Work on Senior Rail Opens With Naming Of Committee Heads VOLUME XXXVIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1936 NUMBER 32 The Passing Show Social Security Flood in Tokyo Peacemaker Hull Japanese Invasion By DARREL ELLIS Contact—26,000,000 The social security board yester day launched a broad campaign to strengthen the social backbone of the nation. The huge task is to make approximately 26,000,000 in dustrial workers acquainted with the old age pension plan for which they will receive application blanks on November 24. Posters and newsreel explana tions will be released today. More than 1,000,000 posters of all classi fications will be issued before the campaign closes. Reservoir Breaks Three hundred were reported dead and several hundred missing in Tokyo yesterday as rescue workers searched ruined homes and debris left in the wake of a flood which was loosed when the banks of a reservoir in Okita prefecture col lapsed. A wall of water from the burst reservoir, situated on a hill abovs a miners’ settlement, rushed down without warning, sweeping every thing before it. Setting an Example “The road to peace is based upon economic understanding,” Cordell Hull, United States secretary of state, speaking at a dinner honor ing his arrival in Rio De Janiero, declared last night. Secretary Hull arrived at the head of the United States delegation en route to the Pan-American peace conference in Buenos Aires of 21 American re publics. "If we Americans show a will ingness to ratify the pledges of peace among us, the people outside of this hemisphere will not be heed less of our example,” he said. The Big Noise Puget sound cities revelled yes terday as news of a maritime arm istice was spread by telephone up and down the harbor. Seattle was informed that whistles in Aber deen were celebrating settlement of the maritime strike and in Aber deen, reports said whistles were being blown in Seattle for the same reason. An investigatory stage set in, however, and the whistles “heard” in both Seattle and Aberdeen were traced. A ferry whistle had stuck and the continuous bellowing had been falsely interpreted. China Aivakens Feeling in Shankhai yesterday reached a high pitch as patriots called for militant action for the (Please turn to page two) DEFIANCE OF SENIOR CLASS Freshmen at a late hour were again daubbing the senior bench with paint. Freshmen were made to suffer last week when seniors made them clean the bench after previous violation of the sanctity of traditional bench. I =71 State Coeds Ask Right to Scream Ai Noisy Parade [ By BERNADINE BOWMAN Out-numbered two to one, wo men on the Oregon State college csmpus have inaugurated a move for women’s suffrage at the home coming noise parade which will be held at Corvallis Fridav night pre ceding the Oregon-OSC game. With “Grant the Girls Some Gab” as their slogan, the State coeds are demonstrating their prowess by howling for the right to add their bit on the din of the noise festival. “A man doesn't have a chance to get a word in edgewise in ordin ary conversation,” their challenge declares. “Here’s a chance for them to show us just what they can do in a yelling contest against the weaker sex.” What Names for a Pipe Slang has felt the influence of civilization on the University of Texas campus, a recent issue of the Texan says: Evolution of collegiate language has in turn pushed the expressions, snap, breeze, cinch, pushover into the oral cemetery, the Texan writ er claims. The more virile term, “gut” is at present giving way to the term crip, which the writer de clares is already stale and worn out. All these terms apparently are or have been applied to courses in included in the University’s cur riculum which require a minimum (Please turn to page four) Students Want Touch Football, Says PE Poll Only Negative Vote Cast By Yeomen; 7 Teams Unanimously in Favor Of Continuance The results of the poll conducted recently by the physical education department show an overwhelming I vote to make touch football a regu lar part of the fall intramural pro gram, according to figures released Thursday by Paul R. Washke, di rector of the men’s gym. A report of Dr. Fred N. Miller, director of the health service, on the number of accidents produced by the games was included with the results. Managers of the twenty-four teams that competed filled out answers to the questions on num ber and types of injuries suffered in organized intramural games, and the opinions of the team members as to whether or not touch