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LIBRARY CAMPUS r War Strike Plans Progressing—See Story, Page Three British Subject to Be Next Assembly Star, See Story, Page Three VOLUME XL UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1939 NUMBER 94 ( Possibly This, Possibly That, They Say Big Things Said Likely, Possibly for Junior Weekend, 'Big Three' Hope For the University and Eugene, last weekend was a holiday, what with the return to civilization of the championship basketball expe dition, but it was no holiday for Hal Jahn, Walt Miller, and Burton Barr, three of the hierarchy of Junior Weekend. Jahn, Miller, and Barr dedicated the holiday to a heavy business trip to Portland for some highly important arranging for Junior Weekend. Trip Fruitful When they returned Sunday t night they had lined up a hatfull of POSSIBILITIES for Junior Weekend, including the broadcast ing of two and possibly three events,' newsreel filming of out standing parts of the three days, decorations for the prom, a POS SIBLE sponsor, and a TENTA TIVE promise of attendance from Governor Charles A. Sprague. The governor had planned to be on the campus for ASUO induc tion of officers, now set for May 10, but with the POSSIBILITY strong that the induction will be moved up to campus luncheon as last year, it was HELD LIKELY that the governor would seek to alter his program accordingly, ACCORDING TO THE THREE. A Junior Weekend broadcast over two of the most powerful sta tions in the state was promised as a result of the trip. Present ar ^ rangements call for broadcasting of two millrace events, the tug-of war and the canoe fete, and POSSIBLY the airing of the junior prom from the Igloo. ONLY DIF FICULTY IN SIGHT is that there is no radio line to the Igloo, Assist ant Weekend Chairman Walt Mil ler said last night. (Continued from page three) Pre-Med Stude Lives on Only $10 a Month If one wants a college education bad enough, he will get it. Horace Carson set out to prove that state ment at the University of North Dakota. Son of a farmer, he refused NYA assistance when he came to col lege this fall, built himself an 8 by 8 feet tar paper house, and prepared his own meals. He esti mates his living expenses are less than $10 a month. Studying pre-med courses by the light of a kerosene lamp he main tained an A-minus average for the first semester. The one modern convenience in the prairies home is a second-hand crystal radio set which has one good earphone. —Indiana Daily Student. * * * Hit Parade of Future 1. ‘‘Take a Bomber from One to Ten.” 2. ‘‘The Daring Young Man on the Barb-Wire Fence.” 3. ‘‘It was in a Little Trench Wenchy.” 5. “Scar Dust.” 6. “Cannon Be the Spring." 7. “Bomber, Bist du Schoen.” -—Drexerd. * * * Gladly Pay Tuesday Capital university students stage an annual “Pay Your Debt Day” on which they settle their finan cial obligations. —Daily Northwestern. Too Good to Be True “Watch studyin’?" “Soc-ology.” “Hard.” ‘ N-very." “How many cuts y’allowed?” "Never call za roll.” “Outside readin' and writin'?” “Nope.” “Called on often?” “Once a week.” “Thought there was a catch to it.” —Silver and Gold. Erb Deserts Office Duties To Nurse Cold A week's vacation from the duties of University prexy be gan yesterday for Dr. Donald M. Erb, in order that he might com pletely recover from a slight cold that kept him from work part of last week. Although Dr. Erb is up and well again, he has been asked to remain off the campus this week so that no complications may be possible. AWS to Install New Officers At Assembly National Vice-Prexy To Be Honored at Luncheon Probably the busiest day of spring term for AWS officials will be next Thursday, April 13, when Oregon’s organization of women will entertain their national vice president, install new officers, and banquet, from noon till late that evening. The heavy schedule arranged for Miss Louise Pound, national AWS vice-president, who will be a cam pus visitor that day will begin with a luncheon in her honor. To Address AWS Group Later that afternoon she will ad dress a mass AWS assembly, and immediately following the address will witness the installation of Anne Frederickson, newly elected AWS prexy, and the other new of ficers, in their 1939 posts. At 6 o’clock, old and new offi cials will be feted at an installa tion banquet, according to Elisa beth Stetson, AWS prexy, who is in charge of the affair. Miss Pound is slated to conduct a forum, sponsored by the English department at 7:30. UO Students Will Study Cooperative Living at U. of Idaho The University of Idaho coop erative living system will be studied by four University coed cooperators, who with Miss Janet Smith, employment secretary and housemother for the Thirteenth avenue house, left for Moscow, Monday. Purpose of the visit is to study various types of systems as a basis for possible changes on the cam pus. Girls making the trip are Phyllis Munro, Frances McCarter, Joan Murphy, and Alice Mulloy. NEW ART EXHIBIT TO BE FEATURE TOMORROW Works of B. J. O. Nordfelt, well known American painter, will be placed on exhibition Wednesday in the gallery of the art school. The collection consists of 25 compositions, most ol which were painted in Mexico and the South west. INSTRUCTOR HARGIS FLU D. E. Hargis, speech instructor, was confined to his home Sunday with flu. His classes are being taken by other members of the speech staff. Social Life To Slow Up During Week Church Services, Vespers Slated; Dr. J. H. Ballard To