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EDIT PAGE: Students Should See Democracy In Operation VOLUME XLII U. OF 0. LIBRARY 1 CAMPUS SPORTS PAGE: Duck Boxers Face U.S. Champs; Duck, Boxers... i UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1941 NUMBER 61 Mad Webfoots Thump Beavers, 41-31 'OPENING' PROGRAM TOLD Speedy Tempo Slated • For Gate Presentaion On Dads’ Day Program Grand March to Library Over Proposed Walk Scheduled to Follow Speeches; Coat of Paint to Shine on Completed'Gates AUTHOR... UO Student Wins Magazine Prize , George Hart Rates Third Place Award With Short Story By LYNN JOHNSON George Hart, freshman in arts and letters at the University, has experienced early success in the field of writing, it was learned to day. Hart is the author of a short story, “Johnny on the Spot,” ap pearing in the February issue of “The Open Road for Boys,” nation ally-known boys’ magazine, and is one of the three best stories of the year submitted by high school stu dents to the publication. Pens Racket Yarn The prize-winning story was written by Hart last year while attending high school at his home in Santa Ana, California. Hart's tale concerns an exciting episode in California's war on rackets. After being judged the best work representing the school, his manuscript was submitted to the editors of the boys’ magazine where it underwent the same crit ical examination as that given the offerings of professional writers. After being compared with stories received from all parts of the na tion, Hart's was selected third best, and he received payment for rate paid to experienced writers. Salem Boy First The Pacific coast carried away honors for the contest with an other winner, the first place one, Dan Sellard of Salem, Oregon. Sel lard’s “Jingle Wears His Spurs” appeared in the June, 1940 issue; second place was won by Anthony F. R. Palmieri of Elmira, New York with his “Strange Destiny,” { printed in the same issue. Eleven young authors received honorable mention for their work from schools scattered from Utah to Connecticut and New Hamp shire to Mississippi. Education Society To Meet Monday J. A. Ho'.aday, secretary of Phi Delta Kappa, national education honorary, announced yesterday that a meeting of especial inter est to students would he held at 7:30 Monday evening in room 105 P. E. building. Principal speaker will be Fran ces Neer, member of the Salem y school system and visiting instruc tor in education during the sum mer school sessions. He will speak on “Economic Security for Teach ers,” and will treat such subjects as salaries, tenure of office, and pensions. Immediately following this speech a panel consisting of S. E. Williamson, instructor in educa tion, and Francis Wise and Mel bourne Davis, students, will lead a discussion on the teaching field. Meeting is open to the public. Vernstrom Quizzed Over Air Thursday Roy Vernstrom, editor of Old Oregon, alumni magazine, was in terviewed over KOAC Thursday night by Dick Walker, senior at Oregon. Dick questioned Roy on what f Old Oregon represented, the num ber of alums at Oregon, and the purpose of the magazine. An official dedication note from Dads’ day speakers plus an infor mal air of martial music will set a speedy tempo for presentation of Oregon's new dads’ gates, Karl Onthank, dean of personnel, an nounced last night. Program for the occasion, which will highlight this year’s weekend celebration, has already been ten tatively outlined and will include a "grand march" through the new gates, along a proposed walk from there to the library, and up to the campus center. Swing Gates Open Speakers include officers of the University of Oregon Dads and Tiger Pavne, student body presi dent. After short addresses the two will perform the "honors” by officially swinging open the fath ers' present to the University cam pus. present to the University campus. "The gates will be completed by that time and finished in a shining coat of paint," Dean Onthank stat ed. “The ceremonies will start im mediately following adjournment of the 11:30 business meeting.” Swim Meets Booked Fred A. Cuthbert, campus land scape architect, who has planned landscaping for the gate setting, will also be present, as well as the architect and designer responsible for the construction project. Dean Onthank announced an other feature of the three-day dads’ program, the freshman and varsity swimming meets Saturday afternoon. He also revealed that the highlight of the Saturday eve ning program will be presentation of Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew,” by the Oregon drama de partment. Pot and Quill Contest Will Close Mondag The current creative writing membership contest for undergrad uate women, sponsored by Pot and Quill, women’s creative writing honorary, will close next Monday evening, January 20, as previous ly announced. All material should be submitted by that date to Mrs. Eric W. Allen, 2239 Birch lane. Any type