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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1939)
LIBRARY CAMPUS Marjorie Bates and Pete Mitchell Again UO's Ideal Couple Weather Report Increasing cloudiness Tuesday and Wednesday probably l>econi ing unsettled in the West portion. Little change in temperature^ tientle changeable wind off the coast becoming moderate and southerly. VOLUME XL UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1939 NUMBER 79 1938 Ideal Couple To Go to UW Prom Executive Committee Dispenses With New Election Due to Time Shortage; Expenses To Be Paid by Seattle Hosts Winning the title of Oregon’s ideal couple last year continued to pay dividends to Pete Mitchell and Marjorie Bates, who were selected yesterday by the ASUO executive committee as Oregon’s representa tives to the University of Washington Junior prom. A request from the Seattle campus for the ASUO to send a couple was thus complied with, after several days of discussion. Harry Weston, New Stop Signs To Go Up on 13th By End of Week Added Officer to Be Detailed to Patrol Perilous Corners Two stop signs, voted last Tues day by the city council, will grace Thirteenth street at University and Kincaid sometime during the latter part of the week, Sam Bond, chairman of the police committee, revealed last night. The signs are intended to control much of the traffic going through the campus and to eliminate traf fic hazards at these intersections, according to Bond. The stop at University will be only for vehicles going west and that at Kincaid only for those going east, he said. Special Police Provided A special policeman with full power to make arrests and regu late traffic through the campus will accompany the stop signs, Councilman Bond warned. The spe cial man will be stationed on the campus indefenitely, until the pres ent traffic situation has improved, he said. The new policeman will be especially active in checking all parking over one hour, parking in no-parking zones between Alder and Kincaid, parking on the wrong side of the street, and speeding, according to Bond. No further warning will be given and arrests will start as soon as the signs are put in, he indicated. Campus authorities hailed the move as “an appropriate step” and expressed the belief that the new addition to the city police force will do much to put the situation under control. Methodist Students To Entertain at Tea Wesley foundation members will entertain Methodist preference students and friends at tea today between the hours of 3:30 and 5 in alumni hall. Dr. Ray S. Dunn, minister of the Rose City Park Methodist church in Portland, who is speak ing at special services at the local church during the week, will be there to meet students and friends. asuu president, notmea asuw officials last night of the Oregon decision. The executive committee’s de cision was reached after a short discussion. Lack of time was the main objection raised by the ASUO moguls to holding an election at the present. Members of the com mittee also frowned upon the pos sibility of establishing the practice and maintained that their action should not be construed as setting a precedent, Weston said. The couple will travel as guests of the University of Washington with all expenses paid. They will be visitors of honor at the prom, which is being built around the theme of ideal couples. Represen tatives of all Northwest confer ence colleges have been invited by the Washingtonians. Business Honorary Initiates Four New Members Sunday Tau Delta Chi, business honor ary, initiated four members into its organization Sunday evening, according to Luther Seibert, presi dent. This initiation service was held at 5:30 in Gerlinger with Hen ry Spivak in charge. The new members are Robert Findtner, Ed win Larsen, Richard Sears, and Leo Young. The banquet was held following the ceremony at the Del Rey with the main speaker being Mr. Arthur G. Dudley, assistant professor in business administration, who spoke on the conditions in China. The next meeting will be Thurs day when new officers will be elected1. Senior Ball Ducats Now on Sale in All Men's Quarters Tickets for the 1939 Senior Ball were m,ade available in all men’s living organizations yes terday, according to George Hall, chairman of the dance. Sales will be made through a highly organized corps of ticket salesmen, with at least one rep resentative in each house and through the ASUO offices in McArthur court. Ducats were put on sale a whole week in advance to facil itate the huge volume of sales involved in putting on the an nual formal ball in McArthur court. College-Age Germans Toil in