Winter Social Slate
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U. OF ORE.
Hobson’s Men Ready for First 'Civil War’ Game
Move for Two Semesters Started on Campus
Kemler Leads Action
To Eliminate Present
Three Term Setup
Difficulty of Transferring Mentioned as
Objection to Existing Conditions; OSC
Student Heads Also Behind Proposal
A two-semester system to replace the present three-term setup
appeared on the University of Oergon horizon last night with a state
ment by Zane Kemler, ASUO first vice-president, that such a reform
is being considered.
Kemler said he had contacted student body officials at all schools
in the state system, receiving a favorable response in the first reply.
Oregon .State college was the first to get in line behind the proposal,
Yeomen, Orides
Will Meet For
Chinese Dinner
All Independents
Luncheon for Dads
To Be Discussed
A Chinese dinner will be held at
6:30 by the Yeomen and Orides, in
dependent men’s and women’s cam
pus organizations tonight in the
sun porcfi of Gerlinger hall, an
nounced Marcia Judkins and Bob
Boyd, co-chairmen of the affair yes
terday.
One of a series of dinners in for
eign motif, the get-together will be
of a social nature. Coming plans for
the term will be discussed, how
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Value Put on
Grid Awards
By NY Police
By HOPE DONDERO
At last college football letters
have been given a stated value. The
New York City civil service com
mission, in a move to attract col
lege grid players to the police force,
will allow one point for every var
sity letter won by any applicant for
a police post in the next civil ser
vice examinations.
In addition to all this, the new
recruits must be handsome, agile,
and intelligent. “We want no ‘Man
Mountain Deans’,” says Paul J.
Kern, head of the civil service com
mission. “the new cop must be
streamlined.”
Add Definitions
Handful—blacksmith’s tool.
Mayor—female*horse.
Leaf—to go.
Appear—a wharf.
Rabbit—fast.
Stoic—long legged bird.
Cynic—something you wash dish
es in.
Ferdinand—is worth two in the
bush.
Don Budge—don’t move.
Shuffle—garden implement.
Beauty Takes Beating
The first “beauty contest” ever
attempted at McGill university was
a complete flop. A group of stu
dents, seeking to give the annual
Junior Prom a boost, decided to
hold a mock beauty contest and the
winner was to have received the
crown of pulchritude at the prom.
The stunt received widespread
attention, and university deans and
heads of schools shuddered.
Then came the joke. When the
ballot boxes were opened, it was
discovered the ballots contained the
names of Mussolini, Hitler, Garbo,
Mae West, and some of the McGill
professors. Not one coed received a
vote.
with Beaver student body heads
registering approval.
Kemler was armed with plenty
of arguments for the new system
he proposes, with plenty of back
ing throughout the state, even at
this early stage.
Complaints Listed
Among the complaints listed by
Kemler as reasons for the check
on student opinion were the diffi
culty of transferring to and from
California schools, and the gap be
tween January high school gradu
ations and the start of spring term
under the three-term setup.
Transferring to or from major
j California colleges entails either
| loss of time or loss of credit, and
J sometimes both, Kemler said. Cali
: fornia schools use the two-semes
ter system, as do many of the
smaller colleges in Oregon. If the
two systems were to be made more
nearly alike, friction and waste,
unavoidable the way things are
now, would be eliminated, is the
claim.
Time Lost
Also figuring in the charges
against the three-term school year
was the time lost in registering
and taking examinations for the
extra term. Expense to the Uni
versity of paying a cumbersome
registration staff was also listed
as due for elimination if the two
semester plan were to be adopted.
Kemler admitted, however, that
there are difficulties in inaugurat
ing such a plan which would have
to be overcome before it could go
into effect. For one thing, a state
law specifies that each student in
the state system shall pay a $5
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Hand Lake Skiing
Facilities Improved
Complete sanitation facilities
have been installed at Hand lake
for the skiiers and new regulations
have been developed for skiing on
slides and will be in use by the
weekend, Ranger Ingle of that dis
trict said.
The big first aid box has been
moved in to give the ski patrol
more efficiency, Ingle said.
As yet no toboggans have been
used at Hand lake and precautions
are being taken to prevent any to
be used in the future, according to
Ingle. Since there are no special
slides for toboggans and it is too
dangerous for skis and toboggans
to use the same slide, signs and
warnings are being posted to that
effect, Ingle said.
Older Girls" Prexy
At Meeting Tonight
Lois Taylor, state Older Girls’
conference president, will meet with
Eugene girls at the YW bungalow
this evening at 8 o’clock. Discussion
will center around the state Older
Girls’ conference to be held at Lin
field college in March.
