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VOLUME XXXIX UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1938 NUMBER 85 News Broadcasters Friday night’s Emerald news cast will complete the final round of ten programs. Nine of the ten prospective commen tators are pictured here. Two of their number might he an nounced as the successful final ists and will take over the reg ular newscasts for the rest of the year. The programs will be continued this term until the last day of final examinations. Pictured here on the left, reading from top to bottom, are: Jean Rawson, Kay Daugher ty, Howard Kessler, Luther Seibert, Hallie Dudrey. On the right are: Freeman Patton, Dolph Janes, Mary Alice Hutchins, Paul Stewart. Roy Schwartz, tenth contest ant, does not appear in these pictures. News Commentator Con test Ne a rs En d; 2 More Will Speak Regular Broadcasters to Be Chosen Over Weekend? Program Is Scheduled Until March 15, Last Day of Final Exams Suspense mounted in the Emerald-Lucky Strike news commentator contest today as the list of semi-finalists neared its end. Only two more of the semi-final broadcasts remain before the remaining weeks of the broadcasting—at $40 a month. Remeining semi-finalists are Mary Alice Hutchins and Paul Stewart, Paul Janes having broadcast last night. Roy Schwartz, Jean Rawson, Freeman Patton, Luther Seibert, Hallie Dudrey, Kay Dough erty, and Howard Kessler have already done their $10 worth of broad casting. Winner Speaks Monday The regular news commentator post will be taken over in Monday night’s broadcast with one of the two winners at the microphone at KORE. The two finalists will alternate weeks of broadcasting to the end of the series, which will last to March 15, the last day of final examinations. Appreciation of the handling of the news broadcasts by the ten student commentators was expressed last night by Lou Bettilyon, Lucky Strike special sales representative, who has been on the campus since the beginning of the contest. ' “All of the commentators who have handled the program have shown a great deal of talent. We are well pleased with the reception given the auditions and the program by the campus as a whole,” said Mr. Bettilyon, who commended also the cooperation of the Emerald in the contest. 'Smiling Tex' Meets Oregon Students at 11 Howard Hobson and Traveling Ten' Will Speak at Gerlinger Assembly Today Tex Oliver, who will take over the job of University of Oregon football coach this week, will meet for the first time the students of the University this morning at 11 o’clock in Gerlinger hall, when he will be introduced by Anse Cor nell, athletic manager. Oliver, with Mrs. Oliver, arrived in Eugene on Sunday from the University of Arizona, where he has been head coach for five years. Basketball Coach Howard Hob son will be on hand for the pro gram with his “traveling ten" Ducks, who compose the Univer sity hoop team. They are Laddie Gale, Dave Silver, Urgel (Slim) Wintermute, Wally Johansen, Bob by Anet, Matt Pavalunas, Ford Mullen, Ray Jewell, John Dick, and Ted Sarpola. Students will take part in the program as they sing “Mighty Oregon,” “As I Sit and Dream at Evening,” and “Marching Oregon,” under the direction of Hal Young, instructor in the music school and official song leader of the Univer sity. Young will sing two solos: | "Sweetheart,” from “Maytime," j and “I’m Falling in Love With Some One” from “Naughty Mar-' :etta.” The University concert band, un der the direction of John Stehn of the music department, will play as a special number “Mardi Gras,” ] beside accompanying the singing. ASUO President Barney Hall vill act as master of ceremonies for the occasion. Kupfer Wins Prize In Musical Contest — Wally Kupfer, independent, won "irst prize in the Emerald musical quiz last night. The prize was a merchandise order from Robert’s: men’s wear store. The questions concerned popular music and orchestra. Features of the questions were “title twisters” which none of the contestants could answer. The twisters consisted of song titles expressed in “ten-gal lon” words. The Alpha Phi trio headed the musical program, singing “Once In a While.” Maurie Binford’s or chestra furnished the rhythmic background for the revue and play ed “Thanks For the Memories,” “Roll ’Em,” and a special arrange ment of “Minnie the Moocher,” i with Glenn Pownder on the vocal. Coed Opinions On Stag Lines Are Undecided By ALYCE ROGERS The position of the stag line is a precarious one at the University of Illinois. The main objection is that too many stags are "left out in the cold.” Other objections to stag lines come from the Univer sity of Chicago where men cut too much. At Northwestern, reports state that they don’t cut enough. The girls at Minnesota complain that although the boys “tag,” they always tag the same girls. But at Illinois the general idea seems to be that the majority of the stags remain stag. t * * Pome ... I wish I were a kangaroo, Despite the funny stances; I’d have a place to put the stuff My girl brings to the