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4 uunu i CAMPUS Mothers Hohored at Banquet Saturday; See Story on Page 4 Duck-Idaho Baseball Tilt Covered by Wire, See Sports Page VOLUME XL UNIVERSITY OP OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1939 NUMBER 124 Schedule Of Exams Released Spring Finals Start May 27; Memorial Day to Be Observed On Campus Memorial day will be an official holiday on the University campus, examination - givers made known yesterday as they released a spring term final schedule that concen trates exams in five days rather than the originally-scheduled six in order to make Tuesday, May 30, a day of rest. Beginning at 8 o’clock Saturday morning, May 27, and lasting until three o’clock Friday afternoon, University students will be tested for knowledge secured during spring term, C. L. Constance, assistant registrar, said yesterday. List Revised The complete revised schedule follows : May 27, Saturday: 8-10 9 MWF classes. 10-12 Background of Social Sci ence. 1-3 9 TuTh classes. 3-5 3 MTuWThF classes. May 29, Monday: 8-10 1 MTuWThF classes. 10-12 First year, second year French, French literature. 1-3 11 MTuWF classes. 3-5 Physical education activity courses. Resume Wednesday May 31, Wednesday: 8-10 10 MWF classes. 10-12 Physical science survey, elementary psychology laboratory. 1-3 10 TuTh classes. 3-5 4 MTuWThF classes; general ' zoology. June 1, Thursday: 8-10 2 MWF classes. 10-12 English K, English com position, business English. 1-3 2 TuTh classes. 3-5 General hygiene for women, general physics. June 2, Friday: 8-10 8 MWF classes. 10-12 Constructive accounting, French composition and conversa tion. 1-3 8 TuTh classes. Northwestern Coeds Earn Way Writing Poetry By MIRIAM HALE Poetry written to order is help ing pay expenses of two N. U. coeds who have set up a shop un der the firm name of “Delightful Ditties, Unincorporated.” For a quarter they will furnish four lines of verse suited to any occasion. The slogan of the com pany is “We do the work; you get the credit; we get the cash.” Per sonalized birthday, anniversary, place cards, thank you notes, and party invitations form the bulk of their business. The company offers a reduction for quantity, but has steadfastly refused to attempt free verse. —Daily Northwestern. Shining Example f He was a clock watcher. 1 He was habitually late. He only half did things. He didn’t study up for his job. He associated with his inferiors. He didn’t strive for promotion. He didn’t have to— He was president of the com pany. —Guardsman. * * * Satisfied Of all the women Beneath the sun, I think that Eve Must be the only one Who never thought nor To her husband said, “I wish I'd wed Another in your stead.” —Scope. * * * In the Breeze Exams are a necessary evil, but more evil than necessary. —Indiana Daily Student. * * * Another way to bring home the bacon is to win a hog-calling con test. —Billings Polygraph. Over-Zealous Decorator Gets Wrong Shrubs She went to the graveyard to collect vines for her house dance — and now Dorothy Hangsten is in the infirmary with a severe case of poison oak. Returning from her search with both arms laden with red and-green stems, she was about to deposit it on the rest of the decorations when an observant sorority sister millraced the fatal weeds. Miss Hangsten revealed this sad story from her sickbed where she is mummified in bandages from head to foot. Other invalids in the infirmary yesterday were: Seth Smith, Marie Boje, Don Olson, Jack Noce, Frank Herman, Mary Holmes, Alvin Warren, Margaret Graham, Earl Swanson, Alvera Brookman, Rudy Kostin, and Nick Dallas. Decorations GoupforGirl Date Dance Prom Men Leave As Mortar Board Heads Take Over j As Junior Weekend heads yes- j terday tore down their mythical “Wonderland” from the walls in McArthur court, Ruth Ketchum and her Mortar Board dance com mittee members were already measuring the huge hall for the elaborate decoratiqns they have planned for Oregon’s traditional finale to college social life this Saturday night. Working with Bob Swan, who will manage decorations for the Mortar Board ball, Miss Ketchum last night outlined a decoration motif that will include use of a black and gold false ceiling and wall draperies, a mortar board in balloons as a background for the orchestra, and a huge canopy-like Mortar Board to cover the section of the hall provided for patrons and patronesses. Tom to Play A1 Tom, whose Corvallis band is probably the most popular swing band at Oregon State College, has been signed for the affair. Tom played at several Oregon house dances this year and was highly recommended to the senior wo men’s honorary, Miss Ketchum said. In keeping with the traditions of the ball, University women will “foot the bill” Saturday night, taking their "date” to dinner, pay ing his ticket, and furnishing transportation. Ticket sales repre sentatives in each living organiza tion will meet today at 4 o’clock at the College Side with Mortar Board members to get the official “send off” on a four-day sale drive. Flowers for man-of-the-evening (Please turn to page three) Class of'39 Considers GifttoUO Endowment Plan Talked; to Come To Vote at Meeting This Week Inspired by the prospect of severing their undergraduate con nections with the University in less than a month, the seniors yester day came out with a plan which, if it succeeds, will leave their class the most significant in the history of the University, a plan to endow the school by