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VOLUME XXXIII
NUMBER 39
McClain Flays
Co-op Charges
As Unfounded
Alleged Wage Complaint
Branded False
Manager Avers Assertions
Result of Ignorance
Of Conditions
Editor’s Note: The Emerald
procured the following story
when a complaint was registered
against the Co-op through the
medium of the “Safety Valve,”
student opinion column. The
letter may he found on page two.
In refutation of charges that the
University Co-op store had length
ened its employes’ working hours
without increasing salaries, Mar
ion F. McClain, manager of the
Co-op, declared yesterday that the
accusation arose only from lack of
knowledge of the true situation.
The charge was caused by the
fact that the Co-op recently start
ed the policy of remaining open in
the evening, the employes appar
ently working longer hours with
out any increase in salary.
Profit Small
“In order that the situation may
be completely understood,” Mr.
McClain declared, “it must be re
membered that the profit obtained
from the sale of the Co-op’s main
stock, text books, is not large
enough to wipe out the overhead.
Therefore the remainder of the
stock must be depended upon to
clear up the deficit.
“In an attempt, therefore, to
combat the present economic de
pression as well as tne competition
presented by local merchants In
the school supply lines, the board
decided to open the store eve
nings.”
In accordance with the past pol
icy of the store, the situation was
then discussed with the entire staff
and it was decided by the group
that the day a member was to
work in the evening, he need not
come to work in the morning until
an hour after the regular opening
time.
“Each employe works eight
hours a day and has one afternoon
off a week. The new system in
creases the working time of the
Co-op clerk one hour a week,” Mr.
McClain pointed out, “which brings
the total working time up to 45
hours a week, three hours below
the maximum working limit of 48
hours as defined by state law.”
Salary Level Mainiameu
Mr. McClain also declared that
the Co-op is one of the few busi
ness establishments in Eugene
which has not been forced to re
duce salaries and lay off workers.
In attempting to cope with the
present economic situation, there
fore, the Co-op employes agreed to
donate one hour’s time a week and
Mr. McClain did not take a $300
increase in salary this year as
scheduled in his contract. This do
nation amounts to $35 a week.
Early Oregon Graduate
Passes at Home of Son
Joel N. Pearcy, Lawyer, Poet,
Dies in Portland
Joel N. Pearcy, a member of the
second class to be graduated from
the University, died recently at the
home of one of his sons. He re
ceived his M.A. degree from the
University in 1882 and in the same
year was admitted to the bar in
Salem.
Mr. Pearcy practised law in
Portland from 1899 until a few
years ago, when he moved to
Kelso, Washington. He was a
member of the committee that
bought the first available library
for student use. He was also one
of the founders of the Laurean
Literary society, which started in
the first years of the University.
Mr. Pearcy graduated from
Portland high school, then the only
high school in the state, and en
tered the University at the age of
16. Both in the University and
in high school he studied under
John W. Johnson, first president
of the University.
Poetry was one of Mr. Pearcy's
hobbies. Old Oregon has had
some of his poems printed and in
1927 published an article of his
in which he recalled his memories
of the entire first faculty and told
many interesting stories of early
student days.
Tonqueds to Hold
Holiday Matinee
Dance on Friday
pi'GRN’K University women
suggest that students can
shake off that Thanksgiving
torpor and additional avoirdu
pois from too much turkey by
“tripping the light fantastic” at
the Tonqued matinee dance on
Friday.
Give yourself a real holiday
treat, they say, by enjoying an
afternoon of good music, good
floor, and good features for the
small sum of 25 cents.
Where? At the Craftsman
dull. When? Friday, Novem
ber 27, at 2:30.
Schurz Memorial
Foundation Starts
All-College Contest
In commemoration of the 100th
anniversary of the death of Goethe,
the greatest German poet, the Carl
Schurz Memorial Foundation an
nounces a national essay contest,
open to all undergraduates at col
leges and universities throughout
the United States. The Carl Schurz
Memorial Foundation is interested
in the development of cultural re
lations between the United States
and Germany.
One of the following subjects
may be chosen: "Goethe’s Concep
tion of Personality,” "The Art of
the Youthful Goethe (to 1776)” or
“Goethe as a Lyric Poet.”
