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VOLUME XLI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1940
NUMBER 79
Dr. Pallett Lists
Scholarships
Approximately Eighty Fee Awards
Open to New Students, Graduates,
-s And Undergraduates for Next Year
By RAY SCHRICK
Approximately 80 fee scholarships for students who are attending
the University of Oregon or who plan to enter next fall will be avail
able for the academic year 1940-41, Dr. Earl M. pallett, registrar,
announced Thursday.
At least half of this number will be awarded to new students who
have never attended any higher educational institution. This leaves
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Six Shooter
To Greet Dates
At Wiskerino
Couples to Enter
Through 30-Foot
Bowed Mannikin
By BETTY JANE BIGGS
Thirty feet of rootin’, tootin’
western hombres with drawn six
shooters will guard the door to
the Sophomore Whiskerino tomor
row night. Couples will enter Ger
linger hall through the cowboy’s
bowed legs.
The mannikin, a cardboard
sophomore, will escape the wrath
of Sheriff Buch Buchwach and his
vigilantes by being attired in chaps
and a loud blue shirt with sleeves
rolled back, disclosing his red flan
nel underwear. The eowpuncher’s
bushy beard will save him from the
dunking fate which has been the
fate of all smooth-shaven sopho
mores.
An Indian tepee, complete with
campfire, will be seen in the lounge
leading to the cattle chute, which
is the public’s entrance through
the “corral” fence to the dance
floor.
Murals portraying cowboy and
range scenes will decorate the
walls of the ball room. Wagon
wheels will be used as chandeliers
with imitation kerosene lanterns
furnishing light.
In one corner, a sophomore sans
whiskers will be seen dangling by
the neck from the hangman’s tree.
Green and yellow crepe paper
streamers will alternate across the
ceiling of the room.
Dance programs will also carry
out the rodeo idea, Fontelle Mit
^ chell, chairman, announced.
Ken Baker, styled the “Prince
of Swing,” has been engaged to
play for the Whiskerino.
Campus clothes have been de
creed the proper costume for the
“rodeo” dance.
Tickets may be purchased from
sophomores in any men's living or
ganization. Admission will be $1.50
with the holders of sophomore
class card receiving a reduction of
cne-third.
Symposium Team
Fills Engagements
Symposium team speakers filled
several speech engagements in Eu
gene and vicinity this week.
Frank McKinney, Charles Dev
eraux, and Leonard Clark spoke on
“Distribution” at the North Bend
high school, and Kiwanis club
Monday, February 12. They also
addressed the Bandon high school.
Les Ready and Dorothy Davis furn
ished musical entertainment.
Ken Erickson, Roy Vemstrom.
and Karl Zimmerman spoke on
“Propaganda” at the Eugene Labor
temple Tuesday, February 13.
Wednesday night, Jack Blanken
ship, Ken Erickson, and Roy Vem
strom spoke on “Propaganda" at
the University of Oregon Faculty
club.
Thursday, Ray Hewitt and Paul
Kempe will speak on “Propaganda”
at the Myrtle Creek high school.
Bob Mack is to sing, and will be ac
^ companied by Dorothy Davis.
The same schedule will be fol
lowed Friday night at the Sweet
Home high school.
approximately 40 for men and wo
men now attending- the University
either as undergraduate or gradu
ate students.
Applied on Fees
The scholarships have a value
of $66.00 for undergraduates ant
$64.50 for graduates. This amount
applies toward the total fee of $107
for regular students and $101 for
graduates.
Scholarship application blanks
may now be obtained from the
president’s office. In order to apply
an undergraduate must have a
cumulative GPA " at least 2.50.
Graduate students must have a
cumulative GPA of at least 3.00.
All blanks must be filled in and
presented at the president’s office
not later than April 1, 1940.
Immediately after this date, the
local fee scholarship committee
will examine applications and make
recommendations to the state com
mittee. These will be based on
cumulative GPA and need for fi
nancial assistance.
Judging committee will include
four members. They are Dr. Pal
lett, chairman; Virgil D. Earl, dear
of men; Dr. Waldo Schumacher
professor of political science; Mist
Janet' Smith, employment secre
tary; and Dr. C. L. Huffaker, pro
fessor of education.