Girls interested in the organiza
tion are invited to attend the meet
ing. Janet Morris and Mary Kay
Crumbaker are arranging tonight’s
meeting.
Who Said Anything About Beer?
Barbara MeMichen, Anne Waha, Pat Taylor, Donna Row, Pat Shea, Sadie Mitchell, and Elisabeth
Stetson . . . hoist a few schooners of milk similar to the ones to be enjoyed by University women at
their annual frolic, the “Coed Capers,” February 2.
Calcium Cocktails, Milk to You,
Feature of Coed Capers for 1939
It’s novel, it’s nourishing', and
it’s non-fattening!
A sensational feature which is
fast sweeping the entire nation,
the “Milk Bar,” will be introduced
on the Oregon campus for the
first time at the Coed Capers, to
be held in Gerlinger hall on Feb
ruary 2.
There coeds can consume innu
merable calcium cocktails, con
sisting of cold Grade A milk,
without fear of gaining weight,
and with every promise for in
creased vitality and a schoolgirl
complexion that calls for compli
ments.;
Dr. Marian G. Hayes, of the
University health service, believes
that giilk should be a vital part
of everyone’s diet. "A glass of
milk contains only about one
third as many calories as do some
candy bars,” she said, “and the
calcium which it contains is val
uable and essential for the teeth
and the body as a whole. Milk also
acts as a mild sedative i for ner
vous conditions,” she added.
Tickets to the “Capers” are
now on sale at all women's living
organizations. Buy one today, and
meet your friends at the “Milk
Bar.”
'Private Lives'
Cast Announced
Kathleen MacAlear
And Eddie Hearn to
Have Leading Roles
The cast of “Private Lives,” Noel
Coward’s comedy of matrimony,
now under production at the Uni
versity of Oregon theater, was re
leased yesterday by Mrs. Ottilie
Turnbull Seybolt, director of the
play.
Kathleen MacAlear, who is com
ing to the foreground of the Uni
versity dramatic season will play
the role of Amanda Prynne, lead
ing lady, and Eddie Hearn will
take the masculine lead as her
former husband, Elyot Chase.
The supporting cast includes
Wilfred Roadman as Victor
Prynne, Amanda’s new husband,
and, Jeanette Hoss, who as Sibyl
Chase, is Elyot’s second-choice
wife. Edith Ekstrom will carry the
role of Louise, Amanda’s maid.
“Private Lives” will be present
ed in the theater in Johnson hall
for a three-night stand February
3, 4 and 7.
Student Calls
Horse Trailer
Enigma Ends
The great horse trailer mys
tery has been solved. An Emer
ald reader reading the mystery
in a story Tuesday, called the
Emerald yesterday afternoon.
The mysterious voice advised a
staff member that the two un
known students’ names were
Art Griffith and Stewart Webb
of Zeta hall.
The enigma resulted from a
picture shot by Tom Miles, Ore
gana staff photographer on his
way south to the California game.
The subject was the two students,
riding in the back of a horse
trailer. It was a good picture and
the Oregana staff planned to use
it in the yearbook, but they could
n’t identify tne two students. All
members of the staff pondered
over the picture but still the
names were not known.
At this point the OEI (Oregana
Bureau of Investigation) was or
ganized with the Emerald story
as a result and at last the identi
fication was learned.
WPA Workers Find
An ti-Jitterbug Laws
WPA workers on the codification project have uncovered many
queer ordinances. The bureau of municipal research, league of Oregon
cities, has several posters on which are pictures of these laws.
One poster entitled “Time Marches On’’ contains three amusing
laws. One 1913 Astoria ordinance would have hampered our present
day jitterbugs. It stated: “All persons are hereby prohibited from
dancing any exaggerated or disorderly dance, being such dances com
uiKJiiiy nuuwu as lagging uaiitca,
and commonly called The Pivot,
Walk Back, Shivers, Hipp Dip,
Jelly Wiggle, Bunny Hug, Turkey
Trot, Heads-together, Closeness,
Port and Starboard, Side Shoe,
Briney Deep, Corkscrew Twirl,
Angleworm Wiggle, Grizzly Bear,
and Tango.” Judging from the
names of dances there must have
been jitterbugs even then. Punish
ment for disobeying this ordinance
was a fine of not less than $2 nor
more than $25 or imprisonment in
the city jail for not more than 12
days.
Another Astoria ordinance
passed in 1878 concerned bathing
in the Columbia river. Under this
ordinance persons bathing in the
rievr between the hours of 4 a.m.
and 8:30 p.m. who were not wear
ing a suitable bathing suit would
be punished. After dark bathers
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Winter Artist Series
To Open January 19
Pianists Pasmore
And Trerice to Be
First on Program
Having recently returned from
a successful nationwide concert
tour which started them well on
their way to stardom, Pasmore and
Trerice, youthful duo-piano team,
will open the University of Ore
gon’s winter artist series with a
concert in McArthur court, Thurs
day, January 19, at 8 p.m.
