VOLUME XL
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1938
NUMBER 33
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Armistice Day Compared
-November, 1918—1938
Former Dean John Straub . . .
stirred students’ hearts in 1918.
Eugene's First
Armistice Dag
Noisy, Joyous
Dean Allen Reads
Terms to Students;
Crowds Cheer
Today is Armistice day. Quietly,
with an air of sophistication, FO
students, bent on pleasures of a
collegiate world, accept that state,
ment as part of their every day
life.
But how different this morning’s
quiet calm is from Eugene’s first
Armistice. “A real serpentine, one
of the old kind that Oregon stu
dents like to think of as taking
place before the war” was the way !
a sentimental Emerald reporter
described the festivities which be
gan early the morning of Novem
ber 11, 1918, when the news
reached the campus that Germany
had signed the armistice and peace
had come to the world.
Spirits ran high as students
planned the biggest celebration in
the history of the institution to
welcome home classmates who had
gone overseas, and the noise
which accompanies the announce
ment of the signing even sur
passed last weekend’s Homecoming
noise parade those who were here
said.
Dean of Men John Straub said,
‘‘My heart is very close to my
throat and the tears close to my
eyes when I think of all this means i
to us—our heroes will soon be
with us again.”
Sirens Waken Students
Sirens on city fire engines
served' to awaken students just af-1
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USC Trojans
Named by
Sports Writer
The “Trojans” of Southern Cal
ifornia got their name way back
when they weren’t very often on
the long end of scores. Owen R.
Bird, then sports editor of the Los
Angeles Times, christened them
that in the spring of 1912 prior to
a dual intercollegiate meet with
Stanford.
“I named them that,” said Mr.
Bird, waxing poetic and maybe pa
triotic, “because of their fighting
spirit and the ability of their
teams to go down under over
whelming odds of bigger and bet
ter equipped teams with their
colors gloriously nailed to the
mast.”
Food
Guard: Sir, the prisoners are
rioting again.
Warden: What's the matter
now?
Guard: The chef used to work
for a frat.—Blue and Gold.
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Shorts*
Washington and Lee university
has a special student credit com
mittee that can fine students or
have them dismissed for passing
rubber checks.
Louisiana State university has
received a gift of 5,000 French
books from the French govern
ment.
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Comment
“I think final examinations are
a waste of time, for I find very
few students have changed their
semester grade by taking a final.
The time spent on these exams
could be better used for further
study.”—Professor Fairman, Pur
due university.
Ducklings, Orange Babes6 War9 Here Today
OSC Ire Rises
At Edict Ban
Of Majorettes
Indignation rose on the Ore
gon State campus yesterday,
when “an edict from official
quarters’’ banned coed drum ma
jorettes from appearing with the
band.
The flashy, high - stepping,
bare-kneed majorettes who led
the cadet band in Portland at
the Washington State game,
may be missing at the Home
oming festivities this weekend.
Students at OSC who support
the idea of coed baton-twirlers
and members of the Daily Baro
meter staff were unable to trace
the origin of the edict. None of
the members of the faculty were
willing to admit issuing it.
The fate of the OSC major
ettes is similar to that suffered
by Oregon coed stick-slingers
last year when plans to have
them lead the University band
were squelched by the dean of
women.
'Susan and God' to
Raise VLT Curtain
UO People to Have
Lead Roles; Boyle
To Tread Boards
Eugene’s Very Little Theater
will put on tonight their first dra
matic effort of the fall season,
when the Broadway success, “Su
san and God” will be presented at
8 o’clock at their playhouse at the
Lane county fairgrounds, with
Wally Boyle, UO dramatics in
structor, playing the leading male
role.
The title role of Susan will be
enacted by Daisy Hamlin, Univer
sity Co-op store librarian, while
Mary Graham, educational activi
ties secretary, will ptrtray a
wholesome girl who neaily cap
tures Susan’s leading man while
she flits hither and yon. Virginia
Mikulak will, as in her appear
ance in “First Lady,” play an in
teresting character role.
