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VOLUME XL
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1939
NUMBER 107
Freshmen Nominate
For Coming Year
Calkins, Lansing to Vie for Presidency;
Prexy Says Voters Must Have Cards
To Vote at YMCA Thursday
Once more setting adrift the gravy boat on the troubled politica
seas, the freshman class last night nominated officers for the coming
year. Presided over by President Jack Daniels, the frosh meeting was
conducted in Villard hall.
The freshmen nominated Bob Calkins, independent, and Jack Lans
ing, Kappa Sig, for president; Maxine Hanson, Delta Gamma, and
Frosh Prexy
fjctc k uameis . . . Announced the I
nominations for sophomore offices.j
Emerald
Posts to Be
Filled Today
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Student Executive
^ Group to Appoint f
Editor, Manager
Appointment of the Emerald’s:
new editor and business manager
will be the chief order of business
in today’s ASUO executive com
mittee meeting scheduled for 1
o’clock in Dean Earl’s office.
The committee interviewed four
applicants for the business mana- i
ger’s position and seven editorial 1
aspirants in a lengthy session
starting yesterday afternoon and
continuing last night.
The committee's recommenda- ■
tions were turned over to Prexy
Harry Weston after last night’s
meeting, and will be made official
with today’s announcement.
The committee will also take up
Y the possibility of sending Oregon’s
recently won basketball champion
ship trophies to San Francisco’s
Treasure Island for exhibition at
the fair.
Recommendations of coaches for
award of boxing and wrestling let
ters will be considered before ad
journment of the meeting. I
Be Inspired by
Mule, 'Lawyer
Tells Students
By MIRIAM HALE
“Hitch your wagon to a mule,"
was the advice given University
of Wisconsin students by George
y Haight, Chicago attorney, and for
mer Wisconsin Alumni association
president in a lecture on significant
living.
Stressing the value of the simple
things in life, Mr. Haight told the
students, “The great adventure of
living is made up of the common
place and the usual. It is because
of this that the mule can be used
to demonstrate successful and sig
nificant living.''
Every life is socially significant,
he said, but persons can be of serv
ice to others only if they can help
themselves.
In other words, advice to college
students would be, “Come down to
earth and be willing to plod a lit
tle.”
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Gossip
The more we think about it the!
more certain we are that the way;
^ Franchot Tone treated Joan Craw-;
ford is positively un-American.
—Daily Kansan.
tsarDara williams, cm O for vice
president; Margaret Young, Theta,
and Betty Workman, ADPi, for
secretary; Cullen Murphy, Chi Psi,
and Bob Cherney, Pi Kapp, for
treasurer.
Daniels announced that the polls
will be located in the YMCA and
voting will be Thursday. He re
minded the assembly that voters
must have class cards.
Walker Treece and Bill Loud
gave a report on the Frosh Glee.
They urged the members of the
class to support the frosh affair
Saturday night.
Last night’s meeting was a fol
low-up of the assembly Wednes
day night in which the constitution
was changed. The constitutional
change made way for a quick nom
ination and election of sophomore
class officers.
Introduction
Period Begins
University to Play
Host to Hundreds
Of Prep Students
Beginning today it’s official get
acquainted - with - your- University
week-end at Oregon, with hundreds
of high school seniors from all over
the state descending upon the cam
pus for a first glimpse of college
life.
Nearly all men’s and women’s
houses have arranged special danc
es for their hign school guests to
night, and they will be special
guests at the Frosh Glee tomor
row night, according to Aurelie
Wolcott, Pan-Hellenic president.
Although this week is not a des
ignated “pre-rushing week-end for
next year’s freshmen, it is to show
them what Oregon is like, and
bow much they may get out of four
years of college here, Miss Wol
cott said.
Sing Contest
Rules Given
All men’s living organizations
will be invited to enter this year’s
annual Interfraternity Song con
test, sponsored by Phi Mu Alpha,
music honorary, Harold Shearer,
chairman of the contest, an
nounced yesterday.
Rules of the contest state that
at least two-thirds and not more
than three-fourths of the members
of a living organization may par
ticipate. Three songs in four-part
harmony are to be selected as fol
lows: the Oregon pledge song, one
fraternity or organization song,
and an optional number.
Preliminary tryouts will begin
in about two weeks, when profes
sors from the school of music will
judge aTi contestants. The several
best groups will vie in the finals
for a circulating trophy in the
early part of May. Last year the
cup was awarded to Delta Tau
Delta fraternity.
Don Rees has been appointed
Phi Mu Alpha committee chair
man, while Shearer is head of the
interfraternity council and other
men’s living organizations.
