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» What Say? Homecomings at the University ; ol Oregon would be much greater could the annual clash between Oregon State be staged each year. Read editorial page two. The Weather Cloudy with no change in tem perature. Maximum . 56 Minimum . 42 Precipitation .02 VOLUME XXXII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1930 NUMBER 41 Reed Man Will Speak Tonight At ViDard Hall Future of America Topic T To Be Discussed by Professor Noble British Consul Will Take Part in Discussion Group Thursday INTERNATIONAL WEEK PROGRAM Tonight—Address by Dr. G. B. Noble, Reed college, at Villard assembly, 7:30 p. m. Thursday—Forum discussion at Westminster house, 4 p. m. International banquet, Hen dricks hall, 7 p. m. Open house at International club, 8:30-10:30 p. m. “America's Future—20 Years Hence” is the subject of the ad dress by Dr. G. B. Noble, of Reed college, who speaks at Villard as sembly tonight at 7:30 p. m. as the second event on the International week program which began last night with forum hours in all of the living organizations on the campus. “Dr. Noble is most capable of discussing foreign affairs,” stated Professor Turnbull in a brief talk made yesterday. “He has been in Europe recently where he made a complete study of world-court problems and international affairs. He is probably as well versed in international conditions as any man of his day.” Alumnus To Talk World fellowship and industrial groups of the Y. W. C. A. are sponsoring the meeting on Thurs day afternoon honoring Mary Klemin, an Oregon graduate, who A is now secretary of the National Consulate for the Prevention of War. Miss Klemm is just back $rom Washington, D. C., where she at tended the national consulate meet ing, and will address the group on the relation of the European politi cal and economical situation to America's attitude towards the j World Court and the League of Nations. Eric Cable, British consul from Portland, is expected to be present and take part in the discussions. The meeting is to be held at the Westminster house at 4 o’clock, and Frieda Holzmeyer is in charge of arrangements. All interested are invited to come. The highlight of Thursday’s program of events will be the In ternational banquet to be held at Hendricks hall starting at 7 o'clock. Dr. Roy Agaki, prominent Japanese authority on internation f al relations, vice-president of the University, will be toastmaster. All foreign students on the cam pus will be guests of their friends who are members of the student body. Open House Set The International club will hold open house Thursday evening from 8:30 to 10:30 at their residence, 727 Thirteenth avenue East, in honor of Mrs. Gertrude Bass War ner, Mr. Eric Cable, British consul (Continued on Page Three) \.■~-r...v,TX^ ‘l Hours' Wait; A **ar Too Late 'P’RIEND. TALL, named for the tradi al spirit of Ore gon friendliness, proved not so friendly last night when a stu dent seeking an old acquaintance asked for a certain party. The freshman who took his call asked him to wait. He did. After a half hour without re sult, he went outside and rang the dooriiell again. A different freshman answered this time apd again a half-an-hour wait with out result. When the half hour was up the student went his way. Thinking it probably the fastest way, the student invested a nickle in a pay station and culled the hall. •‘Is so and so there?'’ he asked. “No,” was the reply, “he has not lived here all term.” One-Act Plays To Be Given Today at Guild Hall Theatre Theatre Workshop Class Is Finishing Last Details For Production While the one-act play casts are winding up their weeks of rehear sals in perfecting of details for the performances to be given today, the Theatre Workshop class, un der the direction of Fred Orin Har ris, is doing its part with hammers, paint brushes, and sewing ma chines. The stage crew includes Myrtle McDaniel, Virginia Rock, and Norbert Jallings. Rosamund Strieker, wearing overalls which are used to work, is arranging for the lighting effects. Yesterday there was great ac tivity going on in the Guild thea tre. Mr. Harris, from his lofty po sition on the top of a step ladder, was indulging in an inimitable flow of oratory punctuated by the bangs of his hammer, while his crew smeared red paint on certain stage settings. “These people are not drama stu dents,” announced Mr. Harris be tween pounds, “they are English majors, disillusioned journalists. They scorn the actors. They stand behind the scenes and make noise effects and laugh at the mistakes of the cast—” “Sure,” said one of the crew, “they ought