Oregon daily emerald., January 28, 1925, Page 4, Image 4

GILBERT TO GIVE
RADIO LECTURE
Subject of Talk Will Be
Interstate Competition
STATE RIGHTS INVOLVED
"The Plane and Bane of Inter
state Competition” is the title of
the radio lecture to be broadcasted
from station KGW Friday evening
at 8 o'clock by Dr. James H. Gil
bert, professor 'of economics. Dr.
Gilbert is a radio orator of exper
ience. He has broadcasted several
lectures on the income tax situation!,!
Experts are unanimous on tho point
that he has a good radio voice.
The distribution of powers be
tween state and national govern
ment, as it has been an issue in
America since the Constitution of
1787 was framed and adopted, will
be one of the points discussed by
Dr. Gilbert in his 'message to the
'radio world, fiance the days of
Hamilton and Jefferson questions
that divide our political parties
have at bottom usually involved
conflict between state rights on the
one and national sufficiency on the
other.
Greater Centralization Seen
American history is a record of
the fact that there have been con
stitutional changes which have
pointed to greater centralization.
“Economic problems and economic
life have assumed national propor
tions and have transcended the
power of commonwealth govern
ments to reach a solution,” is an
other point to be brought out by
Dr. Gilbert..
Lack of unifonmity in the cor
poration laws of the several states,
failure to control capitalization and
supervise the sale of securities still
constitutes a crying evil. As a rem
edy for this evil, Dr. Gilbert will
tell his radio audience that fed
eral intervention is the sole solu
tion.
State Competition Theory
One theory in establishing the
state system has been for a sort of
competition among states. If any
state wants to try something now,
it can do so. Dr. Gilbert, however,
holds to the theory that it doesn’t.
Instead one state tends to copy an
other, and in this manner it gets
into a rut. This means that there
is no advancement. When a state
docH wunt to go ahead of tho rest
and try something new, it is termed i
radical. Thus, on this point, the
system of independent and sover
eign states has been more or loss
of a failure.
Charter Granted Local;
Theta Chi Installation
Will Occur on March 7
(Continued from page one)
gene; Calvin Yoran and .Tack Lewis,
both of Eugene; (leorge Ross and
Lewis Beeson, both of Ashland;
George Hillis, Lihbv, Montana;
Thomas Graham, Oak Grove; Prank
Loggan, and Burns McGowans,
both of Burns; Emerson Haggerty,
Union; Kenneth McClain, Hood
Liver; Harold Kirk and Pete Lours,
both of Oregon City: Alfred Hoicc,
Troutdale; Robert Fellman and Ed
win Ross, both of Astoria; Sylvester
Stevens, Talent; Louis Lemon, Han
ford, Cal.
Four Pledges in Group
The faculty and honorary mem
bers include: William G. Hale, dean
of the law school; George S, Turn
bull, professor of the school of
journalism; and llal E. Hoss, of
Oregon City, managing editor of
the Oregon City Enterprise and
president of the Oregon State Edi
torial association. The four pledges
of the organization are: Lynn Wy
koff, and Harold Whitlock, both of
Portland; Rallies Epping, Hood
River; and Leroy Baker, Myrtle
Point.
Alumni members of Phi Sigma Pi
who will be initiated when the
chapter is installed are: Rouel 8,
Moore, Portland; Carlton K. Lo
gan, Salem; Dean Moore, Corvallis;
Wilford Allen, Grants Pass; Wil
bur Holton, Portland; Dwight
Gregg, Melvin Kaegi, and John An
derson, all of Ashland; Leland Lap
ham, Portland; Carl Epping, llooc
River; Leonard Hadsall, Bandon;
Aoie Merrifield, Marshfield; Ralpl
E. Poston, La Grande; Henry Kar
penstein, The Dalles; Andrew Kar
peastein, Eugene; Stuart Biles, Gar
den Home; Claire Shumate, Ban
don; Taylor Huston, Oregon City
Marvin Blaha, Oakland, Cal.; Thoo
dore Janes, Astoria; Fremont Byers
Lewis Green, Neil Page, Hand.
Burkitt, Gerald Lawlor, Louis Dam
masch, all of Portland; Llovi
Franks, Oakesdale, Wn.; Edwar
Kaitera, Astoria, and Frank Shouty
iLugene.
RACIAL DIFFERENTIATION AND
FOREIGN EXCLUSION DISCUSSED
Problem of Japanese in California is Conference Topic at
Y. M. C. A. Meeting at Asilomar
(Editor's note: This is the second
of a series of seven articles on the
Asilomar conference held in Monte
rey, California, during the Christ
mas holidays, under the auspices of
the Y. M. C. A. The articles are
being written by Jim Case, from
notes taken by Elam Amstutz, for
ensic manager, who was one of the
11 representatives of the University
at the conference.)
University students oftentimes ex
press themselves heatedly upon the
subject of racial differentiation and
foreign exclusion. Many peculiar
theories and erroneous arguments
are presented at great length in an
attempt to explain the race situa
tion as we have it on the coast and
enmity toward orientals is often
harbored without cause.
In the opinion of many of the del
egates to the Asilomar conference,
American citizens, in certain dis
tricts, lend themselves unreservedly
to the racial situation, then wonder
at the effects. California, for in
stance, has become in modern times
one of the favorite playgrounds of
America and resultantly, manual
labor on the part of the native sons
is considered debasing to a certain
extent. The urgent need of vulgar
labor has been filled, and very ef
ficiently so, by the Japanese but
the very act of filling the gap has
brought upon their heads maledic
tion.
