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Weather Report Washington and Oregon: Cloudy Thursday and Friday. Showrrs in west and showers or snow in east portion. Temperature somewhat below normal. Moderate west wind off coast. VOLUME XL UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1939 NUMBER 86 Gigantic Redly to Boost Ducks on Crucial Journey The Little Red Schoolhouse? - . i i ■■■■hub. <■■■ - •* . r.- - Trudi Schoop and troupe ... in one of the poses which they will assume in their perfonnance tonight in McArthur court. Pixilated Pantominist, Trudi Schoop, Will Cavort For UO Audience Tonight It’s Trudi Schoop tonight! The University student greeters’ committee plans to welcome Trudi, the pixilated pantomimist, and her troupe to Eugene, where they are expected to arrive via special bus today. The entire party will register at a downtown hotel. Among the greeters there will be at least one person who can make Trudi feel “right at home.” Ann Cheyney, a Eugene resident, whose Persian Garden Musical Fits Moods of Crowd Quartet Gives Fine Performance in Final Number With liquid tones, changing in rapid succession from earnestness to gaiety, the subtle Persian phil osophy of “In a Persian Garden” was beautifully expressed last night by four students of Halfred Young, Virginia Tooze, soprano; Barbara Ward, contralto; Leland Chase, tenor; and George Saunders, bass; With Zoe Brassey at the piano. The song-cycle was presented at the school of music auditorium, which was filled to capacity on the main floor and was well occupied in the balcony. Outstanding on the program was the final quartet, which a listener remarked, displayed “the most marvelous blend of harmony he had ever heard.” In response to heavy applause, the singers re peated “Alas! That Spring Should Vanish Like the Rose,” the last quartet. U of T Lawyers Ask Exemption From Bar Tests By ANNA MAE HALVERSON Exemption from state bar ex aminations for graduates of the University of Texas law school is being sought by students in that school by means of a legislative bill, in spite of faculty disapproval. A similar bill was presented to the legislature two years ago and was killed in the senate after fa vorable recognition in the house. Student leaders of the drive said that the $20 examination fee along with the two or three weeks’ ex tensive reviewing, and the strenu ous 10-hour examinations each day for four days would be the stu dents’ major arguments.—Daily Texan. Honeyed Words Judged the sweetest words in the English language (or in any language)— 1. I love you. 2. Dinner is served. 3. Keep the change. 4. All is forgiven. 5. Sleep till noon. 6. Here’s that five. Might we add: Number 7—For this term we will use the same textbook used last year (profes sor’s words).—Tulane Hullabaloo Perhaps Number 8—No one flunked the course. (Also profes sor’s words.) ancestors, like tnose ot rruai, aate all the way back to the Matter horn, will be on hand to extend her welcome. Begins at 8 Tonight’s performance, which will begin promptly at 8 o'clock in McArthur court, will feature a comic ballet, “All for Love,” or “what makes the world go ’round in seven episodes.” The ballet begins with 20 “weinie”-eating men and maids, clad in gay costumes, cutting capers, and executing idiotic con tortions that come only after years of expert training. Trudi ap pears on the stage garbed each time in a different costume and each time giving several of her inimitable cartoons in caricature. Critics have described this comedy as a “silly symphony in the flesh.” Satire Is Weapon Behind the humorous note of the entire ballet, Trudi, in spite of her clowning, uses satire as a weapon to show her profound disdain for the insincerity and pretense of the rich the world over. You’ll have a chance to see Trudi’s educated hands in action, when the Swiss miss uses her hands, valued at $300,000, to give eloquent meaning to her gestures. In the ballet dignified ladies do hand-stands and back-flips—all in the name of caricature. Portland Next After her Eugene engagement, Trudi will go to Portland, where present indications are that her coming appearance will draw the largest audience ever to witness her show there. Since her first regular appear ance in Portland, in 1936, Trudi : has passed the acid test of popular ity with the general public there, and she is now on the “must” list of concert goers and ballet fans. Students will be admitted to the ballet upon presentation of ASUO cards. New Grange Unit Will Be Discussed Discussion of the possibility of organizing a subordinate unit of the Grange, national farm organi zation, will occupy student grange member of one of the grange groups meet with Arthur Brown, field representative, at 4 o'clock in room 3 of Johnson hall. ! Any student who has been a member of one of the range groups in his home town is invited to at tend, according to the official, and to express his opinions on the sa gacity of attempting to begin a unit on the campus. Mr. Brown's scheduled meeting grew out of a meeting of the Po mona Grange near Eugene recent ly, when several Btudents were present. They suggested that