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1 Oregon Fight The Ducks will tackle the Wash ington Huskies at the Igloo to nig»- the second game of the seriv ^iey will have more fight. I Go ai*_ ’■yport the team. VOLUME 'II Elections Will Close Oregon Press Meeting Sigma Delta Chi Award To Be Presented Today At Luncheon More Than 100 Delegates Registered Yesterday; Californians Attend With the election of officers, the presentation of the Sigma Delta Chi cup to the state’s best weekly or semi-weekly newspaper, and the University luncheon scheduled for today, the thirteenth annual Oregon Press conference will draw to a close. Vinton Hall, editor of the Em erald, will be in charge of the luncheon this noon at the men’s dormitory. Neil Taylor, president of Sigma Delta Chi, will present the fiaternity’s award to the win ning paper. The public service award given by the school of jour nalism will also be presented, as will a certificate to the Hillsboro Argus, adjudged the best weekly paper in the state last year. Two on Program Only two speakers will address the press conference meeting this morning. Joseph R. Gerber, of Gerber and Crossley, Inc., Port land, will talk on “Newspapers’ Rate Differentials,’’ and Elbert Bede, editor of the Cottage Grove Sentinel, will sjpeak on “The News paper and Its Relation to the Com munity.” A breakfast group, with M. C. Mogensen, for Mogensen repre sented publications, will be given at 8 o’clock this morning at the Eugene hotel. Election of officers for the com ing >ear will take place at 11:30 o’clock this morning following the report of the nominating commit tee appointed yesterday by Louis D. Felsheim, of the Bandon West ern World, president of the con ference. Throe Will Nominate Those on the nominating com- ' mittee are Bruce Dennis, Klamath Falls; C. .T. Gillette, Forest Grove; and Walter W. R. May, Portland. Other committees appointed were; Necrology—M. K. Myers, Cor vallis; Elmer Maxey, Springfield; and George E. Hamilton, Myrtle Point. Resolutions—M. R. Chessman, Astoria; Roger Moe, Hood River; and R. B. Swenson, Monmouth. More than 100 delegates regis tered at the Journalism building yesterday morning, and registra tion will continue this morning. Out-of-state visitors to the confer ence included M. C. Mogensen, publishers’ representative; Fred Woodward, and J. D'Armand, all of San Francisco. The press and the social scien tists, by cooperating with eaqh other, can become the greatest r agency for the solving of human problems, and the opportunity for such a cooperation was never greater than it is today, stated Dr. Raymond C. Moley, professor of social science at Columbia uni versity, who addressed the editors (Continued on Tope Two) Leads Band John Stehn, director of the Uni versity band, will lead his music ians in concert Sunday afternoon at the music auditorium. This will he the band's first concert of the winter season. Bandsmen Ready For First Concert Sunday at 4 p. m. Thirty Musicians, Under Stehn, To Play in Music Auditorium If you liked the larger and great ly improved band which represent ed the University of Oregon dur ing the football season last fall, you will be interested in the entire ly different kind of work the band members are doing this term as demonstrated in the concert to be given at the music auditorium Sun day afternoon at 4 o’clock, John Stehn, director, said yesterday. In a concert which will require no admission price for students or the public, the 30 members of the concert band, picked from the fall term roster of 80 players, will give an hour's program of strictly con cert music. March on Program The first compbsition played will be “The Florentiner,” a march by Julius Fucik. This is considered to be one of the finest of all mil itary marches. It is written in the brilliant and florid Italian style. Following this will be the “Peter Schmoll” overture, by Weber. It is not as well known as Weber’s “Oberon” and “Freibutz’’ over tures, but is bright and tuneful, and has a magnificent adagio movement. A suite of four numbers of ballet music from Gounod’s “Faust” is next on the program. One is a waltz, two are of an or iental nature, and the fourth is a bacchanale. Slavic Number Listed “Meditation," by George" Drumm, is an organ voluntary which has been scored for the band. There is a charming melody for the French horn and euphonium, fol lowed by a larghetto in the wood winds, and a conclusion by full band. The program will be brought to a brilliant conclusion with Tchai kowsky's "Marche Slave,” one of the most stirring of all orchestral compositions. Making Rounds With News Editors at Press Conference Harold B. Say, of the publicity department of the Portland cham ber of commerce, was among those who were listening in at the conference yesterday. Eugene is Harold's old stamping grounds. Old-timers here remember him as a reporter for the 'Guard while he was a student in the school of , journalism 13 years ago. He whiles away his spare time in Portland writing fiction for national maga gines. Argosy recently bought one of Harold's brain children. * * * J. E. Skelton, former editor of the Eugene Guard, is