The papers may be written in
English or in German and must
not exceed 5000 words. There are
two first prizes, each $200; two
second prizes, each $100; third and
fourth prizes, each $75; fifth,
sixth, and seventh prizes, each $50.
Honorable mention will be awarded
to a small number of meritorious
essays.
The essays must reach the Carl
Schurz Memorial Foundation, Inc.,
225 South Fifteenth St., Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania, not later than'
September 15, 1932.
No name of the candidate must
appear upon the essay. A nom de
plume or motto should appear in
its stead and the name of the' uni
versity or college.
Announcements of rewards will
take place in December, 1932.
Students wishing to learn more
about details of the contest should
consult Professor Schmidt of the
German department, who says
that he hopes some of the awards
will be given to some students of
the University of Oregon.
The University library has an
excellent collection of Goethe’s
works in English and German, and
numerous biographies.
Frosli Swim Through Soph
Team in Mermaid Fray
Women Vie for Pool Honors; More
Meets Scheduled
In an exciting swimming meet,
the freshman women's swimming
team won a close victory from
the sophomore team yesterday
afternoon in the women’s swim
ming pool. The deciding and last
event of the meet was the relay,
which the freshman team won,
thus annexing the victory, 35 to
32 points.
The results were: single over
arm, Eleanor Thurston, sophomore,
first; back stroke, Harriet Saelt
zer, sophomore, first; crawl, Gerry
McGillieuddy, freshman, first; rac
ing back stroke, Isabelle Jenkins,
sophomore, first; free style, Elaine
Untermann, freshman, first;
plunge for 30 seconds, Isabelle
Jenkins, first; diving, H. Saeltzer,
sophomore, first; relay, freshmen.
Other intramural swimming
meets are scheduled for the week
following Thanksgiving holiday.
Stanford Dean to Counsel
Business Ad Majors Here
Hugh J. Jackson, dean of the
Stanford university school of busi
ness administration, will visit the
University of Oregon Monday, No
vember 30. Dean Jackson’s visit
was announced by Dean David E.
Faville of the school of business
administration, who said that the
Stanford professor would interview
students or faculty members inter
; ested in graduate work at the
| Stanford school of business.
Persons interested may arrange
! for an appointment by calling local
1313, or by seeing Miss Bailey at
1205 Commerce building.
Eleven Make
Men’sVarsity
Debate Squad
Wage Cut Problem Offers
Weighty Arguments
Casteel, Hempstead, Oliver
In Charge of Forensic
Work for Year
Hopes are high for success in
men’s varsity debate for this year,
as a squad of eleven men were
chosen from the sixteen who com
peted in the tryouts held last night
at Villard hall. They debated the
question, “Resolved, That the cut
ting of wages has materially re
tarded the recovery from the pres
ent depression.”
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the judges were: Robert Gamer,
Gordon Day, W. Ray Clapp, Ste
phen Kahn, Thomas Tongue, Cecil
Espy, George Bennett, Emery
Hyde, Rolla Reedy, Wallace Camp
bell, and Arthur Potwin.
Men Are Experienced
Most of these men have had con
siderable experience in this work
in the fields of previous varsity and
freshman work.
Judges for the tryoiJTs were John
L. Casteel, associate professor of
English; Walter Hempstead, in
structor of English; Robert Oliver,
graduate assistant; Dean James
Gilbert and Dean W. L. Morse of
the law school.
Wage Cuts Limits Buying
The chief argument advanced by
the affirmative side was that the
cutting of wages has paved the
buying power of the consumer,
which in turn means that less
goods will be bought resulting in
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YWCA Regional Secretary
To Visit Campus Sunday
Marcia Seeber To Hold Group
Conference Here
Marcia Seeber, regional secre
tary of the student Y. W. C. A.,
arrives in Eugene Sunday to spend
Monday and Tuesday on the cam
pus meeting people and attending
conferences.
Monday Miss Seeber will meet,
with the members of the Y. W. C.
A. cabinet, the advisory board and
the Frosh Commission officers, and
at 4 o’clock with the leaders of the
various freshman discussion
groups.
For five years Miss Seeber was
the student Y. W. C. A. secretary
at Washington State college. Last
year she attended Columbia uni
versity and the Yale Divinity
school in New York where she
studied international relations,
philosophy of religion.
