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library CAMPUS SPORTS PAGE: Frosh Injuries Cal-Oregon Game Intramurals VOLUME XLI ^ TODAY'S EDITS Keep It Quiet Frosh Cards NUMBER 14 'TOWN' TO PLAY LAST TIME Prize Production Closes After Successful Run By BETTY JANE BIGGS Actors and actresses of “Oui Town” will don their make-up foi the last time tonight as the Pulit zer prize winning play of 1938 wit ring the curtain down after a suc cessful four-day campus run. The characters in “Our Town,” with very little stage settings, car ry the audience’s attention through the every-day life of a small New England town. The mail man comes, home wrorh is done, string beans are canned creating a very home-like back ground for a high school romance which ends in marriage. The third act changes from the stern reality of the previous two acts into the author, Thorton Wil der’s conception of the life here after. According to Austin Dunn, drama division secretary, a few re serve seats are available for the performance tonight. Photographs Scheduled Prices Reduced For All Oregana Individual Pictures First organization pictures for this term’s Oregana will be taken today according to the dictates of Clinton McGill, head of the or ganizations on the Oregana staff. Reducing the price from 50 cents per individual, as of last year, to thirty-five cents this year, the pic tures will be taken at the Kennell Ellis portrait studios, 981 Willam ette street. McGill advises that all organiza tions will be notified of their ap pointment several days in advance, and they then will select the time of the day to go down. If they can not go down at the hour they specify, they should go down later the same day, or at least the morn ing of the following day. This pro cedure is to eliminate the obvious confusion which would arise if the houses would go down at random, and not be able to fit their time in with the schedule of the portrait studio. Leading the parade of organiza tions to be photographed is the Sigma Chi fraternity which vtull (Please turn to page four) Women Plan $1200 Award Fellowship Will Go To Outstanding Woman Graduate The Oregon division of the Am erican Association of University Women again announces the awarding of a $1200 fellowship to some woman graduate of an Ore gon university who wishes to con tinue her graduate work. This award is made every three years by the AAUW fellowship commit tee consisting of Mrs. Hazel P. Schwering, University of Oregon; Mrs. Kate W. Jamison, Oregon State college; Mrs. Merideth Bail ey, Reed college; and Miss Helen Pearce, Willamette university. The holder of the fellowship must be a woman who is a resident of Oregon and a graduate of a standard college and must have good health, excellent character, ability, and initiative. Preference will be given to candidates whc show evidence of creative ability ot who submit definite plans for re search with some measure of at tainment their object. The application blanks obtain able in the dean of women's offic< must be turned in by December 1 1939. As Victorious Webfoots Return From South (Photos by Charles Kenyon, Emerald staff, photographer; A large crowd of students and Eugene townspeople were on hand yesterday to welcome Oregon’s re turning football warriors who Saturday beat the University of California, <» to 0. The lop left picture shows Cece Walden, Oregon captain, “bringing home the bear.” To the right is the Oregon band led by the new drum majoress, Mary Anderson, parading down Willamette street. Below is a section of the crowd which turned out to greet the team. Zero Hour Approaching For Freshman Election; Polls Will Open Tomorrow By NORM FOSTER After you, Alphonso! That seems to be the theme of current poli tical activities as the freshmen prepare to go to the polls tomorrow and choose their officers for the coming year. Said polls will be located in the YMCA hut and will be open for business from 9 a.m. to 3 p.in. That there will be polite throat cutting and gentlemanly under handed work is indicated by the announcement that the two opposing wm mp a com lo see wno gets to have their “vote for us” parade first this afternoon. One parade will be at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, the other at 5 o’clock. The selection of who will parade their candidates first will be an nounced by telephone, so that bloc members will not make the terrible mistake of cheering the wrong people. Candidates Listed So that the prospective voter may not get his X's in the wrong place and thereby bring the wrath of the house politician down on his book-stooped shoulders, the candidates are listed below in bloc order. Bloc number one presents: A1 Silverneil, Chi Psi, for president; Dotty