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• EDITORIALS * FEATURES <• HUMOR ♦ LITERARY ♦ University of Oregon, Eugene Vinton Hall, Editor Anton Peterson, Manager Willis Duniway, Managing Editor Rex Tussing, Associate. Editor Ralph David, Merlin Minis, Editorial Writers UPPER NEWS STAFF Carol Hurlburt, Society Phil Cogswell, Sport# Lester McDonald, Literary Warner Guiss, Chief Night Editor Barney Miller, Features NEWS STAFF Day Editors: Thornton Gale, Lenore Ely, Thornton Shaw, Eleanor Jane Ballantyne, Ralph Yergen. Sports Staff: Ed Goodnough, Bruce Hamby, Jim Yergen, Esther Hayden, Joe Saslavsky, Walt Baker. Emerald Radio Hour: Ralph David, Merlin Biais. Editor's Secretary: Mary Helen Corbett Assistant: Lillian Rankin Managing Ed. Sec’y: Katharine Manerud Reporters: Jack Bellinger, Merlin Blais. Virginia Wentz, Oscar Munger, Madeleine Gilbert, Thelma Nelson. Betty Anne Macduff, Helen Cherry, Jessie Steele, Vincent Mutton, Genevieve Smith, Kenneth Fitzgerald, Ruth Dupuis, Willetta Hartley, Florence Nombalais, Roy Sheedy, Eugene Mullins, Caroline Card, Frances Taylor, George Root, Robert Patterson. _ BUSINESS STAFF Harry Tonkon. Associate Manager Jack Gregg, Advertising Manager Larry Jackson, Foreign Advertising Larry Bay, Circulation Manager Ned Mars, Copy Manager Martin Allen, Ass’t Copy Manager Mae Mulchay, Ass’t Foreign Adv. Mgr. Edith Peterson, Financial Adit*. Laura Drury, Sec’y Associate Manager John Painton, Office Manager Dorothy Victor Kaufman, Promotional Adver tising Manager. Harriette Hofmann, Se* Sue Betty Carpenter, Women’s Specialties Kathryn Laughridge, Asst. Se* Sue Carol Wersehkul, Executive Secretary Wade Ambrose, Ass’t Circulation Mgr. Bob Goodrich, Service Manager Caroline Hahn,, Checking Department Hughes. Classified Advertising Manager Copy Department: Beth Salwny, Myrtle KernSj Georj?e Sanford. Copy Assistant: Rosalie Commons. Office Records: Louise Barclay. Office Assistants: Evarurclinp Miller, Gene McCroskey, Jane Cook, Helen Ray, Mary Lou Patrick, Carolyn Trimble, Nancy Suomela, Katherine Felter, Magdalen teller, Rosina Forrest. , ^ Production Assistants: Gwendolyn Wheeler, Marjorie Painton, Miriam McCroskey, Edward Clements. Ass’t Adv. Mgrs.: Jack Wood, George Branstator, Auten Bush. Advertising Solicitors—Monday: Cliff Lord, Lavina Hicks, Auten Bush, Vic Kaufman. The OrcKon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. Member of the Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. Advertising rates upon application. Phone, Manager: Office, Local 214; residence, 324. Another World Conference U EPRESENTATIVES from 11 great wheat exporting coun tries are meeting in London this week in an effort to solve the world problem of the production and marketing of wheat. The immediate problem before the conference is the disposal of some 630,000,000 bushels of “visible” wheat supplies. The United States and Russia have been named in news dispatches as certain to play the most important roles in the conference. Russia, because she has been bending every energy to the expansion of her wheat lands in accordance with the five year plan. The United States, because she has been concen trating on acreage reduction as a relief measure. What Russia can contribute in the way of a proposal re mains for the conference to bring out. That the United States representatives have no startling relief measure to support was revealed last week when the figures on the 1931 winter wheat crop were released by the Department of Agriculture. The government figures show that instead of reduced pro duction another bumper harvest is in prospect. The winter wheat crop is expected to be 48,000,000 bushels fnore than last year. On hand is a wheat surplus of 250,000,000 bushels. The failure of the Federal Farm Board to cause acreage re duction this year will unquestionably result in little support for the proposals of the delegation from this country at the wheat conference. The delegation is composed of Samuel McKelvie, wheat member of the Federal Farm Board, and Nils Andreas Olsen, chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Accordingly, agreement on the United States’ plan is little to be expected. Russia has little or no wheat reserves. The soviet marketing machinery is well organized, as is the produc tion of wheat controlled. Argentina, although lacking the huge domestic market of the United States, lias her marketing ma chinery in such a position that regulation would not be difficult. It is Canada and the United States that are troubled with huge surpluses. And these two countries are in no position for a radical move toward control of production and distribution. Where’s Your Job ? 