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library CAMPUS EDIT PAGE: A Year in a Day Student Union doming Power ftnmil SPORTS PAGE: Wrestling Tonight New Donut Setup Slat Patrol VOLUME XLI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1940 NUMBER 62 Dr. Harold Noble Will Trace Significance - Of US-Japanese Pact History Professor to Return From One Year of Studying and Teaching in Orient For Thursday Assembly in Gerlinger Tracing a new series of economic upsets which are destined to arise from the expiration of American-Japanese trade treaties, Dr. Harold J. Noble, Oregon professor of history, who recently returned from one year of studying on the peninsula of Korea, will address Oregon stu dents in Gerlinger hall at 11 o’clock tomorrow morning on the subject, “Japan and the United States.” Dr. Noble will develop his topic from the standpoint of a person who i St. Qlaf Choir To Sing Here Tuesday Night Tickets on Sale at Activities Office; No Exchange Needed From 300 flaxen-haired Minne sota college students who try out at the beginning of each year for choral work, Director F. Melius Christianson Selects the 70 stu dents who make up the globe-trot ting St. Olaf College choir. On the stage of McArthur court Tuesday night Director “Christy” will lead his Scandinavian singers in their first Oregon recital. Beginning with its first concert tour in 1912, the St. Olaf group of young collegians, though constant ly changing because of the gradu ation of its members, has sung to packed houses in American cities from Boston to Seattle. Thirty-five concerts have been given in Eur ope. No Accompaniment The pioneer “a capella” choir in America, the choir sings entirely without accompaniment or the opening pitch of diapasol or a tun ing fork. “Singing is in their character— how much or how little they know about music isn't of primary im portance,” their director explains, “it’s the spirit behind it '"that makes their work so tone-perfect.” The New York World writer de scribed the choir’s eastern concert: “Indeed, the only criticism heard during the evening was voiced by a neighbor who ‘thought they were too perfect to be human’.” Tickets are on sale in the activ ities office this week for non-card holders. General admission will be 50 cents, reserved seats, 75 cents, $1. and $1.25. ASUO cards will ad mit University students, and no exchange tickets are necessary. CAMPUS CALENDAR The Youth Hostel group will hold its regular bi-weekly meeting at 7 ;30 tonight in Gerlinger hall. l. Everyone is invited to attend. The Order of “O” will meet at noon at the Phi Gamma Delta house. “All new lettermen are urged to attend.” states Bob Smith, president. Phi Chi Theta will meet at Al pha Gamma Delta at 9 o’clock. Very important. The freshman council of the YMCA will meet tonight at the Y Hut for their regular weekly meet ing at 7:30 o’clock. Professor Rob ert Leeper will lead the discussion. Ye Tabard Inn meets tonight at 7:30 at home of Bob Knox, 693 East Sixteenth. — Anyone interested in helping with the publication of an art n school directory should come to a meeting in room 107, art building, tonight at 7:30, according to an announcement from Tom Potter, president of the allied arts league. has daily come in contact with Japanese problems and Japanese people. The personnel office an nounced yesterday that he will de fine the current position of the Far Eastern government in regard to future need for raw materials. Coincidence The subject of relations between this country and the Orient draws special importance from the fact that Dr. Noble will speak on the same day that marks the end of America's long-time trade agree ments with Japan. Recent reports circulated from the national capital have offered several solutions to the question of what will be done after the treaties cease to exist. These will also be discussed by Dr. Noble. The speaker at the present time is engaged in writing a history of Korea. He left Japan last Decem ber and will return to the Univer sity teaching sthff next fall. Dr. Noble taught at Oregon for over five years before taking his leave in 1938. He received his doctor’s degree at the University of Cali fornia. Professors Attend Portland Meeting Four University professors are taking part in the second week of the three-week institute being held in Portland January 8 to 26 for all active United States forest of ficers. The lectures for the second week are grouped under the gen eral topic, “Principles of Manage ment: How Applied in Industry,” Principles and Application of Man agement” is the topic that was to be discussed Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Dr. Jesse H. Bond, professor of business administration, djpened the discussion Monday. Tuesday O. K. Burrell, professor of busi ness administration, continued the discussion. This morning A. L. Lomax, professor of business ad ministration, will conclude the se ries. Dr. H. R. Taylor, head of the department of psychology, will speak on “Efficiency Measure ment” and will lead a discussion on it. Professor Lomax will close the week’s work with a lecture and discussion on “Personnel Training and Management” Friday. Exhibits, Signs To Meet Dads Upon Arrival Decorators, Under Ralph Woodall, Fete Departments By BETTV JANE BIGGS The University will be dedicated to the Dads this weekend, with welcoming signs drawing the guests’ attention to the various phases of college life during