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VOLUME XLII
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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1940
NUMBER 4
Registration Soars
To Record of 1680
Students Friday
Registrar Predicts 7 Per Cent Increase;
Igloo to Open for Second Day of Signing;
Class Rooms Officially Open Monday
Despite calls for National Guard service and impending conscription
measures, registration figures yesterday soared to 1680, the highest
first-day point in University history. The mark is an increase of 255
over 1425 of fall ’39, the registrar’s office announced last night.
Indications point toward an overall increase of 7 per cent for the
term, according to C. L. Constance, assistant registrar. Early last
Oregana Sales
Record Broken
In Initial Drive
Final Circulation
Figures Expected
To Reach New High
Smashing all previous records,
Oregana sales for the first day of
registration mounted to 1087, Dick
Williams, business manager, an
nounced last night.
This total exceeds by 140 last
year’s high of 947 books. This is
the first time in the history of the
yearbook that sales for the first
day have climbed over 1000, Wil
liams said. If the sale continues
at the present rate, Oregana offi
cials predict a circulation to sur
pass even last year’s record-break
ing figure of 2300 books.
Price of the All-American year
book is $5. This sum may be paid
in installments after a $1 deposit
is made at the time the order is
placed. These installments are paid
at the rate of $1 a term.
A $1 reduction in the price of
the yearbook is given all students
who pay the full cash amount for
athletic cards at registration.
Williams urged that students
wishing the yearbook put in orders
early, so as to make sure that
enough copies are printed. Several
persons were unable to obtain
copies last year because the books
were not spoken for soon enough,
it was stated.
Freshmen Honored
At First 'Y' Meeting
The University of Oregon YMCA
will hold its first official meeting
on Wednesday, October 2, at 7:30
p.m. in the “Y” hut.
Clifford Matson, chairman of
the frosh committee, will preside
at the meeting and will introduce
G. Bernhard Fedde, chairman of
the University YMCA advisory
board, whose topic is “The Place
of the YMCA in a well-rounded
college education.” John Cavanagh,
first vice-president of the student
body, will speak on the same sub
ject from the point of view of the
student leader. A summary of the
plans for the year will be given by
Wayne Kelty, president, who will
introduce the cabinet members.
Clifford Matson will speak on
the hopes of the frosh council and
will introduce Paul Sutley, execu
tive secretary of the Y.
Rev. Williston Wirt of the Con
gregational church will lead 15
minutes of singing to be followed
by refreshments and general rec
reation.
Dr. Stanard Called
Into National Guard
Dr. Del Stanard, state president
of the Oregon Alumni association,
has been called into active service
as major in the medical corps of
the national guard for one year at
Camp Murray.
According to Elmer Fansett, sec
retary of the Oregon alumni, he
has been very active in alumni
work and is interested in the prob
lems of the University. Hollis
Johnston, vice-president of the as
sociation, has already laid plans
tc cover Dr. Stanard s work during
the coming year.
week a rise of approximately 2
per cent was predicted.
Registration began at 8 a.m. and
continued throughout the morning
and afternoon hours. Largest num
ber of registrations came between
9 and 10 a.m. During that time
330 men and women paid their
fees.
Doors of McArthur court will
reopen at the same time this morn
ing and students will have until
5 p.m. to sign up for new courses.
Those who do not complete their
enrollment by tonight will be sub
ject to a late fine, Mr. Constance
stated. They will have the oppor
tunity to complete their programs
in Johnson hall next week.
Classes officially start Monday.
Enlarged CAA
Group Planned
Spencer Called
For Guard Duty;
Stovall Substitutes
James C. Stovall, assistant di
rector of CAA at the University of
Oregon announced yesterday an in
crease in the number of students
who will be trained this year.
“Although there is a ruling
against the training of more than
50 students at one time,” he stated,
the increase will come in that there
are to be two classes this year, one
ending the last of January and the
other the last of spring term.
Mr. Stovall will supervise the
CAA this year during the absence
of Carlton Spencer who has been
chosen for active service in the
national guard. Mr. Spencer, how
ever, will still have ultimate con
trol of the course, although he will
not be active in teaching.