Wherever these two brilliant ar
tists have appeared their pleasing
personalities, and the excellence of
their performances on the key
boards, have met with vigorous
enthusiasm from the public, from
other musicians, and from critics.
Pasmore and Trerice made a pre
vious appearance in Eugene two
years ago on the summer concert
series, and were well received at
that time.
Reserved and general admission
tickets for the concert are now
available at the Associated Stu
dents’ ticket office, in McArthur
court, and they will be sold at
Washburne’s tomorrow afternoon,
and Tuesday and Wednesday after
noons of next week. General ad
mission tickets are on sale for 50
cents, with reserved seats selling
at 65 and 75 cents, and $1.
Campus Living
, Organizations May
Procure Speaker
Living organizations who
would like to have Dr. Richard
M. Steiner, pastor of the Church
of Our Father in Portland, as a
! luncheon or dinner guest are
asked to get in touch with Fran
ces Beck at the YMCA or Karl
Onthank, dean of personnel, as
soon as possible.
Rev. Steiner will lead fire
, sides at the houses where he has
! dinner on next Wednesday and
Thursday nights. He is also to
speak at a University assembly
I next Wednesday evening.
U.S. Attitude
Paradoxical,
Speaker Says
Chinese Lecturer
Points to Contrast
In Action of People
And Big Business
Pointing to the paradox of the
American people trying to boycott
Japan while the industrialists are
supplying her with a good share of
her war materials, Dr. No.Yong
Park, Chinese author and lecturer,
yesterday told University student’s
and townspeople at an assembly in
Gerlinger hall that the lack of co
operation might be because the peo
ple had failed to instruct their rep
resentatives on a course of action.
Dr. Park suggested that the vot
ers take measures to inform their
congressmen of their attitude, say
ing, "Your attitude toward Japan
will be more important than that of
any other nation."
Far Eastern Expert
The noted speaker, although
Manchurian born, was educated in
the United States and Europe, and
is regarded as an expert on Far
Eastern affairs.
Attempting to show impartiality
over a question which is vitally
tragic to him and his countrymen,
Dr. Park asserted that "China will
fight until the Japanese are driven
out, until Japan conquers China, or
until both nations become too ex
hausted to continue.”
Nipponese Bluffs
He assured his listeners that he
felt Japan’s threats that a world
conflict would exist if the United
States stopped shipping them goods
was merely a bluff on the part of
the Nipponese militarists.
"If America would combine with
a few other countries, you could
break the Japanese war machine in
24 hours—or maybe 26," he de
clared. He urged America to "as.
sume unselfish leadership" for then
can she lead “the world from the
shackles of war into the sureties of
peace.”
Dr. Park was introduced to the
assembly by Dr. Harold J. Noble,
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UO Law Students
Against Dry Zone
University law students decided
yesterday to send a petition to the
Oregon state liquor commission
protesting against the proposition
to make a dry zone around the cam
pus, it was announced by Frank
Nash, president of the law student
body.
The petition will be prepared by
Bill Lubersky.
The group has set date for their
annual winter term dance for Fri
day, February 3. The dance will
be semi-formal.
Hoy Pflugrad . • . Oregon
State guard will have his hands
full tonight on his home floor
when Oregon’s lowering hoop
men invade that rumpus
J
Oregon Hoopmen Will
Meet OSC Beavers in
First of Annual Series
Corvallis Game to Be Battle of Coaches;
Dick May Replace Scoring Ace Gale
In Starting Lineup; Zone Defense Studied
Set to throw speed and concentrated drive against the famous
Slats Gill zone defense, Oregon's northern division champs meet Ore
gon State’s cage forces in the first tussle of the 1989 “civil war” series
at Corvallis tonight, starting at 7 :S0.
And once again, as is the tradition, anything can happen in these
intrastate classics. There is no basis of comparison by which the
strength of the two clubs can be accurately measured. Only the final
score tells a true story.
YVSC Beat Both
Both OSC and Oregon have met j
and been beaten by Washington
State college's Cougars, Oregon
State twice and Oregon once. But
Oregon copped a 45 to 36 decision
over the Goliaths from the Palouse
country, while the Beavers dropped
both games of their series with the
Pullmanites.
Coach Hobson has spent a week
drilling his team on the intricacies
of a tight zone defense, Oregon
State model, and the Orangemen,
for their part, have spent even
more time devising tricka to work
against the Ducks.
