EDITORIALS:
Rally, Rally, But
Chant the Glory
With Moderation
SPORTS:
Tommy Mayes
Band's Twirler
Saturday
VOLUME XLII
UNIVERSITY OP OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1940
NUMBER 13
Webfoots Prepare for Portland Trek
Boosters Gather
' To Support Team
Dopesters Concede Edge to Washington
In Multnomah Field Feud; Reported Hurts
May Bench Duck Standbys
By JOHNNY K A HA NANI II
Will Oregon’s football team bounce back after the 13 to 0 Stan
ford thumping last Saturday and vent its wrath on Washington ? Or
will the Ducks, smothered in the sod and sawdust of Multnomah
stadium, be emitting a few forlorn quacks when the final gun barks
sometime near sundown Saturday, while proud, panting Huskies tower
over them with quizzical eyes?
Thus uncertainty, coupled with a rivalry nearly as keen as that be
Roadman Stars
In'TouchWood'
UO Players to Open
First Production,
Starting October 18
Prominent in the cast of "Touch
Wood" the University players
first production scheduled foi
.October 18, 19 and possibly 23 is
Wilfred Roadman, an old favorite
who has proven his worth in num
erous campus plays.
Roadman played in the summer
production of “Touch Wood" as
well as Rachel Crother’s “As Hus
bands Go” two years ago under
the direction of Horace W. Robin
son who is also directing Dodie
Smith’s English comedy. Roadman
| has played in numerous other cam
pus successes, but his most out
standing work has been his writ
ing the music, lyrics and dialogue
for the all-campus musical show
“With Fear and Trembling.” The
title song for the show now in
rehearsal, “Touch Wood,” is one
of his catchiest. In “Touch Wood"
(knock on wood) he will play the
part of a third rate Noel Coward
named Julian Chance . . . witty,
glamorous, and a not-too-success
ful playwright.
“Touch Wood” is a comedy. It
is set in a little Scotch resort
hotel where the characters are
guests. It is not trivial since after
a short time near tragedy threat
ens the happiness of the main char
acters, who are saved only by the
strength of others involved.
( The cast includes a veteran
group; G. T. Smith, Helen Parsons,
Mary Staton, Gerda Brown, Flor
ence Shumaker, Wilfred Roadman,
Trudy Harland, Adrian Martin,
Roberta Quigley, Jimmy Toner,
and George Turnbull.
The performance will be in the
lounge of Gerlinger hall with one
scene played in the Johnson hall
theater. Due to a limited seating
capacity, seats will be limited to
one hundred persons for each show
All seats will be reserved.
French Classes Top
Romance Languages
Although French is still the most
i popular language in its department
" claiming 415 of the 740 students
enrolled in the romance language
department, an increase in Spanish
was noted by Dr. Ray P. Bowen
head of the department, from 196
students of last year to this year’s
list of 300. Twenty-five students
are registered in Italian courses.
Five new instructors, three ot
which are graduate assistants, ar«
working in the language depart
ment. Dr. Larrence Lesage comes
from the University of Illinois tc
replace Lewis B. Ellis who has a
fellowship at the University of
Pennsylvania. He is in the French
department.
Anibal Vargas comes from Co
lombia, South America, to teach
Oregon students to speak Spanish
Graduate assistants include Clif
ten F. Hart from the University 01
California at Berkeley teaching
French, Lewis Earl Richter, Span
^ ish instructor from Minnesota, anc
Robert Knox, Oregon graduate it
the Spanish department.
tween Oregon and OSC—it is said
that trouncing Washington is one
half of a ‘'successful’' Webfoot sea
son and bashing their Aggie bro
thers is the other half—is suffi
cient impetus for a 25,000 capacity
crowd to storm the Portland field
tomorrow for the Duck-Husky bat
tle.
Not until early Saturday morn
ing will Tex Oliver and his Web
foot warriors entrain for Portland,
while via the “grapevine” it is re
ported that Jimmy Phelan and his
pack of Huskies start “mushing”
south to the Rose City from Seat
tle today.
