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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1939)
The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the University of Oregon, published daily dur ing the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, and final examination periods. Subscription rates: $1.25 per term and $3.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Ore. Represented for national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC., college pub lishers’ representative, 420 Madison Ave., New York—Chicago—Boston—Los Angeles—San Francisco— Portland and Seattle. Editor, BUD JERMAIN Manager, GEORGE LUOMA Lyle Nelson, Managing Editor Rita .Wright, Adv. Mgr. • Upper News Staff Helen Angell, News Editor George Pasero, Co-sports Editor. Elbert Hawkins, Co-sports Editor. Marge Finnegan, Women’s Editor. Betty Jane Thompson, Chief Night Editor. Jimmie Leonard, Assistant Managing Editor. Hal Olney, Assistant Managing Editor. Charles Kenyon, Photographer. upper Business nuui Jean Crites, National Advertising Manager. Mary Ellen Smith, Assistant Frederick Ehlers, Classified Manager. Jim Gieeson, Assistant. Earl Maize, Merchandising Manager. Ray Cook, Assistant. Herb Anderson, Circulation Manager. Janet Farnham, Executive Secretary Square Pegs-or, Down in Front ORE than one beating was taken at ITay ■LTJ- ward field Saturday. Probably the most spectacular happened on the gridiron. Ibit one equally as legitimate was dealt out in front of the Oregon stands, with the long suffering rally committee on 1he receiving The boys and girls in white had a tough time. Saturday was a bad afternoon lor them. They stood out in front, facing the crowd, and tried heroically to do their job as they saw it, but it was no use. They got nowhere. The same thing happened at the Stanford game in Portland two weeks before. The rally committee was out in front, but 1he results they got were no better than Saturday s; and Oregon won that day. Before this goes a word farther it should be made clear it is no blanket indictment of 1hc rally committee. They are as hard working as anyone could be under the cir cumstances. Put any assortment of typical Oregon boys and girls out front in a like spot and 1 lie same tiling will happen. And in a way it is a good thing it does happen, for it just goes to show 1 hat the rally com mittee, never designed for such a purpose, should not be expected to act as a crew of minor yell kings and queens. end. JT is only in the last hvn nr Hirer years Hint 1 lie rally eoinmiltee lias been expected In take over Ibis function. Formerly the group was primarily an organizational body, whose main function was to promote rallies and rally functions, in close cooperation with the yell king. The rally committee planned and led parades, and it worked up various stunt,.4 to put the campus into the mood before the game. At games their appearances were few, and were of the type of the OSC game here two years ago, when they appeared with a truck bearing a cow, while from the truck they tossed ears of corn in the husk into the crowd. Not exactly Hie most delicate piece of promoting imaginable, but definitely on the lively side. In recent years it has become virtually a favorite sport to attack the rally committee for one reason or another. Only last year the organization of the rally committee was in corporated into the AHUO code after an in tensive study of the systems of other schools. This year was to have been different. This year has been different, as far as last: year s complaints are concerned. The commit tee is better organized, and it operates more efficiently. But the fact remains that it is being asked that for which it was never in tended at the tilin' of its origination. # # # * | MlhiRE may be some kind of reasoning which will take the rally committee out of the doghouse. If there is it should be brought out before very much longer. There is no point to wasting the energies of such a group on n job 1 hey should not be attempting to do. If the chief duty of a rally committee is to get out before a rooting section and bring their hands together when the band plays, in order that, rooters will know they should clap, then what on earth are the yell king and Ids two assistants for? It would seem that the yell trio should be able to handle this none so-diffieldt assignment. The (dapping of hands together is not so complex an art that it must be demonstrated in multiplicity each time there is a need for Ibis type of action. Granted the rally committee is a colorful group in their white sweaters with their clev er ]it Mo emblems. Granted they are a pretty good sample of collegiana for rally purposes. Hut might they not serve equally as well without having to do the type of thing they have been doing? About all this large group in front accomplishes now is the confusion of the rooters, who get in the habit of waddl ing nearly a score of white-clad figures in stead of two or three main leaders. 