This year’s course will be simi
lar to that of last year except that
it will have three 24-hour courses
in air commerce regulation, me
teorology, and navigation, which
will be taught by Mr. Stovall and
Dr. A. E. Caswell. There will also
be a course on aircraft operation
and civil air regulation to be
taught at Deady hall.
Since there is to be no advanced
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Health Check
For Freshmen
Fills Hospital
The campus infirmary Friday
had one of the busiest days of
the year as scores of freshmen
and new students flocked about
the corridors of the dispensary,
waiting to receive second tuber
culin injections and vaccination
checkups.
To save valuable time the per
sonnel department arranged to
have the students’ identification
photos taken while they were
waiting.
Those confined in the hospital,
all suffering from colds, are Bob
Chilcote, Josephine Wenke, and
Norris Ambrose.
Payne to Ask
Uniform Wage
Group Will Probe
Reports of Abuses;
35 Cent Goal Set
A move to establish a minimum
wage for campus labor was gain
ing momentum today as ASUO
Prexy Tiger Payne prepared to
name a committee to investigate
need for such action.
The group plans to stabilize
campus wages at a minimum of
35 cents an hour, Payne said. Al
though this is the regular wage
paid to student labor, there are
some reports of abuses among a
few smaller establishments which
the committee plans to investigate.
Interview Students
First move after the plan is
outlined will be to interview stu
dents and employers for sugges
tions.
Entirely a student move, the
committee will cooperate with the
University employment office,
which four years ago led a move to
establish the wage at a 35-cent
minimum.
All students who obtain jobs
through the employment service
are now assured of that wage or
equivalent. Some students, how
ever, have obtained jobs which pay
less than that, Payne said, and the
committee will try to arrange for
the regular wage in these in-,
stances.
No Job Drop
“We do not anticipate a decrease
in the number of jobs under this
plan,’’ Payne declared. “The plan
is designed primarily to better
working conditions for students in
some instances where there are
abuses.
“Merchants will be encouraged
to continue using student help
whenever possible.”
Plaques of some sort are being
considered for merchants employ
ing student help, Payne said. Stu
dent patronage of these merchants
will be encouraged.
Rains Come, Ducks
Run for Lost, Found
By BYRON MAYO
The rainy season has started
here at Oregon and it probably will
last for a long, long time. That
means that in the next two or
three days, every Joe or Betty
Webfoot who has lost a jacket, um
brella, raincoat, or maybe over
shoes, within the last two terms,
will be running down to the lost
and found department in the Uni
versity depot.
According to the heads of this
lost and found service, “as long as
the sunshine lasts, we never see
anyone. However, as soon as the
rain starts, the students, mostly
the girls, suddenly remember that
the umbrella, or the coat, that they
lost spring term, is probably down
at the University depot. So, down
they come.”
Umbrellas Found
It is in this department that you
find missing umbrellas of every
color, design, and description. It
is here that you find silver spec
tacles, gold spectacles, thick spec
tacles, thin spectacles, and other
valuable “seeing devices” that werc
lost.
For every identified article which
is returned to the student, the
postmaster in charge collects five
cents. This tiny sum is then turned
over to the University and finally
ends up in the fund for Emerald
advertising.
Accounting Leads
Accounting books lead the way
in the number of books turned in
at the desk. However, practically
every other course in the Univer
sity is represented, and other
books, too, which you would never
find in an Oregon classroom.
Approximately twice a year the
department cleans house. Then the
AWS sponsors a widely advertised
auction and sells most of these
valuable articles to Oregon stu
dents for just what they can get.
However, in a few weeks time,
the lost and found department in
the University depot, and through
the extension in the University li
brary, have their shelves filled
once again with umbrellas, revers
ibles, bathing shoes, pens, hats,
jackets, fraternity pins, spectacles,
and the hundred-and-one other
things which Webfeet delight in
leaving behind them.
