VOLUME XLII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1941
NUMBER 55
U. OF 0. LIBRARY
CAMPUS
DEAR POP
Dads’ Day Letter
Contest Launched
Winning Students to Receive Oreganas
Autographed by President Erb? Webfoots
Will Send Prize Invitations to Dads
A contest designed to find the perfect all-around letter to urge
Oregon fathers to the campus February 7, 8, and 9 for the annual
Dads’ day ceremonies was launched yesterday at a meeting of the
Dads' day committee.
The University boy and girl writing the best letters will each receive
a 1941 Oregana, autographed by President Donald M. Erb. Winning
'BOBCAT' PLANS ...
Senior Ball Sales
Drive to Start
Today in Houses
_ /
First Formal of '41
Brains Campaign
With 500 Ducats
Tickets for the senior ball went
on sale 500 strong- today in campus
living organizations. The tickets
for the dance will sell for $2 at the
gate, $1 for singles, $1.50 to sen
iors who have class cards, and
$1.75 for pre-dance sales.
The first formal of the year, the
dance will bring Bob Crosby and
his 20-piece Dixie swing band to
the campus directly from Califor
nia.
Seniors plan something extra in
decorations for the dance, their
last social function as the class of
’41, and hace contracted the Allied
Arts studios of Portland to con
vert the Igloo into a suitable place
for their final fling.
In order to take advantage of
the reduced rate, seniors with class
cards must purchase tickets at
the Educational Activities office
in McArthur court.
'Y' Advisoru Board
Named by Cabinet
Two members of the faculty,
two students, and two Eugene citi
zens were nominated by the YMCA
student executive cabinet Wednes
day to be members of the “Y’s” j
advisory board which has as its!
main business determining the
budget of the organization.
Assistant Professor Gordon
{ Wright of the history department,
and Carl F. Kossack, instructor in
mathematics, Dan Bacot, vice
president of the “Y,” Bob Carlson,
life philosophy commission chair
man of the group, Hart Larsen,
and Melvin O. Dahl were the nom
inees. The last two named are
prominent Eugene business men.
Also announced at the meeting
was the appointment of Bob Lovell
as worship chairman of YMCA
here. Milt Small, Leonard Farr,
Bacot, and Lovell were chosen to
represent the organization on the
University student religious coun
cil. Paul Sutley, director, an
nounced that John Stevenson
would make an appearance on the
campus this year, representing the
national student volunteer mis
sionary movement.
Freshmen will elect officers for
* the frosh YMCA commission at
its next meeting, Wednesday, Jan
uary 15, states Paul Sutley, direc
tor of the campus “Y.”
Dr. B. Earle spoke at the com
mission’s first meeting Wednesday
night, presenting the first of a
series of reports on several de
nominations of churches. Dr.
Parker, Methodist pastor in Eu
gene, told the group of the or
ganization and purposes of his
church. More of these explanatory
meetings will be held regularly
throughout the term, Mr. Sutley
reports.
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Placement Exam Set
The placement examination
for all undergraduates entering
this term who have not taken
the test at another school of
the state system will be given
Saturday morning, January 11,
at 9 o’clock in 207 Chapman.
The examination is required for
matriculation.
letters will probably be printed in
the Emerald, it was announced.
Deadline for the contest has been
tentatively set at January 25.
Copies of winning letters will be
printed and distributed to campus
living organizations, whose mem
bers will send them home as invi
tations to their dads to attend the
ceremonies.
The committee asks that letters
be general and informative. They
suggest that contestants play up
the features of the weekend, such
as the dedication of the gates, the
banquet and the Oregon State bas
ketball game.
Highlight of the weekend will
be the dedication of the gates on
Eleventh street at the west end
of the campus, according to Stan
Staiger, Dads’ day chairman.
There will probably be a parade
through the gates, south to Thir
teenth street.
Plans are now under way for the
dads’ banquet to be held Saturday,
February 8, probably in Gerlinger.
Staiger said that Jim Rathbun,
Order of the "O” president, is try
ing to arrange the banquet so that
fathers of lettermen may all sit
together.
ORATRESSES...
Coeds Present
First Symposium
Elva Jane South,
Jane Hooker Talk
At Junction City
Two members of the women’s
symposium group, Elva Jane South
and Jane Hooker, made the initial
symposium appearance of the
current season Monday in a dem
onstration symposium before the
student body at the Junction City
union high school. The discussion,
based upon research done by the
entire group fall term, was en
titled “These Modern Women.”
