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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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;
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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
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'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.”