VOLUME XL UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1939 NUMBER 84 U. Ur u. juioKAtvi CAMPUS UO Symphony Orchestra to End Season Tonight Canoe Fete Contest Victor to Be Named First evidence of the many problems which will confront the junior weekend committee during coming weeks was the bogging down yesterday of their attempt to chdose a winner in the theme contest started last week. With 5 o’clock Saturday set as the deadline for theme ideas to be handed in, the committee expected to get the judging finished in time to name the winner of the $10 prize early this week. Mem bers of the committee were under the impression that John Stark Evans, a judge from the music school, was out of town, and were waiting for his return to select the winning idea. Asked Yesterday to Serve Lloyd Hoffman, co-chairman of the canoe fete, learned yester day however that Mr. Evans was in town and asked him for the first time to work with the committee. The winner of the contest will be announced sometime after Wednesday, the earliest day Professor Evans can work with the committee. What Is This Thing Called Love Trudi Schoop ... in a pose from a scene in her new ballet;, “All for Love,” which will be shown in the Igloo Thursday night. Once Tragic Trudi Finds Comedy More Her Dish “She’s the funniest thing on two feet,” is a comment made by critics on Trudi Schoop which is colored with a tinge of irony. When Trudi first decided to make dancing her career she planned to be a tragedian. She practiced her routines on lonely mountain roads, communing with the dark spirits of the Alpine crags. The dance thus created Jitterbug Not Fatal Malady Says Biologist By ANNA MAE HALV ERSON The disease of the jitterbug has at last been diagnosed by a college biologist and has been declared “spectacular but not fatal” and a definite detriment to learning. After considerable research on the “disease,” Clifford H. Coles of Bergen Junior college at Hacken sack, N.J., has issued the follow ing report: “The poison may cause the indi vidual to be thrown abruptly into the throes of the disease, or it may slowly build up to full vigor, re quiring a month or more to com pletely possess the individual . . . bears some resemblance to the ad vanced stages of the disease known as St. Vitus dance ... is rarely fatal. . . . The agonizing contor tions and unintelligible exclama tions, the latter being evidently secondary effects, produce a heart rending effect upon the victim’s parents and elderly relatives.”— ACP. * * * Ballroom Ban At South Bend, Indiana, Arthur Johnson, operator of a ballroom, has placed a quarantine on jitter bugs. They need not apply for tic kets, he said, because they cause too much wear and tear on the building, they cause bruised shins, and the dance floor will accommo date only half as many jitterbugs as waltzers. — Indiana Daily Stu dent. * * * Make-Ups A professor at the University of Arizona takes first place in the prevention of student absences from examinations. Make-ups are set for those who miss these tests for 4:30 Monday mornings. carried so many tragic memories to Trudi that she very often was j moved to tears while she practiced, j At the age of seventeen when1 Trudi gave her first recital, she! was shocked when the audience hurst into violent laughter during the most serious part of her per formance. Trudi did not recover from the disappointment of her opening night until a year later, when she made a careful study of her contortions before a mirror and decided her audience had been right. She was a comedian! Trudi, the mistress of the panto mime, brings her talented troupe of 20 persons to McArthur court Thursday night for an evening of clowning in caricature. Stetson to Conduct Demonstration in Washington School Professor F. L. Stetson of the! education department left yester- j day for Anacortes, Washington, to conduct a demonstration in the technique of evaluating high schools in terms of the criteria of cooperative study. Professor Stetson has been con ducting these schools in various towns in Oregon, and now he will do the same thing in several towns in Washington. Henry Thorsett, a University of Oregon graduate, and now super intendent of high schools for the state of Washington, will aid Mr. Stetson and will be in charge of the high school evaluating system in Washington. RECITAL ON AIR The school of music broadcast will present excerpts from Leh man’s song-poem, "In a Persian I Garden," which features Virginia Tooze, Barbara Ward, Leland Chase, and George Saunders, Tues ' day afternoon at 2:30 o’clock over station KOAC. Zoe Brassey, piano | student of George Hopkins, will } act as accompanist. 