EDITS:
Present Rally Squad
Realizes Pressing
Need for Changes
VOLUME XLII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1941
NUMBER 72
TWO TAMERS'
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-Jim Parsons, loft, and George Smith will be on hand in full Shakes
pearian regalia when Guild theater players “open” in Johnson hall
Wednesday night with “Taming of the Shrew.” The play has been
scheduled for a four night stand, ending Saturday, February 8.
DRAMATIC DESSERT...
Guild Theater Makes
Precedent With Show
Starting at 7 o’Clock
Taming of Shrew' Opens Wednesday;
Shakespeare's Comedy to Display New
Stage Curtains, Authentic Costumes
By JEAN SPEAROW
Wednesday night's performance of "The Taming of the Shrew” will
mark the first time in the history of the Guild Theater in which
an after-dinner show has been presented. The first of tomorrow
night’s two performances will begin at 7 o’clock and will be preceded
by after-dinner coffee.
After the play, which will last one hour, the audience may stay for
KKK DANCE
Signs Decorate
Krawl Tickets
Gerlinger Scene
Of ADS Dance
Friday at 9 p.m.
Green and white billboards will
catch the attention of passengers
on the dance highway of the
Krazy Kopy Krawl to be held in
Gerlinger, February 7, at 9 o’clock
where Art Holman and his band
featuring Betty Wycoff, will play.
The billboards are ticket-pro
grams now on sale in all men’s liv
ing organizations, according to
Emerson Page, ticket chairman.
Jess Shinn arranged for the tick
ets, which are selling fast at $1 a
couple.
Jack Saltzman and Tiger Payne,
in charge of patrons and patron
esses of the dance, announced the
following list yesterday: President
and Mrs. Donald M. Ertf; Mr. and
Mrs. Nowland Zane; Dean and
Mrs. Eric W. Allen; Dean and Dr. C.
L. Schwering; Mr. and Mrs. Hart
Larsen; Dean and Mrs. Karl On
.thank; Mr. and Mrs. Claire Knee
f land; Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Horn;
Dean and Mrs. V. D. Earl; Mr. and
Mrs. Manlev Fuller; Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Turnbull.
On the committee for the “ad”
dance, which will be emphasized
by big posters, newspapers, and
free samples as decorations, are:
Fred May, chairman; Jess Shinn,
programs; Jay Stott, floor; Hal
Ellicott and Rod McMillen, posters
and samples; Ralph Woodall, dec
orations; Ron Alpaugh, promotion;
Tiger Payne and Jack Saltzman,
invitations; Stew Hayward, music;
Emerson Page, tickets; Bob Mar
land, clean-up.
Phi Mu Alpha Plans
Calendar at Meeting
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, men’s
1 national music honorary, met with
Dean Theodore Kratt, chapter ad
viser, for a business discussion re
cently.
Dr. Kratt, dean of the school of
music, represented Psi chapter at
the national convention in Cleve
land, Ohio, in December. He gave
a report of the convention and
meeting. Plans were made for a
varied social and activity pro
gram.
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia is the
only national men’s music honor
ary. Prerequisites for membership
are high scholarship and musical
ability.
Sour Grapes No. 8
We will soon see a movie intended
To keep the poor Chinese be
friended.
I hope all of you know
The ASUO
|Is certainly slew
'When they put on a show
Right after the big drive's ended.
—J. W. S.
the 8:30 show and watch another
heroine be “tamed” by Parker Mc
Neil.
Two Stars
The two portrayers of the evil
tongued Kate are Trudy Harland
and Helene Parsons.
The Shakespeare comedy will be
further graced by the new addition
to the Guild this term of Shake
spearean costumes. Also new, and
brilliantly colored is the curtain
which will rise on the play.
18 Actors
The cast, under the direction of
Mrs. Ottilie T. Seybolt, includes:
Walker Treece, Adrian Martin,
Parker McNeil, George F. Smith,
Jim W. Parsons, Ray Dickson,
Dick Turner, Jean B. Harper, Jer
ry Lakefish, Bettie Jane Quigley,
Frank Loomis, Alan Foster, Har
ley Davis, Howard Speer, Helene i
Parsons, Trudy Harland, Betty
Fiksdal, and Jeannette Harbert.
