LIBRARY
U. OF ORE.
OSC Drum Majoress
Argument Arouses
Spark on UO Campus
VOLUME XL
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1938
NUMBER 35
OSC Majoress Fight’
Victory, Draws Letter
(Editor’s note: The following letter was reeeived yesterday from
an anonymous source and because of its timely reference to the
drum majoress situation at Oregon State college, it is printed here.
University students will recall that Oregon had a dispute last year
about having a feminine baton twirler for the band, but the move
was forbidden by administration authorities. Oregon State students
were pleased to find Saturday that efforts to keep their majoresses
were not in vain.)
FOOLS NEVER CHANGE THEIR MINDS
To the Editor:
Let’s hope Oregon pulls out of the rut concerning the drum
majoress question. Not that it is a great necessity to have a bare
legged girl or two in front of the school band but the idea of taking
a grammar school attitude such as seems prevalent around the
Oregon campus is really a disgusting disgrace for a school with
a supposedly broadminded, level-headed type of learning and teach
ing habits.
Yes, it is true that Oregon State’s Beaver Band was “majorless”
for a short period—just between games and long enough to get
action, which seems to be needed here. Oppressors did “beware”
and last Saturday’s homecoming game in Corvallis proved the fact
as the drum majoresses made a very attractive appearance as they
strutted about the field in long winter underwear or equivalent.
What about the Oregon-Oregon State game in Portland. Is the
“Oregon Is Going Places” spirit to be placed on the shelf and cause
the entire school to be laughed at or are we going to “snap out
of it”?
“OSC can.” “Can we?”
Rally Committee Faces
Challenge of Portland
Prep School Coeds
University Spirit and Rallies Feeble, Say
Eager Sorority Dance Promoters; Plans
Made to Prove Allegations Untrue
Facing the first challenge of their skill so far this term, the
Oregon rally committee under the direction of Scott Corbett
will attempt to show a group of high school students in Portland
that the “University spirit is not feeble and its rallies are not
half-baked affairs.’’
While preparing plans for the Oregon-Washington pre-game
rally next weekend, Corbett learned Sunday that a group of
Work Started on
Second New Tunnel
Construction has begun on the
second section of the University
of Oregon tunnel system unit
number eight which will connect
McClure to Deady. The tunnel
will be 6 feet 6 inches by 7 feet of
reenforced concrete and will con
tain another transformer unit.
Villard hall will be connected
to this tunnel system by a duct
which has already been complet
ed.
On Wednesday concrete will be
poured' in the main section in front
of Johnson. According to con
struction authorities work is ahead
of schedule with the digging
reaching to the site of the humani
ties building. With this part com
pleted, a tunnel will be started
across Thirteenth to connect Fen
ton hall.
Prexy Hits at
Indiana Lite
Social Usage
By ANNA MAE HALVERSON
President Herman B. Wells of
Indiana university has requested
that compulsory attendance for
university freshmen at the library
be abolished.
He made the request in an an
endeavor to rid the library of con
gestion and its “social-center” as
pect to allow it to be used for its
intended purpose—as an air to
reference work and other legiti
mate uses.
Twenty-one of the 39 organized
houses on the campus have com
pulsory library attendance for
freshmen at least part of the day.
Eleven of these are fraternities.
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Theme
Together they walked upon the
soft, thick rug of fallen leaves,
while the silvery moon made beau
tiful jewels of the dew that kissed
the boughs of the stooping trees.
At last they reached their rendez
vous. He asked, passionately, “Oh,
darling, will you marry me?”
“No,” was the abrupt reply. He
suddenly left her and tramped
home almost knee deep in mire,
bumping up against the sopping
trees.—Argonaut.
Dr. Breen Called Away
Dr. Quirinus Breen, assistant
professor of history, has been ab
sent from the campus since Satur
day, due to the death of his moth
er. He is expected to return Wed
nesday.
high school sororities, making such
an allegation, were scheduling a
dance Friday night advertised to
be “bigger and better than the
Oregon rally and bonfire.’’ More
over, the high school students, con
fident of the drawing power of
their dance, named it “The Wel
come Dance for Oregon and Wash
ington students.”
Fire Plans Okayed
Meanwhile Corbett, with the con
sent of the Portland fire depart
ment and city fathers, lined up
plans for a mammoth bonfire to be
built by Benson Polytechnic stu
dents on the four-block square
behind that school.
