VOLUME XXXVIII
Yeomen and Orides
W ill Dartre Tonight at
Term's Semi-Formal
What is the BLACK MENACE?
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 5, 1937
NUMBER 62
The
Passing Show
F-D Hits Assailant
Teeth of Whiter
Heavyweight Rout
Hot House Debate
Ey DARREL ELLIS
Pres id rut's ‘Advisor*
President Roosevelt was forced
to make his second ‘‘declaration
of death" yesterday in answer to
his “closest advisers.”
The official statement, believed
to have been pointed at Dr. Stan
ley High, who wrote a Saturday
Evening Post article hitting the
new deal partv, said: "The presi
dent announced the death of the
‘official SDokesmen’ in March,
1933. He now announces the pass
ing of the so-called authoritative
spokesmen-those who write as
‘one of the president's closest
advisers.’ ”
Honey and Flies
While search in the squalid
shack of Mrs. Anna Miller, Spo
kane, who is now residing in a
hospital psychopathic ward, re
sulted in additional finds of cached
money and swelled the widow’s
cash holdings to well over $50,000,
“friends” began showing on the
scene yesterday with desires to
help the “poor” woman.”
Found in a half-starved condi
tion while her pantry was well
stocked, telling an incoherent story
of men trying to enter her home,
giving her age as 54 when ac
quaintances know her to be 75,
and unable to account for the for
tune in cash found in her three
room hovel, Mrs. Miller is being
held for mental study.
‘Prankster’ Boreas
Apparently having lost interest
in the Mississippi floods, ‘prank
ster’ Eoreas turned all his atten
tion on the Pacific Northwest yes
terday, emptying his bag of tricks
in one big heap.
Roads to the east and south of
Portland were blocked to traffic,
central Oregon was virtually iso
lated, trains were being held up in
northern California and floods
were expected at any moment in
many lowland sections of the state.
Weathermen with advance knowl
edge of Boreas’ intentions, predict
ed more snow and rain for today.
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f Brain Bargains9
Get 200 Jobs for
Kentucky Grads
By BERNADINE BOWMAN
"Bargains In Brains,” a booklet
containing pictures ancl qualifica
tions of University of Kentucky
graduates wishing jobs, was sent
to prospective employers. One is
sue of this booklet netted 200 po
sitions for students'.
A similar scheme is bein consid
ered by the employment head of:
the University of Washington.
11 elft for Law Students
In order that they may deal
more effectively with legal, ethi
cal, social, and economic problems 1
that confront law students, an or
ganization to be known as the
American Law Students associa
tion, has been formed by students
from six eastern law schools.
Membership in the association is
limited to schools in the north
eastern area, but it will eventually
be extended to schools in all parts \
of the United States. Institutions !
now represented are Columbia uni
versity, New York university, St.
John university, and Brooklyn Law
school in New York City, ancl!
Harvard and Yale.
The group has voted in favor of
taking "adequate steps, in con
junction with bar associations, law
school faculties, and other legal
groups, to improve the economic
well being of law students, law
clerks, and young lawyers.”
Swine Music Old Stuff
The rage that is sweeping the
country, that delights the hearts
of the younger set, that is the bane
of existence for the older folk, that
everyone is talking about, “Swing
Music,” is not as novel as the or
chestra leaders try to make it; it
is not new, but is the rebirth of
an old style of music.
The swing style music was pop
ular around the lower part of the
Mississippi river at the beginning
of the present century. Within a
few years it had worked its way
north as far as New York, but
died out after a very short period
of popularity. The negroes in the
south maintained it as the style
for a longer period of time, but
let it die out about the same time
that it did in the north.
What is the BLACK MENACE?
iHarrison Brown
To Speak Here
On February 25
Journalist to Be Heard
In Student Assembly,
Class Meetings; Tour
Of Orient Is Subject
Harrison Brown, journalist and
lecturer on world politics, will
I spend several days on the Oregon
campus and will be guest speaker
at a student assembly Thursday,
j February 25, Dean Eric W. Allen
of the journalism school annonced
■yesterday.