the campus might be interested, so Mr. | Brown, sent by Grange headquar ters, will attempt to "feel out" (Please turn to page two) Schedule of Final Exams Is Released Tuesday, Thursday 8 o'Clocks Changed From Friday to Wednesday Beginning Monday morning at 8 o’clock and ending with a final flourish next Friday evening at 5 o’clock, University students will next week ‘‘make or bleak" their college careers as they wade through winter final examinations. Schedules for examinations is sued in w'hite books distributed at the first of the school year will remain the same for all courses except Tuesday and Thursday 8 o’clock classes, which will be quizzed from 1 to 3 on Wednesday or Friday, as stated in the manual. The complete schedule follows: Written English .10-12 Th French (1st, 2nd, Lit) .10-12 Tu Const. Acctng., Fr. Comp. and Conv.10-12 W Phys. Ed. activities .3-5 Tu Gen. Hygiene for women .3-5 Th Ph. Sc. Survey, Elem. Psy. Lab.10-12 M Back, of Soc. Sci.10-12 F All other courses meeting at: 8 MWF .8-10 W 8 TuTh .1-3 W 9 MWF.8-10 F 9 TuTh .1-3 p 10 MWF .8-10 M 10 TuTh .,.1-3 M 11 MTuWF ....3-5 W 1 MWF.8-10 Tu 1 TuTh .1-3 Tu 2 MWF.8-10 Th 2 TuTh .1-3 Th 3 MToWThF .3-5 F 4 MTuWThF .3-5 M In the examination schedule, the MWF group includes classes meet ing on any two or all three of these days, or for any four or five days per week. Winners Named Talks by McKinney Miss Durkee Take First $15 Prizes Dorothy Durkee’s extemporan eous speech on “Propaganda” and Frank McKinney’s speech on “Co education” won for them the first prizes of $15 each in the Jewett intersectional contest held last night. In the women’s division, held in the faculty room of Friendly hall, Jean Banning placed second, win ning $10 for her speech on "Doing Silly Things.” The third prize of $5 was won by Florence Kinney, who spoke on “Visual Education for a Dime.” Gene Brown’s “Clipper Ships” gave him second place in the men’s division, which was held in room 105, Commerce building. The $5 third prize went to Don Barker, speaking on “Waltz King.” Judges for the women’s contest were Mortimer Androm, Marshall Nelson, and William Lubersky. Judges of the men’s speeches were Edwin Robbins, Charles Devereaux, and Mark Hanna. All first year speech students were required to attend the con tests as part of their regular class work. REST HOMES PROPOSED If you sincerely believe that you are going to be tired about March 10 (or isn’t that the word for it?), you might be interested in some thing new and novel in the way of student accommodations pro posed by the Duke University “Chronicle.” Its editors would have their alma mater establish rest homes where tired and study-worn undergraduates could spend a few days catching up on their sleep.— ACP. These Three Will Head Spring Term ASUO Sales Drive Ken lEriclcson, Sadie Mitchell and Glenn Eaton . . . Again to conduct campaign. Catchy Tunes Promised for Campus Play Exclusive Scores For Musical Show Will Be Sung University of Oregon students will be whistling and singing a whole flock of brand new tunes after the opening of the all-campus comedy to be presented "With Fear and Trembling’’ by the Uni versity and the drama division on April 17. They will be new tunes . . . and they will be exclusively Oregon’s very own, for they were com posed with the Oregon campus and the Oregon student body in mind, when Wilfred Roadman and Hor ace Robinson, co-directors of the show, demanded music for the comedy. A preview of a preview of scores of the “With Fear and Trembling’’ music revealed that the 12 original tunes are lilting, catchy melodies! . . . the type of songs that will be! sung at firesides and at campus sing-fests long after the comedy itself closes. ‘Rhythm in Breeze’ “Rhythm in the Breeze,” written by Esther McKeown, is the first of the songs to go into rehearsal in i preparation for the musical ex-1 travaganza. It will be sung by a j soprano soloist, who has not yet’ been definitely chosen, and a mixed 1 double quartet, to include Jean Burt, Elizabeth Steed, Leota Reetz, I Trudy Harland, Lawrence Celsi,j Durwent Banta, Don Childers, and Gerald Childers. The dance chorus for the show is already in rehearsal, under the capable tutelage of Gene Edwards. Solo specialties and duets will also be a part of the musical, as well as numbers by a male chorus and an all-girl chorus. The most ambitious musical effect will in volve 30 singers on the stage at one time, Horace Robinson esti mated yesterday. Alice Rogers Named Junior Class Officer Alyce Rogers had a new title and the juniors had a new secre tary yesterday following a spe cial meeting of junior class of ficers. With Betty Cowan, class sec retary elected last spring, auto* matically out in the cold from an acute case of ineligibility itis, the remaining eligible offi cers of the class got together and chose the new secretary by the method specified in the class constitution. The new secretary takes of fice immediately, Junior Prexy Scott Corbett said last night. Other junior class officers are Rita Wright, vice-president, and Irvin Mann, treasurer. Dreams Come True; Coeds Get in Movies i Lights! Camera! Action! And today, at 