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Reverberations on Drum Majoress Ban At Stanford Heard VOLUME XL UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1938 NUMBER 36 f u. OF ORE. University Band Leader Question Once Again in Air Campus Will Entertain Two Distinguished Visitors Cossacks Are Coming, Hurrah, Hurrah Don Cossack chorus . . . marching along with the songs of Russia on their lips as they prepare for tonight’s ASIJO concert at the Igloo at 8 o’clock. Don Cossack Chorus To Take Over Igloo Stage This Evening A crowd that will parallel the turnout accorded Violinist Fritz Kreisler’s appearance here last week is expected by ASUO ticket chairmen to hear the widely-heraldd Don Cossack chorus when they appear tonight in McArthur court for an 8 o’clock concert. Ticket sales are booming, ticket office heads announced, but there are still available good seats for the evening’s program. General ad Eastern Coeds Puff Cob Pipes, Class Flees At Washington college the coeds were granted permission to smoke during lectures so the brave las sies swept into psychology class with corn cob pipes between their teeth. The professor’s composure was admirable. He merely ordered all the win , dows to be kept closed and cour teously bade the girls to light up. Not many minutes passed by be fore the psychology class fled en masse in the direction of the in firmary. Definition Blood vessel—a pirate ship. Caboose—a baby Indian. Goblet—a young sailor. Granulate—to leave college with a diploma. Slow? Students of Cairo university, Egypt, spend ten days in register ing for each term. Sniffle Our admiration goes out to a Pi Kap pledge. It seems he went to a show the other night accompan ied by a cold. During the movie he gave vent to numerous snuffs and sniffles. Finally a heavy-set, weak-stomached dowager, sitting next to him, eyed him as she in quired, “Do you happen to have a handkerchief?” “Yeah, but I’m not in the habit of loaning it to strangers,” the undaunted lad chirped.—Silver and Gold. NEW MUSHROOM SPECIMENS Many mushroom specimens have been added to Dr. F. P. Sipe’s dis play in the museum of natural his tory including several edible types. Two edible types on display are the sparossis crispa, resembling a large sponge and the elvella, a black capped mushroom. A tooth fungus, the hydnum, growing on a Douglas fir cone is also included. mission prices are 75 cents, while reserved seats may be obtained at $1, $1.25, and $1.50. Train Welcome Planned The 36 Don Cossacks and their tiny leader, Serge Jaroff, will ar rive on the campus by a noon train today, and will be greeted at the station by Jack Smith and his student welcoming committee. Preceding their concert the sing ers will be guests of the Eugene Gleemen at a reception in their honor. The program they have arranged for presentation here will be divid ed into three moods or parts. The first will be the songs of the Cos sack soldiers on their way to bat tle, to be followed by selections from the hymns of religious-mind old folk songs of the Russian peas ed Russians. The third type of song they will sing will be the ants. No Exchange Necessary Students will be admitted free to the concert upon presentation of ASUO cards at the door. No ex change tickets will be necessary. An entirely different array of selections than was given in their appearance here is promised. Girls Will Compete In Table-Setting Display Contest Following is the schedule of the table-setting displays in the contest sponsored by the YWCA and Washburne’s store: Today, Pi Beta Phi and Alpha Phi; Thursday, Gamma Phi and Del ta Delta Delta; Friday, Alpha Delta Pi and Delta Gamma; Saturday, Hi','yard house and Alpha Xi Delta; Monday, No vember 21, Chi Omega and Su san Campbell hall; Tuesday, Hendricks hall and Kappa Alpha Theta; Wednesday, Alpha Omi cron Pi and Sigma Kappa. The committee in charge of the display from each organiza tion will arrange its table in the late afternoon of the day before its table will be on display, ac cording to Marge Montgomery, head of the contest. Drew Pearson, Columnist, Julean Arnold, Consular Attache, Speak Thursday Washington News Commentator Will Discuss Working of Political Scene Drew Pearson, noted co-author of “Washington Merry-Go-Round,” and famed news columnist and lec turer, will be principal speaker at tomorrow’s student assembly in Gerlinger. Scheduled to speak at 11 o’clock, the celebrity will give students a picture of conditions in Washington and his interpretation of the foreign situation. Why he thinks President Frank- j lin D. Roosevelt is in line for a third try at the White House post, and what his candid opinions are of j the chief executive’s cabinet mem bers will be the main features of his discussion. He will also explain | that which he thinks has been President Roosevelt’s greatest mis take in relation to the foreign situation. Former Free-Lancer Mr. Pearson, whose career in the free-lance writing field has taken him to China, the Philippines, Aus tralia, Japan, Europe and