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VOLUME XL UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1939 NUMBER 77
Both to Be Featured in Concert
Bob Garretson . . . anil his teacher, George Hopkins, will have
important parts in the next symphony. Garretson will solo. Hopkins
rerent compositions, “Suite Jazz,” will he played by the orchestra
Garretson to Solo, Hopkins’
Suite Jazz’ to Be Featured
On UO Symphony Concert
On Tuesday evening, February 28, Rex Underwood will conduct
the University of Oregon symphony orchestra in their last concert
of the season before beginning their tour of the Northwest, it was
announced Monday. The concert, to be held in the auditorium of the
schools of music, will offer Robert Garretson, pianist as soloist.
Hopkins Music Slated
The public premiere of “Suite Jazz" by George Hopkins, profes
sor of piano in the school of music, will make the concert especially
UO Will Send Six
To Ellensberg Meet
Foreign Relations
Will Be Discussed
In March Confab
Six Oregon students will repre
sent the University at the North
west Regional conference of the
International Relations club in El
lensburg, Wash., March 24 and 25,
according to Mr. A. G. Dudley, as
sistant professor of business.
Six topics on present day prob
lems have been selected for use in.
the round table talks which will
take place Friday and Saturday
morning. The discussions, which
will be informal, will be opened
with the reading of several papers
by students on the subjects.
Featured at the conference will
be a series of talks by speakers
provided by the Carnegie Founda
tion, in which information for the
iround table discussions will be
presented.
New officers for the following
year’s conference will be elected
in the general business meeting
which will be conducted by Miss
Amy Hemingway Jones and the
conference president. Friday night
will feature a banquet.
Other Schools
Get Big Name
Swing 'Cats'
If music hath charm to soothe
the savage beast, students at the
University of Washington, Yale,
and the University of North
Carolina should be pacifists.
Recent announcements have
Ran Wilde’s nationally known
orchestra playing at Washing
ton's junior prom; Yale’s fresh
men will have Jimmy Dorsey for
their frosh prom, while the jun
iors have already danced to the
King of Jazz, Paul Whiteman
and his orchestra; and North
Carolina will be entertained by
Larry Clinton’s agglomeration
of musicians at its May frolic.
Maybe Oregon should try to
contact Kay Kyser and his gang
for the Junior prom.
interesting to Kugeneans. This
group, including “Hum, Black
Boy,” “M o o n d o w n,” “Dusky
Rhythm,” “Snake Eyes,” and a
rumba, “Black Diamonds,” employs
the contemporary jazz rhythm and
syncopations of the modern Ameri
can negro.
“They are some of the finest
novelty selections we have ever
offered,” Mr. Underwood said. “I
feel very fortunate in being per
mitted to present them for their
first public performance.” For in
creased effectiveness they will be
played by ensemble groups instead
of the whole orchestra, according
to Mr. Underwood.
Garretson to Solo
Assisted by the 70-piece orches
tra, Robert Garretson will play
John Powell’s “Negro Rhapsody,”
also purely American. The remain
der of the program consists of the
Farandole from Bizet’s “L’Arle
sienne” suite, the “Dream Panto
mime” from Humperdinck’s “Han
sel and Gretel,” the prelude to
“The Deluge” by Saint-Saens, the
largo to Dvorak’s “New World
Symphony,” and the prelude to act
three of Wagner’s “Lohengrin.”
Further details will be an
nounced later, Mr. Underwood said.
Tau Delta Chi Skit
Takes Air Tonight
“Bank Forgeries,’’ featuring the
“bad check artist,’’ second of a
series of radio skits by Tau Delta
Chi, men’s business honorary, will
be presented over the KOAC hook
up tonight at 8:15.
The series, which is heard over
the “business Hour,” is written
and acted by the students.
The first program of the series,
which dealt with credit, was pre
sented over stations KORE and
KOAC. A presentation was also
given before the Eugene Credit as
sociation.
The students who will take part
in the program this evening will
be: Freeman Patton, Ralph Sev
erson, Louis Healey, Luther Sei
bert, Henry Spivak, Ted Proud
foot, Leo Young, and Irma Helik
son.
Recent excavations have revealed
that the new campus of Colby col
lege was once the Boor of a pre
listoric sea.
Dere Porffasir
Ees Dees a Letter?
