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
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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
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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.