“Seventy per cent of the national
wealth, 85 per cent of the private
wealth and 72 per cent of the buy
ing power of the nation is con
trolled by women,” Miss Hooker
said. She went on to say, “the num
ber of women criminals has tripled
in the last ten years, while the
number of women who have com
mitted suicide is twice that of ten
years ago.”
Miss South presented the other
side of the picture. She pointed out
that women are indispensable to
our modern business, social and
professional life. She believes that
thousands of women are making
important contributions to the
world today.
After a series of appearances in
the Willamette valley, members of
the group are scheduled for pro
grams in various communities of
the state. A round-table discus
sion will be broadcast from radio
station KBND in Bend later this
term.
Sour Grapes No. 4
We’ve got some simple statistics
We’d like for you to see
Perhaps 'twill set you wondering
How a certain event can be.
At the nickel hop there were eight
times
When a guy was asked for dough.
If 40 cents was all he could pay
How can this event be so ?
I wish I could find a math teach
er
Who could tell me just plain pal
to pal
How in the dickens the Pi Phis
could rate
53 cents per gal.
—J.W.S.
TOP HOPPERS". ■.
Pi Phis Take
Winning Cup
In Nickel Hop
Thetas Run Close
Second; Kappas
Win Third Place
After a close race last night, the
Pi Beta Phis, two times the win
ner of the Nickel Hop cup in the
past, again won back their honor
with an average of 53 cents to a
girl.
Kappa Alpha Theta, last year’s
winner came in second with an av
erage of 44 cents to the girl, and
Kappa Kappa Gamma dre\v third
place with a rate of 41 cents to a
girl.
Total $213.34
The total profit of the hop was
$213.34, according to the dean of
women’s office. It will immediate
ly go into the AWS scholarship
fund.
Betty Buchanan, president of the
AWS, announced yesterday that
probably there would be a formal
presentation of the cup to the Pi
Phis during their dinner hour.
Last year’s silver loving cup
which has been in the possession
of the Kappa Alpha Thetas is now
down at J. A. Hoffman’s jewelers,
being engraved with the name of
this year’s winner, beneath the
name of last year's winner, Kappa
Alpha Theta.
Pi Phis Get Cup
The cup will now remain in the
possession of Pi Beta Phi until
next year’s Nickel Hop when it
will again be in the midst of com
petition.
If the Pi Phis win it again next
year they will keep it another year,
if not the name of next year's
winner will be engraved beneath
their name, and the cup will be
transferred to the winner’s house.
Tentative Schedule
For ROTC Reported
Until further notice the military
classes meeting for drill on Thurs
day afternoon will form according
to the following schedule:
Companies A, B, and C will form
regularly with rifles on the drill
field, weather permitting.
In inclement weather A com
pany will form with rifles in the
drill shed; B company will meet
with rifles in the unfinished por
tion of the PE building; and C
company will gather with their
rifles in the west stadium.
Meanwhile companies E, F, and
G will assemble as follows: fresh
men in Villard hall, sophomores in
room 101 PE building, juniors in
room 2 in the ROTC building, and
the seniors in Villard hall. At 1:50
p.m. the freshmen of companies
A, B, and C will be marched to
Villard hall. The remaining mem
bers of these companies will report
to the above mentioned places.
From now on the junior ROTC
officers will report in their new
fully equipped uniforms which
were recently delivered. The new
uniforms have been changed to
comply with new war specifica
tions by changing to a by-3wing
back.
Infirmary Sign
Shoos Visitors;
Sick List Grows
The “No Visiting” sign is still
posted at the campus infirmary
and the tough thing about it is
that they mean exactly what
they say. You can’t even go to
the open doors to try and get a
bit of news. It seems that the
pill palace is darned near full
again, so that's their ruling—
and boy, do they stick to it!
About the only person that
you could possibly see is Miss
Florence Schweitzer, who really
treats all visitors royally—that
is if you haven't got a cold.
