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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1937)
Philomelete Plans Hobby" Programs Many New Activities To Be Presented by Junior Women New hobby movements have been launched on the University campus under the leadership ol Phi Theta Upsilon, junior women's service honorary, inviting 800 un derclass women to participate in a mass meeting Tuesday, Octobei 12, in Gerlinger hall. The hobby groups are prose and ^poetry, charm school, drama, art and music, and travel covering ev ery phase the material offers. The activities of Philomelete last year included a George Wash ington party which displayed and demonstrated the activities of the hobby groups. In the spring an initiation breakfast was held and all those who had actively partici pated in the various groups throughout the year were formally initiated. Group Undergoes Change This year the group has been entirely re-organized and six out standing sophomore women have been chosen to act as president of each group. Three members of Phi Theta will act in an advisory capacity also for the individual group, in addition to the six pa trons who will be announced at a later date. Invitations have been sent to all freshman and sophomore women inviting them to meet Tuesday at i 4 :00 and choose the field in which they are interested. The travel group will meet in the women’s lounge and will have as a speaker Miss Janet Smith, who had the unique experience of having the boat she was traveling on under fire. “Charm” Is Subject In alumni hall, charm school will gather to hear Mrs. Blair give a synopsis on the Margery Wilson series of charm lessons which were YOUR CAMPUS CORD STORE IN EUGENE ERIC MERRELL LEGAL STUDENT LAYS DOWN LAW v> Your honor: the whole truth’ and only the truth is that the genuine CAMPUS CORDS provide distinctive trouser style and double the wear of ordinary trousers. They divorce you from high costs . . . their upkeep is so modest . . . only a bar of soap and a tub of water to keep ’em clean. Good ol’ cords! Juries of university men unani mously award the verdict to the genuine Can’t Bust ’Em CAMPUS CORDS i ★ Look for this Gold Libel at your clothiers. Eloesser-Heynemann Co. 1161-1165 Mission Street SAN FRANCISCO “THE MAN'S SHOP’’ BYROM & KNEELAND 32 E. 10th CAMPUS CORDS " '** ' ■ Vf*- -iV-rr :•••*.•«.’* • *r ' - :y I 1 " ■■ W ■ '■ CAHTJWTEH f CORDS given at Mt. Holyoke women's col lege last year. On the second floor of Gerlinger in the dance room, the recreation group will learn parlor games and plan hikes to be taken during the school year. Prose and poetry will meet in the sun parlor and start their study of favorite poems. Reading a contemporary play will constitute the first activity of the drama group meeting in the AWS room. The art and music group will gather in the Carnegie room in the music building. A social program will be planned by Phi Theta Upsilon to be car ried on during the rest of the year. Tea Will Be Served Following all meetings on Tues day, groups will congregate in al umni hall where tea will be served. At 4:45 a Phi Theta meeting will be held in the AWS rooms to complete final plans and launch this new hobby movement. Campus Calendar Infirmary patients today include Jean Cramer, Ruby Jacklin, Zola Boyd, Samuel Knight, John Ken nedy, Paul Hillar. An important meeting of the representatives of the living organ izations will be held today at 4 o'clok on the baloney of the Col lege Side. The purpose of the meeting is to draw pairings for the Homecoming noise parade. Indian Collections Added to Condon Museum This Week Two collections, composed of American Indian materials, were received as gifts this week by the Oregon state museum of anthro pology in Condon hall, according to Dr. L. S. Cressman, head of the anthropology department. One was presented by Mrs. Hazel Men ;kenmaier, the other by Mrs. James H. Gilbert. Mrs. Menkenmaier’s collection consists of several arrow-points, a bone awl, and a stone which may have been used for gambling pur poses. They were found in the vi cinity of Fort Rock. About 300 specimens of arrow points are in Mrs. Gilbert's collec tion. Most of these were picked along the Columbia and Willam | ette rivers. i “They are beautifully made,” Dr. Cressman explained, “and have a wide range of material and colors.” KOAC Air Program Features Oregon's Musicians Tonight Norman Gaeden, tenor soloist and music major of the University of Oregon campus, will sing at 7:30 p.m. over station KOAC in Corvallis. Miss Edith Farr, also a music major, will accompany Mr. Gaeden as well as feature in a piano solo. Another event of the program is to be an interview with Min Yasui, a second year law student, who was selected to represent the Uni versity of Oregon at an American Oriental bar convention held at I Stanford last August. Roy