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VOLUME XXXIX UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1938 NUMBER 58 U. OF 0. LIBRARY CAMPUS Press Conference Celebrities Tex Oliver Gets Opportunity for Board Interview Sunday Visit of Third Coach Candidate Entertaining By VINCENT GATES Meet Tex Oliver . . . Football coach, ex-West Pointer, member of Phi Beta Kappa and a personable talker, this six-footer from the high plateaus of Arizona would like to meet the University of Oregon—for keeps. “Naturally I want the coaching job, or I wouldn’t have come 1700 miles just for my health—not from Arizona.” G. A. “Tex” Oliver, a witty personage with a keen sense of humor and a smooth, fluent manner of speech came over to the Emerald office Sunday and talked of football. Shields Interview Next Gene Shields will be the next candidate for the Oregon coaching post to come before the athletic ^ board, Anse Cornell, athletic man ager, announced last night. The board will meet with Shields Wednesday night. He will be the fourth man who has been inter viewed by the group. What does he think of Monday morning quarterbacks ? — those street-corner alumni factions that hold post-mortems of every game and tell the coach what's wrong? Let Tex tell you about it: “In Tucson we have a club called “Town Cats'- 300 of them—that meets once a week and discusses the past games. Sometimes we show pictures of the game and the ‘Cats’ comment on various plays and players. It doesn’t do any harm and it’s a lot of darn good fun.” Tex admitted he borrowed the idea from Minnesota’s Bernie Bierman, and when asked if it kept 4 the alumni wolves from howling, he grinned and his eyes took on a humorous twinkle. Tex Oliver is a man of original ity. Speaking to the athletic board Sunday just before he entrained for Tucson, Oliver outlined an in teresting plan he carried out at Arizona last fall before the season began. For the fourth year he promoted a “football clinic and (Please turn to page four) Women, Cause Of All Troubles Says UWProl By ALYCE ROGERS “What we ought to do is to get all women married—and fire all ” married women. That's the best way to end the depression,” was the panacea offered by Ralph Gundlach, University of Washing ton professor, recently. “Women consider college solely as a dating bureau, and their only purpose is to go fishing,” he con tinued. Concerning women suf frage, he stated, it “won't last very long — it can’t — only men are capable of making decisions—wo men are too emotional.” After quelling a threatened fem inine walkout in protest of his sen timents, Dr. Gunlach concluded by saying, “women ought to be de pendent—how else can you keep i ’em down?” * * * Air Reserve “America lags in training its (Please turn to page three) _... (Courtesy of the Register-Guard) Top, A. E. Voorliies, retiring president, Oregon press conference; George Turnbull, re-elected secretary; Hugh G. Ball, new president; Erie W. Allen, honored at press luncheon Saturday. Below, Gladys Battleson holds cup won by Arthur Bond of the Malheur Eenterprise who was not present. E. A. Sonnicher and Hugh Hall, publishers of the Hood Iliver News, winner of the Sigma Delta C'hi cup, and William I.anime, contest chairman. Dean Allen Honored On 25th Year Here A climax in the Oregon Press conference on the campus during the recent weekend' was the feting of Dean Eric W. Allen who is round ing out his twenty-fifth year as head of the school of journalism at the University of Oregon. Dean Allen came to the University of Oregon in the fall of 1912 —just 25 years ago. He had graduated from the University of Wis consin, taught high school classes, and worked on various midwestern --1 papers before coming to the Pa Guild Hall to Feature Hit'Ah! Wilderness' Comedy Will Be Held Friday, Saturday, Tuesday Nights Opening Friday night at 8 p.m. is the University theater produc tion of Eugene O'Neil’s comedy hit “Ah! Wilderness.” The play is di rected by Ottilie Turnbull Seybolt and features a large cast of sea soned entertainers. Refreshments will be served at the opening Fri day and all who desire may attend in formal dress. At Sunday night’s dress rehear sal the cast made its first acquain tance with some of the difficulties incurred by the use of authentia props and with some perplexing technical problems. A dinner se quence in the production necessi tates the use, of actual food. Roy Schwartz, Nat Miller of the show, states that in a best two out of three wrestling match with the lob ster that the lobster took two straight falls. He gives as his excuse the fact that he was weakened