Better Seats to Be
Given Students for
Concert Programs
Annual Red Cross
Membership Drive
Starts on Campus
VOLUME XXXIX
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1937
NUMBER 34
Campus Groups Flan
Attack on Deferred
Pledging, Dads Probe
Awards Will Be
Presented for
Dads Day Contest
Prizes to Be Given at
Banquet Saturday;
New Cup Offered
Three trophies will be awarded
to campus living- organizations
this year for the largest represen
tations of dads during Dads’ day,
December 3-5, it was announced
yesterday by Bill Cummings, chair
man, following a meeting of the
student-faculty Dads’ committee.
The awards are sponsored an
nually by members of the Oregon
Dads’ association. The winning
houses will be named and the
prizes awarded at the Dads’ day
banquet in John Straub Memorial
hall, Saturday, December 4.
Three Trophies
First and second prizes are be
ing offered for the largest propor
tions of dads, and a third trophy
will be given for the largest pro
portion of freshman dads.
The dads must be officially reg
istered at Johnson hall not later
than 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Decern
her 4.
A new trophy is being obtained
to take the place of the A. W.
Norblad cup, which was won for
the third time last year by Phi
Mu and is consequently the perma
nent property of that organiza
tion.
Chi Psis Last Winners
Last year Chi Psi lodge won the
Paul T. Shaw coffee service, and
the O. L. Laurgaard cup was won
by Alpha Delta Pi. Clifford L. Con
stance, assistant registrar, will
audit the computations of the reg
istration committee in determining
the prize-winning houses.
Digest Reports
More Drinks,
Fewer Drunks
By ALYCE ROGERS
“There is more drinking of al
coholic beverages and students are
drink more hard liquor than light
liquor in most American colleges
and universities,” was the result of
a recent poll of universities and
colleges carried on by the former
Literary Digest, and recently pub
lished in the magazine.
“Drinking is on the increase ev
erywhere, but there is relatively
less drunkenness. Students abhor
the drunk, admire the man who
can drink like a gentleman,” ac
cording to reports of 645 presi
dents, deans, student leaders, and
student editors, representing 581
American colleges “of every type
of sectarian and non-sectarian
school in the country.”
Although the increase in drink
ing in American colleges and uni
versities becomes apparent with
the survey, this increase hardly
keeps pace with the general in
crease in alcoholic consumption of
Americans generally. The majority
favor education for drinking, not
against it, as a solution for the
liquor problem.
To Be or Not to Be
Whether or not the University
of Chicago should remain in Big
Ten athletics is to be the subject of
a poll of undergraduates by the
Daily Maroon, student publication.
Long Line at Pump
Coeds with dainty figures may
attract the opposite sex easier, but
the woman who is of medium
height and is “pleasingly plump-’
will live longer, according to Dr.
Louis Dublin who recently com
pleted a study of 329,627 policy
holders of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance company.
Managers Council,
Fraternity Heads
Discuss Question at
Meetings
With the approach of the ques
tion of deferred pledging to be
brought up at the annual Dad’s
day business meeting in December,
two campus groups, representative
of living organizations which it
would affect, are planning opposi
tion to the plan, leaders of the
groups indicated last night.
The deferred pledging plan was
tabled' for further investigation by
the Dad’s council at their meeting
last year and is scheduled to be
brought to the fore in discussions
this year. At meetings held recent
ly of the interfraternity council
and house managers council, the
subject came in for its share of
informal consideration.
Research Group Named
Don Johnson, interfraternity
president before leaving for the
national convention today, appoint
ed a group of the council members
to consider three aspects of the
question: open rushing, deferred
pledging, and the present closed
rushing system. This group will
represent the council in the event
any joint discussions are held with
the dads.
Johnson also named John Keyes,
vice-president of the group, as the
one in charge of any special work
to be handled while he is in the
East.
Any initiative in starting the
battle to get the new system (be
ing used at Stanford now), would
have to come from the dads meet
ing committee reports, Johnson
stated, but the council would be
ready to talk over the question
from the fraternities’ viewpoint.
“To all appearances, the deferred
rushing will be opposed to the full
est extent by our group, which fa
vors the present system over* it,” 1
he stated, adding that the open
rushing might be considered care
fully also.