Charles Gilkeg
To Talk to ASDO
Famous Educator
To Arrive Saturday
For Five Speeches
Dr. Charles W. Gilkey, dean of
Rockefeller chapel at the Univer
sity of Chicago, and one of the
foremost American educators of
the present day, will address Ore
gon students on “Improbables in
Education” at Tuesday's ASUO as
sembly in Gerlinger hall, the per
sonnel office announced Thursday.
Dr. Gilkey will arrive on the
campus Saturday, and faces a
schedule of five speeches during
his four-day stay. Tuesday’s talk
will mark his final public appear
ance here, and for this reason
Dean Karl W. Onthank stated that
the regular Thursday assembly
would be moved ahead two days.
As an international figure, Dr.
Gilkey has spoken before groups
over the entire world.
Dr. Gilkey is dean of Rockefeller
chapel at Chicago and associate
dean of the divinity school.
Tuesday’s assembly will be at 11.
Ling Po, He Very
Wise Man, Dean
Gilbert Agrees
Ling Po (Confucious’ most
honorable countryman) say:—
‘‘American professor very pecu
liar person, leave hat on desk to
let students know he will not be
absent but will come late. Amer
ican students very clever, catch
on quick. All buy hats.”
Earlier this week Dean J. H.
Gilbert of the social science de
partment, arriving a trifle early
to one of his classes, left his hat
on his desk to indicate to his
students that he’d be back in
class later, but they left anyway.
Dean Gilbert explained the de
serted hat’s significance the fol
lowing day. However, he was
surprised one morning when he
breezed into the classroom and
a myriad of hats littered his stu
dents’ chairs. (This is supposed
to be the ‘•McCoy”).
Still to Teach
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—Photo by Bud Jermain
Professor H. C. Howe whose resignation from the Pacific Coast
Athletic association wiH not affect his teaching duties here. Always a
friend of the athlete he is shown here advising footballer Chester
Haliski.
Herbert Howe Called
'Friend ot Athletes'
By L. N.
The little man with the gray hair and green eye shade leans back
in his old wooden chair as if to rest his mind and body before continu
ing his statement.
Seated behind his desk Professor Herbert Crombie Howe appears
to be a little man, but in reality before his health began to fail the
popular English professor was near G feet tall and weighed close to
iou puuims>.
“Yes I am retiring from active
participation in the Pacific Coast
Athletic association,” he says. “My
health will not permit me to con
tinue.”
Files Date Back 28 Years
As he speaks Professor Howe’s
eyes travel 'to the plain wooden
bookcase across the room and to
the mass of books, pamphlets, and
other papers that it contains. These
are his files that he has built up
during 28 years of service repre
senting the University at athletic
councils. His records run back to
the time of the old Northwest con
ference before 1915.
In addition to his duties on the
athletic association Howe has been
one of the University’s most ardent
athletic fans. He has personally
known every football, basketball,
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Taxation sans
Represen tation
Charged Unfair
Here’s another one for Ripley
or ‘‘Now I ask you . . .”
She can’t officially take part
in the governing of this country,
but she has to help support it.
Such was the ironical position of
Miss Muriel Beckman, mimeo
grapher at the extension division,
revealed when the call for income
tax blanks was issued.
An undergraduate, Miss Beck
man is taking a year off from
her studies and working for the
University. Not yet 21, she still
receives a large enough salary
that the government demands a
portion of it.
H. H. Hanna to Read
The browsing room reading hour
Tuesday night will feature H. H.
Hanna, instructor in speech, who
will read from the works of Thom
as Wolfe.
Law School Bids
Served by Cops
Voting for Title of
'Little Judge' Starts
Today at Noon
Squad car sirens sounded in front
of coed living organizations yester
day as burly city policemen pound
ed on the doors and called for the
housemother, serving an official
summons that proved to be an in
vitation to the law school dance
next Saturday night.
Sergeant Spies of the Eugene
city police headed a squad of four
men in serving the summons, di
viding the city into districts in
order to come some outlying houses
whose addresses appeared on the
list of sixty invitations to be dis
tributed.
The police will figure prominent
ly once again the night of the
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Love Will Find a Way;
So Will Pin Planters!
By JOHNNY KAHANANUI
Those who know say that there
is no general principle or technique
whatever for a boy to observe when
he’s out to collar his “de-lovely”
and plant his fraternity badge.
Some girls have been corralled
in the library; others have had
their blouses punctured while in
every conceivable nook and cranny
on the campus. Then too, there was
the resourceful Romeo who phoned
his Susan Campbell hall “number”
out of bed at some ungodly hour,
had her lower her laundry bag out
the window, and stuck his pin on
the sack.
