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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1937
The
Passing: Show
Old Man River
Cable Charges
Historic Reichstag
Moscow Emanations
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By DARREL ELLIS
Greatest Flood
Hitting the highest flood f 4>
in its history, the Ohio river co..
tinued to inundate territory alonf
its water-torn banks, and ran to
ward untested levees in the Mis
sissippi river.
Fear was felt that the damage
already beyond estimate, will rur
much higher in the southern val
ley.
Louisville. Cincinnati, and score;
of other cities were paralyzed
clipped from power and water fa
cilities. A great water famine wa;
felt in Cincinnati. Disease wa;
widespread, the worst experienced
by the Red Cross in the area.
Conspire Against Clark
Clark Gable filed a complaint ir
federal court yesterday against
two men and a woman allegedly
conspiring to obtain money from
him on the claim that he was the
father of the woman's 13year-olc
daughter.
Gable claimed he never heard oi
the woman but was tired of being
pestered by her.
Hitler Extends Power
Adolph Hitler yesterday issued
call for a meeting of the Reichstag
to consolidate his reign for another
four years. At the same time he
announced German volunteers in
the Spanish war would be subject
to penal terms, if and when other
powers agreed to a non-interven
tion policy.
On Saturday he will announce
foreign and domestic policies for
the future.
Confess Conspiracy
Defendants on trial for treason
in Moscow yesterday confessed at.
tempts to assassinate high Soviet
officials under the leadership of
Leon Trotsky, exiled.
The defendants quarreled while
recounting the murder plots which
failed because of poor organiza
tion.
Slavery Not Over
“The days of slavery are not
over,” a Canadian police officer
proclaimed after examining the
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Ohio State Prof
Knows No Cure
For Love Disease
Bv BERNADINE BOWMAN
Lazv universitv freshmen can be
prodded into studying' and sick ones
can be treated, but when they fall
in love, watch out for those
“flunks,” warns Dean Charles
Reeder of Ohio State university.
There's no known preventive for
the cardiac “disease,” he states.
"Although students seldom admit
it, their love affairs share with lack
cf study and poor health for fail
ing class work.” Students, he says,
can be made to study more, or can
be sent to the health center if they
are ailing—but just try to keep
them from falling in love.
Harvard Head Razzed
Even a Harvard president isn’t
always immune to friendly razzing
according to the Associated Press.
“If a student in America were
given three hours to concentrate
on one subject, he would die of
shock," President James B. Conant
told the Association of American
Universities last week.
“As it is now, he has to jumn
from algebra to tap dancing to
Cherokee to Choctaw. Our stu
dents emerge from college with a
wonderful smattering of every
thing.”
An unidentified southern profes
sor leaped to his feet.
“Why!” he shouted, “our foot
ball team was playing yours at
Cambridge and our cheering sec
tion was calling your boys ‘damn
Yankees,” but they quit after the
half because they realized no Har
vard man had enough history to
know what they were talking
about.”
‘Sense of Humor’ Class
The University of Florida re
cently introduced a new course to
develop an individual’s sense of
humor, the first of its kind in an
American college. The aim, says
the Miami Hurricane, is to develop
the student’s ability to view life
from the standpoint of the specta
tor at a comedy, to perceive the
comic elements in himself. To
measure results, a special test of
humorous perception is given to
the students at the beginning and
end of the course.
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^jiniral Byrd
Will Lecture
On Wednesday
j Motion Pictures Will Aid
Talk on Little America
Anti Isolated Life of
Byrd at Advance Base
The man who has spanned the
j Antarctic twice on trips to the
j south pole, Rear Admiral Richard
E. Byrd, will recount his adven
tures to Oregon students with a
motion picture lecture Wednesday
I night at 8:15 in McArthur court,
A matinee performance will be
presented for grammar, high
school students, and townspeople
at 3:00 p.m. Student body card
holders will be admitted to the
evening performance only.
Also At North Pole
Admiral Byrd, in addition to his
accomplishments at the South
Pole, has made an expedition to
the North Pole and trans-Atlantic
flights which have given him a
unique position in the hearts of
the American public. He is admir
ed for his daring, esteemed for his
scientific attainments, and beloved
by the public for his modesty and
charm. He has had a consistent
growth of popularity for his
breath-taking feats and admirable
qualities.
The pictures include flights of
Byrd in his Condor plane, the re
building of Little America, the
strange life of the “dead" conti
I nent, exploratory flights and Ad
| miral Byrd at the advance base—a
tiny hut 123 miles south of Little
America where he lived five months
of a polar night.
