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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1940
NUMBER 39
Thanksgiving
Leaves U of 0
Campus Bare
Professors Check
Class Cuttinq, Give
Wednesday Quizzes
By mid-afternoon the c a m p 11
will be virtually deserted as stu
dents leave for the four-da;
Thanksgiving- holiday. Althougl
the “weekend” doesn’t officials
start until the end of classes today
many jumped the gun by leavinf
last night.
To prevent students from cutting
Wednesday classes many profes
sots scheduled Wednesday tests
Others arranged meetings Monday
or Tuesday to take the place 01
Wednesday classes. Some promisee
double, or even triple, cuts for stu
dents who failed to show up ir
class today.
Fares Lowered
Sponsored by the ASUO, rounc
trip train tickets to Portland are
being sold for $2.75 today at a
booth on Thirteenth between Com
merce and Oregon buildings
Northbound trains leave at 12:2C
and -1:20 this afternoon.
Round-trip tickets to San Fran
cisco are being sold for $13.80,
$15.50, «and $20.05. Tickets tc
Klamath Falls sell for $5.05 and
$5.65.
Side Closes
Further evidence that the cam
pus will be dead over the holiday
was offered last night by Newt
Smith, manager of the College Side
inn. Smith announced that the coke
emporium would be closed from 8
tonight until noon Sunday.
The Du-ck and the Beaver will mix
socially Saturday night at the
intercollegiate Turkey Shoot dance
at the Uptown ballroom in Port
land. There will be no advance in
prices. Woody Hite’s orchestra will
play.
Meals will not be served in most
campus living organizations over
the holiday.
Freshman Women
Guests at YW Play
The work of the YWCA in differ
ent parts of the world was shown
University freshman women yes
terday afternoon in the YW bunga
low when members of the frosh
commission presented the play
“These Things Must Be,” or “An
Episode in the World Hospital.”
Girls taking part in the play
^ were: Barbara Crosland, Dorothy
Routt, Patricia Sutton, Jo Ann
Supple, Patricia Pearson, Barbara
DuPuy, Margot Bullier, Anne
Brunton, and Elizabeth Edmunds.
The freshman fellowship meeting
at which the play was given, is
one of two projects being under
taken this term by freshman mem
bers of the YW. A Christmas party
will be the other entertainment
this term.
Group singing led by Jay Dee
Griffith and a piano solo by Phyllis
Taylor were also included in yes
terday’s frosh commission pro
gram.
Philological Group
To Hear Dr. Bowen,
LeSage at Berkeley
^ Professor R. P. Bowen and Mr
Laurence LeSage of the Romance
languages department will present
speeches at the meeting of the
Philological association of the Pa
cific coast at Berkeley, California
this weekend. Dr. Bowen wil'
speak on “Classicism in the Poetry
and Characters of Racine and Cor
neille,” and Mr. LeSage will dis
cuss “The Metaphor in the Style
of Giraudoux."
Humme Transferred
Dr. E. Humme, who t a u g h 1
world history last year during the
absence of Dr. Sheldon, is this yeai
teaching history in the University
of Oregon extension in Portland
He is also professor emeritus o;
history at Stanford university.
Dr. W. V. Norris, professor o
physics, was elected a member o
the New York Academy of Scienc
es, one of the oldest state scienci
honoraries this week.
DANCES HAWAIIAN
Lulu Pali, University of Oregon sophomore, is a student of Hawaiian
dancing as it is taught on the island of Oahu, T.H. Above, she is pic
tured wearing a lei which was sent her via Clipper plane from a boy
friend “back home.” (Courtesy the Oregonian.)
Lulu Pali Likes Beat
OiMusic,HorseHoofs
Soph Men Plan
Informal Dance
Final Fall Term
All-Campus Dance
Set for December 7
GPA worries will be postponed
one more night as the University’s
second-year men plan their annual
Sophomore Informal for Decem
ber 7, the last all-campus social
event before the closed weekends
preceding final examinations.
Co-chairmen Pat Cloud and Len
Baliff called the first meeting of
their general committee yesterday
to gather ideas for the dance.