Tickets to the show are on sale
at the box office in Johnson hall
and are going rapidly. They can
also be had by phoning University
extension 216. Tickets are 25 cents.
Fifty Dollar Prize
Offered to Authors
Prizes of $50 and $25 will be
awarded for the best and second
best short story contributions in
the Marshall-Case-Haycox short
story contest, it was announced
by Professor W. F. G. Thacher.
Judges for the contest are:
Chester A. Fee, instructor in the
English department, and a writer
with several published works to
his credit; Miss Victoria Case, Mc
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Oregon Outruns Husky Cagers, 57 - 35
Wednesday A VFS Meet
To Consider Amendment
Women May
Vote Quicker
Change Suggests
Immediate Ballot
After Nominations
Rumor of attempted reform in
Associated Women Students' poli
tical doings was substantiated last
night by AWS President Betty
Buchanan, when she called coeds
to a mass assembly tomorrow af
ternoon to amend the present con
stitution of the all-women’s organ
ization.
The proposed amendment, al
ready backed by the executive
council of AWS, would do away
with the period of several days be
tween announcement of nomina
tions by the official nominating
committee and actual elections.
If the new measure goes through,
women students will hear the nom
inations at an open mass meeting
and will vote on the candidates
as they leave the assembly.
Election of new coed officers
will be slated for the week of Feb
ruary 10, if the amendment goes
through, Miss Buchanan an
nounced.
The amendment approved by the
executive council, as outlined by
Miss Buchanan, proposes that
clauses two and three of Article
IV of the document, which calls for
a week interim between nomina
tions and elections, be changed to
read as follows: “Election meet
ings: A mass meeting of members
shall be held the fourth week pre
ceding winter term examinations.
At this meeting nominations shall
be presented by the nominating
committee and additional nomina
tions may be made from the floor.
When nominations are closed, the
elections shall follow. The candi
date with the plurality shall be
elected.”
Outgoing officers of the organ
ization, besides the president, are
Vice-president Barbara Warner,
Secretary Maxine Hansen, Treas
urer Elizabeth Steed, Reporter
Betty Jane Biggs, and Sergeant
at-arms Mary Ellen Smith.
Tomorrow’s meeting is slated
for four o’clock, and the building
will be announced in tomorrow’s
Emerald.
MAINTIENS LE DROIT ...
'Mounty' Tingle Tells
Of Adventurous Jobs
By HERB PENNY
“Say, meestar. Herb Osborne is
dead in his shack .”
“Yeah? How do you know he’s
dead ?”
“Oh, he’s dead all right.”
So A1 Tingle of the Canadian
Northwest Mounted Police leaves
his post at Naicam, Saskatchewan,
and goes into the Canadian winter
to bring back the lonely bachelor
who had died of heart failure.
Alfred Tingle, class of '38 at
Oregon, had had his application in
for some time before he Went to
Ottawa after graduation and
joined the “mounties.” Now after
two years in the service he is back
again in Eugene on leave to visit
his aunt, Mrs. J. B. Tingle, former
head of the home economics depart
ment at Oregon.
“I started my training at Re
gina, and the preliminary work is
rigorous,” smiled the mounty. A1
was sent to Saskatoon after he
left Regina and then left for Nai
cam to be one-half of a two-man
post.
An important part of Al’s work
is taking prisoners to the two
jails at Regina and Prince Albert.
Most of the prisoners go for only
3 or 4 month, A1 said, but hand
cuffs are usually kept on them.
Mounties are considerate of their
prisoner’s feelings and frequently
use leg irons, which are less con
spicuous.
Mounties have to sign up for five
years, A1 revealed, and they can’t
buy their discharge now as they
could before the war. There were
too many patriotic mounties buy
ing their way out of the service
to fight in Europe so the custom
has been stopped.
Just before A1 arrived at Nai
cam a mounty had been killed with
a hammer by a prisoner. The posse
which was immediately rounded
up surrounded the killer at a bluff
where he wrote a diary before
shooting himself. According to the
diary the man could have killed a
mounty in the posse but didn't be
cause he had no dislike for the of
ficer.
