VOLUME XL
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1938
NUMBER 6
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Washington Sparks, Bruins Lose
ossa
Kenny Washington . . . UCLA colored halfback star is shown just after taking a pass from Harris
and on his way to the Bruins’ second touchdown. He is being chased in vain by Bob Smith and
Frank Emmons. Despite Washington’s ability and favorable betting odds, Oregon’s hard-charging line
would not let the snaky-hipped star shake loose for long gains. (Picture through the courtesy of the
Register-Guard.)
Duck Line Successfully
Bottles Bruin Black Ace
To Win in Last Quarter
Effectively bottling up the great Kenny George Washington, bril
liant UCLA negro star, a big Webfoot line completely stopped the
Bruin running attack on Hayward field Saturday afternoon, and eked
out a last quarter 14 to 12 triumph.
Oregon’s forwards charged into the UCLA backfield to spill Bruin
ball carriers for losses time and again. Final statistics credited a net
Many Enroll
In Creditless
\Love Course'
A total of 200 students, 90 wo
men and 110 men, have enrolled
in a non-credit course in mar
riage at the University of In
diana this semester. The course
was first offered during the
summer session at the school
and proved so popular this fall
that an enrollment deadline had
to be set and all late enrollments
turned away.
A series of sixteen lectures
will be given by nine staff mem
bers from the University faculty.
Each will speak on a different
phase of marital relations.
Always Two Kinds
1. IN A FRATERNITY
Those who eat fast
Those who go hungry
2. IN CLASS
Those who talk to the prof at
the end of the class
Those who get a C or less
3. AT A DANCE
Those who dance
Those who intermission
4. IN AN ACTIVITY
Those who work
Those who have pull
5. IN A RUMBLE SEAT
Those who are cold
Those who aren't.
—oparum uauy.
Complaining
At the University of Califor
nia two freshman girls launched
a movement to abolish the sign
out and 2:30 lockout systems.
Advocates of a rule change
will present a plan to the Dean
of Women for “absolute free
dom’’ and prepare a petition to
be circulated on the campus.
They charge that house rules
“breed dishonesty and wide
spread rule breaking.” They
maintain that women disregard
ing the rules are the type who
leave college eventually because
of scholarship deficiency.
New Course Given
At University High
Beginning this fall, the Univer
sity high school is trying out, for
the first time in its history, cours
es in social living for those who
wish to take up student teaching.
The course is meant to give the
student experience in dealing with
problems which he meets in his
daily living.
The course, which is popular in
California, is just making an ad
vent into the institutions of Ore
gon. Howard Backus, the new su
pervisor in the University high
school is the instructor,
loss of eight yards to the UCLA
running attack.
UCLA’s passing and running
star, Kenny Washington, led the
losers in ground gained, carrying
the ball 12 times for a net gain
of 15 yards. He advanced the ball
33 yards, but lost 18. Five times
he failed to gain, and at no time
did he break away from a hard
tackling Duck team. His average
gain per play was 1.25 yards.
Failing to gain by running the
ball, and failing to connect con
sistently with his passes, Wash
ington turned to the role of re
ceiver. He speared one of Merle
Harris’ passes in the final quar
ter, and romped five yards to the
Uclan’s final score.
Oregon’s two touchdowns were
scored by Jim Nicholson on an off
tackle play from the three-yard
line in the, third quarter, and by
Ted Gebhardt on a pass from Jay
Graybeal in the fihal period.
UO Fencers Will
Meet at Gerlinger
University of Oregon men and
women who a.re interested in the
art of fencing will have the oppor
tunity this year to indulge in the
sport, according to Miss Dorthlee
Horn, faculty adviser of a pro
posed fencing club.
Ail students who are interested
in fencing or in learning to fence
will meet in the social room at
Gerlinger hall to discuss plans for
organization.
Fcils, masks and other equip
ment will be available to those
who wish them.
Vic Reginato
Before Grand
Jury Thursday
Thursday the grand jury
meets, and not until then will
Vic Reginato, star Webfoot
right end, know where he stands
in the accident-death of Mrs.