Labor Camps Generally speaking, young men and women in this country be tween the ages of 18-25 are either employed at some type of work or attending a university, but in Germany many in this age group are busily engaged in manual labor in a work carhp or “Ein Lager.” Yet the German youths seem to be satisfied, according to the ob servations made by Christian Freer, graduate assistant in Romance languages, when he was in Europe about a year ago. These peculiar camps were established in 19?,1 primarily for the purpose oi taxing up the unem ployment slack and keeping young people off the streets, said Mr. Freer. Now there are numerous camps throughout the whole of Germany; they are compulsory. Before a man can be given per mission to perform a military ser vice, he must have worked in the work camp at least six months. They work seven hours a day at manual labor building up their body; they work stripped to the waist and after a short while they become healthy and strong. In each camp there is a library for the workers. The pay received amounts to 25 cents a day, and out of this wage the workers are required to pay for their own cigarettes and boot black. However, one thing that can be said in favor of the camps, ac cording to Mr. Freer, is that they do bring together different classes of people and eventually class dis tinction is erased. The women do their share. In harvest time they work in the field with the men and do housework too. The number of workers in the men’s camps is approximately 250 while in the women’s camps the number is limited to 40. In 1935, these camps were taker over by Hitler and thereafter sub sidized by the state. They still ex ist today as strong as ever if nol stronger. UO Orchestra Trip Limited To Portland Stops at Tacoma, Salem Considered Too Great a Risk By Activities Board Peeling that the financial risk was too great, the educational ac tivities board of the ASUO decid ed Sunday afternoon at a special meeting to back the University of Oregon symphony orchestra tour on the Portland trip alone. The entire symphony will play in the Portland civic auditorium April 2, according to arrangements now being made by the board. No Salem, No Tacoma The action of the board, which cuts out the possibility of the or chestra performing at Salem and Tacoma, was reached after con siderable discussion. The decision of the board, which confirmed an action taken February 11, was based on the fact that the extended tour had a large possibility of in curring a deficit between $400 and $600. Members of the committee gen erally agreed, although no specific motion was made, that it was in no position to undertake this re sponsibility. The Portland trip, ac cording to Mr. Fansett who was empowered by the board February 11 to begin work, has a good chance of breaking even. Expenses of this trip will amount to approx imately $800. lExpense Almost Halved Addition of the Tacoma trip, which would produce no revenue, would increase expense to more than $1400, Mr. Fansett indicated. This expense could possibly be tak en care of if the Portland concert was a complete sell-out, although the alumni secretary said that such a possibility was extremely unlike ly The board suggested to Rex Un derwood, director of the orchestra, that the woodwind section be sent to the music conference in Tacoma, but indicated that no funds for such a project could be obtained from the ASUO. Eugene Group Asks Request for financial backing came from Mr. Underwood and William Tugman, representing the Eugene symphony association, who sat with the board in reconsidering the situation. The proposed orchestra tour, which has been under considera tion for several months, was orig inally intended to take in Tacoma, Portland, Salem, and possibly Se attle. The concert series, given here during the latter part of fall and winter terms, were originally part of the program to sponsor the trip. Concert Cash Out Funds from these concerts, how ever, were used or earmarked for scholarships and would not be available for the trip, Mr. Under wood explained to the board. Mon ey allocated by the state board of higher education was for instru ments, and also could not be used to finance the tour. Mothers Set April 1 As Award Deadline April 1, 1939 was set as the deadline for application for the Oregon Mothers’ scholarship, at a meeting of the executive commit tee of that organization held Sat urday in Portland. The scholarship is awarded each year to outstand ing graduates of Oregon high schools to aid them in attending i the University. Attended by Dean of Personnel Karl W. Onthank and three Eu gene committeewomen, the meet ing