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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1939)
Calkins Ticket Carries Off Freshman Class Election Final Showing of Tear and Trembling' Tonight at 8 VOLUME XL UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1939 NUMBER 112 Sophomores Nominate, Amend Class Constitution Miller New Interfrat President Hoffman Lands Second Position; Aronson Voted Council Secretary Walt MTTler, Beta Theta Pi, won \ the presidency of the interfrater nity council last night in a tradi tionally close contest, with Roy Vernstrom, Delta Tau Delta, los ing out at the tape. Reminiscent of last year’s photo finish, when the flipping of a coin was finally used to decide a drawn out battle, last night’s election took several ballots after the field had' narrowed down to the two, Miller finally capturing the re quired majority. Other officers chosen were Lloyd Hoffman, vice-president, and Bud Aronson, secretary-treasurer. Hoff man won over Ken Shipley, while Aronson went in without opposi tion, due to a technicality. Nominations were made last week, the factor which caused the technicality in Aronson’s case. His opposition was originally Miller, who, by the time secretary voting | was reached, was already elected president. The group met at the Sigma Al pha Mu house. Easter Bicycle Mishap Victim Still in Infirmary It was Easter Sunday. She was bringing her bicycle to a stop, when the brake broke— and since then Eunice Edwards has been in the infirmary nurs ing a mangled knee. Melbourne Davis and Bob C. Anderson com plain of an appendix and an in fected foot, respectively, and at the same time agree that the campus hospital is a good place for (1) catching up with your studies, (2) three square meals a day, (3) a rest, (4) to get well. Other infirmary inmates yes terday included Dwight Moore, Sarah Wilson, Riley Hanson, Robert Berghan, Melvin Alfer, June Patterson, and Eunice Ed wards. UO Sends Out Call for Summer Room, Board Pleas were sent out yesterday by Mrs. Marcella B. King, housing secretary, for Eugene citizens in terested in rooming or boarding University students during sum mer session. Already a flood of requests for places to room that exceeds sup r ply has come into Mrs. King’s of fice from Oregon students who have decided to enroll for summer classes, she said. Sororities Pledge 3 Three new members have been added to sorority house member ships since formal rush week, ac cording to the dean of women’s of fice. The girls are Betz Chambers, Sigma Kappa; Fannie Walls, Sig ma Kappa: and Juanita Haley, Al pha Delta Pi. As a jittery world looks on and war talk is heard everywhere, the Tulane university medical school, acting at the request of the Uni ted States army, held a gathering for medical officers as a contribu tion to the national defense. TODAY’S POEM “Roses are red, Violets are blue; Xow you vote for me, And I'll vote for you!” —R..V.V. 'Two Ton' Tony Is Chosen Queen Of Law School ‘Two Ton" Tony Amato was chosen queen of the law school yesterday morning by an assem blage of future lawyers meeting in the Fenton hall assembly room. Amato was picked as the prin cipal flower in the law school daisy chain because of his re vealing figure and delicate feat tures. He will hold court junior weekend when he will weigh down a barge in the canoe fete. The voting for the hotly con tested honor was carried off by a show of hands. Indicating a departure from usual under handed political procedure, the opposing blocs openly booed and hissed each other across the loom. Campaigning was conduct ed by shouting and gesturing in stead of with cans of paint and cleverly worded circulars. The new queen was not pres ent at the nomination convention and therefore had to be contact ed later by phone. Queen Amato said for publication: “I think that it is too, too divine that I should be chosen the queen out of all the beauties that are in the law school. And I feel so sorry for the other queen of jun ior weekend, for I fear our little efforts will completely over shadow the other festivities.” Jalopies To Promote Weekend — Five Dollar Prize To Go to Winning Contraption With two contests, one for a theme and one for a queen, al ready passed milestones in this year’s Junior Weekend, the juniors added a brand new one yesterday, this time offering to make practi cally every entrant a winner in a “best decorated jalopy” competi tion. Any kind of Harold Teen-ish signs or labels, or any other scheme, is good enough to win either the number-one award, $5, or tickets to the canoe fete, orig inators of the contest declared. The only qualification is that the decorations, signs, or whatever is used, must be for the promotion of Junior Weekend. Their value to Junior Weekend promotion will determine their position when the scores are added up for prize mon ey. The contest is to end a week from tomorrow. Judges will be an nounced at a later date. Four new appointments were an nounced last night by the public ity-promotion co-chairmen, Roy Vernstrom and Bud Jermain. The newest recruits are Don Cooke and Les Harger, who will work with Vernstrom, and Phil Bladine and W’en Brooks, who will work with Jermain. Book Prizes Offered For Best Student Collections Prizes totaling $50 will go to the winners of the “best personal library” and poster contests Li brary day. May 3, celebrating the second anniversary of the library opening. The prizes will be award ed through the courtesy of Fred erick W. Skiff, Portland book col lector. A first prize of $15 and a sec ond prize of $7.50 in books will be awarded to the undergraduate stu dent presenting the best personal library. Rules of the contest are avail able at the library. 