SPORTS: Donut Hoop Play Gathers * Steam VOLUME XLII NUMBER 64 STUDENT BUILDING... Freshman Union Applications Due Petitioners Warned of Noon Deadline; Committee to Choose Members Friday; Grades Will Play Deciding Role in Choice Noon today is the deadline for Frosh student union committee ap plications Committee members will be chosen Friday afternoon by the main student union committee. Principal function of the new group will be to arouse interest in the campaign for building funds. Declaring that funds for the building might be available by 1943, THINNING... Contest Choices Face Committee r For Elimination Ten Finalists Must Ponder Their Fate Until Dance Night Elimination of the 48 Betty Coed-Joe College contestants to the 10 names which will appear on the ballot at the Sophomore In formal will take place this after noon at 4:30 in Gerlinger hall men's lounge by a faculty-student committee. The five girl and five boy final ists’ identity will remain a secret until February 1, the night of the dance, when ballots revealing the names will be given out at the door for final student voting. * Contestants are to appear before the judges in regular campus clothes, according to Nancy Riesch, chairman of the popularity race. Miss Riesch stressed that K saddles, sweaters, and skirts would be in order for the girls. The judging committee person nel includes: Mrs. Hazel P. Schwer ing, dean of women; Virgil D. Earl, dean of men; Gleeson Payne, John Cavanagh, Betty Buchanan, and Joanne Riesch. Two changes have been made in the list of candidates who were chosen during fall term. New as pirants for the title of Joe College are: Bob Rudolph, Delta Upsilon, and Pat Riley, Kappa Sigma. Chi Omega has withdrawn its entry altogether. Ray Dickson and the Collegians will provide the music for the all campus dance. 4 Scabbard and Blade Schedules Ski Trip Through the use of machine guns and rifles the Scabbard and Blade ski outing scheduled for Sunday, January 26, at Hand Lake will be turned into maneuvers similar to those of the Finnish ski troops, Lloyd Sullivan, captain of the military honorary, disclosed today. Paris Emery, Universal news reel cameraman and George Godfrey of the University news bureau will be present to take ac tion and still pictures of the out ing. Sullivan said that the thought behind the ski outing is to try some of the maneuvers similar to army ski patrols. Ski races will also be held among the members f of the party. The group will meet in front of the ROTC barracks at 8 Sun day morning and will leave from there. Several representatives of the faculty will accompany the outing. Mr. Emery is also down here to take pictures of the rifle team, which will fire for him on Saturday; this is also for his news reel. Military Ball Call To the maidens we call With a good over-all description. See if you have the power To fit in with our prescription. After all, when we choose We don’t want to use conscription. —J.W.S. junn uavanagn, cnairma.ii ui uie main committee, said that the committee of the class of 1944 “may have opportunities to hold their student union meetings in a student union building instead of the College Side.” , Committee Named If finances materialize the new committee may have a “large part in deciding what students want in the building,” he said. Members of the main commit tee who will help choose the 20 frosh for places on the new group are: Cavanagh, chairman; Glenn Williams, assistant chairman; El eanor Sederstrom, Doug Fabian, Ruth Hartley, and Marge McLean. Though not on the committee, Roy Vernstrom, editor of Old Oregon, will aid in choosing the frosh. GPA Considered Applications should be written and deposited in a box in the co-op store before noon today. The G. P. A. of the applicant should be in cluded in the application along with any other qualifications the applicant might wish to mention. Cavanagh emphasized that grades would be important. Urging all frosh to apply for committee positions, Cavanagh de clared that every application would be given “serious consideration” by the committee. Efforts will be made to pick as representative a group as possible, he said. Letters to Dads Occupy Minds Of Pill Palacites Dads’ day has taken in most of the patients of the infirmary. While lying flat on their backs, Carolyn Collier and Cynthia Caufield are doing their part in the big contest by writing home letters to their fathers—getting them to come down Dads’ day. Quote — "We’ll get them down here even if we are still in bed” unquote. Things are really getting a lot better—that is as far as numbers go. Late yesterday, only 13 were listed on the infirmary files. They include: Ruth Hartley, Col lier ’n’ Caufield, Ann Carr, Bes sie Kamerad, Leota Whitlock, Cecil Wright, Don Selby, Buck Buchwach, Charlie (oo-oo) Pow ers, Chuck Wilson, Bob Jester, and Earl Hall. ILLUSTRATOR VISITS Miss Clarice Ashworth, state system illustrator will be here to day. Any faculty members who wish to see her