! , The lecturer will be in Eugene
| from February 24 through the;
26th, and is expected to appear
I before a student assembly and
probably will give informal talks
to several University classes. He
wdll report on a recent tour
through China, Japan, Manchuo
kuo, and Russia. Mr. Brown is
personally acquainted with Maxim
Litvinov, commissar of foreign af
fairs in Russia, who enabled him
to make a thorough study of co
operative movements in Russia.
He also toured the Scandinavian
countries during the past year.
Statesmen Known
Mr. Brown was for five years
the European representative of the
American Committee for the Out
lawing of War, and has spent
many years in central Europe
where he has had exceptional op
portunity to study political condi
tions. He is well acquainted with
a large number of leading states
men of Europe, such as the late
M. Briand, Herr Strasemann, Dr.
Eduard Benes, and others. He
presented the last uncensored po
litical broadcast from Berlin a.
month after Adolph Hitler became
chancellor, the broadcast being
sponsored by a British broadcast
ing company.
Aside from his radio activities
and newspaper work, Harrison
Brown contributes to several jour
nals including Weekend Review,
The Spectator, and others.
Speech Teams
Will Tour State
Group of Five to Speak in
Portland and Astoria;
Four Go to Salem
University students who are to
take part in the symposium group
trips to be made this month have
been chosen by John L. Casteel, di
rector of the speech department,
and W. A. Dahlbcrg, assistant pro
fessor of speech.
Orval Etter, Alva Blacherby,
Roy Vernstrom, Freed Bales, and
Kessler Cannon will make up the
group which is to address aud
iences at the First Congregational
church in Portland, the Astoria
Rotary club, and high schools at
Knappa-Svenson, Astoria and Sea
side. This trip will be in charge
of Mr. Dahlberg.
Another group consisting of
W'alter Eschebeck, Avery Combs,
Edwin Robbins and John Luvaas
will speak before the Newberg
chamber of commerce, the Salem
Kiwanis club, and the Salem Ro
tary club. Professor Casteel will
direct this group.
“Modern Day Government’’ and
“The Constitution and the Su
preme Court” will be the topics
discussed by the students. Mem
bers of the audience may partici
pate in the discussion.
The University symposium dis- [
cussion groups take the place of
competitive debate and are prov
ing very popular, according to
W. A. Dahlberg, forensic coach.
Chinese Y Secretary
Will Speak on Campus
Dr. Y. T. Wu, YMCA secretary
in China, will be the main speaker
at the Student Christian council:
conference, February 20-21. He
will also address the student as
sembly, February 18.
The conference wdll continue all
day Saturday, climaxed by a ban
quet in the evening. A discussion
of the reports committee and a
vesper service wdll conclude the
session Sunday afternoon.
Modern Slang Is Divided
Into Three Main Classes9
Says S. Stephenson Smith
‘Gutter,’ ‘Collegiate,’ Society Slang in
Principal Use; Colloquialisms Form
Only Live Language
By MYRA HULSER
‘‘Slang of today is divided into three classes: gutter slang, living and
picturesque; collegiate, which is expressive and brief, and society,
which is inclined to grorn from cultural circles and to be snobbish,”
S. Stephenson Smith, professor of English at the University, said yes
terday.
‘‘Now and then slang enriches language,” continued Professbr
Smith. “The words ‘razz' and ‘scram’ will undoubtedly make thdlr
way into the common stock. They
express vivid shades of meaning
for which the language has had
no short and forcible words. ‘Be
devil’ and ‘heckle’ do not eo.ual
‘iazz‘ nor does ‘depart hurriedly’
take the part of ‘scram.’ ”
Author Writes of Slang
In his text book, “Command of
Words,” used in the school of En
glish here and which is being solcV
nationally, Professor Smith de
votes an entire chapter to slang
and jargon.
“Slang is the life of humorous
stories,” be wrote in this chapter
and which he repeated yesterday.