their annual official visit to the cam pus. “The decoration committee, un der the leadership of Ralph Wood all, is setting a precedent this time which later committees will have to work hard to equal, John Cav anagh, general chairman, said yes terday. The campus preparation is introducing more elaborate and more complete details to the dec orations this year, Cavanagh ex plained. Johnson Hall Banner A stream of one-letter signs will direct the fathers down Thirteenth street to Johnson hall where they will see a huge “Welcome, Dads” banner across their place of regis tration. Chapman hall, the newest build ing, which many of the guests have not seen, will be especially decorat ed as a monument to the Dads. A 15 by 20-foot murai painting the “modern way" will be hung on the building, showing in the back ground a modern city and' in the foreground the progress of Oregon from Indians to covered wagons, to streamlined automobiles and air planes. Since the interfraternity council vetoed the house display idea, Woodall and his committee are constructing appropriate signs which will be placed before the different schools to draw the Dads’ attention to the exhibit they have arranged inside for their benefit. Novelty, serious, and humorous posters will be exhibit-..i. Other members of Woodall’s committee are: Earl Curtis, Bob Swan, and Bob Clever. John Schreiner is in charge of the con struction of the- signs. Art School Plans Beaux Arts Ball Yearly Event Will Be February 9 At Anchorage A night at the Anchorage will be transformed into “A Night at the Louvre” for the annual Beaux Arts ball which is to be held there February 9, according to informa tion frorh Tom Potter, president of the allied arts league. Due to limited strength and space of the Anchorage floor the ball will be limited to art school students, Potter said. The ball, yearly event at which art school students go Bohemian, (Pleas'* turn to page jour) 'Port' of Lost Junk Is Room in UO Depot Down University street, across from the art school and barely on the right side of the tracks, is the University depot. At first hearing that it is a depot, one is apt to vis ion streamliners tearing in and out the front doors, but this is not the case. Instead landscape artists, electricians, carpenters, postmen, and architects run in and out the front door. The first department that one sees upon entering the building is the postoffice. Here, under the su pervision of A. H. Tyson, postmas ter, is, among the usual duties of an ordinary postoffice, the lost and found department. Upon looking over the array of glasses and glass cases, Mrs. Charles Hastings, mail carrier, remarked that evidently the losers didn't need their glasses very much or maybe they couldn't find the depot without them, be-' cause they had been there for a \ long- time. Among other things j were pencils, pens, gloves, and a lady’s hand bag. Although the postoffice is used primarily for University business, the students are welcome to use its facilities, the postmaster said. In the rear portion of the physi cal plant can be found the offices of several of the carpenters, elec tricians, and landscape artists. On the north side of the building is the heating plant. This portion of, the depot is occupied by* huge, black furnaces that boil the water that makes the steam that fills the radiators that warms the rooms in which Steve Student studies. Keys, lost pens, blue prints, hammers, wire, stamps, T-squares, and sawdust bins all go into com posing the University depot. Any Rats, Helen? Helen Angell, Emerald news editor, tries to unravel the hair in the wig of Jack Bryant, Emerald columnist, while Editor Bud Jermain l°°ks on. Members of Kappa Sigma fraternity, indignant over some of his remarks in his column, resorted to Ozarkian tactics and clipped Jack bald (after dunking him in the millrace). Photo by Ted Kenyon, staff photographer Oregon Publishers To Meet Here Friday Group Breakfasts to Mark Opening, Preliminary Gathering Will Be Held By Budget Committee on Thursday By PAT ERICKSON With the real business of the twenty-second annual conference of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers’ association getting under way early Friday morning, two preliminary meetings are scheduled for Thursday afternoon. The budget committee and the board of directors will meet then at the Eugene hotel. Starting off at 8 o’clock Friday morning with group breakfasts the newsmen will gather for a full day. Six events are placed in betore-iuncheon meetings; they will include talks, discussions, and appointments to offices in the group. Hobson to Speak A no-host luncheon has been ar ranged at the Anchorage. W. F. G. Thacher, professor of advertising, is to be toastmaster. Coach How ard Hobson will be the luncheon speaker. Afternoon meetings, with a va riety of speakers and topics, will begin at 1:30. The annual banquet is to be held at the Osburn hotel, a no-host affair, at 6 o’clock. Dean Eric W. Allen, of the school of journalism, is to be toastmaster. The Eugene Gleemen, under the directioh of John Stark Evans, will appear as part of the program. Dean Wayne L. Morse, of the Uni versity law school, will be the main speaker and will talk on “The Scope and limitations of Arbitra tion in Labor Disputes.” ONPA Going to Game Conference members are to be ASUO guests at the Uuniversity of Oregon-University of Washing ton basketball game at McArthur court Friday