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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1939)
Webfoots' Whap’ Vandals in Listless Contest, 45-28 Whiskerino Hop Slated Tonight Probably the Best B eard He'll Ever Have A bunch of sophs . . . caught Preston (Sam) Knight not growing a beard for tonight in Gerlinger hall and gave him “de w'Oiks.” Art Hannifin, dance chairman, is Oihers in the group are Stan Staiger, Bob Millspaugh, Don Turner, Art Minetrout, Ehrman, and Jack Shimshak. their annual danci doing the daubing Herb Barker, Bil SOPHS TO SHAVE BEARDS 'F eather Merchants' To Be Theme of Second-Year Men At Annual Fling By BI D JERMAIN Two weeks ago the sophomores started growing whiskers. Some of them started sooner. Tonight they will see the climax of their efforts when the campus center moves to Gerlinger for the annual sopho more Whiskerino. Gerlinger will look like a cross between a Mountain Boys’ hangout and the traditional picture of pre razorial Russians as real and ar tist designed beard cultures turn the place into a sophomore’s idea of manhood with Bart Woodyard on the bandstand. Novel Theme Chosen “Feather Merchants,” the little (Please turn to page four) t DOWN BUT NOT OUT AT THE INFIRMARY By ELEANOR TEETERS The three inmates of ward nine at the infirmary, Richard Davidson, Fowler Wood, and Dominic Giovanini, were reclin ing in their high beds enjoying the strains of music from a radio and inhaling the pungent odor from an inhalator. They seemed to be taking life easy, no textbooks were in sight. As usual before a home bas ketball game, the boys were be moaning the fact that they would not get to see the game. One of them whispered that he had planned an escape. “I’m go ing to bunch my pillows up in bed. turn out the lights, and sneak out,” he said. Other patients sniffing the infirmary orders included: Char lene Jackson, Virginia Enokson, Eleanor Pitts, Bernadine Bow man, Isabell Witmer, Della Root, Don Morrison, William Reynolds, Merritt Wanty, Richard Cox, and Irma Miller. Culbertson Cult Plans Battle, Etc— Disapproving the intimation in yesterday’s Emerald that the ATOs are campus bridge champs, the Sigma Nus yester day decided to settle the matter once and for all with a challenge match. According to Gib Wiley, Sig ma Nu ring-leader, the card bat tle will be held Sunday after - noon starting at 2 o’clock and j lasting as long as is necessary to prove definite superiority. It | was indicated that the winning ! team will be treated to “cokes.” Skiers Schedule Weekend Practice In preparation for its 27-day road trip to contests in California, Nevada, and Idaho starting Feb ruary 23, Oregon’s three-man ski team of Pat Dolan, Henry Evans, and Captain Walt Wood start practices this weekend at Mt. Hood and Bend. Dolan and Wood will practice on the ski jumps at Mt. Hood and will probably be given jumping in structions by Ariel Edmondsen, famed skier who visited the cam pus early this w'eek and expressed a definite interest in the promising Oregon ski team. Evans, the team’s number one jumper, will enter the Northwest ski tournament at Bend. Evans is the Duck skier figured to place in the jumping events at the meets entered on the tour. He will con test in class B jumping. Entered in the open tournament j at Bend will be Olav Ulland, who for many years held the record of the world’s longest jump. The Cascade and Seattle ski clubs will enter several contestants. ASUO Cards Will Give Reduction in Case of Playoffs In the event that Oregon’s basketball team is entered in the conference playoff, students are requested to keep their win ter term ASUO cards. The University ticket office announced yesterday fnat an ASUO card plus 40 cents ad mission will admit students to each game. Marketing Students To Go to Portland Tour of Retail, Wholesale Firms Start Monday Over forty marketing and mer chandising students have signed tc accompany Dr. N. H. Cornish 01 the BA school on his marketing trip to Portland manufacturing wholesale, and retail firms Mon day and Tuesday. Beginning at 9 a.m. Monday th< group will go through Swift’: plants in North Portland, studying the processes of manufacturing storage and transportation. At 1] B. C. Darnall, general manage] will talk to the students on th( marketing of Swift’s products ii the Pacific Northwest. The students will be takei through Jantzen Knitting mills b; guides who will explain Jantzen'; process of manufacturing, an< preparing goods for sale Monda; afternoon. At the end of the tou R. M. McCreight, sales promotioi manager, will address the group oi Jantzen’s new methods in sale, promotion. Tuesday will be spent in whole sale and retail firms. The student will go through General Grocer; at 8:00 Tuesday morning, and Wil liam