“It is vulgar and racy and may
even serve at times as a secret
code.”
“Above all, for the student of
languages, slang shows the pro
cesses by which the language has
evolved. Slang is perhaps the only
living language in the sense that
it is actually in process of forma
tion right before our eyes.”
Knowledge Worthwhile
“Incidentally, there is no bet
ter way to avoid falling into slang
than to know all about it. The
horror of the purist is largely due
to ignorance. The slips of the vul
gar even when they mean to talk
correctly, are due to the same
course. Anyone who is thoroughly
conversant with the ways of slang,
its nature and origins, and the
laws of language which slang for
mations follow, will never use It
absent-mindedly but only when he
chooses,” states Smith.
“It is said to listen to some Nice
Nellie quoting—inexactly and in
eptly—slang which is six months
past its vogue. Only one thing is
sadder. That is the mixture of
slang phrases of different periods
—say, ‘skidoo’ in conjunction with
‘hot shot,’ ‘kiddo’ in the same
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Yeomen, Orides
Dance Tonight
First Winter Semi-Formal
For Independents Will
Be Held at Hotel
Making an effort to establish
better dances for the independent
organizations, the Yeomen and Or
ides, independent men's and wo
men’s clubs, are holding their first
winter semi-formal at the Osburn
hotel this evening at nine o'clock.
Bud Brown and his Varsity
Vagabonds will play, Harry Hodes,
chairman of the dance for the Yeo
men said Thursday. The dance is
for members of the two organiza
tions and their guests only.
Assisting Hodes in arranging the
affair have been Don Frye and
Howard Lee. Ruth Stanley is the
Orides chairman. She has been
aided by Eva Klenk, in charge of
orchestra, and Ryta Esh, pro
grams.
Patrons and patronesses are:
Dr. and Mrs. C. L. Schwering, Mrs.
Edith Prescott Siefert, Mr. afid
Mrs. L. Kenneth Shumaker, Paul
E. Kiepe, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Mays,
and Miss Janet Smith.
Dark suits will be in order for
boys and long dresses for girls.
Corsages will not be in order for
the occasion.
SNOW TRIP OFFERED
The Obsidians, Eugene's hiking
club, will sponsor another snow
train, February 7. Crescent Lake
will again be the destination. Ice
skating and skiing are the sports
offered.
Cut ‘Razzing’
InOSC-UOTilt,
Schultz’s Plea
Hobson, Basketballers
Appear in Assembly;
Vail Replaees Terry
In Yell King Role
Urgent pleas for Oregon stu
dents to refrain f rom unsports
manlike conduct at the Oregon
State basketball game Saturday
night were made before yester
day’s assembly in Gerlinger hall.
Anson Cornell, athletic director,
and Gib Schultz, student president,
both stressed the advisability of re
fraining from booing the decisions
of the referees. Schultz read a
front page editorial from the Ore
gon State Barometer, student
daily, which criticized the Corval
lis students for heckling the ref
erees and hissing at decisions
against the home team at the re
cent tussle on their campus.
The University, if it will, they
urged, can gain much favorable
comment in reversing its conduct.
Players, Coach Talk
Coach Howard Hobson and his
second-place basketball squad were
called to the stage where Hobson
and Players Johnny Lewis and Ken
Purdy gave short talks.
Oregon’s team is the youngest
in the conference, the age aver
age being just under 20 while Ore
gon State's squad is the oldest
group of veteran players in the
northwest loop, Coach Hobson re
vealed.
Tenor Hal Young, ever popular
with the students, led the assem
bly in singing “Mighty Oregon.”
President Schultz announced the
lack of group requirements by Le
land Terry, yell king, making him
ineligible for that position. He pre
sented Eddie Vail, former leader,
who led the students in a rehear
sal of the Beaver chant and sev
eral Oregon yells.
Douglas Orme, University band
director, opened tho pep rally with
several selectipns by,his’ musicians.
