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Engelke Wins
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VOLUME XLI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1939
NUMBER 39
Board
Approves
Contracts
Eugene, Portland,
Medford Firms
To Print Oregana
What the Board Did:
1. Heard homecoming report.
2. Approved concert of Eugene
Gfeemen.
3. Discussed increasing' number
of Emeralds printed daily.
4. Let Oregana contracts for
virtually all mechanical work.
The 1J40 Oregana took a long
step forward yesterday when con
tracts for job work on the book
passed through the educational
| activities board in a special meet
ing called primarily to consider
contract bidss.
Contracts for cover, printing,
binding, lithography, color pho
tography, and engraving were let
to firms in Eugene, Portland, and
Medford, after consideration of
bids which in most cases included
two and three firms.
Cover Contract Let
Cover lithography contract went
to Bushong and company, Port
land, only bidder. Printing and
binding, Shelton, Turnbull, Fuller,
of Eugene. Lithography, Bushong
and company. Color photographs
will be handled by Marshall
Smith, and Leonard of Medford.
Engraving will be done by Hicks
Chatten, Portland.
The board also heard a sales re
port by Dick Williams, Oregana
business manager, who told of spe
cial sales to outside organizations
for University promotional pur
poses. A set figure, total number
of books to be printed, was decid
ed on.
Root Reports on Homecoming
The meeting, an afternoon spe
cial. opened with a partial report
on homecoming by George Root,
manager of educational activities.
Incomplete returns show a suc
cessful weekend, Root reported.
A concert by the Eugene Glee
men for February 20 was ap
proved as an added ASUO attrac
tion.
For the second consecutive
meeting, the question of whether
to print more Emeralds each day
came up before the board. Emer
ald Business Manager George Lu
oma appeared with figures show
ing the number printed with dis
tribution facts. The matter was
finally turned over to J. O. Lind
strom, University business mana
ger, for investigation with power
^ to act.
Frost Appointed
The appointment of Jim Frost
as Emerald advertising manager
was approved.
The board also voted to approve
a San Carlo opera company ap
pearance in McArthur court early
in spring term, the project to be
an independent non-ASUO feat
ure.
Dr. Earl M. Pallett, chairman,
presided.
Shaeffer Contest Won
By Grad, Jay Wilson
Jay Wilson, graduate student in
business administration, has just
been notified that he was winner of
Shaeffer Pen company’s “Colle
giate Carry-about Radio Contest”
on this campus.
For completing the sentence,
“Sheaffer's fineline pencil is best
for classroom notes because . .
he won a new portable General
Electric radio given by the pen
manufacturing company.
The radio was presented by the
University Co-op which handles
Sheaffer’s products locally.
Propeller Club Will
Hold Inspection Tour
Members of the campus Propel
ler club wall meet in Portland at
the American-Hawaiian Steamship
company terminals Friday morn
ing, November 24 at 10 o’clock.
The group will make an inspection
tour of the port facilities of Port
land harbor.
The regular Wednesday meeting
of the club has been canceled be
cause of Thanksgiving vacation.
Pranksters Go
To Extremes
In Fun-Making
“Never mind, dears. If anyone
should kidnap you he'd drop you
under the first arc light." Thus
spoke members of Kappa Alpha
Theta as they dressed their two
fashion mannequins and set
them out in the front yard for
part of their homecoming play.
But in the night came some
prinksters who whisked away
the mannequins and now the
sorority members are preparing
to drape their treasury in black
and go into mourning, for unless
the figures are returned the so
rority will be obliged to pay $70
for them. Pranks to the tune of
$70 become something more than
good clean fun but the Thetas
are willing to overlook this if
only they could find their man
nequins back in their front yard
some morning.
Here Tonight
Miss Dunham Will
Tell Experiences
Miss Patricia Dunham, who has
just returned from a hostel trip
through the countries of Europe,
will tell of interesting experiences
which she had in contacting the
common people of the nations now
locked in war at a special meeting
tonight in Gerlinger hall.
All members and friends of the
University Student club, local di- i
vision of the National Hostel asso
ciation, are invited to attend the
gathering which will convene on
the third floor of the upper cam
pus hall at 7:30.
Miss Dunham was in Paris when
the war broke out. She spent last
year in traveling the picturesque
lanes of the continent over the j
paths of the Youth Hostel associa
tion. She is a Seattle girl and ar
rived home at the northwest city
only a week ago because of delay
caused by war conditions.
Since that time she has been
busy with interviews and Youth
Hostel club meetings, having ad
dressed the “pedal pushers” at
Reed college only last Saturday.
