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EDIT PAGE: Co-ops Write Defending GPA, Activity Record LIBRARY U. OF ORE. SPORTS PAGE: Duck Tracks Mallory Signs Intramurals VOLUME XLI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1940 NUMBER 61 Victory Song Search Mag Finish Soon Three Students Submit New Tunes To Be Approved The first signs of a successful end in the quest for a student fight song were seen last night when Chairman Elbert Hawkins of the fight song committee announced that three students had submitted suitable victory chants to the group. The three student composers are Gene Edwards, George Mosher, and Charles Starring. Mosher and Ed wards submitted both words and music while Starring sent in a tune lie thought appropriate. The three tunes will be turned over to John Stehn, director of the University band. He will make suitable arrangements and have the songs played by the band. They will then be played before the student committee which will make suggestions and then pre sent them to the student body. All three songs carry the fight song tempo well and anyone may be chosen for introduction to the University's student body at a later date, Hawkins said. The fight song committee will still take songs any time this week. Hawkins said. The excellence of the three already turned in is proof that students can turn in suitable compositions, according to Hawkins. Oregon Press To Meet Here Journalism School Will Be Host to State Newsmen Representing most of the promi nent newspapers in the state, edi tors, publishers, and reporters will begin arriving in Eugene Thurs day for the 22nd annual Oregon press conference to be held at the University school of journalism January 25, 26, and 27, it has been announced by George S. Turnbull, professor of journalism and pro gram chairman. Wayne L. Morse, dean of the law school, will talk before the con ( PI case turn to page four) CAMPUS CALENDAR Ye Tabard Inn will meet Wed nesday evening at 7:30 at the home of Bob Knox, 693 East Sixteenth. * * * Phi Theta ITpsilon will meet at 4 p.m. today in the men's lounge of Gerlinger hall. Anyone interested in attending the Westminster house Tuesday noon luncheon should make reser vations now. The discussion topic is “Student Religion” and the price is 25 cents. * * * C ommunion service for Episcopal students will be held Wednesday morning at 7 o'clock, in the men’s lounge, Gerlinger. * * * There is to be an important meeting of the frosh YWCA com mission Tuesday at 5 o’clock. Mem bers please be present. * * * The YMCA executive council will meet in the Y hut at 5 p.m. Milton Small will speak on his trip to Canada. * * * Coed swimmers! If there are any unaffiliated girls who would like to swim in the WAA sponsored all campus meet this week, please call Betty Mae Lind, 1032. She is also ' patching up partial teams for or ganizations. If a group is short a swimmer or two, Betty Mae will fix you up. Drummer Man •lack Clark, drummer in Bob Mitchell’s band, which has been selected to play for the military ball. Mitchell Band Engaged To Flag At Militarg Ball Scabbard, Blade To Change Formal To McArthur Court Uniforms and formals will swirl to the strains of Bob Mitchell's orchestra at the Military ball Feb ruary 3, Bob Hochuli, music pro gram chairman, stated. This year Scabbard and Blade is elaborating its annual all-campus fete by moving it from the crowded quarters of Gerlinger hall to Mc Arthur court and engaging a big name orchestra. At Jantzen Beach After a summer’s performance at the Rio Del Mar in California, Bob Mitchell has been playing at Jantzen beach in Portland. His dance music has also been heard over Rose City radio stations KOIN and KALE. All orchestrations are done by the maestro who will introduce to his campus audience a new type of presentation of rhythm, known as “precision swing.’’ The band stresses danceable tempos with a strong accent on rhythm using a four-piece rhythm section. Chosen From 57 Mitchell chose Virginia Wheeler for his girl vocalist to go with his 14-man band after auditioning 57 girls. Virginia also does novelty numbers using either the bass, guitar, or trumpet. Voices take a prominent part in the “precision swing’’ arrange ment with the vocal trio composed of Miss Wheeler, Mitchell, and Bob Hunt. Tommy Luoma, the bass, also does a bit of warbling. Dr. Taylor Books Talk Over KOAC Dr. Howard R. Taylor, head of the psychology department, will speak over KOAC at 2 o’clock this afternoon on “You May Not Be lieve It But” series of programs. Dr. Taylor’s speech is tided “You May Not Believe It But Eminent Men Are Not Likely to Have Em inent Children.” I Students Win Contest for Dads' Letters Kittoe Picks Grant, Hansen, Misses Reese and Rogers Four students painted a pretty attractive picture of the University and Dads’ Weekend, in the opinion of E.' D. Kittoe, instructor in En glish, who judged the letters en tered in the Dads' Day letter-writ ing contest. Maxine Hansen, Portland, sopho more in BA, and Alyce Rogers, Eugene, senior in journalism, were the winners in the women’s divi sion. Ray Grant, Tigard, sopho more in education; and John W. Reese, Portland, sophomore in AAA, topped all writers in the men’s division. To Receive Awards Miss Hansen and Miss Rogers will receive awards from Kauf man’s and Lerner’s. Grant and Reese will be presented with pre miums by Paul D. Green and Hart Larsen’s. The father of Alyce Rogers re ceived a letter from his daughter in which there was no playing around with words. Miss Rogers told him that he was coming—that was all. Miss Hansen’s message to “her favorite boy friend’’ told all there was to know about Dads’ Day. Ray Grant told his pop the “truth” about his grades, using as an excuse this “streamlined” age. John Reese placed a bet on Ore gon’s hoopsters, when they play Washington this weekend, and apologized to his dad for the havoc certain pretty girls had raised with his grades. There’s still time and paper left for contacting pops, John Cava nagh, general chairman for Dads’ Weekend, said last night. Verg Little Theater Show Opens Tonight Curtains! Lights! And action will begin at 8 tonight when the Very Little Theater will give its first performance of “Pride and Prejudice” which is scheduled for a three-day run at the Lane Coun ty Fairgrounds on Thirteenth and Monroe. The raised curtains will reveal the comfortable nineteenth cen tury Bennett living room done in warm browns and white with its French windows and fire place. One can even catch a glimpse of the conservatory in one corner of the set. The beautiful period cos tumes to be worn by the actors will harmonize with the back ground. The play, directed by Professor Horn of the English department of the University, includes in its cast of 26 such names as Mary Staton, Virginia Mikulak, Marjorie Bates, Iris Smith, Bill Nash, Marvin Krenk, Donald Hargis, Mrs. L. K. Shumaker, Fred Cuthbert, Pirkko Paasikivi, Ethel Sawyer and Otti lie Seybolt. ---, "....and Lo His 'Bean’ They Shaveth Clean” By OBEDIAH BROWN At that time the Emerald columnist, called by the name Jack “Shadow" Bryant, sat in his room saying, “This is the afternoon of Saturday." And, lo, it came to pass that as he pondered, there appeared a chariot of Kappa Sigs, which are strange people. And the prophet saw them and he cried unto himself, “It is they who have come to taketh away my locks,” and he made great haste to hide from these strange creatures. But the leader of the clan spieth him and maketh great haste, lest he should escape. He calleth to him all his trusty muscular men, and they pinneth the poor man to the ground. Then one from the multitude pulleth out a pair of shears, knives, and electric razors, which are modern weapons. By the beards of the great prophet they cleaneth away all the hair from his head. The prophet crieth out in vain, but his pleas falleth upon deaf ears. Soon the task is completed and the men turneth the poor prophet loose. He crieth out, "But I have no hair on my head, surely someone will mistaketh me for a professor.” But there happened by that day a good Samaritan who giveth a wig to the suffering man—to cover his head. Soon after he was seen in his classes with the wig on his head, and still he collecteth ma terial for his next 8 ball. To Sing Here Next Week Tin* St. Olaf choir, second attraction of the 1989-40 Greater Artists series of the Associated Students, will be presented at McArthur court next Tuesday. St. Olaf Singers To Give Concert Here Next Week 70-Voiced Chorus Is Second Feature Of '40 Artist Series From a small denominational I college in the Scandinavian section ; of Minnesota will come next week | to the University of Oregon the 70-voice St. Olaf’s choir, second! feature