Better than the usual program
has been arranged with Coach
Jimmy Phelan and the Washing
ton yell leaders and rally commit
tee slated to appear for part of the
program, which is to be broadcast
over a northwest radio hookup. A
loud speaker system has been
secured for the program also, Cor
bett announced.
Dance, Show Fololws
Not to be outdone by the high
school girls’ dance, Corbett has
arranged a dance in the lobby of
the Broadway theater after the
rally, followed by a stage show
featuring talent from the campus
and yells led by Paul Cushing and
the Washington yell king. The
price for the stage show, to be fol
lowed by the regular film, will be
40 cents.
A Southern Pacific rally train
will leave the campus at 3:30 Fri
day.
Reduced Charges
Aid Improvement
Of Oregon Library
President Franklin D. Roose
velt's newest innovation into the
postal department last week, the
i eduction of mailing rates on
books per pound, will greatly aid
in making the library more com
plete and up to date, M. H. Doug
lass, head librarian, said yester
day.
The new rule, which Mr. Doug
lass said will decrease the mail
ing cost of obtaining books from
eastern publishers from eight cents
per pound to one and one-half
cents, will therefore enable Ore
gon readers to get books more
quickly and as cheaply as Atlantic
coast readers.
Uniform Charges
Referring to the good results of
the new program, adopted in an
executive order issued October 31,
the Publishers' Monthly said, "This
postal rate, now in effect, is a rate
based on public recognition of the
social value of books,” since it
makes uniform the price of mail
ing a book to any one of the 50,000
j postoffices in the United States.
Riding High
Serge Jaroff . . . director of the
Don Cossacks coming to McArthur
court Wednesday night seems way
up in the air here, but he will come
down long enough to thrill Ore
gon students at the concert.
Cossacks to Sing in
Igloo Thursday Night
Russian Group Still
Directed by Tiny
Serge Jaroff
Oregon students and Eugene cit
izens will thrill to the songs of the
singing horsemen who rode in an
era that is no more—Russia be
fore the war—when the season’s
chief entertainment attraction, the
cne-night concert of the famed
Don Cossack singers, will be held
Thursday night in McArthur
court.
Here for a third appearance in
six years, the 36 singing Russians,
who ironically met while prisoners
of Red armies, will sing them
selves into the hearts of Oregon
ians with the hymns, war songs of
the Cossack soldiers, and folk
songs of early Russia, under the
direction of pint-sized Serge Jar
off who was their first organizer
and, after 17 years, is still their
director.
In connection with the approach
ing visit of the Cossacks, it is in
teresting to note that although 34
countries hail the chorus as the
most “sensational musical attrac
tion of the decade,” Serge Jaroff
and his singing Cossacks are ac
tually “men without a country”
for under Soviet rule they are per
manent exiles from their home
land.
Speech Contestants
Must Be Registered
At Friendly Today
After dinner speakers who are
entering the Jewett contest must
have their names and topics reg
istered at the speech department
offices in Friendly hall today, ac
cording to John L. Casteei, head
of the speech division.
The contest is open to all un
dergraduate students on the cam
pus.
^peaking will be at the Del Rey
cafe on Thursday, November 17
at 6. Contestants are expected to
pay the price of their own dinner,
50 cents.
George Hall, member of the var
sity debate team, president of the
Order of the Mace, and a member
of Delta Sigma Rho, has been
chosen as toastmaster.
California Batters
Fighting Web foots
For 20 to 0 Victory
California's Golden Bears, battling to stay in the race for western
football honors, defeated Oregon’s Webfoots by a 20-0 score Saturday
I at Berkeley.
A crowd, estimated at nearly 40,000, witnessed the battle in the
huge memorial stadium bowl.
Sparking in three quick thrusts, the revived Golden Bears scored
au ineir coucnaowns in a seven
minnte period of play.
Late in the second period Vic
Bottari and the remainder of the
California club entered the ball
game, and in two minutes had one
score. Bottari whipped passes to
End Will Dolman and Quarterback
Bill Elmore who took the ball to
the Oregon six. Bottari made it
first down on the three, and then
Fullback Dave Anderson smashed
over.
Bottari Passes Again
A few minutes later, this same
Bottari passed to Louie Smith on!
the Oregon 20 and the big half
back fought his way past four Ore-1
gon men to score. Again in the
third period he counted six points, j
galloping 12 yards.
Oregon’s gridders, always fight
ing for a score they were never to
make, threatened twice, once in
the first period and once in the
last.
Get Early Break
In the first period they pushed
to the Cal Six, following a blocked
kick by Vic Reginato on the Cal 14.
