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VOLUME XLII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1941
EDITS:
'Tall Firs' Still
Not Downtrodden,
Won't Falter
NUMBER 67
Frosh Members
Of Studen Union
Group Appointed
Cavanagh Releases Names of Seventeen
Freshmen Chosen to Aid Plans for New
Building; Committee to Last Four Years
Names of seventeen freshmen appointed to the frosh student union
committee were released yesterday by John Cavanagh, chairman of
the main union committee", which made the appointements.
"Two or three more may be appointed during the' course of the
year,” Cavanagh said. Names of members, who were selected Friday,
China SOS...
Paul Moritz
Talks Today
On Orient Aid
Speaker Authority
On Life of Students
In Western China
By JEAN SPEAROW
Recently returned from a year
of travel in West China as a spe
cial student ambassador of our
Student Christian Movement,
comes Paul Moritz, Kansas uni
versity graduate of the class of
’39.
11 o’clock Classes
Eleven o’clock classes will be
dismissed so that students can
attend the assembly; they will
be held at 11 o’clock Thursday
instead.
Traveling by rail (very little),
by open truck, by small boat, by
rickshaw, and on foot . . . spend
ing nights in Chinese inns, in
church pews, or occasionally in a
real bed, sharing the Chinese stu
dent’s life fully, rice bowl and all
. . . this has been the experience
of the young Mr. Moritz, and he
comes back to the United States
now for a year of college visits to
offer interpretations of the World's
Student Christian Federation.
Penetrates
In addition to his visits of about
a month in the chief student cen
ters of “Free China,’’ Mr. Moritz
has managed to reach many iso
lated universities rarely visited by
a foreigner, as well as the North
west which is under Eighth Route
Army Leadership.
The westward trek of Chinese
universities, maintaining educa
tion at all costs, is common
knowledge. Instead of the easy
route by plane from Hongkong to
Chunking, Paul Moritz traveled
the arduous overland route west
ward through Ningpo to “Free
China,” following in the footsteps
of the students themselves.
Along the way he found Chin
ese students “keenly aware of the
political and international situa
tion and devoted to their cause.
' There seems to be an excellent
spirit of cooperation between
Christian and non-Christian stu
dents . . . they have an enthusiasm
which is fresh and stimulating.
Leadership seems to be quite young
but not immature.”
Park Talk
At Kwangsi university he spoke
to about 600 students gathered in
the winter cold of an open park.
“About 150 students remained af
ter my speech and asked ques
tions about America and Ameri
can students.
“I got a real thrill when one
fellow, speaking for the group
said: ‘We want you to thank our
American student friends for their
help and sympathy but please tell
them that though we may be
bombed tomorrow, we are not
afraid. We are confident that a
< new and better world will be built
and we want to help in that’.”
Marjorie Williams will provide
the music with a bassoon solo, J.
Wiesenborn’s “Humoresque.”
Landros Will Head
Classicists' Society
Election to the office of presi
dent of the Classical Association
of the Pacific States was recently
accorded Mrs. Edna Landros, head
of the UO department of classical
languages. As a partial result of
this, the society has been invited
to hold the next annual conven
tion, tentatively scheduled for!
Christmas vacation, here on the ■
campus.
Mrs. Landros, who came to the
University in 1932, has done grad
uate work at the National Univer
sity of Mexico, Harvard, Univer
j sity of Chicago, and University of
California. She is the author of
articles in Hispania and the Jour
nal of Education.
were not announced until last night
because of uncertainty as to elig
ibility.
Committee Named
New committee members are:
Mary Bentley, Bettie Norwood,
Ann Reynolds, Joan Taylor, Lora
Case, Dorothy Stewart, Rylla Hat
tan, Elaine Quinn, Beverly Pad
gham, Oglesby Young, A1 Cellars,
Harry Miller, Bob Frazier, Uly
Dorais, Chuck Roffe, Phil Burco,
and David Casey.
The committee will meet at 4
tomorrow at the side to elect a
chairman and to receive instruc
tions so that they may begin work
immediately.
Hi-Pressure
One of their first duties, Cav
anagh said, will be campaigning
among students to have them do
nate their co-op sales receipts to
the student union fund.
Principal object of the commit
tee is to arouse student interest
in plans for constructing a building
on the University campus. Cav
anagh explained that prospects
were bright for a building in 1943.