another of the old-timers who looked in at the conference. He is now editor of the Oregon Motorist and an of ficial of the Oregon State Automo bile association at Portland. * * * Bernard Mainwaring and Lucien P. Arant. co-publishers of the Ba ker Democrat-Herald, are here, having left Will Evans and Klass Powell to run the paper while they made the trip over from Baker. I Mainwaring is a former editor of the Barometer at the State college, and Arant used to be a student at Oregon. * * * Two former editors of the Emer ald were sighted in the throng, and perhaps some others were missed. These two are Douglas Mullarky, who ran the editorial end in 1918 19 and Leith Abbott, who was in charge the following year. Mul larky is now editor of the Burns Times-Herald, and Abbot heads up the publicity work for the South ern Pacific in Portland. * * * Claude Ingalls, postmaster-editor of Corvallis, was here. For some reason the old-time clash of wit between him and the Cottage Grove Sentinel man, was missing this time. Instead there was a flash between Ingalls and the United States minister to Finland. Ingalls was discussing Postmas ter Jones' paper on postal law as it affects the newspapers. The sub (Continued on Page Three) Skits, Trios To Be Heard Over Radio Sunday Four Eiilrunt!< in Emerald KORE Tourney Slated For Broadcast Improvements in College Side Studio Finished; Silence Asked By DAVE EYRE Four well-planned radio pro grams are slated for presentation over the air from 5 to 7 o'clock tomorrow night, when the second broadcast of the second annual Emerald-KORE radio contest gets under way. Susan Campbell hall l will open the two hours of enter Itainment, followed by Theta Chi, Pi Bela Phi, and Phi Sigma Kappa. Notes gathered from the respec tive house representatives indicate that four splendid programs will be offered to radio listeners. Ida Mae Nickels, director for Susan Campbell hall, stated yesterday that her organization has prepared a skit of four scenes for the oc casion. Musical numbers, includ ing a girls’ quartet, will be worked into the skit. Band, Trio To Feature Theta Chi will also carry out an idea in presenting their program, according to Dale Brown, house representative. A five-piece band and a men’s trio will be features of their contest offering. Pi Beta Phi has concocted a play for their radio hour and it is rumored that a new girls’ trio will make its debut during the pro gram. Florence White is in charge of arrangements for the Pi Phi contest entry. An unusual program, with a strong flavoring of the classical, is predicted for Phi Sigma Kappa, although George Barron, program director, could not be located last night to confirm the report. Phi Sigma Kappa won the grand prize last year and they are again ex pected to set a high standard in radio programs this year. Studios Are Fixed Improvements have been made in the College Side studios in prep aration for tomorrow night’s broadcast. A grand piano, loaned through the courtesy of the Lara way Music store at 61 East Broad way, will replace the dilapidated upright piano that has been in use during the past radio season. Sound absorbing curtains and rugs are being installed to assure the best microphone reproduction pos sible. A sergeant-at-arms for each or ganization appearing on an eve ning’s program will maintain abso lute quiet while the various num j bers are in progress, but will en I courage applause from the onlook j ers when the said numbers are j completed. Emphasis on the need for si ;lence on the part of the audience ! during the programs was made by ' Art Potwin, director of the con | test, when he issued the following j appeal last night: “Guests are quite welcome, but some of the performers are quite temperamental and desire absolute quiet during the program. Ap plause is desired between num bers, but silence must be had dur ing station and program an nouncements.” The trophies for the best indi vidual performers in the contest have already been announced. Paul D. Green's store for men, and the Densmore-Leonard ladies’ ready to-wear shop are presenting the silver loving cups in this division. Grand prizes for the contest will be made known early next week. Pi Lambda Theta Takes Nine Women Into Group Nine active members have been pledged for membership in Pi Lambda Theta, national educa tional honorary for women. Ad mission of the new members was decided upon at a meeting held at | the Green Tavern last Tuesday ! noon. Those chosen were Marion Fluke, j Elizabeth Hall, Dorothy Eads, Thelma Lund, Gladys Burkett Minnie Elmer, Vida Buehler j Gladys Haskin, and Anna Evans Initiation will be held on Febru ary 17 at the home of Mrs. Henry ; D. Sheldon, an associate membei 'of the group. Pioneer Oregonian Recalls Setting Type for $25 a Y ear — *•—_ \ Albert Tozier Tells Stories Of Newspaper Came In Early Days By LOIS NELSON A keen-eyed, 71-year-old gentle man named Albert J. Tozier. j dropped quietly in on the press 'conference in the Journalism build j ing yesterday, dumped on the ta i ble a pile of historic stuff that could be marketed for some hun dreds of dollars, and before long was telling tales of