“Do they always get their man?”
the mounty was asked. “No,” he
confessed, “but few cases escape
them.” Their motto, in fact is not
“They get their man,” but “Main
| tiens le droit”—Maintain the right.
NO SLACKERS ...
All Students
To Have Part
In Dads' Day
Gate Presentation
Includes March
To Dedication Site
Every member of the University
student body will play a part in
Oregon's gate presentation pro
gram which is planned for dads
Saturday, even down to serving as
individual guides for each father
present, Buck Buchwach, promo
tion chairman, announced last
night.
The presentation ceremonies,
highlight of the three-day Dads'
weekend program this Friday, Sat
urday, and Sunday, will start
promptly at 11:30 following a mass
march from Johnson hall to the
dedication site led by the Univer
sity band.
Full Slate
A short but complete program
has been planned, Karl W. On
thank, dean of personnel, an
nounced. Gates will be officially
opened by Joseph F. Reisch, presi
dent of the Oregon dads, and Dr.
Donald M. Erb, University presi
dent, following presentatiion
speeches.
Participants
Dr. Burt Brown Barker, vice
president of Oregon, will introduce
Mr. Reisch, and included on the
program will be Abbot Lawrence,
gate architect; O. B. Dawson, pro
ject supervisor; Fred Cuthbert,
University landscape architect; E.
J. Griffith, state WPA administra
tor; and Miss Gladys Everett, di
rector of the division of profes
sional and service projects.
Following presentation of the
gates, the University band will
lead another parade through the
gates and up to the library along
a chalk-marked walk.
Civil Service Tests
Open to Architects,
Home Economists
Home economics and architec
ture students can qualify for two
new civil service examinations, ac
cording to announcements re
ceived by the University employ
ment office.
Those having from 16 to 20
hours in home economics, .mostly
in foods and nutrition, and some
statistics are eligible for examin
ation in that field.
Architecture students may qual
ify for the draftsman examination.
Applications must be in Wash
ington by February 20. Full de
tails may be secured at the em
ployment office.
Economics Helper
Shifts Employment
Mary Soranson has resigned her
position as graduate assistant in
the economics department to be
come clerical assistant in the bu
reau of municipal research and ser
vice.
Her place will be taken by
James Clinton Harris, who has
completed his BA requirements at
Willamette university. Harris also
attended Northern Montana col
lege and Washington State college.
The current Issue of the Luth
ern Companion contains an article
on symposium work on the cam
pus written by Kenneth Erickson,
president of the Lutheran students’
association.
Erickson was active in sympo
sium work on the Oregon campus
last year.
CAMPUS RABBI
Rabbi E. Charles Sydney, who
will direct the B'nai B’rith Hillel
councilorship now being established
on the University campus.
NEW GROUP...
Jewish Council
Organized Here
B'nai B'rith Hillel
Unit to Carry Out
Welfare Program
Establishment of a B’nai B’rith
Hillel councillorship on the Univer
sity campus and the appointment
of Rabbi E. Charles Sydney as di
rector of the new unit were at;
nounced recently.
The new organization will aim
to provide a cultural, spiritual and
religious welfare program for
Jewish students on the campus,
similar to those established on 50
other campuses in the country.
These groups serve 30,000 Jewish
students.
Three Schools
Rabbi Sydney, who comes to Eu
gene from Portland, where he was
spiritual leader of Congregation
Ahavai Sholom, is a graduate of
Columbia, Brown and DePaul. He
was ordained a rabbi by the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America.
Before coming to Portland in
1937, he held pulpits in Freeport,
Long Island, and in Chicago.
Board Member
He is a member of the board of
editors of The Scribe, Portland
Jewish weekly; the board of the
Portland Interfaith council; and
the ninth corps area army and navy
service committee of the Jewish
Welfare board.
Active in the Portland chapter
of B’nai B’rith lodge, Rabbi Syd
ney is also president of the Port
land Zionist district.
M. Newbold Obtains
lob as Accountant
Murland Newbold, graduate stu
dent at the University for the past
year, is now accountant at the Eu
gene vocational school, Professor
C. L. Kelly of the school of busi
ness administration, announced
this week.