'T'HIS is the time of year when the college senior begins to think most seriously about what he is going to ilo when he graduates. He realizes that the problem of finding a job is more difficult this year than it has ever been before. He knows that a college diploma is not going to be an "open sesame" to employment. Figures compiled during the last few weeks by the National SUident Federation of America In a survey of several large in dustrial organizations of the country should prove interesting and significant to the graduating seniors. Only one of 50 large organizations reached in the questionnaire replied that the same number of college graduates would be employed this year as in 1929 and 1930. Other organizations said that the number of employees taken on would be reduced from 20 to 90 per cent. In spite of this depressing news and the general feeling that the economic crisis is not nearly over, seniors at Oregon do not seem to be in any hurry to take advantage of the employment services offered by many of the schools of the University. In one school only four seniors had placed applications. In an other eight had asked for help. However this situation may be interpreted, college seniors . should seriously recognize that they are stepping out into a highlv competitive business world. Positions are at a premium f’.o : • not only because of the depression, but becifuse of the increasing number of men of more than ordinary ability that are available 0 . for responsible jobs. . If you want a job, seniors, get busy! Resolution of the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, asking for a minimum $3 daily wage rate, reminds us of the backfire many of our present solutions for unemployment bring. One Oregon city asked busin ss men to improve their properties by hiring unemployed men at 25 cents an hour. The net result was that the pay of those men who already had jobs was re duced to the same scale—25 cents a- hour. The biggest interest Oregon seems to have in General Ihitler to date is whether he will say "heir or "damn," not whether he will reorganize the police force. Will Rogers lias refused a proffered honorary doctor’s degree from Oklahoma college. Says Rogers, comedians shouldn't be given - uch degree* Would Rogeta"abolish*our university system? ************ * Well, here we are as usual * * without a thought in our head, * * which of course is not news. * * Ju: glimpsing around the * * jour.alism shack we see Hack * * Mill r with his feet propped * * up c ictating an Order of the * * "O” story to Philograms * * Cogswell and Bruce Hamby. * * (which reminds us that Bruce * * is just Cogswell’s hamby * * man.) Jack Gregg and Bob * * Allen are leaning over our * * shoulder whispering naughty * * nothings which, we regret to * * say, can’t be printed. Bill * * Duniway rushing around with * * a wild look in his eye and a * * pencil and squid of chewing * * gum behind his ear. Tony * * Peterson is getting business * * like in the next room, which * * leads us to believe that he’s * * with someone besides his sec- * * retary, Carol Werschkul. Carol * * Hurlburt, ye sassiety ed, tear- * * ing around trying to find what * * the collegiates are doing so- * * cially. Her beret is awry and * * she champs determinedly on * * her favorite quid of Beeman’s. * * ‘Slick’ Jackson wondering * * where the (read the ‘front * * page’, co-op, six bits) is a cer- * * tain person. The clacking of * * twenty typewriters driving us * * nuts. Three people running * * around in circles while Rex * * Tussing gets cynical over the * * phone. Cigarettes flying out * * of the window as the night * * watchman walks into the* * building. Gee, ain’t College * * keen ? * ************ EPITAPH Sim (lied on the spot, Let no one bless ’or; She se/.: “An Art stude isn’t Always a model dresser. MOST INTRIGUING SIMILE OF THE WEEK: “I feel just like a dull thud.” WE GET ATHLETIC Anil now we get our big chance. Getting tired of seeing Philograms Cogswell walk off with all the comp tickets to athletic contests all year, we’re going to take over his none too good column tomor row and get in on a bit of the gravy ourselves. Since Cogswell has been covering outdoor sports all year (leaving the indoor sports to us) we see there