SPORTS:
UO Mermen
To Battle
Riff Raff Today
VOLUME XLII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1941
NUMBER 84
LIBRARY
U. OF ORE.
YWCA to Elect Officers at Assembly
RAH! RAH!...
Rally Petitions’
Deadline Delayed
Executive Committee Postpones Meeting
Of Pep Squad Aspirants Until Monday;
Officials Will Decide on Chairman Today
Because of the excessive number of petitions filed by students for
the 11 positions on the rally squad, the executive committee has post
poned interviewing the applicants from this evening until 7 o’clock
Monday.
Deadline for presenting applications to AKtTO officials has also been
extended until 5 o’clock this evening.
At 3 p.m. today the ASUO officers will vote on the four candidates
WORKADAY»..
NYA Committee
Meets Today
To Hear Report
NYA Future May
Depend on Survey
Members Listed
The committee for a local NYA
survey will meet today at 4 in the
men’s lounge at Gerlinger.
The meeting will consist of a
report by the committee which
drew up the questions, Ken Erick
son, chairman, aided by Miss Leila
Nelson and the state director.
Report Stated
The report of the committee will
1 be the first of its kind to take
place in this state. Dean R. W.
Leighton, Dean Karl Onthank, and
the state director of NYA will su
pervise the work and make the
report to Washington.
The survey may determine the
future of NYA on the campus.
Committee Members
Members of the committee to
meet Thursday are:
Ann Ames, Helen Angell, Buck
Buchwach, John Coursey, Jane
Dachtelberg, Wyman French,
Blake Hirsh, Hope Hughes, Lawr
ence Jolma, Bob Keen, Earle May
nard, George Mosher, Leila Nelson,
Merlin Nelson, Hal Olney, Ivan
Parker, Leighton Platt, Jack Rob
inson, Stan Robinson, Ray Schrick,
Milton Small, Elva Jane South,
Elizabeth Steed, Wes Sullivan,
Frank Tobie, Roy Vernstrom.
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Noble Talk to End
Student Fund Drive
“War and the Japanese People”
is the title of the lecture by Dr.
H. J. Noble when he speaks Tues
day night, February 25, at 7:30 in
Alumni hall, Gerlinger.
Twenty-five cents general admis
sion and 10-cent student ticket
proceeds will be added to the Uni
versity’s world student service
fund.
Dr. Noble is one of the three
greatest living authorities on the
Orient and Eastern affairs.
All living organizations which
have not yet turned in their money
* from the “tag” sale are asked by
Les Anderson and Mary Louise
Vincent, chairmen of the sale, to
leave the contributions with the |
secretary of the YMCA.
'All Baba' Scheduled
Tonight by Students
Over Station KOAC
“Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves”
will be heard tonight at 7:30, when
the speech division puts on its
weekly hour show. Dick Walker,
Dick Turner, and Ruth Condon
have leading roles, supported by
other radio students.
Bettie Jane Quigley is in charge ;
of the poetry portion of the pro
gram.
The campus interview, heard at
8:15, will feature another Oregon
student, Dave Zilka, who will in
terview an expert at fencing. Pro
grams and direction are super
vised by Don Hargis, instructor in
speech.
tor rally cnairman. These tour
students were interviewed by the
committee Tuesday.
Selection will be based on scho
lastic ability and personality quali
fications. Remaining positions on
the squad are: one senior woman,
two junior men, two junior women,
three sophomore men, and three
sophomore women.
Petitions of those reviewed for
chairman include: Les Anderson,
member of the ’40-'41 squad; Bob
Greer, ’39-’40 assistant yell leader;
Pete Lamb, member of the ’39-’40
squad; and Art Wiggins, ’40-’41
assistant yell leader.
HAGGLE.. HAGGLE
Business Confab
Plans Progress
Student Committee
Members Form
Program Today
Student suggestions will become
a definite part of the plans for the
student-business conference sched
uled for February 25, 26, and 27
when members of the student com
mittee working on the program
meet this afternoon at 4 o’clock
in 106 Commerce.
