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Z600 j Information on Nov. 8 Ballot to Be Featured In Edit Page Articles VOLUME XL UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1938 NUMBER 23 - Holiday Story 'Scoop’ Scored by Barometer An unconfirmed rumor appearing on the front page of the Oregon State Barometer yesterday indicated that the state board of higher education had decreed that no classes be held in any institution of the state system Armistice day. Fearing that students would stage demonstrations demanding that they be allowed to attend classes that day, authorities at tempted to conceal the report on the front page of the Barometer. It was uncovered, however, by a member of the EBFWA (Emerald Borers From Within Association) elaborate Emerald espionage sys- ; tern. After translating it into English, he forwarded it to the out- [ side world by carrier pigeon, dog team, and smoke signals. In an effort to confirm the rumor the entire Emerald staff was organized j, into the WWSC (We Was Scooped /Club) and at latest reports was scouring the “shack” for traces of a suspicious-looking man with a red nose and a wooden leg, who was reported to be leading a cow. j High-Geared Promotion Of Homecoming Includes Posters, Radio Programs ___ Committee to Mimeograph Invitations on Stationery of Campus Houses; KORE Is Preparing Barris Programs High-geared promotion of Homecoming is well under way, Dick! Watson, general chairman, reported yesterday as plans for distribution i of 1000 three-color posters, diversified radio programs, and campus : activities near completion. Issued under the direction of “Tige” Payne, advertising and sign chairman, the posters will be mailed today for distribution this week in every Oregon town with a population of more than eight people. Mailing or personal invitations from living organizations should be completed by the end of this week, Watson said. Dorothy Mag nuson, assistant general chair man, and Alyce Rogers, secretary, have charge of providing the houses with mimeographed letters through the University alumni of fice. Copy for the letters, which will be picked up by noon today, will be printed on the organiza tion’s personal stationery free of charge and returned to the houses for immediate mailing. General Meeting Today A general meeting of the Home coming committee chairmen will be held this afternoon in the edu cational activities office with rep resentatives of the Eugene Quar terback club and the alumni office. Plans for additional promotion of the “biggest” Homecoming will be made at the meeting. Roy Vernstrom, campus radio writer, was appointed yesterday by the committee to aid in preparing scripts for programs next week over KORE, Eugene. The pro grams, which will start next week, will feature the music of Harry Barris, band leader who will swing students and grads at the Home-' coming dance Saturday night,! November 5. Pi Beta Phi Celebrates Birthday The Oregon Alpha chapter of Pi Beta Phi will celebrate its 24th birthday today. Mrs. Louise Linn, prominent alumna from Portland, will be there. Mrs. Montgomery, Lambda prov ince president, arrived Tuesday to visit the sorority. A fireside was held in her honor. T Insurance Now Dream Come True By ANNA MAE HALVERSON Insurance against flunking has long been a dream of United States collegians, but It took two Provi dence college students to make the dream come true. The premiums range from 35 to 50 cents, and if one collects on the policy, he can get up to a maxi mum of $24. (One could almost pay tuition for another term at that rate, and take the course over.) The organization is called the Students’ Protective Insurance ■ company and is incorporated under the laws of Rhode Island. It is managed by a board of four stu dent directors. * * * Merely— Today’s borrowed nut story: He was in chem lab, and the prof was explaining certain reactions to him: “This liquid turns blue if your unknown is basic, and it turns red if the unknown is acid.” “Sorry, but I'm color blind,” apologized the brain trust. “Have you got anything with a bell on it?”—Daily Trojan. * * * ) Evening Garb For thirty-six years men stu dents at the University of Kansas have held an annual nightshirt pa ► rade and rally which starts on the campus, and winds downtown end ing up at the town theaters. Aftei a huge bonfire, the students are entertained and fed without charge by local merchants. It Can Happen Here; Firemen Build Blaze What couldn’t happen hap pened when the Eugene fire de partment built a fire instead of extinguishing one last week. 1 Homecoming Bonfire Chair man Martin Reig persuaded the | fire department to aid the bon- j fire committee in burning off the site for the big Homecoming blaze at 19th and Ferry streets. Reig’s committee and the de partment cleared the land in preparation for extensive mate rial-gathering efforts of the Uni versity frosh from now until next Friday. The freshmen’s ef forts going up in smoke will be a climaxing