W. R. Hall.
The grand jury will decide
whether the evidence warrants'
prosecution. Date of the jury
hearing was released yesterday
by District Attorney L. L. Ray.
Mrs. Hall, with her husband,
was struck Saturday evening at
the intersection of Eleventh and
Pearl, and died in the Sacred
Heart hospital four hours later.
Mr. Hall was still in the hospital
yesterday.
The city police report of the
accident states that Reginato
was traveling south on Oak
street and stopped at Eleventh,
where he turned left. He was
still in second gear at Pearl
when he struck Mr. and Mrs.
Hall, who were crossing Elev
enth on foot.
The case is in for considerable'
further investigation, District
Attorney Ray said. State police
investigating the case did not
determine where in the intersec
tion the couple was struck down,
and there are other factors
which may need more investiga
tion, Ray said.
Law School Smoker
To Be Wednesday
Wally Kaapcke and Barney
Kliks, senior law students were ap
pointed by President Frank Nash
to act on the committee for the
law school smoker. First year
committeemen are Bill Van Dusen
and Jack Wagstaff; second year
appointees are Bill Lubersky and
Ken Abraham.
These committeemen will have
charge of preparing skits of ap
proximately 15 minutes each for
ttieir respective classes. Refresh
ments are to be served after the
display of talent has been judged.
University Citizens Told
Of Registration Methods
All University students of voting age are urged by Virgil D.
Earl to vote their party preference this year through the absentee
ballot. To do so, students must be registered by Saturday. For the
first time in the history of the school the administration is encour
aging students to make use of their voting privilege.
Students who wish to vote as absentee voters should use the
following procedure:
First, if the student is not registered in his home county he
may register with the county clerk of Lane county any time prior
to October 8. The clerk’s office will be open until 9 p.m. daily for
the convenience of college students.
Second, the student must write to the county clerk of his home
county for an absentee ballot.
Third, he marks his ballot in secrecy and then in the presence
of a notary public he places the ballot in an official envelope for
that purpose. There will be several notarials in Johnson hall, pro
vided by the administration, who will guarantee the validity of the
ballot to the student’s county clerk.
Fourth, the student mails the ballot to the county clerk of his
home county, thereby casting his vote. .
Students who are from other states may vote in the national
election but must write home to the proper officials for ballots.
They follow the same procedure of mailing their vote as in the third
and fourth step outlined above.
There will be no charge for notarial work, the only cost of
voting being the postage. *•
British WomanCabinet Member Here Today
New Zest for Life
Needed Today, Say
Mission Speakers
Challange to Moderns Discussed Sunday
By E. Stanley Jones at Opening Program
Of University Christian Mission
A new zest tor me—call it Dy wnatever name you win—a new
philosophy or a new interpretation of life is the thing vitally needed by
people tooay. Although it was expressed in different ways, this
thought was advanced by the four speakers who yesterday led and1
today will lead opening meetings of the Unive*ity Christian Mission.
Speaking before 2500 persons Sunday evening E. Stanley Jones
presented a five-point program tor
which people of today are chal
lenged to work: Good news to the
poor—the economically disinherit
ed— that there shall be no poor;
release to the captives—the social
ly and politically disinherited; the
opening of the eyes of the blind— i
the physically disinherited; the
setting at liberty the bruised—the
morally and spiritually disinherit
ed—and the Lord’s Year of Jubi
lee —a new beginning on a world
scale—with the spirit of the Lord:
as the dynamic behind it all.
Three forums and an address
■were presented by the speakers
yesterday.
Ballard Speaks
Discussion of the relation be
tween modern liberal religion and
psychology started during the 4
o’clock forums guided by Dr. J.
Hudson Ballard, minister of the
First Presbyterian church in Port- j
land.
One should use psychology as
one’s life guidance, he declared.