1 o’clock, the girl's rifle team will break into the newsreel headlines. The occasion is the re-enactment of the girl’s match with the freshman boys’ team, which the girls won by eight points, before the grinding camera of Paris Emery, Uni versal News photographer. The match between the two teams was held during the first part of this term. A short time ago George Godfrey, head of the University news bureau, told Sergeant Harvey G. Blythe, coach of the teams, that Emery wanted to take pictures of the match if the teams would stage a re-enactment. Consequently, at 1 o’clock to day, the two teams will meet at the barracks with the photogra pher. The exact nature of the re enactment which Emery will want is unknown, Godfrey said. Bill of Rights Essay Will Win Free Trip Award Is Offered By Panhellenic; Students May Enter An expense-free trip to the New York World’s fair is the award offered by Panhellenic groups in New York City to the college stu dent who writes the best essay dealing with the first article of the Bill of Rights, according to infor mation received yesterday by Dean of Personnel Karl W. Onthank. The contest is open to any stu dent regularly enrolled in a college or university in the United States, and essays must be submitted be fore May 15, 1939. The first prize includes transportation to and from New York and a one week's all-expense stay at the Beekman Tower hotel. (Please turn to page two) Session Plans Made Known By Cuthbert City Planners to Have Authorities Discuss Problems Plans for the session on city planning to be held in connection With the League of Oregon Cities convention March 13 and 14 were announced yesterday by Fred A. Cuthbert, associate professor of landscape architecture, who is in charge. There has been much interest lately in matters pertaining to city parks, airports, highway improve ment, and other problems related to city planning and zoning. The session will be conducted inform ally and these matters will be dis cussed. Various authorities on different phases of city planning have been asked to be present to lead dis cussions and answer any questions. These include: Harry Freeman, city planning expert for the Port land city planning commission; C. P. Keyser, superintendent of parks, Portland; Chester Corry, land scape architect and superintendent of parks, Ashland; Pat Hetherton, research director of the Washing ton state planning council; J. H. Vogel, director of the King coun ty planning commission, who is an authority on platting, and Profes sor W. Dorre Legg, assistant pro fessor of landscape architecture at Oregon State college. Harlow Hud son, University instructor in archi tecture, will also help lead discus sion. Matters Listed Some of the matters which will probably be discussed are over development of streets, sewers, and utility services; acceptance of plats or sub-divisions as additions to city street systems; problems deal ing with zoning, and the handling of tax-reverted lands within cities. A special session on city air ports will be led by Paul Morris,' northwest representative of the! Civil Aeronautics authority, and Mr. Hetherton. Library Circulation Greatest in History The greatest number of books ever taken out of the circulation de partment in the University library's history were taken out last month, said Miss Bernice Rise, circulation librarian, yesterday. There were 19,020 books used by students from this department in comparison to 13,882 in 1938 and 12,820 in 1937. This is an increase of 5138 over last year’s total and 6200 more than in 1937 This number seems especially large, since the reserve books were formerly counted in with the cir culation ones. Since they have been taken out the number of circula tion books still increases, stated Miss Rise. The number of books checked out from the circulation desk to be used in the library v/as 4,495, or an increase of 875 over 1938’s total of 3620. The books taken home by students amounted to 15,525, in contrast to 10,262 in February of 1938. This is the second time in a week that circulation records have been broken. More books were taken out last Tuesday than on any da(y since 1925, Miss Rise stated. Oregon Basketeers On Wag This Morning For Seattle Series Caravan Will Leave College Side at 8:30; Band, Loudspeaker System, Victory Bell To Aid in Ceremony as Webfoots Depart It takes a championship series to start the Webfoot victory bell ringing. And it takes a championship team to get into such a series. Victory bell and championship basketballers will both be very much in evidence this morning at the station downtown when How ard Hobson’s hopefuls shove off for Seattle, and there will be a raucous crew of victory-minded Webfoots and fans around to give them the kind of sendotf that goes with such a leave-taking. It’s a rally, that's what, planned by Yell King Bob Elliott, the rally committee, and the Monday Morn ing quarterbacks. Leave at 8:30 Cars in a caravan, led by the band, wiill leave the College Side at 8:30 or soon after, Elliott said. To get the rally down to the sta tion in time for a short whoop-up before the train pulls out shortly after 9. There