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SPORTS PAGE: Duck Tracks Intramurals W.S.C. Wins TODAY'S EDITS: N.Y.A. 8'Ball Band Box VOLUME XLI icon UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1940 NUMBER 81 Varieties Dance Set April 5 Student Talent To Feature First Spring Term Event Plans for the promotion of a 1940 Oregon Spring Varieties dance, featuring an hour floor show of University talent, got un derway yesterday as ASUO heads named April 5 as the date for this keynoter of the spring term social season. Verdi Sederstrom, who last year was in charge of arrangements for the first Varieties dance in the Ig loo, will once again chairman the affair. To him will be delegated the job of arranging for talented students to perform for the floor show. Art Holman’s Band Once again slated for McArthur court, the dance will feature music by Art Holman and his band. Hol man has already begun special ar rangements of novelty numbers for the show. Each living organization on the campus yesterday received notes requesting it to submit names of talented members who are inter ested in performing. Any type of usual cabaret talent may be se lected by Sederstrom and his com mittee, the chairman said last night. Cabaret Theme Independents who wish to ap pear on the Variety program may leave their names, addresses and what they can do in a special box in front of the College Side, Seder strom said. The Igloo will be decorated in a cabaret theme for the "season opener” with tables along the edges of the dance floor and unusual lighting effects. Open to all spring term ASUO card holders, free, the dance will cost non-student body members 50 cents. Oregon Gets $41,310 As NYA Allotment From the 14 billion dollar total of national youth allotments this year, $41,310 will go to the Uni versity of Oregon, a report from national NYA headquarters re vealed. Aubrey Williams, national NYA administrator, declared the allot ment is to provide jobs for 1,224 students in colleges and univer sities throughout the state of- Ore gon, at an average wage of from $10 to $20 for undergraduates. Budgeted for the state is $165, 240, to last the present academic year. The Oregon medical school in Portland gets $1,900 from the appropriation. Students May Visit Infirmary Patients Again Almost three months of no visiting at the infirmary termin ated yesterday as Dr. Fred N. Miller, health service head, an nounced a temporary lifting of the visitor ban posted immediate ly following Thanksgiving. “Conditions have improved to the extent that at last a tempo rary lifting of the visiting ban can be effected,” declared Dr. Miller. “There are almost no in fluenza cases, and there isn't any more than the seasonal amount of sickness.” For the minority who have for gotten, visiting hours are from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 7 to 8 p.m. Eight patients, least number of any time this winter term, were confined to the hospital last night. They included Bob Ellin wood, Marie Cole, Adaline Han son, Dorothy Reese, Elsie Older, Walt Lidstrom, Johnny Hartig, and Max Herndon. Dance Chairman Verdi Sederstrom yesterday was named chairman of ihe Spring Va rieties, a dance to be held under the sponsorship of the Associated Students April 5. Dr. Arragon to Talk Thursday History Professor Third Scheduled In Lecture Series Students and faculty at the Uni versity of Oregon will hear Dr. Reginald H. Arragon, professor of history at Reed college, Portland, when he lectures on "Social Sci ences and the Liberal Arts College’’ in the faculty room of Friendly hall Thursday at 7:30 p.m. "One of the most popular lec turers at Reed,” said Dr. Rudolph H. Ernst, chairman of the Univer sity lectures committee, about Dr. Arragon. The scheduled speaker de livers the third lecture on the com mittee’s 1940 series. Graduate of Northwestern uni versity in Chicago, Dr. Arragon re ceived his Ph.D. from Harvard uni versity. He was formerly an ex change professor in England and had a traveling fellowship in Eu rope during 1919 and 1920. Three more lectures will follow Dr. Arragon’s. Dr. Gustaf Munthe, author and world-traveler, is to speak March 6 on “The Northern Democracies in the Present Crisis.” March 28 will hear Dr. Thomas Greenwood, world lecturer, speak twice, on “The Nature of Mathe matics” and “English Political' Theories.” Dr. H. G. Merriam, Uni versity of Oregon professor, will cap the lecture series with his speech “Literature and the Liberal Arts College.”' Miss Frasier Talks To Housemothers “Modern Trends in Interior Dec oration” were discussed by Miss Brownell Frazier, assistant profes sor of interior decoration, when she spoke before University of Oregon housemothers Monday af ternoon. Her talk was a feature of the housemother’s meeting held in