EDIT PAGE: AWS Acts To Remove Politics UNIVERSITY OP OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1941 SPORTS: Sports Scribes Immortalize Hobby's Guys VOLUME XLII NUMBER 73 Mrs. Roosevelt Booked for UO Lecture First Lady To Speak In Eugene Activities Office Announces Plans For April 30 Talk Final contracts have been signed for a lecture to be given on the campus by Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady of the land, as part of her spring lecture tour, the activities office revealed Tuesday, April 30, has been set as the date for Mrs. Roosevelt’s speech which is on the topic, “Cultural Relationships Be tween American Republics." Tentative plans for the Roose velt appearance were released last term, and the lecture has finally been made definite by a special ex tension of her touring time. The tour as originally formulated was to have been over by the middle of April, but in answer to numer ous requests, a Portland engage ment, sponsored by the American Legion, and her talk at the Uni versity, were added to her sched ule. The activities office announced that no social functions have been planned for Mrs. Roosevelt, as her time will be limited. She is to come from San Fran cisco and will leave for Portland the morning after her lecture here. From Portland, according to present plans, Mrs. Roosevelt will proceed to Seattle where she will visit her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John Boettiger. MOVIES Students to See Chinese Picture Documentary Reel Shows Four Times In Chapman Hall The Chinese determination that victory will finally come to them and their cause is emphasized in the free educational film, “The 400,000,000’’ which will be pre sented four times Thursday. The picture, accompanied by a March of Time feature “Japan’s War in China,” will be shown in the thea ter room (207) of Chapman hall. Ail University students will be admitted to the showings upon presentation of educational activ ities cards. "The 400,000,000,” a document ary film, running 55 minutes, was produced by Joris Ivens and John Ferno in China and has, as an add ed attraction, background music by Hans Eisler. As a whole the movie deals with the efforts towards modernization of China under the leadership of Sun Yat-Sen; the background of ancient civilization, foreign ex ploitation of China, particularly by the Japanese; the effect of mod ern warfare on the whole popula tion; and finally the unification of democratic China and its heroic resistance to invasion. Times for the University show ings of “The 400,000,000” will be 3:15, 4:30, 7:15, and 8:30. Betty Pratt Reviews In the absence of Dr. J. R. Bran ton, who will be unable to give his * regular Wednesday afternoon Bible lecture at 4 o’clock in the bunga low, Betty Pratt, chairman of the YWCA book review committee, will review “Religious Living,” by Georgia Harkness. WPA vs. Law School The women are complaining And habitually disdaining The attitude and actions of the WPA. They say they stand around With their feet upon the ground, And look at all the women in the doggone queerest way. Well, maybe this is so. I really wouldn’t know. But on thinking o'er the matter, I have just got this to say. Oh, they may be bold and all. But on the steps of Fenton hall, There's a bunch of boys that can outdo those fellas any day. —J.W.S. Anderson Yanks Cage Win From U W Hands Oregon PuiSs Ahead With 17 Seconds Left By BOB FLAVELLE Co-Sports Editor, Oregon Daily Emerald “I had a hunch, Hank, I guess you had one too.” So spoke Hobby Hobson to the crippled, smiling, Hank ‘‘The Needle” Anderson who but a few short minutes before had turned McArthur court into a mad scene cf hysterical, jov (Phase turn io page four) | THEIR WORK STARTS . .JS . “The Taming of the Shrew” opens tonight for (he first of a four night run in Gerlinger hall’s alumni room: and these two coeds, mem bers of the University Guild Theater, will perform in leading roles. They are Heiene Parsons (left) and Bettie Jane Quigley. SHADES OF SHAKESPEARE!... 'Taming of the Shrew’ Opens Four-Day Run Tonight in Gerlinger Guild Theater Presents Two Showings Every Evening; Harland, Parsons Alternate in Role of Stormy Kate When the curtain goes up tonight at 7 o’clock in Alumni hall at Gerlinger, first nighters will settle back in their seats to witness a streamlined performance such as Shakespeare didn't dream of when he wrote his “Taming of the Shrew.” The whole performance, lasting an hour, will be followed at 8:30 by a second show. Coffee will be served before the first show. Tickets for each performance are 25 cents. Two lovely heroines will alternate in the role ot ine stormy Kate, Trudy Harland and Helene Parsons. Oregon Dads are specially in vited to either of the two Saturday performances , the 2:30 matinee or the evening show which starts at 9:45 to void conflict with the bas ketball game. Thursday and Friday nights there will be single preformances only. The curtain will go up at 7:15 both nights. Tickets to single shows are 25 cents and can be purchased at the box office or by phoning campus extension 217. Spanish Grouts Will Learn Novel Songs, Dances at Meeting Definite plans have been made for a second meeting of students interested in Spanish, on Wednes day at 7:30 p.m. in the sun parlor of Gerlinger. Students are asked to enter the building on the south side, according to Dr. L. O. Wright, professor of Romance languages. Miss Darlene Warren, who took special folk dancing training in Mexico City last summer, has been asked to come and teach