As the game neared its close, the
Webfoots were again on the march
with big Marshal Stenstrom in the
driver’s seat. The big fullback took
the ball to the Cal 4-yard line be
fore being stopped.
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Dr. Clark Gets
'Spelling Lesson'
From Graduate
Venting his indignation at the
frequent mispelling of “The Na
tional Archives,” Jesse S. Doug
lass, graduate from the Univer
sity, explained in his letter to Dr.
R. C. Clark, head of the history
department, that too many people
do not capitalize the “The,” which
as a part of the title should be
capitalized.
Mr. Douglass is assistant archiv
ist in the division of the war de
partment of The National Ar
chives. He has written an article
which will appear in the Decem
ber issue of the Oregon Historical,
quarterly on the expedition of i
Jeremy Pinch and his companion j
in 1807 founding Fort Lewis.
Anthropology Class
Finds Burial Mounds
_
Two Indian burial mounds were j
found by the anthropology class on
their field trip Sunday along the
Calapooya river near Shedd. These j
mounds are apparently nothing
more than temporary campus, Al
ex Krieger, leader of the group
and graduate assistant of the an
thropology department said.
These trips are taken every Sun
day and the class expects to go
further up into the foothills to
look for more permanent camps,
Krieger said.
WASHKE TO NOMINATE
Paul R. Washke, professor of
physical education, has received
notice of his appointment on the
nominating committee of the
American Association for Health,
Physical Education and Recrea
tion. Mr. Washke is also chair
man of the Men’s Athletic section
of that organization.
Help, Leeper
Calls: Class
Gag Backfires
‘‘You ARE ignorant!” says
Mrs. A. F. Shirley of Lewiston,
Idaho, in a letter to Dr. Robert
Leeper, a University professor
of psychology.
An Associated Press story,
based on that of the Emerald,
found its way up to Lewiston
and Mrs. Shirley read it.
The story concerned an inci
dent in Dr. Leeper’s class in
which he asked for those who
knew what the national debt
was to raise their hands, no one
knew so after admonishing the
class for not knowing, he admit
ted he didn’t know either.
In Mrs. Shirley's letter was a
clipping which gave the approxi
mate national debt as $36,424,
613,732.
She also said, “You ARE ig
norant! Why are you paid for
NOT knowing facts? Aren’t
you interested?” This appeared
on the class »door with big red
letters of “Help, Help!” appar
ently installed by Dr. Leeper.
Women's Rifle Match
Ends With Double Tie
In last week's buddy match fired
by the women’s rifle club, partners
Barbara Stallcup and Mary Nevins
and Dorothy Burke and Dorothy
Guthrie tied for first place, each
with a total score of 187.
The final match will be fired this
Thursday. Each of the winning
girls will receive a box of Van
Duyn candy with the compliments
of Seymour’s cafe.
Barbara Stallcup shot high score
in last week’s match and Marjorie
Bates, Kappa Kappa Gamma, fired
a close second.
Partners tying for second place
were Lillian England and Helen
Graves, and Ruth Ketchum and
Marjorie Schnellbacher, each with
a total score of 186.
Third place went to Catherine
Miller and Thelma Bouchet, fourth
to Opal Meyers and Shirley Zion,
fifth to June Bennett and Margaret
Johnson, sixth to Wreatha Johnson
and Martha Lampa, seventh to
Marjorie Bates and Eleanor Doane,
eighth to Pauline Johnson and
Ruby Oldham.
Kwama Sponsors
Campus Mum Sale
Mums for the Washington game
in Portland may be ordered Tues
day, Wednesday, and Thursday
from booths on the campus.*
Prices are 50 cents, 75 cents, $1,
and $1.25. The $1.00 and $1.25
will be delivered in Portland; the
others may be picked up at Berg’s.
Fraternities will be contacted
Tuesday and Wednesday.
The money made by Kwama,
who is sponsoring the sale, will be
used for scholarships, conventions,
etc.
OSC Majorettes Back—UO Campus Fired
By LYLE NELSON
Oregon State Thursday
swung back into line with th^
major universities and colleges
which boast of coed majorettes
when officials repealed a “an
forbidding bare-kneed girls to
parade with the band.
Edict Repealed
The official edict was re
pealed following considerable
student agitation for returning
1 the coed baton-twirlers. Wo.
men students of the OSC cam
pus were almost unanimous in
the opinion that letting the
girls appear with the band was
“entirely proper” while student
■ opinion was overwhelmingly
against the ban.
