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Bring Your Card The Weather Your student body card will ad mit you to the cor ert to be given aX mum . at McArthur c" 'hursday eve- Minimum ... $1 ning by Florenc. ^ al, soprano, No precipitation, and John Amadk '-gt. VOLUME XXXII \ \_UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1931___ NUMBER 69 DIG DOWN AFTER YOUR DIMES, MEN, AND HEAD FOR YOUR FAVORITE HOUSES FOR TONIGHT’S CRAWL i —i—• ■ ■ ii i, ■ — - ■ ■ ■- ***"'""^*ii Social Work! t ' Be Vocational Lecture Topic Y - Miss Mary Annin, Local Reel Cross Secretary, To Speak Tomorrow Women Students Will Hear Third Lecture on Job Guidance Series Miss Mary Annin, executive sec retary of the Lane county chapter of the American Red Cross, has been chosen as this week’s speaker for the Associated Women Stu dents’ meeting of vocational guid ance. Miss Annin will talk on so cial work, the opportunities in Hi that field and the requirements for a social worker, at Alumni hall Thursday at 4 o’clock. Miss Annin has had a very va ried preparation for her work here, where she not only directs the work of the Red Cross in the coun ty, but is also in charge of train ing rural Red Cross workers. In this connection she is on the staff of the Portland school of social work, teaching two classes in field work and methods in rural social work for students on the campus. Studied at Columbia After graduating from Occiden tal college in southern California, Miss Annin studied at Columbia university, where she received her master's degree. She then spent two years working in Spring street settlement house in New York. Returning to Los Angeles, she worked with the Juvenile Protec tive association, and later with the juvenile courts. Here she handled children’s problems entirely. Y When the St. Francis dam dis aster occurred three years ago, Miss Annin was on the scene shortly after with other Red Cross workers and helped with the relief work. Two and one-half years ago she came to Eugene to be execu tive secretary of the Lane county chapter of the organization here. Did Ellis Island Work (Among interesting short-time jobs which Miss Annin has held is that of directing a girls’ camp during the summer, which she did one year. She also was in charge of a Japanese settlement house in Los Angeles for three months. She spent two months at Ellis Island doing social work. Miss Annin will be able to see girls who wish to discuss her work with her following the meeting Thursday. This week marks the third time this term that the A. W. S. has had a speaker on its vocational V program. Miss Florence Ruby, personnel director of a large Port land department store, opened the project with a. talk on vocations open to women and also a short discussion of her own work. Last week Mrs. Miriam Truax Hamlin, formerly a psychology research worker at Ohio State university, spoke to a large group of Oregon women on clinical and remedial psychology. More than a dozen speakers will present different vo cations to the women during the rest of the year. Poison Oak Case Indicates Spring TAESPITE the present cool spell Helen Fleming, in firmary nurse, is quite sure that spring is almost here. Her opin ion is based on the fact that she has a case of poison oak now confined to her care. There are now 10 students at the infirmary. They are Carol Forsyth, Amy Hughes, Geral dine Medcalf, Irene Pangborn, Alexander Filker, Chuck Potter, Bill Berg, Herbert Graham, Ed Siegmund, and Robert Loomis. Most of the patients now con fined are there as a result of slight ailments, and there are no serious cases under the care of the health officials. Ed Sig mund is the student who is suf fering the effects of poison oak. Chuck Potter is confined to his bed with an infected knee. According to Miss Fleming, the infirmary usually begins to fill up with the approach of mid terms. ‘Twelfth Night’ To Take Guild Stage For Five Playings Drama Production Opens Feb. 21 at Matinee Cast Works Hard “Twelfth Night,” one of the ma jor dramatic productions for this quarter, will open on Saturday, February 21, with two perform ances, matinee and evening, an nounced Mrs. Ottilie Seybolt, head of the drama department today. It will be played also on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings of the following week, j The play is being staged in a [ permanent architectural setting with a newly constructed forestage, which will allow of intimate con tact between audience and actors, somewhat after the \manner of Max Reinhardt, Mrs. Seybolt said There will be no long waits for changes of scenery. The scenes will be played with almost rapid continuity as in Shakespeare’s own time. There will be only one inter mission and that of only four or five minutes. The total playing time will be less than two hours. Lines Are Learned Costumes and scenery under the supervision of Fred Orin Harris are already well under way and the cast is nearly letter perfect in its lines. “Twelftn Night” demands sing ers as well as actors and nearly any night last week the three com ics, Chuck Jones, Gene Love, and Don Confrey might have been ! heard practicing their “round,” | "Hold Thy Peace,” with