Professor Leavitt O. Wright, who is an expert in the Spanish
language as well as being quite familiar with Mexico and the govern
ment there, is often requested to interpret Spanish in one form or
another.
Recently a gentleman in Crawfordsville, Oregon wanted to have
translated and filled out some '•manifest'’ cards, which were connected
in some way with his being the
possessor of some property in Mex
ico. Professor Wright received this
letter in the following form from
the gentleman.
Eugene ore Crawfordsville
1-12-39
Professor L o Wright
Dear Sir i received a letter from
your President of the university
stating that yow are very fam
iliar with Mexico, and the Mex
ican Government, and yow the
very kind df a Person i have
been looking for to Translate
and fill out my manifest cards
but i will have to call on yow
in Person to have it fill out
Properly, i have other matters
Pressing me at Present but will
call on yow soon. Respictfully
yOurs
Crawfordsville
Oregon
This is just the way the letter
appeared.
Japanese Situation
Like Germany in1930,
Asendorf Believes
A Japan as full of “Swastika effects as Germany in 1930" but
I completely lacking in thoughts of revolution was viewed by a student
forum in Gerlinger yesterday through the eyes of Werner Asendorf,
last year a German exchange student here, who returned in December
from the Far East.
Declaring that Japan is “still pending between ideas of equality
| and humanity in government and the coming-up ideas of nation above
90 Per Cent of
Students Work,
Says Center Head
. All Types of Jobs
Are Represented in
Portland Extension
Every phase of employment is
represented by those enrolled in
the Portland extension school,
stated Mrs. Margaret M. Sharp,
secretary of the Portland center,
when she visited the University
extension office here, Tuesday.
Ninety per cent of our students
work during the day and attend
school at night; and we include
in our enrollment mechanics, mu
sicians, clerks, teachers, house
wives, salesmen, and others in all
the professions, Miss Sharp con
tinued.
Only ten per cent are students
who are not employed elsewhere
but are just studying to get their
degree while they are not able to
go away to college.
Students attend these classes to
get their degrees and sometimes
only to get background for their
profession or just for social back
ground.
Over 120 courses in the school,
the distribution of numbers in the
classes is quite even. Dr. Victor P.
Morris, dean of the BA school,
however, has a very large class in
economics, as well as Dr. Elizabeth
Montgomery’s class in remedial
reading.
The faculty of the Portland ex
tension includes professors from
the University, Oregon State col
lege, and the normal schools. They
travel to Portland every week to
conduct their classes.
An enrollment of 1600 makes
the largest number the school has
ever had, Mrs. Sharp concluded.
Home Ec Girls Visit
Public Meat Market
Girls enrolled in the home eco
nomics course of Miss Doris E.
Winters last night held their
Thursday class at the public mar
ket where a meat-cutter instruct
ed them in proper methods of
choosing meat cuts.
The special class was instigated
by Miss Winters to give her stu
dents a more practical study of
this “important part of managing
a home.”
AWS Scholarship
Applications Due
Five o’clock today will be the
deadline, for turning in applica
tions for AWS tuition scholarships
for next term, Anne Frederiksen,
AWS treasurer announced yester
day.
Applications must be turned in
to the dean of women’s office by 5
o’clock. Scholarships of $10 each
will be awarded to eight women
because of their financial need and
scholastic rating.
Final Installment
On All Fees Due
Next Monday
The final installment of stu
dent body, registration, and out
of-state fees is due on Mon
day, February 20, University
Cashier C. K. Stalsberg an
nounces. Payments may be
made at window 3 or 4, second
floor, Johnson hall, until noon
on Saturday or between 8-12
or 1-3 on other days.
Fines will accrue on late pay
ments for a maximum of six
days. There will be no exten
sions of time, and students who
fail to pay will automatically
be suspended.
1 everything,” Asendorf pictured a
Japan which is decidedly pro
America and pro-Hitler at the
same time.
White Man to Lose
"While the winner of that war
is not yet known, the loser is
known,” he asserted, “it is the
white men.” The businessmen who
have gone to China to make great
profits in business are those who
will come out on the bottom of the
Oriental fray, he prophesied.
“The Japanese wanted a war in
Europe,” the German alumnus of
Oregon University stated, adding
that during the war scare last year
Japanese reports showed Germany
bombing over London, Berlin
bombing London and the United
States practically overseas. “When
I found out it wasn’t true,” he re
marked, “I bought a gallon of vod
kha.”