'Gay Nineties' Elders Feared !Red Menace Nearly a score of young wo men would not have attended the Senior ball last Saturday if an old custom had still been in ef fect on the campus. Many years ago it was considered a disgrace for a college girl to wear a bril liant red formal dress to a dance. Mrs. Alice Macduff, assistant dean of women, said she could n't remember exactly when this tradition was being adhered to, but she thought it was in the “gay nineties’’ that this was en forced here at Oregon. Other colleges in the East were much more strict respecting this mat ter, however, Mrs. Macduff com mented. Oregon Team Out-Shoots but Infantry Wins Scoring Agreement Cause of Loss to Six-Year Champs After last Saturday’s rifle match between the University of Oregon I men’s rifle team and the Seventh j infantry team at Vancouver, Ser- j geant Harvey F. Blythe feels that' he is the top candidate for the booby prize. When the Oregon team went to Vancouver last week to meet the veteran crack shots of the Sev enth infantry, it was suggested to Sergeant Blythe that instead of counting the scores of all eight men, all the men should fire and only the best five scores count. Sergeant Blythe agreed to this and when the final scores were counted he found that his decision had cost the Oregon boys the vic tory. The total scores for the top five men.read: Oregon, 1832; Sev enth infantry, 1835. The total; scores for the whole teams were:: Oregon, 2899; Seventh infantry, 2896. However, Sergeant Blythe said, the Oregon team gave the army men a scare when, after the first four men for each team had fired, the Oregon team was ahead exact ly 26 points. Sergeant Blythe pointed out that the five highest scorers of the Seventh infantry team were men who had been on the rifle team for years, and all five had fired for the team when the Seventh in fantry had held the national cham pionship for six years from 1924 to 1930. The boys who fired for the Ore gon team are: Dean Forbes, Don ald Boyd, Lawrence Lew, Stanley Warren, Gilbert Wing, Jack Casey, Bob Chappel, and Wyburd Furrell. Amphibians! The election of of ficers and telegraphic meet will be held at 4 p.m. today at Gerlinger pool. Attendance is imperative. 'Emperor'Hits The Spot With First Nighters Smokey Whitfield's Versatility Seen As Driving Force In O'Neill Tragedy Opening on Saturday night just before the Senior ball, the current production of “Emperor Jones" seems to be setting some kind of record for the University of Ore gon theater by rolling up a moun tainous reputation for itself on the strength of the first performance. The usual first-nighter crowd was jostled out of the customary enthusiasm accorded the initial production of each play presented by the Oregon drama division when versatile Smokey Whitfield turned the tiny Johnson hall stage with its West Indian jungle set into the poignant tragedy of a brutal ty rant who repented only when fate had cast the die against him. Five Minutes of Breathing Within five minutes after the curtain rose on the first act of Eu gene O’Neill's play, the entire au dience was following breathlessly the career of the resplendent blue and-scarlet clad Emperor and Ed Burtenshaw’s version of the fawn ing Henry Smithers, cockney trad er who took a malevolent delight in the dusky ruler’s downfall. The singular effectiveness of the (Please turn to page three) First Year Orators Sold Tryouts Today Men, Women to Be Chosen for Nearing Intersectional Meet Preliminary tryouts for the in tersectional oratorical contest, sponsored by the speech depart men once each term, will be held this afternoon from 3 to 5 in Friendly hall. From each first year speech class several outstanding speak ers have been selected to partici pate in the preliminaries. They in clude Gene L. Brown, Don Barker, Florence A. Kinney, William Mox ley, Frank McKinney, Virginia Hurst, Jean Banning, John Yerby, Don Swink, Margaret Young, Bill Loud, Ronald Hankins, and Fred Vincent. Six men and six women will be selected to present six-minute ex temporaneous speeches on a topic of their own choice in the regular contest which will be Wednesday evening at 7:15. Th» men’s contest will be held in room 105, Com merce building, and the women’s in the faculty room in Friendly hall. To the three winners of each di vision will be given as first, second, and third prizes, $15, $10, and $5, respectviely. Early Fad in Canoes On Display in Condon It may not be just the thing for paddling down the millrace, but the yellow pine dugout canoe on display in the Condon hall museum was considered a mighty handy little water craft by the Klamath Indians. The Dugout, which was hewed from a tree trunk with stone chisels, urac iicoel Vxxr tVna Tnriiartt: era tbnr -frvrkrla Indian squaws would paddle along the edges of the lake until they spied a certain variety of tuber, which they used for food, or a plant called wo-kas, the seeds of which they dried and ate like pop corn. They would then roll out of the canoe, into the water, and dig up the plants with their toes. The canoe was made low in the middle, sloping upward on both ends which tended to keep it from tipping over. It was found submerged in the lake and filled with rocks, the In dians’ method of hiding it from their enemies. When such a dugout began to leak