Vernstrom and Warren Wal dorf will complete the forty-five minute broadcast with campus news highlights of the week. DALTON HEADS LAW REVIEW Herbert Galton, third year law student, will head the Student Edi torial board for the Oregon Law Review during ’37-’38. Other stu dents on the board are Orval Et ter, business manager; Ercel King, note and comment editor; Reva Hearns, recent case note ed itor; and Kenneth Schramm, book review and statute editor. Charles G. Howard, professor of law, is faculty editor on the board. The first issue of the law re view. due to appear in December, will contain the proceedings of the Oregon State bar and articles writ ten by students on the board. Issues Warning Lester Miller, newly appointed manager of the ’37-’38 student di rectory, asks all students who wish to have the data concerning them correct in his publication to notify the registrar’s office before noon Saturday if there has been any ehange in their local address or telephone numbers since registra tion day. Martin Has Praise For Bonneville Dam Governor Declares Project Must Not Involve Politics “We Oregonians must develop a spirit of the offensive,” Governor Charles H. Martin told a group of 200 Eugene business and profes sional men yesterday noon at a joint meeting of the Chamber of Commerce and Service clubs of the city. Expressing a need for building of public interest in co operation toward the development of our state, he urged that the peo ple of Oregon combine in the feel ing of "one for all and all for one.” “Bonneville dam is Oregon's real milestone of industrial progress,” the Governor said in terming it the most important advance in the past several decades. “Bonneville, and the great system of hydro electric plans Which will eventual ly be built along the Columbia and other great rivers of Oregon, will bring the state added population, greatly increased markets and an independence of world fluctua tions,” he explained'. Asks Oregon Awakening Continuing his demand for an awakening of the people of this state, the governor pointed out Oregon advancement in recent! i years. “During the current bien nium, $25,000,000, or four times as much as previously, will be spent for social security. Effective next | year, the old age limit has been reduced to 65 years. All this has had to be done without increasing our already overladen tax rolls. Oregon does not shirk its responsi bilities and will not do so in the future. Blasts Slackers Blasting politicians as “dema gogues” and “slackers” that have waited in the background until the present time and are now at tempting to gain possession of the dam project to further their own ends, he said that he did not be lieve ttie people would allow them selves to be “hoodwinked.” “The dam has no place in politics. Why didn t these people, who are trying so hard to control the project' now, for the people's good,” come out and help us get it in the be ginning?” he demanded. “We can make the Columbia river district the greatest indus trial center in the world if we keep politics out of it,” he continued. Oregon must fight for her iden tity, stolen by neighboring states, the governor believes. It has emerged from the depression in the best condition on the coast. “Our budget is now balanced. Last year, while California ran $20,000, 000 in debt and Washington $9, 000,000, Oregon paid her debts and reduced her bonded indebtedness. Our capital is approaching com pletion — we have a state to be proud of and wc must all combine to continue its advancement.” Several new ideas in presentation of band music will be worked out this year, it is announced, and an interesting and colorful organiza tion will take the field for various University events. Both a concert and marching band will be organ ized this year, ► Remember . . . ► I Your >| Photograph : ► ► ► ► ► For that Especial Gift” | Kennell-Ellis Studios j S - i MTT. Dean Releases Social Calendar For Fall Term Many Pledge Dances Scheduled on List Of Fall Events The official social calendar for the fall of '37 was released last night from the dean of women's office. Any changes should be sub mitted to that office. Friday, October 8 -Reception for Sadie Dunbar; church night. Saturday, October 9 Open house; football, Gonzaga at Spo kane. Tuesday, October 12— Columbus day meeting of Spanish and Eng lish students. Wednesday, October 13—Tea for freshman women, Gamma Phi Beta house. Friday, October 15—Sigma Chi radio dance; Sigma Alpha Epsilon pledge dance; Delta Delta Delta pladge dance, Alpha Tau Omega pledge dance, Phi Sigma Kappa pledge dance, Alpha Omicron Pi pledge dance, Yeomen banquet, Chi Psi radio dance. Saturday, October 16—Football, USC at Los Angeles, Alpha Gam ma Delta pledge dance, Delta Up silon pledge dance, Kappa Kappa Gamma pledge dance, Co-op mixer, Theta Chi pledge dance, Kappa