Votja Benes
To Discuss
Europe Here
Czechoslovakian
Leader to Appeal
For Small Nations
By CORBIN E WIGNES
Votja Benes, widely known edu
cator .will speak in the music au
ditorium, Tuesday evening', October
1, at 8 p.m., on conditions in
Czechoslovakia and Central Eur
ope prior to the Munich pact.
The elder brother of Edvard
Benes, former president of the
Czechoslovakian republic, Mr.
Benes Is also a member of the
Czech government and was organ
izer of the Czechs in the United
States during the last war. He also
served as inspector general of the
public schools of the newly formed
republic and also in both houses of
Parliament.
Believes in Democracy
Votja Benes firmly believes th'at
democracy will prevail and that
the right to exist as an independ
ent nation will again come to
Czechoslovakia and other small na
tions.
In September, 1938, Mr. Benes
was invited to the United States
to participate in celebrations
planned here by Czechoslovak
groups to commemorate the 20th
anniversary of the republic. The
Munich pact was signed while he
was still on board ship. Heart bro
ken, he exclaimed: “Instead of
celebrating, I came to a funeral."
Returned Home
He returned to Czechoslovakia
but just before the outbreak of the
present war was forced to leave
the country.
The lecture will be given under
the auspices of the faculty com
mittee on international relations.
Oregon Faculty
Write Textbooks
Students Will Use
Three New Titles
By Campus Profs
Several books, written by mem
bers of the faculty, will be used in
University classes this year. Dr.
C. G. Howard of the Oregon law
school is co-author of "Principles
of Business Law,” which will be
used by business law students.
Dr. Calvin Crumbaker, profes
sor of economics, is the author of
"Organizing and Financing Modern
Business,” which students in ele
ments of finance will use this year.
Students in “Backgrounds of So
cial Science” will again use “Sur
vey of Social Science.” Last year
the chapters of the book were
mimeographed, but Mrs. Elizabeth
Claypool, head of the textbook de
partment of the University Co-op,
has reported that the book has
been bound and mimeographed. Dr.
Quirinus Breen, chairman of the
social science group, edited the
chapters, which were written by
Oregon professors.
The chapter on economics was
written by Dr. D. R. French; the
chapter on sociology by Dr. E. H.
Moore; philosophy by Dr. H. G.
Townsend; history by Dr. J. T.
Ganoe and Dr. Andrew Fish; Art,
L. W. Hart and R. B. Motherwell,
who is not on the campus this
year; geography, Dr. W. D. Smith; !
physiology, Dr. A. R. Moore; psy- j
chology, Dr. H. R. Taylor; and an
thropology, Dr. L. S. Cressman.
New Library Hours
To Start Monday
Beginning Monday the circula
tion and reference department,
hours will be 7:45 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Mondays through Thursdays. On :
Friday the library will close an,
hour earlier; Saturday's opening'
time will be at 8 a.m. and closing
time at 6 p.m.
The hours of the reserve book
room will be the following: Mon
days through Thursdays—7:45 a.m. |
to 10 p.m.; Fridays—7:45 a.m. to
10 p.m.; Saturdays—9 a.m. to 5
p.m.; Sundays—2 pirn, to 9 p.m.^
U. S. Marines Scuttled
By UD Ducks, 12 to 2
Prelude to Conscription
Signing lip for Oregon's ROTO course in this picture are Dave Kon
scliot, Freeman Fowler, and Kruno La Rosa. Registration continues
today in McArthur court.
Student Loans
Stag Unchanged
First Day Receipts
Expected to Equal
Last Year's $7,00d
“To date there is no indication
that the abolition of the install
ment plan of tuition payment will
increase the number of loans made
to students at registration,” Dean
Virgil D. Earl, in charge of student
loans, announced yesterday after
noon.
Dean Earl explained that $7,000
is usually loaned to students on the
first day of registration, and that
the $5,000 mark, reached by mid
afternoon yesterday, was expected
to be brought up to the usual total.
In previous years about $12,000
is loaned on the first two days of
registration. This year’s amount
is expected to equal that figure.
However Dean Earl stated that no
definite estftnate could be made
until today’s registration, because
many students, in need of money,
look to other sources before com
ing to the student loan fund for
their tuition payments.
