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VOLUME XL
UNIVERSITY OP OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1939
NUMBER 76
LIBRARY
CAMPUS
Appointment of New Oregon Line Coach Revealed
Coeds Mass to Hear
Nomination List Read
For AWS, WAA, YW
Election Slated Next Wednesday
Four Candidates Named From Floor
In Addition to Committee Favorites;
By GERRY WALKER
Nearly 300 women students filed into the music building audi
torium yesterday to hear nominations for offices in three campus
organizations. Presidents of the AWS, WAA, and YWCA read lists
of candidates who will go before the coed electorate Wednesday.
Four other nominations were made from the floor to supplement
those suggested by the nominating committee.
Genevieve Casey was nominated from the floor for the position of
Reserve Ski Team
To Meet Canadians
Five to Compete
At Vancouver,
Other Schools Enter
The five-man reserve ski team
that will represent the University
of Oregon at the meet at Vancou
ver, Canada, February 24 and 25,
against the University of British
Columbia will consist of Art Low
ther, Phil Bladine, Sam Stevens,
Ken Blandine, and Joe Keever.
These five men are not varsity
skiers but are considered poten
tial first team material. All are
experienced and have worked out
with the varsity in its weekend
practces this season.
Arrangements have been made
by ski meet officials to meet the
team at Vancouver and conduct it
to Hollyburn ridge, the scene of
the contest.
Teams entering this meet will
be Washington, College of Puget
Sound, Washington State, Reed,
Oregon State, Idaho, and Oregon.
It is a three-event contest, cross
country, downhill, and slalom.
A report was received from of
ficials of the jumping tournament
at the world’s fair site at San
Francisco where varsity skiers
will compete February 24 and 25,
that instead of the snow being
brought to Treasure Island on
barges as was previously an
announced, an artificial snow
will be sprayed on the ski jump.
The receiving of the artificial
snow notice put team members in
doubt as to what kind of wax to
use on their skis that would prove
suitable for use on this man-made
What Next? If
Mouse Trap
Could Cook
By ANNA MAE HALVERSON
“At the next sound of the mouse
trap it will be time to arise!”
Here is the story of two ingenious
University of Detroit students
who have found a new way to get
themselves up in the morning.
Inventors Bertrand Farrell and
Don Parro have a new getter-up
per that works something like
this: When the alarm goes off, a
string attached to the buzzer al
lows a weight to fall on a mouse
trap. This springs the trap, which
pulls two strings. One string jerks
the stopper of the alarm clock,
shutting off the din. and the other
jerks open a switch on the radio.
The radio, of course, has already
been tuned in on a station that
broadcasts dance music at the stu
dents’ rising hour.—ACP.
* * *
Next Three Weeks
Time is passing,
I'm not glad;
Time is passing,
I am sad;
Time is passing,
Sad my lot;
Time is passing,
I am not.—Tulane Hullabaloo.
secretary of the YWCA, Betty
Norwood for the position of AWS
secretary and Pat Taylor for sec
retary of WAA.
Ruth Ketchum, retiring
president of the YWCA, announced
her list of nominees for positions
followed by the nominations for
WAA announced by President
Betty Riesch, and the AWS nom
inations made by Elisabeth Stet
son.
Following the routine business
the honored guests were introduced
by Mrs. Hazel P. Schwering, dean
of women. They were Mrs. Mar
garet M. Sharp, secretary of the
Portland center of the University
extension department, Mrs. E. W.
St. Pierre, state organizing chair
man of the Oregon League of Wo
men Voters, and Mrs. E. C. Sam
mons, also of the Oregon league.
The complete list of nominees
are:
AWS Nominees
For president: Anne Frederik
sen and Rita Wright; for vice
j president, Mabel Turner, Patsy
; Taylor; secretary, Betty Ames,
Betty Norwood, Barbara Stallcup;
treasurer, Barbara Pierce, Flor
ence Sanders, Donna Ketchum; re
porter, Helen Angell, Sadie Mit
chell, Martha Wodeage; sergeant
at-arms, Betty Plankington, Eliza
beth Steed, Patricia Lawson, Jean
Crites.
VVAA Nominees
For president: Jean Kendall and
Margaret Van Matre; vice-presi
dent: Lois Onthank, Jane Mont
gomery: custodian: Helen Howell,
Joanne Riesch; head of sports:
Mildred Snyder; secretary: Pat
Tayior, Amie Thyng, Margaret
Young; treasurer: Betty Giddings,
Peggy Lou Smith; sergeant-at
j arms: Frances Tomlinson, Martha
! McClung.
