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Promotion Starts On Dad's Weekend, January 27 to 29 VOLUME XL UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1939 NUMBER 50 library g CAMPUS Smiling Tex’ Oliver Offered Arizona Grid Contract Gerald A. (Tex) Oliver . . . was named on January 26, 1988 to succeed Prink Callison as Oregon’s grid mentor and yesterday, less than one year later, was offered his old job at the University of Arizona. His decision will be awaited by Oregon fans. Head Coach's Position At Southern School Opened to Oregon Man Oregon's Football Chief Receives Phone Message From Former Bosses; Makes No Comment on His Intentions Now By GEORGE PASERO Gerald A. (Tex) Oliver, head football coach, yesterday con firmed reports that he received a telephonic offer Monday to return to the University of Arizona as head coach. “I talked to Arizona officials yesterday, and I consider it a compliment that they should want me back,” genial Tex told The Emerald. Naturally, I will consider the offer, but as vet Only Tall Ones Belong to Unique California Club The California Tip Toppers, a club composed of men and women all over six feet in height, now has 40 members. The club was organ ized a year ago when a Miss Kay Krysler wrote a magazine article bewailing the disadvantages of the tall girl. She was swamped with letters from all over the country and the result was the formation of the Tip Toppers. Women to be eligible must be more than six feet tall and men must be at least six feet four inch es. Hello, You Cad! You’re late again, I hate you! I hope you never come; I loathe the ground you walk on, You worthless cad, you scum! I hope you die a lingering death Sometime in boiling tar I never want to see you-— —Oh, darling, there you are! * ❖ * Gives Cupid a Boost God’s gift to blind daters, Eric Jauch, senior at the University of Illinois, keeps a record of all the blind dates he’s arranged for the past four years. Out of the 20 he’s arranged this semester, all but two have worked out okay. * * * Biology 1939 A practice teacher in science asked a child in lab school to name five kinds of bugs. The bright one recited, "Lady, bed, love, fire, and jitter.’’ YVV GETS SHOW CASE A new glass case for candy was recently purchased for the YW bungalow. Part of the profits from candy sold at the bungalow was drawn upon for the purchase. Directors note an increase in the use of all state services offered Californians by the U. of C. exten sion division. I am in no position to comment on it.” Five Years at Arizona Coach Oliver spent five ^suc cessful seasons at the Tucson in stitution. During the five years he spent coaching the Wildcats, he made them a formidable football power, one which billed games with various Big Six and South west conference schools of far larger enrollments. First news of the offer to reach Eugene came through Associated Press dispatches. The vacancy in the head coach position at Arizona was created by the resignation of Orian Landreth, Oliver’s successor, who will return to Polytechnic high school, Long Beach, California, where he coached several years before going to Arizona. No Decision Reached Coach Oliver admitted that the Arizona offer was an attractive one, and added that he would know (Please turn to fage four) Dad's Day Committee Starts Preparations For Full Weekend Contest for Best Letter of Invitation to Be Held; Special Stationery Available; Slogan Is "Bring Pop to Oregon" “Bring Pop to Oregon” is the war cry of the Greater Dad’s day committee as it swung into extensive preparations to make Dad’s weekend of January 27 to 29 the greatest in the history of the Univer sity. With a full program of two basket ball games, a swimming meet, all campus banquet, luncheon for dads of unaffiliated students, dance, church services and a band and orchestra concert the dads will find1 plenty to do when not attending the meeting and visiting with their Minister to Be Campus Guest For Two Dags Christian Students Ask Portland Man Here Next Week “Common Sense Religion” will be the subject which Rev. Richard M. Steiner from the Church of Our Father in Portland will discuss wheh he appears before a Univer sity assembly audience next Wed nesday evening at Gerlinger hall. Coming to the campus at the request of Christian student groups on the campus, Rev. Steiner will be here for two d^ys, when he will meet with several University classes, and will viist at various living organizations. At the houses where he has dinner on