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LIBRARY 0. OF ORE. ◄ History of Women's Editions Sketched On This Page loe Soap Talks To Becky—See Editorial Page VOLUME XL UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY MAY 6, 1939 NUMBER 118 'First Citizen’ of the University of Oregon Harold Weston, president of the Associated Student Body of the University, who was chosen Ore gon's “first citizen’’ in a surprise poll taken Tuesday night by the staff of the Emerald women’s edition. Weston Wins Title Of 'First Citizen' With 93 Out of982 Votes y Polling' 93 of a total of 982 votes cast in the election of the Univer sity of Oregon’s “first citizen,” Harry Weston, ASUO prexy won the title in the least “election eered” contest of the year at din ner time on Tuesday night. Weston’s closest competitor was Zane Kemler, who poled 80 votes in the shoe-box election engineered by the staff of the Emerald wo men’s edition and a corps of 50 outstanding coeds. Voters were surprised at dinner in the various living organizations on the campus with instructions to cast their ballots for the “first citizen of Oregon.” Current political activity on the ^ campus showed up in the three nearest selections, Roy Vernstrom with 69 votes; John Dick with 59 and Verdi Sederstrom with 58. Other high-ups were Boyd Brown, polling 46 votes; Harrison Bergtholdt, 41; and Charles Eaton, 39. Rather amazing were some of the nominees . . . with Dean Hazel Scliwering, Joe Soap and Joe Blow batting a surprisingly high average. Weston was president of his sophomore class, member of Skull and Dagger, and president of the Oregon chapter of Sigma Delta Psi, national athletic Honorary and a member of Scabbard and Blade, military honorary. He has been president of Alpha Tau Omega since 1937. Weston won his numerals in golf and track. He will repre sent the University in the hign hurdles at the Northwest track conference on Junior weekend. Women's Edition Is Old Oregon Tradition The idea of having: a women’s edition of the Emerald is not a new one. It is a custom established 29 years ago by the forerunner of the present coed paper, and has sir) e been somewhat associated with Junior weekend. From 1910 to 1915 the women’s edition was a very special paper with a fancy cover and many sketches and cartoons. Approach ing the magazine type of publica f tion, it was printed on exquisite paper and contained from 14 to 16 pages, including an alumni sec tion. ] Earlier Papers by Theta Sigs In 1916 a Theta Sigma Phi chap | ter was organized at the Univer | sity, and from then until about 1925 the special paper was called the Theta Sigma Phi edition. The coed staff in 1919 was not a great deviation from the usual one, since, out of 41 regular staff members, only 17 were men. With the change of the Emerald from a weekly to a daily in 1920, the coed journalists’ sheet degen I erated slightly until around 1930 when the competition betw’een th< (Please turn to page four) Browsing Room To Be Dedicated Junior Weekend Ceremony Planned As Memorial Dedication of the Adelaide Church memorial reading1 room, better known as the “browsing room” of the University library, is scheduled for Saturday, May 13, at 2 p.m. The event, which is to be a part of the Junior weekend program, has been set for that date for the special benefit of visiting mothers. Presiding at the dedication will be Donald M. Erb, president of the University. M. H. Douglass, University librarian, will give the “greetings and acknowledgements of the library”; Brownell Frasier, chairman of the art school com mittee in charge of furnishings for the browsing room, will speak of “the objectives of the committee.” Mrs. E. C. Peets, past president of the Oregon Mothers will bring “greetings from the Oregon Mo thers"; “a tribute to Adelaide Church” will be given by Mrs. Irene H. Gerlinger, chairman of the committee on raising funds for the furnishing of the browsing room. “Recreational reading in a uni versity” will be discussed by Dr. George Rebec, professor of philos ophy and counsellor of graduate ' division of state system of higher education. Last event on the program is the unveiling of the memorial tab let honoring Adelaide Marie Proc tor Church. No University money was used in buying the furnishings; much credit goes to Mrs. Gerlinger for efficiently filling her position as head of the committee to raise ■ money. Funds have come from 370 sources. Governor to Install ASUO Officers Youth Hostlers To Take Bicycle Jaunt Sunday Go back to nature Via the bicycle—that's the invitation the local youth hostel group extends to University students for their Sunday morning bicycle jaunt this weekend. The group will meet in front of Johnson hall at 8 o’clock in the morning, and all comers should be equipped with a picnic lunch and a wheel. Women interested in the trip should sign up in Gerlinger this week, and men may register in the men’s gymnasium. The excursion is being spon sored by the Eugene branch of the American Youth Hostel, with Beverly Steele as student chair man. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bou shey will act as chaperons. Fraternity Sing Preliminaries Start Monday Music Faculty to Designate Winner Of Contest ' First installment of the carefree attitude of Junior weekend will come to attention Monday when the preliminaries of the all-campus fraternity sing- will be held. Five days of battle for Webfoot singing honors will ensue, during which some men’s living organization will be dubbed Oregon’s champion. Houses were paired off yester day for the sing, and will compete until Thursday in individual meets. Friday the finals will be held at the Music building at three o’clock, it was announced last night by Donald Rees, president of Phi Mu Alpha, men’s music honorary, which is sponsoring the contest. The schedule of preliminaries are as follows: Monday noon, Beta Theta Pi will compete with Phi Delta Theta; Monday evening, Del ta Tau Delta and Sigma Chi; Tues day noon, Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Gamma Delta; Tuesday even ing, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Theta Chi; Wednesday noon, Sig- I ma Nu and Sigma Phi Epsilon; Wednesday evening, Kappa Sigma and Pi Kappa Alpha; and Thurs day noon, Phi Sigma Kappa and an unnamed opponent. Members of the music school faculty will judge the contest. A large silver loving cup will be the champions’ award. Dolph Janes Sole Announcer Entrant Dolph Janes, commentator for last year’s Junior weekend canoe fete, is at present the only en trant in the contest to select a commentator for this year's fete. The annual contest for selection of a commentator will be held this morning at 10 o’clock in room 107, Friendly hall. All those interested in an audition are asked to appear before the judging committee at that time. The committee consists of Lloyd Hoffman and Bob Schultze, canoe fete co-chairmen, Donald Hargis and Walt Esche beck of the speech department, and Walt Miller, assistant weekend chairman. Contestants will be asked to read selections from canoe fete script, following a short period of study in which they will familiar-' ize themselves with the material. Final Fee Payment Due Wednesday, Students Warned be due May 10, University cash ier Clifford Stalsberg announced yesterday. This will be the final installment of all payments, and i no extension of time will be j made. AWS Cracks Down on Too Many Queens Council Expresses Fears for Sanctity Of UO Traditions; Controls Sought “Daisy Macs," “Snow Whites,” "Canine Queens," and “Best Date Girls" took a slap in the face yes terday when the AWS council sent formal complaint to the student affairs committee against “cheap ening" of University womanhood by the present multiplicity of queen contests. The letter came to the office of Dean of Personnel Karl W. On thank, chairman of the affairs committee, following a council meeting Wednesday, when vigor ous argument pro and con on the queen question brought the final decision for regulation of the prob lem. Reason Cited Reason for sudden action from the women's governing body came when they realized that the Junior weekend queen this year had been shifted to a position on par with trivial rulers elected only to boost advance publicity on campus dances, AWS heads said yesterday. “The weekend queen and Little Colonel are really campus tradi tions," declared Anne Frederiksen, (Please turn to page three) Women braduates Juniors' Guests Sunday Schedule Will Feature Ancient Custom The long-awaited, annual junior senior breakfast will be held to morrow morning at 9:30 o’clock at the Osborn hotel when Mrs. Eric Allen, wife of the dean of journal ism, will speak on “What Is So phistication ?” Ticket sales officially closed Thursday but a limited supply can still be purchased at the YWCA bungalow for 40 cents each. Junior women invite seniors, paying for both tickets. Ever since the University began, this breakfast has been given ev ery spring, in the beginning on the president’s lawn where strawber ries and cream were served to the assembled guests who were dressed ' in their very best clothes in order (hat they might attend church lat er. In 1929 it was turned over to the YWCA as their project and it has 1 been handled by this organization ever since. The honored guests tomorrow! 