of creative writing may be handed in—short stories, novels, essays, or poetry—but it is requested that shorter works be in sufficient quantity to make judging fair and complete. Manu scripts should be typed or written legibly in ink. A $5 first prize and other prizes of membership in the honorary will be awarded those considered sat isfactory by the organization. Three CAA Students Complete Solo Hours Three civilian pilot training stu dents under the CAA recently took their final flight tests and have completed the number of solo hours necessary for a private pi lot’s license, making a total of 20 students who have met these requirements. The students who soloed since Thursday are Lem Putnam, stu dent of George Justman, and Ray Foster and Paul Gilbert, students of Steve Hathway. Campus Calendar Sigma Xi meeting postponed; from Tuesday to Wednesday at 8 p.m. in room 207, Chapman. Alpha Delta Sigma convention committees will meet today at the College Side at 1:15 p. m. All committeemen are expected to be j present. ROMANTIC LEAD Bettie Jane Quigley will appear as Helen Pettigrew, romantic lead in “Berkeley Square.” Members of the cast will present the play in Reedsport January 27 and in Marshfield January 28. Student's Flips Make Pulse Fly At Infirmary Rome fun!— Just the other day, one of our more sun-tanned Californians went up to the campus infirm ary to get the regular health check necessary before entering school. After doing the custom ary knee bends and jumping around to get his heart in circu lation, he proceeded to do all the rest of his repertoire of acro batics and health exercises, much to the amusement of the staff. By the time the pulse was tak en, he was near the point of exhaustion—and then blamed the high pulse on the pretty nurses. That’s somethin’. Still no news from upstairs— Patients include: Don Selby, Gerald Bowerly, William Sim mons, Cathey Williams, Ross Gearheart, Robert Herdon, Ja son Hervin, James Smith, Fred Erickson, John Erickson, Ralph Shirley, Vivian Byers, Mary Beltz, Adele Canada, Frances Oliver, Bessie Kamarad, Mar garet Raurensky, and Betty Nimi. Gleemen Concert Open to UO Students All University students will be admitted free of charge to the concert presented by the Eugene Gleemen in McArthur court next Thursday evening at 8:15, it was announced from the educational activities offices yesterday. Ad mittance on activities cards for students has been arranged by the educational activities board. MOVING DRAMA Oregon Theater Guild Hits Road With Prize Plag Revised Cast Takes 'Berkeley Square' On Tour Next Week The Guild Theater players’ "Berkeley Square" will start its road tour January 27. The itiner ary so far includes Reedsport and Marshfield and negotiations are under way with other Oregon communities, it was announced yesterday by Adrian Martin, busi ness manager. The first performance will be January 27 at the Reedsport high school under the auspices of the Reedsport - Gardiner Lions club; the second, January 28, at the Marshfield high school, sponsored by the Marshfield band boosters. The revised cast includes: Jean nette Harbert as the maid, Ed Burtenshaw as Tom Pettigrew, Helene Parsons as Kate Pettigrew', Bettie Jane Quigley as Helen Pet tigrew', Betty Fiksdal as The Lady Anne Pettigrew, Jerry Lakefisli as Mr. Throstle, Jim W. Parsons as the ambassador. Others include: Mrs. Ottilie T. Seybolt as Mrs. Barwick, Parker McNeil as Peter Standish, Patience Harland as both Marjorie Frant and the Duchess of Devonshire, Ray Dickson as Major Clinton, Jeannette Harbert as Miss Barry more, Jean B. Harper as Lord Stanley, and George F. Smith as H.R.H. the Duke of Cumberland. Newcomer to the cast is Jim W. Parsons. He will be remembered for his performances in "Idiot’s Delight,” "Bury the Dead,” and others. The entire production is under the direction of Mrs. Ottilie T. Seybolt, head of the drama divi sion. Sets that will accommodate a larger stage are now under con struction under the supervision of Horace W. Robinson, assistant pro fessor of drama. BA School Offering New Math Course Elementary business mathemat tics and rapid calculation is the new course offered in the BA school this term by L. C. Ball, as sociate professor of accounting and commercial education. The class is still open to students who are deficient in commercial business arithmetic computation as applied to accounting, Mr. Ball reports, and he would like to have more enter. The class meets at 8 a.m. Tues days and Thursdays and gives no credit, he states. IN HOWARD ROLE Parker McNeil will play Peter Standisli, a role made famous by Leslie Howard, when the Guild theater players present “Berkeley Square" In Reedsport January 27 and Marshfield January 28. Publicity Program Gets New Director Earbarajean Tuttle has been put in temporary charge of the news book publicity program in place of Jean Doris Griffith, former chairman who has resigned accord ing to the educational activities