Stuart May Be Out
Webfoot stoc kslid into reverse
yesterday and Oregon money
plungers turned a shade on the mo
rose side, when it was learned that
Big Jim Stuart, All-Coast Duck
tackle, may be out of the battle
tomorrow. Slightly de-commis
sioned in scrimmage Wednesday,
Stuart wasn’t in uniform when the
Oregon eleven rehearsed yesterday,
215-pound Ed Moshofsky holding
down his berth.
Not a hangover from the Stan
ford game, and, according to Coach
Oliver, nothing too serious, still the
injury may keep Big Jim on the
bench.
National forecasts tab the Ducks
10 to 7 underdogs, Stuart or no
Stuart.
Pass Offense
When dusk descended on Hay
t ward stadium yesterday, the few
permitted to watch the Webfoots
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Browning Elected
Willkie Club Leader
The campus Willkie - McNary
club willjbe headed by Dave Brown
ing, junior in business administra
tion, as president: after an elec
tion last night in Viliard hall. Oth
er officers are Roland Rodman,
vice-president: Janet Rieg, secre
tary; and Bob Rogers, treasurer.
On the executive committee Wen
dell Brooks, Dolores Davidson, Joe
Gurley, Jack Hay, Ed Luckey,
Katherine Thompson, and Virginia
Tooze will serve.
The group heard James A. Rod
man, president of the Oregon Real
tor’s board and former speaker of
the house in Nebraska, denounce
the policy of a third term for any
man.
“It is my firm conviction,” Rod
man said, “that if Franklin Delano
Roosevelt is reelected in 1940, there
will be no election in 1944!”
He pointed out that many peo
ple say a man is better able to run
the affairs of the nation after two
i terms in office. Then after three
terms the president would be still
better suited to handle the affairs
| °f the nation, after four terms even
more able, and there would be no
end to it, he declared.
Gurley summarized briefly the
work of the organization has done
on the campus to date in register
ing voters, and plans were laid for
^a meeting to be held next week.
Stanard Leaves
Major Del Stanard, University
of Oregon alumni, who is serving
a year’s duty in the national
guard, has recently been trans
ferred to the 116th medical regi
ment as second in command.
Dr. Stanard is president of the
Oregon alumni association and, ac
cording to Elmer Fansett, secre
tary of the association has been
j very active for several years.
Photo bv Ted Kenyon, Emerald staff photographer
YOU CANT WORK WHEN YOU'RE HUNGRY
Pictured here is the ASUO student evegutive committee, lunching just liefore appointing a Homecom
ing chairman and voting to eliminate theater rallies. Left to right, they are: John Cavanagh, first vice
president; Lyle Nelson, Emerald editor; Gleeson Payne, president; Betty Buchanan, AWS president;
Harrison Bergtholdt, third vice-president; and Marge McLean, second vice-president.
Oregon Betters
School Quotas
Educational Group
Reveals Efficiency
In Expenditures
Four of the Oregon state system
of higher education's departments
bettered the national average for
their expenditures during the bi
ennium 1939-40, according to Wil
lard L. Marks, president of the
state board of higher education.
Only 8.8 per cent of the local
system’s income went for admin
istration and service departments,
compared to the national average
of 10.3. This state would have to
expend $120,000 more to equal the
average.
A saving of .8 of one per cent
was effected in the costs of physi
cal plants.
Stating that instruction costs
were one of the chief factors in de
termining a school’s effectiveness,
Mr. Marks said that the six schools
in the Oregon system spent $37,000
more on this division than if they
had been “average" in their per
centage.
The local schools invested 4.8
per cent of their income on li
braries, almost half again as much
as the national average of 3.4 per
cent.
Tickets Selling Fast
For Concert Series
Reserved seat tickets to the
Greater Artist series are selling
rapidly, George Root, educational
activities manager, announced
yesterday.
Root reported that 443 season
tickets were sold last year and
that 374 had been sold already this
year. This means that with the
drive only half over, the office has
sold nearly as many tickets as
were sold all of last year, he said.
“And they are still selling,” he
added.
Tickets sell for $4, $5, and $6
and admit the holder to all five of
the features of the series which
will be held this fall and winter in
McArthur court. ■
Order of "O' Plans
Homecoming Lunch
Order of the "O” alumni will be
guests at a luncheon Saturday
noon, November 9, given in their
honor by active members as a fea
ture of the annual homecoming.