Waller Ahead
However, drama student Fred
Waller is two jumps and a holler
ahead of fellow practitioners in
that sport of catch-and-pin. Maybe
his stage work was responsible,
but on Valentine’s day, Fred round
ed up a bouquet of flowers and had
it delivered to hospitalized Mary
Booth.
When Mary undraped the enve
lope from around the “from-so-and
so-to-such-and-such” card, out
trickled Fred’s Sigma Nu pin. The
occasion was tailor-made, the pin
and card were appropriate, and
the perfumed blossoms clinched
the “deal.”
Girl Scouts?
Mary Cormack and Jane Mc
Curdy in the infirmary’s ward five j
crawled out of bed early yesterday!
morning feeling like a pair of girl
scouts ready to do their day’s good
deed. They phoned KORE and had
the little ditty "I’m Fit to Be
Tied” dedicated to all the kids in
the hospital. However, when the
announcer’s voice came over the
air, it said that the girls in ward
five dedicate this or another song
to the girls in ward five. How em
barrassing.
Jane is recuperating from an ap
pendectomy, while Mary is laid up
, with a slight head injury.
'Senor' Senior
Says Mexico
Due for Rise
Discusses Labor,....
Land Difficulties
As Main Problems
Defining' Mexico as a country
“kicked around, pushed around,
and knocked down" by internal and
external hardships, Clarence Sen
ior, noted journalist and interna
tional speaker, yesterday outlined
a four-point program, that at pres
ent is injecting new strength and
union into the southern republic.
Mr. Senior, director of the infor
mation center of the American bu
reau in Mexico, spoke on the sub
ject, “Building Democracy in Mex
ico.”
I.and Problem Looms
“Mexican people are facing a
tremendous task,” Mr. Senior de
clared. “Their first and probably
foremost problem is that of land.
The peasants want partial owner
ship of the soil, and the present
regime is doing a great deal to help
them.”
"From 1915 to 1934,” he ex
plained, “20 million acres of land
were distributed to peasants. This
is only a little over one million
acres per year. In the five years
since Cardenas has been in power
over 40 million acres have been
provided. This is approximately
eight million per year.
Labor Offers Problem
Mr. Senior showed many of the
difficulties which similarly arise
from labor discontent, which he
termed Mexico’s second big prob
lem. He said that they have long
had strike troubles, and it was not
until 1917 that a progressive labor
code came into effect. He also em
phasized the difficulties of educa
tion and politics, the third and
fourth points of the present pro
gram.
•Feei Duty’
“The main idea behind all gov
ernmental change,” he said, “is to
build a sense of responsibility in
the people by giving them respons
ible positions that will make them
feel their duty for doing right.”
“The immensity of this project
is better seen,” he stated, “when a
person can realize some of the
handicaps of the country. Most of
the people are far undernourished
because only about 10 per cent of
the total land area can be utilized
for farming.”
Movement Is Big
Mr. Senior termed the new move
ment one of the largest and most
difficult ever tried by any nation.
He compared it with the French
revolution, the Protestant reforma
tion, and other European changes
all combined into one gigantic pro
ject.
UO-OSC Pep Bally
Last half of the assembly hour
was allowed for a pep rally for
the coming Oregon-Oregon State
basketball game. Woody Slater,
yell king, and two assistants, Bob
Greer and Jack Carter, led in yells,
and John Stehn directed the Uni
versity band in several numbers.
Hobson Reviews Chances
Speakers include Bobby A net,
last year’s team captain, John Dick,
leader of this year’s squad, and
Howard Hobson, Webfoot basket
ball coach. Hobson outlined possible
Oregon chances in Saturday night’s
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Classes Hear Bayley
W. D. Bayley of Canada visited
the campus this week, speaking to
the freshman men’s and women's
hygiene classes, and to the physical
education majors on narcotics, al
cohol in particular. He is sponsored
by an independent voluntary com
mittee.
Just a Thought
Cal Bryan, the Eugene recorder,
Complains of a violent disorder.
That Webfoots are truly,
Becoming unruly,
In matters of traffic and order.
He picked from this disorderly
whirl
The charge "overparking” to hurl.