DR. SMITH TO SPEAK
Dr, Warren D. Smith, head of
the University geology depart
ment, will speak over the Eclectic
half hour, KORE Sunday at 2 p.m.
on “Planning for Civilization; a
Proposal Concerning War and
Peace."
Six Oregon Representatives
(Courtesy of the Register-Guard)
Members of this year’s forum and symposium group who will represent the University throughout
the state speaking on current topics are: Avery Coombs, John Luvaas, Freeman Patton, Freed Bales,
Koy Vernstrom, and Alva Blackerby. \V. A. Dahl berg is in charge.
Snow Stops Ballet Troupers
Eugene Appearance; Schomp
Will Try for Sunday Program
It's SCTTSTSOC
Now-New Group
Fights Fcrmals
The SCTTSTSOC reared its
head on the Oregon campus last
night.
Organized to oppose the dic
tates of campus leaders who
would have the formal dress
(plus the usual student body
card) the requirement for ad
mittance to concerts, the first
•move of the new society was to
challenge the dictates of cam
pus big wigs on this subject in
a letter to the Emerald.
Branding campus fashion dic
tators as “would-be-social-climb
ers” and charging them with
attempting to “pull wool over
the eyes of this talented group
of artists with the Ballet Russe,"
the Student Committee to Take
Small-Town Stuff Out of Col
lege swung into action. On the
grounds that no amount of ef
fort “would turn this barn of
ours into the Metropolitan Opera
House,” A Committee on Voic
ing Objection to the Wearing of
Formal Dress to the Future Per
formance of the Ballet Russe, an
arm of the main organization,
asked that future concerts not be
attended by a “conglomeration
of stiff shirts and droops (a
coed’s interpretation of a formal
gown.)”
Oregon Students
Can’t Learn A bout
Spirits From State
Alcoholic education will not be
the fate of Oregon students. This
was definitely decided Wednes
day when the house defeated the
Harrison bill 35 to 23 after al
most an hour of torrid debate.
The Harrison measure, one of
a long line of alcoholic educa
tion bills, would require the
teaching of the pathogenic ef
fect of alcohol upon the human
body in all the schools of the
Oregon state system of higher
education.
The bill also stipulated that
graduates of Oregon normal
schools have passed a satisfac
tory examination upon the ef
fect of alcohol on the system be
fore they be granted a certifi
cate to teach.
House argument on the mea
sure included all the reverbera
tions between prohibition and
repeal. The education commit
tee, which submitted the Harri
son, bill, turned in a divided re
port, the majority opposed, and
the minority favoring passage of
the bill.
Howard, Moore
Will Lead Strike
Discussion at Y
A panel discussion of the sit
down strike will be led by Profes
sor Charles G. Howard and Pro
fessor E. H. Moore at the YMCA
hut this afternoon at 4 o’clock.
The discussion will center around
the injunction which ejected the
strikers from the General Motors
plants, the results of former at
tempts to remove the strikers, and
why Governor Murphy intervened
with the national guard.
Professor Howard of the law
school will enrich the discussion
from the legal standpoint and
Professor Moore will present its
sociological aspects.
‘Christian Science’ Will
Be Topic of Free Talk
The University Christian Sci
ence organization will sponsor a
free lecture on Christian Science,
Sunday afterenoon, at 3 o'clock in
the music auditorium.
Gavin W. Allan, C.B.S. of To
ronto, Canada, will be the speaker.
Mr. Allan is a member of the board
of lectureship of the Mother
church, the First Church of Christ
of Boston, Massachuetts.
Three Ballets Cancelled Until Troupe
Manager Schedules Local Show; Will
Leave Here for Portland, Seattle
By DICK LITFIN
Snow in the Siskiyous, 20 feet deep, covering1 the railroad
tracks for seven miles, halted the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe
special train vesterday at Delta, California, near Dunsmuir,
making it impossible for the Ballet to appear here last night
as scheduled. The train was able to get through from Delta
early this morning.
Ralph Schomp, university activities director, is employing
every means in an effort to engage the Ballet for Sunday night,
although nothing definite was accomplished late last night.