of the 1940 Greater Artists series. Time magazine said of the famed student choir last year, “At most colleges it is the football team; at St. Olaf's it is the choir ... it has been rated by many a connoisseur as the -finest jf its type in the United States, perhaps even in the world.” Sing Unaccompanied Singing unaccompanied, the 35 coeds and 35 young men come to the University as the 1940 version of the St. Olaf's choral group that began touring America and Eur ope 29 years ago. The Greater Artists attraction will be presented on the stage of McArthur court, with the 70 sing ers in black choir robes and white collars. Hymn, Folk Songs With every composition commit ted to memory the Lutheran church group, which began their singing career by providing music for Sunday church services, will present here a program of hymns and Finnish folk songs. Tickets are already on sale in the Education Activities office for non-ticket holders, and ASUO cards will admit student body members. No exchange tickets will be necessary. Faculty Musicians To Present Concert i The first faculty recital of winter : term will be given in the music | auditorium Tuesday evening at, 8:15 o'clock by Aurora Potter Un- | derwood, pianist, and Doris Helen ‘ Calkins, harpist. The public is in vited. Both members of the music school faculty are popular soloists, one of Mrs. Underwood’s most re cent appearances being an autumn concert. Mrs. Calkins is harpist with the University symphony, with which she appeared as guest soloist last winter. Included on the program will be many duet numbers which the two have arranged and which will be played publicly for the first time. Among these will be Tournier’s two preludes from Opus 16, Bach Maier’s "Sicilienne,” Saint-Quen tin’s “Cloches Melancoliques," Cha brier’s “Espana,” and Ravel’s “In troduction and Allegro.” Mrs. Calkin’s solo numbers will be Tedeschi’s “Andante” and “Spanish Dance," “Arabesque No. | 2” by Debussy, Attl's arrangement i of the harp solo from Donizetti’s “Lucia,” and “Marguerite "at the Spinning Wheel” by Zabel. Offered by Mrs. Underwood will be ‘Toe-. cata" by Casella, “La Puerta del Vino" by Debussy, Schulz-Evler’s arrangement of Strauss’ “By the Beautiful Blue Danube.” Infirmary Has *Rush’ Day; Just Like Rush Week Fraternities and sororities have rush and pre-initiation weeks. Yesterday, between 2 and 3 p.m., the infirmary seemed to be following suit. More than a hormal number were “rushing” the place. Nurse Florence Schwitzer was chasing around the place in a-(censored )*-of a whirl, but no new pledges were noticed during that hour. Pledge Pauline Ewan, hospital steady, skipped back to the Gam ma Phi house, was initiated, then crawled back under the covers on and infirmary bed to continue her “some-kind-of-a-bug" eradi cation. Don (Juan) Moss, Sherry Ross “Glema Boy” was hobbling around the hospital on crutches, moaning all the while. Don tumbled downstairs while step ping out of a “rumble seat” in the Rex theater . . . tch, tch. In the hospital yesterday were Pauline Ewan, Virgene Wade, Ray Booth, John Murphy, Nancy Lee Stratton, John Bjork, Walter Treece, Dale Helikson, Joseph Doerffler, William MacMurray, Clifford Anet, and Lloyd Thomas. Faculty Members Plan Fireside Chats In an effort to promote a more human and personal relationship between the student and his pro fessors, the committee on student and faculty relations of the Young Men's Christian association has prepared a list of faculty members who will be available for fireside chats with the various men’s liv ing organizations on the campus. A complete list of the speakers and their topics will soon be sent to each social chairman, who will choose a member of the faculty to visit his house and conduct a fire side chat. The voluntary nature of the project has been excpressed by both the speakers and the com mittee heads, Wayne Kelty and Bob Lovell. Faculty members have been con tacted and will cooperate are Dr. James Branton, John Casteel, Dr. Calvin Crumbaker, Dean Earl, President Donald Erb, Mark Han na, Charles Howard, Harlow E. Hudson, It. R. Huestis, Dr. Samuel Jameson, A. L. Lomax, Dean Karl Onthank, Dr. Victor Morris,, Ken neth Shumaker, Warren D. Smith, A. B. Stillman, and Paul D. Sut ley. The program will continue throughout the remainder of this quarter and into part of the next. Juniors to Elect