'I'llis can certainly be no aid to harrassed yell leaders, who always need every bit of attention, every break they can get. Now they are lost in the white crowd. 'T'llI'jRE is willmuf ;i don)>t a need for such an organization ns a rally committee; nlherwise il would not he 1 lie rule for every school 1o have them. There is much such a committee can do to help lessen the harden of the yell king, and to go where he cannot reach. Hut it would seem that something should he done to find the best possible1 place for the committee. The problem is not actually a matter for the entire AMTTO to decide. It should he worked out between the yell king and the rally committee chairman, who should see the handwriting on the wall and attempt what common sense dictate's — namely the with drawal of the committee from yell leading capacities. After all. the rally committee setup in the ANU() code is very liberal about the how of I he committee's work, and there is nothing anywhere which declares exactly what the committee is to do, beyond “arousing enthus iasm, '’ or souk* such phrase. The rally committee would probably wel come the chance to direct its energies to chan nels in which they do some real good, while tin1 net result in the long run might be smoother operation of the whole “rah-rah” set up. At least there is room for adjustment, and il the boys and girls in white do not belong “out front” a better place should be found for them. How No May Become Yes in Football 1 111 11 ill'" Kiimr mm^s HixHU iiny Saturday is how different il can look the following Monday; this can also be endorsed for Tuesday. This principle works out espe cially in the case of last Saturday and today. When the Oregon crowd left the stands Saturday they carried with them the memory ot a reverse which had dealt a sharp blow to visions of the rosiest, season in many a long year at Webfootland. It was a dark day. Then came the steadying influence of time, here it is Tuesday, and it begins to look as if there might be a few rays of sunshine peeping through the gloom clouds. Instead of all being lost it would seem that nothing is lost, and indeed something gained. The gain apparent by Tuesday morning can be summed up in one word-—psychology. So the big Webfoot machine took a whacking. Fine. They have taken it at the most likely time, just alter sueeesstully going through three tough, far more important, weeks. The letdown was feared, that it came on a Satur day when a non-conference opponent was at hand was a stroke of fortune. To forget the previous three weeks in the face of one king's-x defeat would be foolish— the Webfoots must have something or they would never have been able to stand Southern California, Stanford, and California on their successive ears. That something is still there. . While no one would be willing to say the . ueieai was aeiuany inviieu, n oan sun no written otT as a good tliinpr, for if ever there was a right time to lose, Saturday was it. Now the psychological effect is l-ijyht, and To\ Olivet* dotes on psychology, as do so many wise coaches. 1'he Wehfoots, now that they have been bitten, should be in fine men tal shape to go ahead and win from now on. — ^^"OT to be lost sight of among all the hap penings of the first game of the season on Hayward field is the fitting manner of tlie introduction of Oregon's first drum majoress, \\ hoover figured out the huge paper duck on wheels is in lint* for congratulations for an imaginative piece of work. Rumor has it that it was Los 1 larger, past master of baton swinging and assistant educational manager on the side. When the girl burst through the paper back of the stunt bird to take her place at I the head of the band it was certain that she had the attention of every pair of eyes at the stadium. And trom then on slit* was a watched woman. Somehow in the flush of victory over win- | liing the right for her to appear, we person ally overlooked the thought of the manner ot her introduction to the public. Apparent I v those most directly concerned overlooked nothing. They did a good