feature of the noise parade. Phototone to Make First Night Dehut Premier of Campus Newsreel to Appear At Heilig Theater Tonight s the night—or rather today’s the day—at the Heilig. Oregon Phototone, replete with color and sound, makes its first nighter debut. The 15-minute campus newsreel is to accompany a regular double bill at regular prices. It will be shown until Monday at the Heilig and will carry over at the May flower next Thursday for a three day session. Despite current rumors, Photo tone is not the first campus news reel at Oregon. George Godfrey, present news-disher-outer for the University, produced a local reel about a decade ago when semi professional moving picture work was in the experimental stages. This newsreel was silent and in black and white. Tickets for 20 cents of the ad mission price have been distrib uted throughout the various liv ing organizations. Their only pur pose is to serve the Heilig-May flower management as a check on drawing power of the newsreel. Business Frat To Convene On UO Campus Alpha Kappa Psi to Meet Delegates of Five Colleges Here Tomorrow Alpha Kappa Psi, national busi nesss honorary, will convene here tomorrow and Saturday, with dele gates from the University of Washington, Washington State, University of Idaho, the University of Montana, and the University of Oregon. The convention officially opens at 8:30 in Alumni hall of Gerlinger with E. E. Davis, district coun sellor from the University of Idaho presiding. Dean Victor P. Morris of the B.A. school will give the address of welcome, and William J. Luby, national president, will give the response. Following the response will be introduction of delegates and a brief report from each one. A resolutions committee and a nom inating committee will be appoint ed, as well as a secretary for the convention. The district counsellor will report. The noon luncheon will be fol lowed by an afternoon session pre sided over by O. Floyd Benson from the University of Washing ton. Reports of the various mem bers will follow. Several Speakers Wayne Yenni from the Univer sity of Idaho will speak on “Elect ing, Pledging, and Initiation.” L. R. Seibert from the University of Oregon will talk on “Getting the Men We Want as Members and Keeping Them Active in Alpha Kappa Psi.” “Keeping Fraternity Men Inter ested in Local Chapters,” will be discussed by Arden Dow of Wash ington State college. Hougston Bosler of the University of Mon tana will talk on “Efficiency Con test.” To See Game Saturday the delegates will go to Portland to see the Oregon-USC game. The convention will close with a banquet at the Campbell Cqurt hotel with the evening ad dress by William J. Luby, national president. The convention will be adjourned after a discussion of alumni problems. This convention takes ir all of the northwest and meets every three years. Many of the faculty of the B.A. school as well as the members of the local chapter and the Seattle alumni will attend. Sigma Delta Chi To Honor Aiken, Abbot at Dinner Sigma Delta Chi, men’s journal ism honorary, will entertain George Aiken, publisher of the On tario Argus, and Leith Abbott, Southern Pacific official, at a ban quet this evening in the College Side. The dinner will be one of a series honoring visiting publishers on the Oregon campus. Mr. Ab bott, Emerald editor of 1913 and graduate member of Sigma Delta Chi, is in Eugene arranging for the special rally train to Portland Friday afternoon. Early Record Sen t By Former Studen t New and earlier records of the founding and settling of Astoria, which have been buried in the files of the United States war depart ment, have been unearthed recently, Dr. R. C. Clark, head of the his tory department, said. The records were sent to Dr. Clark by Jessie S. Douglas, for mer student of the University of Oregon, now employed in the archives. A copy of the record will be published in the March is sue of the Oregon Historical Quar terly, and will be edited by Doug las. It is the original report of John I. Sullivan, based on the story told to him by William Wallace Mat thews, a member of the Astor party which founded the fort in 1811. It is an account of the build ing and experiences of the fur trading on the Columbia. The re. port was dated Washington, De cember 22, 1824. Until now the knowledge of As toria’s early history has been de pendent on the accounts of Wash ington Irving which were not pub lished until 1838. The discovery of the record came about when the files were moved from the war department to the Archives building. The purpose of the archives is to make available the previously buried records in the files of the individual depart ments. Campus Welcomes Return of 35 'Olivermen’; f Plans Being Made for Busy Portland Weekend Jantzen Beach Set For First Rally Hop Saturday Evening Win, lose, or draw in Saturday’s game, Webfoot rooters will find just what the doctor ordered, at the Jantzen Beach rally dance that night, according to rally commit tee plans. Not