dances. -—Foghorn. * * * Definition... Hoover was our greatest engin eer; he ditched, drained, and damned the United States for four years. —North Texas State. Some Hike... At the University of Idaho, they have installed a course in the School of Forestry as an aid to sportsmen who have become some what worried about the scarcity of bird game in their hills. To find out what happens to the bird game, the head of the School of Forestry has mapped out a plan whereby the students are required to patrol an acre of about 5,000 acres. The members of the class tramp over the entire area five afternoons a week, from Sep tember until June. ’Ifs’ Infest Hoop Finale; Pennant-Bound Webfoots Ready for Gill's Beavers Hobby's Boys Must Wallop Oregon State at Corvallis and Huskies Must Clip WSC Once If Ducks Are to Win Title By GEORGE PASERO “California, here I come.” Will Coach Hobby Hobson’s “rnn-’em-down” Dncks be chanting- this ditty come the first of next week or . . . ” The answer to this question revolves around two big “ifs” of a big “if” weekend. If Oregon’s big basketeers can ride through the Oregon State defense and win the grand finale of the 1938 northern division hoop season at Corvallis Saturday night and if Hec Ed mundson’s Huskies can pin back the ears of the Washington State Cougars once at Seattle, Oregon's Webfoots most, assuredly will be heading south next week. And whether they will be Berke ley-bound or on the trail of the Stanford Indian is of little conse quence. Just so they will be south bound. Huskies Hold Key The Huskies, still with an out side chance of coming out on top, hold the key to the whole situation. If they bag the Cougar once, Ore gon can win by beating Oregon State, and if they partake of Cou gar meat on successive nights of their two game series, it just makes it that much more conclu sive. However, if the Ducks bow to the rugged Beavers, and Jack Friel's men harness the Huskies twice they will be traveling on a paved highway and growling over the California line. Playoff May Be Necessary Again if the Huskies win twice, and the Oregons trip up against the Gillmen, Washington and Ore gon will be tied at the top of the heap with a playoff necessary. But if Oregon State stops the Ducks, and the Huskies and Cou gars split, Hobson’s men will be tied with Washington State. Saturday night’s game will bring to a colorful close the collegiate hoop career of big Dave Silver, Oregon’s ace backboard man and an ace southpaw scorer, unless the Webfoots win and gain a playoff berth. State Seeks Split Oregon State will be working for a split in the series, and with such an incentive, the sophomorish Beavers have made no secret of their hopes of blasting the Oregon title hopes. Slats Gill has announced that he will depend this week upon the same lineup that downed the Ducks earlier in the season on the Cor vallis court. This team has Nello Vanelli, dark-haired Italian from Com (Please turn to page four) Rehearsals for NBC Broadcast Continue Symphony to Present 'Emperor' Concerto Under Underwood Rehoarsals for the University symphony orchestra, under direc tion of Rex Underwood, are being conducted in view of the approach ing NBC radio broadcast, set for Sunday, March 13, and to be sent directly from the University music auditorium. The concert, to be broadcast from 2:30 to 3 p.m., is open to the public. An unusually interest ing and entertaining program has been planned. Outstanding among the numbers will be the rondo from Beethoven's famous “Emperor" concerto, in which George Hopkins, professor of music, will be featured at the piano. “The Deluge" by Saint-Saens, a composer who is a favorite with all concert-goers, will be given by the string orchestra, with Mollie Bob Small as violin soloist. The concert will open with Smetana’s “Dance of the Comedians.” An intermezzo from the Wolf-Ferrari “Jewels of the Madonna,” is included on the program, and the Rimsky-Korsa kow fandango from "Caprice Es pagnole” will conclude the broad cast. (Please turn to page four) Dramatists to 0 pen' Stage Door Tonight First Showing Will Be Formal; 32 Have Parts in Kaufman Ferber Smash Hit — Tonight at 8 p.tn. is the formal opening of University theater pro duction of the George Kaufman Edna Ferber smash hit, “Stage Door.” With stage settings and direction by Horace W. Robinson, the show promises to be one of the most outstanding hits of the sea-1 son. The cast of thirty-two players contains many campus favorites as well as a number of new and talented recruits. Feature of the formal opening will be refresh ments served between acts in the lobby of the theater. On Friday, Saturday The play will be repeated on Fri day and Saturday nights, with tickets still available but going1 fast. The show is fast moving and full of rapid fire repartee. Although recently adapted by the movies the play gets off considerable sharp criticism at Hollywood’s expense. All this criticism was deleted by the motion picture version. Depicts Actresses’ Life Depicting life in a theatrical boarding house for girls, the