the Indians pounded up feath ers and mixed them with soft pitch to calk the crevices. When the first white settlers brought paint to the Klamath country the Indians painted the canoe which is now in Condon hall, a brilliant red. However when it was recovered from the lake years later the paint had worn off, so it is now its natural color. Back Again r. i>rt>ail'. . . , rciimi naval officer, will speak today in Gerlinger. Ex-Navy Man To Speak On Peace Plans Bryant Returns to Campus to Address Final Assembly of Winter Term Welcomed by Official Greeter Warren D. Smith of the geolotgy department, Lieutenant-Command er Stewart F. Bryant, retired United' States naval officer, will arrive on the Oregon campus this morning from Palo Alto to round off the winter term assembly slate with an 11 o’clock address in Ger linger. His subject will be “What Is Your Forumla for Peace?” All classes set for 11 o’clock to day will be moved up to Thursday at the same hour so that students may attend the meeting, according to Dean of Personnel Karl W. On thank. President Donald M. Erb of the University will introduce the sea man-diplomat-author to the stu dent body. To Address Rotarinns At noon the Californian will be I principal speaker at a Rotary' club luncheon in his honor, when j Mayor Elisha Large of Eugene j will act as toastmaster. Bryant will! speak to Eugenians on “Ameri’ ca’s Place in the World Politics.” Commander Bryant graduated, from the Annapolis naval Academy in 1913 and between then and ( 1929, when he retired from active service, he figured prominently in navy circles. In the field of for eign affairs, Bryant saw diplomat ic service in Asia, America, Eur ope, and the Philippine islands. His writings on foreign and domes tic affairs have been published in both America and England. The retired officer spoke at the University last May on the Far Eastern situation, and was asked to come again because of the en thusiastic reception which was ac corded his former appearance, ac cording to assembly heads. Casteel Will Speak At Junction, Klamath John L. Casteel, head of the speech division, will speak at Junc tion City Wednesday evening at the dedication of the junior high school. Mr. Casteel also has an engage ment to speak before the Klamath Falls high school Parent-Teacher group Wednesday, March 8. In his topic, "Ed^.ational Dimensions,” he will stress the importance of giving a pupil emotional depth as well as intellectual experience. LIRE OPEN LATE To accommodate students who ; wish to study over the week-end, j the library will be open until 10 o’clock p.m. on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights, according to Mr. M. H. Douglass, librarian. The library will be open regular hours on other days until the end of the term, Douglass said. Four Students Ready to Give 'Persian'Cycle Music of Lehman's Song-Poem Contain Lyrics Written by Omar Khayyam One of the most ambitious and colorful recitals in recent years will be presented Wednesday even ing at 8:30 in the music auditorium when Halfred Young, professor of voice, directs four of his students in a concert of Liza Lehman's exotic song-poem, “In a Persian Garden.” Barbara Ward, contralto, Vir ginia Tooze, soprano, Leland Chase, tenor, and George Saunders, bass, will sing the four leading roles in the quartet, and Zoe Brassey will accompany at the piano. Lyrics From “Rubaiyat” The lyrics for the song cycle are the melodious and philosophical lines from Omar Khayyam’s "Rubaiyat.” Such well-known songs as “Ah, Moon of My De light!” and “Myself When Young” are included. An added feature of the occasion will be the perform ance of “As L Sit and Dream at Evening” in an arrangement made especially for these four voices by Marian Hagg and Saville Riley, also students in the music school. Miss Ward’s Career Brilliant Miss Ward, a senior, will gradu ate at the end of the present term. She sang for the canoe fete and the Dad’s day dinner in 1938, at the “hook-up” ceremonies of the University with station KOAC, and for many other activities on the campus and in other parts of the state. She is from Burlingame, California. Miss Tooze, Portland, has also sung over KOAC and other radio broadcasts. She sang recently at the Oregon press conference lunch eon. Chase is a member of the Eu gene Gleemen and a junior in mu sic. He sings frequently on the University’s KOAC radio program. Frosh Goes Up Fast Saunders, a freshman from On tario, won top rating in two voice contests in Idaho before entering the University. He is heard often on the KOAC broadcasts by re mote control from the music school studio. The public is invited to attend the concert. Members of Phi Beta, women’s national music and drama honorary, will act as ushers and hostesses. UO Debaters Travel Though Finals Loom Symposium Groups Appear at Portland, Hillsboro The end of the term and ap proaching finals mean nothing to members of the symposium group who returned to the campus yes terday and made plans