Committees appointed by Presi
dent Jim Rathbun include: lunch,
A1 Linn, chairman, Sherm Wet
more, Vic Townsend; publicity,
Pete Igoe, chairman, Bill White,
Ehle Reber; entertainment, Boyd
Brown, chairman, Paul Jackson,
and Earl Sandness.
Infirmary Holds
Bad Eyes; Colds,
Even Poison Oak
The eyes have it—that’s the
general consensus in room seven
of the campus infirmary. It seems
that Byron Mayo and Don Wilson
are spending all their time playing
childhood games such as blind
man’s bttff, etc. Each has one eye
closed and both are in a bad way.
Mayo rushed the season a bit,
went out on a picnic, and wound
up with poison oak spread all over
his cranium. Wilson is the prqud
possessor of a minor eye Infection.
Done one door in room eight,
Bruce Crichton is dubbed as the
infirmary enigma. He’s just down
there for general principles.
Others who reside in the 13th
street institution include: Maxine
Sherman, Mary Heron, Jane Kaar
bal, Leota Whitelock, Carol Fries,
Betty Klien, Jean F|ckley, Alex
Kindig, Fred Hill, Alan Foster, and
Dorman Alford.
Saturday Last Day
To Change Courses
change cams to aaa or cnange
course or petitions for late regis
tration must have gone through
the registrar’s office by noon this
Saturday, October 12.
While new courses may be
entered until October 19, the aca
demic requirements committee of
the faculty has determined that
notice must be on file by this
weekend.
This regulation also applies to
cases in which students wish to
change from one term of a subject
to another—viz. from BA 112 to
BA 111. Withdrawals may be ap
plied for at any time until Decem
ber 14, the weekend before final
examinations.
UO YMCA Will Begin
Annual Drive Soon
The University of Oregon
YMCA’s annual membership drive
will begin Tuesday, October 15,
and continue through October 23,
Paul Sutley, Y secretary, an
nounced last night. Plans as to de
tails are now being formulated by
Bob Lovell and Milton Small, co
chairmen of the drive.
The University group is organ
ized under its own student offi
cers and acts under programs
formed by student members.
Membership is open to all men
who are interested in the program,
Mr. Sutley stated. The drive will
be centered both in the houses on
the campus and with students who
do not live in organized living
groups.
Girls to Discuss
Value of College
Symposium Group
Will Collect Data
For 1940 Speeches
“The value of college to women,’
wafl1 chosen as the subject for'thi;
year’s girls’ symposium tean
which will tour the state.
This all-campus group, which
held its initial meeting at the
speech division earlier this week,
offers experience to girls interest
ed in public speaking.
Work will begin immediately or
gathering facts and figuring a so
lution for the subject chosen. The
material will be ready for presen
tation to audiences of Oregon
Washington, and California wintei
term.
About 1200 books pertaining tc
this question are available at the
University library and they will
serve as a source for material.
At present the group includes
Dorothy Dunham, Genevieve Work
ing, Jean Person, Lois Nordling,
Elva Jane South, Darlene Warren
Michi Yasui, Marge Dibble, Lois
Bechdoldt, Jane Hooker, and Betty
Stuart. It is open to additional wo
men students.
FBI School to Draw
Officers to Campus
Seventy-five Oregon policeme;:
will arrive on the campus Monday
October 14, to attend the Federal
Bureau of Investigation school foi
police officers. The League of Ore
gon Cities, located in the Univer
sity law school is sponsoring the
school in connection with the FBI
and the Oregon association of po
lice officers. ,
President Donald M. Erb wi^
give the opening address to the
visitors during the elementary
course which will last one week
Other members of the faculty whe
will speak during the week are:
Dean Eric Allen and Dean Wayne
L. Morse. The group will be ad
dressed by J. D. Swenson, special
agent in charge of FBI instruction,
! on the subject of national defense
responsibilities of the municipal
: police.
The school is open only to reg
istered city policemen and an ad
i vanced class will follow this ses
i sion on October 21 for men whe
attended the school last year.
—
Cavanagh Says:
Liberty is the birthright of all,
E’en freshman, so they teach,
' But coises be upon the mug
What gave them freedom of speech
J.W.S.
