TODAY'S EDITS: Rose Bowl; Nickels; General Dick SPORTS PAGE: Hobby Trims Team; Eugeneans Beat; Duck Tracks VOLUME XLI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1939 NUMBER 44 Ma, Papa Webfoots Could Post Surprise By Slipping ASUO Ducats Into Xmas Socks Of Son, Daughter Ducks; Parents Can Buy, Label Card-Gifts, 'Love—Mom and Pop' The little red stocking with the patched toe which Oregon students hang over the fireplace along about the 24th of December, may be stuffed with a green card which will mean many enjoyable hours long after the holidays are over, if the plans of Tiger Payne go through. Payne, named last week by Student Body President John Dick to head the ASUO ticket sales drive for winter term, yesterday announced Drive Man Gleason “Tiger” Payne . . . was named by Prexy John Dick to head the winter term ASIJO drive. Lost, Found Items Will Go To High Bids AWS to Sponsor Auction of Articles Turned in at Depot A public auction of all the lost and found items turned in to the University depot during the last term will be conducted Thursday, December 7, at 11 a.m. on the steps of Commerce hall under the super vision of AWS. The proceeds will go to the AWS scholarship fund. The sale will be staged in the manner of a professional auction with Woody Slater and Phil Bar rett acting as auctioneers. Jeanne ^ Haehlen, who is chairman of the event, will be cashier assisted by Nancy Allen and Pat Thompson. Among those articles to be of fered for sale will be raincoats, um brellas, notebooks, pens, and books. Many school books will be auc tioned. The sale is a semiannual affair, one auction during the fall term and another in the spring term. All the items not sold during this auction will be held over for the spring sale. Any merchandise left from that sale will be sold to the highest bidding second hand store. Last year’s sale netted $20. Miss Haehlen commented in ref erence to the merchandise, “The quality is exceptionally high and a great variety is offered. If the sales go as they have in the past those attending will have many k bargains to choose from.” Senior to Attend Baptist Convention One of two delegates from Ore gon, Charles Devereaux, senior, will attend a meeting of the tem porary youth council of the North ern Baptist convention in Gran ville, Ohio, for three days during the Christmas holidays, it was an nounced Friday. Meeting on the Denison campus, the 150 delegates will undertake to unify the various Baptist youth work groups into a national or ganization. Devereaux is treasurer of the state BYPU. Other delegate is Ruth Harvey of Linfield college, who is state president of the World Wide guild. a plan whereby parents of Univer sity students may purchase the winter ducats as Christmas pres ents. As the first feature of a cam paign to bring before prospective buyers notice of the outstanding features which the ASUO activity slate has on tap for the coming term, the committee plans to con tact Oregon mothers and fathers and point out the desirability of the all important cards as Christ mas gifts. Games Head List Whether or not the Oregon ca saba-tossers will be successful this year in their defense of the Na tional intercollegiate basketball crown will be decided, to a large degree, on the home maple of the Igloo. Student body cards will ad mit Webfoot rooters to all home games of the galloping Ducks as well as numerous other attractions and activity programs, the com mittee head pointed out. Student Union Aided “Twenty per cent of all receipts from ASUO card sales go into the Student Union Building fund, which fact should be of great im portance to students,” Dick said after announcing the committee appointments. “Card buyers should realize that they are contributing in a large part to making the dream of a Union building, with its many activity possibilities, a reality.” Committee Named Drive committeemen named to work with Payne were Marion Ful ler, who will handle sales among independent women; Martin Sched ler, in charge of sales to men not in living organizations; and Lloyd Sullivan, who will promote sales to fraternities. Women’s living or ganizations have always been the best supporters of the sales cam paigns, Payne stated, and they are epected to lead the sales rate for the winter season. “There will be no dispute over prizes which are being offered for the first living organizations go ing 100 per cent,” Chairman Payne said yesterday. Awarding of fall term prizes for the first men’s house with all members holding cards, became tangled when three Jiving organizations claimed the honor. An iron-clad set of rules will prevent such an occurrence this term. Hop Leadoff Feature First feature on the winter pro gram will come only two days af ter the term opens, when the en tire student body will swing to the music of Art Holman at an informal dance honoring the bas ketball squad. 