Kirk Eldridge
r Heads Spring
ASDO Drive
Card Sale Campaigr
Launched; Singers
Baseball Offered as
Attractions
Kirk Eldridge will head tin
spring term ASUO drive, accord
ing to an announcement made bj
Barney Hall yesterday. Eldridge
met with assistant chairmen anc
drive captains yesterday afternoon
f outlining details of the drive which
is hoped' will boost spring ASUC
card sales to a new all-time high
Working with Eldridge are Lloyd
Hoffman, heading the drive in the
men’s living organizations, and
Catherine Taylor, in the women's
houses. Clyde Carroll is in charge
of campus promotion; Jane Slat
ky, advertising; Wen Brooks, pub
licity.
The ASUO program for spring
term features Lanny Ross, cele
brated American lyric tenor, who
will come to the campus the first
Sunday after registration, and
Helen Jepson, leading soprano of
the Metropolitan Opera company,
who will appear later in the term.
Also included on the program will
be the Peer Gynt spectacle, big
gest production ever to be staged
on the Oregon campus, to be di
rected by Horace Robinson.
There will be 13 home baseball
games. Hobson’s men took the
Northwest championship last year.
There will be three track meets in
which George Varoff, holder of the
world’s indoor track record, and
Mack Robinson, who participated
in the last Olympics, will take
part. And there will be the spring
elections, assemblies, and matinee
dance on the libe terrace. All
these on the spring term ASUO
schedule.
According to chairman Eldridge
of the drive, the biggest money
buy in years will be offered to stu
dents with their spring term ASUO
card, $3. Students unable to make
the $3 payment registration day
will be able to take advantage of
the activity program by paying
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U of W Senior
r Evicted by Old
Political Ban
By ALYCE ROGERS
Suspending the student chairman
of one discussion group, and dis
banding another after locking it
out of.its meeting place, the Uni
versity of Washington administra
tion moved this week to enforce a
30-year-old board of regents ban
against political speakers on the
campus.
Harold Durham, senior in Eng
lish literature, was suspended,
pending action of the university
discipline committee. Durham is
officially under fire for repeated in
fractions of the ruling which for
bids bringing outside political
speakers to the campus. Durham
attempted to bring Vic Meyers,
candidate for mayor in a recent
j election, before the First Voter's
club. Meyers, pleading sickness,
did not appear, but sent his woman
secretary, who spoke without the
administration’s permission at the
last meeting.
Soul'Mates...
Marriage vs. college is a prob
lem that need not exist, Iowa
State’s 100 married couples told
the school paper recently. Surpris
ingly, most students say they are
supporting themselves in college
without the aid of parents. They
claim that their soul-mate increas
es initiative, incentive to study,
and decreases expenses.
Don't Want Love . . .
Judging from a survey which
Olivet college (111.) coeds were
.asked to sketch their ideal of an
' ideal husband .women prefer being
entertained to being loved. Accord
ing to their statements, their ideal
should:
Make at least $2000 a year.
Smoke, but not a pipe.
Dress sensibly, but not “modern.”
Be blond, curly-haired, tall, good
singer, and a football player.
Show an intelligent interest in
art and literature.
However, not one of the coeds
mentioned love.
Lights Out...
“Get a picture of night life at
college,” barked a professor to his
evening journalism class at Bald
l win-Wallace college.
Result showed that the professor
had reckoned without their canny
knowledge of college night life, and
more than one picture had to be
destroyed.
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VOLUME XXXIX
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Coeds Trip to Polls
In AWS Election to
Choose New Pilots
UNIVERSITY OP OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1938
NUMBER 84
1 Rosy Apples
Greet Gilbert
Before Exon,
Tuesday the ancient custom of
apple polishing received the ap
proval of James H. Gilbert, dean
j of the school of social science,
long noted for his strict ad
herence to rules and impervious
ness to appeal commonly known
as soft soap. The break came
when members of the venerable
dean's class in public finance
left over a dozen of shining ap
ples on their prof’s desk imme
diately before taking an hour
quiz on taxation,
Dean Gilbert rose to the occa
sion admirably, arranging the
gifts into three groups accord
ing to quality. Students pre
sumed that grades would be
awarded on the basis of his
classification.
Brooks to Be New
'Lemon Punch' Ed
Seaman Called East
By Family Illness; 2
Issues Promised
Oregana Editor Wayne Harbert
announced the appointment yes
terday of Wen Brooks as editor of
"Lemon Punch,” the annual cam
pus humor magazine issued with
the Oregana, to succeed Don Sea
man who was called to Chicago
because of family illness last week.