Gerlinger. Oregon Girls' Me Squad Beats Champs University Coeds Defeat Washington In Unofficial Meet By BOB McOIIX In the third annual Oregon Washington girls’ rifle team match, the unbeaten Duck marks men defeated the national cham pion Husky team last Saturday at the Oregon ROTC rifle range. Shooting a 10-women prone, matched-firing event, the Washing ton team were overwhelmed with a score of 1940 points to 1921. The high score for Oregon and also for the match was made by Alice Gius tina, freshman, with a fotal of 199 points out of a possible 200. High score for the Washington team went to Dorsey Reed with 198 points. In spite of the Washington team being the national intercollegiate girls champions, the win does not give Oregon the championship as the match is an unofficial event springing out of the rivalry of the two schools. No Entrance Fee Oregon does not enter the Na tional Intercollegiate shoot, spon sored by the National Rifle asso ciation, as the budget here makes no allowance for the necessary en trance fees, and because the match is a free rifle competition in which expensive target rifles are allowed, while the Oregon team uses regu lation equipment. After the match was fired, the Washington girls and their coach were the guests of the Oregon team at a luncheon at the Anchor age, attended by the military de partment officers and their wives. The Husky team was also the guest of the Duck unit at the Ore gon-Oregon State basketball game in the evening, and at the sopho more Whiskerino. Team Rosters Listed Firing on the Oregon team were Margaret Pollard, Marion Barrett, Martha Lampa, Claire Lyon, June Bennett, Catherine Miller, Thelma Bouchet, Alice Giustina, Barbara Todd, and Marjorie Schnellbacher. On the Washington team were Dorsey Reed, Jocelyn Dohm, Helen Lawrence, Rosalie Wilcox, Jean Kolinski, Ruth Goss, Maxine Cody, Vir ginia Wilder, Betty Wright, and Leysa Elwell. Symposium Team Visits Sheridan And Monmouth Members of the University sym posium discussion group made an other trip for two engagements at Sheridan and Monmouth yesterday. Those who traveled were Paul Kempe, Karl Zimmerman, and George Luoma. Professor Dahl berg, director of men’s sympo sium, accompanied the group. Chief point of interest for the team occurred after the propagan da and public opinion speeches were delivered when the audience was invited to ask questions. Dr. Gilkey Compares Oregon With Chicago By PAT ERICKSON Dean Gilkey looked about him a little mystified as we opened the door of the Alpha Delta Pi house to him Monday noon. “But I thought I was coming to a fraternity; he exclaimed. Alpha Delta Phi, the explana tion followed, is one of the strong est frats on the University of Chi cago campus and is known to the dean there. He thought at first his secretary had made a typographi cal error in his schedule! Several Appearances Dr. Gilkey, who is a dean of the Rockeleferrel Memorial chapel of the University of Chicago, came to Eugene Saturday, has already made several appearances on the campus, and will talk to the ASUO assembly today at 11 o’clock. At lunch the famous visitor found himself handicapped in seating people. He had made a record, he said, at California 231 years ago in seating six girls at one meal. He had never been able tc equal that number again until Sunday dinner last weekend at the Pi Phi house, here where he also seated1 six. Dean Gilkey re gards it as an accomplished feat. “That girl in the red dress, I don’t remember her name, is a kindred spirit,” he declared, “she positive ly stood waiting until I got around to seating her!” Chicago Expenses Higher Student expenses at the Univer sity of Chicago are much higher than at Oregon, Dean Gilkey says, in comparing the two schools. Board alone runs anywhere from $7 a w ek up. Of 35 fraternity houses in existence on the campus seven years ago, there are but 17 now. Heavily mortgaged, the or ganizations lost their houses dur ing the depression. Building land is so expensive in Chicago it is (Please turn to page four) Berg, Konschot; Olson Had Best Whisker Crops Gordon Berg-, Elmer Olson, and Fred Konschot grew the best beards for the Sophomore Whis kerino Saturday night in the opinion of the three barber judges—Charlie Elliott, Leo Def fenbacher, and Fred Schlick. Olson was on hand with a fiery red growth of fuzz that eclipsed the cultivating powers of all oth er second-year men who cared to offer themselves for competition. Berg's crop of whiskers was the blackest of the bunch, and Kon schot’s job of fancy trimming topped that of all other contest ants. ' Already sophomores are talk ing among themselves about the good old days when they carried whiskers. Many were the screams that were heard as electric shav ers jerked and sawed away the monuments to manhood. Dr. Gilkey