which, in a state of total inebriation, they rouse the poor steward, Malvolio, from his sleep. Eleanor Wood, who has just been appointed departmental wardrobe mistress for the second half of the quarter will work with members of the the theatre workshop class in the construction of the cos tumes. Costumes Are Made She recently showed consider able ability in this field by making the costumes for the characters (Continued on Page Tiro) It’s a Confidential Question— Has a Dictaphone Whiskers? “How is a dictaphone record like a man’s face?’’is a ridle inspired by an interview with the operator of one of two dictaphones on the campus. “When it gets rough, it is shaved and made smooth again,” is the answer, but the process of shaving is diffferent, as the dictaphone uses no lather. A dictaphone is a machine, sec ond cousin to the phonograph, that eliminates shorthand in a business office. The boss dictates the let ter into a black cylinder of sensi tive material. He talks into a speaking tube and the words are recorded on the disk in grooves like those on a phonograph record. The stenographer then plays this record, writing the letter on a typewriter as she hears the words. In order that each cylinder may be used more than once, the last let ter is shaved off the disk, so that all the grooves are gone and the record is smooth again. Sometimes the dictaphone razor makes a slip, leaving a few grooves. Then the record talks back to the employer while he is dictating, something like this. “We wish to inform you,” says the dictator, “My dear sir,” inter rupts a strange voice, although such instances are said to be ex ceptions. This machine might claim some kinship to the radio. Sometimes several voices can be heard at once, due to imperfect shaving. Advantages of the dictaphone are that' dictation can be done whenever the dictator shooses. anc also the transcribing. Some have complained, howpver that the dictaphone lacks sociabil ity. Remedies For Industrial Is To Be Outlined Paul Blanshard To Lecture At Alumni Hall Tonight And To Classes Liberal Leader Studies Factory Problems All Over World Remedies for industrial ills that confront the age will be discussed here tonight when Paul Blanshard, nationally known liberal leader and lecturer of the League for Indus trial Democracy, will speak at Alumni hall at 8:15 o’clock on "Industrial Democracy in a Ma chine Age.” A forum will follow. Thursday morning at 9 o’clock Mr. Blanshard will speak before classes of Dr. Samuel H. Jameson, associate professor of sociology, Calvin Crumbaker, associate pro fessor of economics, and Dean Eric W. Allen’s editing class. Un less further announcement is made the Thursday lecture will be given in room 101 of the Journalism building. University Plans Visit Louis A. Wood, associate pro fessor in economics, and John Mueller, professor in sociology, have made arrangements for the visit to which the University has contributed financially. The World Fellowship and Industrial groups of the Y. W. C. A. are sponsoring the lecture. In providing the lectures the League for Industrial Democracy seeks to provide for the general dissemination of liberal thought and to put students in contact with some of the liberal movements, it was explained yesterday by Mr. Mueller. Faculty members recall that Mr. Blanshard spoke here several years ago and that his lecture was of keen interest. Factory Problems Studied He-has made a study of factory and industrial problem^ for a num ber of years and has traveled throughout the world, observing conditions in China, Russia and other European countries. Recognized as a lecturer, he has also done much writing and was for several years an associate edi tor of The Nation. His books in clude one on the British labor movement and another on labor conditions in southern cotton mills. Recently he has made a study of racketeering and corruption in New York City, and he discusses phases of this when he speaks be fore classes Thursday morning. Chile To Be Topic Of Smith’s Talk Fifth of Lectures on South America Is Tonight Chile will be the topic of the fifth of Dr. Warren D. Smith’s series of ten lectures on “A Visit to South America” to be given to night at 7:30 at Condon hall. The talks of Dr. Smith, who has just recently returned from an extend ed visit to the southern continent, are sponsored by the University extension division. The lecture will include a de scription of the desert region of northern Chile, known as the Atacama, and a visit to the fam ous nitrate deposits from which Chile has in the past derived the bulk of her revenue. A glimpse will also be given of the recent work done in fruit culture in which Oregon experts are taking an active part, and a visit to the famous Braden copper mine, 9,000 feet in the Andes. Dean of Men Association To Hold Two Conventions There will be two conventions of deans of men this spring, ac cording to Hugh L. Biggs, dean of men. The American Association of Deans of Men will hold its an nual convention sometime during spring term in Tennessee. Easter | week has been set aside for the western division of deans of men j to convene at St. Mary’s college 'near San