the two evenings he is here, Wednesday and Thursday, the minister will lead fireside discussions. Personal conferences with Rev. Steiner may be arranged by inter ested students through contacting Francis M. Beck, local YMCA sec retary. The Portlander’s appearance here will be another phase of the University’s continuance of the Christian Mission Week lectures which gained wide acclaim on the campus last fall. Morioka Receives Position in Hawaii Percy T. Morioka, who gradu ated from the school of business administration at the University of Oregon in 1938, was recently appointed an insurance represen tative for Manufacturers’ Life in Hawaii. Mr. Morioka was born on the island of Hawaii and after attend ing the University of Hawaii for two years, came to the University of Oregon where he specialized in insurance. oL/na ui uauguLcia uii me Laiu^un, ; said John Luvaas, chairman of the students committee yesterday. New Theme Planned The theme of the weekend is to be in the vein of the time when most of the dads went to college. Dance decorations will feature derby hats, turtle neck sweaters, billowing coiffeurs, slender waists, rustling bustles and ankle hugger pants. Special Dad’s stationery is being j furnished the students in order to persuade them to write to dad to invite him down immediately. Cups will be awarded to the two houses har ing the greatest number of dads in attendance for Dad's day and to the house having the greatest proportion of freshmen dads in at tendance. Letter Contest Starts As a special inducement to en | courage the students to invite the paters down, a special contest for the best letter urging dad to appear for the occasion is being promoted. (Please turn to page three) Movie Thriller of Grads at McDonald A moving picture account of the daring trip down the Deschutes river made last fall by four Eu gene sportsmen, all University of Oregon alumni, will be presented at the McDonald theater Wednes day, Thursday, and Friday, it was announced by James O’Connell, manager. A narrative of the trip will be given by Veltie Pruitt, who with Prince Helfrich, acted as guide for the party. The other two members were Merwin R. Irish and George H. Godfrey, of the University news bureau. The pictures are all in natural color and are declared to be out standing in protographic excel lence. They depict the daring de scent of scores of rapids and nar row escapes, in which disaster was averted only by the skill of the two boatmen. The journey was made in light McKenzie river type boats, which are easily maneuvered but are ex tremely fragile. Lost: Year-Old Rally Reform Executive Committee Minutes i Constitution Book Reaches Presses; Distribution to Start {Thursday — pue to go to press this morning is 'the long-heralded constitutional handbook compiled fall term by Zane Kemler and Wally Johansen, ASUO vice-president and trea surer respectively. The book brings together with in the same covers for the first time the ASUO constitution and by-laws, all class constitutions and by-laws, and the same for the AWS. Book Delayed Originally planned for distribu tion at registration last week, the book was held up by the addition at the last minute of the AWS setup to the list, which necessi tated some changes in the pam phlet. Almost anyone interested in get ting one of the books will be able Lo get one, Zane Kemler said last night. ASUO members, holders of class cayis, and AWS members will be entitled to copies, Kemler said. Organization and printing of the work, as well as the financial ar rangements, are under the direct supervision of Kemler, who last night was reading proofs on the completed part of the project. Ready Thursday Distribution will begip Thurs day, with three stations designated to hand out copies to eligibles. The books will be available at the McArthur court ASUO offices and it the offices of the dean of men and the dean of women, according to Kemler. Four thousand copies will be printed, not all of which will prob ibly be ready the first day, Kemler said. However, enough will be ready to take care of first-day de nand, he indicated. Only possible delay for the pam phlet now is trouble at the Uni versity press. Biennial Report of State System Made Available to Faculty The 1937-1938 biennial report of :he Oregon state system of high jr education is now off the press, rhis publication contains reports if the chancellor, the presidents of :he several institutions in the sys tem, the comptroller of the sys tem, and a bibliography