should make ap ppointment at the editor’s office some time during the day. SPEAKER Robert S. Farrel, Jr. of Port land, newly-elected speaker of the house of representatives in the state legislature. LETTER WRITING ... Deadline Set For Dads' Day Contest Notes Buchwach Allows Forty-Eight More Hours for Entries Absolute deadline in the Dads’ day letter writing contest will be 11:59 tomorrow midnight, Buck Buchwach, promotion chairman, announced yesterday, reminding students that only two days l-e main in which to submit entries. Letters will be judged over thj weekend, and the two winners, one boy and one girl, will be announced Tuesday. Entries must be under 250 words long, and prizes will be awarded on the basis of originality, style, conciseness, and interest. Lively letters and ones that will appeal to all campii3 dads are still desired, Buchwach revealed. He emphasized that students should play up high points of the three-day program of celebration which has been outlined for the weekend. The two winning entries will be published in the Emerald, and one will be printed on special Dads’ day stationery and distributed to all students for mailing home. Prizes, two 1941 Oreganas, will be autographed by President Don ald M. Erb. Judges who will pick the winners are R. D. Horn, as sociate professor of English, Rob ert Leeper, assistant professor of psychology, and George Turnbull, professor of journalism. Y' BEQUEST YMCA Loan Fund Receives Boost Rates Must Match Present Holdings To Raise Allotment $1000 of the $10,000 bequest re ceived by the YMCA last spring from Dr. E. C. Brown of Port land has been signed over to the University to be used for student loans, J. H. Bond, business admin istration professor and treasurer of the “Y” advisory board, report ed yesterday. The organization received the money with the stipulation that the interest only could be used for current “Y” expenses, Prof. Bond stated. More money may be made available from the bequest for this loan fund if interest rates on the loans match those obtainable from presently owned shares in guaran teed building and loan associa tions. Prof. Bond stated that the “Y” board preferred to have the money used for student loans if income from that source would make it financially practical. Dancers to Present Informal Program In Gerlinger Gym An informal modem dance recit al, with no costumes, lights, or scenery, will take place this after noon at 4:15 in the dance studio and gymnasium of Gerlinger hall. Participation in the program will range from students Who have had only one term of modern dance to Master dancers. The dances have been composed by students as part of their regular classwork, and represent the students’ own work. The recital has not been form ally rehearsed, but will be more j like an informal comparing of' notes, offering an interesting chance to watch the compositional development of the students. Mrs. Kay Holman will play ac companiment for all the dances, and has composed music for some of them. Iowa State Teachers college campanile, which each morning bongs out a musical greeting to 8 o’clock class-goers, is made up of 21,625 pounds of copper and tin. > ATTACHE (Courtesy ot the Register-Guard) Douglas P. Miller, Berlin uttaehe of the United States bureau of for eign arid domestic commerce, will discuss German-American rela tions at Friday’s assembly. FRIDAY SPEECH ... Nazi-American Foreign Policies To Be Clarified Miller to Address 11 o'Clock Session Friday in Gerlinger Douglas P. Miller, Berlin attache of the United States bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, will discuss American relations v^th Germany before a University assembly Friday at 11 o'clock in Gerlinger. To accommodate the assembly, Friday 11 o’clocks will meet to day instead, announces Dean Karl W. Onthank. Miller entered the commercial service in 1921. Three years later he was appointed trade commis sioner to Berlin and has spent, most of his time since then in that capacity. During the first world war, he worked in the diplomatic service in the Near and Far East. After the armistice he repatriated pris oners in Stettin, Germany. Miller is a former Rhodes schol ar and holds the Oxford bachelor of jurisprudence degree. He also holds a master’s degree from his alma mater, Denver university. Touring as a member of the en dowed Denver Institute of Inter national Relations faculty, he will speak Friday noon at a chamber of commerce luncheon in the Os burn hotel. William Chilcote will play a clar inet solo, “Scene of Air,” from Bergson’s Luisa di Montfort. Mar gery Williams will accompany him. Czech Architect To Defend Moderns Conservative adults, who are worried over the American college student’s increased enthusiasm for modern design in architecture and industry, should calm down. This is the opinion of Jan Reiner, young Czechoslovakian architect, who will lecture at the University of Oregon on “Contemporary De sign and Its Influence on Archi