Vice-President At Meeting Tonight Election of a vice-president will be the main item of busi ness before the members of the junior class when they meet tonight at 7:30 in Villard hall. A class meeting was sched uled last week but was called off when only about 30 mem bers showed up. Tonight’s meet ing will probably be one of the most important of the term, Class President Jim Pickett said last night. ! All-Freshman Group to Launch Union Campaign Student Building Aim of Permanent Frosh Committee With a meeting- set for tonight at 8 in the student union room, the all-freshman promotion committee for a union hall at Oregon will launch its campaign as the 17 members pick a chairman and start work on project number one. The executive council for the yearlings established the group as a permanent committee to work on promotion for the forthcoming stu I dent building, serving under the | top committee of upperclassmen, and gave the “go” signal for to ! night’s action. Frosh officers Les | Anderson, Jeanette Neilson, Ruth Graham, and Glenn Williams ! named “Union Through Effort” as the slogan to keynote the fresh 1 man promoters. Leading off at the organization meeting tonight, Roy Vernstrom, committee general chairman, is to explain their duties and function j and will discuss the work already i done. The executive council contacted committee appointees last night and arranged with Dean Earl to hold the meeting. The committee as it now stands includes: Janet Rieg, Jean Wilson, Florence Cooley, Spencer Weills, Joan Dalton, Ruth Hartley, Gordon Childs, A1 Silver nail, Bud Vandeneynde, Warren ; Treece, Mary Elizabeth Earl, Doug Fabian, Ray Schrick, Virginia Doten, Jeanette Neilson, Ruth Graham, and Glenn Williams. Anderson said the committee was large in order to maintain the interest of the entire student body and because it will be permanent, its members to serve through the full four years if necessary. They will be charged with the responsi bility of keeping the student union building issue to the fore, as pros pects for its construction become brighter. Thursday's campus visitors will include Mrs. R. T. Davis and Mr. Walter Gordon, director and as sistant director, respectively, of the Portland art museum. Love, Marriage Series Begins With Fireside Discussions Tonight Fourteen Faculty Members and Eugene Authorities on Marital Problems Slated To Institute Lectures in Campus Houses The eternal problem of “when to get married” will occupy the minds of Oregon students tonight, when fireside discussions in campus living organizations set going the 1940 Love and Marriage lecture series. Fourteen faculty members and Eugene authorities on marital prob lems have been scheduled by Lloyd Hoffman and his committee to be dinner guests at house groups. Following dinner two or more organiza tions will meet together to contemplate the problems of college ro mancers. “Wo hope that these fireside dis cussions will serve to discover just what questions on the general sub ject of love and marriage the stu dent body is most interested in,” Hoffman said yesterday, “so that the main speakers of the series can better answer these queries.” Open January 81 January 31 has been named by the committee as opening date for the regular all-campus lectures. Rev. Arnold S. Ash, English au thority on social relations, will be the first speaker. Others are slated to appear in February. Scheduled to lead tonight’s dis cussion groups are Rev. Williston Wirt, Eugene minister; Dr. Quir inius Breen, associate professor of history; Dr. H. W. Bernard, asso ciate professor of education; Dean of Women Hazel P. Schwering; Dean of Personnel Karl W. On thank; Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Van Loan; E. M. Hulme; Dr. S. H. Jameson, professor of sociology; W. A. Dahlberg, assistant profes sor of speech; J. L. C. Ford, assist ant professor of journalism; Dr. N. B. Zane, associate professor of space design; Dr. C. G. Howard, professor of law; and L. K. Shu maker, director of lower division advisory committee. Dinner will be at 6 o’clock, and the visiting house will be expected for the discussion meeting at 6:45, Hoffman announced. Oregana Price To Rise January 25 Oreganas must be purchased be fore January 25 in order to take advantage of the $5.00 price, it was announced by Dick Williams, Oregana business manager, yester day. After that time