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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1938)
VOLUME XXXIX UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1938 NUMBER 111 DeMolays to Hold Confab : In This City 16th Annual Masonic ; Youth Meet to Open In Eugene Temple This Morning i By BUD UPDIKE The 16th annual state conclave of the Order of DeMolay, Masonic youth organization, will be held on the campus and at the Eugene Masonic temple today and tomor row with around 350 delegates from state-wide chapters expected to meet with campus and Eugene members of the organization. All campus members of the group are invited to attend the convention, it was announced by D^vid Van Fossen, general chair man. The local chapter of the order is playing host for the affair. They has planned an extensive pro gram for the DeMolayers, starting off this morning with a business session at the Masonic temple, at the corner of Broadway and Olive streets in downtown Eugene. Dance Saturday Night The DeMolay ball, highlight of Liiv? uunveiiLiuu, tu ue neiu ax Gerlinger hall Saturday night. Other events scheduled for the De Molayers include: a midnight mat inee tonight at a local theater, several luncheons, a tour of the campus, and the Oregon-Washing ton track meet on Hayward field. Included on the list of speakers and honored guests for the conven tion are: Dr. Frederick M. Hunter, chancellor of the state system of higher education, and Dr. Donald (Please turn to page seven) Peace Strike? Not Students of Louisiana State By ALYCE ROGERS Speaking of military regulation and such, Louisiana State univer sity is perhaps the most militar ized of state institutions. Fresh man and sophomore men not only are reuired to take the basic course in military, but must live under army discipline in the new barracks. s « Philip Space . . . Many a woman who cannot add, can certainly distract . . . The man with the most (decided opinions usually has had the least experi ence. . . . The University of Min nesota maintains a news-reel the ater to bring to the student body the latest world news caught by the movie cameraman. « » * Queer Factor.. 'I “Regardless of a woman’s beau ty, regardless of all else, if she didn’t like Burns, I couldn’t love her,” said Dr. George Pope Shan non, English professor at the Uni versity of Alabama. Lecturing his class in English literature, Dr. Shannon ranked an “honest and sincere appreciation of Robert Burns” above all other factors as essential in choosing a mate. Director Dick Dick Jurgens . . . brings his or chestra ,to the Igloo tonight to play for the Frosh Glee starting at 8:80. Chairman Dick Dick Wililams ... as co-chair man of tonight’s dance will see the annual frosh affair swing into ac tion at McArthur. Dancers Swing Tonight In Igloo as Frosh Glee ThemesSnowWhiteGirls “Day Dreams Come True at Night,” and with the strains of this theme song Dick Jurgens will start campus dancer’s feet moving to night in the Igloo at 8:30 o’clock as Frosh Glee dreams come true. Corsages are definitely out of order for the affair, with girls wear ing short silk dresses, and with boys wearing either suits, or slacks AWS Preparing for Mothers' Caravan New Rushing System To Bring 250 Senior School Girls Here A new step in Oregon’s rushing policy will be marked May 21, when the Mothers’ club of Port land will bring 250 senior high school girls to the University cam pus, it was announced by Elisa beth Stetson at a meeting of AWS, yesterday afternoon. Plans for the Caravan of Boost ing Oregon will rest in Rita Wright’s hands as chairman. Ten tative plans will include registra tion and an assembly in the morn ing of May 21. Dinners in the liv ing organizations will be followed (Please turn to page seven) Nash Collection Will Be Moved for Formal Opening Beginning Tuesday, room 201, the upper division reading room of the University of Oregon li brary, will be closed for study pur poses to students, in order that the Nash collection of fine print ing may be better displayed at the formal opening on May 3. Desks will be removed from the room, and the long refectory ta bles will be used to show the books to a greater extent than would be possible in the smaller Nash room. The room will be available for study purposes on Sunday evening of Junior weekend. In the mean time, students may use the library class room on the third floor for study, according to M. H. Doug lass, librarian. and a coat. Selection of “Snow White” from a group of 18 girls will be a fea ture of the evening. Students present will vote between 8:30-10, and the most popular of these freshman girls will be announced. ■Snow White* Is Theme The dance will be built around a theme of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” with a huge cut of “Dopey” being hung on the panel. Background of the orchestra will be a striped blue and white cloth, while overhead colored spotlights will play on the orchestra and dancers. During