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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1939)
PH Heads Set Program for District Meet Erb, Leighton Will Speak; Banquet Is Slated for Visiting Conventionites The program for the northwest district convention of the Ameri can Association of Health, Physi cal Education, and Recreation which will be held on the campus during the latter part of March, recently prepared by Earl E. Boushey, assistant professor of physical education, was published in the February issue of the Jour nal of Health ^and Physical EcV cation. Professor Boushey is pres ident of the northwest district of the association. Erb to Speak Among the college professors and school teachers who will take part in the convention are many from the University faculty. Dr. Donald M. Erb, president of the University, will give the welcome address at the first general meet ing of the convention. Dr. Samuel H. Jameson, profes sor of Sociology, will be the speak er at the second general meeting. At the last general meeting of the convention, Dr. Ralph W. Leighton, dean of the school of physical education, will speak on “The Education Policies Commis sion Report and Its Implication for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation." Ned Johns, instructor in physi cal education and coach of the Oregon swimming team, will ad dress the girls’ high school sec tion of the convention. Chairman Selected Pirrko Paasikivi, instructor in physical education, was named chairman of the dance section of the convention; Warrine Eastburn, associate professor of physical education, chairman of the swim ming and' the social committee; 1 Janet Woodruff, instructor of phy sical education, chairman of the arrangements committee; and AI j Bogue, president of the PE club, chairman of the student commit tee. In charge of the demonstration committee will be Russell I<. Cut ler, assistant professor of physical education. Paul R. Washke, pro fessor of physical education, will chairman of the convention city committee. The banquet committee will be headed by Professor Boushey. ATOs Cop Top Bridge Honors In Hot Session The old saying goes that only old maids play cards, but the statement of such was complete ly knocked off its feet last Sun day when the ATOs played tour nament bridge with the Sigma Nus, and incidentally they won. Captain Bill Blackaby of the ATO tong declared J'estcrday that the score was 17,000 to 6,000 in favor of his team. “V7o were at our best, but still it was pretty tough going for a while," be said. ‘‘However, they bid high and we let them have it, then we set them.” According to Gib Wiley, the Sigma Nu camptain, the score would not have been so bad, “if all of our best players weren’t indisposed.” TUBS., WED. ONLY ! Brought back for its final showings—then gono forever! Its stout i» h,“,! 1 Irene DUNNE • ALL AM JONES Alice Faye Don Ameche Tyrone Power “ALEXANDERS RAGTIME BAND ’ plus “YOUTH TAKES A FLING’’ One Way to Relieve Energy Ted Gebhardt . . . getting off a long punt, is relieving much energy according to an article by Professor Taylor (below). Football Both Cause and Cure of Rowdy Behavior At College, Taylor Says By SALLY MITCHELL Football may have a healthy influence on students who like to cut collegiate capers, because it provides them with an emotional outlet, but it can also furnish an excuse for rowdy behavior, is the opinion of Dr. H. R. Taylor of the psychology department. Dr. Taylor feels that certain qualifications should be added to a statement made by John Madison Fletcher, a noted psychologist, who said, “If students could not expend their feelings on football they Pole Vaulter Varoff (Continued Iron, page two) Olympic club ace, at the indoor championships at the Boston Gar dents. Competing against Earle Mead ows, another of Varoff’s greatest rivals, Warmerdam leaped to a new height of 14 feet, 6 1-8 inches. Questioned Saturday, prior to the Boston meet, the tall Oregon jumper predicted a record-smash ing feat by either Meadows or Warmerdam, but philosophically said, “If it stands, I'll celebrate its second anniversary Monday, Feb ruary 13 (yesterday).’’ Misses Olympics It was at these same Boston Gardens in 1937, while competing in the Boston AA meet, that he set his indoor mark. The summer before at Princeton he established a world’s outdoor record of 14 feet, 6inches. The following week in the Olympic tryouts, he faltered and lost a chance to make the American team. His outdoor record was sur passed a year later by the com bined attack of Earle Meadows and Bill Sefton, Southern Califor nia’s great vaulting duo who jacked the height to near a 10-foot top. Two Trips Abroad Tall, tousled-haired, George Var off has seen a good share of the world’s sights. He’s made two trips to Europe and barely missed a third. He's visited nearly as many places in Europe as did Napoleon Bonaparte in his hey-day. And like Napoleon, Varoff “came, saw, and conquered.” He won vaulting hon ors on a front that extends from Rome, Italy, to Helsingfors, Fin land. On his first trip abroad, in 1937, he competed in England, France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy. In 1938, he toured