The marks of a sound mind as
pointed out by Dr. Ballard are a
celaned-up, a speeded-up, a poini;
ed-up mind. Two marks of an
ideal are: it is beyond you but not
impossible. The mind is more
plastic than any other part of the
body, Dr. Ballard said.
Advises on Marriage
Mrs. Grace Sloan Overton in her
discussion group on “Marriage in
a Changing Culture” urged stu
dents to obtain a new philosophy
of life to go with their more ad
vanced physical knowledge of life.
She listed four basic attitudes
toward marriage: the patriachal
attitude as illustrated by the
Orient; class distinction and the
advisability of sharply defining the
class lines; marriage of advan
tages; and the romantic marriage.
Modern misfortunes in relation to
marriage are divorce, pre-marital
relations, illegitimate children, and
fewer children in the higher
class.
The present generation is doing
the clearest thinking in regard to
this.
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Dr. Erb Leaves
Campus on Three
Day Lecttire Tour
With speeches at Baker and La
Grande on his schedule, Dr. Don
ald M. Erb, president of the Uni
versity, left Monday on a three
cTay trip to eastern Oregon.
“Big and Little Business” will be
the theme of Dr. Erb’s address to
the Rotary club at noon. Tuesday.
On Wednesday he will speak be
fore a general assembly at East
ern Oregon normal on “The Eco
nomic Background of the Euro
pean Crisis.”
The La Grande Rotary club will
hear Dr. Erb speak on “The Rail
road Problem Again” Wednesday
noon.
Wednesday night Dr. Erb will
attend an alumni dinner, at La-!
Grande. He will return to Eugene
Thursday. •
Meal Service
Inaugurated for
Hendricks Hall
Six - Year Struggle
Ends in Victory;
Girls Rejoice
Saturday, October 1, was a big
day for the girls in Hendricks hall.
To top off the day marked by Ore
gon’s football victory over UCLA,
the girls were served their first
meal in the hall in six years, Mrs.
J. M. Miller, house mother, said
yesterday.
Formerly all the girls living in
the two dorms, Hendricks and Su
san Campbell, have had to walk
over to the men’s dorm for all
their meals. The new system has
met with great approval from all
the girls and will undoubtedly be
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Special Train
To Palo Alto
Is Possibility
A special University of Ore
gon student train to Palo Alto
for the Stanford game Oct. 15
appeared a possibility last night
when it was learned that several
student backers were trying to
make such an arrangement.
A tentative price of $14.05 for
the round trip, exclusive of
meals and berth accommoda
tions, has already been tenta
tively set, providing 100 students
would sign for the trip. The
train would leave Eugene Fri
day afternoon of that weekend,
leave Palo Alto Sunday after
noon, and return to Eugene Mon
day morning at seven, according
to Elmer Hanson and Phil Wal
lace, organizers of the plan.
Any arrangements so far are
only tentative, pending an opin
ion by the dean of women, and
pending the student response.
Pi Lambda Theta
Announces Awards
The Pi Lambda Theta, a nation
al association for women in educa
tion, announces three awards giv
en for research from the fund
known as the Ella Victoria Dobbs
Fellowship of Pi Lambda Theta.
Three awards of $250 each will be
granted on May 15, 1939, for sig
nificant research studies in educa
tion.
Any woman of graduate stand
ing or any member of Pi Lambda
Theta whether engaged or not en
gaed at present in educational
work shall be eligible for the
award.
UO Broadcast
Begins Series
OnRadioKOAC
Program Goes Over
State Station with
Students, Faculty
Taking Part
The first of a permanent series
of broadcasts, all-University in
scope, originating in the ensemble
room of the University school of
music, was presented last night
over the state-owned station,
KOAC.
The broadcast, which will be fol
lowed up every day, Monday
through Friday, was one hour in
length, from eight to nine o’clock.
Monday’s program was opened
with violin selections by Dorothy
Louise Johnson, former student at
the University under Rex Under
wood, and now on the music school
faculty.