YWCA Nominees
For president and vice-president:
Bettylou Swart, Mary Failing;
secretary: Genieve Casey, Marcia
Judkins, Betty Lou Kurtz; treas
urer: Anne Waha, Marjorie Mont
gomery.
Ruth Ketchum, YWCA president,
stated that the office of president
would be filled by the candidate
getting the largest number of
votes, and the office of vice-presi
dent would be filled by the one re
ceiving the second largest count.
Mrs. Tooze Speaks
The guest speaker introduced
by Miss Stetson was Mrs. Lamar
Tooze, from the Oregon League of
Women Voters in Portland who
spoke on “Citizenship,” or the re
sponsibility of college women as
voters. Mrs. Tooze emphasized the
fact that the duty of every citizen
j is to vote and to vote intelligently.
| Her definition of citizenship is:
I “Citizenship is that state in which
j a person pledges his allegiance to
a country and receive its protec
tion.” Mrs. Tooze said she did not
advocate women in politics.
Elections will be held next Wed.
nesday at the YWCA from 9 to
4 o’clock. All women are eligible
to vote.
PIN OAK TREES PLANTED
Pin oak trees were being plant
ed on the campus Wednesday by
arborian specialists.
The embryo trees were placed
along the walk from Susan Camp,
bell dormitory to Johnson hall.
The University of Michigan is
making a color moving picture of
life on the Wolverine campus.
Men’s Symposium Team
Battles Weather to Speak;
Women also Make Trip
Female Speakers
Difficult to Stop,
Hargis Says
When you get these University
of Oregon symposium women
started speaking, you have to do
everything but go up on the plat
form and get them before they wiil
stop, declares D. E. Hargis, speech
instructor who has returned from
a Monday and Tuesday trip into
northern Oregon with a team of
five women speakers. Mr. Hargis
says he has a hard time “flagging
them down” and is always waving
at them from the audience.
Tiie recent trip taken by Darlene
Warren, Dorris Leighton, Pearl
King, Carol Bird, and Lois Nord
ling had three stops: Silverton
high school, Linfield college, and
Newberg high school.
Student Body Called In
At Silverton the 400-member
student body was called in from
buildings all over town.
After the assembly, a drive was
taken to Silver Creek falls. Be
cause of a snowball fight, a drizzl
ing rain, and a hike down to some
of the falls, the following ride to
McMinnville proved to be a wet
and cold one.
The girls spent the night in the
women’s dorm on the friendly Lin
field campus.
In the morning two of the speak
ers remained in McMinnville to
hold a symposium with two Lin
field students, while the other
three took a trip to Newberg to
speak before the high school.
Newberg, also, is planning a new
building. The symposium speakers
were asked to come back next
year to speak in the new high
school.
I
Company B 2 Wins
Weeks ROTC Honors
Company B No. 2, a 10 o'clock
section, was designated as the
honor ROTC company with a per
fect record of 100 per cent in this
week’s inspection.
Company B No. 2’s officers are
Don Anderson, commander; Frank
Lukowski, first sergeant; and Rex
Applegate and Wilfred Stephens,
platoon leaders.
Company A was awarded second
place with a score of 99.950.
Company C took third place
with a score of 99.836.
Fourth place was awarded Com
pany D who scored 99.800.
Company B No. 1 was fifth with
99.733.
Company E was sixth with 99 -
682.
appointed to examine
Miss Elizabeth Ireland, graduate
student and candidate for a doc
tor’s degree in the history depart
ment, has been appointed to give
entrance examinations in this
vicinity to prospective students of
Teachers’ college at Columbia uni
versity.
Miss Ireland received her mas
ter’s degree from the Teachers’
college.
Coach Dahlberg
Believes Car Had
Footing Power
Attention Mr. Ripley. This is the
true story of the Oregon sympos
ium team, sworn to by four mem
bers and their coach, W. A. Dahl
berg.
The Oregon team, composed of
debaters Leonard Clark, Walker
Treece, Charlie Devereaux and Roy
ernstrom, left Eugene Tuesday for
speaking engagements in Mill City
and Sweet Home. During the trip
the team battled all kinds of
weather in order to make their
speeches.
Team Halted
Leaving Mill City after speaking
to a group there, the team was
halted between Scio and Lebanon
by a wash-out road, over which
there was a great deal of water.
