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VOLUME XLI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1940
NUMBER G5
LIBRARY
U. OF ORE.
Two Boards Opened to Student Group
Campus Prepares
For Visiting 'Pops’
Dads to See
Modern View
Of College Life
Houses Must Have
Guests Registered
To Vie for Awards
Dads are sipping college life—
“the Modern Way” as parents take
over the campus today to be en
tertained by their sons and daugh
ters during the 13th annpal Dads’
Weekend.
In order to compete for the tro
phies awarded to the house having
the most guests present, all Dads
must register at Johnson hall from
8:30 to 3 o’clock, John Cavanagh,
general chairman, said. Cups are
given to the living organizations
having the most freshman dads
registered, the highest, the second
ihghest total number of guests
present.
Dinner at 5:30
Presentation of the cups will
take place at the banquet in Ger
linger hall this evening. Dinner
will be served at 5:30.
Dr. Donald M. Erb will be the
speaker of the evening with Loyal
H. McCarthy, president of the
Oregon Dads’ acting as toastmas
ter. New officers to the state or
ganization, who will be elected at
the meeting this morning, will be
introduced at the table.
Other officials who will greet
the Dads will be: Willard L.
Marks, president of Oregon State
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Symposium Team
To Leave for North
Three members of the Univer
sity of Oregon’s symposium team
will leave Eugene Monday on a
three-day speaking tour. Roy
Vernstrom, George Luoma, and
Paul Kempe, accompanied by W.
A. Dahlberg, assistant professor of
speech, are making the jaunt.
With “Propaganda” as their
subject, the group plans to speak
in Tillamook, Seaside, Astoria,
Warrenton, Waldport, and Clat
skanie.
This tour is one of several
planned by the men’s symposium
for this year. Last year the sym
posium made a number of such
trips, frequently returning to the
same town by request. (Picture on
page four.)
CAMPUS
CALENDAR
The food and housing commit
tee for the International Relations
clubs conference will meet in Dean
Morris’ office Monday at 2 p.m.
Phil Bladine, Ray Foster, Patricia
Jewell, Kathleen Brady, and Betty
Van Dellen please be present.
Rehearsal of the student novelty
program will be held at 10 o’clock
in the Villard assembly hall this
morning.
All Little Colonel candidates are
requested to be at the music audi
torium at 3:30 this afternoon to
usher at the student novelty pro
gram.
Waiters and waitresses at the
Dads’ Day banquet are to meet in
the alumni room of Gerlinger at 4
o’clock today.
Winds, i?am
Cramp Style
O/ Dads' Posters
The cold winds did blow, and
also it rained slightly -so Ralph
Woodall’s committee, decorat
ing for visiting Oregon Dads,
decided to play indoors. After
waiting for a pause in the wind
and showers which have plagued
their attempts to put up posters
on several of the buildings on the
campus, the committee moved
the majority of the signs indoors
in their respective buildings.
“The displays were planned as
outdoor illustrations originally,”
Woodall said, “but we hope to
have them so arranged inside
that both visitors and students
will be able to get the ideas they
present.”
If the sun comes out, the signs
go out, the committee promised.
Posters and signs on display are
the work of John Schierer, Bob i
Clever, Earl Curtis, Bob Swan,
and Woodall.
Planes to Drop
'Lucky Leaflets'
Air-Jaunt Passes,
ROTC Ball Admits
Will Be Included
Unless intermittent rains turn
into a small hurricane, all five of
Oregon’s flight school planes will
be warming up at the runways
this afternoon at 3:30 for their
special Dads’ Day exhibition flight.
A shower of leaflets—some of
them lucky ones—will flutter
earthward as the planes, flying
yellow and green streamers, circle
the campus. The leaflets will be
a combination of souvenirs for
visiting dads and sheets offering
free tickets to the Military ball
next Saturday night.
Five free airplane ride tickets
will be hidden among the 2000
missives dropped from the planes.
They may be identified by noting1
the autograph of one of the Oregon
flight instructors.
In the group of white handbills
which will be included in part of j
the “bombing” ammunition to ad
vertise the annual Scabbard and
Blade dance, several will bear the
autograph of ROTC Captain Harry
Milne. Students who find these
autographed handbills may pre
sent them at the Dads’ Day nov
elty program in the music audi
torium at 4 o’clock and exchange
them for free tickets to the Mili
tary ball. The exchange may also
be made at the University Co-op.
Chinese Consul
Speaks to Classes
S. C. T. Au, Chinese consul in
Portland, spoke to the foreign
trade classes of A. G. Dudley, as
sistant professor of business ad
ministration, yesterday.
At noon Mr. Au spoke to mem
bers of the Eugene chamber of
commerce forum meeting on “Con
ditions in China Today.”