Local Hostel club plans will also
be discussed, and all interested in
either the address by Miss Dun
ham or hostel work are especially
invited to attend.
'Y' Group Arranges
For Fireside Chats
Oregon's YMCA committee on
student-faculty relations recently
completed arrangements for speak
ers who will lead fireside discus
sion groups this term, Paul Sutley,
executive secretary, announced
yesterday.
The body, according to Mr. Sut
ley, is now contacting various or
ganized living groups on the cam
pus for places to conduct the meet
ings. This committee will discuss
topics of mutual interest to stu
dents and faculty members
throughout the year 1939-40.
European
T raveler
Met on Hostel
Northern
Trip Fails
For Band
Five Year Tradition
Broken by Decision
To Stay Home
Any hopes that the University
of Oregon band might attend the
Oregon-Washington grid clash in
Seattle on Thanksgiving day were
decisively squelched last night by
John Stehn, band director, when
he revealed that not enough stu
dents were going to warrant band
attendance.
Anson Cornell, athletic mana
ger, reported last week that 200
students had purchased tickets for
the game. This will be the first
time in five years that the band
has not played for this contest.
The ASUO booth, selling train
tickets for students going home
for the holidays or to the game,
reports that 300 students have
made inquiries concerning train
fares to their homes and to Seat
tle.
Special $2.50 round trip rates
are being featured by Southern
Pacific for Portland-bound Web
foots and $6.50 fares to Seattle
and return.
Dozens of California students
were leaving last night for
Thanksgiving dinner in the South,
while other University enrollees
will leave school tomorrow after
noon following their Wednesday
classes.
Science Board
Finishes Work
The basic science examining
committee of the State Board of
Higher Education has completed
its work on the twelfth semiannual
examination of applicants for the
healing arts certificate, Charles D.
Byrne, secretary of the Board of
Higher Education, announced yes
terday. Sixteen candidates passed
the examination which was given
October 28.
Twice each year this commit
tee examines applicants who con
template practicing one of the
several healing arts in the state
of Oregon. According to law the
examination covers the fields of
pathology, chemistry, physiology,
hygiene, and anatomy. The test,
Mr. Byrne stated, i# a prerequi
site for professional examinations
for practitioners.
In all, 535 have received certifi
cates since the first examination
in February, 1934. The committee
appointed by the State Board of
Higher Education includes N.
Fasten, chairman, Oregon State
college, pathology; L. F. Griffin,
Reed college, anatomy; C. V.
Langton, Oregon State college, hy
giene; J. A. Macnab, Linfield col
lege, physiology; and O. F. Staf
ford, University of Oregon, chem
istry.
There was no meeting of the
Emerald 3 o’clock club this morn
ing.
'Arms and the Man’ Accorded
Three Bells by Campus Critic
By BETTY JANE BIGGS
If we were Jimmy Fidler we
would give “Arms and the Man"
three bells and let it go at that.
Not an outstanding hit such as
the last University theater pro
duction, “Our Town,” “Arms and
the Man,” which closed after a
three-night run Saturday, did
have its good moments.
Either Fred Waller, as Captain
Bluntschli, has not acquired the
sophistication to be at ease in a
lady’s boudoir or else he was suf
fering from an attack of stage
fright for after, well, rather poor
first act, the boy made a comeback
that pushed his other veteran col
leagues hard to keep him from
taking the honors.
Burtenshaw Gets laughs
As a rough, uncouth Bulgarian
soldier, Ed Burtenshaw's appear
ance on the stage was always good
for a laugh or two as he went
through such human gestures as
trying to shake a few more drops
out of an empty cognac bottle or
wiping his lips on the table cloth
following his repast.
With her flaunting of skirts and
subtle leading of the stronger sex
on, Rose Ann Gibson enlivened the
the play in her part of Louka, the
servant “gal,” who gets her man.
The dashing cavalry officer,
Major Saranoff, played his asides
to the audience with more spirit
than he did when facing his fellow
actors. However, his handsome
blondness and flashing smile made
the feminine part of his audience
wish he could have the heroine in
spite of his snake-in-the-grass at
titude to his “high-love.”
Forgetting to act when she
thought the audience was not look
ing at her, Lorraine Hixson as
Raina showed women as they are
—man chasers at heart, in spite
of the sweet retiring exterior.
Butler Cramps Stage
Only appearing on the stage for
brief moments at a time, P. T.
Chiolero, as the family butler gave
a good characterization, although
his six feet, some-odd inches
rather dwarfed the small stage
floor space.