So hot was the protest that
immediate action restoring the
clever stick-slingers for the
Stanford-OSC game last Satur
day was taken. From all indi
cations the girls will also pa
rade before the band in Port
land when Oregon State meets
Oregon next weekend.
Echoes of the Oregon State
battle were heard on the Ore
gon campus yesterday when
students favoring a coed ma
jorette fqr the Oregon band
again began to be heard. From
all corners they started their
campaign.
Many of these students were
active in the campaign last
year which ended when officials
issued a ban on any coed ap
pearing with the Oregon band
as drum majorette.
Poll Favors Twirler
A poll conducted last year by
Emerald reporter Jack Bryant
showed that 1335 students out
of 1577 approached were in fa
vor of coed baton twirlers. In
cluded in this poll were 439
coeds for and 185 against and
896 men for as against 57 op
posed. Among campus author
ities who expressed opinions fa
vorable to the idea were Elmer
Fansett, alumni secretary;
Howard Hobson, basketball
coach; and Anse Cornell, ath
letic manager.
Invader
John Stehn . • . director of the
enlarged University hand which
will trek to Seattle this week with
football boosters from Portland to
participate in the annual “Chal
lenge Day” which precedes every
Oregon-VVashington game.
Band to Participate
In Seattle Program
John Stehn and 40
Members of Band
Take 'Challenge'
The University of Oregon band
will again take a prominent part
in the ninth annual "Challenge
day” to be held tomorrow in Seat
tle.
Directed by John Stehn, assist
ant professor at the University ot
Oregon school of music, 40 mem
bers of the band will appear in
full regalia to play at the Cham
ber of Commerce luncheon and
over various radio stations.
Every alternate year Portland
business men convene in Seattle
to challenge Seattle business men
to send 10,000 people to the Ore
gon-Washington football game,
played the following Friday in
Portland. Next year the Portland
business men will act as hosts to
Seattle challengers.
Leaving Eugene Tuesday eve
ning, the band will join a special
train in Portland, arriving in Seat
tle Wednesday noon. They expect
to return to Eugene Thursday
morning.
Halfred Young, professor of
voice in the University school of
music will be featured soloist with
the group. He plans to sing selec
tions from Romberg and Herbert,
in whose operettas he starred be
for he came to the Oregon cam
pus.
Joint Recital Given
By Piano Students
Four piano students of Mrs.
Jane Thacher, teacher of piano in
the University of Oregon school
of music, met at her home Satur
day afternoon for a joint recital.
Helen Luvaas played “Ballade”
by Brahms, "Clair de Lune,” by
Debussy, and a waltz by Chopin.
Dorothy Flanery offered Chamin
ade’s “Ballet.” Beethoven’s “Son
ata in C Minor” and Debussy’s
“Reflections in Water” were
played by Mrs. Barbara Tripp;
Ralph de Coursy offered Grieg's
“Ballade” and Debussy’s “Noc
turne.”
These joint concerts are given
once a month at Mrs. Thacher’s
home by her various students.
Anyone interested is invited to
attend. The next will be held on
December 10.
Carson Fund Given
To Women Students
University of Oregon women stu
dents were endowed this summer
with a $2000 fund in memory of
Luella Clay Carson, former dean
of women and head of the English
department here, the interest from
which may be loaned to needy stu
dents to aid them in obtaining an
education, J. O. Lindstrom, busi
ness manager, said yesterday.
The fund, donated by 97 admir
ers of the former dean who make
up the membership of the Associa
tion of University of Oregon Wo
men, was given the school on July
19, Mr. Lindstrom said, adding
that loan application privileges
are open to any woman in the nor
mal arts department of the school.
Oregon SDX Chapter
Rated Best in Nation
At Annual Convention
Campus Group Achieves Highest Contest
Score in History; E. Palmer Hoyt Receives
National Treasurer's Post
The title of "best" among chapters of Sigma Delta Chi, national
journalism fraternity, was won by the University of Oregon chapter
at the national convention of the fraternity Monday. The Oregon
branch of the fraternity scored 96 out of a possible 100 in the F. W.
Beckman chapter efficiency contest, according to word received here
yesterday.
Word of the award, for which 43 chapters in all sections of the
united States competed, was re
ceived by Adviser Charles M. Hid-1
ten, assistant professor of journal
ism, in a telegram from Hubard!
Kuokka, chapter president, who
attended the fraternity’s national
convention in Madison, Wisconsin
as a delegate.