Teddy Roose velt, of America in the 70's, and of the newspaper game in Oregon, back in its earliest days. Apparently without letting con ference heads know about it, Mr", Tozier decided to come down, after an absence of 10 years, to see how things were going with Oregon newspaper men. among whom he has been a prominent figure for some half century. Back in 1907, Mr. Tozier was president of the state press asso ciation, forerunner of the editorial association of today, and he was a member in its organization days, around 1887. But that’s just one little high spot in the full life that the Ore gon publisher has made for him self. Farther back yet, in 1885, he at tended the first meeting of the National Editorial association, in New Orleans, and he is today the only member of that session still living. He was the seventeenth president of the national body, serving in 1902 during the presi dency of Roosevelt, whom he knew. To leach the first session, Mr. Tozier traveled from Chehalis, Washington, where he had founded one of the first papers in that state, by water, train and stage to reach the East. He was in close association with American journalists during the years that he went from the far West to meet with national publishers. Among those he knew well was Walter Williams, now president of the University of Missouri, the first man to be a dean of journal ism. In 1887, as a youth in the game, Mr. Tozier set type at $25 a year for the Hillsboro Independent, which he later published. The particular composing stick which he and Ira Campbell, later founder of the Eugene Guard, used in Hillsboro is one of the historic things he brbught with hint to the present session. His early newspaper work in cluded association on the Salem Statesman, of which he has copies from 1859, and the New North west, published by Abigail Scott Duniway, nationally known wom an's suffrage leader, whom he knew well. Her brother, Harvey W. Scott, noted editor'of the Ore gonian, was his good friend. Wil lis Duniway, managing editor of the Emerald, and grandson of Mrs. Duniway, was among those who enjoyed visits yesterday with Mr. Tozier. While he was paving the way for twentieth century journalism in the state the pioneer newspaper man saw the value in the work of his contemporaries and he made good record of it. He has been collecting newspaper information and interesting editions for nearly 60 years, and his possessions in clude many of the state's first pa pers—among them the Oregon City Spectator, the New North west, and early editions of the Eugene Guard and the Pendleton East Oregonian. Chief among articles that he showed younger publishers yester day was the first city directory of (Continued on Page Two) Professor Lescli Will Give Second English Reading Housman’s Lyric Poetry Will Be Given on Series Sunday The second of a series of Sun day evening- English readings will be given tomorrow night in the women’s lounge of Gerlinger hall from 7 to 8 o’clock. E. C. A. Lesch, assistant professor in Eng lish, will read from some of the lyric poetry of A. E. Housman. This is the third year that Eng lish readings have been given on this campus. The idea was started a number of years ago when War ren D. Smith was chairman of the committee on intellectual activi ties. It was decided then that they were one way of satisfying the cultural interests of the stu dents. \ This series will continue every Sunday evening throughout the winter term, and will cover a va riety of subjects, including plays, poetry, short story, and many other phases of literature. Wesley Students To Hear of Japan Christian Worker of Orient To Address Club T. T. Brumbaugh, leader of Wes ley foundation work amopg Jap anese students in Japan, and grad uate of Ohio Wesleyan and Boston university, will speak before the Wesley foundation group of uni versity students Sunday evening at 6:30 in the Methodist church. His topic is to be “Sons of the Rising 1 Sun.” Mr. Brumbaugh, who has had considerable experience as a Chris tian worker in the Orient, will also speak at the evening church serv ice of the Methodist church at 7:30 on the topic, “The Kingdom of God in Japan.” He will probably talk to the Wesley club students again at their regular fireside hour at 8:30 o’clock. The fellowship half-hour at 6 o’clock will be in charge of Wal lace Campbell. The morning Wesley club serv ices, at 9:45, are in charge of Mr Frederick K. Davis, who is review ing current literature dealing with modern trends and issues in Chris tianity. Employee-Owned Business Will Be Topic for Talks Powers Hapgoori, Cannery Representative, To Be On Campus Monday A business without a boss that has stood the test of twelve years of successful production and dis tribution will be the topic for talks to be given by Powers Hap good, of the Columbia Conserve company in Indianapolis, Sunday evening at 7:30 at the Presbyterian church, and Monday morning and afternoon before classes in business administration. The Monday sessions will meet at 10 o’clock in room 5, Commerce building, and at 1 o’clock in room 107 in the same building. The bus iness ad school has invited inter ested students