Many Appear
Others who appeared on yester
day's program were Victor P. Mor
ris, dean of the school of business
administration, Robert Garretson,
student in music, and Dr. Edna
Landros. 1
The University's part in Tues
day's program will take place from
3 to 2:45 p.m., and will open with
the feature, “You May Not Be
lieve It But This feature will
be presented on alternate Tues
days, being supplemented with a
discussion of School Problems at
Home.
The series of broadcasts is sim
ilar to the ones presented last year,
with a permanent setup. Within
two or three weeks, some addi
tional permanent equipment will be
installed in the ensemble room,
from which all broadcasts will or
Iginiate, it was announced by Luke
Roberts, manager of KOAC and
announcer on the broadcast pro
grams. Technical phases of the
broadcasts will be handled by
Grant Feikert, chief engineer.
'War' Class Unit
Enrollment Booms
Enrollment in the University
ROTC unit has surpassed that of
any previous years, according to
.Sergeant Frank I. Agule of the
military staff, who released the
figures yesterday.
The military unit has 837 men,
256 sophomores and 497 freshmen,
while the remainder are junior and
senior officers. Fully uniformed,
this group represents the largest
ROTC unit company in the history
of the school.
S'gnificant of the rating of the
local unit is the increased enroll
ment in advanced courses where
courses for third and fourth year
men have 84 students enrolled, an
increase of 14 over last year. These
men will be reserve army officers
upon graduation, Sergeant Agule
stated.
ItOBINSON RETURNS
Horace W. Robinson’s pupils saw
their teacher for the first time this
fall when the drama professor re
turned to meet with his classes
Monday. Robinson, instructor of
stage design, theater artp, and
| technique of acting, has been ill
I and unable to teach since school
j started.
Frosh Political Meet Set for Tonigh t
With a freshman class nominat
ing assembly scheduled for 7:30
tonight in Villard hall by Zane
Kemler, ASUO vice-president, all
frosh political aspirants and their
aides hurriedly completed their
tickets yesterday and prepared
their blocs for the nearly final
test.
At 11 o’clock last night the two
blocks remained virtually the same
as last week. Considerable dicker
ing was still going on, however, at
the midnight hour, and it appeared
likely that some radical changes
might be made, both in the per
sonnel of the tickets and in the
alignment of the blocs.
One ticket was announced as
being headed by Bob Sheets, Beta,
with a supporting cast including
Eleanor Sederstrom, Alpha Phi,
for vice-president, Kit Carson,
Hendricks hall, secretary, and
Mack Hand, SAE, treasurer.
This ticket was announced by a
block including the Betas, Chi Psis,
Kappa Sigs, Phi Delts, Fijis, SAEs,
Sammies, Sigma Chis, Sigma Nus,
and ATOs.
Tentatively listed on the other
ticket last night were Jack Dan
iels from the Delt house, Florence
Kinney, Susan Campbell hall, Bet
ty Jean De Armond, Tri Delt, and
Bob Calkins, men’s dorm.
This bloc includes the remaining
men’s houses, Delta Upsilon, Theta
Chi, Delt, SPE, Phi Sig, Phi Psi,
Pi Kap, and the dormitories, co
ops, and independents.
The prevailing impression at
press time, however, was that any
thing might happen before break
fast time this morning.
Margaret Bondfield
To Speak on World
Crisis at Assembly
Miss Bondfied, Guest of Women's Co-op,
Will Give Detailed Account of Crisis; Will
Hold Follow-up Forum Tonight
A candid interpretation of the recent international crisis in Europe
>vill be given by the Right Honorable Grace Bondfield, only woman
nember of the British cabinet, when she appears at an assembly this
norning at 11 in Gerlinger.
As a follow-up feature of her morning address, Miss Bondfield will
conduct a forum at 7:30 o’clock in Gerlinger at which she will answer
First Lady
Miss M. G. Bondfield . . . first
n oman cabinet member In the
English parliament who will speak
nt the assembly this mori ic
fiei* • ger hall at 11. o’clock.