Lou Crooks, Gamma Phi, for vice-president; Helene Wilmot, DG, for secretary; and Pat Riley, Kappa Sig, for treasurer. Bloc number two is currently showing: Les Anderson, DU, for president; Jeanette Neilson, Susan Campbell hall, for vice-president; (Please turn to page three) Sigma Delta Chi Shapes Plans Final plans for the Oregon High School Press conference will be whipped into shape by members of Sigma Delta Chi, men's national journalism honorary, when they meet Wednesday afternoon at 4 in room 104 of the Shack, it was announced Monday night by George Pasero, president of the campus chapter. Other business will include choosing an adviser to replace Charles M. Hulten, now on a one year leave of absence. The group will also discuss plans for the com ing year, and selection of fall pledges, Pasero said. Reports of other chapters throughout the nation, recently re ceived by Pasero, will be read in part and discussed with the pos sibility in view of utilizing some of their service projects. Color Ceremony Will Be Feature Of Ball Games A new note will be added to Oregon’s football games next Saturday in the varsity’s tussle with Gonzaga. Just before the game begins, a detail of the senior ROTO will march on the field, bearing the United States flag. When they reach the flagpole, t he ROTC band will play the national an them, and the company will raise the flag. This ceremony will be observed at all future Oregon games at Eugene, with both the junior and senior units of the ROTC acting ns flag escorts. Professor Hargis To Speak Over KOAC D. E. Hargis, president of the Oregon State Association of Teach ers of Speech and University speech instructor, will interview John L. Casteel, director of tte speech division in a Wednesday morning broadcast over station ICOAC at 11 o’clock. The subject under discussion is “Speech Train ing in Schools.” Questions of the value of speech education in public schools, whj it is important, and how students may benefit from the study v/ill be discussed. Home Crowd Welcomes Victorious Grid Squad Tibbett To Start Season Baritone to Sing In McArthur Court; ASUO Tickets Free ASUO will swing into its 1939 Greater Artists series Friday night, when it brings Lawrence Tibbett, America’s most famous: baritone, to McArthur court for I his University of Oregon debut. Student body ticket owners will be admitted free to the concert artist’s program, according to George Root, educational activities manager, if they will obtain ex change tickets ahead of time in the activities office. Tickets for convenience The exchange ticket set-up is not to collect additional fees, Root stresses, but is arranged to con venience those who must keep track of attendance. Card holders will also be able to get exchange tickets Friday night at a booth in the Igloo if they neglect to obtain them sooner. The Tibbett performance will be feature number three on the ASUO “campaign promises” list, which they used to sell their record num ber of cards this year. Also slated for later in the term are the Bal let Caravan, the Gonzaga and Ore gon State games, several frosh games, and over 30 editions of the Emerald. Concert Starts at 8 Tibbett’s concert will begin at 8 ' o’clock on the stage of McArthur | court, where Fritz Kreisler made > violin history last year. Tickets for Tibbett-admirers who are not student body members are quoted at $2.00, $1.50, and $1.25. General admission is $1.00. School of Business Broadcasts on KOAC The school of business began its series of radio programs for the year, Friday evening, October }?., over station KOAC. Professor Orin K. Burrell gave the first program last Friday, and Linn McCrady, cashier of the First National Bank, will give an address Friday, Octo ber 20. O. Robert Anderson, in structor in the school of business administration, is in charge of the programs. Book Display Slated About thirty-five books, repre sentative of western publications, will be on display in the University library. Exhibition of these volumes is being arranged by the Rounce and Coffin club of Los Angeles and they are being shown at various places on the Pacific coast. Old Book Shows Eighteen Years Complete Disuse Elbert Hawkins, co-sports edi tor of the Emerald, probably ex perienced one of the most em barrassing moments of his life yesterday, when, drawing a book from the library, discovered that he was the first person to ask for the book in 18 years. The volume, “The Railroad Problem,” by Walter W. Davis showed on its index sheet, May 12, 1921, as the last date it was taken out of the University li brary. Whatever may be Hawkins success in the future, he is now assured of having given a story to at least one book. Will Be Topic Of Address Speech Smith Will