SPORTS PAGE: Intramurals Frosh Football Varsity Football VOLUME XLI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1939 NUMBER 12 U. OF ORE. MAJORESS Record Crowd Sees Premier of ’Our Town* __ « 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 (Please turn to page four) 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 (Please turn to page four) 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. (Please turn to page four) 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. * * * Yeomen meet in front of Ger linger at 6:45 Saturday for open house.