only dancing but stunts, yells, and almost anything might happen at the post-game frolic, which will swing into action at 9 o’clock Saturday evening. The celebration will be in the hands of the rally committee and Skull and Dagger, co-sponsors of the affair. Harrison Bergtholdt and Art Hannifin, members of both groups, are co-chairmen for the affair. Mothers and dads of University students will also take part, bring ing in the universal appeal of rally spirit. Admission for the event is 80 cents a couple. | Undergrads to Have New Bedtime Stories New voices will lull University undergraduates to sleep as a result of approval of faculty additions and changes by the state board of higher education at its meeting Tuesday. Additional graduate students take the reins as assistants in the school of music, the school of bus iness administration, the econom ics department, and the psychol ogy department. A half-time instructor will re place a graduate assistant in the anthropology department while full time instructors will be placed in the home economics department and the mathematics department. Appointments of Homer H. Han na as instructor in speech division of the English department and of Major John W. Crissy as assistant professor of military science and tactics were approved by the board. Resignation of Dr. Nelson L. Bossing, professor of education, and promotion of Jack Plotkin, circulation assistant, to acting ex ecutive assistant to the librarian, were also announced. The school of architecture and allied arts will receive an addition al instructor, together with an ap propriation of $450 for supplies. Added time for an instructor in drama was allotted by the "board and a part time assistant for an educational clinic was approved. Dean Jewell Attends Educators' Meeting jDean J. R. Jewell of the school of education attended a chancel lor’s executive council meeting Monday in Portland. He reported on a recent survey of teacher preparation throughout universi ties, state colleges, normals, and independent colleges. Heads and registrars of all Ore gon universities and colleges were at this meeting. ROTC Colonel Offers Coeds Neater Dates Colonel Robert M. Lyon, head of the University ROTC, saved the day for the coeds' anti-dirty cord campaign by offering them the alternative of a uniform on Wednesdays. The KOTC is the only depart ment which insists upon a high standard of personal appearance, declared the colonel. Boys are subject to inspection each Wed nesday, and demerits are issued to those who need a shave, hair cut, or who have uniforms that need cleaning and pressing. Even the belt buckle needs to be shined. With platoons competing for I high ratings, the appearance of the boys on drill days is excep tionally good, the colonel re marked. Cheese-it, De Coppers Are In Town Today De cops! . . . Familiar word among mischief makers, will become a student by-word during the rest of the week as police chiefs from all over Oregon gather here for their first annual session. Prank sters, piggers, and what have you will be at their best behav ior during the conclave. The officers will discuss means for closer cooperation between police of different cities and will form a permanent organization for the purpose of achieving this goal. Officers Elected At PE Club Meeting Bogue Is President; Organization Plans Year's Program Physical Education club mem bers held their first regular meet ing and election last night at the PE building. A1 Bogue was elect ed president of the newly revived club. Other officers include Jim Dimit, vice-president; A1 Long, secretary-treasurer; and Russ Cut ler. adviser. Cutler opened the meeting with a short talk, based on “unified ac tion in developing the four square department bounded by the four phases of the field: the physical education theory, health educa tion, physical activities, and the recreational activitiees.” ■ Bogue took over the meeting following the election and gave a brief outline of the proposed ac tivities of fhe club. The club plans to give a “hello” dance following mid-term exams as their first so cial event. Other features discussed includ ed skiing parties and the showing of football pictures by Coaches Tex Oliver and Bill Cole at a fu ture meeting. The club plans to furnish the PE majors’ lounging room in the PE building so that it may be used by members as soon as possible. The Northwest PE meeting to be held here in March and the na tional meeting scheduled for San) Francisco in the late spring were mentioned. The second meeting of the club is scheduled for 7:30 Wednesday night. Further discussion will be held on the dance and a definite date set. The constitutional com mittee is to give its report at this meeting. Population Trends Will Be Subject Of Radio Discussion Population trends is the subject of Homer H. Hanna’s round-table discussion for Friday’s radio pro gram. Mr. Hanna, speech instruc tor, will ask questions while three others reply. E. H. Moore from the