nearly j every other corner of the world, joined the Washington staff of the Baltimore Sun in 1929 to become! their chief columnist. He has taught at both the Uni versity of Pennsylvania and Co lumbia, and, in addition to his col laboration on his best seller, “Washington Merry-Go-Round,” is also co-author of "Nine Old Men.” Covered Naval Conferences The noted author received wide acclaim for his coverage of the Geneva naval conference and the London naval conference. He tells an interesting story of his halt in Japan during one of his world trips, where he found him self without funds. The writer ob tained a passport from the girl in charge of the passport office by trading her a bar of candy for the most-necessary document. Soph Dance Group To Consider Theme Choice of a theme to character ize the decorations and publicity for the sophomore informal, set for ! December 3, will be decided upon today in a meeting of three of the \ committees for the dance. Publicity, advertising, and deco rations committees will meet at 4 o’clock in the College Side to decide on the theme. They will also set the admission price for the af fair and arrange for the beginning of the actual work of putting on the dance. First-Hand Story to Be Told As Expert Meets UO Classes, Speaks at Dinner • With a record of 36 years in Shanghai as U. S. commercial attache to his credit, Julean Ar nold will appear before University groups Thursday. In discussing his subject, the situation in the Orient, Mr. Arnold will be bringing his own first-hand observations into play as he tells about what’s going on in the East. Only recently returned from his post in war-torn China, Mr. Ar nold’s impressions will have the qualities of timeliness and perti nence, if familiarity with his sub ject matter is any criterion. To See Roosevelt Reason for Mr. Arnold’s return to the United States is to report to President Roosevelt and Secre tary of State Cordell Hull on con ditions in the Far East and their relationship to American interests both at home and abroad. Few people other than native born Chinese can claim such close associations among past and pres ent governmental figures of China as can Mr. Arnold. Names in to day's news are among his acquain tances, for he numbers in his clos est friends not only Generalissimo Chiang-Kai-Shek and his famous wife but also their associates and many foreign advisers. Mr. Arnold, a recognized author it on commerce, will appear before University class gropus Thursday, and before a dinner in his honor at Seymour’s. The dinner is sponsored by the school of business adminis tration. At the banquet his topic will be “America Must Become Pacific-Minded.” Theta Sigs Initiate Six New Members Theta Sigma Phi, women’s jour nalistic honorary, formally init iated Elizabeth Ann Jones, Peggy Robbins, Jessie Heider, Katherine Taylor, Betty Jane Thompson, and Margaret Dick Tuesday evening at the Pi Beta Phi sorority. Mrs. Eric W. Allen welcomed the initiates giving the history of the honorary and relating the in teresting activities of former .members of Theta chapter at Ore gon of Theta Sigma Phi. Officers of the group who han dled the initiation were Bernadine Bowman, Beulah Chapman, Alice Nelson, Betty Wagner, and Alyce Rogers. Work ofCressman Explained in Bulletin Discoveries of evidences of prehistoric man in southeastern Oregon by Dr. L. S. Cressman, head of the anthropology department, are described in detail in a recent issue of the news service bulletin of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C. Dr. Cressman is research associate in archeology in the Carnegie institution. The entire issue of the bulletin, which is sent to thousands of schools, colleges, libraries, period icals and places throughout the world, is devoted to the works of Dr. Cressman and his associates. The article has been entitled “Fresh Light on the Antiquity of Man in America.” Skeletal remains, basketry and other evidences of men who lived %in Oregon approximately 10,000 or more years ago, were found in caves in the Catlow and other re gions of southeastern Oregon, the article relates. Photographs of the objects, as well as maps and scenes of that section of the state, are used to illustrate the article. The article states “In view of what has been found Dr. Cressman is confident that if the remains of early man are to be found any where in the northwest, such evi dence exists in Pleistocene caves of the Oregon area. The work that has been done strengthens this opinion, and also the conviction of many scientists working on the subject that man was actually present in America, if not actually during the glacial time, then surely during very early post-glacial time.” The Carnegie institute has shown a great interest in Dr. Cressman's work, and has made the work possible by its subsidies. The institute will also place a dis play of photos of materials from Oregon in its halls in Washington this week. I Stanford Band Strikes Against Majoress Loss Drum majorette controversies among coast colleges