to pull the curtain and let the audience see us in action between scenes. It's much more exciting drama.” In the dressing room under the stage the costume committee was busy. Winifred Schoonmaker was at the sewing machine putting blue ruffles on a dress for “The Break ing of the Calm,” while Elva Ba ker and Cathryn Snapp were mak ing those to be used in “The Devil Comes to Alcaraz.” They were Spanish, too, with high combs, mantillas, and bright skirts. All this activity is for the the three one-act plays, “The Dear De parted,” by Stanley Houghton, “The Devil Comes to Alcaraz,” by William H. Fulham, and “The Breaking of the Calm,” by Dan Totheroh. This program is the first public production by the members of the beginning class in technique of acting, and will be given at (Continued on Page Three) Spats and Derby Ensemble Popular With Men at Ohio V. If Oregon men were to accept the style of dress prevalent at the University of Ohio, they would go to class attired in neat suits, spats, derbies and canes, according to Neil Taylor, Oregon delegate to the Sigma Delta Chi convention in Columbus, Ohio, last month. Taylor, who has just returned to the campus, said that he saw no student at Ohio going to classes in “campus” clothes. Cords are taboo, and neatly pressed clothes, derbies and spats are the vogue “The University of Ohio campus is quite large,” Taylor said. "It is about six blocks wide and nine blocks long, and it takes about If minutes to walk across it. "Sororities and fraternities are much more conservative than those here. The houses are set bach from the streets and have wel f kept lawns and many trees.” Taylor returned home througt j Canada. “The weather at Colum ! bus was warm, but in Winnipeg it • was eight degrees above zero with | a foot and a half of snow, j “I was impressed by the piles I and piles of wheat in Canada. At j one place there were 40,000 bush ! els of wheat piled in sacks along \ the railroad tracks. There was no room in the elevators, so the wheat was piled outside with no protec tion. There is a considerable amount of construction work going on in the East,” Taylor continued, “but there were about three times as many men working than were j needed. Many stood around with ■ shovels over their shoulders, mere ly looking on.” Among the many prominent men who spoke at the Sigma Delta Chi convention were William Mapel, Washington and Lee University, (Continued on Page Four) Prep Session Group Named By Chairman Velma Powell Is Appointed To Hold Assistant Chairmanship High School Conference Directorate Plans Get Under Way The high school conference di rectorate, with a complete list of 16 chairmen appointed, will get Bill Pittman unuer way wun the opening ses sion of the group this afternoon, Bill Pittman, general chairman for this year’s annual event, an nounced yes ter day. Velma Powell will act as as sistant chairman, and Louise Ans ley win serve-as me uirecioruie secretary. Committees Named Chairmen for special divisions have been named as follows: Adele Wedemeyer, correspondence; John Penland, program; Ralph Wal st.rom, student body conference; Conny Baker, deans’ conference; Merlin Blais, publicity; Carson Mathews, accommodations; Harry Van Dine and Tony Peterson, press conference; John King, principals’ conference; Margaret Cummings, Girls’ league; Carol Werschkul, banquet; Barney Miller, entertain ment; Marguerite Tarbell, regis tration, and Bill Price, campus tour. Faculty Appointed The faculty committee will be comprised of Earl M. Pallett, reg istrar • George H. Godfrey, pub licity director; Hugh L. Biggs, dean of men; George S. Turnbull, professor of journalism; Mrs. Ha zel P. Schwering, dean of women; Mrs. Charlotte R. Donnelly, secre tary of housing; Leonard Hag strom, University editor; Reginald Coggeshall, professor of journal ism; Paul W. Ager, comptroller; R. U. Moore, University high school principal. The conference, which will be attended by high school represent atives from the entire state, will include sessions under four divi sions: student body officers, edi tors of annuals and school papers, representatives of Girls' leagues, and faculty advisors. The confer ence will be held shortly after the opening of winter term. Winter Concerts To Open Tuesday December 9 Is Selected for First Recital Next Tuesday evening, Decem ber 9, will be on this campus what the opening night of grand opera is to New York and Chicago, for on that evening the Associated Students’ winter concert series will open at McArthur court with an appearance of Guy Maier and Lee Pattison, world’s foremost two piano duetists. This concert, like the