The old installment plan of tui
tion payment was abolished by the
State Board of Higher Education
recently, because of the installa
tion of a simplified bookkeeping
system and the fact that only one
fourth of the student body availed
themselves of the loan system last
year.
This year the full $39.00 tuition
is due the first day. Out of state
students may have until October
15 to pay their $40 non-resident
payment. A fee of 25 cents is
charged for loans smaller than $10
and 50 cents for anything larger, if
repaid within one month.
Sales of Textbooks
Increase at Co-op
The University Co-op store was
“quite busy” Friday with early
textbook sales, Mrs. Elizabeth
Claypool, head of the store’s text
book department .reported yester
day. As a rule students wait un
til at least Saturday before buying
their books, she said.
Several new books will be used
this year in some of the larger
courses. Freshman women enrolled
in hygiene classes will use “Text
book for Healthful Living,” by
Diehl, for the first time. Another
new book, “Accounting Principles,”
revised edition, by McKenzie and
Noble, will be used by first year
accounting students this year.
Mrs. Claypool reported that the
store has stocked about 15 per cent
more goods this year than last in
anticipates of a larger enrollment.
Pome No. 33
It would have been nice to have
ended the game
With an ‘o’ on the end of the
score,
But don't lay the blame to the boys
on our team,
They did all they could and much
more.j
The swimming pool field was the
trouble, we know,
Though the Webfoots can swim
quite a ways,
The other boys garnered their cou
ple of points.
Through one of their sub-Marine
plays.
—J.W.S.
President Pleads
For Campus Sings
“Interfraternity and sorority
singing contests should be brought
back to the campus and should not
be used for commercial purposes,”
stated “Tiger” Payne Friday.
According to Payne, all campus
activities should be kept on the
campus and not exploited by pri
vate concerns or individuals. This
year the student body is going to
attempt to put the sings back on
the ASUO program and to keep
them there. This is in connection
with the new policy of bigger and
better assemblies for the students
over the course of the year.
Berry, Isberg Spark
Webfoot Offensive
fn Season's Opener
Four Oregon Pass Interceptions Pave
Way for Scoring by Stenstrom, Berry;
Mecham Caught Behind Line for Safety
By BOB FLAVELLE, Co-Sports Editor, Oregon Daily Emerald
The University of Oregon football team opened the 1940 season with
a convincing 12 to 2 victory over the fighting San Diego Marine
Devildogs last night and in doing so displayed a crushing offense as
well as an impregnable line.
Led by veterans Buck Berry and Len Isberg, the Webfoot ball
carriers poured through huge holes that were opened in the front line
Seven Houses
Fill Card Quota
In Contest
Athletic Sale Drive
Continues; Prize
Goes to Top Seller
Five more houses! reached the
100 per cent mark on athletic card
sales as the Emerald went to press
today, Joe Gurley, drive chairman,
announced. This brings the total
to seven.
Each of the houses will receive
a $15 money order, and house sales
men will be given individual prizes.
The $15 may be used to buy rec
ords, Gurley said.
Winning houses and salesmen
are: Alpha Omicron Pi, Betty Jane
Biggs; Alpha Xi Delta, Thelma
Bouchet; Kappa Alpha Theta,
Nelda Christensen; Pi Phi, Fran
ces Cox, and Sigma Nu, Cliff Sex
smith. Two other houses, Delta
Gamma and Delta Upsilon, reached
their quita the day before.
Official returns will be made
early next week of all houses which
reached the 100 per cent quota
before the weekend deadline, Gur
ley said. These houses are eligible
for $15 awards. Houses which fail
to make this deadline but which
fulfill their quotas before Friday,
October 4, will receive a money
order for $10.
Assisting Gurley in the drive are
Ken Erickson, Billie Christenson,
and Lou Torgesen. Erickson is in
charge of sales to independents,
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Noble Return Gives
UO Japanese Expert
By BETTY JANE THOMPSON
In an interview prior to his de
parture for Japan in March, 1939,
Dr. H. J. Noble, associate profes
sor of history, told an Emerald re
porter that one of his primary pur
poses in making the trip was to
perfect his Japanese.