the group Mexican dances. Tickets in Johnson Tickets for the third annual first | citizen banquet which will be held at 6:30 today at the Osborn ho | tel, may be obtained in the presi j dent’s office, Johnson hall. FOLLOW SUIT AWS Mai] Break Political Bands Proposed Reform To Re Presented By Mortar Board Tearing down of political fences in women’s politics will be the main order of business tomorrow when members of the Associated Women Students meet at 4 o’clock in the main assembly hall of Vil lard hall to vote on an election amendment to their constitution. Previously scheduled for today, the mass meeting was moved up to Thursday because of a conflict with the silver tea sponsored by women students this afternoon. President Betty Buchanan will wigld the gavel at tomorrow’s as sembly, when coeds will hear a member of Mortar Board, senior women’s honorary, proposing the reform, explain its setup and the principles of the plan. Then a vote will be taken. If the amendment is passed, it will slate both AWS nominations and elections for some time next week, and will eliminate the week’s period between the nominating as sembly and the actual election. Purpose of the change is to do away with aligning of living or ganizations into political forces, Miss Buchanan explains. Student Union Boomed Anew Union Now!— An Editorial JNFLATE a balloon just so far and it bursts. Talk about Student Unionism just so many years and it pops into ears of mothers, dads, alumni, faculty members and others sincerely interested in student welfare Common knowledge it is that Oregon needs what deceased Glenn Frank once termed as a “Home of Learning”—a Sin dent Union building. Agitation for such a structure began during the student ad ministration of President John MacGregor in 1923 and perennially it blew up and died down. Today chatter on the subject is increasing, vibrating walls of living or ganizations. Throbbing with ideas of Student Union ism, yesterday two Emerald staff members questioned veteran professors who might appreciate Oregon's shortcomings. Aca BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT—17 YEARS AGO x .a *■ *9*"u^ *i "Ax Student unionism at Oregon began growing during the school year of 1U3S-24 when John MacGregor, now a Manhattan attorney, served as student body president. Watching the Union gift campaign’s tall thermometer rise ever higher in front of Johnson administration building are undergraduates attired in costumes (piite different from present-day habits. After 17 years of hull-sessions on possible ways to erect a building for extra-curricular activities, Oregon's student body recently began to study Student unionism under the direction of John Cavanagh, first vice president of the ASUO. denncians were asked: Since the students have built about a million and a half dollars worth of buildings for academic purposes through the building fund, and since a definite need for such a building is evident, do you think the next structure to rise on University soil should be the Student Union?” # * * jy^OST of the answers were in affirmative tones, and from such sources we cite the following: George Turnbull: Student life on the campus is perhaps intellectually adequate at present but physically the needs are inconvenient because of scattered activities. Students have helped out University of Oregon purposes fo)r,merly and should now be entitled to build something of their own. James Gilbert: Unquestionably yes. It has a distinct preference from every angle. Anyone that has anything to do with the building program would place it first. (Please turn to page two) Burlap O'erlaps As'Half 'n Half' Rules in Regalia Don’t be too astonished if you see "half green and half tan,” if heraldry seems to have come hack in fashion, and if burlap seems to be the masculine vogue on the campus Wednesday and Thursday! According to the word from Glenn Hasselrooth, president of Tabard Inn, the tabards being worn by eight undergraduate males on the campus are only part of the society’s initiation ceremonies, which will take place during the next two days. The pledges are Neil Koch and "Deacon” Smith, winners of the Tabard Inn campus talent round un, and six others: Hugh Mc Menamin, Jonathan Kahananui, Tom Judd, Jerry O’Callaghan, Ep Hoyt, and George Hart. Initiation of the neophyte oc tet will come to a conclusion with a ceremonial banquet start ing at 6 o’clock Thursday eve ning at the Anchorage. On that occasion an honorary member ship will be conferred upon John Hawkins, Portland novel ist, who will also give a talk on "Writing Fiction for the ‘Slicks’.” Fansett, Vernstrom Attend Conference Elmer C. Fansett, secretary of the alumni association, and Roy Vernstrom, editor of Old Oregon, will leave today for Portland to attend a meeting of northwestern colleges at Reed college. Round table discussions will form part of the program, with in terest centering on alumni pro grams, it was announced. HIGH FLYING... Future UO Pilots To Meet Tonight Fifty Men, Women Enroll for 'Spring' Air Training Class The 5 women and 45 men who make up the spring class of civil ian pilot training under the CAA will meet at 7 tonight in 103 Deady hall. All members should bring their student permits. The 72-hour ground course of fers training sufficient to make those who complete it eligible for private pilots’ licenses. It includes 24 hours of instruction in naviga tion, 24 hours of meteorology, and 24 hours of civil air regulations. A 35 to 45-hour flight course is available at the Eugene flying ser