Mr. Boyle, who takes the lead
as Barrie, lovable but drunken
hero of the story, has behind him,
in addition to previous stage ex
perience on Broadway and in Cal
ifornia, a season of work in Holly
wood this past summer.
The sparkling comedy is being
directed by Dorothy Parks, for
merly prominent in University
theater work, who is now teaching
dramatics and English at Spring
field high school.
Hypnotism Will Be
Discussed on Radio
By Psych Profs
Hypnotism, what it is, and how
it affects people will be explained
on a radio program tonight at 7:30
over KOAC, by Lester F. Beck and
Robert Leeper, professors of psy
chology, and one other speaker not
yet chosen.
According to H. L. “Mark” Han
na, speech instructor, who will lead
the round-table, the questions on
hypnotism will concern chiefly the
condition of the hypnotized indi
vidual. Is he in a state of sleep?
Does he dream? Where is his
mind? Are his eyes opened or
closed ?
Who can be hypnotized? Is it
possible when the subject is not
willing?
The discussion will also handle
the difference between hypnotism
and auto-suggestion.
INFIRMARY PATIENTS
The infirmary listed the follow
ing patients Thursday: Janet Stin
son, Mary Graham, Molly Cunning
ham, Mary Sackett, Bill Jackson,
James Manning, Woody Slater,
Theodore Sievers, Anthony Knap,
Robert Stafford, and Ellinore Cav
erhill.
First Home Game—Third Taste of Rooks
Bernie McCudden, Bob Beckner and Ray Segale . . . from loft to right above, are three of the main
stays in Coach John Warren’s frosh line. These three guards will see plenty of OSC rooks’ brawn coming
their way in their game this afternoon on Hayward field. The frosh have lost one and tied one game
with the rooks this season.
Dr. Sheldon Explains Arab,
Jewish Holy Land Situation,
Describes British Stand
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By MARGARET GIRVIN
“It would take fifteen or twenty milloin people to protect Pales
i tine,” Dr. H. D. Sheldon told his world history classes this week,
j The present population of approximately 1,400,000 inhabitants in
Palestine could not possibly protect the land in its exposed position,
he said. Two thirds of the people are Arabs, one third Jews; the
! country is too small and poor to support the necessary number for
us protection against invasion.
1 It is the power and prestige of
the English government which has
kept the Arabs from attacking the
Jews, Dr. Sheldon explained. The
' English are more or less allied
with the surrounding P Tabs and
with the aid of their military
equipment have so far been able
to protect the Jewish people.
English Plan Partition
The English plan to divide the
country into three separate states,
giving the fertile land on the coast
to the Jews, the large hilly dis
trict to the Arabs and keeping the
two cities, Bethlehem and Jeru
salem, for England, has been aban
i doned. Because of the intermingled
J sections of Jewish and Arabian
population it is hard to preserve
order, and in the past four months
1317 persons have been killed and
1141 wounded in this district.
In 1917 the English agreed to
use their influence in establishing
Palestine as a national home for
the Jews, partly as a reward to
Chaim Weizmann, Jewish chemist
who made several discoveries, ad
vantageous to the allies during the
war, and partly to gain the support
of the Jewish people for the allies.
Population Has Increased
Due to the rapid development of
the country the population has in
creased greatly in the past few
years. The number of Jews in the
territory has risen from 58,000 to
approximately 400,000 since 1919.
As the Jewish poulation increases
the Arab population^ grows more
restless, and the situation grows
more acute, Dr. Sheldon said.
Graduate of 1936
Has Article in
California Magazine
Author of an article in the
November issue—the desert num
ber—of the California Arts and
Architecture magazine is Dorothy
Wright, 1936 graduate in landscape
architecture, now practicing in Cal
ifornia.