football should be included in the program for next fall. Suggestions for im provement of the rules and preven tion of accidents were included in the replies. Twenty-four Teams Vite Only ‘one organization showed by its vote that the game is not entirely popular with the contest ants. The Yeoman manager, Hal Draper, gave the one negative vote. Seven teams are unanimously in (Please turn to page four) Dr. Lehner Will Speak at YMCA Possibilities of American Cooperative Movement To Be Explained Dr. Anthony Lehner, director of the adult education program of the cooperative movement in the Uni ted States, will explain the "Am erican Possibilities of the Coopera ative Movement” to students and townspeople at 7:30 Saturday in the YM£A hut. For several years Doctor Lehner has been devoting his time to the educational side of the cooperative movement. He has been brought to the west coast by the Portland Public forum under whose aus pices he is giving a series of lec tures on the consumers’ coopera tive movement in Great Britain, Denmark, and Sweden. While farming in Indiana, he be came interested in producers’ and consumers’ cooperative movements. Doctor Lehner, who spent the early part of his life in Germany where he graduated from the University of Leipzig, came to the United States in 1913. His appearance in Eugene is be ing made under the sponsorship of the YMCA and the Lane County Consumers’ Cooperative league. Math Honorary Dines, Orders 4 New Books Pi Mu Epsilon, mathematics hon orary, held a dinner Wednesday evening. Kenneth S. Ghent, E. E. DeCou and A. F. Moursund of the mathematics department spoke on summer experiences and travels. Four books for the browsing room of the new library have been ordered by the organization. They are “An Invitation to Mathemat ics" by Arnold Dresden, “A Mathe matician Explains” by Mayme Logsden, “New Mathematical Pas times” by Major P. A. Macmahon and “Insurance and Annuities from the Buyer’s Point of View” by E. C. Harwood and Bion H. Francis. Dr. Nelson Bossing to Speak at Church Forum Dr. Nelson L. Bossing, professor of education who spent some time during the past summer studying the race question in New York City, will tell of his experiences at the ten o’clock forum meeting, at the Community Liberal church Sunday. The title of his talk is, “A Trip Through Harlem,” Doctor Bossing attended meetings addres sed by Father Divine and will give his impressions of him. Limit Size of Football Squad Of Coast Conference Clubs? No! Say UO Athletic Heads Oregon Team Standard Should Equal Others in Round-Robin Setup, Say Loeal Pigskin Sport Heads By HUBARD KUOKKA The ASUO athletic department is decidedly opposed to any plan attempting: to equalize the strength of the football teams in the Pacific Coast conference by limiting the number of men on each squad. It thinks that the present round-robin setup is all right, and that no attempt should be made to limit the number of players who can take part in these athletic contests. “I don't think their should be any criticism,” said Head Coach Heating Tunnel Now Being Built Better Drainage Expected With Addition of Pipes To Present System The new heating tunnel bein;; constructed on Thirteenth and Uni versity will be used primarily as a branch between the present two main heating tunnels under the campus, according to F. E. Sea man, construction foreman for the heating plant. Better drainage is expected with the new addition. New steam heat ing pipes have been installed to transfer steam from one main line to the other. The connection is being made between the heating-plant-to-Igloo line and the heating-plant-to-new library line. Construction is being carried on by the WPA employing 15 men. Seaman says completion is due in about two months. i Geese, Evil Omen, Land Near OSC Poultry Building Natural phenomena or human forces which moved a brown cow on the Oregon campus Wednes day night conspired a second time on the same day to send advance Oregon emmissaries to the Corvallis campus. A pair of Canada geese on their way southward alighted near the poultry building at Ore gon State just before the open ing of the Oregon wild life con ference. Their arrival was con sidered an evil omen on the Cor vallis campus, interpreted as an indication that the Oregon Ducks will take over the campus in manner similar to the geese at the Oregon-Oregon State “civil war” Saturday afternoon. Others pointed out that' the geese came in answer to Gov- ' ernor Martin’s statement that the wild life meeting