1 TO THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: We, the undersigned, feel it is high time that you, as stu dents at the University, have a crack at naming your own student body leaders . . . not merely to endorse names pre sented you that are either self-selected or hand-picked by a small group of bloc politicians. It’s a nasty little deal you’re getting crammed down your throats . . . and has been for years. The system stands up because personal ambitions outweigh the just principle of democratic control in which everyone holding an ASUO card has a voice in student government. The purpose of this message is not to defeat or injure the chances of the present candidates. We wish to make it possible to put the strongest men on the executive committee, without bias or premeditation by gravy-train politicians—in short, without use of the bloc system. The criteria of the present does not tend toward choosing the men and women best suited for office . . . but, toward the selection of figureheads for vote-getting bloc organiza tions. The result is that campus politics ends with the elec tion of candidates to office and thinks nothing of sound student organization. We admit that among the undersigned are some who have been engaged in the present system . . . but because of the lack of a more fair method. We propose to have eight or ten or even more eligible candidates run . . . that at the present time are not up because of the bloc organizations. Instead of four candidates to fill the executive committee of four offices ... let there be a quali fied, representative field of student leaders on the ballot for election so the students may choose the four best fitted. Many have been the crusades against the present system . . . but it’s up to you as students with minds of your own to make this one strike home. How about your support, students? Let’s all pull together on this thing. You who don’t care ordinarily—start caring! Let’s take the rubber stamp out of the executive com mittee. Clair Hoflich Elisabeth Stetson Anne Fredericksen Hal Haener Grace Irvin Bill Pengra Jeanette Hafner Dick Litfin Bernadine Bowman Roy Vernstrom Bill Cummings Barbara Pierce Betty Lou Kurtz Rita Wright Mary Elizabeth Norvell Patsy Taylor Tiger Payne Ruth Ketchum Glenn Pownder Hub Kuokka I i Campus Lutherans Will Hold Banquet, Install Heads Tonight Campus Lutheran students will have a bit of seriousness as well as fun at their annual spring ban quet at the Central Lutheran church this evening. Oregon State Lutheran students will be guests at the banquet this year. John Luvaas will act as master of ceremonies. The program will include musical numbers and short speeches. | Thielemann Wins Another Scholarship Leland Thielemann, attending Columbia university this year on a scholarship, won a similar award for the coming year plus an addi tional sum of $200, according to C. L. Johnson, assistant professor in romance languages. Thielemann, who was a grad uate assistant in the University of Oregon romance language depart mant from 1936 to 1938, is work ing for his doctor’s degree in languages. The Final Scene ol the Final Show The entire cast for the record-breaking, all-campus musical, “With Fear and Trembling” which will end a successful two-week run tonight at 8. The play has been acclaimed one of the best ever pro duced here. It’s the end of a long trail, “finis,” for “With Fear and Trem bling” tonight at the Johnson hall theater, where at 8 the show will open its windup performance. Concluding two highly success ful runs, the first a solid week and the second a three-day special showing, the production will sing its swan song before a final full house in the 200-seat theater. Tonight’s showing will put the period to the stage career of Adam P. Teeter, alias Ed Burtenshaw, “Icky” bigshot in the production's j make-believe story. Patsy Taylor will tickle her last batch of funny bones as the girl from the “Over privileged Clawsses," and as the anti-war stumper. Tickets Available The University’s own home grown chorus, and Lorraine Hix son, Mary Staton, Les Ready, Trudi Harland, and all the rest of the all-star time-tested cast will be on hand, demonstrating their sev eral reasons for the show’s success. Heavy sales have already been rung up for this grand finale, but tickets are still available, the John son