other four on the series, will be free to all holders of student body cards, by virtue of the small share of each student’s registration fees which helps to make up the A. S. U. O. concert fund. Maier and Pattison have been charming audiences all over the world with their masterful two piano work for the past 12 years, but now each desired to follow a musical profession of his own, and this year’s concerts comprise their “Farewell Tour.” When they first explored the field of two-piano music, they found that the range of composi tions for this use was very limited. However, they brought to light many little known compositions for two-pianos by Debussy, Aren sky, Rachmaninoff, Franck, Saint Saens and Mozart. And as their fame has grown, many modern composers have dedicated two piano works to the two—among them Sowerby, Ernest Hutcheson and Godowsky. They are scheduled for a concert in Portland the evening of Decem ber 8, immediately before coming to Eugene. Japanese Consul Praises Oregon International Week Hirosi Acino Telia About Oriental Interest in World Affairs By KENNETH FITZGERALD “I am very glad to note the spir it portrayed by the University of Oregon in its annual International week,” said Hirosi Acino, Japanese consul to Portland, when asked for his opinion recently on the scheduled campus event. Seated behind the desk in his private con sular office the little Japanese rep resentative displayed a remarkable warmth of feeling towards the University and its ideals. After talking with Mr. Acino p few minutes one is astounded at the small world in which most of us live, as compared with that of Portland’s present Japanese con sul. He has built for himself a universe wherein prejudice and ha tred can find no room, and from which he can gaze upon the world with calm and unillusioned eyes. “Although we have nothing sim ilar in our colleges to your inter national week, our students are struggling towards the same ideals as are displayed by that event at the University of Oregon,” said Mr. Acino. “Our schools promote in ternational meetings of all kinds, and are especially fond of sponsor ing debates on international af fairs. It is quite remarkable to «• note also the large amount of space devoted to foreign news in the Japanese newspapers. This fact has quite a tendency to pro mote a greater feeling of interna tionalism among the people of the country.” Mr. Acino also attributes the Japanese international feeling to his country's insular position. "Since Japan opened her doors to the world 65 years ago.” he said, "her people have had to take a strong interest in foreign affairs because of the vast amount of trade that has been carried to the shores of the island kingdom since then.” This, he claims, has had a tendency to bring the Japanese people into a spirit of internation alism. The great majority of the Jap anese people, according to Mr Acino, were very much interested in the arms conference held in Lon don a few months ago. He was impressed by the fact that, when the arms parley was not making the success it had aimed at, that many Americans came to him and asked him if Japan were opposed to the conference. In answer to that question he would point to the attitude of the Japanese public when their delegation sailed for London. Although the rain was pouring down, thousands crowded the piers at Tokio to express their (Continued on Page Three) Debaters Chosen For Varsity Team In Annual Tryout Potwin, Miller aiul Hoben Gain Position; Other Speakers Selected Stage presence, oratorical skill, and intelligent thinking were dis played at the oratory and extem pore tryouts held last night in Vil lard hall. The orators spoke for 15 minutes on an optional subject and were judged on their delivery and the contents of their manu scripts. Those chosen for the varsity squad and their subjects are Her bert Doran, “Eyes That See Not;” Arthur Potwin, “Penalties of Pow er;” Robert T. Miller, "The Ren aissance of Modern Youth;” and Ard Hoben (alternate), “Cross Roads of Tomorrow.” At the beginning of the tryouts the extempore speakers were as signed a phase of free trade on which to speak. Those who were selected for extempore speaking and their subjects are Arthur Pot win, “Free Trade—the Salvation of America;” Wallace Campbell, “The Tariff Outgrown;” and Rob ert T. Miller, "Infant Industry— Passing of the Need for Protec tion.” Two of the orators chose peace as their theme, pointing out the need for a new era of good will to be resolved from the confusion caused by the World war. Several (Continued on Page Three) Sophomore Men On Service Club > To Pick Officers Constitution