'Potluck of Nations'
Held by YW Groups
With each of the six courses of
the dinner a dish from a different
country, 30 members of the YW
foreign foods group and the Cos
mopolitan club Tuesday attended
the “potluck of the nations’’ at the
YW bungalow. The menu included
Swedish meat balls, German salad,
Irish potatoes (an American dish),
English rusks, and Mexican pud
ding.
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Musical Held
Over; Sellout
Is Predicted
An almost complete sellout of
seats for “With Fear and Trem
bling-,” campus musical produc
tion, for tonight and Saturday
nights has caused University of
ficials to bow to popular de
mand and hold the show over
for next week. Three perform
ances are scheduled for next
week. They will he on Wednes
day, Thursday, and Friday
nights.
All reservations for the three
performances should be made
early, as orders from outside
are rapidly coming in, George
Root, educational activities di
rector, said las^ night.
Tarnished
T rophies
Found
Records of Many
U of O Conquests
Now Reposing in
PE Building
Twenty-seven trophies, stained,
scratched, in some cases broken,
lie in what has been for the last
few years the University of Ore
gon trophy room.
Spread out on four desks, in
room 115 of the men’s gymnasium,
covered with dust, the trophies are
the records of numerous contests,
waged and won by Oregon ath
letes.
22 Cups
Altogether there are 27 trophies,
22 of these are cups, 4 plaques, and
1 bronze statue. Classifying them
in another fashion, there are 16
cups, and the statue, which were
won in track events; 5 interclass
cups; 1 northwest division baseball
championship cup, and 1 women’s
golf championship cup. Of the four
large plaques, two were physical
ability pentathlon trophies, one an
intramural trophy and one a Paci
fic northwest track championship
trophy.
Of the four plaques, there is not
one which has not been scratched,
split, or marred in some way. The
intramural trophy has a large split
in the wood. There are two metal
shields on the plaque, on which
it was originally intended the
names of the intramural winners
should be engraved. Kappa Sigma
won it in 1921 and Sigma Chi won
it in 1922. After that no entries
were made.
Plaque Scratched
The Pacific northwest division
track championship plaque which
was won by Oregon in 1915, has
been scratched on the metal plate
as though with a nail.
All the cups, without exception,
are tarnished and stained. One, a
beautiful silver cup with deerhorn
handles, was won by an Oregon
track team in the first triangular
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'Kindly Pay Yo Fo-Bits Fust, Please'
I Vic Nudelman, “Marrying Sam,” practices up for his ceremony at the Frosh Glee Saturday night
by marrying Elliot Wilson, Li’l Abner, and Mary St crkerson. Miss Storlterson is one of the twenty can
didates running for "Daisy Mae.”
Disciplinary
Action Dealt
By Group
Penalties Meted
To Offenders of
University Rules
Penalties imposed yesterday by
I the student discipline committee,
made up of representative of fac
ulty and student body, were an
nounced by Karl W. Onthank, dean
of personnel.
The penalties were as follows:
On a student for copying- work
from a neighbor in a quiz, failure
in the course;
Boisterous Conduct
On a student for boisterous con
duct at a student function while
under the influence of liquor, in
cluding damage to University
property and particularly, failure
to comply with instructions of of
ficers to leave, indefinite suspen
sion from the University.
Liquor Warning Issued
The committee repeats its pre
vious announcements that, al
though it has no power to prevent
students using liquor, they will be
held responsible for any unbecom
ing conduct while under the influ
ence of liquor or in a situation in
which liquor is a factor.
In addition, the committee barred
the readmission of two former stu
dents who had previously been in
volved in the same trouble.
HEADS VISIT OSC
Miss Mabel Wood, head of the
home economics department, and
Mrs. Hazel Schwering, dean of wo
men, went to Corvallis Wednesday
to visit the nursery school and the
home management houses on the
Oregon State campus. Both of
these are part of the school of
home economics.
Spread of Skill Is Business
Of PE, Boushey Declares
“In a university, the people are
primarily going to be professional,”
said Earl E. Boushey, assistant
professor of physical education,
, Thursday, “but they must have a
spread of skill—they should be able
to play tennis, croquet or any oth
er sport, when the occasion arises.”
And the school of physical educa
tion attempts to give this spread
of skill.
Expressing his belief that physi
cal education is more and more
becoming a vital part of university
life, Mr. Boushey also fostered the
idea that ethical conducts and so
cial training are acquired around
physical education activities such
as tennis, fencing, archery and
similar sports.
When Mr. Boushey was asked
of what special value to the stu
dent is the school of physical edu
[ cation, his reply was, “physical vai
ues, social values, and health val
ues. Another thing is that students
learn to know people more inti
mately in social games such as
physical education offers.”
If one really wants to know a
person, according to Mr. Boushey,
the PE school is a good place to
go. “In physical education you
arouse emotions that cause a per
son to be himself,” he says.