Pointing to the 1944 graduation
date of the present frosh class, he
emphasized the importance of the
new committee.
About 60 applications were re
ceived for committee positions.
CONFAB...
Business Meet
Draws Leaders
Students to Obtain
Vocational Advice
From Conference
Business administration students
from freshmen to seniors will get
a chance to hear the qualifications
and opportunities for futures in
several business fields from “those
who know” when the third annual
student-business conference will be
held here February 25, 26, and 27,
Dean Victor P. Morris announced
yesterday.
Businessmen will attend from
Portland, Salem, Eugene, and oth
er Oregon cities to talk over such
vocations as foreign trade, ac
counting, life insurance, savings
and loans, advertising, and 12 oth
ers.
“This conference gives students
a chance to discuss many lines of
business with able Oregon busi
ness men. It is important for stu
dents to decide what fields not to
enter as well as what fields are
attractive to them. This is an ef
fort to bridge the gulf between
the classroom and the active busi
ness world,” Dean Morris said.
Chairman for the event is Dean
Morris. On the arranging commit
tee are D. D. Gage, W. B. Riddles
barger, and Mrs. Ruth M. Thomp
son, BA school faculty members.
Six Students Take
Closing Flight Test
Six students in the fall term ci
vilian pilot training class soloed
since Saturday, making a total of
28 members of the class who have
taken their final flight test and
are now eligible for a private pi
pot's license.
Johnny Kahananui, Harold V.
Johnson, and Bob Hendershott,
instructed by Chet McLean, and
James Doern, Eileen Baker, and
Harry Rybock, taught by George
Justman, are the students who so
loed over the weekend.
Hostel Unit Cycles
To Hendricks Park
Taking advantage of Sunday’s
sunny weather, 18 hostelers and
their friends cycled to Hendricks
park youth hostel for the after
noon.
While there the group looked
over the site where an outdoor
fireplace is to be built, a short
distance up the hillside from the
hostel. According to Gordon Clark,
who is drawing the plans, the logs
will be placed around the fire
place to give an amphitheater ef
fect.
AS ONE NEWSPAPER MA N TO ANOTHER ...
(Courtesy of the Register-Guard)
Members of Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalistic fraternity for men, got out of bed
early Sunday morning and went to an initiation banquet. Giles French, editor of the Sherman County
Journal and member of the state legislature, was the guest speaker. French (left) is shown congratulat
ing Dick Strite, sports editor of the Eugene Register-Guard, who was made a professional member, as
other initiates look on. "They are, left to right, Milton Levy, Ted Harmon, French, Strite, Stanley Min
shall, and Buck Buchwach.
| VOCATIONS ...
Vogue Winner
To Talk Today
Touring Authoress
To Advise Women
On Opportunities
At 4 o’clock this afternoon Miss
Mary Moon, winner of last year’s
Prix de Paris contest of Vogue
magazine, will speak at an all
girls assembly in alumni hall of
Gerlinger on opportunities for wo
men.
Expected to arrive on tire cam
pus this morning, Miss Moon will
be guest of honor at a luncheon
sponsored by Gamma Alpha. Chi,
women’s advertising honorary, at
12 o’clock. Her appearance before
University women at 4 is spon
I sored by Theta Sigma Phi, wo
men’s journalism honorary.
Loop Tour
On a loop tour of the United
States for Vogue, Miss Moon is
now acquiring the year’s experi
ence in the field of fashions and
writing which she earned as win
ner of the national aptitude con
test in that field held by the mag
azine last spring. The annual con
test is open to all senior women in
terested in fashions and writing in
United States colleges.
Conference
Tomorrow morning she will con
fer with girls particularly inter
ested in the field between 10 and
12 o’clock in the men's lounge of
Gerlinger. Appointments for Wed
nesday conferences may be sched
uled by phoning the dean of wo
men’s office, according to Doris
Murphy, Theta Sig president.
Tonight the journalism- honor
ary will entertain her at a special
Theta Sigma Phi meeting at the
home of Mrs Eric W. Allen at 8
o’clock in Birch lane.