No War for Russia
Asendorf predicts no war with
Russia. “Russia will not do any
fighting,” he wagered, “because if
Stalin fights and wins he will be
out, and if he fights and loses he
will be out, too; so he satisfies
himself with peace and purges.”
Lack of cooperation between
Japanese occupants of captured
Chinese areas and the Chinese cap
tives were cited by the German
newspaperman as the chief inhibi
tions to the success of the Japan
ese capture of North China.
“Altogether,” he said, “X might
say that the Japanese have bitten
off more than they can chew . . .
and China is a bigger piece of
chewing gum than anyone can
chew,” for the Chinese nation is
still busy and still at war.
Who Needs Money?
Asked if he thought there was
danger of bankruptcy in the island
nation, Asendorf pointed out that
as long as America continues to
provide 54 per cent of Japanese
war materials, Japan can’t go
bankrupt. “By floating bonds and
refloating bonds so fast, nobody
can find out there is no money,”
he suggested.
The former Beta exchange stu
dent returned to Portland last
night, where he will remain until
his proposed journey this spring
to Germany.
OSC Game Will Be
Followed by Dance
Oregon rooters who attend the
basketball game at Corvallis Sat
urday night will dance immediate
ly after the game, according to
word from Oregon State college.
A Lemon-Orange 'squeeze has
been planned, to be either date or
stag. Plenty of stag dances will
dot the program to enable ade
quate mixing among students* of
both schools.
Admission for the dance will be
40 cents for men and 35 cents for
women.
Music will be furnished by Louie
Ventrella and his campus orches
tra.
Vaughn Corleg
Accepts Job
As Line Coach
_
Cole's Successor
To Take Over
Duties in March
Vaughn Corley, assistant coach
at New Mexico State college, yes
terday accepted the position of line
coach at the University of Ore
gon, Gerald A. (Tex) Oliver, Web
foot headman, announced.
Corley, a former star linesman
of the Texas Tech “Red Raiders”
from Lubbock, Texas, was named
to the position Wednesday. He will
arrive in the middle of March to
take over his duties, Oliver said
last night.
His appointment, however, is
still subject to confirmation by
the state board of higher educa
tion. Corley's nomination has been
approved by the athletic board,
President Donald M. Erb, and
Chancellor F. M. Hunter, is was
learned.
He’s Educated, Too
The new Webfoot mentor has a
master’s degree, earned at New
Mexico State. In addition, he has
furthered his studies in physical
education at the University of New
Mexico and Colorado State college
of education.
Corley, who has been assistant
at New Mexico State since 1933,
will succeed Ralph W. (Bill) Cole,
who leaves Oregon after one year
as Tex Oliver's assistant, to be
come athletic director at Santa
Ana, California, high school.
Drama Conference
Draws DO Actors
Robinson, Students
To See Late 'Hits'
On Seattle Trip
Six members of the University
of Oregon drama division left for
Seattle yesterday, where they will
attend the sixth annual meeting of
the Northwest region of the Na
tional theater conference.
Horace Robinson, drama in
structor at the University, Eddie
Hearn, Mary Margaret Gedney,
Janet Eames, Helen Parsons, jnd
Dale King will be present at the
conference where some of'the out
standing productions current in
America will be produced for ad
vocates of dramatic art on the west
coast.
Registration for the theatre con
ference is open to all drama teach
ers and students, directors, actors,
playwrights, members of drama
study groups, theatrical designers
and technicians, and other workers
in school, college, community and
professional theaters.
PE Club 'Rasslers'
Must Check Today
All PE club members interested
in trying out for intramural wres
tling, both A and B league, must
get heart checks today, according
to A1 Bogue, PE club president.
Also all PE majors who intend
to go on the ski trip this weekend
and who have no transportation
are requested to get in touch with
Edna Carlson.
Libe Breaks 13- Year
Circulation Record
More books were signed out of the circulation department in the
library on Monday and Tuesday of this week than on any two-day
period since 1925 and 1926, stated Miss Bernice Rise, circulation
librarian, yesterday.
On Monday there were 851 books signed out with 933 on Tuesday.
Past records are incomplete as to the available statistics on the num
ber of books taken out on any cer
tain day before 1933, according to
Miss Rise, but she remembers hav
ing given out as many as eight or
nine hundred a day about fourteen
years ago. This was due to the
fact that reserve books were then
in the circulation department.
