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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1939)
ROTC Rifle Squad Wins National Championship VOLUME XL UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1939 number 97 These Gunmen Bring Another National Championship to Eugene TT i m Potential 'Alice in Wonderland' Rulers One of these five girls . . . will l»e Junior Weekend queen, and the other four will automatieally be come princesses, after the campus votes Monday. The five who will rule over the “Alice in Wonderland” weekend are, from left to right, Patsy Taylor, Maxine Glad, Alyce Rogers, Helen Gillam, and Margaret Williams. Famed Woman Diplomat Coming Here Next Week Ruth Bryan Owen Will Speak Before Campus Assembly Word was received this week that all arrangements have been made for the arrival next Friday morning of Ruth Bryan Owen, for mer American minister to Den mark, and that she is anxious to get her first view in a decade of springtime in Oregon. Mrs. Owen—who is now Mrs. Borge Rohde to the Finnish coun trymen of her husband—has coun aucted, since her resignation from the position of first American wo man diplomat, an extended lecture tour to discuss United States for eign relations. To Speak Friday She is scheduled to speak to her Webfoot assembly audience at 11 o’clock Friday on some of her ex periences in the foreign service. She will draw from a store of back ground accumulated in years spent in the West Indies, in India, in Egypt, as war nurse in the Allen by campaign that wrested the Holy Land from the Turks and in wartime London, where she fi nanced and operated a war hospi iai. Represented “The South” Mrs. Owen served as the first woman to ever represent the old South in congress, and soon alter . entering national politics, left for the Danish nation to guide United j States desinies with that country.! Although Mrs. Owen’s assembly is an all-University affair, she will be the special guest of AWS. Anne Fredericksen, AWS prexy, will j greet her at the station. OFFICERS CHOSEN Gamma Alpha Chi, women’s na tional advertising honorary, elect ed officers for the coming year at a meeting held Thursday evening in the College Side. Elected were Catherine Murdock, president; Jean Farrens, vice-pres ident; Majeanne Glover, secretary treasurer. Faculty’s Triple Threater, Dr. Horn, Has New Part By BUCK BUCKWACH University of Oregon's author actor-professor, Dr. Robert Horn, once again has turned his talent to the stage. The “triple-threater” of the faculty is taking the part of Grandpa Vanderhof in the Eu gene Very Little Theater’s produc tion of the Pulitzer prize-winning drama, “You Can’t Take It With You.” “I like the part very much," said Dr. Horn when asked, “as it gives me a chance to throw darts, which I have always wanted to do. I also enjoy sitting in the rock ing chair with my slippers during most of the play.” In a more serious vein, Dr. Horn stated that the part’s message particularly appealed to him. It concerns the antics of Grandpa Vanderhof after he realizes that ‘‘life is pretty, simple, and kind of beautiful if you let it come to you.” He lets it come to him by relax ing, and has been doing this for 35 years previous to the play's setting. The message of the play is that people have forgotten the primary basis of existence, having fun. What they are missing is shown by Grandpa and his bunch of odd people. Getting back to Dr. Horn, who has belonged to the Very Little Theater for 10 years, and who last (Please turn to page jour) Queen Candidates Narrowed to Five Maxine Glad, Alyce Rogers, Patsy Taylor, Margaret Williams, Helen Gillam Selected For Junior Weekend Royal Court The odds narrowed down yesterday to five-to-one on the queen of Junior Weekend. The next ruler of the weekend court will be either Maxine Glad, Alyce Rogers, Patsy Taylor, Margaret Williams, or Helen Gillam. These five were chosen yesterday as best all-around potentional queens of the field of 18 candidates, each the pick of the juniors in her own house. So it’s a five-to-one shot now. The five, four of which will auto matically be Junior Weekend princesses, now have nothing to do but wait until Monday, when ASUO and class card holders will say it with ballots. One by One Today’s elimination saw the choice 18 go one by one up a few stairs into Gerlinger lounge, where a special committee headed by Bob Hochuli reviewed them. They walked, talked, and gave way to the next. Selection was on a per centage basis, with the girls being graded according to the judgment of each reviewer on poise, appear ance, personality, general bearing, and other points. Immediately upon the announce ment of the favored quintet, Hal Jahn, general chairman of Junior Weekend, was ready with his plans for Monday’s election. ASUO card holders get one vote, as do class card holders. While owners of both types of card get two votes, Jahn said. This is the plan in use last year and in other years. Polls at Side The balloting will take place in front of the College Side. Polls will open at 9 in the morning and continue until 5. One