Newbold attended the southern
branch of the University of Idaho,
then went four years to Utah State
Agricultural college to get his B.S.
degree in 1939. His home is in Lo
gan, Utah. o
Dean Onthank Talks
Dean Karl Onthank spoke Thurs
day at the Springfield high school
assembly where new members of
the National High School Honor
society were presented. His topic
was “Leadership," and he empha
sized good qualities of character
as being the most important re
quirements for leaders.
FREE CONCERT
Opera Singer
To Entertain
Next Tuesday
Gladys Swarthout
Comes, Presented
As 'Greater Artist'
By MILDRED WILSON
One of the most beautiful of
America’s present day operatic
stars, Miss Gladys Swarthout, will
appear before University students
next Tuesday evening as the
fourth Greater Artists presenta
tion of the educational activities
board. Students will be admitted
free to the concert by showing
their activities card.
Equally famous on screen and
radio, Miss Swarthout has made
numerous motion pictures and is
scheduled for more following the
present season. Energetic, hard
working and very interested in her
career and associates, Miss
Swarthout once learned 23 operatic
roles in one summer.
Beginning her career as soloist
in a Kansas City church choir
when she was 13 — they thought
she was 19—Miss Swarthout has
performed on both American and
European stages in the years
since.
Reserved seat prices for faculty
and townspeople are $1.50, $1.25,
and $1.00. Tickets may be pur
chased in McArthur court.
Erb Will Honor GPA
Of Fiji Pledge Class
President Donald M. Erb will
address members of Phi Gamma
Delta’s scholastically outstanding
pledge class at a banquet given in
their honor by the interfraternity
council Thursday evening at 6:30
at Seymours. The Fiji pledges
topped Oregon fraternity pledge
classes.
Members of the council, the
scholarship chairmen or vice
presidents or junior standing of
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Townsend Tops
Point - Gathering
Of Webfoot Five
'Unknown' Fuhrman Shines as Huskies
Tire Soon for Third Consecutive Loss;
Lanky Ducks Lead After See-saw Start
By KEN CHRISTIANSON
Co-Sports Editor, Oregon Daily Emerald
Sparked by Vic Townsend and "unknown” Ralph Fuhrman
with 18 and 12 points, respectively, Oregon’s not-so-tall-firs
handed the University of Washington basketball team its third
successive and worst defeat of the conference season. Score:
Oregon 57, Washington 35. Both teams play again tonight at
8 p. m. in McArthur court.
The loss shoved Hec Edmundson’s Huskies into a tie with
Oregon State for second place in conference standings. Oregon
remains in last place.
Oregon played the hard, driving game for which it is noted.
The Ducks had nothing to lose, so they gave Washington a firm
answer to Edmundson’s early-season challenge, "I hope Oregon
runs with us this year.” Oregon ran and ran. Washington
drove at times but followed the *
bounding Webfoots the rest of the
time.
The game was not rough. Ten 1
personal fouls were called on
Washington; twelve were called 1
on Oregon. Oregon’s Fuhrman who ■
had watched the other games from
the sideline was the only man to
leave the game on fouls. ,
Lead Changes
The lead see-sawed back and
forth eight times during the first
half. However, after Oregon once
began to out-drive the Huskies,
Oregon could not be stopped. Up
and down the court the Ducks
drove. Faster and faster, they ran
and during part of the second half,
Washington was only able to stop
the successive Oregon scores by
calling for time out or by shoving
in substitutions. Then the Web
foots would continue on their mer
ry scoring spree.
It was Townsend who led the
way ip the second half. Fuhrman
collected each of his 12 points in
the first period, while Townsend
pitched in with five. Oregon held a
nine-point advantage at halftime,
but it wasn’t enough for the win
hungry Ducks. Townsend seem
ingly sent a steady stream of bas
ketballs through the hoop until
Oregon’s Coach Hobby Hobson
sent In reserves by the handfuls.
Oregon went on to build up the
lead even with the reserves who
weren’t supposed to score. At the
gun, Oregon led by 22 points.
