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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1939)
LIBRARY TODAY'S EDITS: Shaw in Johnson A Good Start Eight Ball CAMPUS PAGE FOUR: ■ 'Arms and the Man' Flying Coeds Libe Gets Books NUMBER 34 VOLUME XLI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1939 Theme of Dad Fete Revealed Banquet Will Show U's Opportunities; All Parents Invited By DICK WILLIAMS A cross section of the oppor tunities offered at the University of Oregon will be the theme of the annual banquet of the Portland unit of the Oregon Dads to be held at the Congress hotel on December 1, stated Dean Vincent, president of the organization, last Friday while he was in Eugene for the homecoming festivities. * Students of the University are asked to encourage their parents to attend the banquet, Mr. Vincent said, because “there are numerous opportunities offered at Oregon to day that many parents of those students now attending are ignor ant of.” It is his hope that mothers and dads of children of high school age will also attend as they will be able to obtain an excellent in side view of the University’s cur ricular and extra-curricular ac tivities. This year there will be the larg est delegation of faculty members present. On hand to give their points of view will be President Donald M. Erb, Vice-President Burt Brown Barker, Chancellor Frederick M. Hunter, Employment Secretary Janet Smith, Coaches G. A. “Tex” Oliver and Howard Hobson, Dean Virgil D. Earl, Dean Hazel P. Schwering, the deans of the various schools, and many other faculty members. In past years the banquet was strictly for the dads but this year due to the importance of the occa sion the mothers are cordially in vited to attend. The charge for ad mission has been reduced from $1 to 50 cents per person. There have been 875 invitations printed which will be sent to every body within the Portland area that is or would be interested in the University. Mr. Vincent expects 500 or more to attend, and said, “the dinner, will be the biggest one of its nature ever held in Port land and I hope that everybody will be able to be there.” War Honorary ' To Initiate Six Six ROTC seniors received offi cial notice last week of being pledged to Scabbard and Blade, military honorary, it was an nounced yesterday by Harry Milne, captain of the local Scabbard and Blade company. The new pledges are Roger Con rad, Don Davis, Bob Herzog, Bob Jolly, Don M a r c y, and Rich Werschkul. The new men were voted in a week ago, but formal notifications have just been released. Scabbard and Blade elects on military ex cellence, outstanding character, grades, and University activities. Scabbard and Blade will meet this week, Milne said, to decide on plans for the initiation of the six . neophytes. Sig Eps Host to 20 At Goose Dinner Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity entertained 20 guests at a goose dinner Sunday afternoon at the chapter house. Eighteen geese were brought up from Klamath lake by Clayton W. Reber and Bill Tiser of Klamath Falls. Reber is a brother of Ehle Reber, Sig Ep at the University. Among those present were Nel lo Giovanini, coach at Toledo high school and former Oregon football star, A1 Long, former chapter president, now coaching at Glen dale, Ed and August Schlesser of Portland, Cliff Morris, also a for mer Oregon football player, and Don Johnson, interfraternity council president and Sig Ep pres ident in 1937. Duck Emmons vs. Beaver Kohler The lad all set to dump Frank Emmons, Oregon fullback, in the above action "shot of* last'Saturday’s grid “civil war” is Vic Kohler, Orangeman. Behind Kohler are Beavers Sears and Leovitch. Oregon State Group Will Be Here Today AWS Delegates Will Discuss Convention Plans for Next Spring; 200 Women From 11 Western States Expected Plans for the spring- convention of AWS members will be discussed as delegates from Oregon State college are honored guests at a mass Associated Women Students meeting in Gerlinger hall at 4 o’clock today. The convention will be held in the spring with representatives from the 11 western states meeting on the Oregon campus. Approximately Starting Gun Prepared For Flyers Safety Will Be Most Important Factor of Course Individual flying schedules for instruction in the air are being worked out by flying school heads, indicating that the time when flight students will cease to be earthbound is in sight, according to information received from Carl ton E. Spencer, head of the flying course, yesterday. Definite word concerning the start of actual air instruction is expected from Washington, D. C., in about a week. Since the first flying school class several weeks ago, neophyte birdmen have been asimilating facts and data in all phases of flight and are poised for the “go ahead” signal to get into the air. Three times a week they will take over the controls