to leave on another trip today. Four members of the squad, Ken Erickson, Charles Devereaux, Leonard Clark and Roy Vernstrom, appeared yesterday at Portland and Hillsboro chambers of com merce. They were accompanied by W. A. Dahlberg, assistant profes sor of speech and coach of the group. The series of talks, dealing with the broad topic of "American Val ues" was enthusiastically received at both meetings, according to members of the squad. Both ap pearances were the result of re quests. Lorraine Hixson, soprano in the University school of music, assist ed in entertaining the Portland group. She was accompanied by Marian Hagg. At Portland members of the symposium squad were commend ed by W. J. Kerr, chancellor* emer (Please turn to page four) He's at His Workbench c UN 11111IIIIIIHH yin HUM llllHyn 11H1 If U P^ffWWBWgyiNfSRgqMBBBg”08—twflaffamHnHIBfTWiW^WWBMBBflf George Hopkins . . . must have been as intent as he Ts here pictured when he composed his “Suite Jazz.” It will he played at tonight's University symphony eoneert in the musie auditorium. Program Includes Latest Composition Of George Hopkins Robert Garretson Will Play Powell's 'Negro Rhapsody' as Guest Artist; Dorothy Johnson, Master for Contest Robert Garretson, pianist, Rex Underwood, conductor, and the 70 members of the University of Oregon symphony orchestra will com bine their talents for the last time this season Tuesday evening at 8:30 in the music auditomirti. A program of great beauty and variety has been selected for the concert. The program, in which there will be many American compositions, will be highlighted by the performance for the first time nubliclv of three number from “Suite Jazz" by George Hopkins, professor of piano in the music school. The selections, “Moondown,” “Snake Eyes,” and “Dusky Rhythm,” will be played by instrumental en sembles, which will greatly add to the effectiveness of the pieces, Mr. Underwood said. Garretson at Piano Pianist Robert Garretson, guest artist of the evening, will offer "Negro Rhapsody,” by the Ameri can pianist, John Powell. The com poser dedicated the selection to the novelist, Joseph Conrad, in appre ciation of his "Hearts of Dark ness.” The orchestra’s recently purchased celeste will be featured in the performance of “Danse de la Fee-Dragee” from Tschaikowsky’s “Nutcracker Suite.” Program Released Dorothy Louise Johnson, instruc tor of violin in the music school, will act as concert master for the concert, except in the playing of “The Deluge” by Saint-Saens, of which Lorene Mitchell is in charge. Margaret Allen, oboist, will play a solo during the performance of “Largo” from Anton Dvorak's “Symphony in E. Minor from the New World.” The complete program, as re leased Monday by Director Under wood, is as follows: Wagner, Prelude to Act Three from “Lohengrin.” Dvorak, Largo from "Symphony in E. Minor from the New World.” Saint-Saens, Prelude to “The De luge.” (Please turn to page three) 'Free Government' Essay Contest Opens Prizes Listed for Competition for UO Students An essay contest on “the prin ciples of free government” was an nounced for students of the Uni versity yesterday by officials. Un der the terms of a bequest from Philo Sherman Bennett of New Haven, Connecticut, two prizes will be awarded. The first prize on the subject, “The Efficacy of Congressional In vestigating Committees in a De mocracy,” will be $25. The second prize will be $15. The contest held periodically, is open to any regularly enrolled un dergraduate students of the Uni versity of Oregon. In evaluating the essays, which are not to exceed 5,000 words in length, the judges of the contest will be requested to consider doc umentation, according to the es say committee. This committee is headed by Dr. Waldo Schumacher, professor of political science, with whom students competting for the prize must register beforehand. Other members of the essay com mittee from whom additional in formation concerning the contest may be secured are: Dr. French, (Pleas* turn to t>age jour) Blank-Filler-Outer Types Job Seekers Mrs. Edna Landros, assistant professor of Latin and Greek is asked to fill out recommendations for students applying for positions of one type or another. According to Mrs. Landros, the methods the students use are peculiar. Some will ask if she is willing to do it. This type will be cordial and bring the blank, envelope and the stamp. Comparatively few times, however, has Mrs. Landros had to deal with the matter-of-fact type that shoves the application blank under her nose and prac tically commands her to fill it out! Prospective employers of job seekers have written to Mrs. Lan dros inquiring as to whether the applicant dresses conspicuously, is he over-groomed or well-groomed in school and if he associates with other people in a pleasing manner. In fact one employer even asked if the student used scarlet fingernail polish! Usually the applications are for teaching, a fellowship perhaps, or a position as librarian.