Mr. Au is a graduate of the Chi
nese university of the University
of Chicago.
I
UO to Purchase
Nash Book Collection
John Henry Nash has been ap
pointed by the state board of
higher education as a professor of
typography at the University for
: the next 18 months.
The University has also taken
an option to purchase his collec
tion of books. The library is now
completing an inventory of the j
Nash collection.
Open House
On Program
For UO Dads
Inspection Tour
Will Show Where j
Students Work
Oregon Dads will literally fol- j
low their sons and daughters into 1
classrooms this afternoon in the;
University's "open house.” Many
of the departments will be thrown
open to the visitors from 1:30
until 3:30. Faculty members
and honorary groups will oblige
by showing the Dads around.
The school of physical educa
tion will have a fencing exhibition
from 1 to 1:30; 1:30 to 2, bar work
and tumbling: 2 to 2:30, wrestling;
and 2:30 to 3, boxing.
Science Exhibition
The zoology department in j
rooms 201 and 202, will have an j
exhibit featuring chick embryos, j
invertebrate slides, and everything!
in the animal kingdom, J. E. Her
bertson, instructor in zoology, said.
R. R .Huestis, professor of zoology,
will perform an experiment. The
physics department, also in Deady,
will have an electrical show.
Law' Award Given
The geology department in Con
don will show many Indian relics,
skeletons, spears and arrows, etc.
The law school library will be
open. Law students and Dads will
lu.^ch at the Anchorage, where
James Conley, head of the Port
land chapter of Phi Alpha Delta, j
legal fraternity, will give a bronze
plaque to Wallace Kaapke for be
ing the outstanding student in 'the
law school last year.
University Press Tour
Members of Sigma Delta Chi,
men’s professional journalistic so
ciety, will guide visitors through
the University press.
Other departments that will be
open to visitors will be psychology,
Condon, where a short movie will
run continuously, the Oriental arts
museum, 1 to 3:30, the University
library, and the school of educa
tion. The Dads’ Day novelty pro
gram will be held in the music
school auditorium, beginning at 4
o’clock.
Grad Gets Position
Vincent Brings, psychology
graduate of ’38, has obtained a
position with the state public wel
fare commission, a letter to the
psychology department reveals.
Dr. Howard R. Taylor, psych de
parment head, remarked that he
is one of the first psychology ma
jors to get into government work.
Bring writes that his new work
is laying out plans, constructing
forms, and writing instructions.
YELL KING
VOTING NOW
OVERDUE
Choice Behind Sked
Two Weeks, Legal
Stipulation Shows \
ASUO is legally overdue for 4
new yell leader by nearly twq
weeks, it was learned yesterday,
when the ASUO executive com
mittee unearthed the rules in
stalled less than a year ago gov
erning the yell setup.
According to rules adopted last
year, after Dick Williams made a
three-month study of rally and
yell setups |at other conference
schools, the election for the yell
king “shall be held within two
weeks after the opening of winter
term.”
Assembly ’Election Necessary
Replacement requirement makes
necessary an ASUO assembly as
soon as possible, the committee
decided, to elect a new yell lead
er. The rules declare, “The yell
king shall be elected by a vote of
the associated students of the
University of Oregon at a general
assembly. The election shall be
held within two weeks after the
opening of winter term.”
What to do about it was another
question, however. The committee
learned that it is possible there
will be no all-school assembly
Thursday at the assembly period,
which would leave the hour free
for the ASUO to get itself a new
yell leader.
Two Possible Candidates
Two assemblies are another pos
sibility, if last year’s practice is
to be followed. Last year there was
one assembly for the purpose of
looking over the candidates and
another for the election itself. This
possibility seemed remote, how
ever, in view of the fact that last
year marked the inauguration of
the new plan and no candidates
were known, while this year the
field is limited by the rules to the
two yell dukes.
Handbook Sans Rule
First inkling that Yell Leader
Bob Elliott was operating on bor
rowed time came when a search
of the constitution for the rules
governing managerial awards re
minded of the non-inclusion in the
ASUO handbook of the new yell
and rally committee code, adopted
too late last year to get into the
pamphlet.
The when and how of next
w'eek’s assembly, if one is decided
on, will have to wait until next
week, when ASUO President John
Dick will announce what steps he
will take.
Dr. Taylor to Speak
Dr. Howard Taylor, head of the
psychology department, will talk
before the psychology and educa
tion section of the Inland Empire
association meeting in Spokane
the first week in April.
Dr. Taylor will review experi
ments in reading and incorporate
the report of a special investiga
tion on which he has been work
ing.
Dobbin Goes College;
Or Art for Horse Sake
By PAT ERICKSON
You’ve heard of working' your
way through college ?