suggestion for the benefit of eligible voters was offered by the Weekend committee last night. They urge that due consideration be given to the queen’s compati bility with the “Alice in Wonder land’’ theme which will dominate the three days from May 12 to 14. The winner should not only be the “ideal Miss Oregon’’ but should also be capable of being an Alice in the weekend “wonderland,’’ it was pointed out. Retail Conference Scheduled Here BA School Invites Merchants of State To Annual Meeting The third annual conference of the Oregon Retail Distributors’ in stitute is to be held on the Univer sity of Oregon campus Monday and Tuesday, April 17 and 18. Approximately 1400 programs are being sent out by the BA school to merchants throughout the state of Oregon. In each pro gram is included an invitation by Dr. D. M. Erb to attend. Speakers on the program are from Portland, Klamath Falls, Eu gene, Albany, and Salem. A lunch eon and banquet in conjunction with the secretaries and presidents of the chambers of commerce of Oregon is slated to take place in John Straub Memorial hall on Monday. Cornish to Speak Among the verious topics dis cussed will be “How to Build a Stock Model Control Plan,” “How to Strengthen a Weak Depart ment,” “Recent Legislation in Re tailing,” and “How to Increase Profits Through Telephone Sell ing.” Dr. N. H. Cornish, professor of business administration and sec retary of the institute, will speak on “How to Increase Profits Through Compensation Plans.” The session will begin with reg istration at Friendly hall at 8 a.m. Monday and adjourn there at 11:40 a.m. Tuesday. Many Visit Display Of Disney Drawings In Eugene Store Around 500 persons have visited the display of 111 of Walt Disney’s loriginal drawings in the third floor auditorium of Washburne’s store, according to Dale Cooley, head of the display department. The drawings, which represent the choicest from the thousands of little watercolors made on cel luloid and photographed to pro duce Disney feature films, are mounted on mats and backgrounds that make them suitable for wall hangings. The exhibit, which was made ! possible through arrangements with the Courvoiser galleries of San Francisco, is under the direc- i tion of Lance W. Hart, assistant j professor of drawing and painting at the University. UO Students Hear Talk on Halting War Figgures Stresses Defense, Discusses British at Assembly The way to prevent war is to organize the resistance to aggres sion before war breaks out, F. F. Figgures, representative of the Carnegie foundation told assem bled University students and fac ulty Thursday morning in his dis cussion of Britain’s policy and the present situation in Kurope. “The revolution of this week opens up the field to an entirely different Europe,” Mr. Figgures stated. He believes that if Great Britain upholds its present stand, war in Europe can be averted. Mr. Figgures, an Englishman himself, has been in close contact with the European situation and with the British government heads. Founded on Hopes In discussing Great Britain’s pol icy, Mr. Figgures said that for the past two years it has been found ed mainly on hope. “It’s easier to hope than to do anything definite," he stated. He believes Great Bri tain has been waiting for some thing to stop Germany. The common consideration of Great Britain’s policy during sev eral preceding years has been “un willingness to make commitments in eastern Europe,” according to Mr. Figgures. There are hundreds of reasons for the failure of Great Britain to have a policy in the last five years in regard to Germany,” declared1 Mr. Figgures. He named several. History Not Taught Because modern history is not taught much in England, people don’t know much about history since 1870. Many of them still think of Frenchmen as enemies and are pro-German. Mr. Figgures said that some young children were taught to call the devil "Bony.” Mr. Figgures also pointed out that people have a tendency at the end of a war to like the enemy better than an ally because an “enemy can only kill them but an ally can gyp them.” Many Eng lishmen felt this way after the World war, he said. "The moral inhibitions of the Anglo-Saxon people cause them to have an immense capacity for see ing the other person’s side,” stat ed Mr. Figgures. So many English people say that Germany’s cause is just.” Mr. Figgures discussed the prob lem of security, which he feels is a greater one than the problem of peace. “This problem will last as long as national sovereign states last,” he said. He feels it arises quite simply from inequality of power. Wallace Kaapcke Wins $IOOO Sterling Fellowship For Graduate Study atYale ELEANOR TEETERS Wallace L. Kaapcke, a senior honor student in the University law' school, has just been awarded a $1,000 Sterling fellowship by Yale university law school for graduate study at Yale during the academic 1 year 1939-40, Dean Wayne L. Morse of the law school announced' yesterday. This is the second time in recent years that the University law1 scnooi has been so honored by Yale. In 1937 Thomas Tongue of