was open to all interested. Sitrma Delta Chi Initiates Seven New Members Seven new members were form ally initiated into Sigma Delta Chi, men’s professional journalism so ciety, at 5 o’clock Wednesday af ternoon in Gerlinger hall. Those initiated were: Lloyd Tupling, Leonard Greenup, Stan ley Hobson, Gerald Crisman, Rob ert Pollock, Fulton H. Travis, and Wayne Harbert. Following the ceremonies, a banquet was held. Guests at the banquet were Dean Eric W. Allen and Arne Rae, George Turnbull, and Charles Hul ten, professors of journalism. J. E. Turnbull of Shelton - Turn bull - Fuller printing company of Eugene was also a guest. An informal talk was made by Dean Allen on his recent visit to Germany. Yeomen-Orides Dance Scheduled for Tonight Yeomen-Orides will hold a dance Friday evening at 9 o’clock in the AWS rooms. Ten cents will be charged for non-members. All members are asked to bring their membership cards for admittance to the dance. Prince Callison yesterday. “After all, physical education is for the benefit of all the students isn't it? They why should it be limited to a few? We're going to start drilling, and W'e're going to be right up there with the rest of them.” Shields Says: “No Good” Gene Shields, the Webfoot line coach, said: “It wouldn’t make any difference if you limit each squad. The big schools would pick their 30 men out of 90. Common sense tells you it shouldn’t be limited to 25 men. A protest wmuld rise that it is a specialized game for a few athletes. The only thing for us to do is to go out to get just as good men.” The reason that professional football teams are limited is that of the expense in the way of salar ies paid each player, Shields said. Bill Hayward, head trainer and track coach in the athletic depart ment, said: “Limiting the number of players in each squad wouldn't work. Any big school would be against it.” Cornell Optimistic Anson B. Cornell, the ASUO ath letic manager, was very optimis tic regarding Oregon's football fu ture. “It would give Oregon a better chance to get along wdth a travel ing squad of about 30 men, but not many less. A football team play ing as tough a schedule as we play in the Pacific coast conference has to have plenty of men,” he said. “It looks to me like the best way is to go out and get ball play ers,” he continued. “It takes mon ey, but if you’ve got a winning team you are quite sure of large gate receipts. If we asked the teams in the south to cut down on their suads in order to meet us on an equal basis, they would kick us out of their league.” Oregon to Be Put Over The University of Oregon must be sold to the people of the state and especially to the high school students as an educational institu tion of high rank, declared Mr. Cornell. (Please turn to page tivo) Slave Teaching Is Hit by Smith | In ASH Speech Future of Civil Liberty Depends on Academic Freedom in Colleges, Professor Declares The future of civil liberties in he world is dependent upon the icademic freedom encouraged and naintained in today's institutions >f learning, »S. Stephenson Smith, j professor of English, told the Ore gon chapter of the American Stu ient union at last night's regular meeting in Gerlirger. “If teaching is done by slaves, how can the students be free?" Professor Smith argued. He ex plained that academic freedom and rivil liberties were reciprocal in nature, but was inclined to place the major emphasis upon the ex tent of freedom of the professor to advance his own convictions as such and of the student to contest any and all statements presented. Condemns Speech Sanctity Professor Smith condemned sanctity of American speeches from heckling and vocal opposi tion, which he said were quite evi dent at Oxford where he received a part of his broad education. Academic freedom, he said, rep resents a university ideal of long standing, beginning with Aristotle and' the Greek school and contin uing down through western tradi tion. It is a tradition to follow truth wherever it leads, forever op (Plcasc turn to page four) Truax, Volcliok Are Neophytes Of Ad Honorary Alpha Delta Sigma, advertising honorary, at its Thursday lunch eon pledged Zolly Volchok and Woodrow Truax. The pledge cere mony was given by Ed Morrow, president. Initiation for the pledg es will be held later this term. Plans for the Krazy Kopy Krawl Alpha Delta Sigma’s annual dance, to be held the first Saturday of winter term, were discussed. Dick Hill was appointed by Mor row to give the new pledges their rerritories that they will