at the start of the match by a still encounter with the blue fish. The rest of the cast playing roles as various mem bers of the Miller family also ex perienced difficulty in downing the lobster with any grace. Jewell to Confer With School Men In Portland Today Dean J. R. Jewell of the school of education will go to .Portland today to confer with school author ities there on a proposed occupa tional survey of that city. Because of the large variation of industries in Portland, the sta ble population, and a size inter mediate between very large and small cities, Portland has been cho sen in preference to other Ameri can cities as the center for a five year survey of occupations under the direction of the federal board of vocational education. cific coast. For a while Mr. Allen worked as reporter and news editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. At that time there were no courses in journalism offered at the University of Oregon. Sens ing a need for such courses, Presi dent P. J. Campbell asked Mr. Al len to take over the department of journalism. Mr. Allen accepted. While in Seattle Mr. Allen* had married Sally Elliot, and she came with him to Eugene. This first department of jour nalism was housed in the basement 1 of McClure hall. When that over flowed, some classes were carried to the little white building that now contains the educational ac tivities offices. The press was also in the base ment of McClure, and caused a great deal of worry to psychology professors who were forced to stop experiments when the press began to roar and the building to shake. Two years later the department was raised to the status of school, and Professor Allen to the status of dean. Enrollment increased from the former handful and (Please turn to page three) Hall Dwellers Say milk too Thin Rally to Send Ducks North On Road Trip UO Men Will Travel Northward to Battle Husky Quintet Oregon's championship driving Duck quintet will be sent to clash with the Washington Huskies by 1 mass of victory-seeking Oregon talliers Wednesday at 7 p.m. in front of Johnson, it was announced yesterday by Paul Cushing, student yell-king. Arrangements for the rally will be handled by Sam Fort, who said Hobson and his boys would be on band to receive the student send off. The rally committee chairman said that entertainment would be offered the students at the rally. Prizes will also be awarded, said Fort, to the student with the “most successful noise producing instru ment.” This trip will be the first long distance departure from the cam pus on the part of the team. After the Seattle game, the team will journey to Missoula, Montana, to tangle with the Grizzlies on their home court, then will return to Eugene. The University band will be on hand Wednesday night for the ral ly, Fort said. All students are re quested to bring every available "noise maker,” with the possibil ity of a serpentine rally march may be formed by the committee. Dance Honorary Holds Tryouts Wed. Master Dance, creative dance honorary, will hold additional try outs Wednesday evening at 7:30 in Gerlinger dance studio for stu dents wishing to try for Junior Master Dance. Technique, skill, and improvisa tion ability, as well as personality and effort are taken into consider ation in judging women trying out. Law Fraternity Pledges Six Men Phi Alpha Delta, law school fra ternity pledged six men yesterday. The pledges are Norman Easley, Robert Goodwin, William Shep herd, Hayden J. Price, Jason D. Lee, and William Speirs. Formal initiation for the neo phytes is set for 3 p.m., Friday af ternoon in Gerlinger hall. On Three Concerto Program I Aurora Underwood, George Hopkins, and Jane Thaeher ... to play for seholarship aid. Three Oregon Teachers To Be Featured on Music School Concert Program Featuring the talented performances of Jane Tliacher, Aurora Potter Underwood, and George Hopkins, the University symphony orchestra, under the baton of Hex Underwood, will present a concert in the University music auditorium Thursday, January 27. The soloists, all professors of piano at the University, will each play a concerto with accompaniment by the orchestra. The program wm uegui wiLii Dct'uiuvfu a mo. jestic “Emperor” concerto with Mr. Hopkins at the piano. Follow ing will be Mrs. Thacher playing Schumann’s second piano concerto, and Mrs. Underwood featured with the orchestra in Franz Liszt’s con certo in E flat major. Tickets, which are being sold in McArthur court at $1 for adults [ and 50 cents for students, are all for reserved seats. Only 600 seats are available, it was announced. Sheldon Speaks