All Time High
The Oregon rating, which is
based on professional achievement,!
scholarship of members and other'
points, was not only highest this!
year, but the highest ever achieved |
by any chapter during the time the j
contest has been held, it wa|:
stated. Last year University of j
Washington was first with 93
points.
During the past year the Oregon
chapter sponsored contests for the
best weekly newspapers in the
state, the best high school papers,
best news stories in non-metropoli
tan papers, community service
awards, and brought several na
tionally known speakers to the
campus. Scholarship of members
was well over the University aver
age. Journalistic activities of mem
bers also counted in the scoring.
Hoyt Made Treasurer
E. Palmer Hoyt, manager of The
Oregonian, was elected to the posi
tion of national treasurer at the
convention, it was learned. Hoyt
moves up from the executive coun-j
cil, on which he has served in the
past year.
The walkaway in scoring by the
local chapter is an unusaul achieve
ment in winning the Beckman
award, which is usually won on
tenths of points, Chapter Adviser
Hulten said yesterday.
Scoring Listed
Scoring was from the following
scale: chapter program, 56 points;
national relations, 20 points; finan
ces and records, 10 points; scholar
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Fencing Tournament
Winners Named
In a round-robin tournament
held by the fencing club last Wed
nesday, LeRoy Lindner and Lois
Onthank took first places in their
respective divisions. Norman An
gel placed second and Richard
Romane third in the men’s division,
while Betty Rones took second in
the women’s division. Wednesday
night at 7 o’clock in Gerlinger hall
the matches will be continued to
further interest in the club and to
determine the standing of the
members.
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BA Students Study
Portland Business
Dr. Cornish's Class
Try Salesmanship
Tests; Work in Store
Dr. W. H. Cornish, professor ift
the BA school, took 13 of his ad
vanced students to Portland Fri
day to test the efficiency of the
Olds, Wortman, and King depart
ment story, and to work as extra
clerks in that store on Saturday.
On Friday noon Olds, V.-ortman,
and King gave the University
group a complimentary luncheon,
at which time Eric M. Stanford,
controller, and James Boher, su
perintendent, talked to the stu
dents on store operation and per
sonnel. In the evening Miss
Wright,'personnel manager, spoke
cn the store system and rules.
On Friday the students acted as
prospective buyers of articles of
$5.00 or more. After they had
talked to a clerk for about ten
minutes, they left to write an ac
curate account of the sales ability
of that individual clerk. These
reports were then given to the su
perintendent who is going to use
them in helping the different
clerks to improve their salesman
ship. About 100 clerks were test
ed in this way. This is the second
time that the Olds, Wortman, and
King store has asked students
from Oregon to visit their store.
Saturday the students worked
in the store as clerks with pay.
Graduate Irvin Hill
Campus Visitor
Irvin Hill, who took his master's
degree with honors in economics
in 1934, at the age of 19, was a
campus visitor yesterday. After
completing his pre-medics course
in 1933, Hill stayed another year
to obtain his master’s degree.
His medical studies, which he
took up in the fall of 1934, were
interrupted by an extended illness.
He will resume his studies in the
medical school in Portland in Jan
uary.
Hill is the son of Earl Hill, re
cently elected representative from
this district to the lower house of
the state legislature and one of
the candidates for speaker of the
house.
Apple Polishing Is
Okay, DahlbergSays
By SADIE MITCHELL
A step forward in making the world safe for apple-polishers was
taken yesterday, when Professor W. A. Dahlberg of the speech depart
ment declared that apple-polishing was a very desirable technique to
develop, provided that it is not used as a direct substitute for study.
“Apple-polishing represents a way of getting along with other
people to your best possible advantage,” he said. “It is a part of the
adjustment process. If you know
the technique of handling other
people, you will be successful in ap
proaching your employer, your
husband or wife, or, if you are a
politician, you will be useful in the
diplomatic service of the country.”
Professor Dahlberg believes that
the University should teach a
course in apple-polishing, or diplo
macy, as he prefers to call it, for
those who lack the special apti
tude for controlling the behavior of
others that a good apple-polisher
posesses. “We are all social be
ings," he said, "and we must live in
harmony with our social surround
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CIGARS ON JACK
Cigars were the order of the
day—or rather night when John
Cossman, University night
watchman, better known to his
many friends in the Emerald
shack as ‘'Jack,” made his
rounds last night and passed
cigars to members of the news
staff.
The occasion? “Jack” cele
brated his seventieth birthday
Saturday. He has been making
the rounds of the campus nearly
every night of the years since
April 1, 1920.