While the theme and orchestra
were not settled at this meeting,
these matters will definitely be
decided and ready for publication
after the Thanksgiving holidays,
the co-chairmen announced.
Chairmen of the various com
mittees to put over the dance in
clude: Bud Wimberly, floor wax
ing; Pete Smith, orchestra; Lil
lian Zidell and Clarence Terry,
program; Bob McDonald, and John
Busterud, finance; Frances Cox
and Janet Farnham, patrons; Bob
Whitely a*id Betty Jane Biggs,
publicity; Virginia Less and
Jacque-Jo Finney, refreshments;
John Powers and Jack Ripper,
cleanup; Janet Rieg and Don Shir
ley, decorations; Jim Banks, tick
ets; Frances Abraham and Jack
Nichols, posters.
Jay Allen in Europe
To Report on War
Jay Allen, former University of
Oregon student and the first for
eign correspondent in Spain to
send out news of the outbreak of
the Spanish revolution in 1936,
has recently been sent to Europe
as war correspondent for the
North American Newspaper Alli
ance.
Mr. Allen who has held jobs as
foreign correspondent on the Chi
cago Tribune, and other papers,
had been teaching and lecturing in
the East. When last heard from he
was at Lisbon, Portugal, accord
ing to George F. Turnbull, profes
, | sor of journalism.
Fellowship Today
Bible Fellowship will be held to
day at 4 o’clock in the YWCA bun
galow, according to YW president
: Jean Crites. Dr. J. R. Branton,
■ head of the department of religion,
■ will lead the discussion which will
1 be based on Isaiah. Anyone is wel
come to attend the meeting.
Lulu’s in town. Lulu Pali, Wai
anae Oahu, T. H., is now attend
ing the University of Oregon, and
she loves it! A sophomore and ma
jor in public school music, she
likes to sing. “I came to Oregon
for the music,” she explained. An
other kind of music she likes is
the beat of horses’ hoofs. She is
always just leaving for riding or
coming back. In Hawaii she rides
on her father’s sugar plantation.
In jodphurs and a bright shirt and
jacket, Lulu's dark witchery is ac
cented.
Flies, Too
“I’ll tell you what I love to do,”
she confided, “I love to fly over
the Islands; down below you can
see every shade of green; it's like
the Wizard of Oz country—a bril
liant emerald to a dark green. Oh,
I was talking about how I like it
here, wasn’t I?” she stopped her
self, “well, I like the boys—they’re
very nice,” she flicked her dusky
lashes, “Oh, and they dance well,
too, but in Honolulu,” she forgot
again, "we not only jitter-bug and
waltz, but we do the Conga, the
rhumba, and the hula.” Lulu is
adept at the hula, and performed
at Homecoming dance. “There’s a
peaceful rhythm in the islands,
"her brown eyes grew dreamy, “we
don’t hurry all the time like you
do, we take everything easily and
yet get a lot done, and there is
time for cold drinks and laughter
in the afternoon.”
Island Thanksgiving
“Oh! I am going to Portland
for Thanksgiving,” she announced,
“I am very excited about that; but
the things we have at home
Thanksgiving!” she smiled and her
dark eyes shot enthusiasm, “roast
pig and all sorts of native delica
cies—everything you can imagine,
and when we’re all through with
that we eat your turkey and Eng
lish plum pudding with holly in
the middle. When we're finished
we’re full and happy; that’s the
way life is over in the Islands,
full and happy.”
'Great Virgil'
Thrills 4,000
With Illusions
Ex-Oregon Student
Presents Varied
Routine of Magic
Oregon’s grandstand quarter
backs had a field day with all the
trimmings last night in McArthur
court as some 4000 of them
watched “The Great Virgil” per
form a two-hour routine of magic.
Concluding number on the pro
gram, and perhaps the most mysti
fying of the lot, was a coffin scene.
With Virgil ostensibly encased in
sP casket and set on fire by the
devil, his skeleton rattled before
the gasping audience — and back
went the devil’s hood to reveal its
occupant as the magician himself.
Boy Disappears
The famous Hindu rope trick
was performed with the aid of
blinding quantities of flafah powder.
A be-turbaned boy crawled part
way up an apparently self-sus
pending rope, clung there for a few
second, and disappeared in a blaze
of sudden light.