ami Name for Croup; Other Business Items for Thursday Five committees were appointed yesterday afternoon at the first meeting of the new sophomore class service honorary organiza tion to draw up plans for a con stitution, decide upon a name for the group, and to investigate fields of activity in which the 15 mem bers will enter for the service of the University. Officers will be elected at a meeting Thursday. The committees are: Purpose, Jim Travis, Bill Bader, and Ted Jensen; name and membership, John Marrs, Freeman Young, and Richard Mumaw; officers, Ed Kin ney, Carson Mathews, and Charles Larkin; meetings, John King, Vir gil Langtry, and Kenton Lawson; standing committees, Larry Bay, Gordon Day, and George Vaughan. Ken Curry, senior in law and chairman of the upperclass com mittee which chose the charter members of the honor group, was in charge of yesterday’s meeting, and will preside Thursday after noon when the organization will hold its second meeting and hear reports of the committees. “All the men are very enthusi astic about the honor group,” Curry said, “and are eager for an opportunity to do some construc tive work for the University.” =—Forum Hour Gleaninqs— I_ “The world is becoming smaller and smaller due to international dependency and to the develop ment of transportation,” explained Waldo Schumacher, professor of political science, in a short talk at the Sig Ep house last night. The United States is at present playing the role of the banker, Schtimacher said, and because of this part has many problems with numerous nations. The materials which the United States has to import also brings out the fact that the nations are becoming al most entirely interdependent, he said, and because of this condition the countries in the future will have many problems and disputes to settle among themselves. • • • Racial problems took the chief place in the discussion led by Dr. John Mueller, professor of sociol ogy, at the Pi Beta Phi house. Dr. Mueller discussed the origin of racial prejudices and the attempts made to erase them. Education is, after all, the chief tool whereby progress is made in overcoming unsoundly formed opinions and ra tionalizations in regard to race, he said. The League of Nations, interna tional conferences and accomplish ments in the economic relations between nations, he cited as in ! stances of progress toward better racial relationships. * * * The League of Nations’ impor tance to world relations was the subject of Reginald Coggeshall’s talk to members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Coggeshall stressed the point that before any act or or ganization can become effective public opinion must be in favor of it. Not until people begin to be lieve in the league can it success fully carry out its objectives, he said. * * • “The reason why the civiliza tions of Greece and of Rome were destroyed, and at the same time those of India and China have per sisted since 2000 years before the Christian era, is that the western peoples have attempted to follow the ideal of power rather than of perfection.” Dr. J. R. Wetherbee, local physician, made this state ment during his talk on Mahatma Ghandi and the Rabindranath Ta gore, Hindu leaders, before a com bined audience of Oregon Yeomen and independent women. • • * “The most serious problem con fronting Japan today is over population,” said Dr. Victor P Morris, associate professor of eco (Continued on Page Three) A.W.S. Starts New Service in Vocational Aid Program Started To Help Co-eds in Seleetinp Their Careers Margarot Cummings Picks Committer* To Head Guidance Work A vocational guidance program as a direct, practical, and vital service to the women of the Uni versity has been definitely launched with the appointment of a committee of women leaders to work out the organization of the project by Margaret Cummings, president of the Associated Women Students, which, with the coopera tion of the personnel administra tion of the University, is sponsor ing the undertaking. Miss Cummings announced her appointments Tuesday evening. They are: Daphne Hughes, presi dent of Y. W. C. A., Jessie Puck ett, president of W. A. A., and Marguerite Mauzey, president of Phi Theta Upsilon. This group is to work out the organization of the project which will include all women on the campus. Opportunities To Be Revealed "Women in college seem to think that they must prepare themselves for the conventional vocations of teaching or stenography,” ex plained Miss Cummings in outlin ing the program which the A. W. S. will carry out here. “The A. W. S., through the several organi zations it