Lawyer Grad Titled
First Junior Citizen
Hale Thompson will receive the
title of first junior citizen of Eu
gene at a special dinner meeting
[ of the Eugene Chamber of Com
I merce Wednesday night starting
at 6:30 o’clock in the Eugene ho
tel.
Mr. Thompson, local lawyer, re
ceived his LL.B. degree from the
University in 1937. His wife, nee
Ruth May Chitcote, ’37, B.B.A., is
secretary of the school of business
administration.
Alton H. Lenhart will present
the award as president of the jun
ior chamber. Toastmaster George
P. Hitchcock will present the main
speaker of the evening, Dean Vic
tor P. Morris of the BA school.
His topic will be “The Quest for a
Better World.”
Jewell Will Speak
Dean J. R. Jewell, of the educa
tion school, will speak Wednesday
evening to the Rotary club in Ore
gon City.
His address will be on service
clubs and their educational func
tions.
Eleven Sheltered
As Health Wave
Sweeps Campus
It may be shade9 of spring
term—or maybe just the wea
ther, but things are certainly at
a standstill over at the infirm
ary. Going over about 1:30
o’clock to try and gather a bit
of news was the wrong move to
make. Everyone in the place
was asleep — except Florence
Schweitzer. She was reading Es
quire, and Varga and Petty held
her complete attention.
Only 11 are registered. They in
clude: Leota Whitelock, Mavis
| Jonefe, Carol Cook, Carol Boone,
Martha Stook, Nina McCulley,
Dave Casey, Joe Wicks, Bob
BroWn, Jack Josse, and Bill
Wyant.
BIG SHOTS...
French Praises
Weekly Papers
County Publisher
Knows Community
Officials, Affairs
Working on the small weekly
newspaper has very real advant
ages over the more glamorized
“big city” journalism,” Giles
French, Sherman county publish
er and president of ONPA, told
members of Sigma Delta Chi, pro
fessional journalistic fraternity, at
their initiation breakfast Sunday
morning.
The editor of a weekly has an
opportunity to really know all
about his town, French said, its
government and administration.
In the larger town this is not pos
sible, French stated. The govern
ment is so large and complex that
no one man is able to understand
the workings of every department.
Another advantage, cited by
French, is that of “being a big
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ACTORS
UO Guild Players
Schedule Drama
Popular Comedy
Will Star Quigley
On Fun Program
By H. V. SICKLEN
Betty Jane Quigley will have an
opportunity to prove her versatil
ity as an actress when she appears
in a dual role as Curtis, and the
widow of Hortensio in the Guild
theater player’s production pf Wil
the Shrew,” scheduled to make its
campus debut February 5, 6, 7,
and 8, in the AWS room at Ger
linger hall.
Her success in ‘‘Berkeley Square”
will be contested when she chang
es from an ingenue to a character
actress in the forthcoming Guild
production.
“Taming of the Shrew,” will not
be a full length version. It will be
the interpretation made famous
by the Globe theater, designed to
appeal to an after-dinner audience.
There will be two shows February
5 and 8, 7:15 p.m., 8:40 p.m., and
2:30 p.m., 9:40 p.m. after the Dads’
day basketball game.
The cast under the direction of
Mrs. Ottilie T. Seybolt includes:
Walker Treeee as Lucentio, Adrian
Martin as Baptista, Parker Mc
Neil as Petruchio, George F. Smith
as Gremio, Jim W. Parsons as Hor
tensio, Ray Dickson as Vincentio,
Dick Turner as Tranio, Jean B.
Harper as Biondello, Jerry Lake
fish as Grumio.
Bettie Jane Quigley as Curtis,
and the widow, George F. Smith,
Ray Dickson, Frank Loomis, Har
ley Davis, and Alan Foster as the
servants, Howard Speer as the
tailor, Helene Parsons, and Trudy
Karland alternating as Katharina,
and Betty Fiksdal and Jeanette
Harbert alternating as Bianca.
The box office will open January
29. Admission is 25 cents, all seats
reserved.
liam Shakespeare's
of
Shortened
More Cast
Here's Winning Letter
Coy Coed Lures Dads
By RUTH GREEN
Dear Dad:
For once during my college car
eer you are being favored a letter
from me which isn’t a gentle hint
that funds are running low and
would you please . . .
Quite to the contrary, the reas
on that prompts this literary ex
plosion on my part is a very noble
one. However, I shall lead up to
it with a little sincere sales talk.