was held to complete formula tion of plans for obtaining money for the 1939 scholarship, and to arrange preliminary plans for Mothers’ day on the campus. The principal of each high school in Oregon has been sent copies of the scholarship plan for this year, and is instructed to file, in addi tion to the eligible student's appli cation, a secondary school record. Three University freshmen are here this year through the aid of the Mothers’ scholarship. Pre-Registration System Viewed From Two Sides; Dr. PaHett—C.L. Constance Pre-Enrollment Period at OSC Will Take Place Before End of This Term No changes will be made in the University registration procedure for spring term, Registrar Earl M. Pallett said Monday, despite announcement from Corvallis that Oregon State upperclassmen had started a two-weeks pre-registra tion period Monday. “Too many complications arise under a pre-registration system to make it advisable. For example, the schedule of classes is not com pleted until about two days before the end of the term. Complications Avoided If a student should become ill, or could not attend the next term for some other reason, he would have to go through the regular procedure of withdrawing from school, by petitioning and obtain ing the consent of his instructors and adviser, he said. Mr. Pallett pointed out that, w'hile about 90 per cent of classes are unchanged during the year, some changes are made necessary by illness of instructors, increased registration in some courses and other factors. If students had pre-registered, these changes would cause a com plete revision of the student’s pro gram after he returned for the be ginning of the term, and no bettter results would be had than if he had registered at the regular pe riod. Early Conferences Advised “We have always urged students and advisers to confer on the com ing term’s work before the finish of the term. Students who have done this have found they can reg ister in an hour or so; by confer ring with their adviser previously, all they have to do is fill out their cards, and get the adviser’s signa ture,” Mr. Pallett said. Juniors and seniors at Oregon State started a two-weeks pre-reg istration period Monday. They will not be required to pay fees until March 21, but will fill out material during the next two weeks, and turn it in before examination week. Good Plan for OSC E. B. Lemon, OSC registrar, saiu that the plan gives the State stu dents more time to work out their schedules, and eliminates much registration day confusion. The plan has been handicapped in the past by students failing to take advantage of it, he said. Substantially the same results can be obtained by Oregon stu dents if they talk to their advisers and work out their program before the end of the preceding term, Mr. Pallett pointed out. f Change Would Be Substitute for Two-Semester Plan Recently Rejected A pre-registration arrangement is a logical alternative for the “thumbs down’’ attitude Oregon took on the proposed two-semester system, C. L. Constance, assistant registrar, asserted yesterday. “We must do something to re duce the great task of register ing," he declared, suggesting regis tering before final exams of the previous term as probably the best solution to the complex problem. The only reason the University does not join Oregon State, Cali fornia, and Washington in the pre registration setup now is that the faculty has never been able to get schedule changes in shape that far ahead of time, he averred. Even now, several changes are effected after all classes have been slated and registration over for the com ing term. Why Not Now? “There is no reason' why we can’t have it now to the extent of conferring with advisers before going home and arranging a sched ule of classes and needed hours,” Constance declared. After return ing to the campus following vaca tion, exact hours could be lined up and a study program formulated, he said. Pointing favorably to the plan of pre-registration at California, the assistant registrar agreed that their method of merely paying fees during registration, and then turn ing in study programs within two weeks “might work here.” He was certain though, that any plan to "take the strain off of registration itself” would be a boon to campus officials, although to put such a change in force would necessitate action probably by sev eral faculty and college bodies. Mrs. Jane Thacher To Talk on Europe To Springfield Club "A European Summer” will be the subject of a talk presented by Mrs. Jane Thacher before mem bers of the Happy Evening club in Springfield at 8 o’clock Tuesday evening. Mrs. Thacher, who spent the past