H. Ehrman, general manager will talk to the students on th< organization and management o a wholesale firm. Beginning at 11 the students will visit Sears, Roe buck and Co., where E. A. Tib betts, controller, will explain th< (Please turn to page four) Greek Rushing System Before Prexies Again Changes Discussed by Interfraternity Group; New Member^ Take Office Soon; Prep Athletes to Be Housed Free Rushing systems, amended with each new year, again crawled out of the interfraternity council’s pigeonholes Thursday night at a meeting of the group, it was learned yesterday. The house presidents discussed two rushing plans, on very similar to the present, and agreed to decide the question at next week’s meet ing. After next week new house presidents will take seats in the council, and the present body felt its experience in this year’s lush ing should be capitalized on. Would Keep Quota The plan amending the present system would keep the same out lines, but would be an arrange ment to keep each house within its quota. The quota would be worked out at the beginning of each rushing period by the living organization with the approval of the housing committee. Each fra ternity would submit a preference list, and each prospect would indi cate first, second, and third choices. | The lists would be compared to j pust each man's name opposite his 1 j best choice. Plan number two, however, would have open rushing during rush week, with the rushee signing on the dotted line when ready. It advocates a return to more open nractices. Prep Athletes Win Visiting high school athletes, whose board bills caused the house [ managers’ council to protest | against taking care of them, won their point before the house presi dents. The presidents decided the prepsters should be entertained gratis on the ground that such a , practice is constructive for Uni I versify enrollment. The interfra ternity council will send a recom mendation to the house managers! stating their findings. Intramural trophies almost had a I financing system as a result of' the meeting. It was decided to I have a small cup for each sport, j ' | the cups to be paid for by the! : fraternities. However, each house must pass on the plan, as must the ' j house managers, before it would II go into effect, it was stated. Dean Pleads for Signs j Dean of Men Virgil D. Earl 1 j made a plea to save through street r; stop signs from extinction near the 1 i campus. Dean Earl cited a recent * case in which a University student, 'j picked up and jailed for failing to stop at a through street, got off 1 when he proved there was no sign 1 there. Dean Earl asked the presi ! | dents to do what they can do to | save the signs. ' -- HOW THE NAZIS FIGHT ' | John L. Spivak’s “Secret Arm ies: the New Technique of Nazi ’ i Warfare,” will be published Janu • ary 25. It was originally titled, "Hitler’s Fifth Column,” and will ■ sell for 50 cents. Mortar Board members were : guests for luncheon Thursday at the Gamma Phi Beta house. Lincoln Death Story In Nash Collection By GERRY WALKER An account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln is contained in a copy of the New York Herald Times of April 15, 1865, given to the John Henry Nash collection of the library. This paper was given by Miss Ida Virginia Turney, a research worker for the library, and is now on display. It is much smaller than modern newspapers and is only four pages long, wun page one leuing oi me assassination of the president and the advances of Grant's and Lee’s armies in the Civil war. The fourth page shows further bulletins from the secretary of war about the president’s condition and affairs at the capitol. The editorials are on page three like they often are now, and both page two and three are filled with advertisements of Kitchel’s lini ment with innumerable testimon ials from its users. The type is very small and hard to read and contains only six col umns in comparison to the eight columns now in use. King of Hearts Election Slated Monday, Etc. Voting for King of Hearts will be Monday from 9 to 4:30, in front of the College Side, it was announced yesterday by the commission in charge of the Heart Hop. All buyers of the 25-cent tickets will be privileged to vote for one of the 21 male candi dates on the block for the office. The crown will be awarded at 4:30 Tuesday afternoon as the climax of the Heart Hop. The candidates will be listed on the ballots, it was stated. Proceeds of the ticket sales will go for YWCA group expens es, and for scholarship^, it was revealed. Drum Beats Heard In Play Rehearsals “Boom-boom-boom-boom” . . . . drum beats reverberated at meas ured intervals through the admin istration building yesterday at the University of Oregon as an Alas kan tom-tom was employed in