night. Ladies of the conference are to be entertained at Gerlinger Friday afternoon by members of Theta Sigma Phi, women's professional journalism fraternity. Saturday, too, starts with 8 o'clock group breakfasts, and is to continue with 9:45 to 12 o’clock meetings. Saturday luncheon will be at the Eugene hotel, no host. Henry N. Fowler, president of the ONPA, is to preside. After luncheon reports of the conference committees, election of officers will wind up the confer ence some time Saturday after noon. Like Bans Smokers The advent of wintry weather makes no difference in the enforc ing of the library regulation against smoking in the building, according to M. H. Douglass, li brarian. Students w'ho wish to smoke must go to the balconies or outside the library. Juniors Name New Officer, Chart Activities Vacant Class Post Will Be Assumed By Betty Buchanan — Oregon's junior class ironed out final wrinkles from its trouble over lack of officers last night when a sparsely-attended class meeting in Villard hall voted Bet ty Buchanan vice-president. Miss Buchanan will succeed Jen ny Casey, elected last spring to the office, who did not return to school winter term. A report from Bill Ehrman, chairman of the "an-activity-for the-junior-class” committee sug gested reviving Junior Shine Day on the Oregon campus to gathered third year students. Shine Day activities of yester year, Ehrman explained consisted (Please turn to pat/e lour) Leeper to Speak At YMCA Council In the third of a series of dis cussions led by faculty members of the University, Professor Robert Leeper will talk on “Practical So cial Psychology in the Modern Life” at the weekly meeting of the freshman council of the Young Men’s Christian association in the “Y” hut tonight at 7:30. Professor Kenneth Shumaker will lead the following discussion session on “Intelligent Personal Relations.” A series of speakers will lead two discussions each dur ing the remainder of this quarter. Stanley Robinson is chairman of the neophyte organization. Infirmary Kids Feel Solitude; Visitors Banned Dumb mice and rats in maze problems gradually find out when they're smelling down wrong chutes while trying to get out of the mess by ramming tip against “unpleasant” obstacles. Not so with students! However, one would be rather dubious concerning man’s ad vantage on this score were he to trek up to the infirmary’s second floor. Too many people with “im portant" business persist on try ing to see patients, the ban on visiting notwithstanding. Not only do they attempt to visit, but they waddle in at any and all hours, disregarding the visiting times in effect prior to posting of the visitor restriction. For the zillion-teenth time the visiting ban at the infirmary is still on and will continue until further notice . . . so . . . Answering to hospital roll call were Betty Seeley, Pauline Ewan, Virgene Wade, Adelaide Tim mons, Kay Booth, Leona La Duke, Marion Barrett, Elizabeth Baldwin, Ruth White, Nancy Lee Stratton, John Bjork, Clifford Anet, John Murphy, Thomas Starbuck, Walker Treece, Joseph Doerffler, and Lloyd Thomas. Planes to Stage Mass Formation Flight for Dads 'Air Raid' to Drop Leaflets on UO; Some Good for Hop Roaring overhead in mass forma tion, all Oregon flight course planes will be in the air at once Saturday afternoon at 3:30 as flight students “bomb” the cam pus with souvenir leaflets of their first mass flight in honor of the visiting Dads. Five of the leaflets will be auto graphed by air course instructors and are good for free rides to the student or Dad who happens to pick one up from the 2,000 dropped as the planes circle at 000 feet. Any inscribed with the names of Joe Harrell, Steve Hathaway, Charles Mears, Robert Meaney,, or Jerry Andrews are a free ticket for an air hop from the instructor whose name appears on the sheet. Planes Decorated The "Flying Fifty” of Oregon’s civil pilot’s training air corps will have the planes decorated in yellow and green as they “heldge hop" over the campus scattering sou venir leaflets to the winds. As the “air raid” ends at 3:45, Carlton E. Spencer, head of the flying school will address the Dads in the music auditorium, explain ing the Civil Aeronautics Author ity ciVil training set-up and work done by the Oregon CAA course. Saturday’s air show will be the first undertaking of its kind for the flight school, staged for the benefit of Dad’s Day visitors. An OK from CAA headquarters per mits the low altitude flight, regu lations decreeing ordinarily that the planes are to fly at a much higher level. Professor Turnbull Speaks to Albany Quill and Scroll George Turnbull, professor of journalism, spoke on “Journalism As We See It” at a meeting of the Albany chapter of Quill and Scroll Friday evening. Five candi dates from the newspaper staff and four honorary members includ ing Professor Turnbull, were in itiated. The four people initiated in an honorary capacity were Willard L. Marks, chairman of the state board of higher education; Charles Alexander, Albany fiction writer; C. M. Grigsby, Albany high school teacher of printing; and Professor Turnbull. You like race-horse basketball ? Watch Oregon and Washington Friday night. Williams Elected Head Df New Freshman Student Union Group Ruth Graham Appointed Secretary to Movement; Plan Must Be Kept Hot on Campus, Vernstrom Advises Frosh By JIM BANKS Electing Glenn Williams general chairman, the all-freshman student union committee