Managers Undecided
Meanwhile the house managers,
meeting yesterday, appeared un
decided as to whether they would
take any definite action in event
of a discussion, believing them
selves unauthorized to play any of
ficial part. Although the question
came up for discussion, the mana
gers said unofficially that they
would leave it up to the council to
oppose, unless called on for finan
cial reports on the expense of put
ting the plan into effect. It was
known that the managers although
not going on record opposed to the
system, are strongly opposed to it
on the ground that it would be a
financial impossibility for several
houses.
Bob Goodfellow, prexy of the
manager group, will take a place
on the house council as a result of
iction of the latter group in tak
ing in one representative.
Women's Contest
To Be Sponsored
By Ad Honorary
Gamma Alpha Chi
Plans Assisted by
Portland Store
Introducing Harriet Hoffman
and Olive Keller, heads of adver
tising at a Portland department
store, AWS will hold a mass meet
ing at Villard asesmbly today at 4.
Miss Hoffman and Miss Keller
are to start a contest on the cam
pus which will be open to all cam
pus women and which is being
sponsored by Gamma Alpha Chi,
women’s advertising honorary.
Pamphlets to Tell All
Representing Charles F. Berg,
pamphlets containing the necessary
information on the contest which
will be outlined today will be avail
able during Thanksgiving vacation.
At the end of winter term, a
fashion show will be given by Gam
ma Alpha Chi as their annual
dance. Berg’s will assist with this.
Thetas Lead Program
Starting a new custom in enter
tainment, each women’s living or
ganization will rotate the task for
meetings. Kappa Alpha Theta
volunteered to set the precedent
and will be in charge of the pro
gram today.
Stetson to Attend
Phi Delta Kappa
Banquet in Seattle
Prof. F. L. Stetson of the school
of education will be an honor guest
of the Nu chapter of Phi Delta
Kappa, men’s national education
honorary, at a banquet held in
Seattle on November 19.
As a part of the national cur
riculum survey, Professor Stetson
visited schools in every state last
year. He will speak to the Seattle
chapter on “Cooperation Study of
Secondary School Standards.”
Frosh Politicos Fail
ToBreak Traditional
Parties at Banquet
Professor Dahlberg's Humorous Political
Speech Headlines Program? 'Big Apple'
Instruction Caps Evening's Fun
A soft soft splurge on the water of frosh politics was all the
politicians’ dinner-meeting for 37 freshmen from every living organiza
tion on the campus could raise last night at a meeting originally
scheduled to ’’break" political alignments in the class, a concensus of
participants showed.
The banquet accomplished a well-fed feeling, more acquaintances.
Matinee Dance
To Be Given bg
ASUO Thursday
Admission by Student
Body Cards Only;
Meyers to Play
Starting a series of ASUO
dances to get in full swing the first
of winter term, Barney Hall, stu
dent body president, yesterday
named Jean Rawson and Clayton
Ellis co-chairmen of the dance ser
ies, the first to be held at 4:30
Thursday.
The dance will be held in the
building behind Gerlinger hall, with
Gus Meyers and a small contingent
of his band supplying the “swing.”
Smokey Whitfield will entertain
with a couple of numbers.
Ralliers on Tap
The rally committee will be pres
ent to “talk up” Duck chances in
the Oregon-Washington game Sat
urday in Seattle also, said Hall.
More of the ASUO dances will
be scheduled winter term than have
been possible during fall term, Hall
said, with dances following basket
ball games in the Igloo.
Hayward Field to Undergo
Operation to Eradicate
Monogram Burned in Turf
More echoes from “little civil war’’ activities were heard yesterday
when it was divulged by authoritative sources that it will be necessary
to take up and replace the Hayward field turf on which enthusiasts
burned OSC initials two nights before the Oregon-OSC game.
The 10-foot high letters were burned into the turf by means of
gasoline, so that it will be impossible to re-seed the areas successfullv.
Cost of replacing ruined parts was
estimated at between $20 and $25
by Fred A. Cuthbert, University
landscape architect.
Money will probably be diverted
from University funds to cover the
cost of the work. Although labor
will probably be supplied through
WPA grants on the campus, this
will result in no saving, because it
will take the labor away from oth
er projects.
Date for the beginning of the
process was not announced, but it
is probable that the work will be
done as soon as possible in order
that the turf on the field will be
uniform throughout, it was stated.
Fiction Writers Don
Gunny-sacks Today
Five additions to the “gunny-sack brigade,” whose alumni member
ship includes such outstanding names as Ernest Haycox, Edison Mar
shall, and Robert Ormond Case, will be loose on the campus today.
They are a harmless lot, being merely initiates of Tabard Inn, men’s
fiction writing honorary.