of the Cub trainers for one-half hour periods. After twenty-four half-hour ses sions of flying time, full one hour periods will come into effect. The (Please turn to page two) 200 girls are expected. Delegates from the Beaver col lege to the meeting today will be: the Corvallis AWS council, Mrs. Kate Jameson, dean of Women, and Mrs. Lorna Jessup, assistant dean of women. They will be hon ored at a tea given by Phi Theta Upsilon, junior women’s honorary, after the tea. A highlight of the day’s program will be Jerry Gilmore, a freshman from Oregon State, who will speak on her experiences in Germany. Miss Gilmore has attended "school in Germany for the past two years and during her stay there met Hitler, Goebbels, and other important Nazi figures. Mortar Board, senior girls’ hon orary, will also take this oppor tunity to present their plaque to the three girls who received the highest freshman grades last year. Jeannette Hafner, prexy, will make the awards. Mrs. Hazel J. Schwering, dean of women, has invited the AWS councils from both schools and the other Oregon State guests to a buffet supper at her home to round out the day’s activities. Library Has Visitor An interested visitor to the li brary Saturday was Miss Janet Walker, the librarian of Multno mah college, Portland. Miss Walk er was a graduate of Reed college and the University of Washington library school. American Ballet Caravan To Perform November 20 By RAY SCHRICK Boasting an all-American troupe and a program of all-American dances, Lincoln Kirstein, director of the Ballet Caravan, will present his nationally-hailed organization for the approval of University of Oregon students, Monday, Novem ber 20, in McArthur court. The group comes as a presenta tion of the ASUO and will be free to those posessing student body cards. Kirstein’s troupe is on its second transcontinental tour and this will be its first stop in Eu gene. Three dance concoctions will compose the program. They are •‘Debutante,” “Filling Station,” and “Billy the Kid." Each is based on life and folk-lore in this coun try and strives to carry out in an American way the work of French and Russian ballets. These numbers, according to re ports, have been hailed from coast to coast by critics as “vigorously different.” They are specially de signed in every detail and are humorously entertaining. Director Kirstein is an author of several critical books on the ballet and is a leading exponent of na tive American dance. He has been recognized as an expert in his line since the early 20’s. Anyone not possessing an ASUO card may purchase a ticket at the student body ticket office in Mc i Arthur court. UO Drum Major Plenty 'Hot' At OSC Game The old circus maxim which declares that “the show must go on” has its place in the baton twirling business, too. Just ask Les Harger. Oregon’s popular drum major, who thrilled 21,000 football fans Saturday with his spectacular fire-band twirling, today rests in the Sigma Chi house with his arm in a sling, due to severe second-degree burns. The heavy oil padding on the fire brand which reach farther up the stick than usual in order to “make the act livelier,” swept a flame across the genial ma jor’s hand, and throughout the act his hand was being seared. Les’ opposite hand was slight ly burned as he left the sta dium, when he grabbed the stick to avoid letting flames fall on spectators nearby. Last night Harger was quite definite about the baton-twirl ing business. “I’m through,” he declared. But he smiled when he said it. Field Narrowed In SX Contest Five finalists were named Friday by the Oregon chapter of Sigma Chi as competition in their annual sweetheart contest went into its final stages. Named to enter the final lap from the 40 freshman coeds orig inally entered were Pat Nelson, Pi Beta Phi; Jean Morrison, Delta Delta Delta; Evelyn Nelson, Delta Gamma; Ellen Ann Evans, Kappa Alpha Theta, and Lorabelle Wraith, Chi Omega. Final choice of the active mem bers of Sigma Chi for the 1939 sweetheart will be announced in a special program to be presented by the Sigs over station KORE Thursday night at 10:30. Presi dents of the living organizations which the girls represent will act as an honorary election board. Friday night the girl who re ceives the honor will be feted at a special banquet and pinned with a jewelled white sweetheart cross. She will also be guest of honor for the chapter’s pledge dance on Sat urday evening and will receive a special serenade later in the week. Rare Book Plate Gift Received by Library A rare book plate was received by the library Monday from Wal ter Merriam Pratt. The plate was made by Arthur N. Macdonald, greatest living designer and en graver of book plates. The plate includes a picture of Mr. Pratt’s library and seals of the city of Chelsea, the Mayflower so ciety, the Colonial wars, and the American revolution. Another new