'Howdy Senator' Coed Kita Wright was on hand to greet Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire when lie arrived on the campus yesterday. Senator Bridges has frequently been mentioned as a Republican presidential nominee. Senator Styles Bridges Of New Hampshire Pays Visit to University Campus 1940 Presidential Possibility Talks Before Economics Group in Commerce Criticizes Centralization of Federal Government The functions of government have become too much centralized in the federal government during recent years, declared Senator Styles Bridges, Republican from New Hampshire, when he made a brief visit on the Oregon campus yesterday morning. Senator Bridges, who is on a speaking tour through the western part of the United States, has been “boomed” as a possible Republican Drama Class To Take Road Packing their make-up kits and scripts Mrs. Ottilie T. Seybolt’s, director of drama division, play production class will take to the road Wednesday, December 6 and present in Kellog two one-act plays. "Bargains” by Katherine Kester is a light comedy with the "moth er-in-law” angle and a happy end ing. Directed by Helene Parsons, the members of the cast include: Jeannette Harbert, George Clase man, Rose Ann Gibson and Jean nette Hoss. A good humored and under standing old grandmother saves the day in “Love Is Like That” and gives this comedy also a fairy story ending. Taking part in this production are Mary Margaret Gedney, Charlene Jackson, and Patience Harland. "Love Is Like That,” written by Ryerson and Clements, is directed by Gene Edwards. Closed Weekends in Effect As Final Examinations Near Examination time will bring to the students the problem of closed weekends. The following regulations have been made over a period of years by the Heads of Houses, the Stu dent Affairs committee, the Schol arship committee, the Housing committee, and the office of the dean of women concerning closed weekends, and have been pub lished in the booklet of General University regulations. Closed Weekends “The two weekends before final examinations are closed. The hours for the weekend two weeks before examinations are: Friday night, 10:30, Saturday night, 12:15, and Sunday night, 10:30. Girls may have two dates that weekend. The weekend before examinations girls may have one date on Satur day night until 12:15. “There can be entertaining dur ing the two weeks before examin ations. (This includes banquets, dinners, teas, benefits, etc.)” Get Choice In other words, Friday, Decem ber 8, will be closed except for 10:30 dates. Saturday, December 9, is open with 12:15 permission. Sunday, December 10, there will be 10:30 permission and the girls will get to decide which two out of these three days they will have their dates. Friday, December 15, is closed. Saturday, December 16, is open with 12:15 permission, and there wall be no dates on Sunday night, December 17. Women students will also be discouraged from leaving the cam pus on these closed weekends and all desserts and other social func tions which have been scheduled for the next two weeks must be cancelled, according to Mrs. Hazel P. Schwering, dean of women. candidate for president in 1940. Yesterday he spoke before a group of economics students in room 105 Commerce. Senator Bridges criticized the tendency to centralize the func tions of government in the federal government and recommended giving the reins back to the local and state governments. He de clared that this was especially true in the case of the relief setup. People have been kept from starv ing to death, he said, but other than that the federal government has accomplished nothing, since there has been no decrease in the relief rolls, and has expended a tremendous amount of money. Senator Bridges stated that he was firmly convinced that the lo cal and state governments could do a more efficient and inexpen sive job of caring for the needy than cohld the federal govern ment. Attacks Relief Program He also attacked the adminis tration’s relief program on the ba sis that it had been too lavish, de claring that ip some cases people on WPA were receiving more per annum than the average worker in private industry. The present re lief program has been carried so ! far that it has weakened the mo- j ral fibers of the nation, he said. The centralization trend has been carried into almost every branch of government, Senator Bridges said. He declared that this trend had been allowed to go too far and that it must be checked before it undermined the princi ples of American democracy. Senator Bridges attacked the recent neutrality legislation say ing “I don’t believe you can legis late peace.” He stated that the government must