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VOLUME XLI
U. OF 0. LIBRARY
CAMPUS
Webfoots Take Vandal Scalps, 45-31
Campaign for Swimming Fund Begins Today
Students Initiate
'March of Dimes’
Tags to Be Issued to Organizations
By 5 o'clock; Committee of Five Will
Direct Drive
The first move in the drive to send three University swimmers to
the national swimming meet at Yale University will be taken today by
.students with the inauguration of the “March of Dimes” campaign
on the campus.
The plan as worked out by a student committee, headed by Verdi
Sederstrom, last night will be to have tags which will be given to
Circus Lady
Martha Graham, whose amus
ing “Every Soul Is a Circus” dance
number will provide a satiric note
to her master dance program in
the Igloo Monday night.
U. of 0. to See
Swing Ballet
On March 2
Critics Proclaim
Martha Graham's
'Self-Expression'
By JONATHAN KAHANANUI
Martha Graham, American danc
er performing in the Igloo under
the sponsorship of Master Dance
on March 2, made her dancing de
but (unofficially) when two years
of age. She wriggled out of a pew
in a Pittsburgh church and pranced
down the aisle to the tune of or
gan music, horrifying her mother
and an Irish nurse.
In 1926 Martha Graham gave
her first dance concert in New
York (this time officially) with
newspapers proclaiming, “Here is
a dancer who brings vitality and
life to the dance, an American
dancer who will be heard from in
the future.” Later, then-existing
attendance records for an Ameri
can dancer established by Isadora
Duncan were smashed, when Miss
Graham presented “American Doc
ument” in New York’s Carnegie
hall.
Likes Swing
Wrote Edward Barry in the Chi
cago Sunday Tribune on this of
Martha Graham’s performances,
“It’s as thoroughly American as
an Indian brave, a minstrel show
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YWCA Will Sponsor
Open House 'Coffee'
Second of a series of weekly
open house “coffees” will be held
at the YWCA bungalow from 3:30
to 5:30 this afternoon, Jeanne Wil
cox, head of the frosh commission,
which is in charge of the affair,
announced yesterday.
Members of the Y and others
who so desire are invited to drop
in during the afternoon, Chairman
Wilcox said.
all students contributing- ten cents
or more to the fund.
These tags can be secured
from any of the student committee
of Verdi Sederstrom, Wendell Wy
att, Erling Jacobsen, Anne Frea
ricksen, or George Pasero, or from
a representative in eaeh organiza
tion who will be appointed to re
ceive contributions from members
of his house.
Tags Out Today
The tags will be out sometime
this afternoon and will be in the
hands of the committee by evening
according to Sederstrom.
To Make Contacts
The student group also sanc
tioned contacting various alumni
groups, including the Portland
alumni association, the Lane Coun
ty Alumni, the Oregon Dads and
Oregon Mothers. These groups will
be asked to aid in helping raise
the amount necessary to send the
Webfoot mermen to New Haven.
Meanwhile spontaneous move
ments to aid the cause have been
reported on the campus. In one
campaign a petition signed by 87
students was turned in to the Em
erald. This petition called for mak
ing the drive a student affair with
some kind of money-making plan
attached.
Men Appointed
The student representatives ap
pointed to handle house contribu
tions are: Dick Allen, Earl Fort
miller, Ed Leonard, A1 Bertz, Tom
Atkinson, Bob Vaughn, Erling Ja
cobsen, Ted Holmes, Harold Kasch
ko, Joe Amato, John McCarthy, Ed
Dunckel, Lloyd Wilson, Doug Park
er, Reid Ferrall, Woody Slater,
Carter Fetsch, Don Tower, Ralph
Lafferty, Buz Baker, Wes Sullivan,
Jack Shimshak, Bill Weinmann,
Don McCormack, Ole Evenson, and
Emerson Page.
Any student wanting to con
tribute to the fund will find it con
venient to contact one of the above
men or any member of the com
mittee. Women representatives will
be appointed today by Anne Fred
eriksen.
SDX Sets Meeting
For Four Todag
Members of Sigma Delta Chi,
national professional journalistic
fraternity for men, will meet this
afternoon at 4 o'clock in the school
of journalism to make plans for
the initiation ceremony for spring
pledges.