edition to the li brary is the 1940 edition of “Who’s Who in Colored America.” Homecoming Success Despite Grid Defeat Weather Curtains Weekend Alumni, Faculty Laud Homecoming As Biggest, Best By JEFF KITCHEN Rain and mist settling clown over the Oregon campus late yes terday provided the final fact for a realization by students that the greatest homecoming in the his tory of the school was really over. As students turned from the gayety and crowded moments of the weekend to the serious, im portant job of classwork, they ex perienced difficulty in settling down. However, with the familiar rain came the feeling that things were again “down to earth.” Homecoming Lauded Not soon to be forgotten, though, with the end of the fine weather which set the stage for the cele bration, was the enthusiasm of thousands of alumni and friends of the University who declared the “Home to Honor Oregon” festiv ities the biggest and best the school has ever seen. Estimates placed the number of campus visi tors who came “home” at between five and six thousand. “I’m sure we’ve never seen a homecoming on the Oregon cam- | pus that could touch the one this year,” was the comment of Elmer Fansett, alumni secretary. “In number, spirit, and enthusiasm, it was the greatest ever.” Students Cooperate Fansett declared that the suc cess of the weekend was due in a very large part to the splendid co operation and effort of students to, make alums realize it was really their weekend. Last year the home coming program came under fire when it was alleged that under graduates really carried on a fun fest for themselves with inade quate attention to the returning guests. "This year the students showed consideration on every turn. A real effort and a good feeling along with the fine work of Eugene peo ple, who sponsored a reception at the armory, combined to produce a top-flight celebration. “Outstanding in their work were the ASUO committees who handled the homecoming program. They were really on the job and deserve a lot of credit right down the line to the worker with the smallest assignment,” he said. Alums Set Record Dean of Personnel Karl W. On thank said it was by odds the best attended homecoming on record. “It is perhaps hard to measure success with numbers, because the spirit has been here before, but it was the largest certainly,” he said. “We hope alums had as good a time as we on the receiving end ” he concluded. Miss Smith Tells of Opportunity to Sell For Senior Students Janet Smith, employment secre tary, announced yesterday that she wants to interview all senior men who have had two or more years of selling experience. She stated that the students must be at least 24 years old and interested in taking up selling for a profession after graduation. Miss Smith also issued notice that as a result of her visit to Seattle last week there is a pos sibility that Boeing Air corpora - tion may find office work for one or two Oregon graduates next spring. Noisiest Noisemakers (Courtesy the Register-Guard) Brothers of Theta Chi garnered the first plaee award for the noisiest float in the rally parode held Friday night as a preliminary event for homeeoniing. This is their seeond straight victory in the annual parade. Staters Rally; Stay ’Home’ For Frivolity Winning Beavers Dance, Honor Grid Captain at Event Oregon very nearly missed a second invasion in two years from the avenging Beaver fans yester day, according to reports issued from the OSC campus last night. Noisy demonstrations and ru mors of a Eugene-ward trek caused President George W. Pea vy to order a cessation of activi ties on the campus from 3 to 6 o’clock yesterday afternoon, while students celebrated their victory with a rally dance in “their own back yard.” Honoring Merle Schultz, cap tain of the winning Oregon State gridiron heroes of Saturday's game, the free rally dance was proposed by the presidents of the interfraKfemity council and the in dependent men’s groups. Invasion Hinted Hints that a second invasion of Eugene to even the score of the ill-fated battle two years ago be (I’lease Ini n to page two) Back to Nature Noisy Beavers Tossed in Race Everyone lias heard of beavers but how many Oregon students have ever seen them in their natural habitat? Saturday night the nature lov ing Kappa Sigs decided to dump a few of the little creatures into the millrace, in order to study them in their natural environ ment. At 1:30 a.m., after the home coming dance, the quiet night air surrounding the Alder street bridge was shattered by hoots and chortles issuing from the happy throats of OSC support ers. Kappa Sigs, whose sleep was disturbed and whose school spirit was aroused, blocked the bridge and, on their next trip around, the little Beavers found them selves trapped. At this point the Kappa Sigs pounced and with much dispatch “depantsed” the noisy offenders and consigned them