
ed Tuesday night. Tickets for it
may be obtained from Paul Plank,
who is managing the ticket sales
for the Student Christian council,
or from the box office of the Uni
versity theater in the Administra
tion building.
The Community Armistice mem
orial service and peace dedication
sponsored by the churches of Eu
gene and the Student Christian
council will be held in the First
Christian church Wednesday at
7:30 p. m. Elam J. Anderson, presi
dent of Linfield college, will give
the address. The Eugene Gleemen,
directed by John Stark Evans, will
give a number of selections.
Kessler to Head
Statewide Contest
Sigma Della Chi Cup Goes
To Top-Ranking Weekly
At Pres§ Conference
Howard Kessler, journalism ma
jor and member of Sigma Delta
Chi, journalism society for men,
has been appointed head of the
Oregon weekly newspaper contest
which will be held at the Univer
sity about the middle of January
next year. The appointment was
made by Dan Clark Jr., president
of the society.
The contest is held in conjunc
tion with the annual Oregon news
paper conference, held in January.
The Sigma Delta Chi cup is award
ed to the best Oregon weekly or
semi-weekly newspaper of the past
year on points of general excel
lence.
A second cup, the Hal E. Hoss
Memorial award, is offered to the
best weekly in towns of less than
1,000 population. This award has
been offered only twice so far, be
ing won last year by the Malheur
Enterprise of Vale and the Red
mond spokesman in 1934. The Sig
ma Delta Chi award was won by
the McMinnville Telephone Regis
ter last year, and the year before
by the Hood River News. It is pos
sible for one paper to win both
cups in one year.
Education Fraternity
Studies Curriculum
Phi Delta Kappa, men's profes
sional education fraternity, will
hold an open professional meeting
7:30, Monday evening, November 9,
in the men’s lounge room of Ger
linger hall.
Dr. F. C. Wilcox, director of
the lower division at Linfield col
lege, will discuss “The Need for
Curriculum Study and Change.”
Curriculum revision is the general
theme for the series of meetings
this year. The organization will
study “Curriculum Revision.”
'Mail’Biologists’
Worms & Frogs
Co me by Postman
Preserved fish worms and
frog's are sent by mail to stu
dents who are taking the. recent
ly established correspondence
course in biological science sur
vey. The course began this se
mester and is the first time any
laboratory study has been sent
by correspondence.
Simple sets of laboratory in
struments which include micro
scopes and other implements nec
essary to carry on the required
experiments are also mailed.
The course is outlined by Dr.
Ralph R. Huestis and Dr. Harry
B. Yocom, professors in zoology,
and covers approximately the
same material as is taught in a
similar course on the campus.
Four hours credit is given for
this class, which covers three
terms.
Papers which cover their work
are written by the students.
YWCA to Install
Officers Tuesday
Bettylou Swart, Alice Swift
To Become President,
Vice-President
Elected and appointed officers of
the YWCA frosh commission will
be installed bv the cabinet Tues
day at 5 o’clock in the Y bunga
low.
l^ettylou Swart will be installed
as president. Alice Swift, vice
president. and Jean Merrill, secre
tary-treasurer. Appointed officers
are Anne Fredericksen, member
ship; Betty Meek, religion: Bar
bara Espv, personal and family re
lations; Katherine Miller, commun
ity service; Alene King, bungalow;
Margaret Montgomery, publicity
and posters; Mary Failing, public
affairs; Junia Plumb, singing; Jean
Billings, conferences; Betty Lou
Kurtz, world cooperation.
President of the freshman com
mission and sophomore commission
will also be members of the YWCA
cabinet. President of the sopho
more commission will be elected
on Friday of this week.
ROTC Honorary
Pledges 7 Men
Scabbard and Blade, national
military honorary, formally pledg
ed eight men at a banquet given
Sunday afternoon at the Cafe Del
Rev.
Those pledged were Roy Morse,
Patrick Cassidv, Charles McGirr,
Cecil Barker, Edward Jacobs, Sam
McGaughey, Robert Chilton, and
Robert Newlands.
Maior A. L. Morris, assistant
professor of military science, was
elected to honorary membership.
CroslancL Lewis
Accept Summer
School Positions
H. R. Cropland, associate profes
sor of psychology, has accepted a
position of teaching psychology at
the University of Colorado, Boul
der, Colorado, for the two terms of
summer school.
Mr. Crosland will leave the Uni
versity at the end of the school
year, and spend his summer vaca
tion at the University of Colorado.