Well, here’s a new one. A horse,
working as model in the art de
partment.
His name is Barney, his color
chestnut brown (horse chestnut
someone suggested), and he is
hired from a Eugene farmer by
the sculpture department of the
University art school.
Living models are often used in
the sculpture class, graduate as
sistant Jean Sutherland says, but
working with real animals is a
rarity. The sculpture class has not
had an opportunity to model a live
horse for years, so the experience,
Miss Sutherland pointed out, is as
novel to the students as to the
horse.
In the modeling room, Barney
occupies a special sawdust stand.
Hitched to a peg in the wall, he
finds food and water conveniently
close. Windows are kept open to
keep the horse from getting over
heated, and sculptors “spoil” him
with bits of sugar and apples.
Since the department intends to
keep Barney on as model until
the farmer needs him for spring
plowing, the horse, observers say,
seems to have realized his length
of stay and to have decided to
make the most of it. "He is a model
model,” from all reports.
Campus Visitors See Student Union Display
Keoently-appointed members of the freshman class student union committee explain their displays in
the student union room to delegates ofc the 22nd annual press conference, which held its opening day on
the University campus yesterday. Photo by Ted Kenyon, Emerald staff photographer.
Oregon Newspaper
Policies Discussed
National Hostel
Heads to Visit UD
All-Day Conference
Slated to Begin
Monday at 9 a.m.
Monroe and Isabel Smith, na
tional co-directors of the Ameri
can Youth Hostel association, will
arrive in Eugene Monday at 9
a.m. to take part in a full-day
program of Hostel conferences and
discussions, the personnel office
announced yesterday.
The program will start at 10
a.m. on the University campus and
meetings will be held throughout
the' day in various parts of the
city. Purpose of the conference will
be to summarize past work and to
draw up plans for future activi
ties.
According to Karl W. Onthank,
dean of personnel, anyone may at
tend the meetings. Motion pictures
will be shown both afternoon and
evening.
Complete schedule is as fol
lows :
9 a.m. Arrive from San Fran-1
cisco.
10 to 12 a.m. University cam
pus.- Meeting in faculty room for
physical education students and all
others interested. Motion pictures.
12 a.m. Luncheon. Seymour’s
cafe. Meeting with temporary ex
ecutive committee of Eugene
Hostel group.
2 p.m. City Hall-Meeting with
women's groups sponsored by the
Parent-Teacher association coun
cil. Mrs. L. D. Erickson, PTA
president, will preside.
4 p.m. City hall—General meet
ing of Eugene sponsoring groups
and others interested. The meet is
for the purpose of deciding plans
for continuing the organization
and for summarizing Hostel devel
opment in this area.
6 to 7:15 p.m.—Dinner and rest.
7:30 p.m. Eugene high school
auditorium—Evening public meet
ing. Monroe and Isabel Smith will
speak and motion pictures of hos
tels in the United States and
abroad will be shown. Hosteling in
this area up to the present time
will be reported and plans decided
at the afternoon meeting will be
announced.
Ouch ! Bandaged
Thumbs Result
Of Freak Tumble
Imaginary conversation be
tween “Little Audrey” and Dra
matist Ed Burtenshaw:
L. A.—“Why grampaw, your ■
thumbs are so big they look like
a Maypole.”
E. B. “Eh, eh, the better to
throttle you, my dear. . . And
shut up!”
In military class yesterday
Eddie was unconsciously doing
a circus balancing act in an ane
mic, gouty chair, toppled over
backwards, then jabbed his
thumbs into the floor to halt
his fall.
However, this won’t cramp
Ed’s style, so they say, when he
wrings some poor . old lady’s
neck in the Very Little theater's
“Night Must Fall.”
Infirmary enrollment yester
day was at the lowest it has been
during winter term. Those in bed
were Hugh Hoffman, Virgene
Wade, Adelaide Timmons, Fran
cis Quigley, Leone La Duke,
Charlene Jackson, Ruth Wright,
Lloyd Thomas, John Wall, Walk
er Treece, and Joan Hoke.
Another Clark
Made History Head
It will continue to be “Dr. Clark,
head of the history department.”
Coming to the campus a year
after his predecessor, Dr. Dan E.
Clark takes over the position left
vacant by the death of Dr. Robert
C. Clark last term.
Serving in three capacities on
the faculty Dr. Clark is known
throughout the states as well as
on the campus. To students he is
known as professor of Oregon his
tory. To those attending summer
sessions he is known as assistant
director of summer sessions in
charge of the Eugene sessions.
He first joined the staff in 1921
as associate professor of history
and assistant director of extension
division. In 1926 he became pro
fessor and assistant director of
summer sessions. In 1932 he was
made assistant director of general
extension and summer sessions for
the state system of higher ednea
tion.