You know, Dad, since I have
grown up a little bit, we haven’t
had much time or opportunity to
go any place together. A long
time ago, when I was a “kid,” we
sometimes went to shows and on
trips and had a lot of fun—well,
at least I did. But you always had
to do all the planning and I just
sat back and enjoyed the fruits of
your labors. Now I would like a
chance to plan a good time for you.
It happens that the week-end of
February 7-8-9 is the OREGON
DADS’ DAY celebration, and I
can’t think of a better time to
“give my Dad the works" than on
Dads’ Day.
There are some very beautiful
$25,000 gates which have been
erected on the campus recently and
the Dads are going to dedicate
them while they are here. I'm pos
itive you would like that because,
even though your daughter (or
son) unfortunately has no idea
what money means, I’m sure you
are aware of the importance of
such an expenditure. The Oregon
State basketball game is being
played here that week-end too
You always like college basketball,
even though you have enjoyed it
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Ruth Green’s Letter
Wins Dad’s Contest
INFLUENCES
Noted Czech
To Give Talk
In Chapman
Modern Architect
To Discuss Design
Today at 4 o'Clock
Jan Reiner, noted Czech recog
nized as one of the foremost of
modern architects, will discuss
“Contemporary Design and Its In
fluence on Architecture” this af
ternoon at 4 o’clock in Chapman
hall. His lecture will be illustrat
ed by color slides showing stream
lined influences in modern con
struction.
Sponsored by the Educational
Activities board in conjunction
with the school of architecture and
allied arts, the lecture is open to
the public.
Mr. Reiner received his early
training at the University of
Prague. Later he spent two years
with Le Corbusier in Paris, stud
ied with Ove Bang in Norway and
worked for his master’s degree
at Harvard.
An instructor of aesthetics and
geometry at Moholy-Nagy’s school
of design in Chicago, Mr. Reiner
plays the double-bass in a sym
phony orchestra, is a member of a
Chicago architectural firm and is
a student of social sciences.
AUTHORS
Drama Writers
To Give Prizes
Alliance Rewards
New Compositions
With Production
The sixth annual series of con
tests in dramatic writing is being
offered by the Dramatists’ Alliance
of Stanford university.
Awards of $100 in cash, produc
tion at Stanford university, and
recommendation to Samuel French
of NBC, American Educational
Theater conference, and Pasadena
Playhouse, are offered for full
length or one-act verse dramas
and prose comedies. Fifty dollars
and the same recommendations are
given for contributions requiring
20 or 30 minutes and suitable for
radio use. Acceptable dramatic
criticisms will receive $50 and pre
sentation in the Alliance publica
tions.
Judges include Paul Muni and
Mr. Thomas Mitchell, actor-play
wright. The contests, which close
April 15, 1941, are open to all
writers of English, regardless of
age, position, or previous training.
Prizes will be awarded in August.
Full details of competition may
be procured by writing the Proc
tor of Awards in Drama, English
department, Stanford university.
Shoesmith to Sculp
Metropolitan Tenor
Mark Shoesmith, blind sculptor,
who attended the University of
Oregon, is now working on a head
of Lauritz Melchoir, famous tenor
in the Metropolitan opera house.
Shoesmith is doing the work in
his New York home, and he is
finishing it on time to present it
to Mr. Melchoir at the second an
nual concert of the New York In
stitute for Education of the Blind
in Town hall.
The Oregon alum has also done
otter pieces including one in Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Hyde lark
home and one in the presidential
palace in Argentina.
Whitely Gets Second;
President Erb Signs
Oreganas For Prize
Girl's Entry Selected for Distribution;
Committee Plans to Visit Organizations
For Closer Check-up on Actual Mailing
By RAY SHRICK
Ruth Green and Bob Whitely, writers who submitted the most con
vincing letters inviting their dads to the Oregon campus February 7,
8, and 9, were last night announced winners of the Dads’ day letter
writing contest by Buck Buchwach, promotion chairman.
Each, as a result of the choice, will receive a 1941 Oregana auto
graphed by President Donald M. (
Erb. The two were judged best of
a list of entries by Ft. D. Horn, as
sociate professor of English; Rob
ert Leeper, assistant professor of
psychology and George Turnbull,
professor of journalism.