Sweden, Fin-, land, Denmark, Germany, Switzer, land, and Italy. He’s viewed the ruins of Rome, those of old Pompeii, and he's seen the courts of kings, but one of his favorite countries is Sweden. As a souvenir of his trips, Varoff has the highlights recorded on 550 feet of film, 230 of which were “shot” in Sweden. How docs he travel? It's no mystery. Varoff goes with United would do it in more harmful ways. Games Don’t Help Students Dr. Taylor finds that football games and victories do not seem to provide quite enough excitement for students. “Sometimes riots break out after a game, and a great deal of damage results,” he said. “Here football forms an ex cuse for such actions.” However, Dr. Taylor observed that in schools which have few recreational activities students are more likely to present problems in discipline. “Schools that have deflated ath letics, where scholarship gets all the emphasis, seem to have con siderable trouble with students who go on weekend splurges,” he said. In places where opportunities for recreation and emotional excite ment are scarce, the worst kind of vice flourishes, Dr. Taylor said. “People periodically vent their emotions from the hardness, and rigors of life that they must over come.” Dr. Taylor believes that there is a chance for greater emotional outlet by actually playing football than there is from merely watph , ing the game. “However,” he added, spectators can identify themselves with the team at ' a game, and consequently they get quite a lot of exercise and energy consuming activity. Actual partici pation, though, is the best means of emotional relaxation.” States’ track teams touring Eur ope, at the expense of the nation- ’ al amateur athletic union. He’s traveled many a mile and in varied fashion, but you can take it from Varoff that the way to travel is by air. On his second trip abroad he flew from Copenhagen, Denmark, to Einland, and from Finland to Berlin, Germany. So popular that Oregon coeds named him a candidate for "King of Hearts,” Varoff has few athlet ic ambitions still to fulfill. He wants to better 15 feet, re-estab lish the outdoor and indoor marks, and yes, he would like another trip or two abroad. Phi Beta Valetine party will be held tonight at 7:15 in Alumni hall of Gerlinger. All members must be present because pictures for the* Oregana will be taken. | Do you own a Typewriter? p Is it working O. K.? « I Let us tune it up for you! N ■ p Wc repair all makes of typewriters . OFFICE MACHINERY & SUPPLY CO. jj 1017 Willamette !St. Pliouc 118 (| tl 3JE 11 i-HI S.X. JL a a b M ^ \ a I 1 |,"I Girl Sharpshooters Suffer First Defeat Washington Wins Saturday Match By 33 Points The University of Oregon girls’ rifle team suffered their first de feat of the year last Saturday when 13 coed marksmen went to Seattle to compete with the University of Washington women's rifle team. The Oregon coeds were defeated by a margin of 33 points with total scores reading: Wash ington, 2356; Oregr/i 2323. The Washington team, rated by Sergeant Harvey G. Blythe, coach of the Oregon coed riflers, as “one of the best if not the best in the nation, shot an average of 98’ £> points to best the Oregon average by Ms points. Sergeant Blythe pointed out that both scores were exceptionally good and said that the Oregon score was one of the best ever made by the girls' team. He added that the Washington av erage was better than the guns would do if they were held in a vise. The University of Washington fully expect to take the national women’s championship this year. Sergeant Blythe said. The only competition they expect will come from Carnegie Institute of Tech nology at Philadelphia who were last year’s champions. The Univer sity of Washington team was run ner-up to the Carnegie institute team last year and they expect to be able to best the eastern team this year, he said. Proud of Teanj In spite of the fact that the Ore. gon girls lost the match Sergeant Blythe said he was proud of the showing they had made. “I was especially proud of them. They ex-1 ceeded my expectations,” he said. The girls who made the trip to Seattle were: Lucile Brauns, Lou ise Woodruff, Margaret Allen, Lil lian England, Barbara Stallcup, Thelma Bouchet, Opal Myers, Mar jorie Schnellbacher, Catherine Mil ler, Mary Ann Nevins, Ruth Ket chum, June Bennett, and Margaret j Pollard. Major and Mrs. A. L. Mor- j riss attended the team as chaper- j ones. Ruth Russell, graduate as sistant in physical education and faculty adviser for the group, also made the trip to Seattle. Prominent Men (Continued from page one) direct the P. E. work. Professor Robert H. Seashore and Professor John F. Dashieil of the University of North Carolina will direct the psychology department, and Dr. Arnold H. Rowbotham of the Uni versity of Carolina will teach French. Regular Faculty This staff of visiting professors will be supplemented with about 80 members of the regular faculty of the University. Mr. W. G. Beattie, director of the extension department, will be the director of the summer school in the absence of Professor Dan E. Clark who will teach at North western university this summer. She's Coming — —■ Tiiii n r • Ti—YY-*r”J,Ky0sppBr Trudi Sc.hoop . . . will bring her comic ballet to the campus March 2. Clowning Schoop Ballet Coming Soon Dance Group Head Likes American Audiences Best Trudi Schoop, famous dancing comedian, is clowning her way across the United States, on her fourth consecutive transcontinent al tour, to be at McArthur court, on March 2, for the second in the University's greater artist series programs. Miss Schoop brings to Eugene her company of 20 twirling ballet maniacs, which she gathered from six different nations. Miss Schoop and her troupe have delighted audiences and critics in Europe and America with pro grams of clever caricatures, inter pretations, apd comic patomimcs. She is happy to be back in the United States, for she believes that the American people under stand the language of lier dance. “My ideas click fastest here,” she said. Reserved seals and general ad mission tickets will be put on sale at the McArthur court ticket of fice. Washke Publishes Intramural Article “Some Objectives of Intramu rals” is the title of an article writ ten by Paul R. Washke, professor of physical education, which was published in the February issue of the Journal of Health and Physical Education. Professor Washke is director of intramurals at the University. Costume Designing Pays Big Our simplified, practical method guarantees a profitable, fascinating career. .JEAN CAROL, recognized as one of America's leading stylists, operates her own large factory in addition to her exclusive designing school. 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Lyon, com-; mandant of the University ROTC, when informed of the action of the reserve association, said that in the event the competition w'as con tinued, “We will be glad to com pete.’’ The meeting was attended by] Carlton E. Spencer, professor of law and a major i^ the reserves1 and George H. Godfrey, head of the University news bureau and a lieutenant in the military intelli gence section. Oregon Prexy Said Losing Grip as Orator Oregon’s genial president, Donald M. Erb, has slowed down! Dr. Erb, who last year set up what is thought to be a new free-style speech-making record, with 30 speeches of all varieties in three months, has so far in 1939 failed to come up to last spring’s standard. His office revealed today that since January 1 he has spoken only nine times, which makes his 1939 record to date one speech for every four and a half days, as compared with 1938’s high of one every three days. Dr. Erb’s backers arc hoping he will round into fopi this com ing week, when he speaks four times—three in one day. DK- CLARK WRITES ARTICLES Dr. Dan E. Clark, professor of history, has just completed the last of approximately thirty arti cles for the forthcoming “Diction ary of American History” to be published by Scribner’s. It's Being Filled Now This picture of the excavation of the Humanities building basement . . was taken several weeks ago. Now work on the cement foundation louring is progressing rapidly. Mud, Rain, Jolted Innards Daily Occurance inLife Of Jackhammer Artist By BUCK BUCHWACII . I helped build the Humanities building last Wednesday. I aided Charley (C. T.) Moore in rolling tar paper overly newly-poured ce ment footings, so a sudden freeze wouldn’t nullify hours of labor. Charley isn't always a common laborer. He and his palatable named pal, Chili LaDuke, handle jackhammers when work of that sort is being done. In case you don’t know a jackhammer from a mallet, it’s that compressed air gadget that drills through stone and uictn.tr* o-ii Ulitl Uctl IcHJlVcL IltJcU U all over the campus. Four Days to Learn ‘‘It takes four or five clays to learn how to handle a jackham mer,” according to Charley. ‘‘Even then it jiggles your innards some thing terrible. Rut both Chili and me have good appetites, although sort of mixed-up stomachs.” As I helped Charley straighten a piece of tar paper I asked him if he liked to work whpn rain formed muddy pools all around his feet, and cold weather chilled his bones. (At the time, the weather was fine, although scattered patches of snow could be seen.) Used to Rain “You get used to the dirty weather after a while, and then you don't mind,” was his reply. Both he and Chili have been doing construction work (together most ly) since 1011, which gives them about 28 years to become “used to it.” Getting back to jackhammers, Charley gets twelve and one-half cents more an hour than the av erage laborer for the uncomfort able beating he takes. “It pays more, but you’re supposed to do more work,’’ he explained. “You drill about a cubic yard an hour, I figure.” Standing there with his rubber boots in the mud, with his soiled jumper-shirt peeping out at the waistline, and with his worn over all pants draping about his muscu lar shanks, he was the prototype of thousands of common, ordinary laborers. The bristles on his un shaven face qualified him for a top prize in tho sophomore Whisker ino celebration. However, he probably wouldn’t have any time for dances or cele brations. He’s got a wife and four kids, you see, and they’re waiting for him when he finishes work. “Chili’s got about six kids at home himself,” declared Charley. 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