Prices for the matinee are: high
school and grammar school, 25c;
general admission, 40c; and re
served seats, 75c. The evening per
formance will be: high school and
grammar school, 50c; general ad
mission, 75c; and reserved seats,
$1.
Wood Will Speak
To Sociologists
On TVA Project
Dr. Louis A. Wood, professor of
economics, will speak to Alpha
Kappa Delta, sociology honorary.
Wednesday evening at 7:30, in the
women's lounge of Gerlinger hall.
Dr. Wood will discuss the TVA
project and its village. He has just
returned from that region, where
he conferred with officials on the
labor question.
He has been a faculty member
since 1924 and since that time has
made a specialty of research and
! study in the labor relations field
and is regarded as a national au
thority.
Many of the labor relation ideas
incorporated in the TVA system
have been taken from Dr. Wood’s
recent book, “Union-Management
Cooperation on the Railroads,” and
! many of his ideas have been put
[ into practice elsewhere.
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Intvr-Infirmary
Socials PI an net!;
Mumps on Menu
Spotlighting the winter term
social functions are the inter
infirmary socials now being ar
ranged by a committee in Emfr-'
gency hall. Dale Lasselle is act
ing as general chairman.
Scheduled first on the social
calendar is an exchange dessert
with the girls of the second floor
for Wednesday evening from 6
to 7:30. Mumps will offer en
tertainment during the dinner
hour.
Various social functions have
been scheduled for the week-end,
which will be announced later.
Until then, however, there will
be no visiting at the new build
ing, and students residing with
in the halls will remain there
until further notice.
Adult Class Enrollment
Doubles in Three Weeks
Enrollment in WPA adult edu
cation classes has doubled in the
last three weeks. The number
registered in the correspondence
course has increased from 263 to
526.
Mathematics, everyday English,
and radio travel talk courses have
attracted the greatest number of
students.
Story of Spanish Civil War
Related by jay C. Allen •
Tells of Bloody Massacres
Victorious Fascists Would ‘Liquidate*
Opposition: Loyalists Would Kill All
Rebels and Landowners
By ANNA MAE HALVERSON
The inside story of the Spanish situation as seen by an American
newspaper correspondent ‘at the front” was told by Jay C. Allen Jr.
at the Oregon Press conference luncheon in the John Straub memorial
building- Saturday.
Allen is one of those chosen by the Nation magazine on its 19301
honor roll for “courageous, informative, and unprejudiced reporting
of the civil war in Spain."
The former University of Oregon student and foreign correspon
dent for the Chicago Tribune and the London News-Chronicle spoke
YW Brownie Sale
For Wednesday
2 Chocolate Squares Willi
Powdered Sugar, All for
Five Cents
Five booths about the campus,
decorated with elfin sprites and
each manned by two Oregon coeds
will become conspicuous bits of
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Student Project Provides
Meals for 56 Unemployed
In Shanties'Across Tracks1
By GORDON M. CONNELLY
Last week 229 meals were fed to 56 unemployed persons, most of
whom live in crude “tumble-down shacks” in Eugene’s jungle-town
“across the tracks” near Judkins joint on the Willamette river.
Total cost for the mekls was approximately $1.90 for furnishing
gasoline for two cars which picked up left-overs, previously waste;:
food, from Oregon’s fraternities, sororities, co-ops, and the dormitory
Since Friday,, January 8, the I
Student Social project, organized
by Irving Elle, a graduate student
in education, has made the route
of living organizations daily to
supply food to the hungry men, in
shacktown and to a few others in
needy families of several children.
Only food which would otherwise
be thrown out has been solicited.
Move to Rehabilitate
The collection of left-overs is
but an emergency measure, the
first step in the project which has
for a motto, “help others to help
themselves.” The second step is
the erection of demountable homes
upon unused land suitable for
truck gardening and preferably the
establishment of a cooperative
farm for the unemployed men.
Clarence Elle, a sophomore in ar
chitecture and allied arts, is mak
ing plans for the demountable
homes.
The Project, a weekly mimeo
graphed paper for “the interests
of rehabilitating the unemployed”
to society, quotes the following in
the issue of January 24: “The pro
ject does not want or advocate a
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Costuming Easy if You
Utilize Your Wardrobe
By RITA WRIGHT
“Yeah—I’d like to go to the Beaux Arts ball but I haven’t a cos
tume.” The answer to your question is in your own wardrobe.
What coed doesn’t have one of the new formals with the long
full skirt—wrap a curtain around your waist making- it assume a slight
bustle effect in back, add a cord, a belt, or a metallic girdle, put
another cord on your head or borrow some of your roommates’ bric
brac to adorn your coiffue, use the the half of the curtain for a long
brae to adorn your coiffure, use the other half of the curtain for a long
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old Greece.