Mr. L. L. Lewis, associate profes
sor of English, will also teach at
the summer school. This will make
Mr. Lewis’ ninth summer of teach
ing there.
Geology Students Take
Trip to Coburg Caves
Geology students, led by Dr.
Warren D. Smith, head of the
geography and geology depart
ments, went on a field trip Satur-!
day afternoon to Coburg Caves,!
near Coburg. The party numbered •
around fifty students. Some of the
students also climbed Mt. BalcJy, a
nearby mountain.
The next trip taken by the geol
ogy department will probably be to '<
Triangle Lake.
Boyer Approves
Armistice Parade
ROTC Drill l« ConiniPiior;
Col. Ray Morse Assumes
Command
Approving- acceptance of the Eu
gene Armistice day parade and
invitation yesterday, Dr. C. Valen
tine Boyer permitted final plans
| for the holiday drilling of five
j ROTC companies to be consurn
i mated by Colonel E. V. D. Murphy
and staff.
Cadet Colonel Hay Morse will
assume command of the marching
militia with other advanced mili
tary students being assigned to in
dividual platoons. The unit will
be organized into one regimental
outfit and two battalions. Each
battalion will be composed of two
companies.
The parade, sponsored by the
local American Legion post with
Mark Hathaway as chairman, will
start at 10 a.m. The line of march
will originate at Fifth and Willam
ette streets, tours south to Thir
teenth, east to Oak and then to the
armory.
j Cars Needed
j By Rally Team
For Cal Came
All car drivers interested in
having their gas and oil paid for
the trip to Berkeley a nd the
California-Oregon football game,
in exchange for taking members
of the rally committee with
them, are reutested to call Bob
Olbekson, 2820. Four cars are
needed.
Students who intend to go by
train should make their arrange
ments immediately by calling the
Southern Pacific ticket office.
Low rates are being offered. ^
Don Thomas, rally chairman, ■
announced a meeting to be held
at 5 o’clock sharp today at the
College Side.
Third Fop Installment
Overdue; Delinquents
Pay Fine of 25 Cents
The deadline on third Install
ment of fees and out of state
fees was Monday, November !).
Starting Tuesday, 25 eents a
day will be charged for late pay
ments, Clifford K. Stalsberg,
cashier of the business office,
announced ycst e rda y.
Eleven Speakers
In Radio Contest
Winners of W, F. Jewell
Forum to Re Aniiotineetl
By Judges Tuesday
In an attempt to distinguish
themselves with fame as speakers
and in the hope of winning one of
the three prizes offered as booty,
eleven contestants spoke over the
radio in the W. F. Jewett radio
forum contest Monday afternoon.
The decision of the judges will
not be announced until Tuesday af
ternoon said Donald E. Hargis of
the speech department. The speak
ers talked for the most part in
pairs with one of the team writing
the speech and being fed the lines
by his parner. The manuscripts
are to be judged and these will be
reckoned in on the final decision.
Those who spoke, with the writ
ers listed first, were: Roy Hewitt
and George Ticky on “Death and
the Motor Car," Donald Morse and
George Brockmann on the “Com
monwealth College," David Hoss
and Laura Bryant on “Let's De
cide,” Orval Etter and Victor Goff
on “Return to the Town Meeting,"
Howard Kessler, Stanley Robe and
Edwin Robbins on "Pan-Ameri
the Employer, and the Strike.”
can,” and Victor Goff and Orval
Etter on “The Public, the Employe,
The ’contestants spoke in the
speech laboratory and their voices
were carried to room 218, S. H.
Friendly hall, where the audience
heard the speech by radio. The
contest started about 3:30 and each
entry group had fifteen minutes.
Trench Warfare, With
'Beauties of Mutilation’
Suggested ROTC Addition
The GOP and Oregon's military training question are not dead!
A suggestion from C. G. Osborn, assistant professor of history, “that
compulsory military training be made universal, effective, and com
plete,” jarred the battle-scarred UOTC question back to life Monday.
Military courses at present are only half effective, Professor Osborn
declared. A course in trench warfare, with women acting as Red Cross
nurses and the pacifists on the campus working with the YMCA, would
teach the young soldiers “to take it.” The history professor, who says
he has seen "some, although not
the worst of war, mutilation," feels
that at present young soldiers are
being taught only how to “give it”
and that a four-year course in
trench warfare under battle con
ditions would round out their edu
cation.