tecture,” next Tuesday, January 28. The educational activities board has announced that Reiner’s talk, at 4 p.m. in Chapman hall, room 207, will be free to all Uni versity students and interested townspeople. In regard to those who are both ered by the “modernist” move ment, this young architectural in structor reminds them that even the builders of the pyramids, the Gothic cathedrals, and the Renais sance palaces were modernists and sometimes considered radical. Jan Reiner is now a faculty member of Moholy-Nagy’s school of design, formerly the noted Bau haus school, in Chicago. At the present time he is on a nation wide lecture tour, taking him to every large university and art cen ter in the country. $1000 FOR OREGON ... J. O. Baileys Give Memorial Fund For UO Campus Bequest Will Finance Planting of Oaks Between Library and Thirteenth Street; Gift Honors Student Who Died in 1939 A fund of $1000 in memoriam to their son Robert, has been donated lithe University by Judge and Mrs. J. O. Bailey to erect a double line ; of Pyramidal English Oak trees from the library to 13th street, Presi dent Donald M. Erb announced yesterday. Robert Bailey was drowned April 9, 1939, while canoeing on the millrace with James Murray. While attending the University, Bailey was treasurer of the fresh man class, president ot the senior class, head of the YMCA, and pres ident of Zeta hall before affiliat ing with Theta Chi fraternity. He was in the Oregon law school at the time of his death. Eailey was born November 21, 1917, at Salem, Oregon. He at tended Beech grammar school in Portland, and later Jefferson high school, from which he was gradu ated in 1935. Judge ■ Bailey, who is a justice of the Oregon supreme court, and Mrs. Bailey reside in Portland. FOR ENGLAND ... '36 Cup Winner To Talk at Tea Women's Benefit To Aid British 'Bundles' Fund Ann-Reed Burns, class of ’36 and Gerlinger cup winner, will be in vited to speak at the silver tea benefit February 5, the AWS coun cil decided at its regular meeting. Wednesday afternoon. The tea will be sponsored by the Associated Women for the Bundles for Britain fund and the affair will be open for townspeople, faculty members and wives, as well as students, Betty Buchanan, presi dent said. Speaker Traveled Miss Bums has traveled exten sively in the United States and Mexico since her graduation. While in school she was a journalism ma jor and vice-president of Theta Sig ma Phi, women’s journalism hon orary. Marge Ourtis was elected by the cabinet to take charge of the AWS files and secretarial work in con nection with the ASUO office She will have a staff of approximately 10 freshman women to work under her, the council ruled. Election Methods Method of election of officers for the organization was discuss ed and it was decided to take no steps until the constitution and by laws had been checked. The president gave a short re port on the convention of AWS representatives from the state of Oregon at Linfield college yester day Miss Buchanan, Maxine Han sen, secretary, Mary Ellen Smith, sergeant-at-arms, together with Mrs. Hazel P. Schwering, dean of women, who was one of the guest speakers, made the trip. Press Fratemitg To Hold Initiation Four pledges will become mem bers of the Oregon chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic fraternity, at an init iation breakfast Sunday morning, Lyle Nelson, president, announced yesterday following a member ship meeting. The initiation breakfast meeting will be 10 o’clock Sunday morning at the Anchorage. Plans for an SDX banquet, with Victor Bleudorn, Iowa newspaper publisher, as guest speaker were discussed. No definite date for the banquet was announced but it will be held sometime during the latter part of the winter term. MAJORITY HOP ... Freshman Class Plans No-Date Mixer for Friday Afternoon Informal Will Feature Skits At Intermission Plans moved ahead swiftly last night for an informal freshman ASCAP mixer in the outdoor gym of Gerlinger Friday at 4. Spon sored by the "majority class of 1944,” the dance will be a no-date affair. Short skits will be presented at intermission, according to Charlie Woodruff, general chairman, and "Bette and Buddie,” jitterbugs, will appear as one of the features. Also known as Bette Christensen, new yell-queen, and Bud Salinardo, the pair are well known on the campus for their dancing. ASCAP tunes will be played, Woodruff announced, since there will be no broadcast of the dance. Beginning at 4, dancing will con tinue until 5:30 with a short in termission for the program. The dance is the first social event to be sponsored by the new "class” since its organization a week ago Wednesday night. Woodruff explained that all freshmen are welcome. Campus clothes are in order. Emerald Business Staff Flans Banquet The Oregon Daily Emerald busi ness department will survey its past progress and make plans for the future at its annual banquet at Seymour’s cafe next Tuesday night, January 28, from 6 to 