have to rover to sell their sandwich boards, rhese boards are for the pur pose of'secerning part of the in tiation fees. Blocks of advertise nents are sold to the merchant and n return they get their ads parad ;d through the business section and ;he campus. At 35 Pounds—the Champ (Courtesy the Morning News) Mrs. Hal Young, left, the pri/.e salmon of the week whieh she caught last weekend, and Hal Young, instructor of voice who helped her land the giant fish. On her first fishing trip, Mrs. Young yanked out a 15-pounder with her opening cast. Then she caught the little fdllow, only 12 pounds. She climaxed the day with the 35-pounder. Mr. Young's catch was not reported. Dateless Males Attention Please! Emerald Ads Pay I ) i i * If any of you men arc look ing for AWS harvest dance dates, remember it pays to ad vertise in the Emerald. The slogan of every newspaper is “It pays to advertise," but the ! Emerald can really prove it. Yesterday evening an envelope containing SO cents and a small ad was found on the copy desk. Taking the SO cents was merely a matter of form. The ad announced a senior meeting at “the new rendez vous." It appeared on the Em erald editorial page, only an inch high. Today one of the topics of conversation on the campus was one of mystery. “Where is the new rendez vous.” Conjectures ran rampant. Guesses were wild. Emerald ads pay. Bashful Coeds SlowPiggers Harvest Dance Scheduled For Saturday Evening in McArthur Court In spite of the fact that leap year is nearly over girls on the campus have not yet fully awak ened to the fact that on Saturday evening they will be given a chance to respectably ask the man of their heart, or any man in fact, to be eescorted by them to the AWS harvest dance in McArthur court after the annual civil war in Cor vallis. Chairman Isobelle Miller, direct ing the girl-date dance for Phi Theta Upsilon under AWS, warned bashful women that the time was getting short, "for after all, you can't expect to call up a man the day of the dance,” she said last night. An ideal harvest setting, with a hugo full moon, falling autumn leaves, cornucopias, better known as horns of plenty, corn stalks, and proverbial apples and cider which will be dispensed from booths dur ing the dance, have been arranged by decoration chairman Constance Kletzer, with the assistance of Lu cia Davis. Pledging Report Not Ready to Go Before Council A motion was proposed at the interfraternity council meeting in Johnson hall yesterday afternoon to prohibit fraternities from letting prospective pledges eat regularly at the house. The motion remain ed unadopted when the council ad journed following a prolonged dis cussion of the matter. The committee on deferred pledging appointed by Ed Reames, president of the council, to meet with the committee appointed by the Oregon dads was not ready to make a report at the meeting yes terday. Little Art Gallery Shows Egyptian Architecture Now on display in the art school gallery is an exhibit of photograph ic plates cn Egyptian architecture, rhese plates are used by classes which are studying the Egyptian period in architecture. The exhibit will be open about two weeks. Also on display is the Dorland Robinson exhibit of 19 paintings in oil, water color, and pastel, done by a former student of the Uni versity who died several years ago. Thanksgiving Day Will Eml Pot, Quill Contest Thanksgiving day is the closing date of Pot and Quill’s scribbling contest, Virginia Scoville, presi dent, said. The $5 prize winner and other contributors selected for membership will be made public at the end of the following week. Student entries are read anony mously to members, the president announced. Contributions may still be dropped in a box placed just inside the old library. -Beat the Beavers’ Is Theme of Rally, Bonfire and Parade Care of Campus Responses Vary ’Keep Off the Grass’ Move Started by ASUO, AWS Speakers Groups Students on the campus started catching; the swing of the recently started "stay off the grass” move ment yesterday, with varied re sponses meeting the pleas of Uni versity leaders that more care be shown toward's Oregon's grounds. Under the direction of Bob De Armond, chairman of the ASUO speaker's committee, men went to women's liivng groups yesterday noon and urged that coeds do their part in refraining from walking on the grass. Today the AWS speakers group, under the leadership of Gladys Battleson, will call at men’s liv ing groups at noon and ask the men to cooperate by using estab lished campus