Saus Life Improving Visitor Compares Today, Yesterday In Speech Here Like the furnace heated many times hotter than ever before pro ducing new steels lighter in weight, smaller in bulk but of greater en durance than ever before, the life one leads today is producing a quality of life with much the same characteristics of the new steel, Dean Charles W. Gilkey said in a talk at the music auditorium last night. People should not feel they have lost something or regret that they do not believe the things they be lieved in childhood, Dean Gilkey said. “Bridges will collapse under the weight of elaborateness.” Stronger Than Ever Today beliefs are lacking the superficial codes that add restric tions to restrictions, but they are stronger than ever before, Dean Gilkey asserted. The three fields most affected by this change are democracy, ethics, and religion, he said. Uni versities, laboratories of democ racy, are the best places to create the intelligent understanding so necessary to its maintenance. In the field of ethics the period when rules are discarded and people feel they can do what they please is the period of greatest progress, he said. Once the jump from the world that is to the world that ought to (Please turn to page Jour) Failure to Pay Fees Brings Suspension To Six Students Six University students were suspended last week for failure to pay the first installment on their registration fees, the Oregon busi ness office announced Monday. These six will have one week in which to pay $1.50 in fines, $2 for reinstatement, and the remainder of their installments. If they do not report in Johnson hall by noon this Saturday they will be dropped from registration for the rest of this term. The business office stated that final fee installments will be due March 10. Allen to Receive Air Pilot License Franklin S. Allen Jr., graduate of the University of Oregon in 1939, will “win his wings” in March this year when he gradu ates from the Air Corps advanced flying school, Kelly field, Texas. » Flying Cadet Allen, son of Eric W. Allen, dean of the journalism school at the University, took the physical examination for the air corps at the University where he majored in journalism. Allen be gan his primary training at Santa Maria, where he continued his journalistic career by editing the cadet magazine, Aerie. Following the primary course, Allen was transferred to Randolph field, Texas, after which he com pleted his training at Kelly field, Texas. Gleemen Sing At McArthur Court Tonight John Stark Evans Will Direct Group's First 1940 Concert When John Stark Evans steps to the platform tonight with his “SO Singing Gleemen in McArthur Court,” he’ll have at his baton’s command just twice the melodic lung power that Alfred Noyes had in his “Forty Singing Seamen in an Old Blark Bark" chanty. The occasion will be the Eugene Gleemen’s first formal concert of the 1940 season, and it will start at 8:15 p.m. All holders of ASIJO cards will be admitted free. This is the first big program the.Gleemen have given in Eugene since their return from San Fran cisco, where they sang as Oregon's official representatives to the Gol den Gate exposition on Treasure Island. Improvements on Camp Lucky Boy, summer camp spot, will be made from net proceeds from the concert. Four Soloists Listed Soloists for the program under Mr. Evans will be Rollin Calkin, baritone; Joe Clark Keever, tenor; Lester Ready, baritone; Fred Beardsley, tenor, all members of the organization. Cora Moore Frey will again accompany the group. The printed program lists 10 numbers named below with brief descriptions supplied by Mr. Evans: “Prayer of Thanksgiving”—Hos mer’s arrangement of an old Dutch melody, the traditional opener for j all Gleemen programs. “Care Flies From the Lad That Is Merry”—Old English. A mad rigal type of song in the medieval English manner. “Smuggler’s Song” — Another old English descriptive melody in somewhat mysterious vein, words from Kipling’s “Puck Pook’s Hill,” Arnold Williams’ arrange ment. “The Shepherdess”—a romantic meditation by Macmurrough. “King Charles” “King Charles”—the second of Robert Browning’s three “Cava lier Tunes.” “The Monotone” a plaintive med itation from the original German of Cornelius. “Russian Carol”—an original (Please turn to pa fie four) Hour Change Seen For ROTC Classes As an experiment to increase the efficiency of the ROTC corps, a radical change in the hour schedule for spring term was announced last week by the military depart ment. Replacing the present sys tem of one hour instruction three days a week, the spring schedule will call for one hour of class work on either Tuesday or Thursday, and a single drill period of two consecutive hours every Thursday. Colonel Robert M. Lyon, head of the military science