Among those present: Don
Selby, Billie Wade, Bernice
Wheeler, Dorothy Gelman, Edna
Trout, Betty Boe, Jane Axtell,
Eadie Bush, Marty Glover, Elbe
Engdahl, Thelma Nelson, Ruth
Merritt, Mary Beltz, Gerald Bow
erly, Verne Sellin, Ted Goodwin,
Ted Philip, Les Ready, Jim Hoo
ver, Bob Roberts, Harry Berg
tholdt, Bob Lovell, Ernie Wilson,
Ed Leonard, and John O'Brien.
TOMORROW...
'Oscar' to Star
At WAA Dance
Saturday Night
Snow Hero to Rule
Over 'Wonderland'
At Gerlinger Hop
Oregon’s number one "hero” will
be among ttu first arrivals at the
WAA “Winter Wonderland” dance
to be held in Gerlinger Saturday
night. The “star” of the informal
I hop will be “six foot two and eyes
of blue.” Oscar is his name—but
don’t get excited, girls! His heart
is as cold as ice, for Oscar is a
snowman!
His gigantic composition creat
ed quite a problem for the WAA
girls, for Oregon mist has been a
great deal more abundant than
Oregon snow. But with that “nev
er-say-die” spirit, the committee
has conquered this obstacle, and
Oscar Snowman is now in his pri
vate box on the stage, ready for
the dancers to arrive.
Doors will open at 9, and Eddie
Gipson’s men will be tuned up and
ready to play at that time.
KORE Broadcasts
'Cossack' Records
On Request Program
Anyone desiring to hear a pre
view of the famous Don Cossack
chorus, which will appear on the
stage of McArthur court next
Tuesday night, may call and re
quest any of the four Cossack re
cordings which are on file at the
Eugene radio station KORE, it
was announced from the educa
tional activities department.
Numbers available at the studio
are “The Volga Boatman,” “In Der
Kirche,” and excerpts from the
“Overture 1812" and from the
“Coronation Scene.” Request pro
grams are scheduled as follows:
6 to 7:45 a.m., 1:45 to 3, and from
midnight to 1 a.m. KORE is
reached by calling number 3.
“Are those sun spots?" asked
the beginning student in physical
science survey Wednesday, as she
looked through the Evergreen ob
servatory telescope for the first
time—at the moon .
QUEENS VIE
Valentine Girl
Candidates
'Watch Birdie'
Other Nominees
To Come Before
Camera Today
Forty-four coeds, one of whom
will represent the University of
Oregon in the section of "Ideal
Valentine Girls" of major colleges
and universities in Life magazine,
stepped before the camera at the
news bureau yesterday. Over 90
pictures were taken of the candi
dates.
These pictures will serve as the
basis for the selection of the six
or seven finalists today by a cam
pus committee of seven photo
graphic experts. A few of the can
didates who could not come yes
terday will be photographed early
today and will have their pictures
included in the final selection.
The finalists will be named in
tomorrow’s Emerald. They will be
called for additional photographs
upon which the final decision of
the committee will be based.
Most of the committee was pres
ent at the news bureau yesterday.
The unanimous opinion of the
group, as expressed by Alumni
Secretary Elmer Fansett, was:
"The University of Oregon really
has some pretty girls.”
PREPARE TO AID
UO to Contribute
To War Relief
AlLCampus Drive
To Raise Money
To Start January 25
An all-campus drive to raise
money for the World’s Student
Service fund will start about Jan
uary 28, according to Co-chairmen
Janet Morris and Bob Lovell.
Campaign procedure to raise
nickles and dimes from Oregon
students for impoverished war vic
tims in Europe and China was
mapped out at the first meeting
of the fund promotion committee
yesterday in Gerlinger.
To Save Leadership
The money donated by the Web
foot campus will help to accom
plish five purposes, the chairman
stated. It will assist in the salvag
ing of student leadership in the
East and in Europe. It will help
train this leadership now and after
the war. It will promote Christian
fellowship, spread good will among
the students of the world, and lay
the foundation for post-war coop
eration among the nations of the
world.
Committee members working on
the drive include: Donna Ray, ex
excutive secretary; Pat Salisbury,
education; Betty Workman, pro
motion; Ray Schrick and Betty
Jane Biggs, publicity; Bob Calk
ins and Lois Nordling, general fi
nance; Ray Packouz, John Bust
erud, Gordon Wright, Dr. J. R.
Bran ton, faculty solocitations;
Ruth Hartley and Les Anderson,
tag day sale; Tiger Payne and
Barbara Pierce, dessertless dinner;
Phyllis Sanders, Jim Schiller, din
ner; Margaret DeCou, high school
groups and church leagues; Gene
vieve Working, college religions.