isn’t much cl\ance to shine in that direction, so we plan to present all the dope on the athletic trips this year. Watch the sports column tomor row for all the lowdown on Steve Fletcher and the rest of them that went on the swimming trip. * * * And now that the Eugene mer chants are actively engaged in making Thursday straw hat day, a number of the more sartorially elite boys around the campus are busy promoting white cap day for the University Thursday. Cm’on there, Phelps-Terkel, that looks i like a little propaganda to fatten the old gate receipts. However we’re all for it. Walt Baker, Jack Gregg, Mac Miller, Art Kolander, Bart Sieg rieil and George Vaughn say that anyone who doesn’t wear a white cap that day is a snarf. I. E. (we just looked up the word snarf and found out that it was a term applying to any young man who'd throw a strictly for mal party, men in tuxes only ad mitted, in the middle of summer.) We understand that the order of the “O’* has purchased four tons of hay for their igloo barn dance Friday night. This was done, we imagine, on the supposition that the co-eds go in a big way for drate big straw-n men. Tut, tut, Nicholas, you must learn to dodge quicker than that. CAMPUS ♦ ALENDAR Chilomelete picnic postponed un til Wednesday, May 27. V. VV. C. A. cabinet meeting in the Y. W. bungalow at 7:30 to night. J’lii Tlieta Upsllon meeting to day at 4:45 in Gerlinger hall. Elec tion of officers. German club will meet at 7:30 tonight in Y bungalow. Impor tant. Election of officers. Women's and men's contests for the polyphonic choir trophy will be held tomorrow at 7:45. Oregon Yeomen aspirants for Jewett speaking contest please get in touch with Yeomen president today. Hcrmian will hold an important seminar meeting tonight at 9 in the social room of Gerlinger hall. Dr. Miller will speak. Westminster Guild will have a picnic tonight at li o’clock. Meet at Westminster house, and bring 20 cents. Industrial Kesourch group of the Y. W. G. A. will hold its last meet ing of the term Wednesday night at the Central Labor Council. Crossroads will meet Thursday night for annual election of offi cers. Dr. Zane 'will give the paper of the evening. "America’s New Caribbean Col ley" will be the subject for dis cussion at the meeting of the Con gress club tonight at 7:30 over College Side Inn. Chi Beta meeting at 7:15 Thurs day night at the Kappa Alpha Theta house. Important. All the members and pledges must be present. BEAUTY AND POWER OF MISS THIELSEN S VOICE (CoMtiiii :il /ram Page Our) and vibrant, and her interpretation intelligent Paladilhc' "Psyche' abounded in the unusual tone pro gressions of modern French com position. There was conversational inti macy in “Bon Jour, Suzon,” an airy Delibes song. There was a smile in her voice as the soprano sang. In the accompaniment to Lalo’s “L’Esclave,” Ayres achieved fine tonal effects which sustained the measured phrasing of the singer, and Bachelete’s “Chere Nuit” brought forth an integration of melody and piano accompaniment which suggested the finality, the complementing sufficiency of night. Miss Thielsen handled her lovely voice with exacting splendor in Carpenter's “Serenade.” Her vi brant quality thrilled the listeners in “The Poet Sings.” a number by Watts, as in Paladilhe’s "Psyche,” in the previous group. A tender lullaby was Ronald's “A Sheepfold Song.” Seeming Asiatic harmonies lent much to the beauty of phrasing which the sing er gave this pastoral serenade. "Pierrot,” composed by Pauline Brigham, a graduate student in the school of music, proved a cheerful, lively ballad. Miss Thielsen's inter pretation was gay and colorful, and the audience demanded a repe tition of the number. "Joy,” by Roberts, was the clos ing number. It radiated the spirit which its title suggests, and Miss Thielsen lost not a grain of its beauty in a flight of vocal radi ance. Her voice was fresh and strong, and its power and volume gave convincing emphasis to the song, a lyric of joy. Speech Classes Popular A state of after dinner speakers and orators. That is what California is likely to become if enrollment in public speaking classes of the University of California continues at its press ent rate. 0 During the past year approxi mately 2000 adults in the bay re gion and Los Angeles have en rolled in public speaking classes. Male Help Wanted Agents, automobile gas saver, carry vest pocket, sells *1.;>(.), profit 10()°o, extra ,'>0 for installing. Write tit once for