department, explained that the change had been decided on after much deliberation. “We have used the one hour drill system for several years,” said the colonel, “and have finally decided that it is not a long enough period for efficient instruction.” The new schedule will necessitate many changes in the hours of other departments, as the ROTC students will not be able to schedule classes for Thursday afternoons. Proposed time for the Thursday drill is from 1 to 3 p.m. However this has not been definitely decided. Sigma Xi Will Hear Dr. Lloyd Staples “Quicksilver: Occurrence, Met allurgy, and Economics” will be the subject of an address by Dr. Lloyd W. Staples, instructor in geology, before members of Sigma Xi, science honorary students, and faculty of the University tonight at 8 p.m. in room 101, Condon. Sigma Xi will hold a short busi ness session in room 108, Condon, previous to the talk. Here This Week Prof. G. Bernard Noble will be one of several important speakers at the northwest conference of the International Affairs club here Friday and Saturday. Lawyers Pick Little Judges Maurie Binford's Band Featured at Del Rey Cafe Two “Little Judges” were ap pointed queens of the law school dance Saturday night when the final count terminated in an equal number of votes for Lucille John son and Fay Evans. ,A compromise was effected at the suggestion of Professor Lawrence Hartwig, who declared that “the law school can support two ‘Little Judges,’ and a joint title was conferred upon the two contestants. Open to law students exclusively, the Del Rey cafe filled rapidly on both floors as Maurie Binford and his band began their opening num bers for the law school’s winter term dance, first formal to be staged by the lawyers in several terms of social activity. Fellowship, Festivity Formal evening wear became slightly mingled with conventional attire later by the addition of a few townspeople, adding to the general air of “fellowship and fes tivity,” ‘ according to Bill Luber sky and Hugh Collins, dance pro motion committeemen. Dance heads report that gener al opinion, voluntarily voiced by guests, patrons, and students, in dicate that it was one of the out standing law school functions. Pa trons and patronesses for the eve ning were law school faculty mem bers and their wives and Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Andrews, with several law school alumni as special guests. Bryant Makes Exit On hand with his camera, but no ticket or press card, Jack Bry ant of 8-ball fame took several shots until vigilant doormen were instrumental in causing his exit, according to witnesses, with hair “bristling with rage.” Procured after a thorough can vas of downtown stores in order to fill size requirements, Dave Sil ver’s tux came through in good shape until aged threads parted at a seam, causing a hasty with drawal. ASUO Assembly To Hear Gilkey Program This Morning at 11 Takes Place Of Thursday Meeting; Chicago Professor To Speak on 'Imponderables of Education' By BAY SCHRICK Charles W. Gilkey, clean of chapel at the University of Chicago, and professor of the Divinity school, will climax a four-day stay on the Oregon campus this morning when he addresses students at a special AStJO assembly in Gerlinger hall on the subject “Imponderables of Education.” The personnel office announced Monday that the program will take the place of the regular Thursday assembly and will start at 11 a.m. There will be no classes at that hour today, but they will be made up next Thursday. To Discuss Problems Dr. Gilkey has received inter national recognition for his work in the field of education and will discuss many of the present as well as future problems which face students in the United States. In addition to his other posi tions, Dr. Gilkey is dean of Rocke feller chapel at Chicago. He has been guest lecturer at several Eng lish colleges, including Oxford, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, na tional scholastic honorary fra ternity. Was Twice Invited The noted lecturer is one of two men who have twice been invited to deliver the Barrows lectures. These are given once every five years in the effort to present Christianity in its highest form to the people in India’s university centers. Last night Dr. Gilkey discussed "Bridges to a Better World” for a special group meeting in the music auditorium. Sunday he spoke at two gatherings. He talked on "Spiritual Blackouts” at the Meth odist church in the morning and re viewed "Present Religious Trends Among American Students" Sun day evening in Gerlinger hall. To give students an opportunity to further discuss questions with him, Dean Gilkey has scheduled a "Question Box” period at 4 o'clock in Gerlinger hall. Phi Theta Upsilon Plans Sale of Cakes There’ll be no excuse for that