Truly understanding the Shaw
spirit of the play, Charlene Jack
son as Catherine Petkoff, the
mother, really made her satirical
lines jump as she uttered them in
a tone loud enough for McArthur
court instead of the small room of
only 200 seats which the theater
holds.
Don Childers as an officer of
the Bulgarian army walked on.
Nickel Hop to
Follow Holiday
Number of Nickels
To Determine Male
Ground Coverage
The AWS announced Thursday,
November 30, as the date set for
the Nickel Hop. From 6 to 8
o’clock, campus males will troop
from house to house, covering- as
much territory as their pickels
will permit.
The Nickel Hop will be a mod
ern version of the Dime Crawl
with the added attraction of being
easier on the pocketbook.
Every half hour, the floors will
be cleared and a new nickel will
be collected from all those who
wish to continue dancing at the
same house.
Formerly scheduled for tonight,
the 'Nickel Hop was postponed in
a recent AWS meeting to the date
following vacation.
Instructors Elected
To Landscape Group
Associate Professor of Land
scape Architecture F. A. Cuthbert
and David E. Thompson, instructor
of landscape architecture, were
elected to the American Society
of Landscape Architects recently.
Professor A. L. Peck, head of
the department of landscape archi
tecture at Oregon State college,
and Assistant Professor W. Dorr
legg also received notification of
their admittance into the organiza
tion.
All four men were junior asso
ciates of the society since gradua
tion from college. After submitting
many examples of their work, the
men were judged for their know
ledge of the material handed in to
the examination board.
Oh-Oh! War Will 'Depants' Sophomores
By HELEN ANGKLL
Oregon’s Joe College, a la soph
omore, has lost his moleskin trou
sers—and it can all be blamed on
the European war.
University second-year men who
trek down to Eugene clothiers in
the future to buy their traditional
uniform, the soft-surfaced “soph
moleskins,” are going to have a
hard time finding any of them, it
| was disclosed yesterday through a
\ survey of various clothing stores.
English Need Cloth
Although Oregon's self-satisfied
men probably didn’t know' it until
now, they’ve been wearing import
ed cloth in those trousers that are
badges of their sophomoric supe
riority—and the English manufac
turers have decided that they need
their extra cloth worse than Unit
, ed States collegians need their tra
1 ditions.
With the advent of the economic
problem which accompanies a war,
European nations have been cut
ting down on their exports to for
eign countries, dispatches from
wholesalers to Eugene merchants
explain. The moleskin cloth is only
one of the many commodities be
ing hoarded abroad.
One Pair Left
One men’s store last night ad
mitted they had only one pair of
soph pants in stock. Asked if he
thought the situation was to be
permanent, the manager popped
back at the reporter with, “Hold
the line a minute while I put Mr.
Chamberlin on.”
“We can get limited quantities
now,” he said, “but not at prices
anyone would be willing to pay.”
That there is an American sub
stitute for the British cloth was
cited by another store manager,
although he declared that the new
world product “is not as service
able because it does not launder
or dry clean as well.”
The head of another Eugene es
tablishment where they haven’t
been stocking "moleskins” for
some time, recalled that he had
heard the report too that the
American supply from England is
a minus quantity. “The domestic
product that we have here is not
good,” he explained, “because they
don’t seem to have the process as
well developed over here.”
It’s one of Oregon’s most ad
hered-to traditions that the fresh
man fellow wears “tin pants” dur
ing his first year here, and that
when he becomes a sophomore he
dons the softer, dressier “mole
skins.” In his upperclassmen days
he is privileged to wear cords, oi
anything else he chooses for cam
pus wear.
YMCA Cabinet
Plans Retreat
Various Subjects
Of World Interest
Will Be Discussed
Paul Sutley, executive secretary
of ,Jt,he Oregon YMCA, yesterday
announced complete plans for1 the
annual YM-YW cabinet retreat
scheduled the eighth and ninth of
next month.
Members of both groups will
spend two days at the beach and
while there will hold discussions
on various subjects of world inter
est. Faculty members will act as
chaperons for the occasion and
lead informal groups.
Program Given
Complete program is as follows:
Friday, 6:30, dinner; 7:30 to 7:45,
worship under direction of Mary
Wright and Wayne Kelty; 7:45 to
9 discussion under direction of
Dr. Branton, head of the depart
ment of religion, on application of
our religious philosophy; 9 to
10:30, recreation.
Saturday, 7:30, breakfast; 8:30
tc 9, free; 9 to 10:30, discussion on
education led by Professor Cas
teel; 10:30 to 11:30, free; 11:30 to
12:45, lunch; 12:45, discussion by
Professor Arthur Dudley on eco
nomic implications; and 2:30, clos
ing worship under direction of
Miss Wright and Mr. Kelty.