terri tory. E. T. BARRON & CO. 19 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, Minn. I Secretarial Work Is Topic Of Address By Mrs. Sharp Interest, intelligence, and indus try are the three essential quali fications for success in the field of secretarial work for women, in the opinion of Mrs. Margaret M. Sharp, secretary of the Portland extension center, who addressed women students yesterday as a part of the A. W. S. vocational guidance program. The secretary must combine ac curacy and precision with a cor dial, tactful manner, Mrs. Sharp declared. She must be able to re lieve her employer of all detail and routine work, she explained. “In order to succeed as a secre tary a woman must be adaptable to other people,” Mrs. Sharp said. She should realize that considera tion for other members of the of fice force, and a cooperative atti tude toward her work are essen tial for a fine spirit of teamwork. Women in secretarial and steno graphic work are expected to cul tivate a reliable memory for names and business details, Mrs. Sharp commented. “A broad liberal education and mechanical aptitude are requisites for the woman worker,” she pointed out. Business administra tion courses in college offer excel lent preparation for the field, Mrs. Sharp said, but the inexperienced secretary must realize that a pe riod of apprenticeship is required in which she acquaints herself with actual business practices and methods. “For the capable interested young woman, secretarial work of fers unusual opportunities for ad vancement, financial reward, and personal satisfaction,” Mrs. Sharp declared. Mrs. Sharp will hold conferences with students particularly inter ested in secretarial and steno graphic work as a vocation, in the dean of women’s office from 9 until 12 o'clock today. Commencement Plans Talked by Alumnae Group Saturday- June 13, Date For Senior Women’s Breakfast Plans for commencement, which include the Flower and Fern pro cession and the annual senior wom en’s breakfast were discussed at a meeting of the executive commit tee of the State Association of University of Oregon Women, an organization of Oregon women graduates, Tuesday noon at the Os burn hotel. Mrs. Arthur Quacken bush, ’15, was presiding officer. Saturday, June 13. was set as the date for the breakfast, which will be held at the Osburn hotel at 9 o’clock. All senior women are in vited, and the admission is 60 cents a plate. As has been the custom in past years, women members of the class that graduated 50 years ago will be. guests of honor. A treasurer’s report will also be given at the breakfast, which will disclose the progress of the Mary Spiller scholarship fund which this organization sponsors. $5000 has been set as the goal for the fund, and the association hopes to have accomplished it by 1933. This $5000 will be in the form of a permanent fund, the interest from the principal being the only part of the money used to pay room and board for one year of college each year for some deserv ing freshman woman. Annual Swim Week Is Success at Men’s Gym Although hampered by large classes last week, Coach Jack Hewitt and his squad of student assistants made a vast contribu tion to Eugene’s annual swim week by teaching 81 out of 305 youngsters the rudiments of swim ming. Red Cross pins will be presented to the youthful natators able to negotiate 50 feet, while gilt-edged certificates will be handed to those able to paddle 25 feet. Those who assisted Hewitt in his work at the men's gym were Charley Foster, Gilbert Sprague, John Allen, Jean Eberhart, Stan Kidder, Milo Mar latt, Chuck Spears, and Tom John son. Phi Theta Upsilon Elect New Officers Tonight Election of officers for the com ing year will be held this afternoon at a meeting of Phi Theta Upsilon, upperclass women’s honorary, Miss Marguerite Mauzey, president, has called the meeting for 4:45, in Ger linger hall. This will be the final business gathering conducted by the present officers. The nominating committee is composed of Kathryn Kjosness, chairman; Dorothy Kirk, Daphne Hughes, and Ann Baum. Officers for this year are Mar guerite Mauzey, president; Norma Jacobs, vice-president; Esther Mal | kasian, secretary; Kathryn Kjos j ness, treasurer, and Dorothy Kirk, i editor. ’EAR AND ’AIR What do you think of picnics ? “I don't know what to say be cause I’m from California, and when California boys go on pic nics they don’t think.”