unpityingly I to the icy waters of the millrace. It is open to question whether the noisiest noise parade in Ore gon history was a success or not. At the very peak of the din (probably just as the Theta Chis were passing) a tiny baby was seen in his father’s arms, sound asleep. YMCA’s History Outlined; Many Activities Open to Men The YMCA—a Christian organ ization for the students, of the students, and by the students. That very appropriately describes Oregon’s “Y” group. Its entire program is planned and executed by University stu dents, committees, commissions, and various councils are appoint ed by student officers, and Lho group represents, all in all, a broad fellowship of Christian thought. Three Commissions The “Y” has three commissions. First, commission on building a life philosophy seeks to arrive at a definite meaning of life and its relation to us; second, commis sion on personal and social rela tions discusses problems intimate ly and honestly that deal with so cial life; third, commission on eco nomic, political, and social prob lems concerns itself with an intel ligent analysis of the forces of the world. Don Walker is chair man of this last committee. A Town Hall discussion group, under the direction of Milton Small, meets every Thursday at 6:30 to hear the national radio program of political events and conducts its own discussion. Four Committees There are, in addition to tiiese functions, four large student com mittees. A committee on campus relations is offered those interested in the problems of campus or ganization; committee on student faculty relation, under Wayne Kelty and Bob Lovell, co-chair men, makes an attempt to bring the faculty into more human con tact with students. Larry Hopkins’ committee on creative leisure proposes recrea tional activities for members; and committee on conferences and re treats, with Henry Carr, chair man, plans participation in re gional conferences and local re treats. There is a freshman council that assists freshmen students in mak ing an intelligent and constructive adjustment to the problems of col lege life, and also many organiza tional committees. An advisorj board, composed of faculty, stu dents, and Eugene business mer are responsible for the genera welfare of the YMCA. Any student is welcome to joir the “Y” and he may enter intc any of these group activities. Officers of the organization arc Frank McKinney, president Wayne Kelty, vice-president; anc Dave Knox, secretary. OSC Cops Civil War Decision 21,000 Fans View Outstanding Game Of Recent Years By RAY FOSTER The Beaver is still king. least for another year. The val iant Duck went down to defeat, 19 to 14 Saturday, but he isn’t ashamed of it. And the 21,000 fans who saw the “civil war’’ battle can say the game was the most exciting they ever saw. Coach Lon Stiner pushed his; way through his jubilant Ore gon State team that were swarming all over Hayward field, to shake the hand of Coach Tex Oliver, and the wild est game seen in these parts for a long time was over. After a four year drought, Oregon did score twice, but it, wasn’t enough. Story Told A recovered fumble, a blocked kick, and a 93-yard return of a kick-off, and there you have the story of victory for the Beavers, Two long passes gave OregoD two scores, and the fans watching them heart failure. Oregon State had seven points before the game had hardly start ed. A Bob Smith fumble on Ore gon’s second play of the game ended in the hands of an OSC man on the UO 13. On fourth down, Halfback Bob Olson threw a short pass to George Peters on the 10, and the signal caller scampered over the goal. Younce converted. The rest of the quarter was a battle between the 45-yard lines. Beavers chalked up three points on an 18-yard field goal by Younce the middle of the second period. OSC got down to the nine yard on a drive that started with a blocked kick of Len Isberg’s. Webfoot Aroused Those points made the Webfoots awfully mad, and they wasted no time in closing in on the Beavers. On the first play after the kick off, Lefty Bob Smith dropped back 15 from his own 34 and tossed a wobbly pass to the Jackrabbit, Jay Graybeal, who snagged the pork hide between two OSC men on the 32. He went 28 more to the four. That catch topped all the catch es of the year as far as Oregon fans are concerned. First Jay went up in the air with the two oppo nents, then came down underneath (Please turn to page three) I l CAMPUS . CALENDAR YMCA cabinet meeting at 5 o’clock today. Hockey practice is scheduled for Gerlinger hall at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. A luncheon will be held at Westminster house tomorrow at noon. Committee in charge \0ill present proposed program for rest of term. There will be a short meeting of Tau Delta Chi in 101 Cora* merce at 4 p.m. today. There will be a Delta Phi Alpha meeting Tuesday at 7:15 p.m. in Friendly hall. ,