8 o’clock, announced Jim Frost, bus iness manager, yesterday. George Root, director of educa tional activities, will speak, and other Oregon publication leaders, who will be announced later, are expected to attend. The accomplishments of the de partment so far this year will be reported, and plans for the annual spring opeping edition of the paper will be discussed. Members of the local, national, and classified ad vertising staffs, layout production, circulation, and promotion depart ments, and office staff are re quested to attend. They should sign up for the banquet in the bus iness office at their earliest con venience, Frost declared. Journalism Seniors Visit Legislature To obtain first-hand knowledge of the function of a state legisla ture, senior journalists from Dean Eric Allen's editing class are vis iting Salem during the current ses sion of the Oregon legislature. Walter Rossmann was the first of the class to make the trip. While he was there, Dick Neuberg er, UO alumnus and member of the legislature, took him through the capitol and furnished him with legislative material for class work. Four members of the class, Stan ley Minshall, Lyle Nelson, Bill Fendall, and Roy Vernstrom, are, visiting the governing body today. I CONCERT SOLOISTS (Courtesy of the Register-Guard) Those men, four students and a faculty member, will appear as so loists at the Eugene Oleemen’s concert in the Igloo at 8 o’clock tonight. Fred Beardsley, upper left; Bob Carmichael, upper right; and Les Ready, center left, will offer vocal solo parts. Y’erno Sellln, cen ter right, will play violin solo va riations. Sigurd Nilssen, below left, member of the school of music faculty, will appear as guest so loist. VOCALISTS... Gleemen Will Present Seventy-First Concert In McArthur Tonight Sigurd Nilssen to Perform as Guest Artist At Annual Mid-Winter Recital; Admission Free to All Student Body Card Holders By MILDRED WILSON Featuring a program composed of music, from many lands and of many moods, the Eugene Gleemen will present their seventy-first concert before Eugene townspeople and University students at 8:15 tonight in McArthur court. Composed of 75 male voices, the Eugene Gleemen include in their membership several Oregon students, five of whom will sing incidental solo parts in this evening's recital. Free admission to this annual mid-winter concert has been arranged for students by the educational ac tivities board. Entrance will be permitted upon presentation of an activities card. Program Listed The Gleemen chorus, now in its 16th season, has appeared in many cities of the Pacific northwest and has as its conductor at the pres ent time, John Stark Evans, pro fessor of music. Miss Cora Moore Frey is accompanist for the group. Opening the program tonight will be the ‘‘Prayer of Thanksgiv ing,” traditional with the chorus. “Adoramus Te, Christi,” “Ave Maria,” and "Exultation,” are al so included in the first group. Three Scotch. songs comprise the second group. "Bifnnie Dun dee,” with a piano duo by Miss Frey and Glenn Griffith, "Las sie O’ Mine,” and “The Pipes o’ Gordon's Men,” will be sung. Solos to be presented by Sigurd Nilssen, guest artist and professor of music, are "Pilgrim’s Song,” “When the King Went Forth to War,’ ’and "Yeonman's Wedding Song.” Other selections on the sched uled program will be, "She is Far From the Land,” “The Lost Chord,” "Scandia,” "Ain’t It a Shame,” "Go 'Long Ol’ Devil.” Students who will sing solo parts in the concert are: Lawrence Cel si, Joe Clark Keever, Lester Ready, Bob Carmichael and Fred Beards ley. Verne Sellin will Accompany one number with a violin obbligato. Among donors of $25,080 to Long Island College of Medicinej recently was “a little girl,” who gave $1 for “general purposes.” Geographers Visit Eugene Industries On Lab Field Trip A study of economic geography in and around Eugene was made this week by students in the geog raphy lab course. W. E. Greenup, graduate assistant, was in charge of the four groups who made the field trip Monday and Tuesday. Eugene was explored from the standpoint of natural location and local industry. The students visit ed the cannery, the water plant, and the electric station. They found that the famed Oregon mill race provided the power for both the woolen mills and the excel sior plant. A visit was also paid to the Chase Gardens across the river from Eugene where the students were privileged to see eight acres of land under greenhouses. Special attention was given to the section where orchids are raised. Howard to Entertain YM, YW Students Professor Charles G. Howard, law school faculty member, will be host Sunday afternoon to 10 stu dents chosen from the YWCA and YMCA organizations on the cam pus. This is the first of a series of faculty-student meetings to be co sponsored by the two groups. Mar jorie Montgomery and Dan Bacot are chairmen of the meetings. Their purpose is to get students acquainted with faculty leaders in | religious work.