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VOLUME XLI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1940
NUMBER 115
Russians Missed Train
To Hear Strauss Waltzes
By DON BUTZIN
Junior Weekend floats will be guided down the millrace on the
night of Saturday, May 11, to the tune of waltzes written by a man
who made thousands of Russians miss a train one night.
The man, of course, was Johann Strauss the younger, who ap
peared before Russians for the first time in Pawlowsk. a small
town near St. Petersburg. Crowds flocked from the metropolis to
hear the internationally famed composer conduct his orchestra,
playing the waltz which had earned him his name.
Train Leaves
The concert began at 8 one evening and was received enthus
iastically. In fact, it was so well liked that the throngs from St.
Petersburg refused to leave the concert hall to catch the last train
to their home town at 10 o’clock. The train departed, leaving the
stranded Russians too far from home to walk the distance, and
without a place to stay in Pawlowsk that night.
Undaunted, the music lovers kept the maestro playing until
2 a.m. the next morning, when Strauss packed up his violin and
dismissed his orchestra. Park benches, lawns, and open fields were
covered the rest of the night with the St. Petersburgers who were
onl ytoo happy to wait until officials had scheduled a special train
the next day to carry them home.
Spectators at the local fete will not have the threat of losing
a good nigh’s sleep to worry about as they take in the “Springtime
in Vienna” float event. Music will not be played by Strauss and
his orchestra, but it will be just as pleasing to the ear, w'ith the
University of Oregon symphony orchestra playing under the direc
tion of Rex Underwood.
Mothers' Day
Tickets Limited
! --
Seating Facilities
To Accommodate
550 Persons Only
“There will be only 550 tick
ets sold to the Mothers’ Day ban
quet Saturday, May 11. After
these are gone, no more will be
printed and there will be no other
method of admission,” Marge Mc
Lean, banquet chairman, said
Wednesday.
Tickets for the banquet may
be purchased while they last, at
the housing secretary’s office in
Johnson hall. The number is limit
ed by the seating capacity of
John Straub Memorial hall, where
the banquet is to be held.
Students may also obtain spe
cial Mother’s Day stationery at
the Co-op or from designated
members of their various living
organizations, to use in writing
home asking mothers to attend.
There is no charge for this sta
tionery.
Six Teachers Plan
To Attend Meeting
Of Speech Group
Six University of Oregon fac
ulty members will attend the
tenth annual state speech con
ference of the Oregon Speech as
sociation in Portland tomorrow
and Saturday, May 3 and 4.
D.E. Hargis of the speech di
vision will head the group, be
ing president of the association.
Those who will take part in va
rious panels and lead discussion
groups are Dr. Margaret Mont
gomery of the college of educa
tion, John L. Casteel and M. A.
Krenk of the speech division, and
Mrs. Ottilie Seybolt of the drama
division. Miss Ethel Sawyer,
Browsing room librarian, will
will give a reading at the annual
dinner to be held in the Portland
hotel.
The association is devoted to
the interests of elementary high
school and college teachers of
speech in the state of Oregon.
Hospital 'Beat'
Beats Reporter;
Sullivan Suffers
Yesterday Wes Sullivan, carrot
topped Emerald reporter, was as
signed to the infirmary "beat.”
Today Sullivan is assigned to an
infirmary bed.
So enthusiastic was he over
possibilities for self-expression
in this new position that he just
couldn’t resist getting some right
off-the-fire information for the
"masterpieces” he plans to reel
off for Emerald readers.
In the hospital are: Beth Row
an, Pat Heastand, Pat Howard,
Margaret Pollard, Margaret Rob
bins, Virginia Langsterth, Mar
gery Williams, Evelyn Moses,
John Merrill, Barbara Nott, Sam
Iwata, Terry Mullin, Burton Barr,
George Hodson, James Stubble
bine, and, of course, Sullivan.
YWCA Freshmen
To Sell Ice Cream
Bars Today, Friday
The YWCA frosh commission
is taking advantage of Oregon’s
Ice Cream week and is sponsor
ing sales of ice cream bars on
the campus today and Friday.
Housemothers of all campus
living organizations have or
dered ice cream bars to be deliv
ered either for noon or evening
meals today.
Friday morning, freshman wo
men will have the bars on sale
at advantageous points on the
campus.
3:30 Uproar
The day is peaceful and lazy
No movements are noticed before
'Till 3:30 is tolled by the time
keeper's clock,
The resulting roar is like waves
on the shore.
Pounding feet earthquake the
landscape
With a sound that goes fading
away,
And the setting is peaceful all
over again;
The WPA knocks off for the day.
—J. W. S.
Presidential Timber
No competition was in sight today for the above four executive
committee nominees as last night's midnight deadline passed without
any new petitions being filed. They are, left to right, John Cavanagh,
Harrison Bergtholdt, Marjorie McLean, and Gleeson Payne.
YMCA Group
Goes 'Country'
For Hayride
It’s going to be a real old
fashioned hay ride, yes sir, hoi’ses,
wagon, hay, and all. The novel af
fair is sponsored by the YMCA
committee on creative recreation
with Larry Hopkins acting as
chairman.
The hay-riders will meet at the
YMCA Saturday evening at 7
o’clock. From here they will ride
in automobiles to a designated
location where they will board
the horse-drawn wagon which
will take the group to the Wil
lamette river.