Simba, a five-months-old lion,
also exited in a synthetic explo
sion. Dangling in a basket a few
feet above the floor, he pawed
playfully to the cat-calls of the
audience until the explosion came,
and he went.
Escapes Box
The much-ballyhooed escape
from a packing case supplied by a
Eugene lumber company was exe
cuted slowly but seemed to satisfy.
Both Virgil and his woman assist
ant Julie escaped from a locked
and rope-bound trunk, one at a
time, and changed places without
opening the trunk.
Numerous small boys ,volubly
aided in preliminary acts, finding
concealed handkerchiefs and half
dollars, trembling in spite of them
selves when told to “put your neck
on the guillotine," and filling the
intermission with flying sail
planes.
Julie Suspended
Julie was suspended four feet
above the floor and a hoop appar
ently passed over her body to show
that there was no concealed wires.
She also unscrambled and named in
order a lengthy list of such unlike
ly objects as ukeleles and missies.
The University student selected as
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Alumni Name Date
For Campus Meeting
Alumni Holding company will
meet on the campus November 30,
according to an announcement by
J. O. Lindstrom, treasurer.
The corporation is composed of
all active members of the Univer
sity of Oregon Alumni association
and such other persons, usually
University officials, as may be ap
pointed by the president of the
association.
Included in its functions are the
solicitation or reception of gifts to
the University and taking charge
of the student union funds. The
latter sum, recently swelled by
53.64 from co-op store receipts do
nated by students, now totals $39,
801.09.
Officers of the company are Don
ald M. Erb, president; Burt Brown
Barker, vice-president; Karl W.
Onthank, secretary; and J. O. Lind
strom.
Guistina Solos First
In CPI Flying Course
By MILDRED WILSON
Alice Guistina, the first girl to
solo in this year’s civil pilot in
struction class, i3 really thrilled
about the whole thing. Alice denied
that she felt any fear on her first
; flight alone—instead it made hei
"feel good all over.”
“It’s really hard to explain th«
sensation you have until you'v«
gene through the same experi
ence,” she declared, "but of cours<
it’s very exciting.”
A student of Charlie Mears (sh<
took her first six and a half hours
under Joe Harrell), Alice had eight
and a half hours dual flying and
instruction before her instructor
said, "Alright, I’ll let you go up by
yourself now.”
She admits that flying, or any
thing connected with it, has always
been of interest to her, in fact she
has a collection of model airplanes,
and her ambition in the aeronautics
line is to be a “very good flyer,”
Alice remarked in conclusion.
“I’m especially looking forward
to the future when I can take ad
vanced flying and secure an instru
ment pilot’s rating.”
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(Courtesy of the Oregonian)
SECOND IN NATION
Pictured above are members of Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalistic fraternity, follow
ing initiation of three members November 10. Last night delegates of the Oregon chapter returned from
Des Moines, Iowa, and an annual SDX conference with word that the University chapter was honored as
second highest in the United States.
In the picture are: front row, from left, Palmer Hoyt, publisher of The Oregonian; Lyle M. Nelson,
president of the Oregon chapter; and Eric VV. Allen, dean of the school of journalism. Back row, from
left, M. ,J. Frey, business manager of The Oregonian; Dick Williams, undergraduate initiutc; Dick Neuberg
er, editorial writer for The Oregonian and Northwest author.
'Berkeley Square'
Ticket Sale Big
Guild Theater Cast
Prepares for Early
December Opening
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Advance ticket sale for the
Guild theater players production
of Berkeley Square,” scheduled to
make its campus bow December
4, 5, 6, and 7, is going very well,
according to Adrian Martin, busi
ness manager. Campus and Eu
gene women interested in Bundles
for Britain, Inc., an organization
devoted to sending warm clothing
to the fighting forces, and refu
gees, are helping with the advance
ticket sale for the premiere which
will be sponsored by them.
“Berkeley Square” by John L.
Balderston, was the Leslie How
ard stage and screen success sev
eral years ago. Instead of time
marching on, it marches back
wards with a novel theme. A young
American goes to London in mod
ern times to take over the title to
his ancestor’s mansion. There he
finds old letters, and diaries, and,
presto, he finds himself thrown
back among them.