Jimmie Leonard, chairman of
the newsmen’s annual spring
dance will announce committees
for the event. Dick Williams, ap
pointed to make contacts for an
orchestra for the dance, will re
port to the group.
The men who were pledged to
sigma Delta Chi at the organiza
tion’s last meeting are Bob Fla
velle, Ridgely Cummings, Kent
Stitzer, Paul McCarty, and Ken
Christianson.
Tryouts to Be Held
Tryouts for men’s roles in "Mac
beth” which will be produced some
time spring term, will be held to
day at 4:30 in room 105 Johnson
hall.
Special appointments can be
made for 2 o'clock interviews also,
Mrs. Ottilie T. Seybolt, the head of
the drama department, stated. 1
Yardstick Robs
Eaton; Recount
Results Better
No one cares, hardly, for that
insignificant last inch if he has
yard after yard to spare. How
ever, if you're male and a mere
five feet seven inches tall, that
last bit would be quite highly
prized. It probably would mean
the difference between looking
positively silly out on a date, and
just silly.
Yesterday Glenn Eaton was
being measured for height and
the nurse read the gauge, “five
feet seven inches.” Glenn looked
rather downcast and bewildered.
He was certain that wasn't cor
rect.
He told the nurse to remeas
ure him. Glenn then hopped on
the scales, stretched his neck,
stuck out his chin, and was able
to pull out an extra inch from
somewhere, for the nurse read
five feet eight inches.
Infirmary patients included
Margaret Rawson, Mary Gro
sliong, Doris Brookman, Doro
thy Dunham, Elaine Gordon, A1
Prestholdt, Robert Crawford, Jo
self Wicks, Ralph Boak, Robert
Foster, Jack Christensen, Wil
liam Endicott, Malcolm Stubble
bine, and Millard Hamilton.
Sophomores
Would Retire
Numerals
Class to Budget
Estimated $100
For New Outfits
The retirement from service of
the numerals worn by the 1939 na
tional basketball champions be
came the pivoting point of sopho
more class activities last night,
when President Bob Calkins called
a special class meeting for tomor
row night to budget funds for that
purpose.
In order to buy new numerals
and suits to replace those worn by
the “immortals” who brought home
the national cup last year, it would
cost the sophomores an estimated
$100, according to activities heads.
Long “In Wind”
The campaign to encase the
numerals worn by Captain Bobby
Anet and his teammates in the
Webfoot trophy case as a back
ground for the national cup has
been the object of sports enthus
iasts’ activities since last March.
Sophomore leaders presented the
plan to Calkins, who will in turn
give the plan-backers the privilege
of outlining their school service
idea at the 7:30 meeting tomorrow
night in Villard hall.
$500 on Hand
“I feel that such a project is
within the scope of the sophomore'
group inasmuch as we now have
more money than any other class,”
Calkins said, “and because we have '
been casting about for an idea for;
school improvement on which to
spend some of that money.”
The sophomore class, according
to treasury records, now has on
hand around $500, more than that
of any of the other three class;
groups.
Ken Christianson, assistant Em
erald sports editor, will present the
case in favor of retiring the num
erals of all eleven of last year’s
national champions.
Independents to Meet
Orides and Yeomen, campus in
dependent groups, will hold a joint
card supper in the sun room of
Gerlinger hall Tuesday at 6 o’clock.
Miss Janet Smith will be a guest
of the groups, and newly-elected
officers of Orides will be intro
duced. Carol Bird and Art Four
ier, social chairmen, are in charge.1
Took a Flogging Last Night
These Vandals bowed to the Oregon Webfoot team last night on the University of Idaho court, 45
to 81. Itoy Ramey, right, who leads conference competition in basket swishing and Bill English, left,
flashly little guard were not enough, however, to stop Hobby’s boys. The two teams meet again tonight.
Campus Gets
Noted Author
Bruner Speaks to
ASUO Thursday
On Student of '40
Director of nine nation-wide re
searches in rural sociology and au
thor of more than 25 books on ed
ucational problems, Dr. Edmund
de Schweinitz Brunner will arrive
on the Oregon campus tomorrow
to address students at Thursday’s
regular weekly ASUO assembly in
Gerlinger hall.
The University personnel office
announced yesterday that Dr.
Brunner would speak at Oregon
State today, and would arrive here
early in the morning. He will talk
to students on “The University
Student in the 1940’s,” for a pro
gram starting at 11 o’clock.