If we looked we would find,
In the back of his mind,
Perhaps he referred to Dean Earl ? (
—J.W.8. '
AWS, YWCA, WAA
Candidates Selected
Others Have 'em;
St Lawrence Is
Grid's Immortal
If football has never had a
patron saint, it has one now.
Anyway according to E. M.
Hulme, Stanford history profes
sor here at Oregon for the winter
term, it has.
It seems that almost every
thing else from carpenters to
music has a patron saint, so
Saint Lawrence is Mr. Hulme's
candidate for football’s patron
for he was roasted to death on
a gridiron.
Dr. A.R. Moore
Discusses Value
Of Science Studu
•J
History, Cultural
Use of Technical
Work Pointed Out
Dr. A. K. Moore, internationally
known physiology professor of the
University of Oregon, in his lec
ture last night said, “as a disci
pline science is dynamic and if for
any reason growth is forbidden the
result is that for that place and
time, learning decays."
Dr. Moore traced the historical
development of science showing
that a discovery once made is good
for all time, not static or discon
tinued. “It should rather be lik
ened to a cathedral which requires
centuries to build,” he continued.
“What is science?” Dr. Moore
asked, and answered, “It is at once
a body of knowledge, a system of
thinking, a point of view, a faith,
an inspired curiosity that leads to
realizations beyond the most ex
travagant dreams of untutored
man.”
“It is not,” he emphasized.
“ ‘gadgets’—motor cars, airplanes,
or bright lights, as is the popular
conception of uncritical minds.”
“What is culture?” asked Dr.
Moore. “It is a characteristic of a
society, of a period, and intellec
tual content of its civilization—
the motive power in their creative
work.” he answered.
AWS Councils Plan
Spring Conventions
Oregon State women entertained
the Webfoot AWS council Tuesday
afternoon and plans for the AWS
convention which will be held on
the Oregon campus in the spring
with delegates from all the north
western colleges attending, were
formulated.
Anne Frederiksen, president of
the Oregon women, explained her
organization’s preparations while
the Staters told their schemes of
v/elcoming the visitors.
Out of the four-day conference,
the guests will spend one day in
Corvallis. The Beaver college is
planning to fete them with a
luncheon, an assembly, a round
table discussion, and a campus
tour.
It was decided that the two
councils will meet again in Eu
gene in two weeks to complete
preparation for the convention.
Making the trip were: Mrs. Ha
zel P. Schwering, dean of women,
Donna Ketchum, Bette Norwood,
Elizabeth Steed, Patsy Taylor,
Grace Irvin, Aurelia Wolcott, and
Anne Frederiksen.
Mrs. Kate Jameson, dean of the
Oregon State women, honored the
University guests at a dinner in
the evening.
BA Grad to Talk
Alvin K. Kertes, graduate assist
ant in the school of business ad
ministration, will speak on “As
pects of Regional Planning" on the
KOAC business hour tonight at
8:15,
Mass Meeting
Presents Office
Competitors
Names of Maxine Hansen, Nancy Allen,
Pat Taylor Added to Ballot from Floor;
Polls to Be Open at Bungalow Thursday
Feminine hats wore officially tossed into the political ring Thursday
afternoon at a mass assembly in Gerlinger hall of Oregon women who
heard and approved of the nomination committee’s choice of candidates
for AWS, YWCA, and WAA offices.
Three more names were suggested from the floor and will appear
on the ballot. They are: Pat Taylor for vice president of the AWS:
Maxine Hansen, secretary, AWS;
and Nancy Allen, sergeant at arms,
WAA.
Anne Frederiksen, head of AWS,
called on the aspirants for AWS
offices to take a bow. The candi
dates are: president, Grace Irvin
and Betty Buchanan; vice presi
dent, Bette Norwood, Barbara
Stalleup, and Pat Taylor; secre
tary, Betty Plankinton, Phyllis
Sanders, and Maxine Hansen; trea
surer, Elizabeth Steed and Billie
Christensen; reporter, Billie Wade,
Adele Canada, and Betty Jane
Biggs; sergeant - at - arms, Helen
Moore, Virginia Malloy, Mary El
len Smith, and Caroline Holmes.
WAA Hopefuls
Lois Onthank, vice president
of the WAA, introduced the
girls running for WAA offices.