Away down in sunny Mexico the
peasant women are clad in accor
dion pleated skirts in bright Colors
worn over white cotton slips.
About their waist is wound a wool
en belt of green or purple which
encloses a white cotton blouse with
a flat yoke neck that is sometimes
embroidered. Wear corresponding
jewelry and come to the ball.
Your partner must don a pair of
the baggy trousers that he hasn’t
sent to the cleaners yet, tie them
at the ankles with tapes to create
the required voluminous effect and
wear a dark shirt with a bright
sash tied around the waist. Find
a wide-brimmed gardener’s hat.
Sling an Indian blanket over the
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Second Science Talk
To Be on January 28
L. F. Henderson, curator of the
University herbarium, will speak
on food-plants along the Columbia
river at an open meeting for sci
ence students and others interested
in Condon hall Thursday evening,
January 28, at 7:30.
This is the second in a series
sponsored by science students to
supplement science courses taught
at the University, At the last lec
ture, held two weeks ago, over 65
students attended.
The inheritability of cancer will
be the topic of another lecture in
the series planned for the near fu
i ture. R. R. Huestis will be the
[speaker for that discussion.
of covering tlie Spanish war during
(he last four months as 'the most
excruciating and probably the
most, dangerous assignment of
modern times.”
War First Hand
Allen spent the first three weeks
of the war making side trips into
rebel territory and writing from
Gibraltar. It was during that time
that he interviewed Gen. Francisco
Franco, the first interview ever ob
tained from the leader of the Fas
cist-supported revolutionists.
"Franco told me that he would
‘liquidate,’ liquidate is the word
for it, the bad Spaniards, the com
munists from which he was sav
ing the eternal Spain, even though
it meant killing off the majority of
the Spanish people.”
The tall black-haired man de
scribed the horror and gruesome
ness of the great massacres.
Bull King Slaughter
"I went to Badajoz and there
saw the bullring. I saw peasants
going into the ring, their hands in
the air. It was a hot. night and
jasmine grew up over the gate and
the white walls. There was a sweet
smell in the air but not that of
jasmine. The past week 4,000 had
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4 Fraternities
Offer Support
For Turf Push
Women's Committee to
Handle City Tag Drive
Named; 9 Sororities
Send in Cheeks
By MYRA HULSER
Four fraternities' last night vot
ed unanimous support of the turf
field drive, while Felker Morris,
and Mary Elizabeth Norvell an
nounced appointment of a commit
tee to handle all phases of the tag
drive Saturday. No other frater
nities took action last night.
Houses voting to back the drive
were:
Kappa Sigma.
Beta Theta l*i.
Chi Psi.
Plii Kappa Psi.
The fraternities for the most
part are still waiting further ac
tion by the interfraternity council
in spite of the announcement by
Ed Reames, president of the coun
cil, to the effect that. it. was
entirely up to them as individual
houses.
Sororities Contribute
Checks have been received from
Alpha Phi, Gamma Phi Beta, Chi
Omega, Pi Beta Phi, Alpha Delta
Pi. Alpha Omicron Pi, Kappa Al
pha Theta, Delta Delta Delta and
Alpha Chi Omega for their share
of the financial support.
Several other houses have defi
nitely pledged their support and
have declared they will contribute
as soon as possible. No sorority
house on the campus has refused
to contribute to date.
The tag drive which will be held
in downtown Eugene Saturday
sponsored by women from the' in
dividual houses is expected to net
enough to further immediate plans.
Each merchant and business man
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On Nationwide Broadcast
(Courtesy of the Register-Guard)
Dorothy Louise Johnson, solo violinist, and Hal Young, tenor vocalist, who will give their music to
the nation as feature artists on the University symphony orchestra broadcast over NBC Wednesday be
tween 6:00 and 6:30 p.m. The half-hour program will mark the first time a University orchestra has
broadcast on a nationwide hookup. Miss Johnson is a music major and Mr. Young is an instructor of
voice at the music school.
Hark, Dog Barks,
Follows Kippe
To Get Red Meat
Paul E. Kiepe, instructor in
English, left his office in Friend
ly today with the speech depart
ment's blood-red paper mache
model of the human chest tucked
under his arm.
A hungry dog, seeing from
afar this brilliant red art'cle,
joyfully followed Mr. Kiepe to
Johnson hall.
'Winnie Ruth Judd," as mem
bers of the speech department
call the model, was placed on the
desk. The dog sniffed, not so
appreciatively, and with his tail
between his legs slowly left the
room to search for more palat
able prey.