on Education Trends Dr. Henry D. Sheldon, research professor of history and education, was the speaker at the weekly house mother’s meeting yesterday afternoon in Gerlinger hall. Dr. Sheldon amplified on his speech of two weeks ago in which he dis cussed “Modern Trends in Ameri can Education.” He dealt yester day with an explanation of four experiments in modern education. The speaker stated that these experiments are being carried on at Antioch college, the University of Minnesota, the University of Wisconsin, and an experimental college in Florida. Machines Won't Take Papa's Pay Envelope Although there has been a recent trend towards the use of com plicated machines for commercial purposes, they will not replace book keepers and accountants, opined H. C. Peck, instructor of the Bur roughs machine exhibit on display at the commerce building this week. Men will always be needed who can transfer the work done by the _l machines into practical uses, Mr. 'Wilderness' Principals Pat Taylor, Eleanor Pitts, Eddie Hearn, Koy Schwartz, Janet Felt, Iris Franzen, and Jack Lewis . . . surrounded by trappings of 1908 j in newest Guild theater play. uifciumiica miu piouuv-ai o, a***. Peck continued. Each class is being taken through the exhibit and shown the various machines and their types of work. The most complicated machine is the “distribution multiple total er,” which can add 20 columns of figures to a grand total. Most of the machines require no special training of operators. Mr. Peck believes that machine manufacturing companies employ, directly and indirectly, as many men as are displaced by this spread of mechanization. Alumni Magazine Distributed Monday The January 1938 issue of Old Oregon, Oregon alumni publication, was off the press and mailed yes terday. Choice of a football coach and esume of Prink Callison’s coach record are presented in the maga zine. Other leading stories are a round-up of the basketball season to date and an analysis of this term's registration. Radio in Libe! Music Soothes Happy Studes A be whiskered sophomore brought his new Packard-Bell desk radio into the map room of the library last night, plugged it in, then studied while dance tunes were wafted to astonished students in the room. When his audience began to fill the room, the music-crazy soph pulled the plug, packed his radio and left. His name was not learned. Coeds Vie With Men In Mixed Contests — Men and women of different liv ing organizations will compete side by side in athletic contests Wed nesday evening, when a program of mixed sports will take place in the men’s physical education build ing. Leading off will be a volleyball tournament with each team com posed half of men and half of wo men. Losers in the elimination rounds of the tournament will play handball, badminton, ping pong, squash, and shuffleboard for the remainder of the evening. In addi tion there will be exhibitions of ap puaratus tumbling and fencing. Pairings have already been made between men's and women’s living organizations. Purpose of this first trial pro gram, according to the committee in charge, is to promote a variety of beneficial entertainment in which members of both sexes mayi participate. This type of program would serve to take some of the burden of entertainment away from dancing, the only other such op portunity for students. Honor Certificates Awarded 3 Students Junior certificates with honors privileges have been awarded to Robert Garretson, Maxwell Doty, and Mary Norvell. The honors rating, indicating unusual scholarship during the first two years, enables the stu dents to do special study and to graduate with honors. JAMESON TO TALK Alpha Kappa Delta, national so ciology honorary, will meet Wed nesday night in Gerlinger hall to hear a paper by Samuel Haig Jameson, professor of sociology on “Opportunities in the Field of Pure Sociology.” Dr. Jameson’s paper will continue the group’s study of vocational opportunities for so ciology majors. Entries for Contest MustBe Made Today Fifty Dollars; Several Divisions Offered to Entrants Final entries in the talent con test, sponsored by the speech de partment and directed by Warren Waldorf, must be made by 5 o’clock this afternoon, Waldorf an nounced yesterday. Entrants are required to give a description or idea for their skit or program at time of registration, he added. Fifty dollars in cash prizes is be ing offered to division winners in the contest, which is designed to give the speech department and the educational activities office a catalog of campus talent, either amateur or professional. Any Uni versity student may