They are: president, Joanne Riesch
and Bette Morfitt; vice president,
Hope Hughes and Janet Morris;
secretary, Becky Anderson, Jean
Burt, and Nancy Ann Johnson;
treasurer, Barbara Bamford, Ruth
Larkin, and Ethel Dixon; custodian,
Martha McClung, Mildred Mc
Carthy, and Hazel Olefield; report
er, Mary Belcher, and Marge Dib
ble; sergeant at arms, Pat Law
son, Betty Mae Lind, Margaret
Shipler, and Nancy Allen.
YWCA Candidates
Bettylou Swart, prexy, an
nounced the names of the women
on the YWCA ticket. Jean Crites
and Marjorie Montgomery were
named presidential nominees. The
girls receiving the least number of
votes will be given the office of
vice president. Also on the YW bal
lot are: secretary, Bobsie Roehm
and Lois Nordling; treasurer,
Kathleen Brady and Trudi An
derson.
Polls will be open in the YWCA
bungalow from 9 to 3 o’clock next
Thursday. WAA and YW officials
will have a complete list of their
members which will be checked
before the ballot is given out.
Faculty Selects
Committee Heads
Committee appointments for the
University of Oregon Faculty club
were announced last week by
President E. H. Moore, professro
of sociology. These appointments
are for the current year.
Committees and members are:
auditing, #J. H. Bond, chairman,
and C. F. Kossack; entertainment,
Quirinus Breen, chairman, L. S.
Bee, subchairman in charge of
food; H. C. Merriam, V. P. Morris,
and A. F. Moursund.
For the house committee, K. S.
Ghent is chairman, W. V. Norris,
and A. F. Moursund; magazines,
H. G. Townsend, chairman; K. S.
Ghent, and Rudolf Ernst; and
membership, A. H. Kunz, chair
man, Lance Hart, F. G. Macom
ber, and Halfred Young.
OSC Class to Visit
Museum, Library
The art museum and the mu
seum library will be open special
hours from 9 to 11 Saturday morn
ing to accommodate an Oregon
State art class under the direction
of Miss Bernice Band. The class Is
especially interested in the study
of textiles, and the museum library
will feature display of books on
textiles.
Senior Ball Set
For February 24
Class of '40 Will
Decorate Gerlinger
For Formal Dance
A precedent will be broken by
the Senior ball on February 24.
Gerlinger hall, hitherto minus dec
orations for campus dances, will
be decked out in a “top hat” fash
ion, paralleling the theme of the
dance, the committee for the event
said yesterday.
Furthering the strictly formal
atmosphere of the ball will be a
full canopy over the ceiling of
Gerlinger. The sun porch, master
dance room, and main auditorium
will all be decorated with black
and white. The sides will be cov
ered with alternate black and
white panels.
Alum Room Open
The seniors’ committee an
nounced that the alumni room
would be open to couples during
intermission and between dances.
Programs will be constructed
from black and white material
with a silhouetted figure on the
cover, making a program typical
of formal dances. The committee
expects 400 couples for the dance,
but is ordering 500 programs in
order that each couple may get
one.
Tickets Next Week
Tickets will be put on sale the
first of next week. F.arly purchas
ers will be charged $1. The price
at Gerlinger hall the night of the
dance will be $1.25, however. Re
ductions of 25 cents will be given
to each holder of a senior clas3
card.
Charles Skinner, general chair
man, announced as committee
heads: Catherine Murdock, assist
ant chairman; Bud Aronson, or
chestra; Gib Schnitzer, Mary Jane
Norcross, and James Jarvis, dec
orations; Clarence Zurcher, tick
ets; Carter Fetsch, floor; Peggy
Robbins and Alyce Rogers, pat
rons; Don Palmblad, publicity;
Betty Lou Kurtz and Irwin Zelletr,
programs; Bob Schulze and Dave
Compton, advertising.
Student Union
Exhibit Viewed
By Alpha Xi Delta
Open for its regular Thursday
afternoon display session, the stu
dent union exhibit was inspected
by every member of Alpha Xi Del
ta yesterday, first living organiza
tion to view the displays 100 per
cent en masse.
The frosh promotion committee
last night decided to invite a girls’
and men’s house to look over the
material in the student union room
at an appointed hour each Thurs
day and hold a general discussion
with a committee representative
on the advantages of a student un
ion at Oregon. The committee be
gan formulating plans for an as
sembly and some other activities,
to take place later.
Weekly meetings for the promo
tion squad were switched from
Thursdays to Tuesdays so that
more members could appear,