Japanese Expert
Officially returned to his duties
after teaching English literature in
the government school in Kyoto,
Dr Noble last week announced
that he would offer a four-hour
course in Japanese in addition to
his two courses in Far Eastern his
tory and culture and his modern
Europe course. It will be the first
time in the history of the Univer
sity that one of the Far Eastern
languages appears in the curricu
lum.
Will Return
Tipping back in his swivel chair,
his typewriter in front of him, his
books still in their boxes wating
to be put on the empty shelves on
all sides, Oregon’s expert on the
Far East talked of his year in the
Land of the Rising Sun, of his
travels in Manchuria and China,
and said that he would return to
the Orient again next year. It is!
his custom, lie explained, to teach
a year here and the next year re
turn to Japan so that he can keep
up on the swiftly occurring events.
“There’s a war,” he said, "and
the people are truly beginning to
feel its effects. Fuel is the least
available commodity.”
To make up for the lack of heat
in the school in which he taught,
his overcoat, muffler, and gloves
became the classroom costume, he
said. Eggs, cheese, coffee, butter,
and fish are hard to obtain and
white rice, which is to the Japa
nese what bread is to the Amer
ican, is forbidden, he related.
Friendly People
Little trouble was encountered
in his dealing with the Japanese,
Dr. Noble said. The people and the
police were courteous and friendly
to him. The only trouble he found
was during his travels in Manchu
ria during the height of the anti
British and foreign feeling. For 18 1
hours he traveled on the railroad
unable to secure food.
Several times Dr. Noble attend
ed the combined OSC-UO alumni
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of the Marine defense. The play
of Oregon’s forward wall was ter
rific throughout the game despite
numerous substitutions as they held
the San Diego crew to a total of
minus five yards gained, or rather
lost from scrimmage.
After a scoreless first harf which
was mostly a brilliant punting
duel between Len Isberg and Eng
lish of the Marines, the Ducks
started pounding the center of the
visitors’ line and with 8 minutes
gone in the third quarter, they
made their first tally.
Berry Sets Up Score •
After Isberg had punted over the
goal line, the ball was placed on
the Marines' 20-yard line. Fullback
Allman Coleman picked up one
yard through the center and then
English booted to Berry, who ran
the ball back four yards to the
Marines’ 44. Berry then fought his
way through the middle for eight
yards. On the next play Berry
started around to the left, cut back
through tackle, evaded the safety
man and sprinted 34 yards to the
3-yard marker, where he was
brought down by Gibson.
After Marsh Stenstrom, Berry
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Smiles Are Keynote
For 'Hello Dance' :
Friendly smiles will decorate Mc
Arthur court Saturday night for
the president’s annual “Hello
Dance." Freshmen, who are guests
of honor, are urged to attend as
President Donald M. Erb is anxious
to meet the latest newcomers to
the University.
Dancing is to be to the music of
Art Holman’s orchestra, and stu
dents who are worried as to the
appropriate dress will find the
answer in short silks and high
heels for the girls, and dark suits
for the men.
Members of the faculty who are
to meet the new students are
President Erb, Karl W. Onthank,
dean of personnel; O. F. Stafford,
dean of the lower division; Virgil
D. Earl, dean of men; Hazel P.
Schwering, dean of women, and
Alice B. Macduff, assistant dean
of women.
Hazel P. Schwering
Speaks to Orides
Hazel P. Schwering, dean of wo
men, will be the guest speaker at
a meeting of Orides, independent
women, Monday night at 7:30 in
Gerlinger hall. All independent
University of Oregon women are
invited to attend.
Orides offers to girls who are
not in a living organization, and
have no way of taking part in
social life on the campus, an oppor
tunity to participate in activities
and get acquainted with a large
number of girls.
According to President Rebecca
Anderson, a short program has
been arranged and refreshments
will be served.
“No dates” is traditional for the
annual Hello donee tonight in Mc
Arthur court at 9 p.m.