Harbert said that if Seaman
does not return, Brooks will be
permanent editor, although it is
expected Seaman will return to
again take over his position.
Harbert said last night that the
“Punch” would be issued in back
of the Oregana, and that another
issue different than the one at
tached in the Oregana would be
given out at the campus luncheon.
The copy attached to the Ore
gana will be on an Esquire pattern,
with the traditional Esquy-e sophis
ticated humor predominating.
“This will not be so with the cam
pus issue,” Harbert said, and ex
plained that more “personal” hu
mor would be present.
Brooks asked yesterday that all
students styling themselves humor
ists get in touch with him for as
signments as copy writing as ma
terial for the book is still far short
of capacity.
'Duck Dip' to Be Last
Rally Dance of Term
Will Be in Gerlinger
4-6; ASUO Cards to
Admit Free
ASUO card holders will get a
chance to work up a bit of pre
game enthusiasm when the “Duck
Dip,” last rally dance of the term,
takes place in the gym back of
Gerlinger this afternoon from 4
to 6.
Plans for the dance were an
nounced yesterday by ASUO presi
dent Barney Hall, who appointed
Bob Stretcher and Sally Clarkson
co-chairmen of a committee for the
event.
The “Dip,” coming just a few
days before the OSC game, is the
second student body dance given
this term, the other being the
“Hobson Hobble,” which was held
just before the first Washington
State game. The two affairs w'ere
a part of the original list of attrac
tions on the winter term student
body card.
Music will be by a three-piece
orchestra selected from Earl
Scott’s band. Price of admission to
non-card holders will be 50 cents.
Alpha Xi Delta Prexy
Visits Local Chapter
Mrs. C. Arthur Carlson, national
president of Alpha Xi Delta and
a member of the College Panhel
lenic committee of National Pan
hellinic congress arrived at Alpha
Lambda chapter on this campus
Sunday.
She is making a tour of this
part of the country and will leave
for Corvallis at the end of this
week. Her home is in Columbia,
Ohio.
Women Cast
Votes Today
From 9 to 3
Gayle Buchanan . . . will direct
polling for all women’s offices to
day.
Lorraine Hunt Joins
AWS Office Race;
Student Body Cards
Needed to Vote
As a result of the nominating as
sembly held in Gerlinger Tuesday,
women students will go to the
polls from 9 until 3 today at the!
YWCA bungalow to cast their bal-1
lots for AWS, YWCA, and WAA
candidates.
Only further nomination made
from the floor was that of Lor
raine Hunt for vice-president of
AWS. All other candidates were
picked last week by committees of
the various organizations.
Cards Necessary
Coeds must have a student body
card in order to take part in the
elections. YWCA and WAA mem
bership cards are necessary for
voting for officers of these organi
zations.
Nominees for AWS offices are:
president, Elisabeth Stetson, Mar
ionbeth Wolfenden; vice-president,
Bernadine Bowman, Peggy Jane
Pee bier and Lorraine Hunt; treas
urer, Jean Bonness, Phoebe Brey
man, Charlene Jackson; secretary,
Anne Fredericksen, Betty Lou
Kurtz, Genevieve Treadgold; ser
geant-at-arms, Pat Taylor, Bar
bara Pierce, Elizabeth Ames, Anne
Waha; and reporter, Maxine Glad
and Peggy Robbins.
YWCA, W AA Vote
Candidates running in the
YWCA are: president, Laurie Saw
yer, Ruth Ketchum; vice-president,
Margaret Goldsmith, Eleanor
Hays; treasurer, Betty Lou Swart,
Marjorie Montgomery; and secre
tary, Mary Failing, Marion De
Konig.
WAA nominations are: presi
dent, Betty Reisch, Carolyn Dud
ley; vice-president, Dorothy Bates,
Jean Dendall; secretary, Jane
Montgomery, Ardis Dillon; treas
urer, Eva Erlandson, Helen How
ell; custodian, Edna Carlson; and
sergeant-at-arms, Joanne Resch,
Pat Brewster.
CONSULTANT ON CAMPUS
L. W. Hoelscher of the consult
ing and research division of the
Public Administration Service of
Chicago, was on the campus Mon
day for conferences on municipal
government with Herman Kehrli,
executive secretary of the League
of Oregon Cities. Mr. Hoelscher is
at work on a personnel classifica
tions survey for the city of Seattle,
and a policy survey for the city of
Fresno, California.