Francisco, California. To Debate Free Trade Freshmen debaters of the Northwest Na/arene eol lege, of Nampa, Idaho, whp will meet the Oregon fresh man team here this afternoon. They will uphold the affirmative of the free trade question. From left, the Idahoans are Prioe and Taylor. Criminal Justice A cl m i n i st rat ions Featured in Book Bi-Montlily Journal Edited By School of Applied Social Science Out The January number of the Commonwealth Review, bi-monthly journal, edited by the school of applied social science in collabor ation with other schools of the University, was released from the press yesterday, John H. Mueller, associate professor of sociology and assistant editor of the publi cation announced last night. The leading article of the maga zine is a preliminary report of the survey of the administration of criminal justice in Oregon, con ducted and edited by Wayne L. Morse, associate professor of law, and Ronald H. Beattie, research fellow in the department of sociol ogy. The article deals with the aims and methods of the survey, and gives statistical findings. Another article is, “Use Made of Social Agencies Serving Portland,” by Laura L. Mead, research assist ant in the school of applied social science in Portland. Miss Eliza beth Wyland, who was graduate assistant in the department of eco nomics at the University of Ore gon last year, has an article en titled “The Columbia River Fish ermen’s Protective Union” in this issue. Miss Wyland is now a grad uate student at the University of California in the department of economics. Book reviews include “State In come Taxation,” reviewed by James H. Gilbert, dean of the col lege of literature, science and arts; “The Roadsides of Oregon, a Sur vey,” reviewed by Eric W. Allen, dean of the school of journalism; “John Charles Fremont,” reviewed by John T. Ganoe, associate pro fessor of history; "Community Planning in Unemployment Emer gencies,” reviewed by Samuel H. Jameson, associate professor of sociology; and “The Path to Peace,” reviewed by Norman F. Coleman, president of Reed Col lege. News notes make up the balance of this issue of the Commonwealth Review. Bill Advises U.S. To Slip Relief to New Zealanders pAMPUS CENTER, Eugene, V* Feb. 3.—If the United States government wants to do a phil anthropic act it cair use that $20,000,000 that nobody seems to want very badly as a gift to England to help out the New Zealanders who had their cities rocked, their sea shores chang ed, and their cliff houses knock ed into the sea by an earth quake. Nobody can tell me that they won’t need it. It must be sort of tough to have old Moth er Earth decide to have her face lifted about the time you’re getting a good business start ed. People down in Los An i geles were scared stiff when ti dal waves rushed in and pound ed against their wharves, but they had no worries—the lay ers of the earth slipped their share of unconformities to pres .ent day mankind by hitting the folks in New Zealand. Yours, BILL ROTERS. Songs in Three Languages To Be Sung by Austral Soprano Will Appear Here In Concert Thursday On ASUO Series Songs in three languages, Eng lish, French, and German, will be sung by Florence Austral, the famous soprano, who appears in concert at McArthur court Thurs day evening under the auspices of the associated students. Miss Austral’s concert program will be shared with John Amadio, a flutist of international standing who is, incidentally, Miss Austral's husband. Mr. Amadio will play two groups of flute solos as his share in the program. Nils Nelson will be the accompanist for both artists. Concert To Be Free The concert will be free to stu dents, as it is one of the regular series being presented this winter by the associated students. Ac cording to Ronald H. Robnett, as sistant graduate manager, it is necessary to repeat the announce ment that students will be admit ted without charge before each concert, for "short is the memory of man.” Faculty members and towns people may buy tickets at the Uni versity Co-op tomorrow. The box office sale will open at 7 o’clock, one hour before the concert is scheduled to begin. The program for the concert will be as follows: Miss Austral: Aria from "Der Freischutz” (Weber). Mr. Amadio: "Canzonetta” (Loewe), Finale from Concerto in D (Mozart). Miss Austral: Four songs by Strauss: "Zueignung," "Stand chen,” “Morgen,” “Cacilie.” Miss Austral: Aria from “Aida” (Verdi), “Tes Yeux” (Rabey), “Hymne au Soleil” (Georges). Mr. Amadio: “Flute of Pan” (Debussy), “Idylle” (Doppler), “Moto Perpetuo” (Bridge). Miss Austral: “Ballad” (Lich ina), “Everywhere I Go” (Mar tin), “Five Eyes” (Gibbs), “Alle luia" (Morris). A Baldwin piano has been sup plied for the concert through the courtesy of the Amspoker radio and piano shop. Portland Trio To Be Heard Sunday Three Will Give Selections At Music Building The feature of Sunday after noon's music program at the mu sic auditorium will be a concert given by the Portland Trio, com posed of three well-known Port land musicians who have won a very favorable reputation through out the Northwest during the past year by the excellence of their en semble playing. The personnel of the trio is Syl via Weinstein