—Jim Mon ahan, junior in economics. * * * “I think they are really a lot of fun. They give the students a I chance to get acquainted on a lit tle different basis.”—Kathleen Mc Nutt, sophomore in science. * * * ‘‘I think they are a good out door activity and seem to get the students better acquainted than in the classroom. They form an out let for the students’ pep, and I'm all for them.”—Ruth Frasier, jun ior in education. * * * ‘T think picnics give a variance in college life that you don’t get any other way.”—Wade Ambrose, freshman in business administra tion. Classified Advertisements Rates payable in advance. 20c first three lines; 5c every ad ditional line. Minimum charge 20c. Contracts made by ar , rangement. Telephone 3300; local 214. Lost FRIDAY night black velvet coat between Midway and Eugene. Finder call 2840. LOST Pair of dark-rimmed, gold bridged glasses, vicinity of 13th and Alder. Notify Bill East. 922-W. Wanted AN UPPERCLASSEMAN to han dle a dance program, stationery and Christmas card line on the campus during 1931-32 school j year. Apply The Master Engrav-; ers, Hughes Building, Portland, Oregon. Give activities, frater nity and references. \V A N'l'EP Several passengers going to New York and vicinity at close of spring term. Rea sonable tates. Information by j calling Larry, at 2185-J. -, Physicians DALE AND SETHER Surgery, Radium. X-rav Miner Bldg. Phone 13 i For Rent THE BARTLE COURT Eugene’s high class modern apart ment house. A real home for permanent tenants or short-time guests. 11th at Pearl. Phone 1560. C. X. 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On the Pageant To the Editor: I was very much interested to read in the communication column in yesterday's Emerald the letter signed “A Graduate” and headed | "Now Commencement.” Coming at a most opportune time, this communication was giv en careful consideration this after noon at the meeting of the execu tive committee of the Association of University of Oregon Women, an organization which, among oth er things, sponsors the Flower and Fern procession. The communica tion was an excellent one in that it gave constructive criticism, and while the plans for the Flower and Fern procession this year may not include all of the three points sug gested, we are nevertheless giving due consideration to all of them, for we feel that we are all striving for the same things in this event— symbolic significance, beauty, and a memorable pageant. Mrs. Arthur Quackenbush, T5, President, Assn, of U. of O. Women. A Decade Ago George Hug has been elected graduate manager to replace Mar ion McClain. The Girls’ Glee club will give a concert tonight at the Heilig the atre. The • following statement oc curred in a story: “Have you two dollars cash on hand ? If not, bet ter borrow it, for the 1921 Ore ganas will be ready Thursday noon.” Col. John Leader, commandant of the campus cadets during the war, will be a University guest next week-end. Home Economics Talk Will Take Place Today Mis's Eleanor Sense, chief dieti tian and educational director for the Knox Gelatine company at Johnstown, New York, will speak this afternoon at 4 o’clock at Ger linger hall on the subject of wom en in commercial home economics. With the Knox Gelatine com pany, Miss Sense’s duties have been varied. She has done a great deal of public speaking, has han dled the writing of bulletins and the editing of recipe books for the company, and has conducted re search work in the field of home economics. Teaching experience and social service work have con tributed to Miss Sense’s prepara tion for the commercial field. The qualification for the suc cessful worker, the necessary spe cialized and general training for home economics, the opportunities for remuneration and advancement in the field, and new developments I which will interest the women in commercial home economics, will be phases of the subject treated by Miss Sense. She will explain the place for individual initiative in the creation of worthwhile posi tions. o In every college town there is one outstanding smoking tobacco., At Illinois it’s ALONG Green Street, where A campus leaders stroll ... in the great slate-roofed fraternity houses of Champaign . . . there is one pipe tobacco which always rolls up the biggest vote. At Illinois it’s Edgeworth, every time. A pipe—Edgeworth. That is the smoking combination which has won the college man. Harvard, Cornell, Michigan, Stanford, Dart mouth — all agree with Illinois. 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