ticket office reported last night. Many repeaters are expected tonight to see the showing for a second or third time. Pickett, Lew Candidates For Second Year Prexy; [Voting Set for Thursday Emerald Notice to Appear Two Days Prior to Meetings and Also Same Day; Plans for Class Picnic Discussed After first making: the proceedings legal by amending the consti tution, the sophomore class last night nominated junior class officers. The meeting was conducted amid the impressive surroundings of the Villard hall assembly room. Those nominated were Jim Pickett, ATO, and Larry Lew, DU, for president; Jenny Casey, Kappa, and Sally Mitchell, Hendricks hall, for vice-president; Stan Johnson, Pi Kap, and Bob Keen, SAE, for trea surer; Karolyn Kortge, Sigma Kap pa, and Betty Norwood, Tri Delt, :for secretary. The sophomore class constitution ; was changed to read that a notice regarding the nomination conven tion should appear in the Emerald two days prior to the meeting and also the day of said meeting. The old constitution stated that a no tice should be printed in the Em erald a week before the nomina tion convention. This change will make it possible for elections to take place next Thursday in the YMCA hut from 9 to 3 o’clock. Voters must have class cards. The candidates were introduced and plans for the sophomore class picnic were discussed. Prexy Stan Staigcr presided. Jones, Barber Give Concert Howard Jones, cellist, and Neva Barber, harpist, presented a joint concert in the school of music au ditorium last night. Howard Jones played Sammar tini’s “Sonata in G Major,” “La Fi leuse,” and “Polonaise De Con cert.” Neva Barber played "Monastery” by Hasselmanns, “Night Breezes” by Salzedo, and “Fantasie” by Schuecker. Four Fraternities Pledge New Men Four University of Oregon fra ternities pledged new men last week to add to their spring term roster. Sigma Chi pledged W. R. Endicott and J. E. Larson; Delta Upsilon, Ed W. Moshofskiy; Pi Kappa Alpha, Harrington Harlow, and Sigma Nu, George W. Yeager. UO Hears Folklore Expert Director of Irish Commission Talks On Gaelic Beliefs, Language, Lore Openly fretting because the pub lic address system prevented his walking- up and down, gesticulat ing, and “really talking,” Seamus I O’Duilearga, director of the Irish folklore commission, yesterday morning took his Gerlinger hall assembly listeners far from the changing political world and its j troubles and intrigues to a world along the western coast of Ireland where people speak the ancient Gaelic language, have ancient tra ditions, and believe in fairies. Here in this “lumber roof of an tiquity and of the middle ages, where beliefs and customs, the ac cretions of the ages lie piled up, stratum upon stratum, the legacy of many people who from mega lilhic times over 3,000 years ago have fought and died for the pos session of the ancient island, farm ers and fishermen who speak Irish as their mother tongue are the sole custodians of the oldest un written literature and tradition of the western world,” Mr. O'Duil earga told his audience. The Old World From these simple people who speak little or no English, who for the most part are illiterate but the most intelligent of people, who, af ter thousands of years of living in the same house, are “house proud’’ or “swelling with ancestry,’’ one can glimpse a bit of the old world as it was and which we know only through the war diaries of Julius Caesar, Mr. O'Duilearga said. His love for fishing serves him well when he wants to open up a new territory or become acquaint ed with a new story teller, this smiling Irishman who talks with his eyes quite as much as with his mouth said. Life runs smoothly anti slowly in the countryside, he said. Going on foot, he wanders among the com mon people, meeting children and others who can tell him where the best story tellers live. The best stories are told, he said, while the ' old fishing rod” is used. People have called it insanity because a government is willing to spend so much money collecting old fairy tales. "But it is a sign of sanity when a government will spend its money in such a manner instead of spending its money on bombers to blow babies into the next world,” said he emphatically. “The future of my land,” he said, "is precarious. The past has al ways been our guiding light. It will also be the guiding light for a bet ter future,” he said in explaining the work of his commission. Oregon's student body election slogan 10 years ago was: “When in doubt, vote for the other guy.” Dorm Candidate Wins In Spirited Contest Williams, Workman, Cherney Triumph After Vigorous Campaign; Card Sales Jump; Campus-Wide Interest Shown By NORMAN FOSTER The freshmen, big' IF in the campus political situation, went to the pells yesterday and opened the spring voting season by electing the entire Calkins ticket to sophomore class office. The 291 votes cast was one of the largest number of votes ever cast in a freshman election for sophomore officers. The results are as follows: for president, Bob Calkins, 161, and