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VOLUME XLI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1939
NUMBER 12
U. OF ORE.
MAJORESS
Record Crowd Sees
Premier of ’Our Town*
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University Drama Stars Score Hit
In Thorton Wilder's Pulitzer Winner;
Second Performance Tonight at 8
By NORMAN FOSTER
“Our Town,” a play by Thornton Wilder, opened last night at the
University theater, at least the city editor told us it was the opening
night when she assigned us to cover it. However, when we reached
Johnson hall we rather thought that we had been led astray.
No powerful lights out in front, no curtain, scenery composed of
four chairs, a couple of tables, and two trellisses, and Director Robinson
' wandering aimlessly about the stage. Of course, there were a lot of
Flight Class
To Start on
October 24
Students to Have
Four Taylor Cubs
For Training Use
October 24 is the date set for
the start of the University of Ore
gon’s flying school classes, with
flight instruction to start two
weeks later rather than spring
term, it was divulged from the of
fice of Carlton Spencer, flying
r school head, today.
Four Taylor Cub trainers of the
50-horsepower type will be on the
line when the neophyte birdmen
take to the air. All of the fifteen
applicants examined by the flight
surgeon so far have passed, re
ceiving temporary student’s pilot
permits under commercial Civilian
Pilot’s Training. Thursday, the re
maining 25 will have received phy
sical OK's.
Sitting in on the ground school
classes as alternates will be five
or ten extra students ready to step
in if, for any reason, one of the
regulars drops out.
Government regulations require
each student to be covered by per
sonal accident insurance, the cost
to be taken from their regular uni
versity fees and deposits. The poli
cy, totaling $3,000 for accidental
death, gives full coverage in class,
at the airport, and while en route
to either place. J. K. Pratt, 63 W.
Broadway, is the local agent for
the insurance.
YW Dill Pickle Club
Selects New Prexy
Jeannette Luvaas was elected
president of the Dill Pickle club
at its first meeting Wednesday.
The Dill Pickle club is one of
the activities of the YWCA and
meets every Wednesday noon at
the Y bungalow. Marcia Judkins,
out-going president, presided over
the meeting and election.
people in the auditorium, but we
thought they were applying for
student loans or something.
Lights Out
Then the lights went out and we
guessed maybe it wasn't a re
hearsal after all. The next two and
a half hours were spent in thinking
about what we could say in this
story without producing something
that would be like coming to the
end of a mystery story and finding
the last page gone.
Anyhow, we liked the University
theater’s production of “Our
Town,” We’ve seen a great many
plays and so-called artistic inter
pretations in our day, being as how
we grew up in Hollywood, but
we’ve never seen anything more
sincerely interpreted nor so well
done as was last night's production
of “Our Town.”
Net Sensational
There is nothing particularly
sensational about Thornton Wild
er’s “Our Town.” It has a rather
simple plot, that of life in a small
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UO Law School
Enters Contest
Single Law Group
Chosen in Oregon
For Burke Essays
The University of Oregon school
of law has again been selected as
the only law school in Oregon to
pan^pipate in the $100 Nathan
Burke memorial competition in
1940, sponsored by the American
Society of Composers, Authors and
Publishers. This is the third year
for the competition.
In 1938 Nathan cohen submitted
this school’s winning paper. His
paper was adjudged by a commit
tee of the American Bar associa
tion as the third best in the na
tion and was published in the
“Copyright Law Symposium” with
the five best papers of the year.
The award may be divided
among several students or given
to one student, according to the
judgment of the school in ques
tion.
’Oh, Gee! I Love Pie/ Girls
Comment on Male Survey
“Cut out desserts!” was the ad- j
vice given by University men when
asked for an opinion on the figure
of the average Oregon co-ed of
1939. In spite of the fact that Web- j
foot women are considered tops in i
both brains and beauty, their fi
ures were criticized by a great I
many men on the campus.
As one Delt expressed it, “The;
girls look very trim in the fall,
but by winter term they seem to
have gained too much extra pound-1
age to be attractive. This goes on
through the spring and summer un
til the next fall when they appear
at school again, miraculously slim.”
Such a statement makes it appear
that University living units do
pretty well by the girls in the mat- ■
ter of meals.
Training Table
Realizing this, Alpha Omicron
Pi is about to institute a training]
table where members desiring a
sylph-like silhouette may take
their meals without the temptation
of starches and sweets.
In most of the houses the girls
have launched themselves upon a
rigorous program of exercises.
Rolling on the floor, jumping rope,
bicycling, and climbing up a wall
with one’s feet are representative
of the various ways of getting rid
of that extra five pounds.
The importance of well-propor
tioned legs was emphasized by the
DUs, the Phi Sigs, the Sigma Al
pha Mus, and the Kappa Sigs. “It‘s
what we notice first about a girl,"
they added.