individuals. Led by Senior Prexy Harriet Sarazin and a committee com posed of Lou Cook, Clair Hoflich, and Hal Haener, the seniors have been for the past week and more investigating the possibilities of getting the class behind the plan, which is in use at Harvard, Prince ton, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Alabama, and Colorado, as well as New Hampshire, Vermont and Cincin nati. 25-Year Contract The plan as outlined yesterday by the committee would have each subscribing senior take out a 25 year contract at “between eight and nine dollars a year." Upon maturity of these policies, all made out to the University, a lump sum of $250 would be available in each case, which, multiplied by the num ber of takers, would run the score up in the five and six-figure col umns. The total amount would de pend upon the number of partici pants. The plan has been in effect at Harvard for 23 succeeding classes, the committee reported, with each class taking out from $83,000 to $100,000 dollars each year. The classes taking the endowments at Harvard have been from the lowest 75 and the highest 98 per cent. The (Please turn to page four) Petitions Ask Referendum First organized effort to secure signatures to petitions calling for a referendum on the new state law changing the primary elections from May to September will be Undertaken by interested students this evening. The action, taking the form of house-to-house calls, was decided upon at a meeting held last Thurs day night at Westminster house, at which Monroe Sweetland, execu tive secretary of the Oregon Com monwealth federation, spoke on the significance of the measure. The law, identical with a bill rejected in a 1936 election by a 5-to-2 majority, takes election of delegates to the Republican and Democratic national conventions out of the control of the whole body of voters in effect and re f Please turn to Page four) Half of State Is Lab for Natural Science Students The narrow confines of the class room no longer keep University of Oregon students of anthropology, geography, and geology from com ing in contact with “nature in the raw,” because this term the whole western half of the state has been used as a laboratory. Areas along the Umpqua river, the John Day country in central Oregon, and the McKenzie river section have all been studied first hand by parties of students, directed by Dr. War ren D. Smith, head of the depart ment of geography and geology, and Dr. L. S. Cressman, head of anthropology. The Coos Bay area riches of marine life will be visited by a stu dent group May 21 and 22 under the direction of Dr. F. L. Packard of Oregon State college. Ford Young, instructor in geology, led a party of students w;bo recently visited the Horseheaven quick silver mine east of Madras, in one of the moat productive quicksilver j areas in the state. The famous Pic ture gorge of the John Day river was also seen by the students, who brought back some specimens they found there. Under the direction of Dr. Smith a group recently explored the area around the Leaburg dam on the McKenzie. Among features noted were the power canal, the Quartz creek site of a contemplated dam, the hot springs at Belknap, glacial topaz, and Nimrod granite intru sions. Natural color photographs were taken by a student group who ex amined the Indian picture writings on rocks found on the upper Ump j qua river, approximately 10 miles I above the Steamboat creek junc I tion. Showing an advanced type of art, the five-color paintings are said to be among the most inter i esting discovered in Oregon. Carl . Huffaker, Wilbur Greenup, and Al len Murphy, students, accompanied Dr. Cressman on this trip. Other field trips are scheduled before the term closes. Prize Winning Float in Canoe Fete , . - -i- — —- - - _ - _ -L - - — — — i <4rw,. __ . (Courtesy of the Register-Guard) The House of Cards” . . . this float built by members of Theta Chi and Alpha Gamma Delta won first place Saturday in the annual Junior Weekend canoe fete. The picture was taken shortly before the float was ready for its trip down the nice. Prep Girls To Be Guests At YW Tea Style Show Planned For Instruction Of Would-Be Coeds Senior girls from University, Eu gene, St. Mary’s and Springfield high schools will be guests at the tea being sponsored by YWCA, WAA, and AWS in alumni hall from 4 to 5 this afternoon to ac-' quaint them with the University of Oregon campus and activities. Freshman girls serving on the committee will be hostesses at the tea to which the principals of the high schools and their wives, and the deans of each school, Dean Hazel P. Schwering, dean of wo men, Alice B. Macduff, assistant dean of women, and Mrs. John Stark Evans have also been in vited. Presidents Talk Short talks on activities, scholar ship, and sports will be given by Betty Lou Swart, Anne Frederik sen, Margo Van Matre, and Kay Philp, each president of outstand ing University women’s organiza tions. Presiding over the entertain ment will be Elna Johnson. Gamma Alpha Chi is making ar rangements for a style show illus trating the do’s and don’ts of a coed’s wardrobe. Marilyn Ashley will be a commentator of the show in which Betty Milne and Cath erine Miller will model correct for mals. Helen Reith will show an incorrect formal. Girls Model Clothes Other girls modeling will include Suzanne Cunningham and Willa McIntosh, correct school clothes; Majeanne Glover, incorrect school clothes; Betty Buchanan and Roma Theobald, correct date dresses; (Please turn to page four) 120 Oreganas Gather Dust; Wait for Owners Fingernail biting, hair-tear ing, and general scratching of heads was in order yesterday at the educational activities of fice. Reason?