This will probably be Miss See
ber’s only visit to the campus this
year.
Yeomen Will Hold Final
Meeting of Term Monday
The Oregon Yeomen will hold
the last meeting of the term Mon
day evening at the men’s lounge
of Gerlinger hall, Merlin Blais,
president of- the organization, an
nounced yesterday. Plans for an
extensive winter term social pro
gram will be discussed, and reports
of a number of standing commit
tees will be presented. General
business of the group is to be the
order of the evening.
Ingram Kjosness, sports chair
man, and Robert O’Leary, in
charge of social events, will make
reports. A short musical program
has been planned for the meeting.
Prose and Poetry Group
Hears Works of Tagore
Poems from “Song Offerings” by
Rabindranath Tagore were read
by Eleanor Wharton, freshman in
English, last night before the fire
place in Susan Campbell hall draw
ing room, at a meeting of Prose
and Poetry group of Philomelete.
Miss Wharton also read a short
description of the life ol the In
dian poet.
Virginia Endicott, "of Eugene,
entertained the group with two vio
lin solos, “Song of India” by Rim
sky-Korsakoff and “Frasquita” by
Franz Leher. Alice Briggs accom
panied Miss Endicott.
Miss Wharton announced that
poets of the Near East will be
studied at the next meeting of the
group.
Students To Vacate Campus
For Thanksgiving Holidays
Many Social Affairs for
Week-End Planned;
Dance Slated
Tomorrow students will be
thankful for the first respite from
the rigors of university life since
the last week of September, al
most two months ago.
In the homes of many freshmen
there will be rejoicings at the re
turn from the first long period
away from the family circle. There
will also be many reunions with
old chums, boy friends and girl
friends at the old haunts.
Only one or two of the sorority
houses will be kept open during
the holidays, so many of the
women are leaving. Only about
150 men will remain at the fra
ternity houses, a poll yesterday in
dicated.
At least 20 students and four
faculty members will attend the
Northwest Students' International
conference to be held at Reed col
lege Friday and Saturday. Repre
sentatives from all institutions in
the Northwest are expected to at
tend.
Many students are planning to
attend the Jefferson - Marshfield
high school football game in Mult
nomah stadium tomorrow after
noon. The mythical state cham
pionship is at stake in the big
game and many Oregon students
besides Jefferson grads are expect
ing to be in the stands.
In Portland, dances or parties
will be held by several of the fra
ternities and sororities. Several
of the other cities will also be
scenes for such affairs. No gen
eral University social function has
been planned as the time is too
short.
The Tonqueds have planned a
matinee dance to be held at the
Craftsman club on East Four
teenth street Friday afternoon. All
students staying in Eugene over
the holidays are invited. It is to
be a no-date affair.
Nearly 200 seats have been sold
here for the St. Mary’s-Oregon
game to be played in San Fran
cisco tomorrow. The majority of
these have gone to students who
will be at their homes in the bay
region for the holidays.
Oregon Students
To Attend N.S.I.C,
Meet at Portland
Aspects of Disarmament,
Chinese Problems To
Be Subject
Various aspects of disarmament
and problems of China will be con
sidered at the Northwest Students
International conference to be
held Friday and Saturday of this
week at Heed college in Portland,
under the auspices of the North
west councils of the Y. M. C. A.
and Y. W. C. A. and the Carnegie
Endowment for International
Peace.
Four professors and more than
20 students will represent Oregon
at the conference. Dean George
Rebec, of the graduate school, Pro
fessor Alexander Goldenweiser, ex
tension school, and Professors Vic
tor P. Morris and John R. Mez, of
the economics department, will be
among the speakers and leaders of
the conference.
Students planning to attend are
Rolla Reedy, president of the cam
pus Y. M. C. A., Helen Binford,
chairman of the World Fellowship
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Magazine Starts
Literary Contests
In Coast Colleges
Prizes To Be Given for Best
Stories and Articles
About West
The Westerner magazine, pub
lished in Portland, has announced
its initial trial of a short story and
magazine article contest to be con
ducted individually in the Univer
sities of Oregon, Washington, Ida
ho, and California.
The contests are open to all un
dergraduate and graduate students
regularly enrolled in the four uni
versities. Prizes of $20 for first
place, $10 for the second best story,
I md $5 for the third best, will be
ivvardcd in each contest on the
;our campuses.