Sigma house dance. Monday, October 18—Hall John son choir. Wednesday, October 20—Visit of sectional president of Mortar Board. Friday, October 22—Paul White man concert program, rally parade, homecoming dance. Saturday, October 23 Football, OSC at Eugene. Sunday, October 24—Galli Curci concert. Wednesday, October 27 -Phi Sig ma Kappa dinner, Alpha Chi Ome ga reception. Thursday, October 28 — Univer sity theater. Friday, October 29—University theater, Delta Gamma pledge dance, Delta Tau Delta pledge dance, Kappa Alpha Theta pledge dance, Sigma Nu pledge dance, Al pha Delta Pi pledge dance, Chi Omega pledge'*dance, Alpha Phi pledge dance, Alpha Chi Omega pledge dance, Pi Beta Phi pledge dance, Sigma Kappa pledge dance, Canard club dance. Saturday, October 30 —Univer sity theater, junior-senior ball, Sig ma Chi pledge dance, Sigma Phi Epsilon pledge dance, Phi Kappa Psi pledge dance. Monday, November 1—Midterms. Friday, November 5 — Interna tional banquet. Saturday, November 6 — Foot ball, WSC at Portland. Thursday, November 11—Angna Enters concert. Friday, November 12 —Sopho more class mix, Phi Delta Theta Salem Will Be Hosts To State Principles Meet October 15-16 October 15 and 16 marks the date of the ninth annual high school principals' conference to be held in the. new senior high school auditorium, Salem. This is under the joint auspices of the Oregon high school princi pals' association of which Thomas R. Fowler is president, and the state department of education, state superintendent being Rex Putnam. While the program will be in charge of the officers of the asso ciation and will be recognized as an official meeting of that organi zation, participation will not be confined to members. All others, whether members of the association or not. who stand in supervisory or administrative relation to secondary schools of Ihe state, either public or private, as well as those engaged in the training of teachers for high schools or junior high schools, are invited to attend and take part in the discussions. This includes high school and junior high school prin cipals, assistant principals, super visors, city and county superinten dents. ana' .instructors in teacher training institutions. The eight preceding conferences have been of definite value to sec ondary education in general and particularly to the high schools represented. School boards are ur gently requested to make arrange ments for their high school princi pals to attend the session this year. Dr. Gage Will Give KOAC Talk Friday Dr. Gage, associate professor of business administration, will speak on “The Extent of American Hold ings in China," on the business hour, KOAC, at 8:15 Friday eve ning. pledge dance, Phi Gamma Delta dance. Saturday, November 13 — Foot ball, California at Portland. Friday, November 19 - All-dor mitory dance, Sigma Alpha Mu pledge dance. Saturday, November 20 Foot ball, Washington at Seattle, Alpha Xi Delta pledge dance, Women’s Co-op. Thursday, November 25 to Sun day, November 28 Thanksgiving vacation. , Thursday, December 2—Univer sity theater. Friday, December 3 -University theater. Saturday, December 4 — Dads’ day, soph informal, University theater. Sunday, December 4 — Frances Brockman concert. Friday and Saturday, December 10 and 11—closed weekend. December 13-17—term examina tions. December 20—Christmas vaca ton begins. Today's Teletype Talk By STAN HOBSON Japan Defies Powers Guns Rock Shanghai Child Bride Freed Italy Told ot Hurry Quick, Mrs. Sanger! WAR-ENDING MEET MAY BE HELD IN V. S. WASHINGTON With Wash ington as the possible scene of the nine-power pact conference, the United States government last night prepared to take part in the momentous meeting, designed to end the China-Japan struggle. Secretary Hull and his aides gave no hint as to the extent of cooperation other nations can ex pect from the United States in specific action to end the Oriental war. Geneva and London officials suggested that the meeting be held in Washington the home of the pact. * * * Tokyo—rutting it boldly, brief ly, and to the point, the Japanese foreign office declared yesterday that no matter what decision the nine-power conference may make, the Japanese empire’s "fundament al policy” will remain unchanged. =t* $ SHELLS AND BOMBS TAKE CHINESE TOLL SHANGHAI Japan answered the world’s powers yesterday with bombardments that shook the very foundation of Shanghai. Adding to an earlier blood-spattering air bombing to the south that took the lives of more than 500 Chinese civilians, Japan’s warships hurled shells across the Whankpoo river into Pootung in a deadly duel with Chinese artillery batteries there. It was in this manner that Japan celebrated the opening of the fourth month of warfare. Several times whining shells endangered the American Asiatic fleet flag ship Augusta, anchored in “battle ship row” on