READY TO GREET THE PUBLISHERS
Photo by Jimmie Leonard
Miss I.ynette Davis, school of journalism secretary, asks Charles M. Hulten, assistant professor of
journalism, to take a look at the program of the Oregon Press conference, which begins here today.
The meet, sponsored by the school of journalism, ends tomorrow night. In the picture are, from left:
Harry Schenk, assistant professor of journalism and manager of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers’
association; Mr. Hulten; Krle W. Allen, dean of the school of journalism, and Miss Davis.
Publishers Convene
On IJO Campus Today
MONEY RAISERS ...
Oregana Names
Business Staff
Official Appointees
Receive Positions
From Williams
The appointment of an Ore
gana business staff, the first to be
officially formed this year, was
announced yesterday by Dick Wil
liams, business manager. Although
all the new appointees worked
with Williams last term this is the
first time they have held a speci
fic title or position.
Doug David and Emerson Page
were named co-advertising man
agers of the Oregana and Bill On
will work with them on the puo
licity side. The position of circula
tion manager was awarded to Ed
Blumenthal.
Three girls, Jean Routt, Bette
Workman, and Joan Goodrum will
work on collections.
“After January 17 the yearbook
will cost $5.50 and there will be
no assurance, after that time, of
any student’s securing a copy,”
Williams said.
The Oregana may be ordered
either at Johnson hall or the Ore
gana office in McArthur court.
Three Flyers Take
Last CPT Test Flight
Three additional civilian pilot
training flyers under the CAA
have taken their final test flight
and have completed the necessary
number of solo hours for a private
pilot’s license, according to the
campus CAA office.
Those who passed the flight tests
were Alice Giustina, student of Joe
Harrell; Bill Sorenson, student of
Steve Hathaway; and Amie Thyng,
student of Chet McLean. Fourteen
Oregon students had soloed pre
viously.
Press Conclave Draws UO Grads
Among the Oregon newspaper
men, arriving here for the 23rd
annual Press Conference, are many
University of Oregon graduates
who have “made good" in the field
of journalism.
Returning press men include
Rex Tussing, city editor of the
Grants Pass Courier. Rex was
associate editor of the Emerald in
his senior year, 1930-31, under Ed
itor Vinton Hall. He was the first
winner of the Turnbull-Hall plaque,
awarded yearly to the outstanding
senior on the Emerald staff.
Merle R. Chessman, editor of the
Astorian-Budget, 1£^9 grad, is
i here, with his son-in-law, Bob Lu
: cas, city editor, who was editor of
1 the Emerald in 1935-36.
AP Men Here
Joe P. Pigney, who wa3 sports
editor of the Emerald in 1928-29,
and is now on the staff of the As
sociated Press in Portland, is here
with his chief, Floyd W. Lansdon.
Henry N. Fowler, editor of the
Emerald 26 years ago and now as
sociate editor of the Bend Bulletin
and member of the board of direc
tors of the Oregon Newspaper
Publishers’ association, arrived
yesterday in time for the directors’
meeting.
Last Year’s Head
Mr. and Mrs. Harris Ellsworth
of the Roseburg News-Review,
who were together on the business
side of the Emerald and the Lem
on Punch, in the early 1920's, are
here for the conference. Harris was
the first field manager of the Ore
gon Newspaper Publishers’ asso
ciation and was president of the
Oregon Press conference last year.
Helen Dougherty, now Mrs. Ells
worth, was his best ad-solicitor in
those campus publication days.
Giles L. French, who years ago,
about the turn of the 1920’s, used
to be one of the denizens of
Friendly hall, then a men’s hall of
} residence, is here as publisher of
the Sherman County Journal at
Moro and president of the ONPA.
Mr. French recently was re-elected
| to the house of representatives in
the Oregon legislature. He is a
cousin of Dr. D. R. French of the
economics faculty.
’40 Grad to Come
Larry Quinlin, journalism grad
uate of last year, who for several
months was a member of the Reg
ister-Guard staff and is now on
the Lebanon Express, is expected
to arrive Saturday morning as a
representative of the Lebanon pa
per.