Freed Bales, Tabard Inn president, said last night that the “gunny
Crumbaker to Talk
Before Economists
Calvi’i Crumbaker, professor of
economics, will read a paper en
titled ‘ Government as a Factor in
Transportation Developments,” at
a meeting of the Pacific Coast
Economic association, Pomona col
lege, Claremont, California, De
cember 28.
The paper will discuss the prob
lem of railroad, water, and high
way carriers as controlled by gov
ernment agencies.
Oregon, Washington, California, |
Montana, Nevada, Arizona, and
Utah will be represented at the
neeting.
sacks” which the men will be seen
wearing today "are not ‘gunny
sacks’ but very decent sackcloth
tabards,”
The neophytes — Don Seaman,
Glenn Hasselrooth, Carl Nehren,
John Valelau, and Roy Terry—
will meet at the home of W. F. G.
Thacher, chapter adviser, at 8 to
night for initiation.
The “gunny-sacks” will then be
laid away for future Tabard Inn
members.
CASWELL TRANSFERRED
Don Caswell, graduate of the
school of journalism in 1934, has
been transferred to the San Fran
cisco office of the United Press. He
was formerly in charge of the Sa
lem office.
Library Observes
Nation'sBookWeek
In observance of national book
week, November 15-21, the 50 nov- (
els chosen by the Pratt institute
free library of New York as the
most conspicuous in the first quar
ter of this century are now on dis
play in the browsing room of the
library.
Ranging from Arnold Bennett’s
realistic “Old Wives’ Tale’’ to
James Stephens’ “Crock of Gold,”
the books vary widely in viewpoint
as well as subject matter. Novel
ists of America, England, Poland,
France, Sweden, and Spain are in
cluded in the list.
Mothers to Be Guests
At Tea in Portland
Honoring mothers of freshmen,
a tea will be given this Friday in
Portland at the home of Mrs. W.
P. Yaw. Both Dean Hazel P.
Schwering and Assistant Dean Al-1
ice Macduff will go to Portland
for the tea.
Today Deadline
For Students to
Pay Back Fees
This afternoon at 3 o’clock is
the deadline for students whose
fees are delinquent who would
avoid suspension from the Uni
versity for non-payment, accord
ing to an announcement from
the office of C. K. Stalsberg,
University cashier.
After the hour named, suspen
sion is automatic, with rein
statement possible only through
payment of a $2 fine plus $1.50
daily fines up to the time of
payment.
entertainment by the Gamma Phi
chorus and Smoky Whitfield, and
a speech by W. A. Dahlberg, pro
fessor of speech, humorizing poli
tics, and a pledge to do away with
extreme throat-cutting.
But as for doing away with old
line political standards, nothing
was brought up before the meeting.
Arrangements for the dinner
were made by Dick Williams, as
sisted by Stanley Johnson. Alice
Lyle organized the sororities to
attend the affair.
Payne Speaks
Speeches were also made by
class president Gleason Payne, and
by Wally Rossman and Art Hanni
fan for one bloc, and Ken Erickson
and Harrison Bergtholt for the oth
er bloc.
“Promoting better relationships
between the political opponents to
show that after all they should
more or less work together for the
common good was an accomplish
ment of the meeting,” said Payne
last night.
“Blocs are not dissolved,” said
Stanley Johnson, “but a friendlier
feeling has been promoted.”
May Follow All Elections
Plans were discussed to make
the occasion a follow for every
election the class holds in the fu
ture, Payne said.
Every representative was pre
sented with a souvenir gavel, in
preparation for the time he should
assume some role as class officer.
Highlighting the evening were
instructions from Smoky Whit
field on how to do the “Big Ap
ple,” with all the group practicing
on the floor of the dining room.
Robe Will Discuss
Mexican Problems
Stanley Robe, graduate student
from Oregon who is now doing re
search work for Prof. L. O. Wright
of the romance language depart
ment, will lead the Westminster
house social problems discussion
tonight at 9.
Mr. Robe will talk about the so
cial conditions in Mexico. He trav
eled to Mexico last summer to
study the language of the Mexicans
and other canditions there. Mr.
Robe spent all summer living with
Mexicans.
Second ofUO
Radio Shows
Set for Friday
Students' Program
To Go on Air Over
KOAC; Morris Will
Handle Show
With the inaugural broadcast
now history, tentative plans for
the next program in the series un
der the remote control hookup
through KOAC were being outlined
today.