took a new turn yesterday when the Stanford university band declared they would go on strike if the pretty 17-year old high school miss who has been named “honorary drum majoress” is not allowed to trip along with the band when they play this Saturday at Berkeley. The Stanford majorette battle started last week when the Stan ford women's council issued an edict that the actions of a majorette were "unbecoming to a Stanford woman.” The controversy followed, in many respects, a similar “teapot tempest” on the Oregon campus last year. The Stanford Cardinal, student daily, took up the cudgel for the majorette and pointed out that she was not a Stanford woman. The women countered with a statement that "everybody in the stands thinks she is.” The battle of words between the paper and the women’s council came to a climax yesterday when members of the Stanford band declard they would go on strike for the rest of the season if the majorette was banned. Action on the bands move is expected today. Husky Clash Puts Rally Committee to Work on Program The ASUO rally committee, moving to make the weekend typical of its predecessors in the history of Oregon-Washington football rela tions, shifted into high gear yesterday to publicize the event in Portland. Letters and publicity material were mailed out yesterday under the direction of the rally committee to Portland alumni groups and Port Dr. Fish Praises Radio News Program “The Story Behind the Head lines,” a discussion of the chief events of the week in terms of their pgst, is a program of value without propaganda, said Dr. An drew Fish, associate professor of history recently. The radio program is a series of statements of today’s news coupled i with a discussion of the news of 20, 50, or 100 years ago. Cesar Saetchinger, radio commentator and newspaper correspondent, pre sents the program which is put on by the American Historical asso-! ciation over the NBC hook-up 'every Friday night. The program is not a regular news comment. It explains in part some of the happenings of the pres ent age, giving a review of the events that have gone before them culminating in the particular events. The program, which has been organized with the assistance of many historians, is well done end accurate, Dr. Fish stated. Local YMCA Group Sponsors Amateur Photography Contest Specimens from the anthropol ogy department have been sent to the annual exhibit of the Carnegie Institution to be held in Washing ton, D. C., the latter part of this month. The exhibit includes a large number of photographs of work done by the department in eastern Oregon and several drawings of stratification of the caves. Specimens from each cave in clude stone work, basketry, san dals, arrow points, scrapers, knives, and a recently found piece of an atlatl, which is an ancient throw ing stick. Paintings of the two atlatls were made by Mrs. Marian Field, WPA artist, and included in the exhibit. Klamath Basketry Given to Museum The museum of natural history recently received a gift of Klamath basketry from Mrs. Henry Wolff of Chiloquin. The collection contains tule and cat-o-nine tails, materials used in making baskets, and shows the different stages in the preparation of these. There is a small collec tion of different roots and berries used as food by the Klamath In dians. There were given Mrs. Wolff by a Klamath Indian woman. land high schools to inform them of the program for the weekend. Campus Acts Studied Meanwhile the rally committee, under the direction of Chairman Scott Corbett, went ahead with its planning for events on the pro gram. Campus talent for the stage show at the Broadway theater came in for considerable study on the part of the committee as it looked over prospective acts for the bill. The program at the Broadway takes the place of the rally dance held at the Uptown the Friday of the last Portland weekend, with dancing in the lobby of the theater to be followed by a campus stage show. Doors open at 10 a.m. for the dancing, and' the stage show begins at 11, Corbett said. Several other dances are scheduled for both nights of the weekend, with various Greek and other groups putting on their own affairs. Train Leaves at 3:30 The student rally train, spon sored and managed this time by the ASUO and the rally commit tee, will leave the downtown sta tion at 3:30 Friday, arriving in Portland in plenty of time for the noise-making and bonfire. The bonfire program will be broadcast, going out over a north west radio hookup. Drum Majoress Battle No Nearer Settlement; Letters State Views Student Leaders Plan Renewed Efforts for United Campus; AWS Council Is Reported Responsible for Ban Last Year Passed from hand to hand like the proverbial hot potato, the question of a drum majoress for the Oregon band was no nearer settlement last night than it was a year ago. Student reaction to the proposal on the campus was over whelmingly in favor of a majoress with many going so far as to express their views in letters to the editor of The Emerald. Much comment