Homer Graham, editor of the
Port Orford Post, and Mrs. Gra
ham (Jessie Eileen Heider) are
here for the conference. Married;
in the late summer of 1939, their;
graduation year, they started a
twice-a-week paper in Sitka, Alas
ka, and for the last half-year have
been getting out a good-looking'
country paper at Port Orford.
GOING TO PRESS TODAY ...
Oregon Journalists
Descend on Eugene
For Annual Conclave
Registration Starts at 9:15 in Journalism
Building; Members to Attend WSC Game
Following Banquet at Osburn Hotel
Bv NEVA HAIGHT
Registration for the 23rd annual Oregon Press conference will start
today at 9:15 a.m. in the school of journalism. Representatives from
all over the state had already begun to arrive yesterday with the open
ing of the conference by a meeting of the board of directors and budget
committee of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers' association at 3 p.m.
at tne Eugene notei.
Richard B. Dudman of Palo Al
to, Cal., associate in The Front
Door Ballot Box, was the first of
the speakers to arrive in Eugene.
Mr. Dudman is substituting for his
associate, Dan E. Clark IT, who
was called to Baltimore to install
thei- system of opinion testing in
the Baltimore News-Post. He will
speak on “Testing Trends in Pub
lic Opinion,” at the morning ses
sion of thg conference.
Luncheon at Anchorage
After a luncheon at the Anchor
age, at which Charles M. Hulten,
assistant professor of journalism,
will act as toastmaster, the after
noon session will begin. A good
part of the session will be taken
up in a discussion panel on, “The
Press and Public Opinion: What
Does the Public Want? What
Should the Newspaper Give?”
Participating in the discussion wdl
be: Frank Jenkins, publisher, edi
tor, and manager of the Klamath
News and Herald, chairman; mem
bers—Giles L. French, publisher of
the Sherman County Journal; Pal
mer Hoyt, publisher of the Ore
gonian; Sheldon F. Sackett, pub
lisher of the Coos Bay Times; Don
ald J. Sterling, managing editor of
the Oregon Journal; William M.
Tugman, managing editor of the
Eugene Register-Guard.
Morse on Labor Standards
The annual banquet will be held
at the Hotel Osburn at 5:30 p.m.
and the program will include a
talk by Dean Wayne L. Morse, of
the law school on “The Adminis
trative Features of the Fair Labor
Standards Act,” and a compli
mentary request appearance of the
Eugene Gleemen, led by John
Stark Evans. Dean Eric W. Allen
of the school of journalism will be
toastmaster
Tonight, as a special added at
traction, the conference members
will be the guests of the ASUO
at the WSC - Oregon basketball
game at 8 p.m. in McArthur court.
Faculty Holds Tea
Faculty women’s tea was held
Wednesday afternoon in Gerlinger
hall. About 125 women attended.
Mrs. Ralph Huestis, wife of Pro
fessor Huestis of the zoology de
partment, was in charge of the re
freshments.
GRATIS
Band to Present
Concert Sunday
Free Performance
In Music School
Set for 3 o'clock
The University of Oregon band,
which will play a free concert in
the music auditorium Sunday af
ternoon at 3 o’clock, now boasts
more than 500 members, it was an
nounced Friday afternoon by John
H. Stehn, conductor.
Although a large percentage of
these players are newcomers to the
ranks this year, all have had pre
vious experience in at least one
band or orchestra, Mr. Stehn said.
Since opening of school last fall
the group has had considerable
practice, both in rehearsals and at
the games, and the first concert
performance of the 1940-41 school
year should find the band in good
form.
Registration Totals
3338 at Last Count
Eighty-four students registered
yesterday to bring the total to
date to 3338, comparing with the
3369 enrolled at the corresponding
time last year.
Deadline for registration or the
addition of new courses is noon
Saturday. January 18. Complete
totals and a breakdown showing
the various sex and age groups
will be released by the registrar’s
office after the books close.
New Pledges Listed
Recent pledgings announced by
the Dean of Men’s office include:
Bill Bortels, Cottage Grove, Alpha
Tau Omega; David Holmes Jr.,
Medford, and Richard C. Bodwell,
Spokane, Phi Delta Theta; Stanley
Skillicorn, San Jose, and George S.
Ross, Hillsborough, Cal., Sigma
Nu; Ralph Tarola, Portland, and
Pat O’Regan, Seattle, Sigma Al
pha Epsilon.