the rehearsals of “Emperor Jones," under the direction of Horace Rob inson in Johnson hall. Dusky “Smoke" Whitfield, as the Emperor, in anamolous, but none-the-less resplendent, regi mentals and flopping white tennis shoes fought his way through imaginary ghostly West Indian jungles to the insistent rising tem po of the drum beats in a really intensive rehearsal of Eugene O’Neill’s play during the after noon. George Hall and Lawrence Reid, “did a stretch” with pick and shovel as two convicts for one of the scenes, and with imaginary tools worked until perspiration (not imaginary) poured from their brows. Sets for the seven scenes of the play are taking form in the thea ter workshop on Onyx street un der the hands of the stage crew. The show will see three produc tions on February 25, 28 and March 1 in the University theater in Johnson hall. Sammie Handballers Tip Phi Dells 2jto 1 Sigma Alpha Mu advanced in the intramural handball ladder yester day with a 2-to-l win over Phi Delta Theta. Max Horenstein, Sammy, took two out of three games from Jack Blanchard, 14-21, 21-10, and 21-14. Phi Delt's only winner. Bob Smith, won from Bob Herzog, 21 12, 15-21, 21-18. The Sammies’ doubles team of Burton Barr and Jack Shimshak pushed over Ken Shipley and Romy dePittard, 21-8, 21-10. NOTICE SCRIBES Oregon Emerald basketball team will practice at 1:30 at McArthur court. All players are asked to turn out. Oregon Holds Pace In Northern Division Gleemen to Sing Monday In Igloo; George Bishop Here From Chicago to Solo Eugene Gleemen, internationally famous musical organization, which has attained prominence largely through the leadership and cooperation of staff members of the University, will present a widely varied program interesting to all types of music lovers at McArthur court Monday evening at 8:15 o’clock. ASUO cards will provide admittance for students. The high place attained by this group of singers is credited greatly to jonn starK Javans, professor of music, who not only has direct ed their long' and arduous prac tices, but has also written arrange ments to bring out the best vocal qaulity the chorus can give. Alum to Be Featured Featured in the concert will be George V. Bishop, now a noted Chicago tenor, who received his training at the University of Ore gon. In addition to solos of George Bishop, the concert will include a lGth century number with an anti phonal quartet singing from the balcony, a new arrangement of Wagner's “Traume,” “The Pil grim’s Song" by Tschaikowski, and a new modern Spanish number, “Tarantella” by Randall Thompson of Harvard university. He is a young composer, who was here as guest of Evans four or five years ago. “Tarantella” features also a rather entraordinary piano accom paniment played by Cora Moore Frey. Program Tones Volume The eighty powerful voices of the Gleemen will be somewhat softened to sing the simple, appeal ing refrain of Foster's "Suanee River” and an old Negro spiritual “Lord I Want To Bo.” Directly in contrast to this will be the joyous notes of “The Hundred Pipers,” played to a duo piano accompaniment by Mrs. Frey and Glenn Griffith, and another Scotch tune, “Ho! Jolly Jenkin.” “Ole Man River” set to a special arrangement by Evans and sung just as the chorus and Bishop sang ib together five years ago will conclude the program. Onthank to Study Job Opportunities Dean of Personnel Karl W. On thank left yesterday for Portland where he will confer on occupa tional prospects for college gradu ates in the Pacific northwest with a special committee appointed by the coast regional planning com mission during the Christmas holi days. This morning at 9 o’clock will be the principal meeting of the week end. Representatives from the NYA administration, Washington State college, the Portland public schools, Idaho, and Oregon will discuss the occupational outlook. Also on Onthank's week-end schedule are several matters of University business. Newman club will meet in the men's lounge of Gerlinger hall at 7:30 Sunday evening. Busy Monday John Stark Evans . . . will direct the Oleeinen in their annual con cert in the Igloo Monday night. Church Group Plans Trek To Corvallis W estminsterites To Play Hosts to Wesleyans Sunday One church group will go out of town and one group will be host' to another club for Sunday meet ings. Lutheran students will leave at 3 o’clock for Corvallis where Ore gon State Lutherans will enter tain them. Promised on_ the pro gram is a tour of the campus as well as the meeting and the social hour. Cars will leave the YW bunga low. Students who wish to go but haven’t registered should call Iris McNutt or John Luvaas, chairmen, or one of the officers. To Give Play “Operation at One,” a play set in China and presenting the con flict between