Hillsboro, now legal counsel with the bureau of municipal research, was awarded a Yale Sterling Fel lowship. Six Awarded Annually Approximately six of these fel lowships are awarded each year by Yale. They are given to exception ally able honor students selected from outstanding law schools. In commenting upon the selec tion of Kaapcke, Dean Morse stat ed: “All of us on the law school faculty are highly pleased with, the selection of Mr. Kaapcke for a Yale Sterling fellowship and ex tend to him our sincere congratu lations. ‘He’ll Make Good’ “His very fine record in the University of Oregon school of law makes us confident that he will live up to the obligations and high standards which the award places upon his shoulders. I believe that the scholarly nature of the articles which he has published in the Ore gon Law Review constitute the most important factor in his selec tion for the award. “We are also pleased over the distinction and honor which Mr. Kaapcke has brought to the law school, because it is additional evi dence that the instruction of the school rates very high in the east. During the past seven years the Oregon law school has been hon ored with a comparatively large number of graduate fellowships to its honor students by Yale, Colum bia, Northwestern, and Michigan. This no ic squad . . . won national honors and the Hearst trophy. They are, front row, left to right, Don Boyd, Stan Warren, and Wyhurd Furrell; hack row, left to right, Gilbert Wing, I.arry T,ew, and Sergeant Harvey Blythe, coach of the team. War Declared! —22 Years Ago Students Held Different View On Fighting Then Oregon Was Scene Of Enthusiastic Call to Colors By JIM LEONARD To the casual observer the Uni versity of Oregon might well have been a girls’ school 22 years ago. For it was just 22 years ago yes terday that students realized that war had been declared the day be fore—April 6, 1917. The student body had a woman president — Jennie Huggins — for the first time in history, because both President Jaure Guy and the vcie-president had answered the call to arms. The students pos sessed an entirely different atti tude towards war then than they do now. The men were hastening to enlist. A patriotic assembly was held in Villard hall April 8, where the student body president and (Please turn to page three) Dr. Beall to Teach At Johns Hopkins For the tenth consecutive year, Dr. Chandler B. Beall, professor of romance languages, will teach French and Italian at John Hop kins university’s summer school, session. After the end of the six-weeks session, Professor Beall plans to visit the New York world's fair. Stater Downs 139 Worms; 18 Fish Missing Joining- the current collegiate craze of eating goldfish, swing records, and such, an Oregon State sophomore, Marion Salis bury, downed 139 angleworms Wednesday to win a $5 bet. Salisbury immediately took the lead in the unofficial tabu lation for the greatest amount of objects eaten since the gold fish-eating contests started in the East. : Unofficial sources at Oregon I State also reported the theft of | 18 goldfish from the college pond. It is rumored that all stu dents would be x-rayed, but au thorities could not be reached for authentication. AWS Tennis Court Dance Plans Made Wednesday's Hop Will Be Girl-Date, Evening Affair With the apparently friendly re ception given both tennis court dances held thus far spring term as an incentive, AWS chairmen last night made final arrange ments to deviate from the plan of the two former affairs and hold their girl-date dance next Wednes day evening rather than in the af ternoon. Anne Waha, in charge of ar rangements, will stress the idea that girls are to ask boys to the dance, which will be preceded in all girls’ living organizations by a prefence dessert. Dean of Women Hazel P. Schwer ing has granted AWS permission to hold the affair from 6:30 to 8:30, Miss Waha informed living organizations yesterday. Library Staff Sees English Travelogue Colored moving pictures of the English countryside illustrated the travelogue given by Mrs. Russell Evans at the library staff meeting yesterday morning, according to M. H. Douglass, University librar ian. The pictures were shown by Mr. Evans at the monthly staff meet ing. Mr. Evans, who spent last summer in England with his wife is the owner of the Valley Printir/f company. ' Corps Area Head To Inspect ROTC Unit Colonel Ralph Talbot, command er of ROTC units of the ninth corps area, will be on the campus April 20 to visit and inspect the Univer sity ROTC, according to a recent announcement of Colonel Robert M. Lyon, commandant of the Uni versity ROTC. Present plans are that Colonel Talbot will address the advanced military students as well as in spect the whole ROTC. Jitter Champs To Be Named At AWS Carnival Experts Will Pick Best UO Jitterbugs Next Saturday There have been championship basketball teams, championship en rollments, and champion rifle squads to make Oregon history already this term, and the AWS will take it upon their shoulders at their AWS carnival next Satur day night to name Oregon’s cham pion