Entitled “Desert Integrity,” Miss
Wright’s article urges people who
would build homes on the desert to
make use of the natural colors and
materials of the desert in building
a home and landscaping the
grounds. Different cacti are dis
cussed and suggested. She also
suggests a “secret garden” in a
protected corner or court for those
who desire flowers that can not
survive on the desert.
ROTC Law Students i
Stage Mock Trial
Wagstaff Acquitted
By High Officer in
Court Martial
A mock court martial trial was
staged by senior ROTC military
law students, Wednesday night in
the barracks.
Following regular court-martial
procedure, the cadets put to use
their knowledge of military law,
a course taught by Major John W.
: Crissy, military instructor.
Jack Wagstaff, member of the
■ class, was defendant in the trial,
charged with desertion and felony.
However, after all evidence had
been presented and an appeal made
by Captain Luther Seibert, de
fense counsel, the court detail
found the defendant not guilty of
desertion, but absent without
: leave. Wagstaff was acquitted of
| the felony charge.
In a military trial, the judge and
the detail for the court are the
jury. The court detail was as fol
lows: (acting grades) Colonel
Stanley A". W'arren, president; Lt.
Col. Earl C. Williams, Lt. Col.
Frederick Findtner, Major Claude
C. Hockley, Capt. John Gavin,
1 Capt. Rex Applegate, Capt. Allen
H. Murphy, Capt. Philip Lynch.
Captain Edwin J. Welsh was
trial judge advocate and First
Lieut. Donald Childers, assistant
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Construction Bids
For Hayward Stand
To Open Today
Bids wlil be opened this morn
ing on the construction contract i
for expansion of the grandstands j
at Hayward field, UO Executive
Secretary Earl Pallett, announced
yesterday.
Present plans to increase the
, seating capacity at the football
field, Mr. Pallett said, include an
extension of the east grandstand
southward, and the addition of a
new roof over the west end seats.
The campus improvement, ac
cording to the executive secretary,
will be made possible by a federal
grant of $14,500, with the remain
ing cost of around $17,000 to be
i supplied by the University athletic
board.
Sound Machine
Purchased tor
Campus Use
Good Projection,
•Easy Operation Is
Assured
A sound projector, l;he latest
model of the Victor Anirrtatograph
corporation, has recently been
bought for the psychology depart
ment by the University.
The new projector has many
special features whcih insures film
protection, so that anyone who is
unfamiliar with the machine can
thread and operate it without
having to watch for film damage,
L. F. Beck, assistant professor of
psychology, said.
It is of intermediate size mak
ing it suitable for both class room
and auditorium use. Plans are
being completed for making var
ious scientific picture subjects
available to users on the campus
on a loan basis, according to Dr.
Beck.
UO Gets Third Machine
In the state system as a whole
the University is the third to ac
quire a machine, Dr. Beck added.
Eastern Oregon normal school and
Monmouth purchased them two
and three years ago respectively.
Dr. Beck stated that it is ex
pected that extensive use of the
machine will be made as there are
some very excellent films avail
able in the fields of music, art,
physical education, business, and
social biology.
Bond Will Broadcast
'Why Profits' Tonight
Explains Theories
Professor Jesse H. Bond of the
BA school will speak on the sub
ject, “Why Profits?”, on the busi
ness hour program tonight at 8
over KOAC. Mr. Bond will explain
why we have to have profits in
business.
The reason, he said, that many
people object to profits is that
they rarely know what profits
really are or how they are ob
tained. Sometimes they have
heard of some rare instances where
they were unjustified.
Since 1929 there has been much
propaganda against business men,
profits, and capitalism, Mr. Bond
said. The solution to this prob
lem, Professor Bond declared, lies
not in doing away with profits,
but in improving capitalism and
harnessing the profit motive. He
will explain how this can be done
and will discuss the advantages of
profit.