to attend. The company which Mr. Hap good represents has worked out one of the most unusual systems of administration and wages which has ever been tried in the United States, Karl W. Onthank, dean of personnel, explained yesterday. Employees Own Firm The firm is owned, operated, and administered by the employees, from the super-salesman down to the stenographer and even the jan itor. The cardinal points of the organ ization of the company are: The stock of the company, ulti mately will be in the hands of trustees, named by the workers and held for the common benefit of all the workers. The basis of wages is the needs of the worker, not his efficiency or “earning power.” The rate of wages is fixed by the workers, and differs with human conditions. Workers’ Council Directs Advancement to higher positions carries no increase in pay. In this plant, the executives are leaders not bosses. Every policy, every important matter, every detail in the widespread operation is in di rect charge of all the employees, and can be changed or modified at any of the council meetings of the workers which are held frequently and are conducted in the form of round-table discussions in which any of the employees may partici pate. This extremely democratic form of business organization has flour ished for twelve years and at this present time of general depression is experiencing no labor difficul ties. Bishop Places 14 On Senior Ball Committee Decorations for Annual Affair Is Placed ill Hands of Soluu Hands From Campus and Portland Considered For Formal The directorate for the Senior j ball was announced in its entirety i last nieht bv Bob Bishop, general Bob Bishop chairman of the annual all - cam pus formal. A p ^roup of 14 com i nitteemen will ; lid Bishop in his >vork. The date 'or the event was previously an nounced as Feb ruary 14. The directorate is as follows: Art Rolander, busi ness manager; uiay joy, secretary; wimur aonm, decorations; Sol Director, floor; Keith Maguire, construction and clean-up; Oneita Jantzen, patrons and patronesses; Reba Brogdon, programs and invitations; Kathryn Langenberg, refreshments; Doro thy Eberhard, reception;- Fletcher Udall, Ken Siegrist. and Thelma Chappel, features; Ken Moore, music; Merlin Blais, publicity. Sohni Handles Decorations “Decorations have been placed in the hands of Wilbur Sohm be cause they have always been one of the biggest problems in plan ning an all-campus dance. He had experience in arranging decora ions for the Junior prom last year, and for the Sophomore informal of the previous year,” Bishop said. Last year Director was in charge of the floor for the Junior prom, and is qualified for handling the floor for this year’s ball. Dor othy Eberhard, who has charge of the formal reception which pre cedes the dance, has had experi ence in similar work both in the class and in women's organiza tions on the campus. Band Choice Hurd “Music for this year’s ball will receive special consideration, as we feel that the quality of the music is of first importance. We shall try to make it the feature of the dance. Bands from the en tire valley and from Portland as well as those on the campus are being considered, and every effort to furnish the best will be made,” Bishop said. Landsbury Wins Wide Recognition Oregon Music Dean To Be Speaker in Europe Significant recognition in three music fields, northwest, national and international, have recently come to John J. Landsbury, dean of the music school at the Univer sity of Oregon. Dr. Landsbury has been asked to be one of the speakers on the program for the second Anglo American music conference, to be held at Lausanne, Switzerland, July 31-August 7 of this year. About 1000 delegates from Eng land, the United States, Canada, and European countries are ex ! pected to attend the conference. Several months ago Dr. Landsbury was made a member of the board of directors for the conference by John Erskine, well-known author and educator, who is the Amer ican president for the Anglo American union. The National Association of Schools of Music held a confer ence at St. Louis during the holi days and elected the Oregon dean ] western vice-president of their i organization. Landsbury held this | position last year, also. j Student Pianist, Violinist To Give Concert Tuesday j Jane Kanzler, pianist, and Beu i lah Wynd, violinist, will be pre | sented in student recital at the music auditorium next Tuesday evening. Their joint program will be the second of the winter term series given by advanced students of the music school, and will be free to students and the public. Yell King V- — - tr Kelsey Slocum, Oregon yell king, still wears n smile despite Oregon’s defeat last night at the hands of the Washington Huskies. Slocum will be at the Igloo to lead the Webfoot rooters again tonight and show the Duck five that the students are behind them. Bryan Appoints House Managers On Tax Committee Proposed Bill To Receive Special Attention From Students A special committee was ap pointed last night by Calvin Bryan, president of the house-n.anagers’ association, to correspond with Homer D. Angell.