To Chaperon
Chaperons attending include
Professor Casteel and wife, Pro
fessor Dudley and wife, Dr. Bran
ton, Miss Janet Smith, Mrs. Mar
jorie Evans, and Paul Sutley.
Students are Milton Small, Stan
Robinson, Frank McKinney,
Wayne Kelty, Larry Hopkins,
George Luoma, Henry Carr, Bob
Lovell, Dwight Caswell, Betty Lou
j Kurtz, Marjorie Montgomery, and
i Kathleen Erady.
Former UO Student
Reported Acting
In Playhouse Cast
Two University alumni, Elisa
beth Stetson and Doris Wulzen, re
port seeing another well-known ex
1 Oregon student, Smokey Whitfield,
i play the part of “George” in the
; first night performance of "Kiss
| the Boys Goodbye” last Wednesday
; at the Pasadena Play House,
i Scouts for Paramount pictures
i who were also in the audience
' signed the playhouse cast for
spring production of the comedy
; filming of “Wishes to Begin in
j December.”
Smokey will be remembered as
a prominent figure on this campus.
He had one of the leading roles in
the plays “Emperor Jones,” “Noah
Stage Door,” and “With Fear and
Trembling” that were presented by
1 the drama division of the Univer
j sity of Oregon,
Thousands Jam Igloo
For Kirstein’s Caravan
First Flight
Of Fledglings
Scheduled
Student Classes
Will 'Take the Air'
After Thanksgiving
Next Monday, following the hol
iday weekend, the first plane is
schedided to take off from the Eu
gene airport marking the start of
air instruction, it was announced
last night by Carlton E. Spencer,
head of the flying school.
Weeks of red tape came to an
end with a telegram from Wash
ington, D. C., to Flight Operator
Joseph Harrell, in charge at the
field, okaying equipment and per
sonnel.
The flight operator and three
other instructors will give dual
instruction to ten students apiece, i
Taking personal charge of their1
allotted one-fourth of the “Flying
Forty” will be Charles Mears, Rob
ert Meaney, Stephen Hathaway,
and Joseph Harrell, flight instruc
tor.
Ground work was laid for fly
ing to start yesterday, but flight
heads felt that the short week
would disarrange the schedule and
November 27 was set as the of
ficial stalling date.
A carefully mapped out sched
ule will regulate all time in the
air. Each instructor has a book
listing his ten students and the
time they are to report for lessons
and a master schedule for the com
plete class is in Mr. Spencer’s of
fice.
About five minutes from the
campus straight out Thirteenth
street, the airport has been the
scene of intensive activity in prep
aration for the influx of fledglings
and the four 50-horsepower Cub
trainers will be poised at the run
ways early Monday morning.
French Department's
'Grand Illusion'
To Show on Nov. 30
The film, “Grand Illusion,”
which the French department is
showing November 30 in Condon
hall, comes highly recommended by
the New York Times.
On September 18 the Times said,
“If this report has fallen down in
proving that ‘Grand Illusion’ is a
fascinating picture, we claim im
munity on the grounds that many
of its virtues cannot be reduced to
words.”
The tickets are still on sale on
the third floor of Friendly hall.
Showing will be at 4 and 7:30 p.m.
and the price of admission is
25 cents.
Fog Fails to Dampen
Gaiety of Audience
Satire, Burlesque of Ballet Group Proves
Entertaining; Characterization, Costumes
Carry Out Theme of Skits
By GLENN HASSELROOTH
Fog and cold failed to freeze over the gaiety of several thousand
University students and Eugeneans, who turned out to enjoy the pre*
Thanksgiving feast of color and humor which was dished out last night
in McArthur court by artists of the American Ballet Caravan.
Those who came to be exalted by the serious grandeur of tragic
ballet went away disappointed. Those who came simply to be enter
tained, left knowing they had been satirized, laughed at, s,nd bur
Poison, Horses
Land Two Coeds
In Infirmary
Recovering from a hike around
Spencers butte, Lorraine Gjord
ing, member of this year’s Sen
ior Six, declared from her sick
bed in the infirmary where she
is swathed from head to foot in
bandages, ‘‘I am allergic to poi
son oak.”
Her roommate, Elizabeth
Hanchett, is now her ward mate
as a result of a horseback ride.
“We hope to be out by Christ
mas, in spite iof our present
afflictions,” both girls optimist
ically chorused as we left.