Stress Importance of Civil Rights in Wartime The importance of freedom of speech during war time in the press and on the stage will be dis cussed tonight at 8:15 p.m. in the music auditorium when Professor S. Stephenson Smith, educational counselor for the American society of Composers, Authors and Pub lishers, addresses University of Oregon students, faculty and resi dents of Eugene. On leave of absence from the University, Professor Smith has been traveling about the North west urging students to stage plays that awayen people to the meaning of war. Professor Smith will discuss sev eral ancient plays and their author plays and their authors as to their value as peace organs. One of these, Aristophanes, who accord ing to Professor Smith was a stout fighter himself but hated the senseless waste and cruelty of war wrote several comedies that woulc make splendid shows for a college dramatic club. “The ancient writer’s mora courage in refusing to knuckle un der to censorship would be a prime topic of importance today,” Pro fessor Smith said. Students interested in creative work in the theater, music, writing and radio work are invited to meel Professor Smith this afternoon ir room 101 Villard hall for individ ual conference. Professor Smith is the author ol many magazine articles. Apple Sale Success 11. H. Douglass, librarian of Iht University library, announces thal a sum of $6.72 has been taken frorr the sale of apples in the library office. Near Record Crowd At Station Platform For Luncheon Rally Conquering Webfoots Return From South Lugging Huge Pelt of Defunct Cal Bear; Hide Presented to Associated Students By DON GOODAIX An October sun, 1000 vociferous rooters and a group of “pardon the yawn” stifler combined yesterday to make the welcoming rally at the depot the best of the current season. No. 18 bearing the University of Oregon grid squad pulled into the station at 12:10 and rolled slowly by the roaring crowd which cheered everyone abroad from the engineer to the porter. "Cece" Walden, team captain, staggered off the train with a huge bearskin under his arm. With the aid of several students, the pelt, the skin of a now defunct bear, was lugged over to the cheerlead ers platform and formally present ed to the associated students by Walden. “We are going after a bulldog pelt next Saturday,” the Webfoot captain said. The bear pelt attracted a lum bering St. Bernard in the crowd. The huge SAE “booze hound” made several unsuccessful assaults on the platform in an attempt to attack the “bear.” The dog’s in cessant barking kept the cheerlead ers in a dither throughout the stage performance. University students and towns people were in a cheerful mood brought about by impromptu pre train amusements. Several of the frivolous males in the crowd en tertained with a tossing contest in which various members of the group were thrown high in the air by “friends.” Mary Aifderson, new Oregon band drum-majoress, was intro duced to the rooters and drew a rousing cheer. The band played several pieces both before and af ter the arrival of the train. Each member of the squad was introduced from atop a couple of baggage trucks serving as a stage. Mike Mikulak hit the theme of I the rally in a few words when he stepped to the microphone and ex claimed, "We’re proud of the boys.” Although Tex Oliver was absent, several cheers were accorded to him by the ralliers. Oliver forfeit ed the return trip with his team as the result of an agreement with California officials under which he had to stay to speak before a group similar to Eugene’s Monday Morning Quarterbacks’ club. The rally at the depot was cli maxed by a two lane automobile parade up Willamette street and then east on Thirteenth to the campus where the rally parade broke up. Miss Phy Travels Miss Magaret Phy, secretary to the dean of physical education, left yesterday to spend two weeks vacation in San Francisco. Open House* Voted Great Success by Most Students, in Spite of Bunions By fcLUt; liNUDAHL It may have been the sore-feet movement to last year'3 partici pants, but from the echoing rever brations of the reports heard all over the campus concerning “open house” it was, on the whole, every thing from a “swell deal” to “simply marvelous.” A mysterious occupant of the Chi Psi lodge was contacted and spoke thusly: “Well, I didn’t get drunk, nothing interesting happens unless you’re drunk. But seriously, j I think it (he meant "open house”) ; should be duplicated in the near | future — and — a, I prefer to be ; known as Mr. X.” Sigma N'li Impressed Ellsworth Maas, a Sigma Nu, ^ believes it is a great opportunity to meet all the girls in one house, and mentioned he was impressed with the number of nice girls in the