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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1937)
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. THURSDAY. JANUARY 21, 1937 NUMBER 51 The Passing Show Second OARP Tests Souvenir Hunters Fingerprints Sought Floods l nubuted By DARREL ELLIS Local Spending Spree Chelan, Washington, recently famed as an experiment station foi the Townsend revolving pensior plan, will have to share its plaet in the nation's spotlight with Eu gene when plans now in progress for a similar $200-a-month spend ing spree in this city are completec by local merchants. The Eugene experiment will dif fer in three respects from the one now drawing attention to Chelan Two allotments of “tagged” dol lars instead of one will be circu lated. The money more than $14C of which has already been raised will be donated by merchants Purchases with the tagged dollar must be made with donating mer chants, who have agreed to la> aside two per cent of the receipts as a transaction tax. Trouble at Chelan Souvenir hunters were threaten ing to “gum up the works” yester day at Chelan, Washington, where 68-year-old C. C. Fleming is spend, ing $200 within 30 days as a Town send revolving pension plan expe riment. Mayor W. T. Price considered passing a city ordinance to bai hoarding of “tagged” dollars. An other suggested answer to the problem was to charge collectors twice the amount of the hoarded money, thus earning more for the transaction tax “kitty,” now amounting to $10.66. Jlaids Corral Suspects Federal, state, and local police yesterday threw out a vast “drag net” over Portland, Seattle, Ta coma, Everett, and other smaller cities in an attempt to identify by fingerprints the kidnapper-slayer of Charles Mattson. Prints were taken of all suspicious characters. Reliable sources in Tacoma said the kidnaper had left his prints on the French windows through which the boy was spirited away, and also on the ransom note. Whole sale arrests will not be made, au thorities announced, but some of those taken into custody may be held for questioning. An Inch an Hour Rising at the rate of an inch an hour, the White river in Indiana had broken through levees near Decker, Indiana, yesterday to loose a seven-foot cataract and inundate thousands of acres of fertile farm lands. The levee protecting the (Please turn tn fane two') Entertainers^ In Cc He^e Night Club Get Jobs By BERNADINE BOWMAN Student entertainers from the famous Silver Shadow, of Iowa uni versity, only university-sponsored soft-drink night club in the coun try, appeared last week in two Chi cago night clubs, the College Inn and the Old Town room, at the personal invitation of Major Frank Bering, the clubs’ manager. The troupe is made up of the following students: Madge Jones brunette torch singer; Rand> Whinnery, tenor; the Silver Shad ow Sweethearts, featured' girl trie on WSUI, the university radio sta tion; Howard Moor, baritone and collegiate Bing Crosby; Wally Wal. lace, negro tap dancer; George Nis sen, Zave Leonard and Charles Brown, equilibrium artists: Norms Leany and Larry Griswold, feat ured comedy adagio duo. Griswolc r is a member of the physical educa tion staff at Iowa university. f acationers Forgot "Vacations are a bad thing. The> make students forget most of whai they know." Thus Professor War ner Brown, cf the psychology dc partment at the University of Cal ifornia, contradicted the theory o; Oregon State college psychologist: that the general knowledge of pu pils increases during vacations. Finals are the primary cause o: this forgetting. Dr. Brown believes "Our examination system encour ages study on the installment plar where the student works intensive ly for a few weeks, takes his fina and promptly forgets most all hi knows about the subject.” “The length of the vacation i. unimportant. Personally I think a: much harm comes from a week-enc skiing trip as from a long vacation The thing which makes student forgetful is breaking the continuity of work and thought.” Scribes Gather | For Press Meet Opening Today 1 . - Publishers Open Three Day Session; Former Students Return for 19th Conference PRESS CONFERENCE SCEDULE 3:00 p.m. Meeting of the board of directors, Oregon Newspaper Publishers’ Associa tion, Eugene Hotel. 