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
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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
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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
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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.