includes, plans to pre sent to the women of the Univer sity the many opportunities in vo cations which are open to them. So many women follow these con ventional vocations because they l do not know what opportunities lie outside them,” she added. “This year the A. W. S. is doing distinctly personal service to the women of the campus by giving them the opportunity to investi gate fields in which they might wish to enter,” Miss Cummings said. "The A. W. S. has its Peters lodge for the recreation of the women, its teas for their social activities, and the foreign scholar for its outside service.” Will Begin Next Term The personnel administration of the University, under the direction of Dean Karl W. Onthank and Howard R. Taylor, director of the personnel bureau, has offered its cooperation in the project and will assist the A. W. S. in procuring speakers who are leaders and ex perts in their fields. They will also help in outlining the pro gram. Actual working of the project will begin next term, when indi vidual conferences of women stu dents with leaders in the fields in which they are interested and small group meetings will be held. All organizations which are part of the A. W. S., namely, Y. W. C. A., W. A. A., Phi Theta Upsilon, heads of houses, and honoraries, will stress vocational guidance throughout their programs for the ■ rest of the year, in cooperation with the A. W. S. Work Will Begin On Tennis Courts Unique Structural Devices First of Kind in U. S. The University is expending $8700 in the construction of four new tennis courts. From the standpoint of construction, the courts are the only ones of their kind in the United States. Two devices will be used tc strengthen the foundation of the courts. Reinforced footings will be laid under the joints, and gravel will be spread below the concrete to prevent the adobe soil from ex panding and contracting with fluc tuations in climate. Indians Participate in Dance The beat of tom-toms and chant ing of braves echoed over the cam pus of Haskell Institute, Lawrence Kansas, as more than 1,000 In dians, attending a nation-wide pow-wow incdent to the game be tween Haskell and the University of Kansas last week participate in the war dances of their fathers Students to Play Hosts at Banquet r|''HE foreign students will lie the guests of the American students at the International Immiuet, Thursday evening at 7 o’clock at the Hendricks hall dining room. Men wishing to attend the banquet should get in touch with .lint Landye, Alpha hall, either to he given a name of some foreign student or to pre sent a name of one nlready in vited. The banquet is an nnnunl af fair, held in conjunction with the observance of International week on the campus. OSCDean Speaks At Club Meeting Oil Poor Whites Professor Says Kentucky Mountaineers Are Often Skilled “If by education you mean book lamin', as they call it in the south, they have mighty little of it,” said Dean J. R. Jewell, of Oregon State college, speaking last night as guest of the Education club on "Education of the Poor Whites in the South.” Dean Sheldon of the school of education, also addressed the group last night on the sub ject of “Educational Researches in . Education.” Dean Jewell said In further an alysis of the education of the Ken tucky mountain whites, “If you de fine education in terms of skills, they are a well educated people, because they are certainly skillful in many lines.” Dean Jewell ex hibited a hand woven, hand dyed bedspread which had been made in the southern mountains by the woman whose husband raised the sheep which furnished the wool. “When I went to school," Dean Jewell said in reference to his own early education in the mountains of the South, “I took with me all the textbooks that my older broth er had used in the school up to the time he was 'quituated.' And here it is,” said the speaker pre senting the copy of Webster’s Ele mentary Blueback speller which he had taken to school with him. “There are this day, December 2, 1930, hundreds of men and wo men who received their education from this book,” he stated. “Any one who can spell past page 82 of the Webster’s Speller is educated in those mountain regions, and, there are hundreds of thousands of men and women who have gone to their graves never having seen any pictures except those in this book,” said Dean Jewell, indicating the thin blue book. The language of the poor whites in Kentucky is probably the only language in the world which Shakespeare could understand if he were to return to the earth to day, according to Dean Jewell, who says that the original Eliza bethan ballads are still sung in