Be on Campus By HELEN ANGELL j Church services and gay new bonnets will share honors in the minds of Webfoots this week, as i the campus turns from the usual > heavy spring term social life to Holy Week, during which only a few house dances and no campus dances have been planned. Highlight of Holy Week observ ance on the campus will be the all school vesper seivices, slated for ; tomorrow afternoon in the music building, when Dr. J. Hudson Bal lard of the First Presbyterian church of Portland, will be in charge. The service is set for 4:30. Arrives Today Dr. Ballard will arrive today, and will remain in Eugene all day Thursday, when he will speak at | various religious group meetings, 1 and will address classes in geology, | social sciences, and psychology. An announcement from the office of Dean of Personnel Karl W. On thank last night revealed that all dinner and luncheon engagements for Dr. Ballard have been filled. Friday Night Closed Good Friday will be closed to all social events, Dean of Women Ha zel P. Schwering said last week. Sunday morning Phi Gamma Del ta and Delta Upsilon will entertain at their annual Easter breakfasts. The student Christian council here has planned a sunrise service for Easter morning, and all Eugene churches have extended special in vitations to Oregon students for Easter services Sunday morning. Underwood to Lead Federal Symphony Rex Underwood, director of the University of Oregon symphony or chestra, will be guest conductor, and Dorothy Louise Johnson, in structor of violin in the music school, will be guest soloist when the next Federal symphony con cert is presented in Portland on April 10, it was announced Mon day. Mr. Underwood, who was invited to conduct by Frederick W. Good rich, state director of the federal music project, was graduated from the Chicago Musical college and later studied in Leipzig, Berlin, London, and Paris. He returned to the United States for a year of violin concerts, was a member of the University of Chicago faculty until 1920, when he came to the University here. Among Mr. Underwood’s distin guished students are Frances Brockman, Howard Halbert, and Miss Johnson, who will be soloist. Miss Johnson will play the first movement of Brahms’ Violin Con certo. She is a member of Phi Beta and Mu Phi Epsilon, honorary mu sic societies, and the 1939 winner of the National Federation of Mu sic Clubs’ state contest for young artists. Responsible for BA Conference Success (Courtesy of the Oregonian) These people . . . helped to make the BA eonferenee on the campus last week a success. They are, front row, left to right, O. B. Anderson, Ruth Chilcote, and Bean Victor 1’. Morris; hack row, C. L. Kelly, A. G. Dudley, Dr. N. II. Cornish, and Willard Myers. BA Meetings With Active Leaders Highly Successful, Says Dr. Morris “As an experiment it was very successful. Most of the groups kept a lively discussion under way and many individual students had private talks with the business men representing fields of their inter est,” so stated Dean Victor P. Morris of the scho ol of business, Monday in regard to the business conference held here on the campus last week. Concerning the profit gained by the experimen t, Dean Morris explained that the school of business, 4 Shows Featuring Famed Artists Slated Art School to Have Instructive Films At3, 7, 8 o'Clock Four motion pictures featuring nationally known painters will be shown today at the art school. An hour's instructive entertain ment will include the films: “Wil liam Gropper at Work,” “Lynd Ward at Work,” “Creative Paint ing of Landscapes,” and “Creative Design in Painting.” Illustrating painting techniques, these professignally made films will particularly benefit art stu dents. However, showings at 3 p.m., 7 p.m., and 8 p.m. have been arranged to accommodate everyone interested. The movie is being sponsored by the department of drawing and painting of the art school. Profes sor A. M. Vincent, head of the de partment, said that the pictures will be presented in either the lec ture room or the art gallery. To defray rental costs, an ad mission of ten cents will be charged. Professor Vincent stated that the department later hopes to book more films dealing with art tech niques and subject matter. 13 STUDENTS ABED Thirteen patients registered at the infirmary yesterday included: Stella Jean Ingles, Gordon Hogan, Margaret Pollard, George Good rich, Ruby Orrick, Harry Regnart, Robert Vosper, Adeline Hanson, Marceta Seavey, Irwin Buehwach, William Gentry, Eugene Didack, and Kathleen Grossman. Victory Tennis Court Hop Clicks; AWS Sets Another Friday’s victory tennis court j dance “clicked”—at least with the girls on the campus—for AWS an nounced last night their annual spring term girl-date affair would be another court dance April 12, to be preceded by preference desserts in all girls’ houses. Anne Waha, appointed by AWS proxy, Anne Frederiksen, as the chairman for the affair, has se cured Earl Scott’s orchestra for that evening. Girls' houses are be . Phi Mu Alpha Post Won by Louis Artau Professor Louis Artau of the school of music, was recently 'ap pointed Province Governor for the Northwest province of Phi Mu A\ pha, men’s music honorary society, a post held for many years by Dr. John J. Landsbury. Mr. Artau came to the Univer sity of Oregon campus in 1924 as an instructor of music. He has held his present position of assistant professor of music since 1931. In the years 1925-26 Mr. Artau was president of