Gridders Score
New Triumph
With Music
A trusty in the Lane county
jail was sitting in front of his
temporary domicile Friday even
of last week, playing softly on
his guitar for the entertainment
of his mates and several of the \
county officials, including Sher
iff C. A. Swarts, who gave an
Emerald reporter this story.
\ small group of young men, :
obviously students, approached
the jail door and stopped to
listen.
As the trusty finished playing
a song, one of the young men,
a negro boy, walked up to him
and asked if he might try the
guitar. Granted his request he !
started to play and sing some
popular negro airs, and another
colored boy from the ranks of j
the spectators walked over and ,
joined him.
For nearly an hour, according
to Swarts, the two boys plucked
at the guitar and crooned melo
dies of their mother South. One
of the two was Woodrow Wilson
Strode, lanky UCLA left end.
The other— you guessed it Ken
ny Washington, the Uclan's
great back.
INSTRUCTOR TO RETURN
Miss Christina Adella Crane, in
structor in romance languages, is
expected back on the campus with
in two weeks. Miss Crane has been
confined to her home in Colorado
Springs with septic sore throat.
ill questions arising irom ner taiK
ind will give a more detailed ac
count of the true aspect of the
lituation in Europe at the present
;ime and of the wisdom of the
ieace concessions of the powers in
volved.
Entering the British cabinet as
ninister of labor in 1929, she
served in that capacity until 1931,
iuring which time she became a
;ife member of the privy council,
in honor received by no other wo
man for hundreds of years in
English history. Her climb from a
position as shop assistant to a
rade union leader and thence to
he British cabinet, in addition to
ner activities in behalf of world
peace, has contributed to her un
usual knowledge of world affairs.
The meet honoring .Miss Bond
field is under the direction of
Stephenson Smith, and is sched
uled as an outstanding mid-week
feature of Christian Mission week,
now in progress on the University
campus.
During her two-day stay in Eu
gene, the noted English states
woman is the guest of the Univer
sity street Women’s Co-op.
Mrs. Grace Overton
!To Be AWS Speaker
Women of the University of Ore
gon will hear Mrs. Grace Sloan
Overton, member of the Christian
Mission group now in session on
the campus, at a mass meeting of
the Associated Women students at
4 o’clock this afternoon in the
Guild theater in Johnson hall.
Mrs. Overton’s talk to the femi
nine contingent of the University
will deal with the subject of “Wo
man's Part in Making Romantic
Marriage Sound,’’ according to
word released by Elisabeth Stet
son, president of the Associated
Women.
Multnomah Field
Scene of Little Civil
War in October 15
The second annual little civil
war between the Oregon and Ore
gon State frosh will be played
again this year under the sponsor
ship of the Oregon and Oregon
State alumni associations, and will
be held in the Multnomah stadium
of Portland at 8:15, October 15.
Roland Davis, the Portland
alumni president, has appointed
Francis H. Andrews chairman of
the game. Ransom Meike is the
OSC chairman.
This event is an annual function
of the Portland Alumni associa
tion and last year the association
sponsored the Oregon-Washington
frosh game which will be held this
year at Seattle.
Tragedy Plays Role
In Naming of McClure
Tragedy played a ”ery important part in naming, and in the dedi
cation of one of the oldest buildings on the Oregon campus, McClure
hall.
Situated between the art school and Friendly hall, McClure with
all its scientic equipment has housed the chemistry department ever
since it was established in this school by Edgar McClure, the first pro
lessor of chemistry of the Univer
sity.
Edgar McClure, who was a stu
dent at Oregon before he received
his professorship from Harvard,
met a tragic death shortly after
beginning his career as a chemistry
instructor, when he accidentally
tell from the heights of Mt. Rain
ier. McClure and a party of
friends, who were climbing the
mountain, delayed in descending
until after dark, and as it was a
very treacherous descent, McClure
guided a few of the party down
the precipice at a time. On one of
his return trips he slipped and fell
to his death.
In memory of Edgar McClure,
the class of 1901 dedicated the
chemistry building to him, and
erected a plaque in his honor.