Socks “Socked"
Quite a few seemed to disapprove
of the new knee-length socks, espe
cially the new knee-length socks,
especially for anyone with a ten
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Theater Star
Mary Staton . . . played one
the leading- parts in “Our Town”
which opened last night in the
University theater.
UO FANS
RALLY FOR
GRIDMEN
#Iron Mike' Lauds
Spirit; Jacobsen
Nearly Too Late
Beat California!!! That was the
key thought, expressed in chalk
and the voices of 1,000 Webfoot
fans, which set the tempo for yes
terday’s send-off rally as the Ore
gons entrained for Saturday’s
game at Berkeley.
Hundreds of students and towns
people crowded the station and
watched amateur artists scribble
slogans on the sides of coaches as
the Duck football squad boarded
the southbound special. Led by the
, University band, the student body,
under the guidance of Bob Elliott,
yell king, kept up a steady bar
rage of cheering until the train
pulled out.
Mike Mikulak, Oregon’s “Iron
man” of former years who now
coaches the Webfoot backfield,
thanked the gathering for the sup
port being given the team this
year. The fact that the students
are solidly behind them has played
no small part in the brilliant rec
ord the fighting Ducks have rung
up so far this season, Mikulak
said.
Although reports were current
late yesterday that all the squad
did not board the train at the sta
tion, Oregon rooters had concrete
proof that at least one player did.
Erling Jacobsen, aggressive Web
foot center, who had apparently
forgotten to wind his watch ar
rived just as the train pulled out
and had to sprint to catch the last
car.
Don Caswell Speaks
To Copy editing Class;
Outlines United Press
Don Caswell, who was graduat
ed from the University school of
journalism in 1934 and who is now
with the United Press in San
Francisco, spoke before Professor
George Turnbull’s copyediting
class yesterday, giving a brief but
comprehensive outline of the Unit
ed Press wire system and describ
ing how news is relayed across
the nation.
Caswell explained which news
took precedence over busy press
wires. He also described the prob
lems and unpleasantness sur
rounding the highly publicized job
of being a foreign correspondent.
Caswell has been with the Unit
ed Press for four years.
LIBRARIAN VISITS OREGON
Miss Julia Stockett, reference
librarian of the Vancouver public
library of British Columbia, was a
campus visitor Wednesday. She |
stopped over from a vacation to
California particulary to see the
[library building.
Burton Barr Given
Homecoming Job
Oil Your Dogs, Gents!
Here’s Derby Roster
The annual sore-feet movement of the Oregon campus, “open
house,’’ will begin tomorrow night at 7 o’clock, lasting until 11:40
o’clock.
Each men’s house will begin the evening at the women’s house
opposite its name on the list and go from house to house in order,
remaining ten minutes at each place. When the last one is reached,
the men will begin at the top of the list and continue until they
have made the rounds. The list follows:
Women’s Co-op (1992 Potter)
Delta Delta Delta
(Ten-minute wait)
Orides (2nd floor Gerlinger)
Women’s Co-op (1415 University)
(Ten-minute wait)
Susan Campbell hall
Zeta Tau Alpha
Hendricks hall
(Ten-minute wait)
Sigma Kappa
Alpha Omicron Pi
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Gamma Delta
Delta Gamma
(Ten-minute wait)
Kappa Alpha Theta
Alpha Chi Omega
Pi Beta Phi
(Ten-minute wait)
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Chi Omega
Alpha Xi Delta
(Ten-minute wait)
Women Co-op (1213 Hilyard)
Alpha Phi
Gamma Phi Beta
(Ten-minute wait)
Alpha hall
Alpha Tail Omega
Beta Theta Pi
Campbell Co-op
Canard Club
Chi Psi
Delta Tan Delta
Delta Upsilon
Gamma hall
Kappa Sigma
Kirkwood Co-op
Law students
Omega hall
Phi Delta Theta
Phi Gamma Delta
Phi Kappa Psi
Phi Sigma Kappa
Pi Kappa Alpha
Sherry Ross hall
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Sigma Alpha Mu
Sigma Chi
Sigma hall
Sigma Nu
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Theta Chi
Yeomen
Zeta hall
Church Fete
To Welcome
All Students
Varied Programs
In Store; Dancing,
Games Scheduled
It won’t be a “bunion derby" ex
actly, but tonight four church
groups are planning to hold open
house from 8 to 11:30 for all Uni
versity students. An annual event,
church night is sponsored by the
student religious council in coop
eration with University officials
to let students become acquainted
with the various student groups.
Plans outlined last night call for
two campus and two downtown
stations. Westminsterites will en
tertain at Westminster house and
the Christian Science students at
the YWCA. Wesley foundation will
be at the First Methodist church
and the Episcopal group at the stu
dent rooms in the church.