—A hundred and twenty Oreganas uncalled for, and every one of them ordered. Oregana Business Manager Dick Williams last night de clared no stone would be left unturned to get the books into the hands of the backward buy ers, who have already paid for their yearbooks. On the other hand, it was suggested that af ter all there is a waiting list. So for the sluggard 120, of ficial advice released was to the effect that it would be best to come up and collect the books. Coincidence Is Coincidence --Or Is It? Coincidence is coincidence but sometimes it begins to look like something else. Especially when a printer in a haphazard, thoughtless mood predicts a grave international event. Several years ago a young printer, working in a newspaper office, was telling his boss how nice the type they had just re ceived looked. “Here," he said, “I'll show you." And grabbing up a “stick" in which to set up a line of type, he set the headline which he thought would be the biggest news break imaginable. He set it in the largest size of the new type, and it read, “McKinley As sassinated.” Just two days later that same headline was used on the front page of the newspaper. That printer was Steve Cady, who is now foreman of the Uni versity press. Spinster Scholarship Applications Must Be Filed Today All junior women applying for the $100 scholarship given by Eugene Spinsters’ club must have their applications in the dean of wo men’s office today by 5 o’clock, stated Miss Helen Dodds, secre tary, yesterday. This scholarship is open to any woman student who will graduate in 1940 and is a resident of Eu gene. Other qualifications for the award are scholarship, financial need, ability, and character. This scholarship has been award ed by the Spinsters’ club for the past three years. Other winners have been Miss Violet Runte in 1936, Miss Doris McCallister in 1937, and Mary Catherine Soran son last year. There will lx- a very important Kwamas meeting today at 4 o’clock in the AWS room of Gerlinger hall. Rita Wright To Manage Emerald Ads Activities Board Acts on Advice of George Luoma Rita Wright, junior in advertis ing in the journalism school, was appointed Emerald advertising manager for the fall term, it was announced yesterday toy George Luoma. Miss Wright was selected from a group of five candidates by the Ed ucational Activities board upon the recommendation of Luoma. The board passed on the recommenda tion Wednesday evening at their meeting. Miss Wright has been Thursday advertising manager for the Em erald for both the fall and winter terms this year. She also has been composing copy for a downtown store. In a day managers’ contest last fall she placed second to George Luoma. The contest was conducted by the Emerald. Miss Wright will be in charge of all local accounts and will su pervise the day managers and their assistants. Mrs. Gilbert Visiting Journalism Dean Mrs. Charles M. Gilbert, the for mer Elizabeth Allen, is visiting Dean and Mrs. Eric W. Allen with her six-months-old daughter, Jane Gilbert. Mrs. Gilbert, a former student of Oregon, has been in Berkeley where her husband, Dr. Charles M. Gilbert, is instructor in geology at the University of California. She and Jane, the first grand daughter of the dean, will be here for six weeks while Dr. Gilbert does field work. Mystery Float Stumps Best Of University Pinkertons’ Out of the swirling gray river mist it came. Like the barge come to take King Arthur back to the great deep was this dark object slowly drifting down the river. The decks of the barge were dense with stately forms—soon distinguished as fresh evergreens. Amidships sat a solitary figure shrouded in fur. The canoe fete audience gasped with amazement as the rowboat bearing three small trees came dis tinctly into view. No definite ex planation for the unscheduled event on the Canoe fete program if forthcoming from fete officials. Scott Corbett, junior class presi dent, said that the rowboat would be easily recognized by the Sigma Chis. According to Lloyd Hoffman, co-chairman of the fete, the three tree rowboat was not, to his knowl edge, invited to the party. And so when the rowboat con taining three trees and a figure costumed as a wolf disappeared down the millrace as mysteriously as it had come, it apparently car ried with it all possible clues of identity. 'House of Cards’ Takes Blue Ribbon In 'Best-Ever’Fete 'Mahatma Caterpillar' Rated Second; 'Walrus and Carpenter' Place Third; Record Throng Views Spectacle It was a house1 of cards, but not only did it fail to collapse in storied house of cards style, it had what was needed to capture the fancy of the judges and first place in Saturday night’s canoe fete, climax of Junior Weekend. Built by Theta Chi and Alpha Gamma Delta, the first place float won over nine other striking floats in one of the greatest fetes ever witnessed on the millrace. Second place went to "Mahatma Caterpil lar,” entry of Susan Campbell hall and Chi Psi, while the Hendricks nun-sigma in u wairus ana car penter” was third. First honorable mention went to "The Mad Tea Party," creation of Delta Gamma and Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Stands Filled Always a sellout, this edition of the annual millrace classic was no exception, with an overflow crowd