Nearly one-third of the student
population of the University of
Oregon will be concerned directly
with the conferences being planned
for next week between students
and business leaders from Port
land, Salem, Eugene, and other
leading Oregon cities.
Committee Members
Members of the student commit
tee as announced by Mrs. Ruth
May Thompson, secretary of the
school of business administration,
are:
Jack Thompson, Aileen Guy,
Shelton Ingle, Lawrence Jolma,
Norma Johnson, Stewart Hay
ward, Clifford Matsen, Ed Lawson,
Richard Blickenstaff, Robert Dev
erell, Jason Mervin, Jack Shim
shak, and Bob Chilcote, on the
committee for Tuesday’s program.
Wednesday, Thursday List
Charles Frazee. Stan Staiger,
Gordon Bailey, Bill Knight, Frank
Albrecht, Lem Putnam, Norma
Johnson, Martin Hoffman, Wallace
White, Riley Hanson, Leonard
Ruecker, Kenneth Cherrick, and
Leonard Clark in charge of the
sessions Wednesday, February 26.
Allyn Shaw, Wallace White, Ce
cil Igoe, Robert Simmons, Frazee,
Lorene Marguth, Peggy Faris,
Laurita Christofferson, Maxine
Klinge, Bob Chilcote, Lloyd W’il
son, Leonard Clark, and Martin
Hoffman, in charge of the last day,
Thursday, February 27.
ANOTHER ELECTION'S OVER—THE VICTORS
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Here arc the results of the recent majority class election-six winners, couneilmen in the new Uni
versity of Oregon freshman “majority class.” The group pictured here includes (left to right) Beverly
Padgham, I’ly Dorais, Charles Woodruff, chairman of the council, Bill Moshofsky, Grace Babbitt, and Dick
Shelton.
SPARE A DIME?...
Students Get Chance
To Give Co-op Slips
Boxes Placed in Houses to Collect
Contributions; Living Organizations
Giving Greatest Value Earn Recognition
Opportunity for all Oregon students to contribute to student union
funds was made available yesterday when boxes for co-op receipts
were placed in all campus living organizations.
The receipt committee, a division of Oglesby Young's freshman
student union committee, is headed by Uly Dorais.
Dorais asked that all students deposit their co-op receipts in these
Editing Class Plans
To Conduct Survey
Frank Meek, Betty Keller, and
Bill Fendall, members of the edit
ing class, are planning a public
opinion survey of Eugene, Eric W.
Allen, dean of the school of jour
nalism, announced Wednesday. Dr.
George Gallup, head of the Ameri
can Institute of Public Opinion,
and Elmo Roper, head of Fortune
' magazine survey, have consented
to help these students plan this
survey.
Dr. C. F. Kossack, instructor in
mathematics, Miss Beatrice Aitchi
son, instructor in economics, and
Dean Allen are also helping with
plans for the survey.
Plans for the survey have been
worked out in detail, Dean Allen
said, and are ready to be submit
ted to Dr. Gallup and Elmo Roper.
The survey group has not yet
decided upon questions to be used
for the survey and are still con
sidering suggestions.
Jameson to Speak
Dr. S. H. Jameson, nrofessor of
sociology, will sneak at the month
ly meeting of the Oregon confer
ence cn family relations which will
take place at a noon luncheon to
day in the Jane Addams high
school in Portland.
Three One-Acts Are Free
Plays Billed Tonight
The play production class of the drama department will present three
one-act plays at 7:30 o’clock this evening on the Guild hail stage at
Johnson. The casts are all University students, while directors are
from drama division personnel.
Simple settings will be used, but stage lighting and furniture will
be complete. Admission to the
short program is free and open to
all University students.
An all-male cast is being used in
“Moonset,” including Oglesby
Young, Dick Igl, Alan Foster,
Vernon Randall, Frank Loomis,
and Harley Davis. This play is
being directed by Mary Staten, a
senior in the drama department.
Jean Horton has in her cast for
"Little Darling-,” Helen Barklow,
Jeanette Harbert, Margaret Sap
pington, Bill Wood, Mary Van
Noye, and Jean Harper. Lillian
Davis, Helen Johnston, and Victor
Zahn are in “Love Song,” directed
by George Smith.
boxes. Returns will be turned
over to a furnishing fund for the
projected student union building.