The second program, which is to
be aired Friday night, will take the
place of one of the regular Friday
night KOAC broadcasts, for which
participants have hitherto had to
make the trip to Corvallis.
Arrangements are in the hands
of Dean Victor P. Morris of the
school of business administration
and Hoy Vernstrom, representing
the educational activities office,
which will have the major portion
of the hour.
Program Draws Applause
Echoes from Monday night’s
broadcast were still being heard
yesterday as a flood of congratu
latory messages continued to pour
in to the general extension office,
and to Dean Landsbury of the
school of music.
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University Alumnus
Speaks at Banquet
Ex-Grad Enumerates
Values of College
Education
By touching all phases of college
activities, Erwin S. Adams explain
ed his subject, “What Does College
Do for You,” in his speech last
night at the Phi Chi Theta ban
quet.
Adams, an Oregon graduate,
enumerated the values of a college
education, saying that the years in
preparation were well spent. Mr.
Adams, who is assistant to the
president of the Jantzen knitting
mill, which employs a number of
Oregon graduates, said that stu
dents taking a liberal college edu
cation would be able to apply this
training in later life. He also said
that he was deeply indebted to the
University and expressed his grati
tude for the training he received.
The banquet, which was held at
the Del Hey cafe, had Walter
Eschebeck, graduate assistant in
English, as toastmaster. Dean Vic
tor P. Morris, school of business,
introduced the speaker.
Museum Receives
Walton Collection
Articles with a bit of early Pacific coast history have been pre
sented to the Oregon State Museum of Anthropology, a part of the
museum of natural history here, by Miss Ada Osie Walton, of Seattle.
Such was the announcement male by Dr. L. S. Cressman, director of
the museum and head of the department of anthropology, yesterday.
Articles include 120 baskets, ceremonial hats, blankets, and other in
teresting relics.
Presentation of the gift, which
Dr. Cressman rates as one of great
value, has awaited the completion
of quarters for a museum here.
The pieces will be placed in the
display rooms in Condon hall, now
nearing completion.
The collection is the result of
many years of careful searching by
Miss Walton. She has included
work of Alaska, British Columbia,
Oregon, California, and other In
dians, as well as a beautiful Navajo
blanket, a Mexican blanket, and
relics of the Philippines, in the dis
play.
Oregon Graduate
Miss Walton is the daughter of
J. J. Walton, first president of the
University board of regents, and
for 33 years board secretary. Miss
Walton herself entered the Univer
sity when it was opened, and was
graduated in 1885. For many years
she taught school in Eugene.
The collection was started by
Miss Walton while a student in the
University. One of her earliest
acquisitions was a basket, once
owned by “Old Lucy,” last sur
vivor of the Calapooya Indian tribe
of Oregon. Another prized early
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Interfratemih] Head
Will Leave for East
Don Johnson, president of the
University of Oregon Interfrater
nity council, will leave Portland
for New York City Sunday night
to attend the annual National In
terfraternity conference to be held
Friday and Saturday following
Thanksgiving.
Johnson will travel east with
Calvin Stoddard, head of the OSC
interfraternity council.
It is the aim of the national con
ference to afford an opportunity to
discuss problems of mutual inter
est to fraternities and to act in an
advisory capacity to individual in
terfraternity councils.
According to Virgil D. Earl,
dean of men, Johnson is the first
Oregon representative to attend
the national conference. He will
be gone about two weeks.
This year the conference will
consider one major problem, and
give attention to individual prob
lems presented by the various del
egates.
Root Tells of Plans
To Give Members
Better Concert Seats
Sophs Will Give
Southern Dance
Friday Evening
Tagging, Trucking,
Informality, Theme
Of Stag Affair
Not the “Soph Mix” for class
card holding sophomores, but the
“Southern Soph Shuffle,” featuring
everything from tag dances to the
Big Apple is what is scheduled for
Friday night in Gerlinger hall at
9, said Verdi Sederstrom, chairman
of the affair, last night. Gus Mey
ers will play.
The dance was originally planned
to be open only to card-holding
sophs, but a movement was under
way yesterday to open it to the
rest of the campus—for a small
charge. However, the approval of
the dean of womne’s office was
said to be lacking for such a move.
Decorations will be cn an old
southern theme, said A1 Kreitz,
decoration chairman, yesterday.
Programs will be obtained at the
door, said Doris DeYoung, program
chairman, also free to card holders.
The dance will be a dateless af
fair, with informal clothing in or
der, Betty Lou Kurtz, assistant
chairman of the dance, said last
night.