Publishers Hear
LatestNews Hints
Interesting Talks
Cover Wide Range
Of Latest Topics
By JONATHAN KAHANANUI
"Who’s Who” in state newspaper
work converged on the University
of Oregon’s journalism school be
ginning at 9:30 a.m. yesterday for
"Round One” of the 22nd annual
Oregon Press conference. Speeches
and discussions indicating progress
and general policy trends in news
paper work were crowned with a
no-host banquet at the Osburn
hotel yesterday evening, as the
two-day conclave got underway.
Top “Small Town” Paper
Vale-Malheur Enterprise won the
Hal E. Hoss cup awarded to Ore
gon’s top “small town” newspaper
as judged by Sigma Delta Chi
members of the University of Ore
gon. Number two spot went to the
Freewater Times.
Changes in advertising policy o1
Oregon fruit products for better
effect Were suggested by Merle W
Manly, vice-president of Botsford
Constantine, and Gardner, Portland
Manly urged advertising of the
Oregon prune, an example, as
"pleasing and palatable” rather
than "cheap.”
Makeup Importance Stressed
Newspaper’s makeup was com
mented on by Ralph C. Curtis, Sa
lem Statesman, who declared al
the session that makeup, especially
the front page, should vary in ac
cordance with the news, but should
at all times present an harmon
ious appearance.
Features Upheld
"Our job is not to remake the
world, nor to reform the world, but
to report it,” declared Donald J
Sterling, managing editor of the
Oregon Journal, speaking on news
paper features. He averred thal
fashion, food, and house furnishing
features are just as essential from
the news angle as other material
in a paper.
Partial blame for propaganda
inspired mass movements was laid
to the public by Philip H. Parrish,
associate editor of The Oregonian,
speaking at the afternoon confab.
“I am thoroughly convinced that
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Erb Gives
Okay to
Request
ASUO's Executives
Meet With Faculty
On Activity Issues
The ASUO executive committee
went calling yesterday on Dr. Don-*
aid M. Erb, president of the Uni
versity, and when it came away
members bore his assurance that
they would henceforward attend
en masse all meetings of either
the educational activities or ath
letic hoards.
The number of student votes on
each hoard will remain the same,
however. In addition, every mem
ber of the executive committee will
be placed on the mailing list of
both hoards, to receive in advance
the customary written notice of
meetings and contemplated agenda.
Plan Long Considered
The visit to Dr. Erb’s office, the
first in the career of the present
executive committee as a body,
was decided on Thursday at the
meeting held to consider the new
$2 fee.
All-board membership has for
some time been a pet project of the
committee. Members of the com
mittee told the president they felt
they could do a better job this way
and at the same time augment the
student voice by lowering the ratio
of student-faculty representation
to something less than the preva
lent four-to-one of the last meet
ing.
Student Vote Remains
Inclusion of the entire executive
committee on both boards is the
first real change in the composi
tion or character of those bodies
since the present arrangement was
worked out several years ago.
The membership of each board
is a formula which never varies,
the membership remaining virtu
ally year after year, except for
the inclusion of 50 per cent of the
executive committee. It was for
this reason that Dr. Erb stipulated
the student vote would remain the
same. However, votes will be trans
ferable among executive commit
tee members, Dr. Erb said.
First use of the new system will
be Monday night, when the ath
letic board goes into its winter
term session.
Yesterday’s call upon the presi
dent had much in common with
' “The man who came for dinner.”
The committee came intending to
stay an hour, and then got so en
grossed in their work that they
stayed twice that long, talking in
formally about fees and athletics
as well as the boards.
New Fee Discussed
The decision of whether the new
$2 fee includes student body mem
bership is up to the executive com
mittee, Dr. Erb said, with the ques
tion revolving around which fee
should bear the franchise right.
It was even suggested among the
committee that the ASUO mem
bership be made the basis of a
special card at a low tax, which
would divorce the student body
membership completely from either
fee, whether for educational ac
tivities or athletics.
Newsmen, Dads See
Union Hall Display
Press conference delegates and
the first of the Dads to arrive on
the campus looked over the display
in the student union room yester
day under the guidance of the
Frosh union hall promotion com- *
mittee, first activity tackled by the
new group.
Glenn Williams, committee head,
announced that Spencer Weills is
to direct personnell in the room
today. Williams commended the
committeemen, declaring that they
handled the job well, answering
questions and pointing out inter
esting features of the exhibit.
Every Dad who has not yet seen
the display is invited to inspect
it today, the committee stress
es. A squad will be on duty in the
room again today. A scrapbook of
clippings, minutes of meetings,
articles, and pertinent data is to
be incorporated in what will be a
history book of student union af
fairs.