To enable students to visit the
other churches, no one group has
planned an extensive program. In
stead there will be games, dancing,
a few musical numbers, and re
freshments.
More than 800 invitations have
been sent out by the groups to
preference students. Other stu
dents who did not sign preference
cards should feel free to visit any
or all groups, Bob Tindall, council
president, said.
NEW SIGMA XI MEMBERS
ON U-O FACULTY
Sigma Xi, national Greek letter
scholastic, long a stronghold of
the realms of pure science, is repre
sented by two new members of the
Oregon social science faculty.
The two members of the social
type of science who belong are Dr.
Beatrice Aitchison, economics, and
Dr. Homer Barnett, anthropology.
Terrible Plight!
Girl too Light
To Study Flight
Maxine Glad must do some
thing about her weight. Not that
she has to stop eating and go
athletic, however, Maxine’s prob
lem is the opposite of that of
most woman-kind.
She must tip the scales just
one pound heavier before the
flight surgeon can give her a
clean bill of health as a flying
course aspirant. The minimum
weight requirements is 115
pounds. Maxine feels fairly con
fident of picking up the extra
poundage. In height, applicants
must be not less than 64 inches
or more than 78.
New Teachers
Expected Soon
An increased enrollment at the
University of Oregon which aver
ages eight and one-half per cent
and runs as high as 20 per cent in
some schools will necessitate the
addition of several instructors.
A list of seven instructors re
quested by President Eerb has
been approved by Chancellor Hun
ter and awaits final approval by
the state board of higher educa
tion at its meeting in Corvallis on
November 22.
New help asked for are gradu
ate assistants in architectural de
sign, interior design, English com
position, sociology and social sci
ence survey. Instructors for Eng
lish composition and speech were
also requested.
A request for the increase from
one-half to full time for L. B. Ellis,
instructor in Romance languages,
was approved by Chancellor Hun
ter.
Thirteen University of Texas
students were on the British ship
Athenia when it was torpedoed at
the opening of the European war.
UO Fight
Song Gets
Support
Committee to Hold
Contest for New
Oregon Melody
What the executive committee
did:
1. Appointed Burton Barr chair
man of homecoming.
2. Approved a girl drum major
ess for the University band.
3. Authorized a project to find
a University fight song.
Homecoming had a chairman,
the University band was ready for
a coed baton-twirler, and the
ASUO was a step nearer to having
a fight song, all as a result of
yesterday’s executive committee
noon meeting.
Roy Vernstrom, second vice
president of the ASUO, was miss
ing from the meeting, being out of
town on a symposium tour. All
other members of the committee
were present.
Facing a crowded slate, the com
mittee, headed by ASUO Prexy
John Dick, first went to work on
a chairman for homecoming, one
of the biggest ASUO jobs of the
year. Several applications were
considered, and there was lengthy
discussion concerning the possibil
ity of having a co-chairman. How
ever, it was decided to make the
chairmanship single, and Burton
Barr won out in the first vote.
The drum majoress proposal, al
most unanimously approved Wed
nesday night by the AWS council,
achieved an unanimous “aye” vote
in the executive committee, which
passed on it in short order, making
it ready for the student affairs
committee.
Last item to come up was an
Oregon fight song. A plan was
presented to the committee where
by the music for such a song, pur
pose of which would be to supple
ment the two great songs now in
use, would be chosen by a com
mittee probably of non-music ma
jors, working with Band Director
John Stehn. After the music is
chosen the words will be worked
up by a contest to run in the Em
erald.
With homecoming only a short
month away the new chairman
will immediately start in on the
groundwork for the event, which
is generally conceded to be in the
most favorable spot ever.
Barr, the new chairman, won his
spurs in big-time promotion last
spring as finance chairman of Jun
ior weekend.
Next meeting of the committee
was not announced.
Orides to Have Dance
In Gerlinger Hall
For Open House
Orides, University girls indepen
dent organization, will use the
dance hall in Gerlinger as their
dance hall Saturday for open
house.
Independent girls who are not
members of Orides are invited to
come, though a small fee of 25
cents will be charged. This fee will
go toward membership if they
join.
Fi Batar Kapper is the name of
the mock fraternity at West Vir
ginia university. 1
Girl Baton Twirler
Will Lead Band at
All Future Games
Mary Anderson, Freshman, Is Majoress;
Long-Awaited Action Finally Taken by
Student Affairs Committee in Special Meet
Oregon will have a drum majoress!
Moving swiftly in special session last night the University student
affairs committee reversed their history-making 1938 anti-majoress
action, and voted almost unanimously to let a girl baton-twirler lead
the band at future Webfoot games.
Contrasting greatly with the slow ponderous treatment given the
drum majoress question last year, it took Oregon student leaders an
u. uny auu a nan inis wock 10 let
the issue run through the hands
of the AWS and ASUO executive
committees, and on to the student
affairs committee.