play strives to give a cross section of the existence of people of the the ater. The play is light and enter taining, yet through it runs a cur rent of tragedy in the vain strug gling and disappointments of the many girls who just can't make the grade. FRATERNITIES PLEDGE A final checkup of the fraternity pledge, list at the University of Oregon reveals the addition of eight new men to Oregon houses. They are: Walter L. Keller, Phi Kappa Psi; Earl Sandness, Phi Gamma Delta; Ken E. Omlid, Phil W. Barrett, and Leland Russell, Theta Chi; Robert Andrew Jack son and Francis Gray, Sigma Phi Epsilon; and Toivo Piippo, Sigma Nil. Opportunity Opened To Coeds, Says Dean Opportunities for participation in leading' campus activities are offered to the newly elected AWS, YWCA, and WAA officers, Dean Hazel P. Schwering opined yesterday in an interview. ‘‘The girls in these offices are given a chance to show their leader ship and to set the standard and tone for the campus women as well as promoting the spirit of the University in their capacity of student representatives,” said Dean Schwering. BA Softball Biffers Bark at Barristers Final Jewett Contest Slated for Tonight given tonight ;n the final Jewett Entertainment speeches will be public speaking contest of the term. The program will start at 7:15 in Villard assembly hall. The speeches, given by members chosen from the extempore speak ing classes, will be of the after dinner type, in a humorous vein. Other contests this term have been on poetry reading and on ‘‘men and machines.” Those selected to take part in this intersectional contest are Milo Lacy, Bob Carlson, Hubert Tot man, Sadie Mitchell, Gerald Hol zapfel, and Jim Pickett. Prizes of $15, $10, $5 will be awarded from the W. F. Jewett public speaking fund. NATIONAL OFFICER VISITS Mrs. Peggy Landers, province president of Alpha Gamma Delta, was entertained Tuesday and Wed nesday at the local chapter house. At house elections which were held while Mrs. Landers was on the campus Mary Eleanor Bailey was ' elected president of the house. Replying to the recent scornful missile sent to the students of the “School of Business Maladmin istration” by Sid Milligan’s ambu lance chasers, the BA students last night sent the following reply to the “boys across the way”: School of Business Administration University of Oregon March 1, 1938. School of Law, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. Gentlemen: Thank you for your order for another softball game this spring. We have always enjoyed our rela tionship with you. You know of course that your account with us has been very liberal. We have never questioned your ability to pay back the games we have won from your school. But, when you make one payment on a debt that is several years old, and then think that you are too good to pay the balance of the debt, it then becomes time for us to take action. We have always seen the need for keeping you physically fit. Be cause after you pass (?) the bar, there is nothing for you to do but wait for a client or do an occa sional odd job. (Thank God for our $15 a week jobs—they are better (Please turn to page four) tions provide definite aims and ac tivities fotf the girls belonging to it, she said. The AWS offers var ied interests including hobbies of all sorts consisting of charm, trav el and many others, besides all around campus activities. They also promote a program of bring ing the faculty and students closer together and conduct a more ma ture group than other activities. “The AWS should receive a great deal of credit for the spon soring of two college scholarships,” Mrs. Schwering stated. This is one of the most important accomplish ments of the organization. The YWCA represents an activ ity with a purpose, the dean said, for they are prominent in Red Cross work and in securing signs for the University. Many other projects are developed by this group which carries on a “live” program. As the WAA is more depart mental it does not offer as many academic activities as the other organizations, but it is undoubted ly of a more benificent nature than the others. As Mrs. Elizabeth Mac Donald Osbourne pointed out when she talked here recently, the Uni versity girls should take every ad vantage of the many athletics of fered by the school. MISS ESCIIEBECK ON RADIO Elsie Eschebeck, student at the University and vocal student of Hal Young, professor of voice, pre sented several numbers on the Poole Musical hour over station KORE last night at 7 p.m. Women Voters Elect Elisabeth Stetson to AWS Presidency Ruth Ketchum Is Chosen Head of YWCA WAA Officers to Be Revealed Tonight Approximately 350 Vote Approximately 350 out of a possible 3000 Oregon coeds went to the polls yesterday to elect Elisabeth Stetson AWS president for the coming year by an overwhelming vote. Ruth Ketchum was named YWCA president in a close contest, winning over Laurie Sawyer. Other officers chosen to AWS positions were Peggy Jane Feebler, vice president; Anne Fredericksen, secretary; Jean Bonness, treasurer; * ■ First