the society. SIGMA KAPPAS HONORED BY VISIT OF OFFICER The Sigma Kappas are honored this week by a visit from their re gional president and national of ficer, Mrs. William Gregg, from Los Angeles. Mrs. Gregg will be a guest tonight at a faculty dinner at the Sigma Kappa house. She will leave Friday after participating in the initiation Thursday. ing contacted this week in an at tempt to make early arrangements for the desserts, Miss Waha said. The dean of women has granted permission to hold the dance from 6:30 till 8:00 or 8:30, a departure from the usual 7:30 permission for freshmen on week nights. Admis sion will be 20 cents a couple. Con cessions will be constricted on the edge of the court to sell drinks and "carnival food.” leaders of Oregon.” "Work in the school of business administration should be made as vital as possible; it should be more than textbooks and a classroom. I believe we have made a start in a most fruitful direction,” said Dean Morris. sions of the potential value of such contacts with students.” Since the business men have, “promised their support in future years,” it is hoped, “that next year we shall have still more oppor tunities for such contacts with ac tive industrial and commercial .has learned a good deal on mat ters of procedure and will handle it much more effectively another year.” He also fosters a word of praise to those business men pres ent at the conference. He said, “Business men were glad to aid us, and were warm in their expres Professors Bothered Little by First-Bell Rush When the sound of the bell , between classes finds professors with still a few closing remarks to make, and students standing, or shuffling books and papers, ready to leave, a situation an noying to both instructors and students is created. Professors all over the cam pus who have been bothered by this last minute scramble have developed their own techniques in handling this difficulty, whenever necessary. Doesn’t Bother Dr. Jameson “It really doesn’t bother me,” said Dr. Samuel Jameson, of the sociology department, “be cause no one leaves my classes before I am through with my lec ture, even if the bell has sound ed. If an instructor has a mes sage to give that is interesting and forceful, oftentimes the stu dents fail to even notice the bell.” Kids Are Like Animals Dr. L. F. Beck, of the psychol ogy department says, “It does happen here, but I just over look it because it is very much like Pavlov's experiment with dogs. He trained dogs to re spond to the stimulus of food long before food was brought in. In the same way students get together in anticipation of be ing released, and many of their actions are more or less auto matic. If a professor goes along in the same way day after day the students develop this time reflex habit. Lively lectures keep them on the edge of their seats, and then they’re in no hurry to leave.” Tries to Be Finished Professor Waldo Schumacher, of the political science depart ment, feels that if the students were interested enough in the lecture they would remain in their seats until it was finished. “I always try to complete my lectures by the time the bell rings,” he said. Bells Are Too Soft “I insist that my class sits till I have finished,” said Pro fessor S. Stephenson Smith, of the English department. “I rec ognize the feelings of the stu dents that professors should end on time, and might help if some of the bells were more audible in certain lecture rooms.” ’ Students Often Remain Professor Moll of the English department, finds that his class es are quite willing to remain until even after the' bell has rung,if necessary. “Some in structors are slow pokes about finishing at the end of the hours. They drift along and when the bell rings they find they have to wind up some thing they have just started to discuss. On the whole I think classroom behavior on this campus is remarkably good.” Psychology Filins To Go to England A motion picture on hypnosis, anil one on measurement of visual apprehension, both made in the psychology department here, have been requested for showing by th^ Manchester university, in England. Dr. L. F. Beck, of the psychol ogy department, who produced the films with a motion picture cam era, said that although thirty prints had been distributed in the United States and Canada, this was the first request received from abroad. The film on hypnosis, which is proving the more popular of the two, shows how a young woman in a hypnotic trance reacts to various stimuli. STEHN TO KEEP BUSY John Stehn, assistant professor of music, will judge two band and orchestra contests during this and the coming week. The first contest will be held April 7 in Salem. The next is to be held in La Grande April 13 and 14. Negligent Seniors Warned to Order Announcements Seniors backward at ordering their commonwealth announce ments were last night given the well-known "hot-foot" by Senior Class Prexy Bob Bailey, who announced that orders must be placed at the Co-op store be fore April 14. With baccalaureate and com mencement set for the same day, June 4, it is necessary that the orders be in by the dead line set, in order that the cards may be sent to the press and gotten back by early in May, Bailey said. Light Seen Through Student Union Clouds As ASUO Boards Meet Activity Groups Plan Further Action; Financial Setup Reviewed, Shows Funds Available, But in 'Safe-Keeping' By PAUL DEUTSCHMANN A solid step toward the construction of a student union building on