Margulis, violinist; Lora Teshmer, 'cellist; and Ruth Bradley Keiser, pianist. Besides being popular in their home city, the Portland trio has given a series of five concerts in Spokane. Their Eugene appearance is be ing sponsored by the University school of music. The program will begin at 4 o’clock. An admission of 50 cents will be charged. Debate Squads Face First Test Of Year Today Women’s Varsity Team To Meet Washington on India Question Freshmen W ill Taekle Men From Idaho College In Afternoon Forensic activities for the Uni versity will ge under way today with two major non-decision de bates with the University of Wash ington and Northwest Nazarene college. Nampa, Idaho, in 105 Commerce building. This evening at 8 o’clock Alice Redetzke and Betty Jones, mem bers of the women’s debate team, will match their wits against Alda Martell and Gertrude Pinney of the University of Washington over the question, Resolved, “That Gandhi has been a benefit to In dia.” Free Trade Topic Emery E. Hyde and Roy McMul len, representing the freshman de bate squad, will debate at 4 o’clock against Mr. Price and Mr. Taylor of the Northwest Nazarene col lege on the question, Resolved, “That the nations should adopt a policy of free trade.” By way of introducing the de bate with Washington, 15 minutes of motion pictures will be shown on India, including a picture of Gandhi himself. These pictures were taken during the University of Oregon world debate tour in 1927, and will-be explained by W. E. Hempstead Jr., instructor in English, who went on this debate tour and is now faculty adviser for the women's debate squad. Oregon Has Affirmative Oregon will uphold the affirma tive of the question, maintaining that Gandhi has been a benefit to India. The condition in India at present is one that is attracting world wide interest. Events have been making history rapidly for India owing to the non-violence revolt which Gandhi, as leader, has been waging against Great Brit tain. Recently Great Britain through Ramsay MacDonald of (Continued on Cage Two) I Portland Pupils Above Average DeBusk Finds Students Six Months Ahead A survey of 1200 Portland school children revealed that the average mental age in grades five to eight was six months above the norm, while the average chronological age was six months below the standard for the grades, according to Dr. B. W. DeBusk, who, with Professor R. W. Leighton, of the school of education, has recently completed the extensive survey. The study included a survey of pupil achievement in arithmetic and reading, of 1200 Portland chil dren in the upper grades. An at tempt to find the mental age and its relation to general achievement was based upon the Otis intelli gence test3 and the Stanford arith metic and reading tests. The fact that children are chron ologically below the standard grade age, and mentally above was explained in part by Dr. DeBusk as due to the special rooms in Portland schools, which give spe cial attention to 500 problem chil dren. Pupil achievement in arithmetic was six months, or one and four tenths grades above the Stanford norm, according to the survey sta tistics. The Stanford norm was worked out on the bases of test results in 24 cities and districts scattered over the United States. Arithmetic computation and rea soning tests showed that among the Portland school children, the boys were somewhat better than the girls, Dr. DeBusk said. When compared with mental age, the achievement arithmetic tests showed that Portland school chil dren were working very close to mental level. Reading ability of the 1200 chil dren tested was revealed by the survey as being up to expectations on the mental age basis. Jokesfcer Gets Up House at 1:30 A.M. TT wasn't a nice trick at all to play on a very sleepy person let alone one who has been con sistently burning the midnight nil, but just the same, the Slg- > ma Chi house got a good laugh out of it. It seems that It was in the “wee sma’ hour.:” and one of the brothers was climbing into bed after studying. Seeing Johnny I.ondahl sleeping bliss fully, he was possessed liy a fiendish thought. He sneaked over to the sleeping man, whose duty it was to build the fire in the morning, wake the freshmen, and so on. Grubbing him by the shoulder, he shook him, crying, “Wake up, Johnny—it’s 6:30 and time to build the fire.” Still In his dreams, Londahl stumbled out of lied and pro ceeded to build the fire and get the freshmen up. A little later his eye fell on the clock—1:30 it read. “Whish,” thought Johnny, “someone has let the clock stop.” And he proceeded to lecture the poor freshies. Someone protest ed that the clock was right. Confirmation was produced in the form of several ularin clocks, but, no, Johnny needs must call Western Union. Sometime later quite a number of much-irri tated men re-retlred. What some of them said was (censored). Dime Crawl Used To Secure Fund. For Eighth Year Sororities Open Doors for Foreign Scholarship Monday Night A journalism student turned scientist yesterday and did a little research into the history of the Dime Crawl, dance sponsored ev ery term by the Associated Women Students for the foreign scholar shipy