the intermission pledging of new members of Skull and Dag ger, sophomore men’s honorary, will take place. Tickets are on sale at all men’s living organizations, and at the .McArthur court ticket office. Price Of the dance will be $1.25, with a 50-cent reduction being given frosh card holders. Sale of tickets will stop at 1 today, but they may be obtained at the door for the same price. Frosh class cards may also be purchased at the door. I Johansen, Kemler Named For ASUO Excomm Place; Other Nominees Expected By BILL PENGRA With but two lone candidates in the race for ASUO executive com-* rnittee positions last night, campus politicians scrambled to secure* nominees for the coming spring elections. As predicted during the past week by political observers the dearth of material or wiles of politicos caused only1 these two names to bft brought forth yesterday at the nominating assembly in Gerlinger. More Candidates 3lay Enter With the deadline for late nominations by petition set for Satur-. day night, the appearance of additional candidates will probably bo seen as soon as eligibility can be cleared through the dean of men's* office and declarations of intentions filed with ASUO Viee-presy; Noel Benscn. Rumored yesterday as possible nominees were the names of Harry; Weston and Ron Husk. Neither had filed his intention late last night. The probability that either Jean Palmer or Harriet Sarazin would enter the race soon was also seen. Classes Nominate; Tickets Unopposed For Officers'Jobs Frosh Throw Over Traditions to Name Staiger; Sophs Name Hoffman, Corbetl; Bailey on Ticket for Juniors By BUD JERMAIN Running off their nominations according to pre-arranged schedule, the three undergraduate classes met yesterday and last night to nanm j officers with almost unopposed tickets, only the sophomores putting | up more than one name for the same office. Surprise honors went to the volatile frosh, who threw over the two j traditional blocs to join forces behind a coalition ticket headed by." i Stan Staiger, Fiji. Others on the j ticket are Barbara Pierce, vice ! president; Jean Kneass, secretary; and Lloyd Sullivan, treasurer. The frosh coalition came follow ing a meeting Wednesday night, at which all but five Greek letter houses and the dorm had repre sentatives. Coalition leaders pre dicted little opposition in next I week’s election. Soph Blocs Same The sophomores held fast to j their bloc lineup, putting up two ! candidates for president and trea surer. Nominations included Lloyd Hoffman and Scott Corbett for president; Rita Wright, vice-presi dent; Carter Fetsch and Irvin Mann, treasurer; and Betty Cowan, secretary. Only one sophomore bloc put up woman candidates, the other party failing to settle on its nominees, which left Rita Wright and Betty (Please turn to page seven) Libe Displays Schroft Etchings With Scandinavian Art Group A collection of etchings by the celebrated Eugene artist, Alfred H. Schroft, are part of the new display in the mam lobby of the University of Oregon library. Among the group is one of the prize-winning pieces owned by Chancellor and Mrs. Frederick M. Hunter, and two campus scenes, one of the administration building, and one of historic Villard hall. Other show cases contain articles from Denmark and Sweden. A Danish woman’s headdress, i made in 1650 and heavily embroi dered with metal thread, is the pro perty of Mrs. Catherine Jensen. Mrs. Jensen also contributed a hand-woven table cloth, represen tative of the fine Danish art of weaving. Mrs. Eyler Brown is the lender of the Swedish pieces, which be longed to her father, Carl Johan Soderstram. Geography and his tory text books in Swedish, a snuff box made of a tree burl, colorful hand-wcwen mats, set of pewter tea spoons, and a cheese knife com plete the Scandinavian group. An essential part of every Swed ish household, according to Mrs. Brown, is a copy of the Bible and a copy of the laws of Sweden. Williams Doubts Legality of Frosh NominationMeet Constitution Missing,' States Objecting Class Member Controversy over the constitu- • tionality of the frosh class nom inating assembly was precipitated yesterday when Dick William^ freshman, questioned Class Presi dent Gleason Payne concerning technicalities involved in calling1 the meeting. Williams maintained that thrt class constitution calls for a now.-, inating assembly on the thirf? Thursday of April, not the fourth Thursday (yesterday). When ho, asked Payne to produce a copy of (Please turn to page seven) Higher Education Board Members Guests of Dr, Erbf State board members and theu$. friends who were guests of Presi dent Erb at the campus produc tion of “Peer Gynt” Tuesday nighft, included Mrs. Beatrice Waltox\ Sackett, and her friend, Miss Har riet C. Long, state librarian, Mr, and Mrs. Charles Brande, and Mr, Robert Ruhl. “They all enjoyed it greatly ami thought the production was excel-, lent,’’ President Erb said yester day, regarding the show.