on all sides was provoked and the question occupied a prominent place at all discussions. Dean Not Responsible Late developments in the case revealed that the AWS council, not the dean of women as report ed before, was responsible for put ting the ban on the coed baton twirler idea last year. In a state ment to the Emerald Dean Hazel P. Schwering explained that the council issued the ban, but reports gave it as coming from her of fice. “I did not issue the statement myself,” she said, “although after wards I told reporters that I did not favor a band majoress.” I I AWS Drops Matter However, when the matter was discussed on November 5 of last year the AWS council issued a statement denying any intention of pressing the matter further and it was understood that the final ban was imposed by University of ficials who considered it "against University policy.” A possible course of action for students who have been backing the idea was outlined by Dean Schwering. Any efforts would have to be directed through the regular channels of the Univer sity, she said. This would likely require the approval of the AWS council and a petition to the stu dent affairs committee. The mat ter would probably not referred to the dean of women’s Office, she said. United Front Planned Student leaders backing the campaign planned renewed efforts to unite the campus in a protest for the majotess. According to these leaders an effort to have the coed baton-twirlers march next week for the Oregon-Orcgon State game in Portland, will be made. A possible solution to the prob lem appeared from Les Harger, Oregon’s flashy drum major, when he suggested getting the high stepping girls who led the Ameri can Legion band in the noise pa rade. “The students know what they can do if they saw the noise pa rade, they are as good as any girl baton-twisters that I have ever seen,” the modest Oregon leader said. Harger, who has been coach ing the two Eugene girls, “felt sure” that the girls would be will ing to parade with the band. Send Emeralds home to dad with latest drum majoress news. She Would Have Been Mary Ellen Williams . . . posed last year in a makeshift drum majoress’ costume which she would have worn to lead the University hand at one of the grid games. After a specially-purchased costume arrived from the East, it was decided that Oregon “womanhood should not be exploited.” Early Brightness Held No Test of Child Psych Prof Talks on Intellect Study in Broadcast That children, born bright are frequently retarded, was the asser tion of Dr. Howard R. Taylor, head of the psychology department, in his speech on the psychology de partment program over KOAC yes terday afternoon. “It is always an advantage to get off to a good start,” Dr. Tay lor said, “and this seems to be especially true of the way in which intellectual abilities develop, but a good start is not enough.” “Young people are continually being admonished that ‘there is no such word as fail in the bright lexicon of youth’,” he said. Dr. Taylor added that the popu larity of this statement may be due to the fact that repeating such maxims is so much easier than pro viding sound guidance or removing causes of unnecessary failure. “It is true enough that great men generally have risen above all sorts of obstacles, but if you want to know the whole truth you must not ignore the host of men poten tially great who for various rea sons could not quite master the difficulties which beset them,” he declared. “So far we have been unable to make any similar measurement of the disadvantages of going through life without a college education,” Dr. Taylor said. Professor Injured In Auto Accident Paul Petri, professor of music at Oregon and Oregon State, sus tained a broken rib and bruises in an automobile accident Saturday night, reported Dean J. J. Lands bury of the music school. Professor Petri was returning from Albany when the accident occurred. He swerved his car to the left of the road to avoid hit ting a boy who was riding a bi cycle having no lights. His car collided head on with another car. Professor Petri is at his home under the care of a nurse. Local Department Sends Specimens To Carnegie Exhibit An amateur photography con test for all University students is now being sponsored on the cam pus by the local YMCA group to obtain pictures for display at the New York World’s fair. For the pictures of young men and women in their home life, at work, at play, in community life, and at worship, $250 will be given in prizes. The contestants should submit entries to the YM shack by Febru ary 15, 1939. All detailed informa tion may be obtained from Francis Beck, YM secretary. John Stark Evans To Play for Class John Stark Evans, professor of music in the University music school, will appear Thursday before the 9 o clock class in musical ap preciation of Dean John J. Lands bury to speak on the organ. Mr. Evans will discuss the in struments various tone qualities, construction and mechanics in his lecture. The public is cordially in vited to attend.