summer traveling through England, France, Germany, and other countries on the continent renewed many friendships made during her years of musical study in Vienna. She is professor of pi ano in the University of Oregon school of music. The meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Sam N. Sweeney. Juniors Will Give $10 For Weekend Theme The weekend committee is sponsoring’ this contest for an idea which will best uphold the .Junior weekend tradition. It has been simplified this year to attract the attention of those who have no artistic ability. We are asking only that the applications contain the bare cutlines of the idea. 1. Name of the theme (as Vagabond Melody, Stardust, etc.). 2. Suggestions for the decoration of canoe fete floats, five at least. 3. Suggested musical accompaniment. 4. Name of contestant. 5. Address and phone number.. (Additional details may be added on other sheets. Public Citizen No. 1 Marshall Dana . . . Portland newspaper man will speak at Thursday’s assembly. Onthank Praises Marshall Dana As Public Citizen Thursday Speaker Active Newsman In Portland “Public citizen personified” is the synonym Dean of Personnel Karl W. Onthank suggests for Marshall Dana, Portland newspa per man and author, who will come to the campus Thursday as chief speaker for a Washington's birthday assembly scheduled for 11 o'clock in Gerlinger. ‘‘This Business of Being an American Citiz -n” is the title that Dana has chosen for his address Thursday, he told Dean Onthank in Portland last weekend. An active member of Sigma Del ta Chi, Dana will be feted by that organization of prospective news paper men while here. A luncheon has been slated in his honor for Thursday noon. The Portland journalist for many years connected with the Oregon Journal and now associate editor of the publication, is co-au thor of "More Power to You,” and was the first chairman of the Northwest Regional Planning com mission, which has had charge of designing Pacific Northwest im provements. ‘‘I think no better speaker than Marshall Dana could be obtained for this spot on the assembly pro gram,” Onthank said yesterday af ter conferring with the Portlander, “for people are a little more con scious of citizenship today than be fore and his address can do a good deal toward increasing patriotic thinking, in addition to being a wholesome message.” Hazen Foundation Chooses Ohioan As Main Speaker Walter Horton, writer and think er on religious thought,''from Ober lin university, Oberlin, Ohio, has been chosen as the main speaker by the Hazen Foundation planning committee for their summer con ference July 30 to August 5. He will speak on "Christianity and Contemporary Civilization," re ports John L. Casteel, speech pro fessor who is a member of the committee. The Hazen Foundation meeting is for student pastors, personnel workers, professors, and others in terested in student problems. The tentative site for the confer ence is Hig-Four Inn, 60 miles northeast of Everett, Washington, "in the heart of the Cascade moun tanns," Mr. Casteel said. Professor Stetson To Judge Schools Professor F. L. Stetson of the education department, left Sunday for Medford, Oregon, where he will conduct -a demonstration school and also evaluate the high school there in comparison with othet Oregon high schools. High school principals frorr nearby towns have been invited tc attend the demonstration. Canoe Fete Committee Announces New Plan For Selecting Theme De-emphasis of Artistic Ability Expected To Bring Out Hitherto Hidden Talents by Use of Printed Blanks; Prize $10 Junior Weekend preparations climbed another rung or two of the ladder yesterday when Scott Corbett, junior class prexy, named Bob Schultz and Lloyd Hoffman co-chairmen of the canoe fete. The new committeemen went to work immediately, and by last night they had worked out a plan to find a theme for Junior Weekend by popular suggestion. Ten dollars will be given for the best theme suggestion, Schultz turn nuumiiu tstuu. i nuy l veil iig lived out a handy blank to make it convenient for even the most reticent to bring in suggestions. The blank is printed elsewhere in the Emerald today. Theme on New Plan Theme selection will be put on a new level by this plan, it was felt, this being the first time such an idea has been tried. The two canoe fete committeemen and the other Junior Weekend appointees felt that in this way the need for artistic ability could be de-empha sized enough to make the theme the campus’ own idea. "We want everyone to get in on the naming of this year’s theme,” General Chairman Hal Jahn said. "If you’ve got an idea that will work, we want you