sociology department will speak on aspects of 1945’s large number of old peo ple and small amount of young people. L. S. Cressman of the anthro pology department will discuss prevalent fear of inferiority among people and the effect of the few superior people. J. L. Cramer, superintendent of schools for the city of Eugene, has the subject of attendance and population in schools and the ef fect of small families on schools. The program will begin at 7:30. It originates in the ensemble room of the music building and will be broadcast over station KOAC. DUDLEY TO SPEAK Mr. Arthur Dudley, profeasor in the BA school, will speak on "China” at the Beta Gamma Sig ma banquet and initiation tonight. Dudley has recently returned from China where he was in business ( for three years. Rally Committee Slates Full Program For Friday Night Only once in a blue moon do the Southern California Trojans come north to Oregon, and the ASUO rally committee is making the most of this Saturday’s in vasion, with a full program for the weekend. Hauled to Portland by a special ASUO rally train leaving here at 3:30 Friday afternoon and arriving at Union station before seven that night, rooters will start blowing the lid off with a tyypical Webfoot! street parade led by the University j band, members of which will be making their first Portland ap pearance in their 1938 emerald green finery. Dance Follows Parade The parade finessed to the last thump of the big bass drum and the last tinkle of the glockenspiel, j the next act will take place at | the Uptown ballroom. There the j Webfoots will pre-game it for the rest of the evening to the music of Johnny Callahan’s orchestra, regular Uptown band, who will be remembered on the campus from last spring’s Mortar Board dance. The special train is an ASUO arrangement officially sanctioned at a student affairs committee meeting Tuesday. Time of de parture was set at 3:30 as the most convenient hour for midterm beset undergraduates, rally com mittee train managers said. Train Returns at 6:30 The special train will pull out of Union station for Duckland at 6:30 Sunday evening and arrive here, at about 10 that night. Tickets for the train are on sale at an ASUO booth on Thirteenth at $2.66 round trip. Return may be on any train up to midnight Monday, local Southern Pacific of ficials said. Music Students Will Broadcast on KOAC Scheduled to be heard on the University of Oregon radio broad cast over station KOAC Thursday and Friday evening from 8 until 8:15 o'clock, are Jacqueline A. Wong, pianist, and Barbara Ward, contralto. Thursday evening Jacqueline Wong will play the following selec tions: “Impromptu in B Flat” by Schubert; “Lotus Land,” Scott; and “La Comparsa” by Lecuana. Miss Wong is a student of George Hopkins, professor of piano. Barbara Ward, a senior student in voice, instructed by Halfred Young, professor of music, will sing Friday evening. Her numbers will include: “Do Not Go, My Love,” by Hageman, "In the Si lence of Night,” Rachmaninoff; “Deep River,” a negro spiritual, arranged by Fisher; “In the Still of the Night,” Cole Porter, taken from the motion picture, “Rosalie;” and “Mountains" by Rosbach. She will be accompanied at the piano by Zoe Brassey. CLASSES CANCELLED All sections of Clothing Selec tion CT 114 for the rest of the week have l>eon cancelled. Real Oregon Mist Refreshes Weary Ducks Oregon's good luck omen met the returning Webfoot gridsters at the railroad station Wednes day. Good old Jupe Pluvius himself greeted the Ducks with an old fashioited Oregon mist. To the gridsters who had been subjected to the torrid heat of California, and the dryness of New York, the raindrops felt like a shower of $5 gold pieces. Storm signals were posted by the entire squad for U.S.C.! Dean Morris Speaks To T Commission Freshman Advised Of Association's Work on Campus Dean Victor P. Morris of the business administration school, spoke on the "Work of the YMCA on the Campus” at a meeting of the freshman commission held in the “Y" shack last night. “Although our advisory system has many merits, it also has some waeknesses," said Dean Morris. “Counselling done at registra tion time and throughout the year does not provide the intimate rela tionship between the faculty and students which is desirable,” Mor ris said. | “One of the functions of the I YMCA could well be to bring the faculty and students together in an informal way in order that the faculty could be of aid in solving personal problems of students. Most of the problems arising in life,” Morris continued, “are not solved directly in the classroom. Through informal sessions with members of the faculty, various views could be discussed and stu dents could be aided in a manner impossible in the classroom.” Freshman commission officers were elected. Norman Foster was elected president, Bob Deverell, vice-president, Jean Speer, secre tary, and Dave Zilka, treasurer. Ken Erickson presided at the meeting and Ralph Severson, presi dent of the