Unable to go around, but unwilling
to turn back they decided to take
a chance. They barely got through,
the water coming almost up to the
doors of the car so that Professor
Dahlberg got his first chance to
use the “floating power” of his
car. It was only when they reached
the other side of the “pond” that
they saw a sign “Road Washed
Out—Detour.”
The team arrived in Sweet Home
only to find that they were not
expected, no one had thought it
likely that they would come
through the road washout. How
ever, they were given a hearty
welcome by the principals and
superintendents from Linn county
assembled there.
Lights Go Out
Midway through the program
the power failed and the lights
went out, plunging the building
into darkness. Charlie Devereaux,
who was speaking at the time, re
marked that he had put the audi
ence in the dark for the past few
minutes with his talk and might as
well continue. He did, speaking for
ten miriutes after which time
candles were brought in.
When asked to comment on the
journey last night, Coach Dahlberg
explained, “We had to use our
knee action in the mud puddles
and our floating power in the
water. It just proves how the
speech department will go through
thick and thin for the University.”
The squad will go to Lebanon
today for appearances before the
Lebanon high school and Lebanon
Lions’ club.
New Lighting System
For Deady Now
Under Construction
Electricians were busy Wednes
day, piping in preparation for a
new system of lighting for Deady
hall.
A central switch will be installed
in the near future, controlled from
three separate positions. A relay
will throw the light on when it
(the relay) is actuated by the
switch. The switch itself has noth
ing to do with the actual light.
The system of indirect lighting
which will be installed is called
remote control through relays, the
latest thing in lighting develop
ments.
Dean Allen Carries
Away Quiz Honors
Boy! Do editing students feel ignorant!
For the first time in years Dean Eric Allen’s editing class failed
to equal or even come close to their instructor’s grade in the semi
annual current events quiz sponsored by Time.
Ironically the students have access to, and are assigned the same
newspapers and magazines to which the instructor has access.
Dean Eric Allen went to the head of his own class as he carried
off a score of 98, while the highest grade made by a student was
87 and the lowest 53. The class average was 72.
The next highest score made in other classes was the student
who topped 82 in the reporting class, whose average was 61.68.
The lowest score reported was 18, and the lowest class average
of 44.52 was made in the 8 o’clock elementary journalism class.
Fiaternity Bull Fests
PoorSchoolBeckSays
In Second 'Love' Talk
Pleasant Childhoods Make Marital Bliss;
Pre-Marital Relations Held Not Always
Hazard to Happy Marriage
Seizing on ideas that “come out of fraternity bull sessions" as
trivial in obtaining marital happiness, Dr. L. F. Beck, University psy
chology professor, las tnight polished off the second round of the 1939
love and marriage series at a Villard assembly.
Happiness of the parents of the wife and husband, and a pleasant
childhood were rated chief factors in bringing about happy marriages
by the Oregon psychologist. He expressed less faith in happiness
iui mulcts wmcn mciuae pre-mamai
morality or personality factors as
wholly influential in determining
success in marriage.
Shows Points on Slides
. Basing his address on slides
showing the results of a survey
recently completed in California,
which tested 800 married couples
on the reasons for their success or
failure, Dr. Beck pointed out the
rating typical Americans give in
fluence of parents, religious train
ing, sexual aggressiveness, and
pre-marital relations in comparison
to happiness.
“If people disagree on anything
in their marital life, they imme
diately seize upon sexual inade
quacies as the cause of their diffi
culties,” he declared, adding that
in few cases is this entirely true.
Extremes Said Successful
The California survey showed
highest percentages of successful
marriages are credited to wives
who do not enter into sexual inter
course before marriage. However,
it also proved couples who were
promiscuous in relations before
marriage find nearly as much hap
piness as the first group. Between
these two extremes, Beck pre
sented surveys which showed low
happiness ratings for couples who
had only little sexual intercourse
before marriage.
Couples find most wedded bliss
when the husband is from three to
five years older, the professor’s
report revealed.
2-Year Marriages Happy
Naming marriages less than two
years old as tops in happiness rat
ings, Dr. Beck declared that such
rating was given because these
couples “do not want to face the
truth about marriage.”
The part of the survey asking
husbands and wives for pet gripes,
showed husbands as declaring lack
of affection on the part of their
wives as chief among reasons for
disagreement. Women questioned,
on the other hand, gave selfishness
and inconsiderateness tops in the
rating of their mates.