of faculty 3ublications of the institutions of :he state system. Faculty members to whom this report would be useful may obtain copies by calling the editor’s office, :ampus 319. ASUO Card Drive Ends; Totals High for Term Committee to Lunch With Workers as Guests of Honor With 1776 members already in the fold and the possibility that more would be added when returns were complete, the 1939 winter term ASUO card drive ended last night, substantially ahead of last year's comparative figures. Last year’s total at the same time was 1735 ducats, according to educational activities office fig ures. With enrollment increased over last year's, the possibility was apparent that the ASUO had just about held its own. Their work done, the drive com mittee will gather for a luncheon meet today at the College Side. Guests of honor will be the three salespeople who are high for the period of the drive over all others. The three are Pat Taylor, Hen dricks; Bettie Jane Quigley, Hil (Please turn to page three) < Glenn Eaton, Sadie Mitchell, and Ken Erickson . . . ended their work yesterday as ASL'O winter term ard sale drive captains. About 1780 cards were sold under their direction. UO Students Excel m Use Of White Space “The truest words are often, spoken in jest.” At least written in jest, anyhow. The realization of this came to one as he spied a sheet of paper on one of the bookcases in the original manuscript room of the University library. Tuesday evening the sheet of paper was seen between an orig inal manuscript of a German volume, and another manuscript of somewhat ancient origin. On the sheet were inscribed these words: “Original manuscript of aver age University of Oregon stu dent.” And beneath this sentence seven inches of blank, white paper! Leavitt 0. Wright on rhree Study Groups Spanish Problems, Conference Subject Of Research Work Three positions for study and research of Spanish language prob lems have been given to Dr. Leav itt O. Wright, professor of Span ish, by the American Council of Learned Societies, it was an nounced yesterday by President Donald M. Erb. Under the auspices of the na tional organization, Dr. Wright, who is a national authority on Spanish pronunciation, has been isked to organize a conference of Spanish-American linguists to be leld next August at Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Oregon professor is ronferring with Dr. Waldo G. Le and of the association on this and ather projects in Washington, D. 2., this week. Dr. Wright has been asked by :he council to survey the field of Spanish-American dictionaries. He ias also been selected a member of :he council’s commission on Latin (tmerican studies. Dr. Wright will return from his eastern trip the first of next week. YW TO GET RADIO A new radio will soon be in stalled in the YW bungalow, it was learned yesterday. The cabi net, advisory board, and Dill Pic de club furnished the necessary funds for the purchase. Today Is Deadline For Oregana Pix; Group Shots Next Today is the last day for stu dents to have their individual pictures taken for inclusion in the 1939 Oregana, declared Ed itor Don Root yesterday. Those who have not been photo graphed should make arrange ments with Kennel-Ellis imme diately. Starting Friday, organiza tion pictures will be taken in front of Johnson hall until noon, thereafter on the library terrace. The schedule is as fol lows: 11: Delta Phi Alpha. 11:15: Beta Alpha Psi. 11:30: Phi Lambda Theta. 11:45: Phi Alpha Delta. 12:30: Phi Mu Alpha. 12:45: Sigma Omega Chi. 1:00: Librarians. 1:15: Pan-Hellenic council. 1:30: InCerfraternity council. 1:45: Interdorm council. 2:00: House Managers asso ciation. 2:15: WAA council. 2:30: Order of the “O.” Search Fails to Locate Measures Acted Upon Last Spring; Weston Says 'No/ Dean Earl Says 'Yes' in Memory Test An unknown quantity to all practical purposes last night was what happened to the 1938-model rally committee reform, which turned up lost or strayed when ASUO Prexy Harry Weston and First Vice* President Zane Kemler tried to find it. Kemler reported late last night that the missing revision measure, under which the whole rally committee setup was to undergo drastic changes, was not to be found. The educational activities office yester Hnv nnHprwpnl a sPaiv.h for thp exprntivp rnmmittpp minutps in which the revision measure should be entered, but no minutes were to be found. Blames Filing System Prexy Weston blamed the diffi culty of locating the lost minutes on last year’s