YMCA, explained the organization and various commit tees and their functional relation ship to one another. Jack Daniels, president of the freshman class, urged the support of the organization and commend ed the “Y” program. Eentertainment was furnished by Hugh Simpson, who accompan ied his songs with a guitar. Phi Sigma Kappa Plan Basket Social Phi Sigma Kappa will give its annual basket social tonight. About thirty invitations have been sent out. Guests at the fraternity will be Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Large, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Cougill, and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Bond. Proceeds from the selling of the baskets will be given to somej needy student on the campus. Phone Answerers Prove Poky, Peppy By JACK BRYANT Telephone ringing? It might be the Emerald conducting another The latest one, on the answering of telephones, revealed that the SAEs are tops on promptness and the Pi Kaps lowest. The SAEs answered the phone before it rang, while it took the Pi Kaps eight rings 10 answer. Just as the operator started to ring the SAE house, Eddie Hearn tried to make a call, the result was that a greeting of ‘‘Freshman Eddie Hearn speaking,” reached the ears of the pollster. Hearn (an upperclassman) ex plained that due to the lack of freshmen in the house he was forced to answer the phone, but didn’t want to admit it. Another story concerned sopho mores Jim Bailey and Bob Ruth of Zeta hall. The pair was sitting in the living room as the phone rang. Jim looked at Bob, Bob looked at Jim. They both looked for a freshman, then went on with their resting. Again the bell rang, this time Bob said, “I'll match you."’ “Two out of three,’’ Jim said, and the phone rang five times be fore Bob answered. Among the women’s organiza tions, the AOPis were tops with only one ring necessary for an an swer. The Alpha Phis let the bell ring five times before answering Station Reception For Returning Duck Squad Enthusiastic Met at the station by a demon stration which outdid even their sendoff two weeks ago, Tex Oli cer and his train-weary crew of gVidmen returned to the home roost yesterday with 7000 miles of railroad travel behind them. The biggest “train" noise parade in station-rally history was the University’s welcome home for its returning football team, with well over two thousand webfoots taking part in the proceedings. As Coach Oliver and his play ers stepped from the train, they were introduced by Yell Leader Paul Cushing, who asked them to comment for the crowd. Oliver in timated that Southern California might be in for a bit of a surprise in Saturday’s game. 'Following yells and songs, a ral ly parade, led by two bus-loads of returning players and the Univer sity band made its way to the campus. An unsung hero of the rally was the Eugene traffic officer who was seen tagging cars which were parked out of line. Rhodes Scholars Must ApplyToday Applications to enter the cam pus competition to represent the University as a competitor for the Rhodes scholarship must be in to day, S. Stephenson Smith, profes sor of English and head of the committee on foreign scholarships, announced. Rhodes scholarship candidates must be unmarried male citizens of the United States, between the ages of 19 and 25 years on Octo ber 1 of the year for which elected, and must have at least junior standing. Applicants should call at Pro fessor Smith’s office, 205 Villard for an application blank. Kenneth O. Warner, Director of Council, To Visit Campus jKenneth O. Warner, director of the Northwest Regional council, will meet with faculty members interested in the work of the coun cil Friday at 3 p.m. in the faculty room of Friendly hall. The council is inaugurating, with the financial support of the Rocke feller foundation, a three-year pro gram “to foster continuous coop eration between persons engaged in educational activities and per sons concerned with the planning, research and administrative func tions of government.” Warner will explain the work of the council and will discuss the possibility of grants in aid of re search to members of the Univer sity faculty. He will be on the campus Friday and Saturday and then expects to complete a tour of the Northwest which will have carried him to nearly every col j lege, university, and state capital in this area. Warner was recently personnel director of the state of Arkansas, having been elected to the position on the council last year. Prof Leaves; Class Departs, Happy Birthday The Technique of Acting class had a “surprise party” for Hor ace W. Robinson, instructor in the drama department, whose birthday was yesterday. Mr. Robinson was in the midst of a discussion on imagination and how it could be cultivated. He was suddenly called out of the room, so admonished the class to just imagine where he was going and why. When he returned only the blackboard confronted him with this brief message: "Horace, just imagine we're here."—Class."