Sanctions Mixed Meetings
Sanctioning open discussion of
subjects related to sex, Dr. Beck
said, “It is too bad that some
aspects of marriage have not been
adequately discussed by mixed
groups like this one. When we try
to keep things secret we only
foster whispering campaigns which
lead to a wrong outlook toward the
whole question.” #
The love and marriage lecturer
was introduced by Bill Knight, one
of the members of the* student
committee in charge of the series.
Today Beck will conduct a forum
group on a related subject at 4
o'clock in alumni hall of Gerlinger.
Heads of Houses
Hold Guest Dinner
The heads of houses will hold
their annual dinner next Thursday
evening at 0 o’clock at the Delta
Delta Delta house for members of
the faculty, the president, the
chancellor, housemothers and oth
ers. It will be an informal affair
with the entertainment planned by
Carolyn Dudley, vice-president of
heads of houses.
C’ASTEL TO SPEAK
Using "The Customers’ Point of
View" as a subject, John L. Cas
teel, director of the speech divi
sion, will speak to employers as
sociation of the First National
bank Monday evening at the Eu
gene hotel.
I
Glafke Named
To Represent
Local Phi Betas
New York Dinner
Will Be Attended by
Oregon Delegate
Oregon Alpha chapter of Phi
Beta Kappa, national honorary
scholastic fraternity, was invited
yesterday to name a delegate to a
dinner at the Hotel Astor, New
York City, given Monday evening,
February 20, by the united chap
ters of the organization. The
theme of the occasion will be Phi
Beta Kappa’s campaign for the
promotion and maintenance of in
tellectual freedom.
Moll Names Glafke
President Ernest G. Moll of the
Oregon chapter named Dr. W. Har
ley Glafke, Oregon, '07, prominent
New York physician and writer on
medical subjects, to represent this
chapter. As alternates he named
Dr. Laura Hall Kennon, Oregon
’ll, Columbia university educa
tional researcher, and Dr. Claude
E. Robinson, Oregon '24, associate
to Dr. George H. Gallup in the
American Institute of Public Opin.
ion. Both alternates are New York
residents. Dr. Robinson was presi
dent of the student body in his
senior year in the University.
Finley to Preside
The program, over which Dr.
John H. Finley, editor emeritus of
the New York Times, will preside,
will include a symposium on “The
Crisis of the Humanities in the
Fight for Intellectual Freedom,"
which will be broadcast over the
Mutual network from station
WOR, Newark, from 8:30 to 9
o'clock (EST) Monday evening.
James Rowland Angell will pre
side over the symposium, and the
addresses, each five minutes long,
will be made by G. A. Borgese,
Marjorie Nicolson, Christian Gauss,
Roscoe Pound, and Charles E.
Hughes III, all nationally known.
Guest of honor will be Dorothy
Thompson (Mrs. Sinclair Lewis),
eminent commentator on public
affairs and militant advocate of
intellectual freedom.
Boom Lowered
On Social Life;
Exams Slated
Final exams may be more
than two weeks away, but social
events will be curbed starting
next week as the closed social
season on the campus begins.
According to Mary Louise Nor
vell, president of heads of
houses,, no women's organiza
tion may schedule a dessert,
guest dinner, or any other social
function from now until the end
of the term.
On Friday night, February 24,
there will only be 11:30 permis
sion. Saturday night because of
the Senior ball there will be 1
o’clock permission.
On Friday night, March 3,
there will be 10:30 permission
for upperclassmen but freshmen
will not be allowed to have dates
on that night. The next night,
on Saturday, there will be 12:15
permission for everyone.
Vaughn Corley Is
Chosen to Fill Post
Vacated hg Bill Cole
Assistant New Mexico State Man
Is Given Okay by Board; Teams Well
Coached, Tex Oliver Says
Vaughn Corley, assistant coach of New Mexico State college since
1933, has been named to succeed Bill Cole as Oregon line coach, Earl
M. Pallett, chairman of the athletic board, announced yesterday.
Corley has been notified of his appointment, but has not contacted
University officials or Coach Tex Oliver, Webfoot headman, as yet.
Word from the New Mexico mentor is expected today.
Appointment Approved
The appointment has been ap
proved by the afhletic board,
President Donald M. Erb and
Chancellor F, M. Hunftr, but is
still subject to confirmation by the
state board of higher education, it
was stated yesterday.
Coach Oliver last night person
ally commended the ability of Cor
ley. “My teams played against
New Mexico State five years, and
I know' that his lines were well
coached,” Oliver said.