Visitor Deplores Lack
Of Science Department
Indiana Scientist Says Oregon's Lack of
Facilities 'Incomprehensible'; No Other
University So Situated
It’s incomprehensible that any western university should be
without adequate scientific facilities such as Oregon is, said Dr.
Femandus Payne, dean of the graduate school and head of the
department of zoology at the University of Indiana, who visited
the campus yesterday.
The scientist was very much surprised, he told A. E. Caswell,
head of Oregon's physics department, to find this science depart
ment so lacking in advanced graduate work and so lacking in appa
ratus and equipment.
No other university in the world is without science facilities as
this institution is, the Indiana dean commented.
Dr. Payne stopped here on his way to California where he plans
to visit at Stanford, UCLA, and the University of Southern Cali
fornia as a part of his tour of western colleges. He has just com
pleted an inspection and visit at the University of Washington.
While on the campus Dr. Payne was the luncheon guest at the
Anchorage of members of the science department.
/
Where Are Oregon’sTen
Rhodes Scholars? Many
Teaching, Records Show
By EUGENE SNYDER
Where are Oregon’s ten Rhodes scholars today?
Seven of the University of Oregon men who have won these
scholarships provided by the will of Cecil J. Rhodes, South African
statesman, are now engaged in teaching. Of the others, one is a
research psychologist, another is still studying for an advanced degree,
and the third is a member of a New York law firm.
Either Eugene breeds smarter youths or living at home is a dis
tinct advantage, for half of the Rhodes-men have been “town-boys.”
First Oregon student to win the award was Luton Ackerson, who
graduated in ’16, in Latin. After
studying in England, Ackerson
earned a Ph.D. at Columbia uni
versity. He is now psychologist
for the Chicago Institute of Juven
ile Research.
Kerby Miller, ’20, is a professor
of history at Reed college. He ma
jored in philosophy, going later to
Columbia, and attended Oxford
from ’21-’24. He lives at 3537 S. E.
Woodstock, Portland.
William Roseborough was the
next winner, graduating from law
school in ’24. After studying at
Oxford, he joined a New York law
firm, working in their Paris
branch. Recently he returned to
this country to work in the home
office.
Although a major in journalism,
Clinton Howard, ’25, is a history
professor at Southern California.
His scholarship expired in 1928 and
later, in ’33, he got a Ph.D. at
University of California. Alfonse
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Miss Dudrey Speaks
In Broadcast Finals
The Emerald news broadcast
commentator last night was Hallie
Dudrey, education senior. She is
the seventh of the ten finalists in
the contest to pick two permanent
commentators for the news pro
gram
After the final contestant has
broadcast Friday night, recordings
of the programs will be sent by air
express to New York to be judged
by Boake Carter and Lowell
Thomas, national news commenta
tors.
A wire report of the judges’ se
lection is expected in Eugene
Monday in time for one of the win
ners to broadcast the Monday
night program.
Small size recordings of the
large records on which some of the
contestant’s voices were recorded
have been made and may be called
for at the educational activities
building, contest officials an
nounced last night.
Dolph Janes, freshman, will be
commentator on tonight’s pro
gram at 10:30.
Marketing Students
Back From Portland
Class Visits 4 Firms
During 2-Day Tour;
Plan Spring Trip
Marketing classes returned late
Tuesday to resume regular classes
after a two-day trip to investigate
the way classroom theories are put
to practice in Portland industrial
plants under the direction of Dr.
N. H. Cornish, professor of busi
ness administration.
More than fifty students visited
the North Portland plant of Swift
and company Monday morning.
Students displayed particular in
terest in the sausage - making
rooms, and in the process of mak
ing lard and oleomargarine.
The class was addressed by B. C.
Darnall, general manager of
Swift’s, who outlined the processes
in detail, and explained the particu
lar problems met by the company
in each.
Monday afternoon the class met
at the General Grocery company.
They were shown the merchandis
ing and manufacturing and mar
keting processes, particularly those
connected with peanut butter, gela
tine desserts, coffee, spices, and
flavoring extracts.
B. H. Bishop, sales manager of
the General Groecry company,
spoke briefly on the marketing and
merchandising policies of the cor
poration, with its hundreds of co
operative stores in Oregon and
Washington.