The Three o’clock club, Emeralc
workers honorary, held its firsl
; official meeting of the year last
j night.
Wallet Still Lost;
Jobs Help Youth
Stay in School
Vincent Yardum is still in school.
For n while it looked as if he
would have to drop out if he didn’t
find his wallet. He lost it on a trip
down town last week. In it was
$23, all he had.
He was working for his room,
but he had no money for food, until
his NYA check would arrive late
in the month.
The Emerald printed a story
about Yardum's plight in the hope
that his wallet would be returned.
So far, it has not, but Mrs. Evange
line Morris, housing secretary, re
ports that the story brought him
enough jobs to enable him to stay
in school.
Webfoot Rally
Cheers Players
On to Portland
Students Acclaim
Coach Tex Oliver's
Game Preview
The Oregon student body shook
the lead from their feet and the
cobwebs from their lungs yester
day and joined in a pep assembly
that jammed Gerlinger hall. The
gathering’s purpose was to start
the fire burning for the Webfoot
Husky grid battle in Portland's
Multnomah stadium Saturday af
ternoon.
Coach Tex Oliver took the stage
and drew the cheers of the stu
dentry, as he "assumed the blame”
for last week’s defeat at the hands
of the Stanford Indians, and ex
pressed the team’s and his grati
tude for such enthusiastic backing.
Happy because it was the big
gest football pep assembly in
years, ASTTO President Gleeson
Payne announced that the living
organization showing the most
spirit at future assemblies would
be rewarded with a trophy.
The ralliers had two types of
musical entertainment — the band
and Eddie Gibson’s swing band.
Cheer Leader Woody Slater and his
rally squad led the crowd in yells
and introduced two new ones, to be
used at the game Saturday. Pat
Taylor demonstrated three female
telephone techniques to the stu
dents. She, and the crowd, were
disturbed by the escapades of
stooges who strolled around with
potted plants, teapots, and blank
cartridge pistols.
Payne asked students to be in
the student section at 1 o’clock
Saturday afternoon so as to insure
their getting seats and to relieve
possible congestion at the Mult
nomah stadium gates.
Rates Announced
On Student Specials
Two special trains will leave Fri
day for Portland, one at 12:20 p.m.
and one at 4:20, and one will leave
Saturday morning at 8:30 to take
Webfoot rooters to the Oregon
Washington game.
Round trip fares for the specials
Friday will be $2.75, and the Sat
urday fare will be $2.50. The re
turning special will leave Portland
Sunday at 6:30 p.m.
Conscription Topic
Of Two Broadcasts
To stimulate the cause of con
scription and the interest of na
tional defense, Lt. Colonel Elmer
V. Wooton, state director of selec
tive service, yesterday announced
the addition of two lectures to be
broadcast at 3:15 p.m. on Pacific
coast stations Friday and Satur
day over the Red network of the
National Broadcasting Icompany.
The Friday broacast will be a
talk by Lt. Colonel Victor J. O’Kel
liher. The Saturday broadcast will
1 be by Captain Ernest M. Culligan.
Pep Squad Plans
Weekend Rallies
Serpentine Parade, Saturday Game,.
Dances Complete Three-Day Schedule
Of Activity in Portland
Fur and feathers will fly over the Rose City this weekend as
Oregon and Washington pep squads and fans make the trip to Port
land to urge their respective football squads on to victory.
As hosts of the three days of gridiron festivities, the Webfoot
school, under the leadership of Pat Keller and his rally committee,
have planned a "big three” entertainment program.
The imported University of Ore
gon student body will meet at the
Benson hotel at 8:30 for the ser
pentine march up Broadway behind
their Lemon and Green uniformed
band. The Webfoot pep squad and
the visiting Washington rally team
will lead the parade to the cen
tral rallying point.
Carson to Speak
The short pre-game open air
pep meeting will feature a short
welcome address by Mayor Joseph
K. Carson and Tiger Payne, ASUO
president. Woody Slater, chief yell
leader, will be master of ceremon
ies of the program.