0:30 p.m. Annual publishers' round table and dinner, Eugene Hotel. Alton F. Baker, Eugene Reg ister-Guard, presiding. (For publishers, newspaper executives and owners only.) By DAVE COX Members of the journalism fac ulty prepared t« greet former stu dents today, as the nineteenth an nual Oregon press conference drew editors, publishers, journal ists, and advertising men from all sections of the country to discuss pertinent newspaper questions at the three-day session. ""The conference will open tonight with a meeting of the board of directors of the Oregon newspaper publishers’ association, followed by a dinner and roundtabfe discussion. Faculty Will Welcome Delegates and speakers will be welcomed by Dean Eric W. Allen, Professor George W. Turnbull, Assistant Professors Charles M. Hulten and Arne Rae, all of the | school of journalism, Robert C. ' Hall, superintendent of the Uni j versity press; Prof. W. F. G. Thacher, teacher of English and advertising, added to the journal ism staff this year. Many former Oregon students will take part in the program. Allen To Be Here Jay C. Allen, prominent among journalists of the nation, will ar rive on the campus Saturday morning and will be guest speak er at the no-host luncheon to be held in the John Straub Memorial building Saturday at 12:30. Mr. Allen is a former Oregon student, ex-’22. Although he was not en rolled in the school of journalism while here, he spent a large per centage of his spare time around the shack and worked on the staff ; of the Oregon Daily Emerald. Harris Ellsworth, former Ore gon man and now of the Roseburg News Review, will be among the first to arrive. Frank Loggan of the Bend Bulletin is also expected, providing heavy snow in central Oregon does not cljse the roads. State Headliners Attend Leith Abbott, advertising man ager of the Portland offices of the Southern Pacific lines in Oregon (Please turn to page tivo) Social Chairman Rales Out Cords For Whiskerino In an official statement last night from Isabel Miller, cam pus social chairman, cords were declared out of order for the Sophomore Whiskerino. Instead suits for the whiskered gentle men, and dressy woolens or silks for their companions were de clared the vogue. Denton Burdick, dance chair man. retracted his previous cord ultimatum in deference to the social chairman who reversed his statement because even North ern belles and their escorts t in spite of whiskers), on such a noteworthy occasion as a min stral show, would not attend the performance in their field cos tumes. Donald French NamedAirCadet Sophomore Gets Notice to Report for Training at Randolph Field In reply to his application for a flying cadet appointment, Donald J. French, sophomore in business administration, was notified yes terday that he was authorized to report to Randolph field, Texas, army training field, as an enlisted cadet. Requirements are two years of college and to pass a strict army physical examination. French took his examination at Ft. Lewis, Washington, August 27, 1936. French must report March 1, 1937, after his enlistment as a fly ing cadet is approved by the near est army recruiting station. The enlistment will be for three years, after which, if the course is com pleted, the cadet will be placed on extended active duty as a reserve officer with tactical units of the air corps, receiving the same pay and allowances as a second lieu tenant of the regular army while on duty. Coed Swimming Group Will Hold Try-outs Today Tryouts for Amphibians, wo men’s swimming honorary, will be held this evening at 7:15 in the pool of Gerlinger hall. To qualify for membership in the organization, girls taking part in the tryouts must swim one stroke for speed and two different strokes for form, do three dives, and swim 22 lengths of the pool. Perfect dives are awarded 10 points. Con testants must make an average score'of seven. Scene at the Ballet 1 Dancers with colorful costumes swirl in this scene taken from one of the Ballet Russe. Oregon students will see the troupe on the campus February 4. Flu Peak Jumps As 42 Patients Jam Infirmary New Emergency Word Eliminates Crowding; Social Affairs Will Not Be Banned, Is Report A new peak has been reached at the ilnfirmary where forty-two pa tients are in bed today principally because of the flu epidemic. With the extra help and the co operation of the student body, it is expected that the seige will soon be over. Professor C. B. Beall and Dean Victor P. Morris have been con fined at their homes this week with the flu. Situation the Same “The flu situation on the cam pus seems to be about the same," Dr. Fred C. Miller, head of the health service said, “except that more students are being accomo dated at the infirmary.” If the condition