Cornerstone Plug
The men's and women’s houses
turning in the greatest value in
co-op receipts wi'l be given recog
nition of some sort in cornerstone
laying ceremonies. The freshman
committee will co!lect receipts ev
ery two weeks, and the winners
will be announced at the end of
the year.
Representatives from campus liv
ing groups met with the receipt
committee Wednesday afternoon
to receive instructions and deposit
boxes. Dorais explained to them
that the success of student union
depended to a large extent on the
enthusiasm of Oregon students,
themselves.
Reports Heard
Following the receipt meeting,
the entire freshman committee
heard reports from other commit
tees on assembles, displays, post
ers, and publicity.
There was a brief discussion on
the bill now before the state legis
lature which would authorize con
struction of a student union build
ing at Oregon and a gymnasium
at Oregon State.
Three Houses to Vie
For $75 Song Prize
Three women’s houses, chosen
Saturday after semi-final elimina
tions in the music auditorium, will
compete in the finals of the ASUO
all-campus sing contest some time
later in the year, according to Lea
Ready, chairman.
Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta,
and Pi Beta Phi, the houses cho
sen, will take part in the final
competition for a prize of $75.
Men’s semi-finals are scheduled
for Saturday morning in the music
auditorium. The men’s groups will
also be competing for a $75 first
prize.
Theta Sigs Select
Five junior women were pledg
ed to Theta Sigma Phi, women's
journalism sorority, Monady. They
include Doris Caldwell, Jean Ad
ams, Barbara Roberts, Erros Pen
land and Pat Taylor.
Campus Romeo
Seeks Juliet
In Bug House
Bill Loud can't even throw a
note into the second story of
the infirmary. He stood under
Joyce Hansen’s window for 15
minutes trying to flip an epis
tle into her window, and could
n’t even hit the side of the build
ing. . .
Thergyis an a|leged romance
between v wafd nipe and ward
two.
Patients . . . too. Jim Burness,
Bill Norene, Gertrude Hoak,
Nonda Pirtle, Miriam LaMarr
Wood, Joyce Hansen, Shirley
Holcomb, ‘Joan Cross, Dorothv
Greer. Phvl Dube, Fred Hill,
Fred Llovd, Cris Lundseth. Amos
Jahn, Nelson Sandgren, Howard
Oirdlestone. Ed Bovdell, Gene
Edwards, Burr Monrad, Paul
Bolton, Chuck Rowe, Maurice
Solomon, Fred Timmen, John
Slottee, Hugh Muir, and Cliff
Anet.
Campus Calendar
The YW dill pickle club will hold
their mothers’ tea Thursday af
ternoon between 3 and 5 p.m.
The transcribed town hall radio
program will be tuned in at West
minster house tonight for the ben
efit of students interested in na
tional affairs.
Westminster dramatics club will
meet at 4 p.m.
Jeff Dorroh, Jim Doern, Rav
Foster, Johnny Kahananui, and
Carl Orcutt are asked to come
to the civilian pilot training of
fice in 314 Fenton immediately to
eet their school graduation cer
tificates.
Kwama meeting will be he’d at
4 :30 this afternoon at Chi Omega.
Skull and Dagger will meet to
night at the DU house at 7:15.
AWS council Oregana pictures
wi'l be taken between 11 and 12
this morning in the council room
; of Gerlinger hall. Junior and sen
ior officers in military will be
photographed at 2:45 by the Mil
itary building. Wrestling team
Oregana pictures will be taken in
the men’s physical education build
ing at 4:30, today.
Executive council of the ’41 club
will meet today at 4 p.m. at the
i College Side.
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Assistant yell leader aspirants
j may meet for tryouts with Earle
Russell, yell king, at the main en
; trance of the Igloo today at 4:30.
j Previous experience is not neces
sary.
—
Amphibian meeting will take
: place at the pool tonight. Mem
: hers please be at the pool by 7:30
l for Oregana pictures.
BIG MEETING ...