wait until emer gencies arise before trying to deal with them. Open Forum In an open forum discussion fol lowing his speech, Senator Bridges placed the fault for the strike waves of the last few years squarely on the shoulders of the Wagner act and the NLRB. They are probably jointly responsible, he said. Cooperative houses on the U. of O. campus have grown from one house a few years ago to six at present. They now have over 180 members. Sally Chosen As Sweetheart Of Kappa Sigma The local chapter of Kappa Sigma added a new angle in the choosing of fraternity sweet hearts this week when they an nounced the selection of Sally Rand, soon to appear here, as “Sweetheart of Kappa Sigma.” “We of Kappa Sig house have never been social buterflies, but never been social butterflies, but as long as other houses are choosing swethearts, dream girls, and what have you, we thought that we might make Sally our swetheart,” Kappa Sig spokes man Joe Gurley said last night. OSC Professor To Speak Here Professor Robert H. Dann of the sociology department at Oregon State College will address the Al pha Kappa Delta meeting Tuesday evening at 7:30 in Alumni hall of Gerlinger. He will speak on the subject “Student Work Camp in San Pedro, California.” Six new members will be initiat ed into Alpha Kappa Delta. A short discussion will follow and refresh ments are to be served at the close of the meeting. Westminster House To Hear Symphony “Lasts” are in vogue tonight for symphony lovers who gather each Saturday evening at Westminster house for the symphony hour. Tonight’s hour features the last appearance for the present series of Conductor Toscannini. Conclud ing his appearances, he will con duct the symphony in the last of a series of six Beethoven works. Schedule Revisions Probed by Faculty Address Changers Required to Secure Residence Permits All students expecting to change their living address next term are asked to contact Mrs. Eve W. Morris, housing secre tary, within the next two weeks to obtain special residence per mits. Early applications will avoid the registration rush next term, and will receive an early OK, Mrs. Morris stated. The housing office is located in Johnson hall. Group To Decide Fight Song Emerald Chieftains To Find Themes For Fred Waring The widely-discussed problem of whether the University of Oregon Webfoots will have a fight song was dropped straight in the laps of a committee of Emerald chief tains last night by ASUO Prexy John Dick. Scribes Given Job Following up the offer of Fred Waring, nationally known orches tra leader, who has consented to try to write a song that Oregon ians will like, the four-man com mittee will swing into action this week. Named to investigate the Waring offer were Elbert Haw kins, Lyle Nelson, Jeff Kitchen, and Helen Angell. Traditions Studied The duties of the committee, as pointed out by Dick, will be to in vestigate and compile a group of University traditions which might be used for themes of the fight song. This group of ideas will be sent east to the band leader so that he may have some basis on which to build his composition. Reason given by the ASUO head man for naming all Emerald work ers was that because they were closer to the center of student life, they might be better able to find the pulse of student opinion on just what traditions they most de sire to have played up in the new song. Fight Song Hit Long Desired The need of a fight song has long been a pet “gripe” on the campus, with several faculty mem bers and students having offered ideas as to how a song might be secured. University Band Director John Stehn offered the idea of submit ting a group of tunes to the ap proval of a Student committee, and then conducting a prize contest to secure a good lyric for the music. Faculty Burns Midnight Oil To Aid Classroom Insomnia By SALLY MITCHELL "Don’t let your lectures lag,” seems to be the slogan of Univer sity professors as they admit they devote hours each day in prepar ing material for their classes. Professors agree that plenty of “midnight oil” is burned in an at tempt to make their lectures in teresting and worthwhile. “I spent nine hours of study in preparing a one-hour lecture,” ad mitted Dr. Samuel H. Jameson, of the sociology department. “I nev er go to class without spending at least an hour to review my notes, which I seldom even glance at dur ing the lecture. Lecture# Last "I prepare a lecture for one class, and it usually lasts for three,” smiled Professor Robert Leeper, of the psychology depart , ment. "I find myself detouring from my notes but if it’s for the benefit of the class, I don't mind.” Professor Leeper believes that it takes longer for a professor to prepare lectures for a class than it takes for the student to study his lessons. Dr. Calvin