Jack Lansing, 130; for vice-president, Barabara Williams, 153, and Maxine Hansen, 139; for secretary, Betty Workman, 155, amt Margaret Young, 137; foi i treasurer, Bob Cherney, 148, amt | Cullen Murphy, 137. The campaign leading up to yes terday’s voting was a spirited one highlighted by paint dabbing, ! printed propaganda, whispered ru mors, high pressuring, and unborn I dances, serenades, and parades. And the campaigning did not cease with the dawn of election day. Propaganda Flows Beginning at 3 o'clock yesterday morning, a little group of ambi tions Calkins supporters, paint buckets in hand, wearily trudged about town painting Calkins prop aganda on the streets. All day yes terday, members of both blocs of fered free rides to the polls for prospective voters. An indication of the interest in volved in the frosh election was the sale of approximately 70 class cards in the two days preceding voting. According to the Lansing bloc politicians, 50 of the cards were bought by members of their bloc. Another sign of campus in terest were the countless tele phone inquiries as to the election results that kept coming into the Emerald office after the polls had closed. The ballot counting committee j was composed of Arvilla Bates, Jack Daniels, Zane Kemler, Bill > Loud, Emerson Page, Gene Brown, Bob Emerson, and Scott Corbett. Final French Movie to Show “La Maternelle,” the third and last French film to be shown on the campus this term, will be pre sented Tuesday, May 2, in room 101 of the physical education building, by Pi Delta Phi, French honorary. Shows will be at 4 and; 7 o’clock. Although “La Maternelle” did not take any national or interna tional awards indications are that is far from being a let-down from “La Kermesse Heroique” and “Un Carnet de Bal" which preceded it. It was included on the national board of review’s list of the ten best foreign films of 1935-36, and is placed among the distinguished foreign-language films of 1935 by j both Andre Sennwald and Irving! Meller, reviewers for the New \ York Times. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Leon Frapie and is concerned mainly with the daily lives of children in a Parisian day nursery. Of it Mr. Sennwald writes in the New York Times: “ 'La Maternelle’ is a film of ex traordinary insight, tenderness, and tragic beauty. Being realists, the French are able to regard the tattered urchins of a day nursery without the rapturous squeals of t lie Shirley Temple school of baby diama. It is a compassionate study of tiie sad-faced, squalid children (Please turn to page jour) Wins Election Hob Calkins . . . Won the sopho more class presidency yesterday. UO Co-op In Annual Session Nominations Due; Report to Be Read Meeting Open to All Students More than 3,000 students—the entire student body—as members of the University cooperative store are entitled to attend the annual meeting of the cooperative store members this afternoon at 4 o’clock in room 105 Commerce, Jack Lochridge, Co-op board pres ident saiu yesterday. Nominations for two junior and one sophomore board members will be the main business of the meet ing. M. F. McClain, Co-op mana ger, will present the annual re port. Everyone Eligible “The main point is.” Lochridgo stressed, “that all students are eli gible. No class or ASUO card is required. The same holds true for election of the board members which is held at the same time a3 the ASUO elections.” Of the seven board members, four will again serve next year. The two faculty members, Orlan do John Hollis, professor of law, and James H. Gilbert, dean of the college of social sciences, and Charles Skinner and Gordon Ben son, who will be seniors next year, are the returning members. Two of the now members will be elect ed from this year’s sophomore class (Please turn to page four) Denton 'Bird-dog’ Burdick Named Law School Prexy Sweeping over his nearest competitor, Dave Silver, by a margin of two votes, Denton “Bird-Dog” Burdick was elected president of the law school student body yesterday on a platform of “Fillows for the law school steps.” In the first ballot taken by approximately 25 law students, George Corey, not a dark-horse candidate, was eliminated from the field, leaving “The Dog” and "Big Dave” to fight it out—on the next ballot. Named queen of the law school for the coming year, was Tony Amato, He will rule over the flowery law school dances as well as provide all of the “leg art” for publicity pictures. Ken "Little Giant” Abraham, and ‘Mel Rooney were elected to the posts of official “water-warmers.” Exemplary of the conduct of campus politicians recently was the forgetful act by the law students of forgetting to elect the law school barber. Burdick will be remembered as the candidate for junior class prexy two years ago who fought a bitter battle with his opponent, Zane Kemler, over proxy votes. Kemler gained the position. It was reported late yesterday that Silver would upset all tradi tions by giving his opponent, the new prexy, his complete support for the coming year.