paths and not trample the lawns. As a reminder for staying off the grass Bertha Shepard, presi dent of Zeta Tau Alpha, said that the girls in the sorority had agreed that fines would be assessed on any member of their group report ed walking on the lawns. YWCA Sophomores Choose Officers Dorothy Magnuson was unani mously elected president of the sophomore commission Wednesday by YWCA sophomores. Harriet Sarazin defeated Margaret Gold smith for the office of vice-presi dent, and Frances Olson won over Catherine Staples in the race for office of secretary-treasurer. Installation of both elected and appointed officers was held Thurs day evening. Appointed officers who were installed are Catherine Callaway, scribbles; Ruth Ketch urn, social etiquette; Marion De Koning, religion; Margaret Gold smith, projects; Catherine Staples, campus chat; and Hazel Dean, Girl Reserves. The frosh and sophomore com mission cabinet members will hold a Christmas party December 3. Yeomen to Sin" Carols at Revels The Yeomen glee club elected of ficers at their meeting Monday evening and voted to accept the invitation to sing at the Christmas Revels if an equal number of girls volunteer to sing mixed arrange ments of the Christmas carols with them. Donald Fry was elected presi dent; Elmo Jensen, secretary; | Robert Struthers, librarian; and Clarence Elle, arrangements. The next meeting of the glee | club will be held in Gerlinger hall j Monday night at 7 o’clock. At the regular Yeomen meeting, last week Harry Hodes was ap- | pointed chairman of the Christmas Revels. He will be assisted by Rob ert Winestone, Robert Fry, Glenn Smeed, Clarence Elle and Leonard f Hufford. Social Science Council Allots Research Grants | The social science divisional re search council allotted a new grant to John T. Ganoe, professor of his- i tory, and smaller grants to George ! Tumuli, L. S. Cressman, Mrs. Alice H. Ernst, Orlando J. Hollis, and H. D. Sheldon for research projects in the field of social science. The program of social science re search now under way on the cam pus and the possibilities for enlarg ing the scope of the program were discussed. Miss Maud Wilson, professor of physical education, and Milton Nel son, professor of agricultural eco nomics, both of Oregon State col lege, attended the meeting. Students to Serpentine Tonight at 6; Bonfire To Be Built at Corner Of 14th and Kineaid Frosli Guard Blaze OSC Will Burn in Tower Instead of Effigy; Dance Follows at Park Starting at 6 p.m. tonight, three serpentines will leave different points around the campus, circle the men's living organizations and converge at Fourteenth and Kin caid to parade around the rally bonfire. Noel Benson, in charge of the serpentine, said a rally dance at Willamette park will start im mediately after the bonfire. One line, with Jim Hubbard in charge, will start at the Beta The ta Pi house, go to the Chi Psi lodge, then to the Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Nu, and the Kappa Sigma houses. The second line will start from the Sigma Phi Epsilon house and will take the following route: Pi Kappa Alpha, Delta Upsilon, Sigma Chi, Phi Sigma Kappa, Men’s Co-op, Sigma Alpha Epsi lon, and Phi Delta Theta houses. Lines, lo Join If on schedule, the first line should be able to join the second at the Sigma Chi house. Don Johnson will be in charge of the second line. The third line will start at the Sigma Alpha Mu house under the direction of Victor Rosenfeld. Its (Please turn to page jour) Profs AreStill Dateless For Harvest Hop "I feel that we really do havei a chance to go to that dance now that we've broken, into the news,” said Paul E. Kiepe as he viewed the story concerning the shy instructors desiring dates for the Harvest dance. ‘‘You know,” he continued, “I think that if our publicity agent would just give a truthful de scription of Mr. Hargis and me that there would be no doubt of our getting dozens of bids. This getting acquainted is really go ing to be fun.” Both instructors in speech are very good company. Donald E. Hargis is often mistaken for a student, and tends to the shy side at first. Mr. Kiepe is very modest and will probably offer any date who chooses him, a chance to make a voice record ing. He has a very dynamic per sonality. He is willing to go out with any except a six-footer. Mr. Hargis will readily converse on radio. He is likely to offer his date an opportunity to talk over the radio. Where’s George? — gone to . . . 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