All students who expect to sit in
the reserved rooting section are
asked by the yell king to be in their
seats by 1 o'clock as that part of
the grandstand will be thrown
open to general admission at that
time. Boys are also asked to wear
white shirts and the Oregon-col
ored rooters lids.
Dance at Jantzen
The grand finale of the Portland
weekend will be the rally squad
sponsored dance at Jantzen beach
where students from the northern
and southern universities will in
termingle and twirl to the music
of Bob Mitchell’s orchestra.
Mitchell’s orchestra is well
known to campus audiences for his
Military ball and Junior prom ap
pearances. Bids will sell for 75
cents.
Choral Union Starts
'Messiah' Rehearsal
An enthusiastic chorus of “Alle
lujahs” started the University
Choral union on its second y<^r
Thursday, with Dean Theodore
Kratt directing 450 student voices
in a preliminary rehearsal of
George Frederic Handel's ‘‘The
Messiah.”
The Choral union gave the big
gest musical performance of a
classical work ever offered to Eu
gene audiences last April in Mc
Arthur court when Mendelssohn’s
“Elijah” was presented.
Present plans call for “The
Messiah” to be given in McArthur
court the last week in February
under the auspices of the ASUO.
Negotiations are under way to
bring nationally known soloists to
the campus for this production, as
was done last year.
The University symphony or
chestra will provide the orchestral
background. Eugene townspeople
who would like to take part are
asked to register at once, and to
attend the rehearsals at three o’
clock on Tuesday and Thursday
afternoons.
Handbooks on Sale
Handbooks providing basic infor
mation about the University li
brary are on sale at the circulation
desk in the library for five cents.
The purpose of this book is to
acquaint new students with the ar
rangement of the library and to
assist them in using various rooms
for their studies to the best advan
tage.
Grad Fills Position
Rosalind Gray, Oregon '35, has
recently taken over the duties of
records clerk and secretary at the
alumni office.
This position was held by Viv
ian Foley ’41 who left during the
summer to join her husband Bill
Foley ’40 in Palo Alto.
Draft Registry
Set for Igloo
UO Men, Ages 21
To 36, Will Sign
For Conscription
Registration of Oregon students
under the selective service act will
take place Wednesday, October 16,
in McArthur court. Men may
register from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.,
according to Colonel R. M. Lyon,
in charge of University registra
tion.
All males between the ages of
21 and 36 Will be required to
register for service, except those
subject to call in various reserve
forces or those taking advanced
ROTC under contract. Eugene
residents are requested to sign up
in their local office.
Cards will be forwarded to the
students’ home draft board so that
registrants will be called only to
fill their home quotas. College stu
dents enrolled before January are
exempted from service, but not
from registration, until July 1,
1941.
The registration cards, samples
of which are in view on the bulle
tin boards in Johnson hall and the
Journalism building, contain 11
main questions. Registrants must
swear to the truth of their answers.
Assisting Colonel Lyon will be
second-year advanced ROTC stu
dents.
Singing Contests
Return to Campus
The interfraternity council has
recently adopted a plan to bring
the annual sing contest back on
the campus, according to Tiger
Payne, ASUO Prexy.
This plan is in accordance with
the policy of keeping student ac
tivities on the campus and away
from commercial enterprises.
Wally Rossman will handle the
business arrangements for the con
test and Les Readty the actual
singing.
The council will promote the idea
through the heads of the women’s
living organizations and the repre
sentatives of the council from the
men’s. Those who will be in charge
of the promotion will be Eggert
"Dutch” Rohyer and Barbara
Pierce.
Amphibian Club
To Stage Tryouts
Next Thursday
Membership tryouts for the Am
phibian club will be Thursday, Oc
tober 17, and the next Thursday,
October 24. Any girl who wishes
to join may try out. The women’s
pool will be open every afternoon
from 4 to 6 o’clock, so that appli
cants may practice.
Last night the Amphibians ini
tiated six new members. Red roses
and the gold Amphibian “A” went
to Initiates Frances Jackson, Lls
beth Daggett, Jeanette Neilson,
Elizabeth Rowe, Jane McCurdy,
and Mary Anderson. Miss Jose
phine Persicano, exchange physical
education major from New York
university, was voted honorary
{membership. Cider and doughnuts
were served.