Faculty Bans Fine
OfStudentCredits
Graduation Requirements
No Longer Affeeted by
Violation Penalties
No longer will students at the
University of Oregon ,who violate
disciplinary regulations be “fined”
hours of credit, a penalty that in
the past often postponed gradua
tion for the culprit.
The faculty, at its meeting Wed
nesday, voted that penalties in
flicted upon students for breaches
of discipline must not affect re
quirements for graduation.
The committee can still place
students on probation, which re
stricts participation in student ac
tivities, and in cases where it is
justified, can suspend or expel the
violator. Fining of “hours” was
used for lesser transgressions.
Just what penalties will take the
place of the “docking” of hours of
credit was not announced. "That
will be a problem for the ingenuity
Of the committee,” said Dr. C.
Valentine Boyer, University presi
dent.
Dolores Laws Secures
Job as Stenographer
Dolores Laws, business adminis
tration alumna, has secured a full
time position with the Oregon Mu
tual Life Insurance company as a
stenographer through the perma
nent placement bureau of the Uni
versity.
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let manager, as the train goes
through Eugene for its engage
ment in Portland tonight.
Decision Rests with Hurok
In an effort to assure appear
ance of the Ballet, Schomp con
tacted the New York offices of the
Ballet and was told everything
would work out for the best in
regard to the Ballet’s appearance
here, but that the final decision
was up to Hurok.
Schomp said everything hinges
upon the talk with Hurok, as the
train stops in Eugene on its way
to Portland this morning
The Ballet is scheduled to per
form tonight and Saturday in
Portland, and in Seattle Monday
night. If possible, the 12-car spe
cial train will come to Eugene
from Portland Sunday, appear at
McArthur court, and leave for Se
attle immediately after the per
formance.
Refunds on Tickets
If all efforts to engage the Bal
let here Sunday night prove futile,
refunds for tickets purchased can
be obtained Monday at the ASUO
ticket office in McArthur court.
A section of the stage will be
removed for the Oregon-Oregon
State game here Saturday, but
ropes, pulleys and other stage pro
perties will remain in place in
readiness for a possible appearance
of the Ballet Sunday night.
TAYLOR WILL SPEAK
Dr. Howard R. Taylor, head of
the psychology department, Uni
versity of Oregon, will be the
speaker at the adult forum meet
ing at 10 o’clock at the Commun
ity Liberal church, Sunday morn
ing. His subject will be “Some
Psychological Aspects of Crime.’’
Editor Colvig Tells All;
Secrets Will Be Aired
Dim, dark secrets from the past, banned by University officials, will
come into the light of day for the first time next Tuesday morning in
The Oregon Daily Emerald.
Editor Fred Colvig, seated in the editorial with the editorial feet
on the editorial desk, yesterday "revealed all" to inquiring reporters.
"It’s the biggest thing that ever happened in The Emerald, better
than a bonus attraction with Cab Calloway accompanying Mae West
in a fan dance. Its stupendous, its
colossal, Its, its . . . delovely," Col
vig gushed.
With a crash campus corres
pondents broke from the fetid at
mosphere of the editor’s office, ran
to file wire copy for their metro
politan papers. It was news, the
biggest news since Richard Neu
berger left the U to take up big
time journalism.
“We got somethin’. Somethin’
that’s got everything. It’s got
hate, fear, tears, cheers, beers, and
sex,” Colvig continued hazily.
Essentially it’s a story of cam
pus life, life in the raw, and a
man’s love of an ideal. A story
that has never been told before,
except in the darkest corners of
the College Side.”
"Besides being dashing and dar
ing, it is of great social signifi
cance.
“I’m sorry I can’t be more exact.
But I ®an’t tell any of the story
until It appears in the Emerald
next Tuesday morning. It’s a long
story which will be continued from
day to day, until the smashing
climax is recahed.” he concluded,
waving reporters from the room
and turning to his typewriter to
cogitate over pressing matters of
the day.
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