office. Nonda Fay Pirtle will as sist Miss Tuttle in clipping and pasting news for the publicity books. The scrap books are used to keep a record of all publicity and to encourage more and better pub licity by furnishing a complete re ference library for background. A special volume is provided for Greater Artists series, Emerald, Oregana, forensics, WAA and AWS. Pi Delta Phi Boosts Roll; 17 More Added Pi Delta Phi, French honorary, elected 17 new members at their business meeting Wednesday ev ening. The French honorary requires a two-point accumulative in sub jects other than French, and an average of three point in French. Those elected were Emma Ver durmen, Erma Taylor, Flora Doug las, Louis Richter, Tamara Varm, Bill Bishop, Elaine Ferry, Betty Plankington, Milton Small, Adele Canada, Marian Christensen, Clare thel Roseland, Edith Oglesby, Mary Hughes, Ruth Sprecher, and Ab bie White. W. A. Roecker, graduate assist ant in German, was elected a spe cial member of the society. CIRCLES UNDER THEIR EYES BCZS^iSIl Student and instructor form the center of a geometric pattern as their basic, training plane roars over Randolph field, the “West Point of the Air.” NIGHT 'KRAWLERS Advertisers Set 'Posters' Motif For Annual Hop Krazy Kopy Krawl Will Lower Ceiling In Gerlinger Hall Newspapers strung' on wires will bring the ceiling of Gerlinger “clown to earth" as campus swirg sters get down to dancing at Al pha Delta Sigma's Krazy Kopy Krawl, annual campus dance, Feb ruary 7, Fred May, general chair man of the men’s advertising hon orary, announced yesterday. As part of the exhibition of high ly-styled advertising to be feat ured in the event’s decorations, several billboard-sized 24-sheet posters arrived yesterday. They will be strung on the bal’ony or on the back of the stage, May re ported. Woodall Decorates Other arrangements which will get Gerlinger hall “in the mood" for the advertising theme w'll be arranged for by Raloh Woodall. Woodall has designed posters for several other camnus rIan"es. Favors will be distributed to dancers in the form of gum, cig arettes, Life Savers, candy, and breakfast cereals, with Hal Elliott in charge. Band Named Soon Last year's Krawl featured the music of Maurie Binford’s orches tra. A novel admission price sys tem was used- boys bringing bru nettes were charged 99 cents, those with blond dates, 89, and red haired girls reduced their dates’ admission charge to 79 cents. No admission prices have been re leased this year. Orchestra will be announced soon, May said. After the Ball Is Over When you greet your friends this morning Saying, “Wasn't Crosby grand?”, They might answer “We sure liked The band from Dixieland.” I wonder just how many, Course they wouldn’t let you know, Refer not to the Senior ball, But to the downtown show. —J.W.S. Co-op Tea Features Speech by Jameson Cooperative houses on the cam pus are holding a tea Sunday af ternoon at 5:30 in Gerlinger hall. Dr. S. H. Jameson, professor of sociology, will speak on coopera tive living after which will follow a short musical program. Guests will include, President and Mrs. Donald M. Erb, Dr. and Mrs. C. L. Schwering, Mrs. Alice B. Macduff, assistant dean of wo men, Miss Mozelle Hair, head of correspondence study, Dr. and Mrs. Virgil D. Earl, dean of men, and Dr. and Mrs. Karl W. Onthank, dean of personnel administration. 29-Year-Old Pen Lost or Strayed; Reward Offered For 29 years, Prof J K. Bond of the business administration school kept in working condition the black Waterman pen given him by a high school class which he taught in Gilliam county. Last week, after signing over $1000 for the YMCA to the Uni versity loan fund, he mislaid the writing instrument and can’t lo cate it now. To the person who finds it, the professor is offer ing a suitable reward for its re turn. Although the pen has had re pairs and replacements in cer tain parts, it is still the origin al jet black pen, a little faded now, which was given to him when he left his teaching posi tion at the Eastern Oregon coun ty high school in 1912. Borcher Sparks Duck Offensive In Second Period Oregon Hoopmen Pull Scoring Comeback In Last Half of Rough Oregon State Brawl; After Trailing, 14-12 as First Canto Ends — By BOB FLAVELLE, Sport Co-Editor CORVALLIS. Ore., Jan. 17—(Special to Oregon Daily Emerald) — Led by “Wild Bill” Borcher. a fighting mad Oregon team took all that Slats G il’s rough Oregon State quintet had to offer for 25:50 seconds of last night’s northern division contest at Corvallis, then bounced back with a furious running attack to completely stampede the hither to unaeicaica weavers oy a score of 41-31. Bnrcher Runs Wild Tt was the “wild man” that was responsible for the Webfoots’ re turn to the win column as he lived up to his monicker and took com plete command of the backboard situation while throwing' in a to tal of 10 points in a second half scoring splurge. Trai’ing at half time by a 14-12 score, Coach