enter the com petition. “The University has always needed a talent reference for en tertainment programs," George Root, educational activities head, explained. "If this contest suc ceeds, we will attempt to list all campus talent next year," he con tinued. Shapely Moddls Display New Knits At AWS Style Show AWS will sponsoy a fashion show at the first mass meeting of the term, at 4 o'clock in Alumni hall, Gerlinger, today. Mrs. Esther Rowley, using stu dent models, will present her se lection of Logan knit garments. These styles have all appeared in Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue. Student models selected are Bet ty Pownall, Betty Crawford, Lor raine Larson, Rosemary O’Donnell, Virginia Bird, Ruth Ketchum, and Sybil Scroggie. The dresses will be placed on display in the AWS room for the remainder of the week. Sherry Ross Men Protest AgainstMilk Dorm Residents Say Beverage Skimmed For Meals; Appeal To Chancellor Complaining against the quality of milk being served at dormitory meals, Sherry Ross hall residents under the leadership of Blair Har ner, freshman in social science, yes terday sent a letter of protest to Chancellor Frederick M. Hunter and President-elect Donald M. Erb. Mrs. Genevieve Turnipseed, di rector of dormitories, was contact ed yesterday, and said that all of the milk purchased by the dorms is grade A milk. Grade A milk must contain a minimum of 3.8 per cent of butterfat. Milk Laws Interpreted City Food Inspector L. G. Hel terline, interpreting the ordinance regarding milk yesterday said, “Most of the milk sold in Eugene is about 4 per tcent, which is above the minimum. This is known as whole milk, or that from which no butterfat has been skimmed. Reg ulations of the state forbid restau rants from selling milk from any but individual bottles opened at the tables. However, if food dispens ers want to buy large quantities and skim it themselves they are not forbidden.” Dairy Sells Skim Milk One large dairy firm in Eugene that supplies *iany of the living organizations admitted that it does sell skim milk to many of its large customers at 16 cents a gallon and that the butterfat content of this milk is “pretty slight.” One former kitchen worker in the men’s dorms said that after setting all night the cream of the cans is removed for cereals and the rest is used for all purposes. Winter Registration Hits Record High Winter term registration climbed to a new all time high this week at the University when enrollment reached 3023. The junior class and the auditors are the only groups which do not exceed the 1937 fig ures. Registration for this term is freshmen, 906, sophomores 1110, juniors 298, seniors 449, special students 18, auditors 8, profession al students 78, graduates 156. Winter term, 1937: freshmen 859, sophomores 980, juniors 289, sen iors 413, special students 20, audi tors 11, professional students 88, graduates 134, total students 2794. Law School Issues Challenge to Coeds Aiming at the heart of the traditional inability of law men to date for their dances Sidney Milligan, law school prexy, last night fired the first blast in a campaign to put across the school’s annual winter for mal, with a legal declaration through the dance Dating Publicity Com mittee. LEGAL NOTICE In Re Barristers’ Ball WHEREAS that most august and puissant body, the students of the Oregon Law School, in congress assembled, has decreed that the outstanding event of the winter social season, the formal Barristers' Ball, be held Friday evening, the 28th day of January, 1938; and WHEREAS the said students, mindful of their status as the most _ ■ — —ciplpot crrnnn nf qnHnl Coeds, Frosh Plan First Rifle Match The first rifle match of the sea son will take place Saturday morn ing at 10 o'clock on the ROTC ri fle range. The coeds’ team will compete with the freshman men's team in an eight-man match. Sergeant Harry Blythe, coach for both teams, will act as match official. Del Bjork, last year’s varsity rifle team captain, will act as coeds’ coach, and William Gie seke will instruct the frosh. ! cn the Oregon campus, do wish and desire to gladden the hearts of Oregon coeds all and sundry, and to abate the anxieties of those whose constant hope it has been to be summoned to attend said Bar riter’s Ball; be it therefore made KNOWN that from the date of this notice, all of those fortunate women shall be eligible to receive and accept bids to the afore mentioned Barrister’s Ball, who prove themselves qualified in: 1, Pulchritude, both of figure and of countenance. 2. Congeniality and loving di position. i Please turn to pane thrri'i