Later Monday, Dr. Cornish and
his class was conducted through
the Jantzen knitting mills. The pro
cess of carding, weaving, knitting,
and cutting wool was followed out
to its ultimate conclusion in the
famous Jantzen diving girl suits.
Tuesday morning, the students
completed their survey of Portland
plants with a three-hour trip
through the Montgomery Ward
company. They were shown
through the receiving and shipping
rooms, and the complicated order
receiving and filling departments
NY A Allotment, Qualifications
Con tin uedon P re sen t Status
No change will be made in the
distribution of the $9,450 NYA
allotment of the University of
Oregon during spring term, ac
cording to the decision reached
by the faculty committee on
federal employment for students
at a meeting yesterday in the
office of chairman Karl W. On
thank, dean of personnel.
Grade point requirements will
remain at a 2.5 average for
those on the NY A payroll for
the first time and 2.75 for those
who are given re-appointments.
288 Aided
Figures reviewed at the meet
ing showed that 288 students
shared the $3,150 monthly youth
administration fund for the
campus during winter term,
eight more than in the fall term.
That undergraduates receive a
lion’s share of the amount is
demonstrated by figures which
show $3,101.10 set aside for
them in the period from Febru
ary 17 to March 16 as com
pared with only $28 for gradu
ate students. The largest appor
tionment, $64, was given to
graduate students during the
first month of fall term.
'Stage Door* Johnny
John Klrrigan . . . has a lead
role in University theater produc
tion.
'Stage' Door Will
Open Careers for
Amateur Players
Friday Performance
Marked as Formal
First-Nighter
New faces will be very much in
evidence when the University thea
ter gives its formal opening of
"Stage Door” tomorrow night. The
size and wide variety of the cast
has given a large number of newer
players a chance to demonstrate
their ability in a major campus
production.
John Kirrigin and Kay McAlear,
romantic leads of the production,
have their first prinicpal roles.
Betty Jane Quigley and Donna
How are two freshman girls who
make their first appearance in a
campus production as Pat Devine
and Susan Paige. Betty Howell,
Jane Udick, Peggy Guilmet, In
grid Liljeqvist, Edna Smith, Laura
Bryant, Hallie Dudrey, Lorraine
Hixson, Helen Gorrell, play their
first parts.
Bob Whitfield, Jim Smith, Der
went Banta, John Devereaux, Mar
tin Brubaker, and Helene Parsons
will also be met by campus au
diences for the first time.
A number of these people have
had dramatic experience in other
schools.
Contest Candidates
Vie Thursday Night
*
The annual like insurance con
test will be held tomorrow night in
room 106, commerce hall at 7:30
with the public invited. Three can
didates will be chosen to appear
before the Life Underwriters asso
ciation in Portland early next term.
Each contestant tomorrow night
will present a contract to an actual
prospect in a 10-minute interview.
The ten contestants are: John
Beckett, Ray Brodgen, Bill Dalton,
Joe Early, Jack Enders, Louis
Healy, Harry Hodes, Milo Lacey,
Sam Mack, and Fayette Thomp
son.
The contestants are to be judged
on approach, presentation, close,
and general effectiveness. The win
ner of the contest in Portland will
have his name engraved on the life
insurance plaque in commerce hall
while the $20 prize money will be
divided among the three candi
dates.
Boyer's Farewell
Dinner Postponed
Until Spring Term
A farewell banquet scheduled to
day for the retiring president of
the University, Dr. C. Valentine
Boyer, was postponed last night
when it was learned Dr. Boyer will
read the service at the funeral this
afternoon of Mary Lowell Rebec,
wife of Dean Rebec of the Univer
sity graduate division.
The banquet was being organ
ized by Frances Schaupp, ASUO
executive council member. It will
probably be held the first of spring
term.
'Glad to Be Back at
Oregon,1SaysDr.Erb
At End of First Dag
Dr. Boyer Also Pleased With Return to Old
Office; New President Receives Callers,
Congratulations of Faculty
—
By BUD JERMAIN
“Glad to be back at Oregon,” said Dr. Donald M. Erb last night
after his first day at the executive offices.
Also “glad to be back” was Dr. C. Valentine Boyer, who yester
day returned to his old office as head of the college of arts and letters,
after serving as president of the University for four years.
Dr. Erb spent a busy day in his new headquarters, receiving an
endless stream of callers and
"just getting the feel of the place.”