remains as it is. with no turn for the worse, local schools will not be closed. Patients Listed New hospital patients today are: Anne Barton, Ruth Starrett, Helen Wooden, Genevieve McNiece, Bet ty Yokum, Margaret Patterson, Lois Strong, Beverly Wickler, Jean Beard, Helen Murphy, and those already confined are: Margaret Johnson, Burrnice Howell, Polly Lou Todd, Irene WilliaVns, Felker Morris, Betty Baker, Betty Dye, Betty Pownall, Katherine Leuck, Phyllis Elder, and Francis Miller. In the Emergency hospital new patients are: Harry Fall, George Williams, Elmer Williams, Stuart Marsee, George Smith, William Marshall, John Peterson, and Fred Hammond. Students already confined in the Emergency hospital are: Aaron Rubino, Milton Johnson, Melvin Johnson, Kenneth Leatherman, Bill Pengra, Barnard Hall, Avery Combs, John Beckett, Clifford Morris, Richard Russell, Donald Johnson, Kenneth Abraham, and Robert Morris. Hal Young Urges Concert Backing Hal Young, professor of voice, advises students to set aside the half hour from 6 to 6:30, Wednes day, January 27, to gather at the music auditorium, where the Uni versity symphony orchestra will Dresent a nation-wide broadcast. This program, featuring Dorothy Louise Johnson, student violinist, and Mr. Young, will be broadcast over the blue network of NBC. ‘‘This broadcast is one of the biggest things that has ever come to the University,” stated Mr. Young, ‘‘and should be given the full cooperation of every student on the campus ... it will put the University of Oregon on the map!” Mr. Young also pointed out that if ( this broadcast is a success, it will I become a regular feature. The broadcast will be sent by private wire from Eugene to Port- i land, where it will connect with the national hook-up. Winant to Attend League Meeting At UO in Mareli John G. Winant, chairman of the social security board, will attend the commonwealth conference, and the annual convention of the League of Oregon Cities, at the University, March 18 and 19, ac cording to word received by Her man Kehrli, director of the bureau and the executive secretary of the league. Mr. Winant will deliver the ban quet address and also participate in the discussion of the social se curity act and its administration. A former governor of New Hampshire, Mr. Winant was the first to be reelected in eigty years, I and first to serve three terms in that office. His visit to the University will be his first to. the Pacific North iwest. He was invited to the con ference last year but was unable to attend. 1 Queer Telegram Stumps Campus Cryptograp h is ts Jay Allen's telegraphic accept ance of an invitation to speak at the Saturday luncheon of the Oregon press conference set cam pus crytographists scratching their puzzled heads. "Thanks," read the message, "WOULD ENJOY SPEAKING SATURDAY LUNCH STOP MAY EYE BRING MY FAT HER BES " Wonder as to who or what the famed foreign correspondent was bringing beset everyone who at tempted to decipher the commun ication. Nonplussed p u z z 1 e r s salved their inability by main taining that the sentence would baffle even the best efforts of famed Major Yardley of "Amer ica’s Black Chamber.” Guesses as to what “fat er bes" might be ran rampant, un til prosaic, mercenary Western Union dashed the decoders’ fan tasies with a correction. Mr. Allen is bringing his father. And "bes" was a shortening of "best regards.” Snow Train Date ' Set at January 31 Obsidians Give Free Movies And Baek Winter Sport Trip to Crescent Lake With 70 inches of snow beckon ing ski lovers, a Southern Pacific snow-train will leave Eugene Sun day morning, January 31, at 7 o'clock, bound for the wide open skiing country at Crescent Lake, on the summit of the Cascades. The train will leave on the return trip about 5:30, arriving in Eugene at 9. Last year 630 students made the trip. The round trip fare is $2. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner may be had in the dining car or the skiers may bring their own lunch es. In conjunction with the trip two free pictures on skiing will be shown at the Mayflower theater Friday evening, January 22, at 11 Both events are sponsored by the Obsidian Ski club of Eugene. In charge of arrangements for the trip is Norwald Nelson, manager of the shoe department of McMor ran and Washburn. Harry Wright, president of the Obsidians, is in charge of the pictures. Tickets for the snow-train trip may be obtained from Ralph Schomp, educational activities manager. TCLACA Will Plan Future Activities The Two Can Live as Cheaply association will hold its first meet ing of the term in Gerlinger al umnae hall this evening at 7:30. Plans for future activities of the married students’ organization will be made at this time. A call will be issued to veteran married students to assist men and women in other colleges who plead for information to enable them to live cheaply. “The TCLACA will not fail po tential colleagues in other univer sities.” declared Howard Kessler, president of the organization. "We feel sure that there are those here who have sufficient experience in budgeting to send other couples off on the great adventure of marriage with happy hearts ” In the future I the TCLACA will have material of its own with which to advise stu dents contemplating marriage.” Dr. Larsell Interviews Pre-medical Students Dr. O. Larsell of the University of Oregon medical school in Port land was on the campus all yester day interviewing students who are expecting to file applications for admission into the medical school this fall. Dr. Larsell interviewed 25 students. Asklepiads, national medical hon orary, gave a dinner at the An chorage last night in honor of Dr. Larsell. He was the main speaker of the evening. iSr.xt on Program K*‘('diin(inK iiuvt'iuurt' ix-iow mo anturtio rirelr, Knud Admiral Klch ard K. Kyrad will 1**11 Ids exciting story with mo*ion pictures. Byrd’s Talk Open To Prep Students Schomp, Truax, Hamby Will ('onturl Schools in Nearby Cities To extend to high school stu dents the opportunity of attending the lecture of Admiral Byrd here January 27, Woodrow .Truax, Bruce Hamby and Ralph Schomp wiil visit the prep schools between Albany and Roseburg, Schomp university activities manager, said yesterday. The trio will leave Fri day morning. Admiral Byrd will talk in Mc Arthur court Wednesday evening at 8:15 to give his own story of new discoveries and conquests he and his party conducted in Ant arctica on their last, expedition. Nine thousand feet of exclusive motion pictures, with Byrd telling the story as the film is shown, is scheduled. The"”picture.s include flights of Byrd in his Condor plane, rebuild ing of Little America, the strange life of the “dead” continent, ex ploratory flights and Admiral Byrd at the advance base—a tiny hut 123 miles south of Little Am erica, where he maintained the world’s southernmost weather sta tion during five months of the polar night. Interesting to University stu dents is the fact that Clark Spur lock, junior in social science, was one of the six boy scouts that were selected from the United States at large to go to New York as guests of the Admiral. Of these six Paul Siple of New York city was selected to join the antarctic expedition. Drug Magazine Publishes New Cornish Article An article, “The Effectiveness of Drug Store Window Displays,” by Dr. N. H. Cornish, professor of bus iness administration, appeared in the January issue of the Pacific Drug Review. In his article Dr. Cornish points out that some drug displays are more effective than others in at tracting passer-sby. He says that drug displays in general are not as attractive as grocery and dry good displays. Dr. Cornish believes drug dis plays would attract more attention if druggists were to introduce mo tion into their window displays and attach price tags to the merchan dise displayed. Tau Delta Delta Plans Concert For This Term *Tau Delta Delta, women's local music honorary, formulated plans for a concert to be given the latter part of winter term at a meeting held Tuesday night in the music building. The following committee chair men were appointed for the con cert: Jane Hall, program; Shirley Rising, ushers; Frederica Merrell, publicity; Frances Douglas, print ed programs; Dorothy Burgess, time and place. On the program for the meeting was Phoebe Breyman, who gave a cornet solo, “Flight of the Bumble Bee.” Action of Individual Houses is Asked on Turf Field Donation 50 Cents Per Man Set as Seale; Each Group to Have Own Representative; Sororities Contribute Heavily Answering statements of fraternities that no definite plan had been presented for their acceptance or rejection, Bill Van Dusen and Dick Watson last night outlined a budget of the cost of the work and plans for meeting the figures set forth in it. At the same time, Ed Rcames, president of the interfrater nity council, reiterated the council's decision of last Thursday that action on donations should come from the fraternities individually and not through the council. Several organizaHo"" Classes Leave Rooms la Journalism Ruililing For Cress Conference Due to the conference being held in thi* Journalism building, classes ordinarily meeting there will he moved elsewhere, us fol lows, on Friday, January 22, only: 8:0ft—E conomles 202, Cl (Crumbaker)—1 Education. 