Dalthorp Deads Off
In the first half, Norm Dal
thorp drew first blood for Wash
ington. Then Captain George An
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COKES ENTICE TYPICALS...
Ideal' Sophomores
Rest Among Lauiels
By ADELE SAY
Amid cokes and laurels, rested
Betty Jane Biggs (B.J.) and Russ
Hudson (red-dog), winners of the
titles, "ideal sophomore boy” and
"ideal sophomore girl.”
Said lean red-haired Russ, "I
think it’s wonderful, I’ve never
been anything ideal before.”
Said Betty Jane, pretty assist
ant news editor of the Emerald,
“I’ve been ‘always the bridesmaid
but never the bride.’ One of my
best friends was chosen queen of
the peach bowl and another one
won a beauty contest, but what
did I do, I wrote the publicity for
them.”
Early Dinner
At this point Lyle Nelson, editor
of the Emerald, flashed another
picture of them. Then be-freckled
Russ pushed aside his coke,
grinned broadly ,and said that din
ner was early tonight, so he’d have
to leave.
"Say, wait a minute,” said Betty
Jane, getting the old newspaper
clip in her voice, "what are your
hobbies?”
“Oh, I swim, play tennis,” and
Russ’ cheeks got rosier, '“sing.”
“I’ll tell you something else,”
Russ paused shyly, “I was editor
of the Tilllcum, The Dalles high
school paper.”
“Well, thank you a lot,” said
Betty Jane, "we can leave now.”
News to Betty
“What did you say? An inter
view with me?” Betty Jane
looked surprised as she was
stopped at the door. She bright
ened, “I think that would be fun.”
“Well, I had a paper route when
I was six years old in Wheatland,
California, and I still live there
now.
At Yuba City high school, Betty
was editor of the high school pa
per two years, started the annual
and was editor of it one year.
“The name of the annual was
‘The Honker’—that means goose,”
explained Betty Jane.
This girl Friday doesn’t smoke,
doesn’t paint her toe-nails, is hap
piest in her Kwama sweater and
frankly admits that she knows
nothing about music, cooking, or
sewing. tl
NO QUEEN
Life Abandons
Valentine Girl
Beauty Race
Lack of Interest
Given as Reason;
Hoover Said Tops'
Two more chapters in the his
tory of the selection of Oregon’s
Ideal Valentine girl were written
yesterday when the editors of Life
magaz^ie announced' their choice
of Jeai) Hoover and the editors of
the Oregonian voted to give the
honor to Dorothy Havens.
Pictures of the seven finalists
were sent to both the Oregonian
and to T.ife because the campus
committee could not agree on
which one of the seven to desig
nate as Oregon’s Ideal Valentine
girl. The two sets of judges also
disagreed, one picking Miss Hoov
er and the other Miss Havens|
Publication Due
The pictures of both girls will
be run side by side in an issue of
the Oregonian shortly before Val
entine’s day, Mr. Edward M. Mill
er, Sunday editor, notified the Em
erald yesterday. Pictures of the
other five will be grouped around
the two winners, he said.
Life will not run the pictures,
the letter from them announced,
because too few colleges responded
to the call for pictures. Out of 45
state colleges and universities, in
45 different states, only 14 res
ponded with pictures of girls.
“Fine Selection”
“We wanted a representative
section of the United States and
the few entries we received indi
cated that we do not have a story,”
the editors wrote. They compli
mented the University of Oregon
on the fine selection of girls, es
pecially Miss Hoover.
“Please accept, however, our
thanks for your own splendid co
operation. Since you have asked
us to make a selection, we have
after some deliberation awarded
the palm to Miss Jean Hoover. Con
gratulations to Miss Hoover, and
our regrets that we cannot publish
the pictures you sent.”
The letter was signed by Oliver
Jensen, one of the editors of Life.
The other five finalists were:
Emma Verdurmen, Eleanor Seder
strom, Jean Morrison, Carolyn
Chapman, and Edith Bush.
Two Pledge Houses
Bob Brooke of Ontario pledged
Phi Kappa Psi, and John Walsh,
Jr. of Forest Grove joined the
Sigma Alpha Epsilon pledge class,
according to announcement from
he office of the dean of men.