Many of Dr. Erb’s callers were
members of the faculty, who
called to pay their respects to the
new chief executive.
At the close of his first official
day Dr. Erb reported that he was
"no more tired than I expected to
be.”
Boyer Helps Erb
Although officially out of presi
dential harness, Dr. Boyer was still
maintaining his connection with
that office yesterday, spending
part of the day helping his success
or to break into his new duties.
Dr. Boyer reported that there is
“plenty to do" in the college of
! arts and letters, stating that the 1
I change of positions will not mean
! any letup in activity but is only a
change in the type of work. Dr.
Boyer said that his work in the
i president’s office had forced him
to neglect his duties as head of
the college of arts and letters, so
| that now he will have to "make
| up for lost time."
Dr. Boyer’s first concern in his
! arts and letters office will be the
budget of that college, on which he
worked yesterday.
Miss Rankin to Talk
At Westminster:
Miss Jeanette Rankin, America’s
first congresswoman, who voted
against America's entry into the
world war, will speak on peace at
a luncheon to be given in her honor
Friday at Westminster house.
Since her term in Congress, Miss
Rankin has worked for the estab
lishment of peace. She has attend
ed the meetings of the assembly of
the League of Nations, striving for
peace. At present Miss Rankin is
the associate secretary of the Na
tional Council for the Prevention of
War.
She will talk on, "Can We Stop
the Present Drift Toward War?”
Oliver to Make
Initial Bow at
Student Meeting
Gridiron, Basketball
Mentors to Speak;
Music on Program
Tex Oliver, University of Ore
gon's new football coach, and How
ard Hobson, basketball mentor, will
co-star at an assembly in Gerlin
ger hall tomorrow at 11 when the
new coach will meet the Oregon
student body for the first time,
and when Hobson will bring his
Webfoot five to the platform for
an official introduction.
The assembly will be under the
guidance of ASUO President Bar
ney Hall, with Athletic Manager
Anse Cornell assuming responsibil
ity for the presentation of "Ore
gon’s Oliver.”
Everybody Sings
Music will play an important
part in the gathering, with group
singing by the students, including
"Mighty Oregon,” “As I Sit and
Dream at Evening,” and "March
ing Oregon.”
Hal Young, music instructor and
student song leader, will sing
"Sweetheart,” from ^“Maytime,”
and “I'm Falling in Love With
Someone,” from “Naughty Mar
ietta.”
ART MUSEUM TO CLOSE
Students wishing to visit the
museum of oriental art this term,
must do so this week as the mu
seum will be closed March 8 and
will not reopen until March 23.
The museum library will remain
open until the end of the examina
tion period.
Students' Knowledge
Little VariedSince '24
Fourteen years hasn’t made much difference in the amount of
knowledge the average high school senior has, comparison of the con
clusions of two examinations given by Dr. C. L. Huffaker, school of
education, shows.
Recently Dr. Huffaker gave seniors at University high school an
English content test. Questions in the test were on fields of literature,
i science, mathematics, and history.
Examples: Who is the author of -
i “Ghosts”? and, what Is “Thana
| topsis" about?
| The University high school class
ratio of normalcy was .929.
Digging into his files, Dr. Huf
faker discovered that a similar;
test given to high school students
in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1924 set
the normal score of the group at
.933, just .004 higher.
The Phoenix students included
a number of Mexicans and was
given at the completion of a school
1 year. Another check will be made
on University high school students
at the end of the year when a test
of about the same difficulty is to be
given them to determine progress
over the intervening period.
In using a content examination
of this type, Dr. Huffaker is car- j
rying on work originally begun by
himself, G. M. Ruch, F. B. Knight,
and W. Koerth about fifteen years
ago. This group was the first to
use content examinations. High
schools are coming to use them
more widely now, according to Dr.
Huffaker.
Athletic Board Will
Soon Choose Staff
A meeting of an athletic board
to hear Coach "Tex” Oliver’s rec
ommendations for assistant coach
ing positions will probably be
called within two weeks, Chair
man Earl M. Pallet announced
last night.
The meeting will be postponed
because of a state board meeting
and because Coach Oliver has not
announced that his choices are
ready.
The coach’s recommendations
must be approved by Chancellor
Hunter and President Erb as well
as the athletic board, Mr. Pallett,
said, although it is felt there will
be no opposition to Coach Oliver’s
recommendations.
Colgate University has opened a
new course in the study of foreign
dictatorships.