the University of Oregon campus was taken last night at a joint meeting of the educational activities and ath letic boards of the ASUO in Friendly hall. Called together to review a report of a committee appointed by President Donald M. Erb late last term, the two boards approved in effect the recommendation “that because of the urgent need, and because of the students’ attitude, that some action be taken at once.” A motion putting the student union McKinney Assumes YMCA Gavel Tonight Seabeck, Training Conference Up for Discussion Frank McKinney, newly elected YMCA president, will preside over his first cabinet meeting this eve ning at 9:45 o'clock when old and new cabinet members meet to plan the year’s program. Two major considerations will be the cabinet training conference to be held April 13-15 at Willam ette university and Seabeck con ference June 10-17. Purpose of the cabinet training conference is to bring together old and new YWCA and YMCA cabi net members of organizations throughout the state to discuss the past year’s program and plan the program for the coming year. Seabeck is the northwest student conference held every summer with outstanding leaders as fac ulty members. Professor John L. Casteel, head of the division of speech will again be on the faculty. Kev. Williston Wirt,' minister of the Congregational church, and Mrs. Wirt have also been invited as faculty members. Other cabinet members elected last Thursday are: Wayne Kelty, vice-president; David Knox, secre tary; and Dave Zilka, treasurer. YM, YW GROUPS TO MEET; PLAN SUMMER CONFERENCE To formulate plans for this sum mer’s YW and YMCA conference at Seabeck, Washington, a com mittee will meet April 12, John L. Casteel, head of the group, yester day stated. Those to meet are; Howard Wil litts, Portland secretary of the northwest region; Ruth Anderson, Oregon State college, and Ralph Severson, Oregon, student chair men; and Mr. Casteel. building first on the list of con structions needed was passed un animously. New Committee Appointed Only other concrete sign of ac tion after the two-hour discussion was the appointment of a new committee, consisting of J. Orville Lindstrom, University business manager, Orlando J. Hollis, profes sor of law, and Zane Kemler, first vice-president of the ASUO. This committee will work up a concrete plan of financing helping to financing the building to be pre sented to the two boards. No defi nite date for the next joint meet ing was set, but the members of the board indicated that they would discuss the matter as soon as the sub-committee turned in a plan for financing. Conflicts Bring Investigation The president’s committee, con sisting of Dean Virgil D. Earl, chairman, Anson B. Cornell, J. O. Lindstrom, and Ralph W. Leigh ton, was appointed as a result of several conflicts between students and the administration in regard to the use of University buildings for social events. This committee, after studying the problem thoroughly, submitted a 22-page report to President Erb. He turned it over to the two ASUO (Please turn to page three) Polyphonic Choir Schedules Concert For May 4 The University polyphonic choir will present a program May 4, in cluding a variety of selections from the classical numbers of Pales trina to the modern composition of Deems Taylor, Director John Stark Evans announced yesterday. Featured on the program will be “The Highwayman” by Deems Taylor. The composition, based on a poem by that name, is rather difficult, but the music is beautiful and the story running through it is interesting. There are two or three solos in the song which will be announced later. Can’t Hear the Speakers? It Must Be the Audience AUSTIN, Texas—(ACP)—If your convocation speakers are be coming more difficult to hear, you’ll be interested in the scientific proof of the fact that all audiences are getting noisier and noisier each year. Such is the conclusion reached by Dr. C. P. Boner, University of Texas physics professor and sound expert, after a seven-year series of sound-meter experiments made in churches, gymnasiums, dance halls, and restaurants. The university’s sound expert uses public address systems and sound meters as his measuring rods. The noise from the audience, he measures in “deci bels,” recorded on his sound meter. He cites the university's huge Gregory gymnasium as the near est example. Its 25-watt public address system, adequate in 1930, has been “stepped up” to 125 watts since to overcome an audience noise mounting to 80 decibels. Or dinary conversation registers about 74 decibels, according to Dr. Boner, while 130 decibels is "the thres hold of pain" for the human ear. The mounting noise level, which means the noisier audience, is just as evident in church pews, dance hall and restaurants. Dr. Boner’s experiments contend. One church was forced to raise the console of its organ from the floor level to the choir loft for the organist to hear his instrument, he said. Reason? Dr. Boner is not sure yet. It might be the radio, he rea sons, for its widespred use at “un natural volumes” may have ac customed the average person to louder sounds. It might be post depression nervousness, but the sound meter is only seven years old and he has no gauge of pre depression audience noise. One thing is certain, he maintains. The artificial "stepping up” of voice and orchestra distorts the tonal qualities of both speech and music. Increased streets noises are cer tainly to be considered. Dr. Boner said.