came into official existence last night. Freshman President Les Anderson and Roy Vernstrom, gen eral chairman of the upperclass or “varsity” union building representatives, conducted the meeting, as the 17 appointees who now form a permanent group to serve throughout the next four years organized in the Johnson hall student union room. Ruth Graham, freshman class secretary, became secretary to the union building promotion squad by unanimous vote. Vernstrom Talks Temporarily locked out of the designated meeting room until the key could be located, the commit tee occupied the ground floor as Anderson introduced Vernstrom to inform them of their charged func tions and explained the work al ready achieved by the top com mittee. “Oregon badly needs a good ballroom,” the top committee head declared in placing the issue before the new group. “We need a place to get acquainted with professors and instructors, office rooms for student activities, a general stu dent headquarters.” The promotion committee's one big job will be to keep the student union structure a “hot” issue on the campus. Vernstrom revealed that had plans been formulated at the time, a union hall would have been erected in place of Chapman, Oregon's newest. War Threatens The complete financial picture was presented to give the frosh promoters an idea of the angles involved before construction can start. Two hopes are before the top committee at present, Vernstrom pointed out. A larger income can be worked up in two or three years to cover costs, or the European hostilities might cease and allow PWA grants, diverted into war material appropriations, to be granted once more. A drawing by F. A. Cuthbert, campus architect, figured in the explanation of proposed sites for (Please turn to Cage four) Phi Alpha Delta To .Give Plaque Scholarship Award Goes to Kaapcke For Highest GPA Phi Alpha Delta, legal fraternity of Portland, will donate an honor roll plaque, to be inscribed once a year with the name of the Univer sity law school senior having the highest cumulative GPA, to the law school as a feature of Dads’ Weekend, Saturday, January 27, at 1:30 in Fenton hall. The gift will be presented by James Conley, justice of the Port land chapter. Dean Wayne L. Morse, head of the law school, will accept the gift in behalf of the law students and faculty, and Dr. Donald M. Erb, University presi dent, will accept for the University. The plaque will be unveiled by Betty Brown, senior honor stu dent, and Mary Jane Wormser, freshman honor student. In addition to the new plaque, Phi Alpha Delta gives $50 in schol arships to University law students each year. Twenty-five dollars gpes to the senior with the highest GPA, $25 to the top junior; and $15 to the highest ranking freshman. Wallace Kaapcke, a last year’s graduate, will be the first name to be engraved on the plaque. The formal dedication of the plaque will follow a luncheon for visiting members of the Oregon State Bar association and other legal dignitaries at the Anchorage. Dance Motif Built Around American Flag Ball Programs Have Wooden Soldiers Covers Stars and stripes will adorn the ceiling of McArthur court for Scabbard and Blade’s Military ball February 3—stars and stripes of the United States flag. Striking a patriotic note, the decoration will feature mainly the red, white, and blue banner which will be stretched the length of the Igloo to form a false ceiling. Dark blue velvet drapes will cover the walls and reach up to join the flag in completing the canopy. High Band Stand An unusually high band stand will be constructed for Bob Mit chell’s orchestra in order that the music may be heard in spite of the muffling effect of the heavy dra peries. In front of this platform another stand will be built. From here the Little Colonel will walk beneath crossed sabers to lead the grand march. Behind the band stand will be the insignia of the , Scabbard and Blade and the dance floor will be illuminated from the bracketed lights. Extra thought is being given to the comfort of the patrons and patronesses. The south side of the building will be arranged for them and plans are being made to extend their quarters into the corridor which encircles the floor. As for the floor, Harry Milne, captain of the military honorary, promised that it “will be condi tioned so that it will be as slick as Paul Bunyan’s griddle pan.” Dance Program Unique Tentative plans are being pro moted to give out the programs when the ticket is purchased. “We have really planned unique pro grams and the girls will have some thing to keep as a real souvenir,” the committee of Bud Jermain, Roger Conrad, and Dale Mallicoat declared. The covering, a six-inch miniature soldier is carved from plywood and painted in four dif ferent colors. From his bayonet hangs the ribbon tassle. Programs were designed by Mallicoat who is using the same display on the pos ters advertising the event. The allied art school is working in collaboration with Rich Werschkul, Don Davis, and Dean Warren on the decorations. Plans Made for Art School Bulletin Plans for the publication of an art school bulletin to include a di rectory of all past and present art school students are under way, ac cording to information from Tom Potter, president of the allied arts league. All are students interested in taking part in issuing the publica tion are to meet at 7 o’clock Wed nesday night in room 107, art building, Potter announced.