hungry feeling on the campus to morrow, for Phi Theta Upsilon, junior women’s honorary, will sell tasty twisti-cakes the entire day. These individual frosted cakes will sell for five cents each, and will be distributed from several conveniently located booths on the campus. They will also be sold in living organizations from 9:30 to 10:30 on Wednesday evening. . Money from the sale will be used for a banquet to honor Eugene wo men students who have high scho lastic standings. Members of Phi Theta Upsilon in charge of the sale are Barbara Pierce, general chairman’ Jerry Tripp, food; Marge McLean, adver : tising, Sue Cunningham, finance; Barbara Fulton, sales, and Sally ! Mitchell, publicity. Men Students Spend Most, Survey Reveals By JEAN DUNN Who said that women are more extravagant than men ? Present average returns from the campus survey conducted by the statistics and applied econom ics show only one instance when the coeds spent more than the men. Twenty per cent of the sam ple is in and edited, according to Dr. Beatrice Aitchison, instructor of economics. Expenditures for the students as a whole have been estimated for 1930 on the basis of the returns already in. Board and room is the largest item, and the men lead in. this with a total of $105,900, while | the women follow with a $235,900 spent a year. Buy Clothes Anyway The women outdid the men in the purchase of clothes elsewhere j than in Eugene with an average of $174,100 to the men’s $119,000. In Eugene the men again go to the head, with $87,900 in comparison with the women’s $65,600. The to tal of these shows that an aver age of $153,400 a year is spent on clothes in Eugene, compared to $293,100 elsewhere. In upkeep, men again oust the women for first place, and the to tal for both men and women show that $18,700 is put into circulation here in Eugene. Only a total of $24,800 is spent elsewhere for this phase of college life. Men Lead Again Under miscellaneous items here in Eugene, the men find clear sail ing for the lead. For extra food, men spend $72,000 while the wo men students average only $27,000. (Please turn to page four) j Gay Jones to Play For Senior Ball Saturday Night Skinner Ann’ounces Seattle Orchestra Will Play Saturday All the dangling ends of the plans for the Senior ball Saturday night were tied in a nice, neat knot over the weekend with the announce ment of “Chuck” Skinner, general chairman, that Gay Jones’ orches tra had been signed for the annual event of the graduation class and that the dance had been moved from Gerlinger hall to McArthur court. Familiar to Pacific coast listen ers by his theme song, “Strange Blues," and by his slogan, “Mellow Tones with Gay Jones,” the young blond baton-swinger is especially well known in Seattle. His band his had an extended stay at the Show Box, one of the largest night clubs there. Critic frauds Jones Gilbert Brown, drama editor of the Seattle Star said in his review, “From the moment Jones’ band starts pounding and blaring out his theme number, no listener can remain unmoved. In Gay Jones, Seattle seems to have a musician and composer of as much power and originality as Raymond Scott.” According to his engagements schedules Jones’ rhythmic styling and arrangement originality has been popular with college students in the Northwest. His orchestra was featured at the Husky Hot Swing Concerts and it received top billing at the University of Washington Varsity show, where it drew 5,000 people. Also a Composer He will come to the Oregon cam pus after playing for the Univer sity of Idaho junior prom Wed nesday night. Gay Jones is a composer in his own right and writes most of the music his own 11-piece band plays. He also does arrangements for Glenn Miller. Tickets go on sale Wednesday in all men’s living organizations, said “Chuck” Skinner. Admission will be $1. Seniors holding clas3 cards may get a 25-cent reduction by buying theirs at McArthur court before Saturday night. Tick ets purchased at the door will cost $1.25. Orides Plan Tea To Honor Mothers A tea is to be given next Sun day for Orides members and their mothers or friends in alumni hall from 4 to 5 p.m. The tea will be given by Hazel P. Schwering, dean of women at Oregon; Miss Janet Smith, employ ment secretary; Mrs. Edith Mac duff, assistant dean of women, and Mrs. Edith Siefert, hostess of Ger linger hall. Landscape Artists Invited to Corvallis Bidden as guests to a house warming party in Corvallis Sunday were all saudents of landscape ar chitecture at the University. The occasion was the completion of the new home there of A. L. Peck, professor of landscape ar chitecture for Oregon and Oregon State. Guests from both schools attended the party. About 30 peo ple was there, according to infor mation from Mabel Houck, art school secretary.