to turn it in.” The theme idea should be one which will best uphold Junior Weekend tradition, Assistant Gen eral Chairman Walt Miller sug gested. At the same time it should be general enough that it may be applied to the whole weekend. Name for Theme Asked Detailed information asked in the blanks calls for a name for the theme, suggestions for the dec oration of a few canoe fete floats, and suggested musical accompani ment. The applications will contain only the bare outline of the idea, but the person submitting the idea which is accepted will be asked to cooperate with the canoe fete com mittee in the application of that theme. The winning theme will be an nounced next Tuesday, February 28, in the Emerald. Judging will be by representatives from the art and music school faculties meeting with the Weekend committee. Deadline Saturday Deadline for suggestions was set at 5 o’clock Saturday, which gives the campus five days to pro duce a winning idea. “We want to attract the atten tion of those who have in other years stayed out of the contest from a feeling that they lacked artistic ability. It should be em phasized that artistic ability is not necessary. All you have to do is turn in your suggestion,” Chair man Schultz and Hoffman said. Last year’s theme was “Vaga bond Melody,” with the canoe fete featuring nations of the world. Other themes which have been used are “Romantic Serenade'* and “Stardust.” The suggestions should be dropped into the special box which will be in the College Side. ORAL MASTER’S EXAM Eva Burkhalter, who has been working for her master’s degree here, has completed her work and will take her final oral examina tion at 3 o’clock Thursday at the education school. Biological Slant Final Theme of Love Series Separate Meetings Set as Women, Men Meet Dr. Brodie Advcie to the lovelorn from a biological slant will be the theme of tomorrow’s final love and mar riage lecture of the 1939 series, when Dr. Jessie L. Brodie, Port land physician comes to the cam pus to address women and men students separately at 4 and 8 o'clock Gerlinger assemblies. Dr. Marian G. Hayes, assistant University physician, who attended the University medical school in Portland with Dr. Brodie, said yes terday that “she is as well-quali fied as anybody can be, for she has worked as a practicing physi cian, as a Reed college physician, and is herself married and the mother of three children.” The two women doctors are also members of the same medical society. Knows Her Stuff Dr. Brodie, who has been a speaker on the biological aspects of marriage since nearly the be ginning of the love and marriage series eight years ago, will arrive Wednesday afternoon from Port land, where she conducts a prac tice. Her husband is a physician. At 4 o’clock tomorrow, the Uni versity alumnus and graduate* of Reed' college, will conduct a mass assembly for Oregon women, when open discussion on the sex prob lem will be featured. Tomorrow night at 8 o’clock al umni hall of Gerlinger will be the scene of a similar forum for Uni versity men. Dr. Brodie’s lecture will mark the final of the annual February trio of lectures, which were con ducted this year by Bishop W. P. Remington of the Episcopal church, and Dr. L. F. Beck, assist ant professor of psychology, in ad dition to the appearance of the Portland doctor tomorrow. Insurance Contest Starts Tonight at 7 The insurance sales contest will be held tonight and tomorrow night in room 7 of the commerce build ing from 7 to 9:15, according to Mr. L. C. Kelly of the BA school. The three winners of the con test will go to Portland for a final contest some time in the near fu ture. A prize of $35 will be award ed to the final winner. j HE Students Study i Coeds' Wardrobes The average Oregon coed has a wardrobe costing $507.17, according to statistics given by Mrs. Carolyn Ward, instructor in the home economics department yesterday. Each member of Mrs. Ward's cloth ing selection classes has estimated the cost of her wardrobe and averaged the cost with the other members of her class as a term paper. The minimum amount spent was $91.32 while the most expensive ! wardrobe ran as high as 5>ibbd, 1 stated Mrs. Ward. The most vary ing item in any girl's wardrobe is the amount she spends for a fur coat. Many girls who have a small I number of clothes do not have a fur coat, said Mrs. Ward, so the cost of clothes has been estimated I as about $350 without this addi tional luxury. In addition to the amount aver aged as to the money spent for clothes, the classes are figuring out how many additional articles of clothing they will have to buy next year to replenish their ward robe.