1 morning will include: Mrs. Donald Erb, Mrs. F. M. Hunter, Mrs. V. D. Earl, Mrs. Eyler Brown, Mrs. Hazel P. Schwering, Mrs. Alice1 I Macduff, an'd Mrs. John Stark I Evans. Wedding Bells Ring For Igoe, Mattingly Miss Clare Igoe and LeRoy Mattingly, University graduates of 1938, will be married in Salt Lake City Saturday, according to an announcement made by relatives. Miss Igoe, known on the campus by her Emerald column, “From Where I Sit,” was winner of the Gerlinger cup in 1937. She is a resident of Eugene. Mattingly, who is now an em ployee of the United Press in Sait Lake City, was editor of the Em erald in 1938 when it was judged “Pacemaker.” He was also pitcher on the varsity baseball team and member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is formerly of Elko, Nevada. Dartmouth college’s seven-year old wood track is considered the fastest indoor foot-race track course in the world. Friday Night Dances Cause Walk-Out Rebellion swept the infirmary yesterday when five convalesc ents staged a walk-out in favor of the Friday night dances. Discontented with the quiet in firmary list, the five socialites deserted the five other patients late yesterday afternoon. Yesterday's infirmary list was: Barbara Williams, Marguerite Snow, Marguerite Spliid, Nick Matich, Bob Chappel, Paul Da vis, Larry Watson, David Knox, William Cardinal, and Harry Lowe. Holman Signed As Swing Master Of Junior Prom Igloo to Become 'Wonderland' for 'Alice's' Reign Hundreds of students and visit ors slated to take their first peek into Oregon’s replica of Alice's famous looking glass at the Lewis Caroll-themed junior prom next Friday night, will do their peeking to the strains of Art Holman’s band, according to announcements from Junior weekend heads last night. "We chose the Holman band from a list of possibilities,” Scott Corbett, junior class prexy, said last night, "because we felt that since a big name leader with his complete band is not obtainable that weekend, we would be over looking a big opportunity if we didn’t get the Eugene band that is really headed for the top rung in the swing business." Hired by MCA ► Holman’s swingsters were re cently signed by the Music Corpor ation of America, chief contract holders for America’s big name bands, and will go on an MCA con tract tour immediately after school is over in June. Holman, as well as the majority of his musicians, is a University music school enrollee. Taking the place in the budget of the cost of a name band, Cor bett said, will be an increase in the elaborateness of prom decora tions, which will transform Mc Arthur court into a Webfoot-vis ioned personification of the abode of a modern "Alice in Wonder and.” Queen Alice (Maxine Glad) vill rule in state at the dance, and vill lead, with her royal court, a »rand march, the tentative Prom orogram showed last night. rolin Warren Called Home John Warren, freshman coach, eft for Walla Walla yesterday to >e with his mother who is serious y ill. 3G-SAE Start Work ]n Teaparty Float The float being built by Delta Jamma and Sigma Alpha Epsilon for Junior weekend’s canoe fete will be the third of ten floats to pass through the brilliant sheen of curtains stretched across the millrace. The themes of all floats have been selected from Lewis Carroll’s story and the weekend theme, “Al ice in Wonderland.” The DG-SAE float is in keeping with “The Mad Teaparty” theme. Characters on the float will act the scene in pan tomime as the dialogue is read by White Rabbit. The float will re ceive a touch of satire, as its char acters burlesque European nations. Alice comes upon the forest home of the March Hare, with its ear-shaped chimneys and fur- J thatched roof. In front of the house j is a table, seated at which are the; Hatter, the March Hare, and the Dormouse. The Dormouse is asleep between the other two, and they are resting their elbows on his head. After a great deal of mean ingless and vain conversation, Al-1 ice leaves angrily. (Please turn to page three) i Sprague to Participate In Post-Poll Rites at Wednesday Assembly 'Second' Zone Ketnler . . . polled 80 