Gill May HaVe Tricks
A. T. (Slats) Gill, the Beaver
court magician, lias put his head
to work, and reports emanating
from Corvallis indicate the Orange
headman has some brand new
court strategy to pull out of his!
bag of tricks tonight.
For his initial contribution to!
tonight’s hopp show, Oregon’s i
Mentor Hobson may present a re-!
vamped lineup—one that will be!
conspicuous because of the absence j
of All-Coast Lauren (Laddie) Gale.!
The Duck star failed to find his
true stride in the Cougar series
and there is a strong possibility
that John Dick, big fellow from
The Dalles, may open in his place.
The addition of Dick to me Duck j
lineup will boost its aggregate!
weight.
Dick Sure to Start
Aside from indicating that Dick
may open at a forward berth,
Coach Hobson yesterday said he
had not selected his starting five.
However, it was significant that1
Hobson, in practice Wednesday,
worked a combination that includ-;
ed Dick and Southpaw Bob Hardy j
at the forward berths, Slim Win- J
termute at center, and Wally Jo
hansen and Bobby Anet at the;
guard positions, for most of the!
session.
As replacements, Coach Hobson
used Matt Pavalunas and Ford
Mullen at the guard posts and Ted
Sarpola in Hardy’s post. Any of
these three may break into the
starting lineup, Hobson indicated
this week.
Subs May See Action
Other Webfoots who may see i
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Like Lobby Displays
Two Varied Exhibits
Two widely different countries, Scandinavia and California, are
represented in the two exhibits featured in the lobby of the University
library this week.
Lorraine Gjording, a student at the University who traveled widely
in the Scandinavian countries last summer, has lent for the exhibit
souvenirs of her trip. F’eatured are rare Danish porcelain figurines, a
nanumaue sweater, cap ana mit
tens from Norway, tiny toy shoes,
handweaving from Sweden, match
boxes from Sweden’s great match
works in Jonkoping, and pieces of
birchwood.
The other lobby showing con
tains several books on California
from John Henry Nash's collec
tion of rare volumes. The ones in
this California group have all been
printed by Mr. Nash himself dur
ing the past few years. The most
rare of the Nash volumes on dis
play is ‘‘Old California,” a group
of 10 reproductions of famous
water colors painted by Rowena
Weeks Abdy. Less than a week
after the printer had completed the
volume, all copies had been sold,
so that there are very few in cir
culation.
The exhibit was arranged by
Olivet Field and Miss Lenore Cas
ford of the library staff.
Milne Speaks at
Phi Beta Kappa
Initiation Banquet
Ten Servants' Title
Of OSC Professor's
Dinner Address
Dr. W. E. Milne, head of the
mathematics department, at Ore
gon State College, turned back the
pages of time 5,000 years, as he
traced the development of the pres
ent day numerical system, in his
address before the Phi Beta Kappa
banquet last night.
Dr. Milne stated that the figure
60 was used as a basic number of
measurement over 5000 years ago
and that few things so old were still
used today. It is one of the oldest
concepts, useful to man, he said.
Dr. Milne traced the present sys
tem of numbering through the an
cient Egyptian, Chinese, Grecian
and Roman civilizations.
The title of Dr. Milne’s address
was “Ten Servants” referring to
the ten basic digits of modern nu
merical systems.
Professor Moll, Phi Beta Kappa
president, described Milne’s address
as “a talk of very unusual range. It
was a scholarly talk still livened
with humor and imagination.”
President Moll Conducted both
the initiation meeting in Gerlinger
where the senior six were officially
made members of the local chapter,
and the banquet meeting in John
Straub Memorial hall later. At the
banquet Professor Moll read a
poem of his own composition.
The senior six who were initiated
are: Beulah Faye Chapman, Andrei
L. Isotoff, Donald S. Richardson,
Laurie Elizabeth Sawyer, Ben
James Winer, and Elisabeth Stet
son.
Bulletin Board of
Movie Previews to
Be Posted in Libe
Motion pictures will come in for
their share of library attention this
term when staff members will keep
in the lobby an up-to-date bulletin
board of previews of coming mov
ies and their merits.
An auxiliary feature will be
books on exhibit which give back
ground or other material on the
movies slated', to cultivate interest
in good productions.
The picture featured this week is
the French movie, “la Kermesse He
roique’’ (Carnival in Paris) to be
presented in the physical education
building here next Tuesday nighf.
DEAN LAWRENCE HONORED
Dean E. F. Lawrence of the school
of architecture and allied arts has
been appointed chairman of the na
tional committee on preparation for
architectural practice. The commit
tee is selected from members of ar
chitectural schools, registration
boards, and practicing architects.
Dr. Lawrence said.