job. I Onceover Lightly By SALLY MITCHELL, PAT TAYLOR Jim Goodhew, l»»tr bashful SAK, sent his pin to Arizona— and not lor its health, either. It was for Ruth Tus‘in, wh . golfed her way to his heart here last year. Phil Bladine has been trekking over to our sister institution to see somebody’s sister. Her name is Mary Conlin, and she's a Kap pa. The gals have lined up Minno the Mystic, who will tell fe.rtunes at the AWS rarnical, and from what we hear Minno’s a marvel. See you at the carnival. And the jitterbug contest should he interesting, what with all these dancing Californians. See you at the carnival. Rush week isn’t over for Bet ty Austin yet for she’s been get ting the rush from some of the campus’ likeliest. And Sherman YVctmore is the latest likely. The Phi Delt barn looks an awful lot like an ice cream sandwich. Mary Booth, Theta, thinks it’s all very nice having another Mary (Kay) Booth on the cam pus, but she’s getting tired of receiving congratulations for the latter’s 4-point. We’ll be darned if we would. Pin Patter: Alpha Chi's Pearl Buckler now has Rived Steele’s Kappa Sig pin. The Sue Peil-Ralph Rafferty romance is no more. And we al ways liked that combination. Stella Jean Ingle, Chi Omega, returned Bill Cardinal’s SAE pin. Yell King Bob Klliott has his pin back again from Mary Jane Shaw, Kappa. Wonder why, cause Mary Jane is quite Kappa tivating, to say the least. Snatched right out of circula tion is John Koppen, adonis of the Sigma Nu house (well, one of them), who stayed home from the concert Friday night to plant his pin on Jeanne Fllcher, DG. Sallies Down Our Alley: Could it have been Lorraine Hixson at the Tibbett concert with Speech Instructor Hanna ? Mary Storkerson, looking as voguish as ever, was at the park Saturday night. Among the out - of - towners here for the Gonzaga game were: Jack Wagstaff, Ruth Tawney, Homey dePittard, and Henry Camp. Betty Buchanan was at the park with Bill Van Dusen, Sig ma Nu, since the anti-Pickett ordinance took effect. Betty Jean DeArmond, Tri Delt, can't make up her mind between SAE's Jim Mamie and Frank Meek. But she doesn’t have to because the boys work together very nicely in sending ler mums and stuff. Sign on a Farmer’s Fence: Notis: Trespassers will be prosecuted to the full extent of two mongrel dogs wliieh aint Students Fear War Declared After Blackout University students found themselves in the dark last night at approximately 5:40. Cobwebs that had gone unno ticed heretofore were suddenly discovered (on the ceiling lights) and Edison's invention in general had not been given so much thought for some time. The trouble, according to Mr. [II. P. Currin, superintendent of the electric department of the | Eugene Water Board was a tree : down on the west side of town (Second and Polk to be exact). Lights were out for about CO seconds on the campus but it was nearly 20 minutes before all ' of Eugene was out of darkness. I I never been too soschiable with strangers and one dubble brr’ld shotgun which aint loaded with sofa pillows. Dam if I aint get tin' tired of this hell raisin’ around my place. Goodbye. OSC Honorary To Visit UO Members of Kwama tomorrow night will entertain Talons, OSC honorary for sophomore women, at a joint meeting in Gerlinger hall. The meeting of the two women’s lionoraries will mark the reviving of an old custom of exchanging ac tivity ideas of the two schools. The Kwama quintet will sing a group of Oregon songs, and dis J cussion plans for the year will be led by the Talons and Kwama i presidents. Copy Desk Staff: Don Goodall, copy editor Wes Sullivan Howard Caudle Mary Ann Campbell Bernard Engel Jack Buker Helen Moore Business Promotion Staff: Kathleen Brady, Chairman Dorothy Horn Evelyn Nelson Joan Stinnette Kennett Lawrence Business Office Secretaries: Billie Wade Sue Ehrhardt Boyd Copenhaver Special Accounts: Arthur Haines Rhea Anderson, Chairman Lynn Johnson Don Brinton Executive Secretaries: Arvilla Bates Priscilla Gilmore Night staff: Kent Stitzer, Night Editor. Phyllis Shaffer Jean Dunn. Bernard Engel Priscilla Gilmore The SHOW OFF By NORMAN FOSTER Buy America! . . . We hear from home that one of Hollywood’s better evangelists is advocating that no loyal American would think of going anyplace oth er than to an American heaven or hell. Well, we’re not sure about an American heaven but we’re posi tive about the place in the other direction—counta cause we know several people that have been re ferred to said location when late for a date or forgetting the girl's name at