jitterbugs. Judges obtainedt yesterday to view prize Oregon shaggers at the annual spring carnival are Smokey Whitfield, dramatic star; Miss Pirrko Paasikivi, PE instructor in dancing; and Gene Edwards, pro fessional dancer. The trio of judges will sit in state in McArthur court next Sat urday night, while the boy chosen by each men’s living organization to be their champion shagger “takes unto himself a partner’’ in an attempt to prove that he is Eu gene’s best in the jitterbug field. Entries will be requested from all fraternities, dorms, and coop eratives early next week, according to Sue Peil, chairman of the con test. Girls’ houses will not select entries; the boys will be permitted to choose their own partners. Booths are being designed this week by men’s and women’s groups coupled to construct concessions for the affair. Each booth will rep resent a different country of the world in keeping with the “World’s Fair” theme of this year’s carni val. Vassar college is expanding its instruction in the field of primitive cultures. nearst iropny Brought Home To Eugene Again Gunmen Score 971 of Possible 1000; Stan Warren Wins Individual Honors By HAL OLNEY Bringing the second national championship of the year to the University of Oregon, the University rifle team, with a total score of 971 points out of a possible 1000, edged out their closest competitor, the Univer sity of Minnesota, by a margin of four points in the W. R. Hearst National Championship rifle match. The boys, who fired an average score of 194 out of a possible 200, are the third Oregon team to bring the Hearst trophy to its showcase in the barracks. Stan Warren Shines Stan Warren, high scoring marksman of the championship squad, garnered in a third national championship by winning the na tional individual championship with a perfect score of 200. The award, which he will receive for this feat, is a 21-jewel Hamilton wrist watch. Other Trophies Due In additional to the beautiful silver Hearst trophy, each mem ber of the squad will receive a gold medal. Several interesting facts present themselves in connection with the Oregon victory. First, the Univer sity of Oregon has won the Hearst trophy every other year since 1935. In other words they won in ’35 and ’37. It was pointed out by Ser geant Harvey G. Blythe, coach of the rifle team, that it looked as if Oregonians could only shoot ! straight in odd numbered years. Blythe Confident The second sidelight on the vic tory is the confidence of Sergeant Blythe in his team. So confident was he that his team would win again this year that as long ago as last summer, he had a large showcase placed in the barrack3 hall with the following sign inside: ‘‘Home of the National Hearst Trophy—Won by Oregon in 1935 and 1937. This space Reserved for 1939.” Winners Repeat Oregon is the only school in the nation which has won the trophy more than twice, Sergeant Blythe said. Until this victory, Oregon was tied with the University of Washington for top honors, each school having won the trophy twice. having won the trophy twice. The five boys who fired in the match are: Stan Warren, Gilbert Wing, Don Boyd, Lawrence Lew, and Wyburd Furrell. LIBRARIAN SPEAKS Miss Ethyl R. Sawyer, browsing room librarian, was the speaker at a meeting of the Eugene Fort nightly club yesterday afternoon. Enrollment in the weather study course at Hunter college has in creased 40 per cent over last year. It’s All Study Next Year, No Golf for Charlie Hulten By MAIIY K. KIOKDAX Although his golf game may get “worse than ever,” and his garden is becoming overrun, Charles M. Hulten is going to devote every moment to studying political sci ence at Stanford next year. Hulten, who has been assistant professor of journalism at the University since 1935, will leave for Stanford in August and stay the academic year when he will return to Oregon. His position there will be acting assistant pro fessor under Chilton R. Bush, a former teacher of his. “When I went to college I just naturally started to take journal ism, probably because I wrote school news for the down town paper in high school. Sometimes T made enough money for a Friday night date.” From then on Hulten’s career really began for he worked oq newspapers steadily. In 1931, while he was a publicity man at the Uni versity of Wisconsin, he earned his master’s degree. For the next three years I was everything imaginable on the Wis consin Register-Democrat. It is certainly one of learning the busi ness,” he said. Because of a desire to teach and see the West, Hulten accepted a position at the University of Ore gon in 1934 when Dean Eric Allen was looking for a new man. "Correcting papers takes most of my time, but I cover some sports just to keep my hand in. I haven’t written or even tried to write any stories, and strangely enough, I have no ambition to write a great American novel,” he said, summing up his present work. In addition he is adviser to the local chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, national journalism honorary, which this year won a trophy aa best chapter in the nation.