House to Go 100 Per Cent ASUO Gets'Air' Four Organizations Will Be Awarded 5 Records Each Plans have gone through for a big broadcast to be made from the first living organization on the campus that goes 100 per cent ASUO spring term, according to Kirk Eldridge, chairman of the spring term card drive. Special ar rangements were completed yester day with Frank Hill, manager of KORE, for the broadcast to be transmitted by telephone wire from the winning living organiza tion to the radio station. In addition to the broadcast, that group which first goes 100 per cent ASUO will receive five new rec ords, of their own choice. Houses placing second, third, and fourth will also get five records of popu lar music each. Broadcast March 21 The broadcast will be handled by Don Kennedy and his Emerald of the Air Rhythm Revue, working with Wendell Kaufman, and will take place Monday night, March 21. Refreshments will be served before the broadcast to members of the winning organization. The spring term card sales drive sailed into high yesterday after noon with the appointment of thirty-five personal representatives in the various living organizations on the campus, to work under the seven captains appointed earlier. No actual sales will be solicited before registration day, Monday, March 21, but representatives in the various living organizations may go ahead and sign up mem bers, according to Eldridge. TAYLOR TALKS ON KORE “You May Not Believe It But Precocious Children Are Normal,” is the title of the radio address which was presented by Dr. H. R. Haylor, chairman of the depart ment of psychology, over station KOAC Tuesday at 2 p.m. A transcription of this address will be broadcast again Thursday at 8 p.m. over the same station. . Peggy Bobbins, reporter; ana Bar bara Pierce, sergeant-at-arms. YW Officers Named Margaret Goldsmith was elect ed YWCA vice-president, while Betty Lou Swart was chosen treas urer and Mary Failing named sec retary. WAA officers will not be an nounced until tonight when a ban quet will be given to honor incom ing officers. The announcing of the new WAA leaders at this ban quet is a tradition with the organ ization. The ballots cast in the election have been filed in the office of the dean of women. 2-Day Symposium Starts Friday at 12 (Master Dance, Coed Honorary, Presents Modern Artists The University will become northwest dance headquarters Fri day when girls and instructors rep resenting colleges all over the northwest assemble here for a two day symposium. The program is sponsored by Master Dance, women’s dance honorary, and by the women’s physical education department. Ellamae Woodworth, president of Master Dance, is handling the pro motion while Claudia Sevier is chairman of the affair, assisted by Beverly Young. The highlight of the symposium will be the appearance of the Humphrey-Weidman dance group Friday evening, which will give the conference a chance to observe ' modern dance as interpreted by some of the foremost artists in the field. 1 Miss Humphrey and Mr. Weid man will be feted with their group* Friday afternoon in a reception in their honor. They will also remain here long eonugh Saturday to give a two-hour lesson to the delegates, by special arrangement. The les son will consist of technique and choreography. The visitors will mostly be housed in the dormitories, accord ing to the committee in charge. Brisk advance sales of tickets for the concert Friday evening were reported yesterday by the educa tional activities office, which re <Please turn to page four) 'It’s Fashionable to Have Spring Fever, ’ States Prof By DOROTHY BURKE Spring is not only in the air, but it is here on the campus. A sure way of telling when spring has arrived, from a, college professor’s standpoint, is defined by Dr. H. R. Taylor, head of the department of psychology, who stated in an interview yesterday that, “when students’ academic interests dissipate into thin air and disappear because of the resurrection of other interests, spring has definitely wedged her way in.’’ This discussion of spring, admitted Dr. Taylor, is rather a com plicated subject but it seems to be based on habits and customs, as all primitive people partook in spring festivals in relation to mating Although the biological and physiological aspects may be im portant factors in spring, Dr. Taylor believes that a great deal of cultural significance may be drawn from the fact that people, who have been confined indoors throughout the cold, rainy wither, spend most of their time outdoors in the spring. “It’s fashionubie,’’ he insists, “to have spring fever.’’ Spring offers an excuse to get out of work in order to drift along or write poetry which inevitably creeps out in modern youth about this time of the year. But you don’t have to describe spring, says Dr. Taylor, you can just look around and see it. He insists that “Even a deaf and blind professor could ascertain spring’s approach by the great difficulty he has in getting students to work, and even by his own feelings toward responsibilities.”