Drama Group Gives
The Years Ahead'
Westminster players will present
the play, “The Years Ahead,” at
the Congregational church tonight
at 7:30.
The cast includes Leonard Love,
Edna Carlsen, Bob Knox, Louise
Pursley, Hazel Lewis, Ted Pursley,
Dave Wilson, and Emma Monroe.
Tonight is the second presentation
of the play this week.
New Arrangement to
Be Effective at Next
Program in Igloo on
December 5
By Bill Ralston
Tentative plans were announced
by George Root, educational activi
ties manager, last night in accord
ance with the furthering of stu
dent seating facilities for forth
coming programs of the greater
artist series.
Throughout the remaining fall
numbers and the new winter series
a new seating plan for the student
body will be put into effect. This
plan will include the opening of
the two far sections on the main
floor, the addition of at least 200
bleacher seats and will include the
two sections on either end of the
opera chairs in the balcony.
Will Open Seats
The announcement also verified
the fact that tentative plans in
progress now may open remaining
seats in the opera section to stu
dents only, after the program has
started and all reserved seat hold
ers are taken care of. Another
point that was stressed by Mr.
Root was the fact that those who
hold the most interest in the pro
grams will arrive at the court first
and therefore obtain the better
seats while those who arrive late
and are compelled to take seats
with lesser visual convenience and
have no cause for complaint.
Students Complain
Acknowledging that students
have been complaining about the
seating arrangement in Angna En
ters concert, Mr. Root said. “Mc
Arthur court was not originally
intended for a theater in which
such activities were to take place
and each time the occasion arises
a makeshift auditorium has to be
arranged.” Because student pat
ronization cannot supply sufficient
funds with which to attract the
artists, Eugene townspeople have
to be given an opportunity to se
cure reserved seats that take up
the better part of the seating ca
pacity.
Art Studes Life Soft?
Nix Say Artistic Souls
That art students have the easiest curricula on the campus seems
to be a common idea among- students enrolled in other schools of the
University. Perhaps one can trace this assertion to the fact that any
body will declare that he has more work than others do.
But this is not the only reason for some persons believing that,
if only they had some artistic ability, they could escape a lot of
drudgery.
(Just look at the art student. He doesn’t have to stay in stuffy
Beta Gamma Siama
Pledges Nine New
Members Tuesday
Eight seniors and a dean have
been pledged to Beta Gamma Sig
ma, national business administra
tion honorary, Ruth Chilcote, sec
retary, announced yesterday. A
membership in this honorary is the
highest honor conferred on a stu
dent enrolled in business ad
courses, she explained.
Seniors elected as members are:
Harold Frazee, Wade Hanson,
Frank Chambers, Delos Shinn, Gor
don Palmer, Vivian Runte, Reed
Fendall, and David Breuer. Victor
P. Morris is the dean accepted a
member.
Newly elected members will be
initiated sometime in November,
followed by a banquet the first
week in December.
Landsbury to Write
Broadcast Script
—
John J. Landsbury, dean of the ■
school of music, is writing a paper
on “Education Through Music”
which will be presented over the
air soon.
Dean Landsbury’s alma mater,
Simpson college of Indianola, Iowa,
gives weekly broadcasts, and re
quests alumni all over the country
to write papers for presentation
over the air. Dean Landsbury was
among those selected to do this.
classrooms all clay. Indeed not.
One can find him sitting on the
bleachers by the race, or elsewhere
on the campus; or perhaps he
might even go with his class on a
trip and do his work there. And,
if he must stay inside, look at the
building he's in. Altogether his is
the ideal of having pleasant sur
roundings in which to work. Who
couldn't work in such an atmos
phere ?)
He isn’t like the rest of us who
have to study and consume a lot
of dry facts about something we
aren’t much interested in anyway.
However, the life of an art stu
dent isn’t a “bed of roses,” even
though outward, appearances might
indicate such a thing.
It is true that there is little as
signed reading to be done in art
courses. Students in the art school,
however, must find innumerable in
spirations for various projects as
signed.
“You can’t just put your pencil
down on a piece of paper,” as one
student expressed it, “say ‘come
hither,’ and your idea is there. It
isn't.” Instead it takes hours of
thought and research before an
idea is born.
If an idea doesn't come he may
go for a walk or take time off un
til he finds a suitable idea.
On days following the birth of
the idea, the art student may be
at his place in the art building by
7:30 in the morning. And if one
3hould return around 11 (and some
times later) at night, he would
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