an exchange dessert. Waxworks! . . . Hoagy Carmichael has at last written what is publicized as a sequel to “Stardust.” The so-called “sequel” is “Lilacs in the Rain” and is a smooth number, but to us nothing could compare to the im mortal “Stardust.” Perhaps best of the current waxings of Car michael’s latest is Horace Heidt’s treatment for Columbia. Larry Cotton’s vocalizing makes the re coiding top sentimentality. . . . “Lcve Never Went to College” is B. Goodman’s most recent effort for swing lovers. Recorded for Co lumbia, this tune is outstanding mainly because of Louise Tobin’s warbling and some fine solo pas sages. The words are clever, espe cially so the title. Perhaps condi tions are different at other col leges. but we’re certain that love never enrolled at Oregon. . . . It’s doubtful that the musical score from Walt Disney’s “Pinocchio” will ever achieve the recognition that rewarded the tunes from "Snow White.” However, Kay Kay ser is willing to take a chance and has waxed “Honest John” and “Monstro the Whale.” Eternal Youth! . . . It would seem that nothing grows old in Hollywood. As evi dence, the announcer for Earl Car rol’s continues to eulogize “the new theatre restaurant." Carrol’s has been open at least a year, which is a novelty in itself! Our Team Is Red Hot! . . . At the football game Saturday, someone complained that the new drum majoress should be penalized for backfield in motion. Surprise! . . . Marquee billing in Oakland reads: “When Tomorrow Comes,” “Un expected Father.” Thoughtful! . . , Thoughtful was the caption the Oregonian ran with Ed Reed’s car toon of yesterday morning. It was something about “hope you can drive down for homecoming, dad. I'll need the car, you know.” All of which isn't a bad idea. Airplanes (Continued from pape three) will in turn lower plane costs,” Hunt pointed out. Because of the time spent in teaching each student, it is ex pected that the quality of airplane pilots in the United States will be raised. Eleven thousand students are re ceiving flight instruction this year as a result of the establishment of the flight program. When I played football for Oregon, bread was a big part of our diet. Bread is a basic energy food. Energize with more bread from William s Bakery. IvxiliamA That Good Bread Dean Jewell, Stetson Travel Educators to Talk On High School Administration Dean James Ralph Jewell and Professor Fred Lea Stetson of the school of education will leave Thursday, October 26, for Mon tana where Dean Jewell will lec ture and Professor Stetson will conduct demonstrations for the school administrations. Dean Jewell will speak at Liv ingston and Miles City. As a rep resentative for the Cooperative Study of Secondary School Stand ards, Professor Stetson will famil iarize the Montana administrators with the new procedure in evaluat ing secondary schools. Professor Stetson is one of the eight men in the United States appointed to the cooperative study group. “Democracy and Education” and “Froebel's Forgotten Philosophy” will be the topics of Dean Jewell’s lectures. Whiting Williams, indus trial consultant and lecturer, will speak with Dean Jewell on his tour. Professor Stetson is planning to discuss the cooperative study be fore divisional meetings of the Montana Educational association. The three sectional meetings are to be at Missoula, Great Falls, and Livingston. Following the discus sion meetings, there will be a di rect evaluation of the high schools at Glasgow and Havre. Dean Jewell and Professor Stet son will return early next week. Scholarship Contest Open to Students Interested in Flying A scholarship contest open to all college students has been an nounced by United Air Lines Trans port corporation, sponsors of a yearly contest. Detailed informa tion concerning rules of the com petition is available at President Erb's office in Johnson hall. Four awards will be made to students submitting the best treat ises on some technical or non technical aeronautical subject. Winners of these awards may take their choice of the following sub jects taught at the Boeing School c£ Aeronautics in Oakland: airline operations and engineering; ain < transport engineering; airline pi lot and engineering; airline tech nician; airline meteorology; air line mechanic and operations; air line mechanic. Papers will be judged on origin a 1 i t y, completeness, soundness, success of analysis and conclusions, merit of the paper as a composi tion and the choice of subject. 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