Distribution
Miss Green’s letter, which was
designated “best of all,” is pub
lished in today's Emerald. As top
choice it will be printed on spe
cial Dads' day stationery, and dis
tributed to all campus living or
ganizations today.
After dinner tonight members
of each house will be asked to
sign a letter, adding any notation
desired, and then address the en
velope for mailing.
House Check
Buchwach announced that mem
bers of the promotion and letter
committees will come around af
ter dinner, collect letters, and re
cord the number sent qut in order
to determine the number of dads
contacted. This work will be un
der the direction of Bill Fendall
and Carolyn Collier, he stated.
Committee members will tabu
late the number of letters turned
in by each organization, and per
centages from each house will be
published in Wednesday's Emerald.
NON-SUIT
Krawl Promises
All Informal Fun
February 7 Dance
News Announced
By Chairman May
An informal good time amidst
newspapers, ads, and free samples,
is promised by Fred May, dance
chairman, to all who attend the
Krazy Kopy Krawl, February 7 in
Gerlinger.
“We’re advertising good news
when we ask you to dance, which
will add up to a wonderful eve
ning; come one, come all.”
Art Holman and his band and
featured singer, Betty Wycoff, will
furnish the music for the Krawl
ers.
The dance will be strictly in
formal. Girls are asked to wear
dressy wools, or short silks, and
heels, and the boys will wear cam
pus clothes and ties.
“It’s always been our policy to
have the dance informaj,” said
May, “students have more fun
that way.
The dance will begin at 9 o’clock
and the closing time has not yet
been set. Tickets are on sale by
Alpha Delta Sigma members for
the dance.
Vocational Trainer
Mrs. Wendell Van Loan, head of
the Eugene vocational school, ex
plained the work that the school
does in training men and women
for the business world and empha
sized the number of placements
the school has made lately at a
i regular meeting of all housemoth
. ers on the campus Monday.
Over 600 students are enrolled
in the vocational school at the
present time. During the last few
months 72 of them have been
placed in positions with the Boeing
company, manufacturers of air
planes and parts, she said.
YEARBOOK...
Oregana Work
Reaches Climax
Picture Lay-outs
Pasted Up; Sales
Satisfy Manager
One of the biggest Oregana jobs
of the year—the pasting of living
organizations' pictures into pan
els—has finally been completed,
according to Wilbur Bishop, editor,
and the large panel pages are now
ready for the engraver. Over one
half gallon of glue was used to
paste the 2,500 individual pictures
into proof form.
Deadline Near
“The final deadline for all Ore
gana material is looming up now,"
Bishop declared. “All the work has
to be completed by March 1.” ,(
School and activities sections
are occupying the time of the Ore
gana staff. They plan to have those
sections at the lithographer’s plant
the last of the week. Pictures of
house presidents will be finished
this afternoon, Bishop said.
Sales Move
At the business end of the Ore
gana, Dick Williams, business man
ager, announced that the sales are
“very, very satisfactory.” Doug
David and Emerson Page, who are
selling advertising, had a success
ful trip to Portland last week and
the collections are well under way,
Williams said.
“Although the price of the year
book is up to $5.50 now, we’ll be
glad to take orders anytime,” the
business manager remarked.
“From now on, though, there is no
assurance that the book will be
available,” he concluded.
Lettermen Schedule
'Mix' for February
An informal lettermen’s miix
dance will be Saturday night, Feb
ruary 14, following the Idaho bas
ketball game, it was decided Wed
nesday at the Order of the O meet
ing in the Delta Upsilon house.
Although it has not been decid
ed definitely where the dance will
be held, it probably will be in Ger
linger hall, according to Eale Re
ber, varsity broad-juinp star, who
was appointed general chairman
of the dance by Jim Rathbun, pres
ident of the lettermen’s club.
“The ‘mix’ will give students
an opportunity to get together for
a good time after the game and
will not be expensive,” Reber as
serted. An orchestri has not yet
been selected to supply the music,
but every effort will be made to
engage a good band, the chairman
promised.
Breathing Spell
The assembly today
Will perhaps be O.K.
I think we’ll be put at our ease.
Moritz prob’ly won’t say
In a sweet, subtle way
"Let’s go out and fight the Chin
ese.”
J.W.S,