Jewett Poetry
Contest Planned
Contestants to Pick Three
Passages From Varied
Poetry List
The third annual W. R. Jewett
poetry recitation contest, open to
undergraduate students, will be
held Wednesday, March 3.
Each contestant will select and
memorize three passages of poetry
from an approved collection. These
three passages are divided into
general groups of sonnets, lyrics,
and blank verse. Use of any one
selection will be limited to two
contestants to insure variety.
Because of the large number
who expressed interest in the con
test last year, plans are being made
to have preliminary sections and
award prizes to the winner of each
section. Best readers will partici
pate in the final event.
The selections can be found al
the speech department, the dram
atics department, or at the refer
ence library.
Morse, Military Grad,
Teaches ROTC Classes
Roy Maxwell Morse, who recent
ly gave up his position as ROTC
cadet colonel to accept a commis
sion in the army, has been added
to the teaching staff at the ROTC
shack. He is instructing two fresh
man classes in map-reading.
Although not a graduate of the
University yet, Mr. Morse is a
graduate of the military depart
ment and is now in the 382nd in
fantry of the U. S. reserves. Del
Bjork has taken Mr. Morse's posi
tion as cadet-colonel.
UofO to Have
First National
Radio Hookup
Broadcast to Go on Air
At 6:00; Hal Young,
Dorothy Johnson and
Symphony Included
Wednesday night, Oregon will
have its first nation-wide hookup
as the University symphony or
chestra goes on the air from 6 to
6:30 with Rex Underwood conduct
ing and the soloists, Hal Young
and Dorothy Louise Johnson.
Early Dinners Asked
The various living organizations
are asked to cooperate by having
early dinner from 5 to 5:30 in or
der to attend and give applause
over the air. Promptness is nec
essary as no one will be admitted
after 6.
Hal Young, professor of voice,
will sing an aria from Massenet’s
“Manon.” He has had experience
in grand opera, light opera, and
musical comedy; he has played
with the America Opera company
in the East. Among the grand op
eras in which he has played are
“Faust,” “Carmen,” and “Manon.”
Mr. Young sang in Paris and on
the Riviera for five months, and
studied while there with Emma
Eames, late of Metropolitan opera
fame. The song hit "Valencia" was
introduced to America by him. He
has also sung in concerts and ora
torio, churches, on the radio—in
New York over WEAF, WJZ, and
WABC—in Chicago for NBC and
CBS. He has been starred and
featured with such stars as Tlso
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Baldwin Contest
Offers $100 Prize
For Best Essay
A cash prize of $100 for the best
essay on a subject connected with
state or municipal government is
being offered in the William H.
Baldwin contest, which is being
sponsored each year by the nation
al municipal league.
This contest is open to all under
graduate students registered in a
college in which direct instruction
is offered in state or municipal gov.
emment.
Essays must be between 5,000
and 10,000 words in length and
mailed before May 15, 1937 to the
national municipal league, 309 E.
34th street, New York.
A list of suggested topics and
more complete details of the con
test may be obtained from the bul
letin board in the library basement.
‘Ballet Moose’ Ready
To ‘Swing It’ at ‘Limp’
Eddie Vail with his “Ballet Moose" is now rivaling the Ballet
Russe for the social event of the winter term as he drills his 12 brawny
but beautiful chorines night and day for their premier performance
February 6 at the annual Lettermen’s Limp in Gerlinger.
"Swing it,” says Eddie and immediately twenty-four hairy legs
are swung with a one-two to the right and a three-four to the left.
Aiier gazing at auvance puDucuy
pictures of the Russian ballerinas,
their problem is simple as toe
dancing is right up their alley.
They are being coached in the
gentle art ol‘ cavorting, twiriling
in time, and the proper method of
stage composure. The show will
go on, but as the curtain goes up
in Gerlinger, the roof will come
down and applause will ring out as
these stage-struck cuties make
their debut in ‘'Vail's Follies of
1937.”
For their soloist, the ballerinas
will have again "La McCall” who
will do his famous "Nautch Dance”
that has anything the Himalayas
ever gazed down up surpassed.
The complete list of performers
has at last been made public. They
are: Nello Giovannini, Dave Gam
mon, John Yerby, Jimmy Nichol
son, Pat Fury, Bill Foskett, Ar
leigh Bentley, Don Kennedy,
Frenchy LaCau, Bud Robertson,
Denny Breaid, and Han Nilsen.
ON KOAC PROGRAM
James Shepard and Louise Sand
strom will take part in the weekly
student forum to be broadcast at
8:45 tonight over KOAC, Corvallis.
They will discuss “Death and the
Motor Car.”
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