Others in the campus hospital
yesterday include: Jack Brown,
Norman Elston, Gertrude Puziss,
Dorothy Davis, Henry Carlson,
Helen Graves, Leland Chase, and
Robert Wilmsen.
Library Receives
New Contribution
A gift for the library was re
ceived Monday from John A. Over
street of Tonkaw, Oklahoma, in
the form of the author’s newest
book, “Song of the Old South
west.”
The book was printed on the Co
operative press in Oklahoma and
was made from photographs of the
typewritten manuscript. Mr. Over
street says in the preface of the
book that it is simple blank verse
on the subject of the old West.
Kiwanis Hear Jewell
Stressing Thanksgiving as a day
of reunion, Dean J. R. Jewell, of
the University school of education
spoke before the members of the
Eugene Kiwanis club Monday noon.
He also mentioned the advan
tages American youth have over
European.
Young People Slight Ballet,
Avers Caravan Director
By JEAN SPEAROW
“Don’t you ever do any serious
work?’’ The question was put to
Mr. Lincoln Kirstein, director of
the Ballet Caravan yesterday as
he speoke to a small group in Ger
linger hall.
“Yes,” he said doubtfully, “we
do a serious kind of work but no
body likes it. Young people are
apt to be too presumptuous and
thus make a serious work into
something ludicrous.”
History of Name Told
When he was asked how the
company got its name, Mr. Kir
stein laughed reflectively. “F'ive
years ago there were only five or
six of us in a bus and we called
ourselves the caravan. Now,
though we’ve graduated to the bag
gage company stage, the name
sticks.”
The dancers in the company arc
till SLUUCIIta III UI1C uv-uv/w*
erican Ballet in New York City.
The school has 125 members and
the company is composed of 11
boys and 13 girls.
“The company,” Mr. Kirstein ex
plained, “is purely professional. I
am afraid I shall have to answer
your questions by saying that we
are not an educational organiza
tion. No, we do not give everyone
a chance at the leading roles. We
are very undemocratic. The best
role goes to the best dancer. We’d
like everyone to be happy but we
don’t care if they’re not.
“We could hardly,” he went on
with a twinkle, “start a perform
ance with a curtain speech saying,
‘You will notice that the leading
role is danced by a young girl who
is not very good but she's really
awfully nice and besides it’s her
turn tonight.’
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lesqued. But they were nonetheless
amused.
As sparkling as the chromium
which Mac, the station attendant
polished, was the first ballet, “Fill
ing Station,” which the audience
liked, and applauded enthusiastic
ally. The story was in the life of
Mac who attempted to be nice to
every one of his fickle customers.
The customers were clever, espe
cially that of the bandit whose
get-up consisted of mask, blue
oiled silk raincoat, and pink-and
purple pajamas. The truck drivers
looked more like bums along the
millrace than anything else, be
cause of the rags they wore.
“Drunks” Prove Comical
The inebriated rich boy and girl
who were responsible for most of
the piece’s comedy were not un
familiar types. The death of the
girl, victim of the ganster’s bullet,
was treated in largely comic fash
ion, rigor mortis setting in almost
immediately.
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CAMPUS
CALENDAR
There will l»e an important meet
ing of all nursing students in Ger
linger hall at 4 o’clock today. Re-,
freshments will be served.
Freshman council of the Oregon
YMCA will not meet this Wednes
day because of Thanksgiving va
cation.
Master Dance meeting this week
will be held this morning at 10
a.m. instead of the usual time. The
school of Master Dance meeting
held regularly on Wednesday will
not be held this week.
A film will be shown at 4 p.m.
today in 101 Gerlinger showing
the field tactics of leading wo
men’s hockey teams.
Phi Theta Upsilon will meet at
5 p.m. today in the men’s lounge
at Gerlinger.
Phi Delta Phi, French honorary,
will have a short business meeting
at 4 o’clock in room 111, Friendly
hall today.
Pat Dunham, Youth Hostels
group member, who recently re
turned to this country from Eur
ope, will address Oregon’s Youth
Hostelers tonight at 7:30 in Ger
linger hall. All students are invited
to attend.
All those going to Corvallis for
the badminton tournament are
asked to meet in front of Gerlirt
ger hall at 5:30 p.m.
Theta Sigma Phi will meet to
night at 7 o’clock in the journalism
building. All members should be
present.
Sigma Delta Chi will meet this
afternoon, instead of Wednesday,
in room 104 of the shack. Further
plans for the banquet honoring Mr.
Turnbull will be discussed.
Important Phi Chi Theta meet
i ing in Commerce at 5 o’clock this
afternoon.