The reason so many books are
being used right now, said Miss
Xise, is that term papers are being
written. This makes it more diffi
cult to take care of students be
cause there is only about half the
number of assistants than there
was then, Miss Rise commented.
The average number of books
signed out in a day in the circula
tion department is from about four
hundred eighty to five hundred
fifty with only about two hundred
eighty taken out on Sundays.
Oregon Not Expected
To Send Ideal Couple
To UW Junior Prom
Oregon State may be in the process of electing an ideal couple
to represent it at the University of Washington junior prom, hut in
all probability there will be no such couple sent from the University
of Oregon, it was learned last night.
Prospects that the University will send its representative couple
were dim last night as ASUO Prexy Harry Weston reported the pro
posal had been considered and would probably be turned down.
I
Youth Hostel
Heads to Confer
On Campus Soon
European System
Of Cheap Travel
For Students Urged
In the hope of bringing the ad
vantages of European youth hos
tels to Oregon, Mis* Nancy Reas
nor, northwest regional secretary
of American Youth hostels, and
John Hanna, national field secre
tary, will come to the University
of Oregon campus next Monday
and Tuesday to speak and confer
with students.
An assembly, open to high school
students and other Eugene resi
dents as well as University stu
dents, will be conducted by the
visitors Tuesday afternoon at 4
o’clock in Gerlinger hall. They will
discuss the problems of the non
profit hostels both in the United
States and abroad.
“Bike” Route Planned
Present plans call for the estab
lishment of a bicycle hostel route
between Eugene and Portland. At
various' points along the way, re
sorts, farmhouses, or wherever
arrangements can be made, the
travelers will stay nights. They
will be able to obtain meals at a
cost as low or lower than if they
prepared them in their own homes.
Through the purchase of an AYH
sleeping bag, furnished at a mini
mum fee, sleeping facilities are
creaply provided.
Basement Walls of
Humanities Building
Under Construction
Cheered by unusual February
sunlight, carpenters were making
rapid strides in the building of
forms for the Humanities build
ing’s basement walls Wednesday.
, Concrete will be poured some
time next week, according to
building authorities.
Workmen finished placing 14
steel columns, to be surrounded
with concrete, which will extend
through all floors and support the
weight of the completed building.
Monday Deadline
For Manuscripts in
Short Story Contest
Students who intend to enter
the Marshall - Case - Haycox short
story contest must submit their
manuscripts by next Monday, ac-.
cording to the announcement made
yestetday by W. F. G. Thacher,
professor of English and advertis
ing. Prizes of $70 and $20 will be
awarded the two stories judged
best.
There must be two copies of the
manuscripts, Professor Thacher
said, with no name on either copy.
The name of the author is to be
turned in, in an envelope with the
name of the story on the outside.
Manuscripts should be submit
ted at Professor Thacher's office
in the journalism building.
Plans Discussed for
Coming Conference
Herman Kehrli, director of the
bureau of municipal research, and
Dr. P. A. Parsons, head of the so
ciology department, went to Sa
lem Wednesday to discuss plans for
the Commonwealth conference pro
gram with Secretary of State Snell
and other state officials.
The conference will be held at
the University in March. When the
plans for the conference have been
completed, they will be released by
Mr. Snell, it was stated.
Couple lo Deckle
Final decision on the matter
seemed to be up to Pete Mitchell
and Marjorie Bates, ideal Webfoot
couple elected last year and feat
ured in the Oregana. Weston, im
plied the couple's wishes would be
the deciding factor.
Pete Mitchell, however, had dif
ferent ideas on the subject. “We
think it would be a swell trip, but
we thought a new election was go
ing to be put on,” was his story.
Many Schools Asked
The suggestion that a “most
popular couple” from this campus
be sent to the Washington junior
prom came by mail this week to
Prexy Weston. The “most popu
lar" couples will come to the Seat
tle event from Idaho, Oregon
State, and Washington State.
The couples would travel to and
from Seattle with all expenses
paid by the University of Wash
ington junior class, and would be
introduced as representing their
schools to the entire group at
tending the prom.
Deans Look It Over
The proposal has been consid
ered by Dean of Women Schwer
ing and Assistant Dean Macduff,
who were reported interested most
ly in the student reaction.