dormitories. “Slick” Ehlers, a fellow Sigma Nu, said he likes the type that says “Chase me, boys, and I’ll run slow,” Don Daniels said, “Open house? Very nice, very nice. You could tell the freshmen because they ran around with lit ; tie notebooks in their hands.” An anonymous Delta Gamma ob served that, as usual, everyone had sore feet. “I had a good time • and think we are fortunate that it didn't rain. Open house is a good idea, you see a lot of old friends that you don’t see otherwise.” G«*t Acquainted Virginia Tooze of the Theta i house thinks it is a wonderful way for freshmen to get acquainted with each other. “It’s invaluable in that way. I think the idea that “open house" is hard to take is mainly a lot of talk. Everyone here had fun.” “I had fun, but it was sort of tiring,” spoke Bud Mathe, a Sig ma Chi. Another voice from the Sigma Chi house said he thought the best music was at Hendricks hall, and it was really a pretty good deal there. A Gamma Phi pledge, Connie Averill, answered, “I thought it was wonderful. I had lots of fun. There should be several 'open houses’ a term.” Delt Dissatisfied A Delt who prefererd to keep * his name a deep, dark, secret real ly vented his feelings. “It’s a stu pid ideal! Who can get acquainted in ten minutes per house? The wo men get so tired they're unreeep tive. All ‘open house’ gives you is sore feet and a headache. The street lights aren’t bright enough so you can write down a girl’s name when you get outside. And it's poorly arranged—all the fel lows stay in one house toward the end of the evening and you not only have your own dear fraternity brothers cutting in on you but a lot of other guys chopping around!” Elvid Steele of the Kappa Sigs only partly agreed with Mr. Delt. “It’s a very good deal, and quite well organized, but I thought it broke up too eariv. After 10:30 the J organization fell apart." “Toots” Delighted “It was a big night, somebody called me ‘Toots,’ ” said Arvilla Bates, a Chi Omega. "There were a lot more people than last year. I think some of the houses shouldn't have stayed over so long.” Sam Knight of the Betas admit ted he didn’t remember all the houses, “but they tell me I had a good time. I didn’t get any dates as yet, but put some ideas away for future reference.” Dawn Corey, Tri Delt, mentioned that the general concensus of opin ion at her house was that "open house” should have been split up into two nights. A Kappa, Betty Morfitt, agreed with the horde who called it a great success. She said, however, that as the evening progressed there seemed to be a tendency to move for the stairs. Dogs Bark “My dogs are still barking! But I did enjoy it," said Nancy Lewis, Chi O pledge. Along the way a new “fratern ity" was discovered. A body oi young men, the Alpha Sigmas, fa vored the girls’ houses with un expected visits. The membership numbered around six. So another "open house" wendec its way into history. And don’t let anyone tell you this one wasn’t I historical! AWS Fair Will Offer Knowledge Campus Clothing Acceptable Attire For Participants Fellows! Get out those dirty cords. Coeds! Dust off those wood en shoes and prepare to get an all around college education in one evening. Where? At the ‘‘College Fair,” the AWS carnival, October 28. Anything from coonskin coats to anklesox will be in order, and the coeds won’t disapprove of those dirty cords for one evening. Here’s your chance to wear your most collegiate attire without re ceiving any ridicule from either sex. Food Booth Planned A highlight of the evening will be the AWS food booth, with that speaker of speakers, Phil Barrett as the typical Joe College doing the "Barking.” Phil has promised to wear the latest thing in the col lege man’s attire. A jitterbug con test will also be held with the "hot test hoofers” on the campus com peting. Co-chairmen, Sally Mitchell and Barbara Stallcup stated today that the biggest attraction of the car nival will be kept secret until fur ther notice. The girls did announce the decorations of McArthur court. "It will be decorated in University of Oregon colors, while in con trast, the booths will each repre sent a college,” they said. (Please turn to page four) CAMPUS CALENDAR Luncheon at Westminster house at noon. Reserve places before 9 o’clock. Worship committee meets at 7:30 at. Westminster house. Heads of houses will meet to day at 4 in Gerlinger hall. WAA will hold a tea Wednes day from 4 to 6 o’clock for all freshman girls. AWS assembly scheduled for Thursday has been postponed until November 9. Nominations for the Prosh com mission of the YWCA will be held in the “Y” bungalow today at 4. Soph nominations will be held at 5. Phi Theta meets at 5 o’clock to day in the men’s lounge of Ger linger.