Independents
Meet at OSC
Spring Term
Temporary Head
Cavanagh Confers
With Beavers
Plans for Oregon’s part In a
northwest conference of indepen
dent students, to be held on the
OSC campus early spring term,
were approved last night by the
association of independent stu
dents.
The conference, under joint spon
sorship of Oregon and Oregon
State independents, it is believed
will attract representatives from
all major northwest colleges and
universities.
According to John Cavanagh.
temporary chairman of the group,
last night’s reports were the re
sults of a conference with Jerry
Bowers and Guy Monroe, OSC
independent leaders, on this cam
pus Sunday.
Activities Participation
Main problem before the con
ference will probably be “ways to
secure opportunities for greater
participation of independent stu
dents in student government and
student activities,” Cavanagh said.
Association representatives
meeting at the Side last night
heard a series of reports on uni
versal class membership and ten
cent class cards by Jean Spearow
and Steve Worth.
Cavanagh announced that John
ny Kahananui would be in charge
of an investigation into means of
class finance without the use of
class cards.
The association cabinet, made
up of all chairmen, will meet Fri
day at 3 p.m. in the Side to dis
cuss promotion and contacts, Cav
anagh said.
'Dear Diarq' Theme
Of WAA Banquet
"Dear Diary” will be the theme
of the annual winter term WAA
banquet to be held tonight at the
Anchorage at 5:30. The dinner is
for all WAA members, and the
price will be 55 cents.
Highlight of the evening will be
announcement of election results,
and presentation of all trophy and
check awards earned during the
past year.
Janet Morris is chairman of the
dinner, and her committee heads
include: Virginia Bubb, invita
tions; Frances Tomlinson, flow
ers; Winifred Wilhelm and Helen
Jane Kerr, program; Gertrude Pu
ziss, finance; and Janet Ross and
Adele Canada, decorations.
Late reservations may be made
until noon today by calling Virginia
Bubb, 729.
$3 Hanging Fire
The army won’t have to wear tuxes
Declare all the Ball dance direc
tors
So shed a slight tear for the
pocketbook of
The poor conscientious objectors.
—J.W.S.
'Clean Politics’
Clause Gets Acid
Test by Women
AWS Nominating Committee Will Name
Two Candidates for Each Group; Retiring
Officers of Organizations Named
By BETTY JANE BIGGS
The new “clean politics’’ amendment to the AWS constitu
tion will be given its first practical test this morning as politi
cally-minded coeds vote on campus women leaders following the
mass-meeting at 11 o'clock in Gerlinger hall.
Two candidates will be named for officers of AWS, WAA,
and YWCA by the nominating committee which is composed
of senior members of the AWS cabinet. Nominations will be in
order from the floor after the committee’s report.
According to the new amendment, adopted February 7, elec
tion of the officers will be held
immediately after the nominees
have been named and personally
introduced.
Voting Privileges
Blank ballots will be handed out
at the door so coeds may fill in
their choice. All voters are asked
to provide their own pencils.
Outgoing officers for the AWS
include: Betty Buchanan, presi
dent: Barbara Warner, vice-presi
dent: Maxine Hansen, secretary;
Elizabeth Steed, treasurer; Betty
Jane Biggs, reporter; and Mary
Ellen Smith, sergeant-at-arms.
WAA Leaders
WAA leaders to be replaced are:
Joanne Riesch, president; Hope
Hughes, vice-president; Jean Burt,
secretary; Bette Morfitt, treasur
er; Mildred McCarthy, custodian;
Hazel Oldfield, head of sports; Pat
Lawson, sergeant-at-arms; Marge
Dibble, reporter.
Elective YW officers who have
completed their term are: Jean
Crites, president; Marge Montgom
ery, vice-president; Bobsie Roehm,
secretary; Kathleen Brady, treas
urer.
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'Bonus' Concert
Planned Tonight
Symphony to Play
In Music Assembly;
Cards Unnecessary
The University symphony or
chestra, under the direction of its
permanent conductor, Rex Under
wood, will take to the stage of
the music auditorium Thursday
night at 8:15 to offer a “bonus”
concert on the winter term sched
ule. The music school and the edu
cational activities board, which are
co-sponsoring the performance, ex
tend an invitation to all faculty
members and students to attend.