From Pennsylvania
Dr. Brunner was born in Beth
lehem, Pennsylvania, and received
his education at Moravian college.
He received his BA degree in 1909,
his MA in 1912, his Ph.D. in 1914,
and LHD in 1935.
At the present time the noted
sociologist is a collaborator in the
United Staes department of agri
culture and is adviser of the Green
ville, South Carolina, county coun
cil for the community development.
He has led many surveys in the
field of sociology.
Had War Job
The lecturer spoke in the Uni
versities of Australia and New
Zealand on invitation of the Aus
tralian council for education in
1937. During the World war he was
rural social commissioner on the
war industrial committee and has
since served as director of the town
and county survey department of
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Tree Felled by
Wind; Stripped
By WPA Men
When they fall a tree in a
Swedish logging camp, the
“jacks” holler, “Hold your nose,
’cause thar’ she blows!” In the
movies the choppers yell, “Tim
ber!” However, when the wind
decided to yank up a fir tree just
east of the tennis courts between
Commerce and Oregon, it said
nary a word but just blew rude
ly
Last night a once 60-foot tree
lay flat on its back n the murk
and mire of the Oregon campus
after WPA workers had “un
dressed” it and severed its roots.
Nothing remained but for some
one to cart the remains away to
his fireplace- that is if he had a
big-enough wagon.
Dean Morse Recovers
Dean Wayne L. Morse, law
school head and Pacific coast mar
itime labor arbitrator, is expected
to continue classes today follow
ing an attack of influenza that
confined him for a short time in
the Sacred Heart hospital.
Several labor hearings were post
poned because of the dean’s illness,
t"t will probably be rescheduled
soon.
Dr. L. S. Bee Speaks
At a meeting of Alpha Kappa
Delta, sociology honorary, last
night, Dr. L. S. Bee of the sociol
ogy department spoke on “The
Role of the Family in the Devel
opment of Personality.”
Husbands and wives of mem
bers attended the meeting, which
was held at 7:30 in the alumni
hail in Gerlinger. Refreshments
were served after the talk.
T Convention
To Be Planned
Annual Seabeck
Assembly to Be
Discussed Tonight
Active planning for the Reabech
convention, held annually at Sea
beck, Washington by northwest
Christian youth organizations, will
start tonight at the Seabeck round
up to be held at the YWCA bunga
low at 8 o’clock, reported Paul
Sutley, executive secretary of the
YMCA.
Student speakers from both the
YWCA and YMCA will review last
year’s summer assembly. Reports
will be given on the daily program
which consists of a morning chapel
followed by a period of meditation.
The remainder of the morning is
devoted to a lecture given by one
of the guest speakers and various
commission meetings. Most of the
afternoon is devoted to recreation
which consists of swimming, boat
ing, hiking, and other summer
sports.
Plans for the Seabeck co-op will
be discussed at the meeting. The
co-op is being initiated into the
program of both student Christian
organizations so advance study of
the aims of the Seabeck conven
tion may be made. Another object
of the co-op v/ill be to create pro
jects in order that financial assist
ance can be given the delegates.
All meetings for the two cooper
ating organizations have been can
celled to allow for the roundup.
Watch for the Emerald’s 16
page spring edition Thursday morn
ing. Because of the increased size
all stories must be in by 6 o’clock
tonight.
Oregon Slashes
OSC Cage Lead
To Stay in Race
Ducks Trail at Half in Idaho-Court Battle;
Resume Pla yTonight; Jackson Sets Pace
For Hobson's Boys, Garners Ten Digits
Oregon’s tlo-or-die basketball team came one game closer
to tieing the Oregon State Beavers for the northern division
championship last night when they trounced the Idaho Vandals
45 to 31. The game, played at Idaho is the first of a four-games
in-five-days suicide series for the Webfoots.
Oregon's win puts them one and a half games behind the
conference leading Beavers. To tie the Beavers the Ducks have
to win all of the remaining three games on their schedule, while
the staters have to drop one to Washington.
Idaho lakes l,ead
The Vandals, playing- a slow-it
down-to-a-walk type of ball took
the lead early in the opening min
utes of the game but the Ducks
soon equalled the score, and after
fifteen minutes of the first half
hal been played the standings were
nine all.