8:00—Social Science, 102, Cl (Jameson) — lift Johnson. 9:00—E n g I i s h 2 0 2, C 2 (Lesch) —105 McClure. 9:00—Social Science 102, C3 (Moore)—1 Oregon. 10:00—English 112, C13 (Waffle)—I Commerce. 10:00—English 135 (Ernst) —301 Condon. 11:00—English 112, CSS (Blair)—100 Oregon. 1:00—English 105, C2 (Moll) —2 Education. 2:00—English 395, (Moll) — 2 Education. I, Class Changes To Be Discussed By Emmerson Mr. D. A. Emmerson, assistant state superintendent of public in struction, will speak on “Proced ure in Revising the Curriculum” Monday night at 7:30 in the new men’s gym. Phi Delta Kappa, men’s educational honorary, is sponsoring the lecture. Mr. Emmerson's talk will be the second in a series being given to acquaint the public with curricu lum revision. (Please turn to pat/e two) iaa announced mey wouia await llie council’s further deliberation despite the fact that /-he body lad definitely decided not to take i stand as a unit. On the campus, all living organ izations are being contacted in a contribution drive. Each house is being asked to donate r>0 cents for each man, in order to “even up” fairly the sums requested No money had been collected from fraternities last night although a more intensive canvass of sorori ties had produced nearly $150 or about one-half the sum expected of the women's groups. In fraternities, dormitories, and all other living organizations on the campus, students will be ap pointed within the next few days to push the plan in the group and to aid in collections. Announce ment of the committeemen is awaiting the approval of ASUO president Gib Schultz. To Handle Whole I>rive Committeemen ap|iof,nted through Schultz will be in charge of all phases of the drive for their group. In men’s organizations, each committeeman will also be entrusted with planning and work ing for the all-campus turf dance to be given in Gerlinger hall in February, while women represen tatives will concentrate their ef forts on a tag day which will be conducted downtown on January 30 but which will not touch the campus. At a later date, a drive coupled with a matinee dance, may be con ducted on the campus. A complete budget of the cost of the work, estimated to be well under $2,000, will be released to morrow by F. A. Cuthbert, in charge of building and grounds. Van Dusen and Watson will re lease tomorrow also the complete budget for their drive. Barber Avoids Wedding By Becoming UO Student Leap year and its unwritten "bill of rights,” granting woman the privilege of proposing to the man of her dreams has just passed. A business ad student is taking no chances on getting "hooked” by his lady friend for some time yet. The student, a haircutter in a campus barber shop, quit a beauty parlor job and registered as a freshman here because his sweetheart became too insistent that the couple get married. "Shucks,” he chuckled apologetically as he lounged in a davenport . i - between haircuts, "i HKe my giri very well, but somehow I don't feel lust like marrying: her rigfht now. But I didn't have the heart to tell her just outright, you know. Ro when I received word of an open ing in this shop I figured that by taking the job it's only part time and going to school the rest of the time I could stall her off for a while longer." The barber explained that he had already quit a job in Vernonia that’s where he first met her last summer for the supposedly better position in Seaside so that he could “make a little more dough to get married on." ‘‘At least that’s what I told her. But I was lucky business wasn't so hot in Seaside so we had to post pone things for a while longer. And, since this college life is sort of expensive, I figure that any job I land next summer will net me only enough to pay off my debts for this winter. I guess the girl won't mind the delay. The girl friend? Well, she's home cn the farm ‘‘gettin’ ready for her wedding,” but the elusive hair cutter confesses that he'll “pass out” if she hears of Oregon’s TCLAOA and dashes down here to join. MANHATTAN OR GLOVER PAJAMAS Pajamas of these brands are real values at this price. Come in while our January Sale is in progress. You will save money on everything you buy. $2.00 values! Reduced to— JOE RICHARDS MEN S STORE 873 Willamette