the price will be raised to $5.50. Only a limited supply of Ore ganas has been ordered and after those are gone no more can be ordered. Anyone who puts off buy ing an Oregana until Junior Week end may find they are all sold out, Williams stressed. Sales this year are far ahead of the same period last year and for that reason an even more acute shortage is expected. Miss Dora Scott, first full time librarian of the University, was guest of honor at the library staff tea Monday. Violent !Rug Cutting' Old Stuff, Staff Finds Today’s city fathers who decry the "violent” modes of dancing popular with the unpredictable younger generation were not so different, according to ordinances brought to light by the Bureau of Municipal Research statute codi fication staff. Buried deep in the archives of city records, still subject to en forcement, is a statute that re stricts the “rug cutters” of the 1900’s from dancing the Jelly Wriggle, Corkscrew Twirl, and the Briny Deep. An Oregon city has an ordinance, never repealed, that provides a penalty of a fine and 12 days’ imprisonment for "any per son or persons convicted of execut ing said dances.” Daws Slow The days of the horse and bug gy are now legendary, but the laws of the cities have not kept pace with advancing years is the con clusion of the research personnel. Sponsored by the League of Ore gon Cities and the Bureau of Mu nicipal Research and Service at the University, a project financed in part % by WPA funds is under way to classify all the ordinances passed in many cities of Oregon. Active and inactive laws are tabu lated and those found obsolete are recommended for repeal. W. A. Hall, acting director of l he bureau, launched the project ■vben he codified the laws of the :ity of Prineville. Assigned to re vise the ordinances, he worked iver laws signed by his father as the mayor of that city. (Pleas* turn to page four) Dr. Noble Slated For Assembly Talk Thursday Oregon History Professor Returns From Far East Dr. Harold J. Noble, professor of history at the University of Ore gon, who early this month re I turned from one year of studying I and teaching on the peninsula of i Korea, will address students in j Gerlinger hall Thursday morning on “Japanese and American Rela tions,” the personnel office an nounced yesterday. Dr. Nobel has been viewing re cent Far Eastern developments from the position of one who daily comes in contact with Oriental customs and problems. His Thurs day talk will hold special signifi cance in that it will be presented the day that marks explrement of American-Nipponese trade agree ments. The speaker will discuss possi bilities of new treaties with Japan and point out effects of the change on the Japanese government. The present treaty has been in effect since 1914, and questions have arisen as to what will happen should the United States raise port duties and tariffs on incoming Or iental goods. Dr. Noble has been teaching at the University of Tokio for the past year. He left Japan last De : cember and will return to the Ore I gon teaching staff next fall. At the present time he is engaged in | writing a history of Korea. Dr. Nobel was educated in the United States and has taught at the Uni versity for over five years. The speech will be a part of the regular weekly assembly. Com plete program, the personnel of fice stated, will be announced to day. The assembly will start at 11 a.m. Westminster Study Group Will Meet The Westminster worship study group will meet for the first time this term this evening at 7 o’clock at Westminster house. This group was organized for the purpose of learning the technique of leading worship services, and anyone in terested is welcome to attend. This meeting is for the purpose for planning the theme for the week of morning worship services held over KORE once a term. This is a 15-minute program starting at 7:45 a.m. and those attending the Westminster house meetings will have the opportunity of tak ing part. Geology Students Examine Dam Site The Dorena dam site was exam ined by a group of 10 geology stu dents on the field trip Saturday afternoon. Dr. Lloyd L. Staples, geology instructor, accompanied the students. Specimens of basalt and zeolite were collected and various feat ures Of geological interest connect ed with the dam were explained by the instructor. The trip was made in the University truck.