the Whangpoo. * * * ODD MARITAL CASE IN SEATTLE ENDED SEATTLE — The marriage of 14-year-old Delta Palmer to John Menefield, 38, a Negro, was an nuled yesterday by a superior court judge who expressed amaze ment at the child bride’s story. He suggested prosecution of the per son who performed the ceremony. The girl’s ex-husband, a garbage dump worker, and her parents, are serving terms in prison on a per jury count for falsifying the girl’s age last February when the mar riage license was obtained. BRITAIN, FRANCE GROWING IMPATIENT LONDON .Britain and France, angered by Italy's delay in answer ing their invitation to a three power confab regarding the flow of Fascist blackshirts into Spain, told the Italian foreign minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, that they will not wait much longer for a Churches Will Offer Informal Programs Four young people's groups of local churches will officially wel come college students tonight at party-receptions from 8 to 11:30. Although invitations have been sent to preference students, those who have no church affiliations are invited. It is hoped that open house will serve to acquaint stu dents with the churches and their officers. Rev. Lansing E. Kempton of Portland will be present at Ger linger hall, third floor, to meet Episcopal students. Rev. and Mrs. H. R. White will also be present. Dancing and games will be in cluded in the program, according to Miss Mary Louise Hohn, student director. Congregational students will meet in the social room of the church at Thirteenth and Ferry. The program with the Plymouth group in charge will consist of games and folk dancing. Rev. and Mrs. Wirt and the faculty mem bers of the church and their wives will also be present. reply. Italian war planes in great num bers are reported making their way into embattled Spain, going to aid the insurgents. Followers of Mussolini, active in Spain, are now said to number between 60,000 and 70,000. ODDITIES FOUND IN DAY’S NEWS Paternal prolificacy personified —that's Mr. August Thiele, 64, of Germany. Yesterday his 38th child was born which now gives him a total of 34 living children and 60 grandchildren. Three wives have shared the burden. * * * Kansas City police dug up a deep, dark secret yesterday in an experiment with their lie deteci or. Trying the device out on the head quarters telephone operator, the questioner casually asked, “Are you married?” Her blood pres sure went up, the recording needle gyrated widly, she admitted she gyrated wildly, she admitted she a job. Kramers BEAUTY SALON Reasonable prices Location right on campus. Work of best quality. Phone 1880 Campus headquarters for Merle Norman Cosmetics Latests Reports Show ASUO Sale Results in Draw Track Suits, Shorts to Be Featured at End Oi Campaign A tally of the total ASUO cards sola’ during the drive brought a surprise to faction leaders, Bob DeArmond and Peggy Vermillion, yesterday when the count showed a tie. At noon today either Bobby “Duck” DeArmond, co-chairman of the drive for men, or Peggy Ver million, drive leader for the women, was to wheel the winner up 13th in a wheelbarrow. The drive will be extended until Tuesday noon so one faction or the other can obtain a lead. At 11:50 DeArmond will appear in front of the Side wearing a track suit, and Miss Vermillion will come garbed in a pair of shorts—and other nec essary attire. The question is, who will wheel the wheelbarrow. DeArmond plans to organize his captains for a final effort exceeding any of the past. Miss Vermillion stated she had similar plans. Furniture awards were an nounced yesterday by Zollie Vol chock as follows: Tri-Delt first, Alpha Chi, second, Alpha Phi third, and Chi Omega fourth. GRADUATE OF ’30 RETURNS Mary Frances Dllday of Long Beach, California, visited with friends in the journalism depart ment yesterday while touring the northwest. Miss Dilday is a mem ber of the journalism class of ’30. Enjoy ALL l!u> game with perfect vision. Have your eyes accu rately examined at— ELLA C. MEADE 14 W. Eighth ’FENNY GOODMAN AND HIS SWING BAND — with the famous Goodman Trio and Quartette going to town! Carrying on the summer course in "Swing-ology” as taught by that inimitable master, Benny Goodman. Try to keep your feet still when the Goodman quar tette gets "in the groove.” ^Oakfe Cortege PAINLESS EDUCATION WITH 44 PREZ JACK oakie AT THE HELM Assisted every week by an all-star Holly wood cast including: “STU” ERWIN RAYMOND HATTON WILLIAM AUSTIN Hear that educator of educators —"Honest Jack” Oakie gag the highlights of college life. eve** TUE, 6V ni«-ht "• *• «• lvcjuoiiljj tobacco Company, Winaton oaioui, North Carolina — at 9:30 pm E.S.T., 8:30 pm C.S.T., 7:30 pm M.S.T., 6:30 pm P.S.T. over WABC and Coast-to-Coast Columbia Network,. A MATCHLESS BLEND of finer, More Expensive Tobaccos, Turkish and Domestic