Communistic and Christian ideals, will be given at the 6:15 meeting at Westminster | house. Westminsterites will play host to Wesleyans at the tea hour I at 5:45 and for the evening quar tet, Paul Thunemann, Bob Knox, Bill Wood, and Francis Doran, will sing. Anne Dean will lead the morning group at 9:45. She will present the (Please turn to pane four) Snow Accentuates ROTCDrill Needs The snow, which caused many a brisk snowball fight, may be fun for some but it works a definite hardship upon the military department and on military students. Last Wednesday, which means drill day for the military students, it was necessary because of the bad weather to hold the drill in the unfinished room at the rear of the men’s gymnasium. "That room is not at all satisfactory as a drill room," Colonel Lyon, commandant of the University march and that all they could do The room is long and narrow and does not allow space for the mili tary maneuvers. “This bad weather brings forc ibly to our attention the need for a good drill room,” Colonel Lyon said. “It is one of the crying needs of the department for adequate facilities.” Colonel Lyon also pointed out that Oregon State college has a good drill room, and that it seemed that Oregon should have one also. Colonel Lyon added that when the weather was bad it was im | possible to have the students was work on the manual of arms. A plan for a drill room was out lined some time ago by Sergeant Harvey Blythe of the University's regular army staff, but the pro posal was rejected. It called for a drill room 180 feet square. Colonel Lyon said that it was his opinion that a drill room at least that large was needed. The room used Wednesday is also pressed into service as an indoor workout arena by the Webfoot track squad. Wintermute Sinks 16 Points To Lead Ducks Idaho Slow Break Fails to Prevent Ninth Straight Win By ELBERT HAWKINS Emerald Sports Editor Big Slim Wintermute needed only 20 seconds to rojll in a rebound field goal for Oregon at the Igloo last night and the Webfocts led all the way from then to the finish to whip Uni versity of Idaho’s slow-break ing Vandals, 45 to 28. They play again tonight at 8 o’clock. It was Oregon's ninth con secutive northern division win and enabled the Webfoots to hold their tight grip on first place over the Washington Huskies who de feated Washington State at Se attle, 41 to 38. Webfoots Shoot Often Forrest Twogood’s Vandals, with a deliberate passing offense and a man-for-rnan defense, slowed down the mile-a-minute rushes of Ore gon appreciably but failed to stop the Webfoots from taking their usual 75 shots. Idaho took only 38 shots front its ring - around - the - rosey front court station, 19 in each half, con necting for only nine field buckets. The tall fir Oregons got 16. And Slim Wintermute, the 6 foot, 8-inch all-conference center, potted just seven of those 16 field goals for 16 points and high honors for the game. It raised Slim’s northern division point total to 121, only ten behind pace-mak?r Laddie Gale who got only eight. Oregon Leads at Half With the drab contest proceed (Please turn to page two) Poi Fad Will Empty Markets, Producers Say Hawaiian poi producers antici pate a severe shortage of the taro product this spring because of a recent campaign Miss Maurine Flint, cafeteria director of the University of Hawaii has launched. To avoid foods which are allergic to her asthma and to pick up some extra avoirdupois she has pledged herself to consume a gallon of the viscous liquid daily. While it is yet early to estimate the success of the project it has already had serious psychological effects. Miss Flint is said to awake in the middle of the night yelling "Poi-poi-poi!” and she is constant ly humming vague Hawaiian tunes and will burst into a violent hula on the slightest provocation.—Ka Leo O Hawaii. Swing Slang Jive—Swing talk; either noun or verb, as: He really puts out a lot of jive, or, he may just jive, just jive. Take-off—An impromptu chorus by any musician in the band. Lis ten for Gene Krupa’s 32 measure take-off in Goodman’s “Sing Sing Sing.” Paperman—Musician who plays only notes; can’t take off. Icky—This is one of those guys who goes around with a dyspeptic look on his face whenever Krupa is mentioned. Skin-beater—Drummer. . Dog house—String bass. Corn—Music played in the style of 15 or 20 years ago. Lombardo—A sweet music style named after Guy Lombardo, of Royal Canadian fame. A band that plays no swing is “Strictly Lom bardo.”—Long Beach Viking. * * * But, Dad! The father of a college boy was passing through the town late one Saturday afternoon and stopped by his son's boarding house to see him. He: (to the landlady): “Does Mr. Jackson live here?” She: (with a sigh): “Yes, bring him in.”—Auburn Plainsman.