The production is under the di
rection of Mrs. Ottilie Seybolt,
head of the drama division. The
players, and entirely new Guild
theater cast include: Edward Bur
tenshaw, Jeanette Harbert, Helene
Parsons, Betty Fiksdal, Jerry
Lakefish, Betty Jane Quigley, Pat
Taylor, Gene Edwards, Parker
MsNeil, Trudy Harland, Ray Dick
son, Jean Harper, Don Hargis, and
Patience Harland.
The box office at Johnson hall
will be open November 27. Tickets
may also be purchased from mem
bers of Bundles for Britain. For
information phone 3300, extension
217.
Library Announces
Vacation Schedule
Because of the Thanksgiving re
cess the library will be open differ
ent hours, M. H. Douglass, libra
rian, announced yesterday.
Closing at 6 o'clock tonight, it
will not open tomorrow. Friday and
Saturday hours will be from 9 until
6 o’clock, and Sunday from 2 to 9.
Reserve books for the weekend
may be taken after 11 o'clock this
morning and will be due at 8 Mon
day morning. Such loans will be
made only if the reserve depart
ment has a large number of copies
of a title. Today, Friday, and Sat
urday reserve books may be
checked out for overnight at 4:30
o’clock.
Army Conscripts
Nurse for Duty;
Infirmaiy Loses
Guys and gals who have been
in the infirmary in the past few
months will sorely miss the smil
ing face of Miss Leota Bradley,
who left Saturday to go to Ta
coma, Washington, for active
duty in the army. Even nurses
are conscripted!
Miss Holcomb is the new night
nurse, and Miss Pauline Saun
ders is the new day nurse.
Things reached such a state
in ward three late last night
that Barbara Crain and her
troupe of stuffed animals moved
over to a new cage.
Things are slipping in the in
firmary. Only an even dozen pa
tients. They include: Barbara
Crain, Florence McCoy, Shirley
X. Christalaw, Reba Rosenberg,
Eva Marquart, Martha Lampa,
Bruce Buehler, Porter Under
wood, Kieth Jandrall, Nathan
Ail, and Dick Stanton.
Art School Forms
Air Gun Company
Air-Gun, incorporated, is the
name of a new institution recently
established in the University of
Oregon art school.
For months, students in the art
school have been trying to figure
out how they could get an air-gun,
which is an instrument used in all
the better modern illustrating and
drawing.
Finally, at a meeting of the ar
chitect’s club, a corporation was
established, under the leadership of
Walter Brown, president of the
club, and shares of stock were sold
in the organization for 75 cents.
Enough money was raised by
this method to buy a good used air
gun costing $16.00.
Museum Displays
Works From China
Two portraits painted in China
by Miss Leonebel Kays Jacobs, ex
1907, are on display for the first
time in the lobby of the JVIurray
Warner art museflm. °
The first is a crayon portrait of
Wu Ke Ke, a Chinese princess,
wearing an elaborate, colorful
headdress and costume. The other
is of General J. W. N. Munthe, a
Norwegian employed by the Chi
nese government to train troops.
Miss Jacobs, who lives now in
New York City, has painted por
traits of Herbert Hoover, Mrs.
Calvin Coolidge, Alice Roosevelt
Longworth, Nicholas Longworth,
and Andrew Mellon.
The art museum will be closed
Wednesday through Sunday for
Thanksgiving vacation.
UO SDX Chapter
Second in Nation
Delegates Return
From Conference
In Des Moines
The University of Oregon chap
ter of Sigma Delta Chi, profes
s i o n a 1 journalism fraternity,
moved into the number two spot
among all college chapters in the
nation, Saturday at the annual
convention of the fraternity in
Des Moines, Iowa.
Returning delegates to the con
vention brought the news that the
Oregon group had been rated next
to the top of the field by the fra
ternity’s national officers. The
Northwester^ university chapter
was named first.
Chapters were judged on the ba
sis of efficiency and professional
work in the journalism field. The
number of members, effectiveness
of chapter activities, and outstand
ing work in the journalism field
were among the chief points con
sidered in rating chapters. The
University group rated fourth last
year.