Crumbaker, of the economics department, finds that it is necessary to keep constantly working over his lectures, "for,” he said, "although the basic prin ciples remain the same, in the field of economics there are con stant changes. Then, of course, there is a complete reorganization of a course every three or four years.” Strap Prom Notes It takes at least 30 or 40 min utes each day for Professor R. H. Ernst to arrange his lectures. “I carefully think out the points be forehand,” he explained, “and then I get away from my notes during (Please turn to page lour) Crowded Classroom Prevents Expansion Of Study Curricula Suggested Plan Would Install Saturday Classes; Noon Hour and Evening Sessions, or Reduced Hours After a University faculty committee recently discovered that ex* pansion of class curricula is a virtual impossibility because during the morning hours nearly every lecture room on the campus is in use, it was yesteraay put up to the professors themselves to devise a method of revising the class hours schedule here. The report to the faculty made by Dr. Earl M. Pallett, registrar, and the rest of his schedules committee revealed that, for example, at 11 o'clock on Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the mornings there is not a single empty class room on the campus. At 9 and 10 o'clock there are two, and 8 o’clock class attendees leave two rooms vacant. 22 Rooms Vacant On the other hand, several af ternoon hours are entirely without scheduled classes. On Tuesday and Thursday morning, too, there is an average of 22 vacant lecture rooms every hour during the morning. The problem which the sched ules committee has put up to the faculty and interested students is “What suggestions can you offer toward spreading out thg class schedule?” “In searching for possible direc tions in which to expand class scheduling, the committee dis cussed Saturday, evenings, the noon hour, as well as the present class hours of 8, 3, and 4 o’clock," according to the report issued. Reduce Hours Suggested to professors was the idea of reducing a great many three-hour courses to two hours of credit, and scheduling them on the “slow” days, Tuesday and Thursday. Also listed for their study was a suggestion to rearrange the three and four-hour classes into a sequence of two-hour courses, running for two or three terms, as French would become a two-hour course for two terms instead of its present ruling as a four-hour one term class. Third Alternative Dr. Pallett’s committee named a third alternative, the running of three and four-hour classes for two or more hours in a single day, of the Tuesday-Thursday sequence. Some classes might also be com bined into a five-hour course for a single term rather than six hours for two terms. If changes are made it will do away with the present ill-propor tioned schedule whereby more than half (51 per cent) of lecture class hours are scheduled within a 12-hour week, from 8 o’clock to 12 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Less than one-tenth of lec ture classes are scheduled in the last one-fourth of any day, at 3 and 4 o’clock. Helen Graves Called Model Patient; Staff Sorry to See Her Go That Helen Graves is THE mod el patient was the general opinion agreed upon by nurses in the cam pus hospital yesterday. Helen has been in the infirmary since October 24, an all-time rec ord, and will be released today. "We wish there were more like her; we hate to see her go,” staff members chorused. Others who filled the infirmary to capacity yesterday include; Ed ward Boydell, James Manley, Le Roy Carlson, Norman Elston, Al ice Clark, Carolyn Sturgeon, Leon Stanley, Natalia.Tengwald, George Vukce\^:h, Genevieve Treadgold, Virginia Anderson, Harry Ketter ing, John Murphy, Vivian Byers, Abby Jane White, John Proud foot, Marvin Wienstein, and Paul Eckleman. In His Honor 1 . • • rr Professor George S. Turnbull.., will be feted at a banquet given In his honor tonight. Journalist To Be Feted At Banquet George Turnbull To Be Honored for 23 Years Service Professor George S. Turnbull, smiling, little man of the Oregon journalism school, will tonight re* ceive just credit for 23 years of work and service at this Univer sity. Starting at G:30 o’clock, news paper men, faculty members, and students will gather at the An« chorage to attend the special Sig ma Delta Chi press banquet in his honor and congratulate him upon (PI,’aid turn to page four) CAMPUS CALENDAR WAA representatives will meet Betty Morfitt at. 5. p.m. Monday in the WAA social room in Gerlinger. * * * Student Religious coqncil will meet Monday at 4 o’clock at West minster house., » * • Westminster .hike for those in terested today at 4 o’alock. * *■ * Condon club will meet at 7:30 Monday evening in 101 Condon for motion pictures.