Refreshments will feature the
old stand-bys, wieners and marsh
mallows, and singing will help
keep the pangs of indigestion
away. The affair is open to the
public and tickets will be 25
cents a couple.
Arrangements may be made
either through Hopkins or Paul
Sutley, YMCA secretary.
Jewett Contestants
To Air Prize Poems
The three winners of the W. F.
Jewett poetry reading contest
held Tuesday will each give their
prize-winning selections over sta
tion KOAC tomorrow evening
from 7:30 to 8 o’clock.
Lilliam Davis will read "Pat
terns" by Amy Lowell, which won
her first place in the narrative
and ballad group. Lois Masters
will read the 139th Psalm which
took first in the Biblical group,
and lyrics and sonnets will be
represented by Genevieve Work
ing, whose reading of "The Sound
of the Trees” by Robert Frost,
and "Sonnet 43” by Elizabeth
Barrett Browning took first in
that division.
Reading of a fairy tale will
take up the first fifteen minutes,
with the poetry occupying the
latter half of the program.
Franklin Calhoun is in charge of
the program.
Leaves for Fair
Mrs. A. H. Schroff, instructor
in drawing and painting. left
Wednesday to attend the grand
opening of the New York World's
fair. She is to accompany Dean
of Women Hazel P. Schwering,
who will represent the Oregon
women's participation committee
at the fair opening.
Junior Weekend
Folders Cover
Campus Today
Promotion Stunt
Features Pictures
Of Queen, Court
"Junior Weekend promoters
will cover the campus today with
a form of propaganda somewhat
different from what students are
used to seeing,” John Cavanagh,
promotion chairman, said last
night.
"This propaganda will be pro
motion with good motives and
toward justifiable ends,” Cava
nagh said. Weekend folders carry
ing a picture of Queen Betty and
some shots of previous weekends
were distributed at campus liv
ing organizations last night, and
will be available at the Univer
sity Co-op store and the College
Side.
Roland Rodman and Jess Shinn
worked with Bob Rogers of the
promotion committee in making
the distributions. Rogers’ group
will continue its coverage to
day, and will also distribute stick
ers for notebooks and envelopes.
Folders will be taken to Port
land Saturday when the group
selected to appear on a Junior
Weekend program over station
KGW makes the trip north.
Morris Re-Named
Beta Gamma Sigma
Head at Banquet
Dean Victor P. Morris of the
University of Oregon school of
business administration was re
elected to the presidency of Beta
Gamma Sigma, national com
merce honorary, at their annual
banquet held at the Eugene hotel
Monday evening.
Bob Chilcote, junior student in
business administration, was
elected vice-president. Mrs. Ruth
Thompson, secretary and instruc
tor in the school, was chosen sec
retary-treasurer of the local
group. Lorene Marguth was elei
ed initiation chairman.
IX TODAY’S EMERALD
News . I, 3, 8
W omen’s Pages 6, 7
Band Box . 2
Calendar . 3
Sports Pages .4, 5
Four Chosen
Candidates
For Election
No New Petitions
Filed by Deadline
Wednesday Night
A silence which suggested that
campus voters are girding them •
selves for a hard-fought presi
dential battle over the four execiil
tive committee candidates named*
Tuesday, continued last night on
the ASUO front as the midnight
deadline for filing nomination pe
titions passed.
President John Dick said that
no petitions had been presented
by new candidates since Tues
day's nominating assembly. At
that time Harrison Bergtholdt,
John Cavanagh, Marge McLean,
and Tiger Payne, were named
candidates for executive commit
tee positions.
So when card holders go to the
polls Tuesday. May 8, it will be
their duty to decide only which of
the four executive positions each
will hold. A president, first and
second vice-presidents, and sec
retary are to be elected by pref
erential balloting.
Polls will be in the YMCA Hut:.
At that time, too, ASUO mem
bers will elect new Co-op board
members from the 13 student1*
nominated last week.
Committee Listed
For Mothers' Dag
Complete committees for the
Mothers’ Day weekend have been
announced by Majeane Glover,
general chairman of the affair.
Named to assist Barbara Ful
ton on the social affairs commit
tee will be Pat Salisbury, Phyllis
Sanders, Pat Vandeneynde, ami
Betty Plankington. On the ban
quet committee under Marge Mc
Lean will be Eleanor Sederstrom,
Alice Hobson, Jerry Tripp, Natilo
Tengwaid, and Milodene Goss.
On Norman Foster's hospitality
committee—yhe group respons
ible for arranging a campus tom■
for the visiting mothers, will bo
Ruth Lakin and Caroline Holmes.
Eleanor Engdahl and Jim Glee
son will serve on the publicity
committee, in charge of Jim
Schiller.
Shakespeare Play
Broadcast Tonight
Postponed from last week be
cause. of the illness of D. E. Har
gis, director, "The Merchant of
Venice" will go on the air to
night at 7:30.
This play, written by Shake
speare, will be performed experi
mentally by a student cast. It )»■
the first play of this type to bo
attempted on the student hour.
New Books Arrive
Two new books have been re
ceived by the circulation depart
ment for the 7-day shelf. Ray
mond L. Ditmars in "The Fight
to Live" writes of animal life.
"Men and Ideas" by Graham Wal
las is a collection of essays on
biography, society, politics, and
education.