Generally speaking, Mr. Boushey
believes that, “boys and girls re
ceive too little exercise in our type
of civilization.”
The school of physical education
has much to offer in the eyes of
James E. Rodgers, chairman of
field service of the American Rec
reation Association. Mr. Rodgers
passed through Eugene last week
and visited the PE school. Accord
ing to him, we have the best
equipped offerings that he has ever
seen.
Freshman Parade
Today at 3 Will
Publicize Dance
A special parade publicizing
tomorrow night’s annual Frosh
Glee will be held today at three
o’clock, when freshmen from all
over the campus parade through
the streets. They have been
asked to meet in front of the
College Side for the parade.
The assembled freshmen will
parade through downtown
streets and back to the campus
again in “any vehicle obtain
able’’ according to Jack Saltz
man, parade chairman.
Junior-Senior
Breakfast Set
May 7 Selected as
Date; Osburn Hotel
Is New Location
Spring term and Junior weekend
bring the Junior-Senior breakfast,
an event which just as traditional
and as old as the weekend. May 7
has been set as the date for this
annual affair to which junior girls
invite and take senior women as a
last gesture of good-will and re
spect before the latter’s gradua
tion.
Gerlinger hall will no longer ac
commodate the breakfast crowds,
so this year it has been necessary
for the committee to move their
affair from its accustomed location
to the Osburn hotel.
The committee handling the
breakfast includes: Lavelle Wal
strom, chairman; Elizabeth Steed,
music; Peggy Robbins, speakers;
Jean Burt, prograni; Ann Bossing
er, tickets; Majeanne Glover, table
decorations; Barbara Stallcup, pub
licity; and Bonnie Miller, secre
tary.
Modeling Positions
Available for Coeds
—In New York
A career as a model is the secret
ambition of many a college girl. It
is an ambition which may be real
ized this summer by any Oregon
coed who will be in New York to
model clothes for the fall fashion
magazines.
Grey’s Advertising Agency wish
es to obtain the services of two
or three girls from every college
and university in the United States
to model for them. The only re
quirement is that the girl wear a
size twelve dress and have the ap
pearance of a typical college girl.
Beside the remuneration given
worthwhile experience may be ob
tained. More information can be
secured from the dean of women’s
office.
THACHER IS JUDGE
Mr. W. F. G. Thacher, professor
of English and advertising, has
acted as a judge in the annual
short story contest recently held
at the University of Montana. The
manuscripts, ten in all, have been
returned.
Freshmen
Finish Igloo
Decorations
Final Flourishes
Turn McArthur Into
Li'l Abner Domicile
Freshmen penciis worked over
time yesterday as Cy Nims and
his Frosh Glee decoration commit
tee put the final flourishes on an
elaborate floor plan designed to
turn McArthur court into a Li’l
Abner domicile for tomorrow
night’s annual dance.
Complete plans revealed last
night show Johnny Callahan's or
chestra encased in a log cabin typ
ical of the Yokum family at one
end of the floor. Coke dispensar
ies will be housed in cabins, and
life-sized replicas of Dogpatch bus
iness houses will fill one corner of
the room.
Mammy and Pappy
Massive mural-type drawings of
Mammy and Pappy Yokum, Daisy
Mae, Li’l Abner, and others of their
friends will adorn walls of the
court, with special lighting effects
used to heighten them.
“Hairless Joe’s’’ cave will take
the place of the regular haven for
dance sitter-outers in one end of
the floor, with ferns and moss used
to build up a cave-type area for
davenports and chairs. Special
surprise feature will be the doors
to the outside of the building,
which according to Bill Loud, co
chairman of the dance, are "un
mentionable.”
Tickets at ASTJO
Tickets are still on sale today
in ASUO offices in McArthur
court, where freshman class cards
will be taken in as 50-cent pay
ment. Other tickets may be ob
tained in living organizations.
One o’clock permission has been
granted campus socialites for the
annual frosh dance, scheduled to
begin at 9 o'clock.
REV. MR. WITMKR TO SPEAK
Rev. Mr. F. R. Witmer of the
Evangelical church of Eugene will
be the guest speaker at. tonight’s
meeting of the Xntervarsity Chris
tian Fellowship in the YWCA hut
at 7:30.
All students are invited to at
tend this meeting. Following the
address will be games and refresh
ment.
250 People Hear'
'War Strike' Speakers
Hit Use of Force
F. B. Farquharson, U. of W. Professor
Urges Students to Make Up Minds
Before Propaganda Starts
Urging- his listeners to think the war question through and make
up their minds now before propaganda reaches them, F. B. Farqu
harson, University of Washington faculty member and World war vet
eran turned “isolationist” pacifist, opened the strike for peace yester
j day which drew an audience of 250.
“It is unfortunate,” he said, “that the United States came off so
easily in the World war.” People did not see the horrors of the war:
they know it only second hand.