Harris slipped in a lay-in shot
in the last half of the first pe
riod but Sarpola followed with a
one-hander from the corner to
make the score 11-all with seven
minutes to play. Harris got one
from the keyhole and Oregon
called time out. Idaho took the
ball from out of bounds and Hilton
canned a tip-in to make the score
15 to 11 for the Vandals.
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Coeds Model New
Spring Clothes
For Phi Theta
Mrs. DeCou Tells
Assembly of YW
National Movement
What Betty Coed will wear this
spring and a sample of Simple
Sue’s choice of clothes was shown
at the Gamma Alpha Chi, national
women’s advertising honorary,
style parade at the Phi Theta Up
silon assembly yesterday afternoon
in the Alumni room of Gerlinger
hall.
Two or three models in the light,
pastel shades of spring colorings
of pajamas, play clothes, sports,
campus wear, coats, silk dresses,
and formals were presented. Mixed
in with this showing was glaring
examples of what not to wear,
touched up with a bit of comedy.
Mrs. DeCou Talks
Mrs. K. E. DeCou, acting execu
tive secretary of the YWCA, ad
dressed the freshman women, talk
ing informally on the “National
Movement of the YWCA.”
Mrs. DeCou described the YWCA
building in New York City from
where plans for the many phases
of this organization’s activities are
formulated.
How the work the YW had done
all over the world, and among the
Indian and colored people in the
United States was explained by
Mrs. DeCou, who was dean of wo
men several years ago on the Ore
gon campus and who is a member
of the national YWCA board.
The fashion commentator for the
style show who described the
clothes in rhymes was Marilyn
Ashley. The melody of music which
accompanied the presentation of
the frocks was played by LaVine
McCullom.
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Mothers to Meet
Westminster mothers will meet
at Westminster house, this after
noon at 2 o'clock. Students are wel
come to come in and meet them at
4.
The council meeting will start
at 5:30 and will be followed by a
covered dish dinner and business
meeting. Anyone is welcome to
attend this dinner, the only admis
sion being a covered dish of some
sort.
Miss Fay to Talk
Miss Helen Fay, who is visiting
on the campus as a representative
of Holiday House publishing com
pany, will speak at the browsing
room in the library at 7:30 Fri
day night, in addition to her talk
at the Co-op. Her topic will be
“What Is a Good Book?” Every
J one is cordially invited to attend.
Grant Given
UO Bureau
For Research
Study to Begin
On Possibility of
Pension System
The University bureau of muni
cipal research announced yester
day that a $7830 WPA grant had
been received here for tabulating
information and background for a
possible Oregon state pension sys
tem for state employees.
Preliminary work started last
August, and detailed study will be
gin immediately. Governor Charles
Sprague started the pension move
ment at the last legislature ses
sion, and the Oregon bureau was
placet in charge of research infor
mation.
work nere will operate through
I the state WPA and findings wilt be
reported to Sigfrid Unander, state
supervisor of the study.
William Hall, acting director of
research, will be in charge of the
Oregon work.
Sororities Curb
Rushing Time
Group Prefers
Informal Rushing
During Summer
Oregon’s Panhellenic organiza
tion voted to eliminate summer
rushing yesterday afternoon at a
luncheon meeting in the Anchor
age and decided instead to inaug
urate an informal calling period
this year.
The new set-up, as outlined by
various members, will provide for
one large Panhellenic tea to start
this period and one tea for each
sorority to close it.
The group announced that three
more scholarships will be given
Oregon girls spring semester, and
slated that all applications must
be turned in at the dean of wo
men’s office by next Monday,
March 4.
Janet Goresky took control as
new chairman at the meeting to
replace Aurelie Wolcott, previous
leader.
Libe to Display
Books for Sale
A collection of about 800 books,
bequeathed by the late Mrs. Abbie
Whitcomb Robbins to the Univer
sity library, is being displayed for
sale on the revolving bookcases
near the check room.
M. H. Douglass, librarian, as ad
ministrator of the estate, has se
lected from the collection the
books which the library needs.
Those which are duplicates are be
ing offered for sale. The poceeds
will be used as prize money for
the library day contest for the best
student’s personal library.
Mr. Douglass comments that it
is especially fitting that Mrs. Rob
bins’ books should be used in this
way, as she was always interested
in having young people start per
sonal libraries. She was a gradu
ate of Grinnell college. «