Corley, according to Coach Oli
ver, applied for the Oregon job at
the time Bill Cole was chosen.
Graduate of Texas
The new Oregon football assist
ant is a graduate of Texas Tech,
where he was, in the words of
Tex Oliver, a “great player.” He
coached from 1929 to 1933 at Las
Cruces, New Mexico, high school,
before going to New Mexico State
as assistant to Coach G. H. Hines.
Corley is due to take over his
new duties March 1, in time for
spring practice. His appointment
is for a one-year term.
Huge Bill Cole, who succeeded.
Gene Shields at the beginning of
last season, will return to his
Santa Ana orange ranch sometime
in April.
Exchange Student
Asendorfto Be
Forum Speaker
Latest Outlook on
Far East Situation
Will Be Given
Fresh from a year’s study of
conditions in the Far East, Werner
Asendorf, German exchange stu
dent of 1938’s senior class, will de
scribe “what goes on there” to an
11 o’clock forum audience in al
umni hall of Gerlinger today.
The German student is expected
to arrive sometime this morning
from Portland, where he is staying
between his return from the Ori
ent and a proposed journey back
to his homeland. While here he will
be the guest of the local chapter
of Beta Theta Pi, of which he is
a member.
The meeting, open to all stu
dents, will be held during the reg
ular Thursday assembly hour. It
is sponsored by the Cosmopolitan
and International Relations club.
Returned only in December from
the Far East, where he has been
since his graduation last June,
Asendorf will answer student and
faculty questions on the existing
situation in China and Japan, and
will also summarize his general
opinion of the outlook for the war
ring nations.
First Plans Laid
By Corbett for
Junior Weekend
Harold Jahn Named
General Chairman
For Campus Event
First signs of Junior Weekend,
event of late spring term, began
to show yesterday with the an
nouncement by Scott Corbett, jun
ior class president, that Harold
Jahn would be general chairman
for this year’s edition of the tra
ditional affair.
Walt Miller was named assist
ant general chairman. Corbett also
appointed Bud Jermain and Roy
Vernstrom publicity co-chairmen.
These first appointments, Cor
bett said last night, were those
necessary to get the complex ma
chinery of Junior Weekend in mo
tion soon enough to give the pro
ject a good start. Other appoint
ments are being considered and
will be announced later, said Cor
bett. Jahn and Miller will sit in
on the selection.
His forces lined up in advance
for the largest-scale piece of work
his ciass will have to undertake
during its entire college career,
Corbett already had his first ap
pointees in executive session yes
terday outlining first plans for the
project. ,
The committeemen met with
Educational Activities Manager
George Root yesterday afternoon
to study reports and financial
schedules from last year and oth
er years. They also discussed
methods of getting a theme for
the event, deciding to give it fur
ther consideration before making
any announcement.
IV TN 1 i
jureuu rni Ciiecis
Ten for Membership
Pi Delta Phi, French honor so
ciety, at a business meeting last
week, elected the following mem
bers: Louise Robison, Ruth L. Hill
man, Lauretta E. Crocker, Jean
Kendall, Corriene Ontrim, Perry
Powers, Donald Castanien, Adrian
Martin, Margaret Goldsmith, and
Betty Lou Kurtz.
Initiation will be tonight at 7:30
in the AWS room of Gerlinger.
ABBA DAB SCHALLEVGE ATO
The Abba Dabba living organi
zation issued a formal challenge
to the ATOs, mythical campus
champions, for a best two-man
match in the near future.
College and university enroll
ments form 15 per cent of the
youth of the nation of college age.
UO Drama Dancer Is
Branded 'Witchdoctor’
“Branded as a witchdoctor’’ . . . that is the fate of the unknown
dancer who is to play the part of the native mystic in the University
theater production of “Emperor Jones’’ on February 25, 28, and
March 1 in Johnson hall.
That a male dancer has at” last been found who will lead the
native revolt against "The Emperor,” was disclosed yesterday by
Horace Robinson, drama instructor at the University who is direct
ing the Eugene O’Niell play.
He’ll Dress Up
In the same impressive regalia which was used in the San
Francisco civic opera company presentation of the play, the witch
doctor will bring “Emperor Jones” to a pulsing climax with an
interpretive dance, done to the exciting beat of a West Indian
tom-tom.
The cast of the play has been completed with the addition of
Florence Cantrell to the membership as a native woman warns
“Emperor" Brutus Jones of the revolt and starts him on his flight
through the jungle.