Coed Battalions
Professor Osborn pointed out
that since optional military train
ing was defeated at the election
last week, “students should learn
to take it as well as dish it out."
Under Osborn’s pian military train
ing should be extended to the coeds
of American universities.
The military training course
should be made “realistic” to show
the "beauties of mutilation.” Coot
ies and trench mouth should be
included in the course, he con
tended.
He believes that “the Russian
and Spanish idea of women sol
dieis is not so bad. Girls should
be conscripted into battle instead
of sitting home knitting.”
A desire that his suggestions be
incorporated in a bill to be placed
before the voters of the state at
the next election was expressed by
Professor Osborn.
ISYA Checks Still Wait
For Indolent Students
In Business Office
NYA students who have not
called for their checks covering
work from September 17 to Oc
tober 17 are asked to see Mr.
Tuttle at window 2 on the sec
ond floor of Johnson hall.
Nautical Motif
To Be Used for
Dads’ Banquet
Accommodation for 400
To 500 Fathers Being
Planned; Attendanee
To Be Checked
John Straub memorial hall, be
decked with silver stars and white
anchors and otherwise having a.
nautical atmosphere, is to be the
scene of the tenth annual Dads'
day banquet Saturday evening.
Mrs. Genevieve Turnipseed and
Bernadine Bowman, faculty and
student heads of the affair, an
nounced Monday.
Final decoration plans have be
gun already with the assistance of
Louise Robinson, Rita Wright,
Betty Brown, Lillian Scott, and
Claudia Sevier.
“We are using this theme in con
nection with the sea idea being
worked out for the sophomore in
formal," says Miss Bowman. “Dads
will be given arm bands at the ban
quet that will admit them to a re
served section at the dance.”
Large Group Expected
"We are making plana to serve
between 400 and 500 fathers, and
from reservations so far, the pros
pects seem good,” she continued.
Merle Chessman, president of
Oregon Dads, will act as toastmas
ter of the affair. The Oregon
Bardsmen will open the evening’s
program with an invocation by the
Rev. Norman K. Tully, pastor of
Central Presbyterian church of Eu
gene.
Greetings from the state board
of higher education will be deliv
ered by Charles A. Brand, mem
ber of the state board. Mrs. War
ren D. Smith, vice-president of Ore
gon Mothers, is to offer the organ
ization’s greetings.
Student Heads to Attend
Gilbert L. Schultz, vice-president
of the associated students, will
represent the student body and
Martha McCall, AWS president, the
associated women.
Special music is to be furnished
by Hal Young, professor of voice
at the University, with George
Hopkins, professor of piano, as his
accompanist.
Greetings from the University
will be delivered by Burt Brown
Barker, vlce-p resident. John
Veatch, an attorney from Portland,
is to be the main speaker of the
evening.
Trophies won by houses for the
attendance of dads will be present
ed during the evening, and new of
ficers elected at the Saturday
morning meeting will be presented.
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Phi Psi Pledges Leave,
Take Front Door Along
When Phi Psi pledges walk out they really put their hearts into it.
Fifteen of the lads in question strolled out of the old chapter house
last night taking the charter, the cups and trophies, and lastly, as an
afterthought, the front door.
But before leaving they felt they should leave a reminder of their
presence. So, being methodical yougsters, they first upset the sleep
ing porch beds and threw the bedding into the hall. Then they wander
ed downstairs and disordered what
they could find there.
Next, the kitchen caught their
ambitious gaze and in the kitchen
the gas store. “Ah,” cogitated
some of the more brilliant. “With
out ’at stove they cannot cook. If
they cannot cook they cannot eat.
And if they cannot eat, they will
will surely remember us.” So the
stove was dismembered and tossed
piece by piece into the back yard.
By that time they were tired.
But they were not through yet.
They felt that someone more than
their brethren and the gal friends
of their brethren should know of
the affair. So they called the Em
erald, speaking boldly of their mis
deeds.
There was just the hint of a
quaver of fear in the adolescent
voice that came into the news
room. “We’re going to stay out
until Tuesday night,” it came over
the news-room phone. “And then
most of us are taking the train
for ’Erisco and the game. That
way," the message concluded tri
umphantly, “the upper-classmen
will have to clean up the house!”
Where’s
George?
— gone to . . .
Eric Merrell
Clothes for Men & Boys
It doesn't take a telescope to
get a close-up on the extra
values at Eric Merrell’s. Far
Bighted folks are buying Hart
Schaffner & Marx Overcoats
now at $29.50. /