Of course there are other and
more fundamental reasons for the
situation in America. The fact that
this continent occupies the center,
the place where the orient and Oc
cident meet, is one cause. Greater
facility in movement, by rail and
water, is another. In former times,
nature provided geographical bar
riers to separate the different peo
ples but with modern invention, and
discovery, artificial barriers must
of necessity be constructed to pre
vent the intermingling of nations.
Tn California, where the situation
is, perhaps, most acute, it is found
that racial difficulties are not
confined to the Japanese and
Whites, but others are involved al
son. At Monterey, there was a war
quite recently between the Japanese
and Italian fishermen. The latter
tried to interest the Japanese in a
strike for higher prices, the orien
tals preferring war to the proposed
action.
J. Merle Davis, chairman of the
Pacific Const Hare Survey, pointed
out that Ignorance and prejudice
are two prevalent elements which
lead men to faulty judgment. On
the other hand, there are pure
economic difficulties which are
hard to overcome. Tn an attempt
to solve the proWems [restriction
and deprivation of economic and so
cial privileges have been resorted
to. Finally exclusion became nec
essary, since it has always been
recognized that two races with dir
fercnt social and spiritual stands
cannot live together in perfect har
mony.
Exclusion, although the only ap
parent solution to the present dif
ficulties, in the opinion of the con
ference, at the most is only a tem
porary one. The method used in
bringing about exclusion was, many
thought, very badly conceived and
that further possible action on the
question warrants careful consid
eration on the part of statesmen
and citizens.
Mr. Kayawa, a leader of student
thought in Japan, who addressed
the conference on several occasions,
expressed the belief that America,
in her decision concerning exclusion,
has found the only possible solu
tion to the problem. The Japanese,
he said, are very desirous of friend
ship and have no intention of a
peaceful invasion .of this country
by gradual immigration. They have
internal economic and social prob
lems in their own country which
demand adjustment arising from the
fact that three fourths of the pop
ulation of Japan has moved to the
cities within the last ten years,
creating an oversupply of factory
laborers. Farms are being limited
to two and one half acres to enable
more citizens to return to the soil.
To remedy the misunderstandings
which may exist between foreign
ers and Americans, several sugges
tions were made by various author
ities. Missionaries who have gone
to the orient should be warned
against bringing back untrue stor
ies, and exaggerated reports con
cocted by themselves to emphasize
the importance of their work. Jour
nalists, who through carelessness or
ignorance have misinformed the
American public and have lead pub
lic opinion into undesirable chan
nels, should be checked accordingly.
This condition exists in Japan as
well as in this country and both
should make an attempt to sup
press false reports and substitute
absolute truth in their stead.
Conferences, also, were considered
of great benefit in bringing about
better feeling, for they furnish per
sonal contact and permit exact un
derstanding of viewpoint. The fact
that a race is of different color
and behavior gives rise to a cer
tain strangeness which discourages
association but this, perhaps, can
be overcome when it is realized
that a peoples’ entire attitude to
ward another race is an acquired
rather than an inherited trait.
KANSAS STATE cGLLE-GE
INSTALLS RADIO SCHOOL
Kansas Agricultural Colleger —
The Kansas State Agricultural col
lege has established a radio college,
the first in the world. With this
system they plan to broadcast 48
college extension courses during the
next eight months.
COMMERCE STUDENTS I
TO HEAR ORMANDY
Railway Official Will Be |
Speaker Tonight
The first public utility lecture of
the series that is being sponsored
by the department of etconomics,
will be held at 7:15, in 105 com
merce building. J. A. Ormandv,
general passenger agent of the
Southern Pacific railway, will be
the speaker. He will discuss the
“Relations of Railways to Col
leges.” Thursday morning, at ten
o’clock, he will discuss the sub
ject of “Railways and Public Re
lations.” This lecture will also be
held in commerce hall.
The series of talks is being held
in connection with the public ser
vice courses which are given by
Professors Peter C. Crockatt, and
M. K. Cameron. The lectures, how
ever, are open to all students in
terested, as the aim of the speak
ers is to get the students interested
in public utility work. State prob
lems, and their solutions are to be
the main topics of the discussion
groups. The conference is to be
an annual affair.
DAVE SWANSON VISITS
FRIENDS ON CAMPUS
Dave Swanson, ’23, has returned
to the campus for a few days,
“just down having a good time and
seeing everyone.” He has been with
the Forrest Taylor stock company
since school closed last summer, and
will return to the company next
summer.
Mr. Swanson was active in the
dramatic department when he was
in school, and commends the work
he received there very heartily. “I
think the university dramatic de
partment very excellent, but people
don’t appreciate what is offered
them. When a person gets out in
to work, he will not have a chance
to get the better things. In going
here, you get the best things first.”
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“Movies are stupid,” he stated.
“The minute you get a conception
of the act, you can’t move. There
is no voice to work with, merely
a mumble of a lot of meaningless
words.” Mr. Swanson was cast in
the role of a bootlegger in a movie
recently made in Portland, describ
ing it as a “new and weird experi
ence.”
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Alpha Chi Omega announces the
pledging of Geraldine Lutz, of Ber
keley, California.
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