Returning delegates were Bill
Norene and Lyle Nelson. Kent
Stitzer, and Bill Fendall, two oth
er delegates to make the trip, will
return later in the week.
Business Honorary
Added Ten Pledges
Ten students were pledged to
Phi Chi Theta, national business
women’s honorary, Tuesday even
ing in Gerlinger hall.
Laurita Christofferson, presi
dent, presided at the ceremony.
Those pledged are as follows: Wa
trine Spencer, Dorothy Jean John
son, Dorothy Walworth, Betty Per
ry, Kathleen Brady, Alice Trulling
er, DeLoraine Markwardt, Frances
Montag, Jeanne Lehman, and
Frances McCarty.
Exec Comm
Plans Offices
In McArthur
ASUO Chieftains
Suggest Juniors
Reconsider Code
The ASUO executive committee
at its weekly meeting yesterday
morning took care of the following
docket of business:
1. l^aid plans tor office organiza
tion for ASUO and AWS, so that
there will be a real center for stu
dent government in the Igloo.
2. Recommended to Junior Class
President Louie Torgeson that the
class of ’44 “reconsider” it two
amendments to the adopted model
constitution.
8. Approved a petition for per
mission to organize a flying club
on tlie campus.
Through the new organizational
move, the associated students’ of
fice in McArthur court will be re
arranged to contain desks for the
first vice-president and the secre
tary, as well as the ASUO presi
dent. AWS files will also be kept
in the Igloo office from now on.
Provision was made for hiring of
a part-time secretary for the stu
dent body president, and an office
force of around 10 activity-minded
students. Interested students are
asked to contact Marge McLean or
Betty Buchanan about possible of
fice work, Payne announced. Ap
plicants will be interviewed at an
exec board meeting soon.
John Cavanagh was appointed to
speak before members of the junior
class to ask their support in recon
sidering the class constitution. One
of the new amendments adopted
by the class, as outlined by Torge
son, permits the class president to
select election dates. Such a policy
would counteract a rule contem
plated by the ASUO heads, which
may place all class elections on the
same day as the student body bal
loting.
Faculty Members
To Speak at Meeting
Four faculty members of the
English department will address
the meeting of the Philological as
sociation of the Pacific coast No
vember 22 and 23, at Berkeley,
California, Dr. Clarence V. Boyer,
dean of the college of arts and let
ters, announced Tuesday. Other
staff members are expected to at
tend.
Those who will speak, and their
subjects, include: Dr. F. D. Walk
er, professor of English, “Revi
sion and Expurgation in Writings
of Mark Twain’s Innocents
Abroad”; Dr. Hoyt Trowbridge,
assistant professor, “Bishop Hurd’s
True Plan of Criticism”; R. V.
Mills, instructor, “The Tarnished
Age—A Study of the Sources of
Bret Harte’s ‘Story of a Mine’”;
and C. A. Fee, instructor, "Chin
ook Jargon—A Preliminary Sur
vey.”
Ode to Toikey Day
Holiday coming,
Joy, oh joy;
Now I go home
To my fish and poi.
Only one thing
Which gives me sorrow—
Who's ’lectric shaver
Can I borrow?
'Eaty-quett'for Those
Wh oA void th e Neck
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By BOB WHITELY
j “Shoot the turkey to me Throck
morton.”
It won’t be long now before
friends, relatives or the unexpected
guest will gather around the table
meatily eyeing the roast turkey
and silently praying that they
won’t get the neck, or some such
part of the bird’s anatomy.
In the past it was customary to
let the head of the table daintily
pick what part of the turkey he
thought best would suit the per
sonality and tastes of the individ
ual. Invariably one would wind up
with either the gizzard or the liver,
if he were under 12 years old.
'rimes Change
But, thank golly, times have
changed, and you too can demand
your favorite part of King Turkey,
and what’s more, get it—if you go
about it in the proper manner. It
might take a little bloc organizing
with the heads of the house, con
I cessions here and there, but
! through fair means or foul, there's
! no excuse why you shouldn’t get
the drumstick, too. Aunt Abigail
| Spratt has been getting that for
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