Weston indicated that he is not
contemplating any election of a
new couple, but that nothing def
inite had been decided. He im
plied that the Bates-Mitchell com
bination would do the honors if
anybody.
An interesting sidelight on the
ideal couple situation was discov
ered yesterday when a search of
Emerald files revealed that just a
year ago today the two were
“married" in a futuristic wedding
before a capacity music building
crowd.
Campus Comer Is
Scene of Accident
For the third time in a week and
the fourth time in less than a
month the intersection at Univer
sity and Thirteenth streets yester
day became the scene of a traffic
accident.
In the accident yesterday a car
driven by a man who gave his
residence as Eugene collided with
and slightly damaged a vehicle
driven by a group of high school
students here for the B league
basketball tournament. Only bent
fenders, smashed headlights and
other minor damages were report
ed, according to O. L. Rhinesmith,
campus policeman, who investi
gated the accident.
The vehicle driven by the high
school students was comnig down
University street from the south
and the other east along Thir
teenth, Rhinesmith said. This was
in the same directions as the two
cars involved in the smashup last
week, he pointed out.
"The accident was not serious
but further emphasizes the need
for some kind of traffic regulation
on that corner,’’ Rhinesmith said
in commenting on the accident.
The stop signs voted by the city
council Tuesday will be installed
soon, he said.
Wilde Music
lian Wilde . . . will bring; Ills
popular “sweet swing” baiil to
play for the Senior ball next week.
WILDE TO
PLAY FOR
SENIORS
'Wild Honey' Music
Picked by '39ers
For High Spot of
Social Season
The strains of “Wild Honey” on
the radio or floatnig down the ball
room mean but one thing to mil
lions of Americans who love “sweet
swing” ... it means Ran Wilde
and his orchestra!
That's what it will mean to Uni
versity of Oregon dancers one
week from tomorrow night when
the one and only Ran Wilde him
self will tune his orchestra up in
the McArthur court ballroom, cre
ated by members of the senior
class of '39 for the annual formal
ball which yearly marks the height
of the social season.
They Tell All
Officially disclosing for the first
time the identity of the orchestra
for the senior ball in McArthur
court on February 25, George Hall,
committee chairman, yesterday an
nounced that Ran Wifd'e and his
“Wild Honey” music will be feat
ured at the winter season formal.
Wilde, whose music made San
Francisco’s Club Deauville a favor,
ite mecca of Bay City dancers two
years ago, is returning to the
Northw'est after an extenesive tour
of the United States, playing at
the New Yorker, in New York
City; the Book-Cadillac in Detroit,
and the Roosevelt, during the Mar
di Gras in New Orleans, besides
minor engagements in Houston
and Dallas, St. Louis, Minneapo
lis, and Cincinnati.
Has Longer Name
Ran himself, whose real name
is Randall Guiver Wilde, plays the
piano for his orchestra.
With the all-important item of
music safely taken care of for the
ball, and with a superbly smooth
floor assured for the occasion, com
cittee members are turning their
attention to staging and decorat
ing for the dance.
Yeomen Will Meet
To Discuss Spring
Social Calendar
A special meeting- of the Yeo
men has been called for next Mon
day evening in order to discuss
the social calendar for spring term.
The meeting will be held at 7:30
in the men's lounge of Gerlinger
hall.
Also to be discussed at the spe
cial meeting will be “Etiquette of
Exchange Desserts and Dinner
Dances.”
Hazel P. Schwering, dean of wo.
men, will address the group on
“Social Problems of the Univer
sity.”
LIBRARY SECRETARY ILL
Mrs. Gladys Patterson, library
secretary, is ill this week and will
not return to work until next
Monday.
Crises Stimulate
History Enrollment
Any kind of an international crisis stimulates student interest
in history, Dr. R. C. Clark head of the history department said yes
terday, asserting this is proved by the fact that enrollment in Univer
sity history courses is nearing the 1000 mark.
Due, in part at least, to the European situation, the modern Eur
ope classes have increased from 50 students last year, to 110 this year,
Dr. Clark said. The enrollment has also doubled in history of modern
times.
‘‘1 remember the time during the World War when room 105 of
Oregon building was filled to ca
pacity,” he said. In 1914, interest
in history was so great that it was
necessary to add several courses
on the causes of the war which
drew over 100 students.
That was a large percentage of
the total enrollment of that time.