packing the bleachers for the two-hour water show. Artis tically pleasing to the eye through out, the fete also showed its cham pionship caliber in its clever use of political fun-poking, from the world picture to the national and campus political fronts. Before the floats ever began to sail down the raceway it was ap parent this year's show was going to be outstanding. The stage itself was enough to sell the event, with a maze of intricate runways for the "Rabbit" and an ingeniously constructed arrangement for get ting the four princesses into posi tion. It was the kind of thing which stimulates the imagination, and for many a spectator it was the perfect personification of long mulled-over half-memories from childhood. Snap Run-off The program itself was a rec ord-breaker for the speed in which it was run off. Once begun by the entry of the umbrella-bearing "White Rabbit,” commentator, the floats came past the stands so fast as to seem almost a train. By 10:30 the judges had rendered their decision and the crowd was on its way. The winning float was a riot of color and an outstanding example of the finely-drawn satire which characterized the entire fete. Reds and other brilliant face-card col ors, happily blended, made the "House of Cards” striking enough even under the artificial lighting. On a floor designed as a. gigantic playing card, with a background of a good poker hand, a card queen and king sat on brilliant thrones, with the "knave" standing before them with the evidence as to who stole the "Danzig” tarts. The king and queen turned out to be ani mated, witft the king fishing over the side by means of a dilapidated pole with white wrapping-strnig line. Inconspicuously riding the ripples at one back corner of the float was a two-foot battleship, bearing out the lines of the script: “Eleanor hates war and I hate war, and I’ll go fishing as I have be fore.” (■andlii Puffs on Pipe Every float was good in its line. The second-place caterpillar had a little brown-faced man smoking a hookah pipe. He wore big dark glasses, and as he gasped out clouds of blue smoke he blinked his eyes and gulped weakly. He was supposed to be Gandhi. The Walrus and Caterpillar featured two huge heads of Hitler and Mus solini, mounted on two compara tively small human figures, each with arm raised in fascist salute. The Mad Tea Party had an au thentic John Hull and a French man, while the Jabberwocky, only non-satiric float, was in a class by itself as a creature out of imagin ition. Blonde Adorns Float A float made outstanding by the charm of blonde Mary Storkerson, of Daisy Mae, fame, was that of Kappa Alpha Theta and Kappa Sigma. Looking very diminutive and very little-girlish, she slowly turned and turned in a serrated crown-like tower, around the base of which the lion and the unicorn struggled inanimateely. Probably the most striking from a pyrotechnic standpoint was a magnesium - lighted “Croquet Game," which lit up the scene like day. Comedy relief was supplied by the Canard club outboard-motored (Please turn to page three) Job Office Opened in Portland U of O Dads Set Up Bureau to Seek Employment for Students An employment office for Ore gon students has been established by the Portland club of the Univer sity of Oregon Dads, to aid in lo cating jobs available to students at the end of the spring term, it was announced yesterday by Dean. Karl W. Onthank. Portland employers are being contacted by the secretary of the organization and by Miss Janet Smith, University employment sec retary. Employment sought is chiefly vacation work with which students can earn money to return to college in the fall, although along with this an effort is being made to find regular employment for graduates and other students not expecting to return to school in the fall. Miss Smith has been in Portland setting up the necessary arrange ments, and also has been speaking before Portland service clubs such as the Rotary and Kiwanis, describ ing the employment office and the need for summer work for Uni versity students. Last summer, the office which was opened on an experimental ba sis proved a success, 76 temporary [jobs and 38 permanent jobs being secured through the office. Be 1 cause of the success of the organi zation, the Dads have arranged to have it open through the full sum mer season this year. Students listed last year did not | only include inexperienced young | people, but also many with much successful work experience. Women with extensive office experience and training capacity for a wide variety of other positions, were also registered. The Portland Dad’s Employment office is located in the Oregon building on the 4 th floor. It is list ed as the University of Oregon Dads in the telephone directory. The chairman of the Dad’s com mittee on employment is Mr. T. Howard Groves, with Portland business and professional men com posing the residue of the com mittee. I CAMPUS CALENDAR Polyphonic chair classes will be held Tuesday and Thursday of this ' week in the music auditorium at the regular time. Phi Beta will meet this evening at 7:15 in alumni room of Gerlin ger hall. AVVS council meets today at 4:45 in Gerlinger. Heads of Houses will meet today at 4 o’clock in the AWS room of Gerlinger hall. President Erb will speak to the meeting. Everyone is asked to be present. House representatives in charge of ticket sales for Mortar Board ball will meet this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the College Side.