vice. The airport also provides 18 hours of ground instruction cov ering aircraft operations and air craft servicing. Members of the class are: Jay Ambrose, Lester Anderson, Robert Anderson, Norman Angell, Gilbert Burleigh, Marjorie Bates, Bob Calkins, Howard Cavanagh, Ralph Claybaugh, Cameron Collier, Jim Crump, Suzanne Cunningham, Harry Davidson, Pat Dorsey, Joe Downey, John Flanagan, Norman Foster. Kenneth Gaines, Bruce Giesy, Irwin Goodman, Joe Gurley, Jack Hannegan, John Harding, Kelley Holbert, Clyde Hollenbeck, Robert Hone, Robert Kendall, Clarence Lindquist, Howard Lorence, Frank C. McKinney, Daniel Mahoney, Frank Morgan, Gerald Newton, Earl Nichols, Burt Nicoll, Bion Osborne. Mary-Joan Parkinson, Arnold Reed, Edwin Reiner, Franklin Ren (Please turn to page four) IN VILLARD... Class of '44 To Nominate Councilmen Scholastic Rating Only Requirement For Eligibility Nominations for the six-man council which will govern activi ties of the majority class of 1944 will be made at 7:30 tonight at Villard. Under the constitution adopted by the “outlaw” class three weeks ago, anyone registered as a fresh man at the University is consid ered a class member with full vot ing privileges. Persons nominated, however, must satisfy University scholastic eligibility requirements before they will be allowed to run. According to Chuck Woodruff, class leader, nominees must procure a state ment of scholastic eligibility either from the dean of men or the dean of women. After nominations are made from the floor, nominees will file a declaration of intention to run with the presiding officer, "prob ably John Cavanagh," first vice president of the ASUO. Persons filing their intention to run must then pass an eligibility test before their names will appear on the ballot at the class election some time the middle of next week. Covering parliamentary law and campus movement, the tests will be given in 107 Friendly, office of Speech Instructor Marvin Krenk, class adviser. This nominating assembly will be the first meeting the new group has sponsored since they brought the freshman “civil war” to a cli max three weeks ago tonight when they formally organized. Woodruff emphasized that no class cards would be required for attendance at the meeting or for nominations. Morris Will Speak Dean Victor P. Morris, school of business administration, speahs Thursday night at the Osborne ho tel on “Creative Citizenship” to members of the local realty board and “first citizen” choice of all Eugene’s citizens, Cal Young. Mr. Young will be honored at the din ner. Student Unionists Plan Tri-Group Meeting Friday Varsity, Frosh, Sophomore Committees Will Hear Plans for Telling Student Body Of Building Opportunities on UO Campus By BOB FRAZIER All three student union committees will meet Friday to hear “very definite plans" for acquainting the student body with needs and possibile sites for a student union building on the campus. According to John Cavanagh, chairman of the varsity committee, who will head the large meeting Friday, this tri-committee meeting will perhaps prove the most important student union meeting ever held on the campus. Exact place of the meeting has not been determined, since there ia no place on the campus where committees may be surely schedul ed. Th“ meeting place will be announced in Thursday’s Emer ald, however. Cites Needs Cavanagh cited the present needs as places for a ballroom, banquet facilities, lounge, and meeting rooms for student activity groups. The University employ ment office also needs better hous ing, he said. Management of educational ac tivities, now in the Igloo, would be come part of such a building. If a building were constructed on the campus student activities could be better coordinated, he said. At present meeting places and offices are “booths in the Col lege Side, and dresser drawers.” Contact Faculty Emerald staff members contact ed faculty members yesterday to find their opinions on the need of a building on the campus. Favor able results of these inquiries are printed in today’s front page edi torial. Chairmaned by Cavanagh, the varsity committee includes: Glenn Williams, Ruth Hartley, Eleanor Sederstrom, Marge McLean, Bar bara Pierce, and Oglesly Young. Soph Committee The sophomore committee which was organized last year is chair maned by Glenn Williams. The freshman committee chairman is Oglesby Young. The freshman committee was appointed late in January to sup plement the work of the other two groups. Stevens Institute of Technology received gifts totaling $96,562 in the fiscal year 1939-40. FOR BRITAIN... Former Student To Speak Today In Gerlinger Hall Ann-Reed Burns, Kwama, Phi Bete Leads Discussion Miss Ann-Reed Burns, ’36, grad uate of Oregon who received her BA in journalism at Oregon, will speak today on "Future Relations of Mexico and the United States” at a silver tea benefit for “Bundles for Britain" in Alumni hall of Ger linger from 3:30 to 5:30 this af ternoon. While at the University Miss Burns was a member of Kwama and Phi Beta Kappa, worked on the Emerald staff, and held office as senior class secretary and pres ident of the AWS. Pouring at the tea will be Mrs. Frederick M. Hunter, Mrs. Donald M. Erb, Mrs. J. F. Reade, and Mrs. Lillian Sherwin. Mrs. Dan E. Clark is general chairman for the tea, representing the “Bundles for Britain” organi zation. Two other sponsors for this afternoon’s event are AWS, represented by Betty Buchanan, president, and Phi Beta, profes sional music and drama honorary represented by Mrs. Daniel D. Gage.