MRS. PAR ON VACATION
Mrs. Mabel Park, PE secretary
left last night for Crescent Lake
on a weekend vacation. She in
tends to visit friends there and
return Sunday.
Hustling Frosh
To Meet Rooks
On Home Field
John Warren's Lads
Enter Third Game
Today at 2:30
John Warren’s hustling pigskin
packers will attempt to stem the
Rook tide today when the two
teams meet in the final game of
the “little civil war" series played
today at 2:30 on Hayward field.
The first game of the series end
ed in a scoreless tie at Portlnad
on Multnomah field, while the
rambling Rooks took the second,
7 to 6, on Modoc field at Klamath
Falls.
The Rooks have one of the
strongest teams in several years,
and today’s clash will be one of
the highlights of Armistice day,
with the Frosh fighting to break
into, the winning column after los
ing two games in a row.
Warren stated last night that
practically the same lineup which
started the last Rook game would
be at their posts today. The only
exception will be Val Culwell, hefty
left tapkle, who has been out for
the last half of the season with a
stomach ailment.
Bill McKalip, Rook chief, has
been drilling his touchdown romp
ers in a fast, accurate passing of
fensive t.Ais week and today’s bat
tle will probably be an aerial bat
tle replica of their last win over
the frosh. ,
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Dr. Pallett to Preside
At Registrars' Confab
Dr. Earl M. Pallett, executive
secretary of the University, left
yesterday to preside over the an
nual meeting of the Pacific Coast
Association of Collegiate Regis
trars on November 14 and 15 in
Los Angeles.
Pallett, president of the asso
ciation, will direct studies in the
organization of four different
types of educational institutions
and will discuss how they are or
ganized to carry out their func
tions.
Four sessions of the organiza
tion will be held at four schools in
the Los Angeles vicinity to provide
delegates with an opportunity to
view systems which the group is
.studying.
Entire University Will
Participate in 20th
Anniversary of'Peace'
Parade of Veterans and ROTC Corps to
Precede Address by William Everson at
Igloo at 10:45 o'clock
The entire personnel of the University, including the student,
faculty, ROTC corps, and band, will join forces this morning
with Eugene veterans’ organizations and townspeople to com
memorate the signing twenty years ago of the Armistice.
First act in the morning’s observance is a parade of veterans
starting from a downtown point and heading toward the cam
pus. Joining the procession at 13th and Kincaid will be th#
University ROTC corps, three companies strong with a special
platoon of officers and the Uni
versity band.
The parade will move up 13th,
turning at University and proceed
ing to McArthur court for the ex
ercises there, which are scheduled
to take place.
William G. Everson, president of
Linfield college, will do the honors
on the speakers’ platform, giving
the principal address of the day.
His topic, “Some Things Worth
Thinking Through at a Time Like
This,” will represent a study of
conditions in relation to the Armis
tice day theme.
Uses Own Background
Minister, ex-army officer, and
college president, Dr. Everson will
be able to handle his subject with
an unusual variety in background
from his own experience.
The program will begin with the
University band playing patriotic
airs for the singing of the assem
bly. Halfred Young, University
music school professor, will sing
“The Phantom Legions,” by Ward
Stephens.
At 11 o'clock the audience will
stand for a minute of silent prayer
at the exact twentieth-year mark
of the ending of the war, with
| “taps" sounding in the distance.
'• Spencer to Introduce
Law School Professor Carlton
, E. Spencer, member of the reserve
officers’ association, will act as
master of ceremonies, introducing
members of the veterans’ commit
tee, members of the University
committee, and Dr. Everson.
In keeping with the Armistice
day th|me, another meeting will be
held in the evening at one of the
downtown churches, with Dean
Collins, columnist of the Oregon
Journal, the leading speaker.
Yeomen-Orides
Will Dance Tonight
University members of the Yeo
men and Orides, men's and wo
men’s organizations of independent
students, will hold their fall term
dance tonight on the third floor
of Gerlinger, they announced yes
terday.