Hobby Hobson’s men | came out for the second half with I murder in their eyes and before | six minutes had passed. Town I send cast off with a mid-floor how itzer to tie the score at 18-18 quickly following it with a beauti ful layin shot to put his team in to the lead from which they were never shaken. Andrews Well Placed George "Porky” Andrews prov ed to the fans that Hobson made no mistake in appointing him game captain late in the week. Easily the coolest, smoothest player on the court, Andrews tied Borcher for high point honors with a to tal of three field goals and four fouls. Zone Effective Employing a shifting zone de fense to perfection, the Webfoot five completely bottled up the Beaver’s work-in plays, and held their scoring threat, John M-mdic, to a total of seven points. Mandic was ejected from the brawl late in the final ouarter for employing football tactics in laying Honk Anderson out eo’d as the “Needle” was maneuvering for one of his famous acrobatic twist shots. Popping away with blazing rap idity, Hank “The Galloping Needle” Anderson shoved the Webfoots ahead 6 to 0 soon after the game had rolled underway. But OSC, not to be denied, strugg’ed back with three points after five min utes. Then Oregon galloned, the Beavers honping dangerously be hind, to make it 12 to 10 with but a minute to go in the first half. OSC Moved Ahead Oregon went momentarily wild, and the Bavers, quick to take cog nizance of the situation, dripped two through to naso the Webfoots 14 to 12 as the first period slipped out. Hobby’s Webfoots hoofed back after the half-time respite to wind the count no 14 all, Porky Andrews and “Slick” Vic Town send roiling foul shots over the rim. But the Beavers wheeled right around. John Mandic and Durdot. making it 18 to 14. Then Oregon barrel'od back to even the score and splurge ahead 22 to 18, holding that until Durdan squeezed a field goal through, raising tho count 22 to 20. One gratis shot apiece made it 23 to 21. Andrews, still driving with three; fouls p’agnlng him, twist ed a free shot through. Score, Oregon 24, OSC 21. Time rushed by. Wally Borrovik fouled himself out of the game. (Please turn to page three) Law Contest Entries Must Be in Tuesday Senior law students interested in the Nathan Burke Memorial competition on copyright law must sign in the law school office be fore 5 p. m. Tuesday, January 21. The subject of the manuscript must be submitted before 5 p. m. Mon day, January 24. The contest is sponsored by ASCAP, and offers prizes of $50,1 $30, and $20 to the winners. HOMESTEAD'S SAFE Alpha Chis Plan To Bum Mortgage House Constructed In 1927; Alumnae To Help Celebrate An informal dinner followed by appropriate ceremonies will cele brate tonight the Alpha Chi Ome ga sorority's recent financial move which brought them complete ownership of their Oregon chapter house. The burning of the mortgage, talks by Mrs. Hazel P. Schwering, dean of women, Dr. R. D. Horn of the English department, and a Portland alumna, and the presence of over 40 guests are highlights of the planned celebration. The house was completed in 1927. The sorority has had only one other place of residence on the Oregon campus during its 20 years here. This was at 727 East Thirteenth street, the present site of Kirkwood co-op. Five charter members are to be present for the banquet. They are: Mrs. Kenneth Moore and Mrs. Ar thur Bushman of Eugene, Florence Jagger Shaw and Alice Curtis Mc Kee of Marshfield, and Frances Moore Anderson of Aberdeen, Washington. Should Women Ditch Mops for Careers? “From Bridge Day to the Wash tub” will be discussed Monday noon by two members of the wo men’s symposium group, Elva Jane South and Jane Hooker, in a demonstration symposium before the Eugene Kiwanis club. Purpose of this demonstration symposium is to discuss the exist ing “double standard,” or women encroaching on men’s province in the business and professional world in the past 25 years, Marvin Krenk, director, revealed yester day. Speakers will trace the history of the so-called double standard from the time of the cavemen, Mr. Krenk added, and present their opinions of the present situation. This appearance will be the sec ond of the current season for the women’s group. Last week they appeared before the student body of Junction Citv high school. Symposium Director Krenk will introduce the speakers to the meet ing. CAA Fees Payable Students in the spring section of civilian pilot training should pay the $10 course fee and the $9 insurance fee at the cashier’s of fice in Johnson hall before 3 p.m., Monday, January 20, and should apnlv with their insurance fee re ceipts to J. K. Pratt and Com pany, 62 West Broadway, for in surance, it is announced. YM Orouo to Meet The life philosophy commission of the YMCA meets Monday night at 9 o’clock in the “Y” bungalow for the first of a series on the philosophy of God, Paul Sutley reported yesterday. Dr. James R. Branton will lead the group.