system, under which there was no place specified for the filing of minutes, and no one was held responsible. Weston expressed the opinion that the revision measure was never actually passed, although it was recommended and discussed. He based his opinion on instruc tions from outgoing Prexy Barney Hall last spring at his induction to office. Hall, Weston said, told him the first thing he should do was to “get going on the rally com mittee.” Dean Earl Remembers Dean of Men Virgil D. Earl was reported to have said he remem bered Abe Weiner’s measure and thought it passed, but when he was asked about this last night he said he didn’t feel Ilia memory should be final authority. In the event the missing minutes are not recovered the executive committee will either formulate a new scheme or revamp the old one, (Please turn to page three) PE Club to Meet, Form Hoop Teams A meeting of men physical edu cation students, interested in try ing out for the PE club intramu ral basketball team, will be held tonight in room 114 of the men’s gymnasium. Although this is the first time that the club has entered a team in any intramural event, the group plans to enter teams in both A and B leagues of all events from now on, A1 Bogue, club pres ident said. All physical education majors, minors, or graduate students who have not already signed up to play for some other team, are eligible, Bogue said. At the meeting tonight, both A and B league teams will be select ed and captains for each team elected. These captains will be re sponsible for their teams to Bob Boyd, recently appointed intramu ral manager, Bogue said. The first practice of the teams will be held the same evening, Bogue said. Film in French To Be Shown Here Tuesday Picture Awarded High Movie Honors Best 1936 Cinema Providing proof that there can be something new on the Oregon campus, Pi Delta Phi, French honorary society, will sponsor La Kermesse Heroique (Carnival in Flanders), a French dialogue film* with English subtitles, Tuesday in the Physical Education building. Winner of two coveted conti nental cinema awards, the grand prize of French cinema, and the gold medal award of the Venice in temational exposition of cinema tography, “Carnival in Flanders’? was selected as the best movie of 1936 by the National Board of Re view. Two Shows Slated Two showings of the film are planned, a matinee at 4 o’clock and an evening show at 7:30, Dr. Carl L. Johnson, head of the French department, who has made arrangements to bring the film here, said. The picture will be exhibited in room 101 in the PE building, Dr. (Please turn to page three) Dr. W. D. Smith Will Discuss Philippine Savages Over KOAC A colorful collection of costumes and weapons used by the Bagobos, natives of Mindanao island, in the Philippines, will provide the sub ject for a radio address by Dr. W. D. Smith, of the geography de partment, over station KOAC, Jan uary 12, at 8:15 p.m. Dr. Smith will speak on “Savage Gentlemen” —a trip into the country of the Bagobos. The beaded costumes and crude weapons which Dr. Smith secured from the native tribes when he led a scientific expedition across the island in 1908, have been donated by him to the museum in Condon ball, and are on display there. Daily's 'John Henry' Thirty Years Old By HELEN ANGELL 1900-1939. Thirty years since Joaquin Miller’s poems describing Oregon as the “emerald” state gave the University publication its new name in 1909, is the record which the Oregon Daily Emerald will be able to observe this year. It was September 29, 1909, that W. C. Nicholas, editor in chief, and his staff began publicaiton of a bi-weekly sheet t® replace the recently improved Oregon Weekly. In choosing a name for the new paper, me university seiecteu me description of this locality made by Eugene’s famous poet, Joaquin Miller, who used the word “em erald” to designate his home-sec tion in many of his songs of the West. Though the description was never officially sanctioned as a by word of the state, the student body accepted it because of its relation ship to their colors, which then, as now, were green and yellow. “It will not be a mock news paper nor a disciple of yellow jour nalism. Fake stories and sensa tional revelations are not in its field. Its work is to give the stu dents and alumni a faithful ac count of all the college news and nothing but college news,” declared the new editor in his first publica tion. The change from the small in complete Oregon Weekly to the (Please turn to page three)