will be a loud speaker sys tem, something new in station ral lies. The University band will be there, blasting the morning air with send-off music. This will be the last time any Webfoot crowd will get to cheer a departing team which includes Laddie Gale, Slim Wintermute, Wally Johansen, Bobby Anet, and Bob Hardy, who finish their col legiate basketball travels this trip. Classes Not Excused No classes will be excused this morning for the rally, an official ruling having been handed down to the effect that there are so few classes at these hours on Thurs days anyway, the relative number of students released by such a move would be negligible. Band members will be excused from classes. The victory bell, in the custody of Hank Nilsen’s “0”-wearers, will clang about the campus and through downtown streets at the head of the parade. This is the first time this year the bell has been brought out for a basketball series. If the Seattle series nets the much-needed single win the Ducks must have to win the northwest championship, the bell will come out again, it was indicated, in which case it would also do its share toward promoting a coast championship. Safety Conference Program Revealed The program of the Oregon Safety council Tuesday, March 14, at the Commonwealth conference was announced yesterday by Dr. P. A. Parsons, head of the sociol ogy department, who is in charge of the conference. The general chairman of the council is Secretary of State Earl Snell. He is in charge of the pro gram. Speeches will include talks on traffic safety education by Hugh E. Rosson, director of traffic safe ty; -rumination of drivers by William H. Hammond, manager of the motor vehicle operator’s divi sion; traffic law enforcement by Captain Walter Lansing, Oregon state police; traffic engineering by John S. Beakey, traffic engineer. There will also be a panel dis cussion conducted by Secretary of State Snell and a panel to consist of Mr. Rosson, Mr. Hammond, Cap tain Lansing, and Mr. Beakey. This program will be the joint (Please turn to paye two) City Puts Sign Up Backwards; Now It's Right Even the city can make mis takes. When finally the city of Eugene got around to installing traffic signs on University and Kincaid streets at 13th, the maintenance department put the signs up stopping the traffic going the wrong way. However, the signs were changed yesterday and are now facing the right direction. Mo torists will be given a few days time in which to become accus tomed to the new signs. After that time arrests and fines will be in order. Maxine Glad Wins Junior Week Contest Spring Weekend Theme Chosen by Committee From Sixty-Odd Entries Maxine Glad, junior in journal ism, is richer by $10 today, winner of the Junior Weekend theme idea contest, i Her idea, judged by a commit tee of Junior Weekend heads and faculty representatives from the art and music schools, won out over a field of between 60 and 70 suggestions turned into the juniors and judged yesterday afternoon. Announcement of the award was made last night by Scott Corbett, president of the junior class. Cor bett said the details and theme would be announced in the near future. Winner Will Help As author of the winning idea, Miss Gla£ will work with the Weekend committee in elaborating on the theme and the continuity in detail. This year’s Junior Weekend hangs up one record at the start in the number of suggestions turned in. The sixty-off ideas the committee checked over in their search for the most acceptable Idea constitutes the largest re sponse in recent years. The committee said all sugges tions received were of an unusual quality, and expressed its appre ciation of the response from the campus. FOURTEEN IN INFIRMARY Someone felt sorry for the super stitious students at the infirmary. Yesterday 14 patients were listed on the registry at the campus hos pital. Students resting up before finals were Cecil Igoe, Margaret Betts, Doris King, Marie States, Frances Williams, Bettie Wilson, Willis Pack, Alan Sherrill, Ray Goates, William McCormack, William Brenner, David Crittenden, Harry Lowe, and Sam Hughes. Students Advised To See Advisers It is now time for students plan ning to change majors or to make any radical changes in courses to see their advisers, according to C. L. Constance, assistant registrar, for the great amount of confusion on registration day will not allow much individual attention. Registration for spring term classes will begin at 8 o’clock Mon day, March 20, for all undergrad uates, Constance said. The same plan of registering will be used that was in force winter term, with advisers present at McArthur court to aid freshmen and sopho mores to arrange classes. Advis ers for upperclassmen may be in terviewed in their campus offices if the student desires, but he will be required to register without fac ulty aid. Housing checks may be obtained now at the office of Mrs. Marcella B King, housing secretary, in Johnson hall, as a further guard against congestion at the begin ning of the new term, the assist ant registrar counseled. As before, no material will be granted before 8 o’clock the morn ing of March 20.