^ chairman of the ways and means committee of the state legislature, on the matter of the proposed bill for tax exemp tion for fraternity and sorority houses. The committee is com posed of Kenneth Moore, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, chairman; Alexis Lyle, Gamma Phi Beta, and Or ville Garrett, Delta Tau Delta. This bill for tax-exemption of fraternity and sorority houses, which has been drawn up to pre sent to the legislature, is now in the hands of Mr. Angell. It is based on the belief that student living organizations are not profit making institutions, and therefore should not pay taxes under the present state law. At the present time these living organizations are taxed in the same way that profit (Continued on l’age Three) I' Huskies Drub Oregon 31-26 In Ragged Tilt Ducks Lose Fifth Straight As Washington Takes First Game Fuller Stars for Visitors With 13 Points; Oregon Makes First Seore The canny shooting of Fuller, sophomore forward, put Washing ton ahead of the Oregon Webfoots in the earlier part of last night’s game and, with a substantial lead, the visitors stalled just enough to cut down a final Duck attempt to win, the Huskies taking the long end of a 31-26 score. Fuller, Husky sharpshooter, made things bad for Billy Reinhart's outfit by scoring 13 of his team's points, as Oregon lost their fifth straight game. Although it took five full min utes for either team to counter, Oregon started out like a newly made quintet, scoring first with a free throw. The Ducks took the ball away from the Huskies time and again but played ragged as the Purple squad took things easy and piled up a steady stream of baskets. Washington led 18 to 10 at half time, although the score was tied 8-8 after the first ten minutes. Oregon Shots Miss Oregon's ability to get the ball counted for little as no one out side of Hank Levoff was able to loop the net consistently. The Webfoots took the ball down the floor in big league style, but .they missed shorf shots and free throws like a high school team. A new combination, partly re vised since the last game, started against the Huskies and rushed the visitors off their feet on of fense, and except for their incon sistent shooting would have prob ably changed the final score. Dolp, Stevens, Eberhart, Levoff, and Rotenberg comprised the starting lineup. Rotenberg, who starred in the last Cougar game, was ragged and mussed up plays time after time by running with the ball and dribbling into a mass. Experience will make Rotenberg a good guard, ! however, as he showed streaks of I good playing. Calkins Gets Scores Windy Calkins, who heretofore hasn’t been able to get started, linally broke into the scoring col umn by chalking up two field goal.s, and Cap Roberts, who seems to improve with each game, also tossed one in immediately after he replaced Eberhart. Though Reinhart had hoped to crack the Huskies’ winning streak in last night's game, he still held out today that his charges will eventually start getting the few points' difference on their side in stead of their opponents. The Huskies play a second game with the Webfoots tonight at 8 o’clock. Summary: Washington (31) FG FT PF Swygard, f . 12 0 ' Fuller, f . 6 1 2 (Continued on Page Three) I Many Desire Teaching Jobs In Oregon, Survey Shows Last year nearly 2,000 teachers tried to secure jobs in Oregon which were open to but 1,450. This is an amazing figure and at first glance would seem to point to a large over-production in the edu cational institutions of Oregon. However, there is another side to the picture, which is brought out by Dr. C. L. Huffaker, of the Uni versity of Oregon school of educa tion, who at the request of and with the cooperation of the state board of education, has just com pleted the most exhaustive survey on this subject which has ever been made in Oregon. Dr. Huf faker’s survey, which has taken several months to compile, has just been published. The missing factor in the above figure is training. While there were apparently over 500 teachers last year who did not secure posi tions for which they applied, there was a large proportion among their number and among those al ready holding positions, who were inadequately prepared. Through the loophole of the examination, by which teachers may be certificated in this state, those poorly trained teachers entered the lists, crowd ing out those who were properly trained and swelling the number of the unemployed, so that there was an apparent over-production. Last June, Dr. Huffaker found, teacher training institutions in this state graduated 1,300 possible pub lic school teachers. If this number, 300 dropped out, leaving 970, 800 of which secured positions. Evi dently* 170 of these graduates could not get jobs. About 1,000 other teachers, composed of those graduating in other years, those , from other states, or those enter ing by means of the examination, were also after jobs. While it is almost impossible to obtain figures on the training of teachers who applied but did not get jobs, statistics on the prepara tion of those who actually held down positions last year are very significant, Dr. Huffaker believes. (Continued on Page Three)