The executive committee of
ASUO added their “okay" to that
of the AWS council in a noon ses
sion yesterday. The student affairs
group gave their sanction at. a
four o’clock meeting.
Scarcely had the affairs group
adjourned than Les Harger, offi
cial “strutter" for the Webfoot
band, came forth with complete
plans for the Gonzaga game next
Saturday.
The present lineup for the first
home game puts the new girl, Mary
Anderson, a Eugene freshman, at
the head of the marching band
contingent, with Harger and Ell
wood Heckman “second in com
mand.” Heckman made his first i
Oregon appearance at the Portland I
game.
“Although Mary has been chosen
for the honor of leading the band
this year without use of competi
tive methods,” Harger explained,”
she stands ready to challenge any !
girl.”
The action in favor of the long- j
disputed issue was made by five'
faculty members and two students.
Dean of Personnel Karl W. On
thank is chairman of the affairs
committee, and Dean of Men Vir
gil D. Earl, O. J. Hollis of the law
school, Dean of Women Hazel P.
Schwering, Miss Mabel A. Wood,
professor of home economics, AWS
Prexy Anne Frederiksen, and
ASUO President John Dick are j
members.
Symposium
Tour Proves
Successful
Duck Speakers
Score Moral Win
On Three-Day Trip
By CORINE LAMON
With a moral victory to their
credit, topnotch Oregon sympos
ium speakers Ken Erickson, Roy
Vernstrom, and Charles Devereaux
arrived on the campus last night
after a three-day trip into Central
Oregon.
“Values in a Crazy World,” the
theme of the tour, was received
more favorably than ever before by
business men, educators, and offi
cials of Bend and the surrounding
district. Previously, efforts to
break down the popular country
club conception the people of that
area have about the University
have been to little avail, but this
trip turned into something of a
goodwill tour.
The symposium members spoke
before chambers of commerce,
Lions clubs, high school audiences,
granges, and broadcast a half hour
program over station KBND. Af
ter conducting the program in the
manner of Chicago roundtable dis
cussions, the three speakers were
royally entertained by the Bend
city heads.
Businessmen and officials have
expressed the desire for copies of
the symposium speech material,
which will be published by the Uni
versity speech department. They
plan to send the papers to other
merchants, officials, and news
papers throughout the state, since
they are now more receptive to the
student viewpoint.
Salaries of Barnard college
graduates and undergraduates who
were given positions through the
college occupation bureau last year
totalled $173,443.
Dean Morse
May Resume
Arbiter Post
Law School Head
To Take Request
'Under Advisement'
The tiny ember of hope that
Dean Wayne L. Morse of the law
school would resume his position
as arbitrator of the Pacific Coast
longshoremen’s dispute began to
glow a little more warmly late last
night when Dean Morse announced
that he had received a telegram
from Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins asking him to reconsider
his resignation.
Dean Morse resigned his post as
arbitrator of the longshoremen’s
dispute last Monday after long
shoremen refused to obey his order
to pass through a picket line on a
San Francisco dock. Wednesday
labor officials in Washington, D.
C., were requested to attempt to
influence the Oregon law school
dean to reconsider his decision.
Dean Morse would only promise
to take the suggestion “under ad
visement.” He said, “I shall not
reply to Secretary Perkins’ tele
gram until after I confer with her
representative, Dr. John Steelman,
who, I understand, wishes to dis
cuss maritime problems with me
Friday. However, I am inclined to
view my resignation of last Mon
day as an accomplished fact.
“If I am to serve further as ar
bitrator under the longshore con
tract, it will have to be upon the
basis of a reappointment, subject
to certain conditions agreed to by
both the waterfront employers as
sociation and the longshoremen.”
Dean Morse said that it was his
opinion that the dispute could still
be settled by arbitration. He em
phasized his former statement that
any reappointment would only be
considered on the basis of an
agreement between the disputants
to accept his decisions.
This point was also emphasized
by Secretary of Labor Perkins in
her telegram to Dean Morse.
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CAMPUS
CALENDAR
The Westminster group invites
all Presbyterian young people and
friends to attend a social get-to
gether at Westminster house Fri
day night at 8. Everybody welcome.
Yeomen will have a regular bus
iness meeting Monday night at
7:30, in the men’s lounge of Ger
linger. Important.
Come one, come all! What are
we talking about? The social swim
that is held every Friday evening
from 7:30 to 9 o'clock in Gerlin
ger hall. Suits and towels are pro
vided; everything is free; and from
all reports a grand time is to 1)6
had by all.
C ni versify of Oregon Dames
club will hold first meeting Tues
day night, October 17 at 7:30, in
the AWS room on the third floor
of Gerlinger hall. All married wo
men students and wives of men
students are cordially Invited to
come.
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Yeomen meet in front of Ger
linger at 6:45 Saturday for open
house.