All independents — students not
affiliated with Greek letter groups
—are invited to attend, and ten
cents will be charged to non-mem
bers of the two organizations. The
dance will be informal.
Colonel Lyon Cites
Long Army Career
By WAYNE KELTY
West Point graduate in 1903, University of Oregon student in 1938
that is the story of Colonel Robert M. Lyon, Oregon's new professor
of military science and tactics and head of ihe ROTC department.
Colonel Lyon, after 35 years spent in the U. S. army in this country
and possessions, and in Europe, finds himself for the first time enrolled
in a civilian college. He is registered in an evening speech course
taught by W. A. Dahlberg and a discussion class on Chinese and Jap
anese problems led by H. J. Noble.
Oregon’s colonel beiieves he held, for the six months after the arm
Leeper May Discuss
Psychological
Force Measuring
Robert Leeper, assistant profes
sor of psychology, has been asked
to discuss the problems of “meas
uring the psychological forces” at
a meeting of topological psycholo
gists at Cornell unversity in New
York in December. Dr. Leeper is
not certain whether or not he will
be able to accept the invitation.
The program would include such
well-known psychologists as Dr.
Maier and Dr. Kirk Levine of the
University of Iowa, and Dr. E. C.
Tolman of the University of Cali
fornia, Howard R. Taylor, head of
the psychology department, said
istice ending the World war, one
of the longest titles in the army:
“G-l Representative with the Wel
fare Societies and Assistant En
tertainment Officer, A.E.F.” In
this capacity he traveled through
northern France, Belgium, and the
German Rhineland.
He served in France as a lieu
tenant-colonel on the western front
with the 30th division.
West Point Instructor
Colonel Lyon spent 14 years as
an instructor in English, history,
and economics at West Point.
Despondent students would feel
cheered to hear the colonel tell of
the West Point cadets who . .
study union hours and get all their
military training in overtime,” the
colonel said. He believes the Unit
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t Experience Speaker
Dr. William G. Everson . . . presi
dent of Unfield college, who will
draw on his own army background
in his Armistice talk in the Igloo
at 10:45.
Officials Deni] Rumor
Of Week's Vacation
Pallett Says 3 Class
Days Set for Week
Of Thanksgiving
Imaginative Oregon students,
who started a rumor this week
that an all-week vacation is to be
in order over Thanksgiving, are
entirely misinformed, said Earl M.
Pallett, University executive sec
retary, last night.
“I have no knowledge of any
one telling anyone that Monday,
Tuesday, or Wednesday is to he
a holiday,” he said, adding that
, holidays for state institutions are
! set by the state board and are not
influenced by local situations. The
rumor began, according to stu
dents, when it was learned that
only a three-day period of school
came between the all-campus trek
to Portland for the Washington
game and the beginning of Thanks
giving holidays, which would tend
to break up the week’s program
anyway.
According to University offi
cials, such a dismissal of classes
would be impossible, too, because
the institution has a certain num
ber of class hours to get into its
schedule if college credit is to be
granted; too many holidays would
only serve to cut down value of
the credits.
Several faculty members of var
ious institutions have expressed
disapproval at Armistice day dis
missal of classes, a feature not
usually enjoyed by Oregon stu
dents, and are certainly not plan
ning to offer another “extra vaca
tion” so soon, a release from Per
sonnel Dean Karl W. Onthank’s
office said.
Extension Center
Has Largest Group
Since Fall 1930
Enrollment in the University
extension center in Portland for
the fall term is the largest since
the fall of 1930, announced Miss
Mozelle Hair, head of the corre
spondence division. There are
2,061 persons registered as com
pared with 2,013 last year and
2,116 in 1930.
About ninety-five courses are
taught in the Portland center.
Most classes meet at Lincoln high
school in the evenings.
Many of the extension courses
are coordinated with campus
courses so students may complete
work or earn additional credits
toward a degree.