fund. It seems that back in 1924 when Maud Graham, now Mrs. H. L. Marshall, was president of the Women’s league, as It was then called, Jeanne - Elizabeth Gay, who has become Mrs. George Riddle III, was chairman of the foreign scholarship fund. At that time Andre Pellion, attractive French girl, held the Women’s League for eign scholarship. It was up to Miss Gay to dig up some money to support the French girl after she was here. For the Women’s League had agreed to pay all her expenses while on the campus for one year. So she con ceived the great idea of having what have become the Dime Crawls—an hour from 6:30 to 7:30 when women's organizations hold open house, while all the swains on the campus shuffle from house to house, depositing a dime at each one they enter. The idea was a success from the beginning and so the Women’s League, which has become the A. W. S., has continued the custom as one of its sources of raising (Continued on Page Three) Japan Is Great World Factor Says Dr. Mez Emphasizes Importance of Orient in Plea for Better Relations Credits Japanese Nation With Dominant Spirit Of Fellowship “The world is my country. To do good is my religion,” was the quotation which Dr. John R. Mez gave as a summation of his talk on “Japan and the Pacific Area” last night before the Cosmopolitan club, at a meeting held in the In ternational house. “A nation cannot live by itself alone,” Dr. Mez said. He went on to explain the way in which the United States is dependent on Ja pan. “We cannot kill the trade of the Pacific; we need the supplies from the Far East,” he added. Japan’s Progress Cited Dr. Mez gave a detailed account of the progress that has been made by the nation of Japan, whose true name is Nippon. In his recent visit to that country, he said, he found Japan among the most interesting and progres sive nations of the world. In the last 75 years Japan has doubled its population, mechanized its industries, and brought elec tricity to its cities. It may be called, as Dr. Mez said, the land of fans and battleships. Japan Is Intel-nationalistic To the battleships, however, the Japanese have added an immense amount of internationalism. They are fully willing to copoerate with the League of Nations, were among the first to sign the Kel logg pact, and in 1930 it was Ja pan that saved the situation by agreeing to have only 60 per cent of the naval power of England and the United States. “Today,” Dr. Mez continued, “we find Japan in a stellar role, one of the three leading nations in the international problems of large import.” The island of Japan now con tains 64 million people, and con sidering its possessions and man dates, such as Korea, it has 90 million people under its supervi sion. The cities of Japan are very modern, Dr. Mez told the group. Many think that all Japan con sists of is pretty islands and tem ples, but if one goes to Tokyo with its electric railroads, department stores, other commercial houses, and steamship lines, this idea would be changed. Dr. Mez de scribed the trains and steamships of Japan, their modern equipment and beauty. “The boats are so lovely that they are almost on a par with those on the Atlantic ocean,” he said. “Japan’s mer chant marine touches and serves five continents, besides.” Mez Tells of Customs Dr. Mez interspersed his talk with humorous anecdotes of Jap anese customs. He then went on to describe their great material wealth. Their productivity is tre mendous, he declared, with their coal, steel and iron supply, which (Continued on Pane Three) Madelon Brodie Will Serve As Father's Hostess Abroad To be hostess for her father, E. E. Brodie, “envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary" to Finland, at the American legation at Helsingfors, Miss Madelon Bro die, student in the University will sail from New York February 2\ on the "Kungsholm.” Miss Bro die is withdrawing from the Uni versity today. Miss Brodie with her parents went to Finland last March when Mr. Brodie first took over his du ties as American minister to that country. They returned to spend the Christmas holidays and Made Ion entered school to resume her studies interrupted last winter term. Mrs. Brodie has found that it will be impossible for her to go to Finland until this summer, so to Miss Brodie fell the honor of ac companying her father and serv ing the legation as his hostess. ‘‘Really, I don't feel half as en thusiastic about it,” Miss Brodie protested when the reporter re marked how much she would like to be in her place. “Imagine sit ting at the end of a very long ta ble full of diplomats, with the for eign minister on your right and the secretary of something or oth er who doesn’t speak English on your left! I’m too scared to be awfully thrilled about it yet. Of course I will like it when I get more used to it.” Each legation in the capital does a great deal of official entertain ing, according to Miss Brodie. “Al though much of our social calen dar is stereotyped,” she explained, "our legation tries to entertain outstanding Finns as well as the diplomatic corps. We invite people who are leaders in the commercial world and in the professions. We (Continued on Page Two)