the mountain regions. In conclusion Dean Jewell said, "It is the ambition of every moun tain native in the South to be able to write his own name, yet his be liefs are so democratic that he re fuses to have the board of educa tion force upon him anything like compulsory education.” Fate of Oregon Grid Situation Still Unsolved Rumors That Spears Will Leave To Take New Job Continue Unabated Pallett Says Talk Invalid; Emerald Gets No Replies To Telegram to Doe By JACKSON BURKE Just what the fate of the Ore gon football team for the next four years will be, remains a mys tery as rumors of the possibility of Dr. C. W. Spears accepting a coaching position elsewhere con tinue uninterrupted. Speaking for the University in the absence of President Hall, Earl M. Pallett, executive secretary and registrar, when asked as to the validity of the rumors, stated that as far as he knew there was no foundation for them. Dr. Spears, at present in Los Angeles where he will attend the Notre Dame football game and the meeting of the Pacific Coast con ference, has not as yet made any definite statement whether or not he will leave Oregon, but did state to San Francisco newspapermen that he was “as free as a jay bird without feathers" to accept “any offer that was made, upon his arrival there for the St. Mary’s game. Just how free this is it is not. possible to determine as it has not been possible for the Emerald to reach Spears by wire. Wisconsin Seeks Spears The resignation of Nibs Price started all the talk at the present time, although Spears was men tioned as the possible successor of Glenn Thislethwaite at Wisconsin on November 22, before the resig nation of Price from the Univer sity of California position. Just why it is considered all over the country that Spears is to be approached with offers, while his contract has to all good ap pearances four years to run, is not known, the whole situation being devoid of any direct statement by the principals involved. One explanation of the pro tracted meeting of William Mona han, graduate manager of Califor nia, and Spears is that it may have been in the nature of an en deavor on the part of the Oregon coach to secure a game with Cali fornia for 1931. Monahan, how ever, is also the man who has been commissioned by the Associated Students jf the University of Cali fornia to secure a new coach. As to the Wisconsin situation Spears, before he left Minnesota, spoke of a desire to “see what could be done with the type of material available at Wisconsin.” This would indicate the possibility that the officials of the Big Ten college are basing their assumption that Speai-3 would be willing to consider any offer they might make in the light of a preference he exhibited some time ago. The fact that this rumor started before Price’s resignation, how ever, adds weight to the belief that the Oregon coach may be looking around, as it is well known that Mrs. Spears has been dissat isfied here and would perhaps wel come a change. Stillman Suggests Different Name For Intelligence Tests The use of the term “intelligence test” for the most part is a mis nomer, according to A. B. Still man, professor in the school of business administration. It would be far better, he says, for the so called intelligence tests to be call ed aptitude tests, for that, in fact, is what they really are. The psychology entrance intelli gence tests are really aptitude tests which show the abilities of the students for general college work. Many men might well find them selves unable to pass with any de gree of success the examinations given to the entering freshman class but still be rated as intelli gent. On the other hand many of the students who rate way above the average in these tests if given an "intelligence” test ibasedi on I say blacksmithing, plumbing or I kindred knowledge would find | themselves extremely “unintelli gent” simply because of a lack of aptitude in that field. Therefore, Professor Stillman thinks, it would be much better if the erroneous impression of the “intelligence” tests could be erased, so that the students could perceive their real value. In the business ad school an ap titude test has been developed for the rating of business ad majors which has a very close correlation with actual abilities of students in class work. In these tests he said it is quite possible to forecast within a rea sonable degree of accuracy the grades the student will earn in his courses in business administration. If any marked degree of variation from these tests shows up in his work, checks are made upon the student which often lead to the (Continued on Page Four)