Comparatively speaking-, the Am
erican people do not know what it
means to lose soldiers,” he said.
Because he had not yet finished
hsi education, he said, the feeling
of having done his bit to save the
world for democracy soon disap
peared after his return home. His
education was completed, he added,
in the time when historians were
looking over the facts and finding
out who really won the war.
I^ess Democracy
Too, he found that there was
more trouble and less democracy
in the world after the war than
before. ‘‘The chief result of the
war on the surface is the loss of a
very large portion of that dem
ocracy,” Mr. Farquharson said.
Speaking of the division of opin
ion on the methods to obtain peace,
Farquharson admitted that he
'stood on the Isolationist side, but
said that both opinions should be
respected.
He said, however, that he wanted
to define "Isolationist” in his own
terms. "I don’t believe in war as a
means of settling any problem. It
doesn’t settle them: it intensifies
them,” he said.
World a Sick Man
Farquharson compared the world
to a sick man. Those who want
war are like some of the doctors
who say that in theory a certain
operation should work and that it
should be tried again even though
all undergoing the same operation
have died. It is better, he said, to
talk the thing over until it is set
tled.
Second speaker on the program
was David Epps, graduate of the
University, now active in the Ore
gon Commonwealth federation and
liberal groups in Portland. De
scribing himself as a “practical
and sound-headed business man,”
Mr. Epps said he was going to tell
how the world really was—not as
it should be as Mr. Farquharson
had described.
He said that when he was in col
lege, he believed in the Isolationist
stand, but that now he “was a
backslider” believing that there
will either be world fascism or
world democracy.
Lauds Roosevelt
Lauding Roosevelt’s program of
attempting to isolate the aggres
sor nations, he added that the fas
cist groups have to be fed contin
ually in older to survive, and that
the way to stop them is to starve
them. “They are working for
peace,” he said "a piece of this
and a piece of that.” I
The people who isolate them
selves are only helping Hitler—in
fact they make Hitler very happy,
he said. “We’ll have a headache if
we don't follow Roosevelt and his
policy," declared Mr. Epps.
Proposes Telegram
In a surprise move Tony Harlow,
campus collective security leader,
proposed a resolution to send a
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Professor Gage Gives
Property Buyers Advice
Advice for prospective property
purchasers was given in an article
written by Prof. Daniel D. Gage
Jr., associate professor of busi
ness administration and instruc
tor in real estate. The article was
published in the April issue of
Sunset magazine.
Professor Gage stressed five ma
jor points as of prime importance
to those who plan to buy property.
Most of the points were concerned
vith questions of policy. Professor
Gage advised anyone buying prop
erty to consult an attorney in re
gard to the title, if the buyer
would be sure his title is clear. He
cautions prospective purchasers to
be sure their title is marketable,
and not to accept an old abstract
or policy of title insurance. An
other point stressed by Professor
Gage related to taxes and assess
ment. Invetigate them, he advises.
“No use paying other people’s back
taxes,” he says.
Newest and Oldest
Herman Oliver . . . One of the
original appointees to the Oregon
state board of higher education in
1929. He was re-appointed again
on March 2, 1989.
UO Faculty
To Entertain
Board Group
Eight Men to Be
Guests at Monday
Night Dinner
The eight men of the Oregon
State Board of Higher Education
will be the guests of the Univer
sity Faculty club on Monday night
at dinner, while Mrs. Beatrice Wal
ton Sackett is being entertained by
Mrs. Donald M. Erb, wife of the
University president.
Dr. A. H. Kunz, associate pro
fessor of chemistry at the Univer
sity and president of the Faculty
club, will preside at the informal
affair.
Never So Many
Said Dr. Kunz, “I cannot remem
ber a time when as large a num
ber of the school board members
have been guests of the Faculty
club at the same time.”
The dinner, scheduled to begin
at 7 o’clock, is an opportunity for
faculty members and members of
the state board to become person
ally acquainted.
The Oregon state board will
spend Monday, the first day of the
regular meeting, for the consider
ation of budgetary matters, in
committee sessions on building, in
surance, and finance.
On Tuesday, the board will meet
for their regular public meeting to
hear committee recommendations.
At 11 o’clock Tuesday morning,
University students will hold a gala
assembly to welcome the board and
to hear an address by one of the
board members.
Dean Allen Better;
To Return in 2 Weeks
Dean Eric W. Allen of the school
of journalism is feeling much bet
ter and hopes to be back on the
campus in about two weeks, Mrs.
Allen said last night.
Mrs. Allen reported that the
dean will remain in bed for the rest
of this week, however, and then
the doctor wishes him to take an
other week to get his strength
hack. Although it was not known
at first, Dean Allen suffered a
slight skull fracture after his ac
cident.