No activities card is necessary for
admission.
The program will feature three
symphonic compositions of the
"standard1 variety, and in addition
offer the first public performance
of “Scherzo,” composition by Nor
man Cory, graduate assistant in
music and writer of the tone-poem,
“Democracy Triumphant.”
The major work to be played will
be “Symphony in D Minor,” which
was apparently a failure as far as
the public was concerned when
first performed 52 years ago.
YMCA Talks Today
Charles E. Funk, Wesley founda
tion director, Clark Enz, campus
promotional chairman of the youth
section of the Portland Christian
mission, and Don Bacot, meeting
chairman, will describe purposes
and plans of the conference before
students at 4 p.m. today in the
YMCA hut.
Saga of Winter Sports
Skiing Film Unrolls
Reel after reel of colored movies
of the most famous and beautiful
winter resorts in the United States
will unfold on the screen tonight
at 8 o’clock in Villard hall.
The film, "Ski America Second,”
is a sequel to “Ski America First”
and has been hailed as one of the
most beautiful sagas of skiing ever
filmed. Hannes Schroll, Dick Dur
rance, FriecTl Pfeiffer, Otto Lang,
Hans Faulkner, Toni Matt, and
countless other ski champions will
be pictured in exhibition and com
petitive skiing.
Slow motion will catch Tor Tor
lund and Ollie Post as they wind
down tortuous slopes. Telescopic
lenses and slow motion will record
spills suffered on the steep apron
of the jump at Berlin, N. H., dur
ing the national ski-jumping cham
pionship meet there.
The lecture is provided by Sid
ney N. Shurcliff, who took the pic
tures. Student prices are 25 cents
and tickets may be purchased at
the door.
ONE O'CLOCK ...
Late Permission
Granted Students
For Military Ball
Allied Arts Provide
Dance Decorations
As Plans Progress
Plans for the military ball in
McArthur court Saturday evening
are progressing rapidly, according
to Fred Ehlers, general chairman
of the dance committee.
One o’eloek permission has been
granted by the dean of women’s
office for the Military ball, it was
announced last night. This is one
of the few major dances granted
this late permission.
Arrangements have been com
pleted to have the Allied Arts dec
orators from Portland provide the
main decorations for the ball, car
rying out a military theme.
Tickets for the dance were called
in yesterday from living organi
zations but will be available in a
limited number at the door Satur
day night. Ticket sales, handled by
military representatives, have sur
passed those of other years, ac
cording to dance heads.
3 Cars Jam
In Collision
Three student cars were dam
aged shortly after 1 p.m. Wednes
day at Thirteenth and Kincaid
streets when the vehicle operated
by John Lund, sophomore in edu
cation, 2585 Agate, collided with
that driven by John Schaefers,
sophomore in business administra
tion, 1367 Alder. Lund’s machine
pushed Schaefer’s car into a parked
car, owned by Ruby Goodrich,
route 2, Eugene, but operated by
Martha Goodrich, graduate stu
dent of route 2.
Otis Dyer of the Eugene police
investigated the accident. All three
cars were insured.
Oeaana Will Take
'41 Pictures Friday
On Chapman Steps
Oregana pictures for charter
members of the ’41 club will be
taken Friday at 12:30 p.m. in front
of Chapman, according to Bob
Gridley, president.
Gridley and other officers were
elected Thursday for the coming
year. Vice-president-elect is Bill
ie Christensen; secretary-treasur
er, John Lund; and publicity chair
man, Jean Burt. The club also
adopted a constitution.
Last open meeting of the club
will be Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. in the
YWCA, Gridley said.
Sullivan Lines Up
Seniors for Jobs
Because his time for interview
ing students Wednesday was lim
ited, Walter J. Sullivan, personnel
director for Pacific Fruit and Pro
duce company, will return in two
weeks for interviews with other
senior students, he told Miss Janet
Smith, employment secretary.
Mr. Sullivan reported that he i3
definitely interested in some of the
students interviewed.