votes. Susie Coed Eats Her Hat As Bet Loser “Well, I’ll eat my hat!" This was the rash statement, made a year ago by Michi Ya sui, which prompted the arrival of a mysterious package to Su san Campbell hall the other day. As assistant editor of the Hood River high school paper last year, Miss Yasui had made the wager that if the paper won na tional distinction under its new editor this year she would make a meal of her chapeau. Never dreaming that anything would come of it, Michi had al most forgotten the incident, and was very surprised and just a little bit worried when a pack age and instructions arrived along with the announcement of the avi^ard being granted to her school. Came the day for the opening. Before requested witnesses Dick Duckwall, Roy Galloway, and Jim Lill, all former editors of the paper, Michi gingerly began unwrapping, certain that she was to join the ranks of students who have been eating goldfish and phonograph records and wonder ing how felt-hat soup would taste. Finally she saw it. There, bur ied in championship Hood Riv er Guide, was a life size pink peppermint top hat decorated with a brown taffy ribbon. Election Winners To Assume Duties As Last Campaign Cries Die Out Formal installation into their new exec committee jobs by Gov ernor Charles A. Sprague will be the administration’s send-off for the four ASUO politicians who best withstand the mud-slinging of campus bigwigs through Tuesday’s election. An all-school Gerlinger assembly Wednesday will provide the setting. The Wednesday student mass meeting was placed on next week’s social slate yesterday by President Donald M. Erb, who will be Gover nor Sprague’s host while he is here. Dr. Erb will also act as master of ceremonies at the installation assembly. The four men and women, select ed by poll-bent ASUO members Tuesday as the president, first and second vice-presidents, and secre tary-treasurer of the Webfoot gov erning body for next year from the list of nine prospecst, will form ally take over the reins at that time. Although Oregon’s chief execu tive has not yet announced the topic on which he will speak in. connection with the installation, it will probably deal with student government, assembly heads said yesterday. Governor Sprague will spend the whole day on the Eugene campus, with a campus tour on his program Jior the day. Wednesday night he will be honor guest at a faculty club dinner. Dr. Erb to Address Round Table May 9 Donald M. Erb, president of the University, wll address the Eu gene Round Table next Tuesday night, May 9. The subject for his address is to be “A Plea for Eco nomic Literacy.” This will be the final meeting of the 1938-1939 season for the Round Table, an organization of Eugene business and professional men and University professors. “Ladies’ night” will be observed, each knight being expected to bring a guest to the dinner which will precede the speech. Placement Bureau Finds Most Jobs for Girls on Coast Education School Places More Than 300 Graduates a year in State; Women Teachers Cheaper, Says Dean lewell By MARY RIORDAN The University of Oregon's school of education placement bureau places more girls annually than any other bureau on the coast, Dean J. R. Jewell stated. Although the bureau places more than 300 girls a year in teaching positions around the country, particularly in Oregon (although 75 to 100 requests for teachers come from other states), there are three times as many vacancies they know of but cannot fill. There are numerous reasons for this, but the biggest one is that the combination of studies requested are not com mon ones. The reason for such a large ma jority of women teachers is, as Dean Jewell said, ‘'A woman can get a maximum salary sooner in teaching than in anything else.” It is also true that a school board with a limited grant can get a good woman teacher cheaper than they can a good man. rroniotion System Used The system of promotion used by the Oregon placement bureau helps make it one of the most sue cessful. Girls are kept in line of promotion and thus as one moves up another is able to take her place. About 80 girls a year do their supervised teaching at University high school and Roosevelt junior high school. This has been the practice for a number of years, and gives the porspective teachers ac tual experience. English, the social sciences, art, music, and physical education are the most popular subjects taught, the dean ex plained. {Please turn to paye three)