The restrictions have been made
‘.hat the articles or short stories be
based on a western background or
theme. Also the manuscripts must
be typewritten, on one side of the
paper with name of author accom
panying it. The deadline of the
contest on the local campus has
been set at January I. All manu
scripts must be handed in to W. F.
(Continued on Page Two)
Council Adopts
0.75 Average
For Initiation
Interfraternity Group
Lists Grade Counts
Minor Points Left to Living
Organizations for Own
Decision
INITIATION REQUIREMENT
SHOWN GRAPHICALLY
The table of hours and points
given below shows the mini
mum quality of work required
of pledges to make the 0.75
grade point average for frater
nity initiation:
Hours
Carried
12
13
14
15
1G
17
18
19
Minimum
Points
9
10
11
12
12
13
14
15
A grade point average of 0.75
was adopted by the interfraternity
J council yesterday as the minimum
requirement for the initiation of
pledges. This is a grade average
of approximately C minus. A
minimum of 12 term hours is also
required.
A few of the houses are expected
to require a 1.0 average for initia
tion. This is done to encourage
higher grades on the part of fresh
men and to impress upon them the
necessity of making an average
equal to that specified for gradu
- ation.
(Continued on Page Four)
I
Foreign Trade Classes
To Visit Port of Portland
Professor Alfred L. Lomax of the
foreign trade department of the
school of business administration,
and the foreign trade classes will
visit the Port of Portland Friday,
November 27. The visit will in
clude the freight terminals where
the loading of ocean going freight
will be observed and the ships
themselves visited.
A similar trip was taken last
year and proved both interesting
and educating, Professor Lomax
declares.
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Here are five more Galloping Gaels who will he on hand when Oregon faces St. Mary’s tomorrow j
morning in Kezur stadium. Dopetfters on the coast are predicting a close contest.
Who Gets Turkey? J
The meeting of Coach Slip
Mulligan anil Dr. Spears is as
sured for the next six years. The
Doetor appears serious, while
Madigan smiles expectantly.
Library Worker,
Former Dean of
Women, To Retire
—
At noon today, Mrs. Ellen M.
Pennell will retire from her work
in the library after having given it
13 years of faithful service. Since
the year of the Armistice, Mrs.
Pennell has’ been working in the
basement of the library in the of
fice of the librarian, Mr. M. H.
Douglass.
Mrs. Pennell came to the Uni
versity from Monmouth in 1908
as instructor in English and assist
ant dean of women. Luella Clay
Carson was then dean of women.
Mrs. Pennell knew P. L. Campbell
in Monmouth, so when he became
president of the University she
dropped her work there and be
came a member of the faculty on
the Oregon campus. In 1911 she
became dean of women as well as
an instructor in English. The next
year she began teaching a course
in art for the girls in the Univer
sity. There are many former stu
dents of the University who best
remember her in this teaching posi-1
tion, for she taught this course for
about six years. Then in 1918, she
began her work in the library.
In a fall a few years ago she
broke her hip so it has been nec
essary for a taxi to bring her to
and from her work each day.
Faculty Members Asked
To Confer With E. Lindsay
The state board of higher edu
cation has asked various members
of the University faculty, repre
senting different departments and
activities, to confer with Dr. E. E.
Lindsay, executive secretary of the
board, and representatives of other
Oregon colleges to discuss common
problems.
Dr. Howard R. Taylor, director
personnel research, and Eric W.
Allen, dean of the school of jour
nalism, were in Salem on Monday,
November 23, to meet with Dr.
Lindsay. David E. Faville, dean of
the school of business administra
tion, and Dr. James H. Gilbert,
dean of the college of literature,
science and the arts, will confer
with him today.
GRIFFIN MADE PRESIDENT
Myron Griffon, senior in journal
ism, has been elected president of
Ye Tabard Inn, men’s national
writing honorary, to take the place
of Victor Kaufman, who did not
return to the University this year. ,
Webfeet Carry
Grid Banners
To Gael Camp
St. Mary’s Tilt Final Play
On Oregon Schedule
Spears, Madigan To Watch
Wits in Annual Turkey
Day Clash
SAN MATEO, Cal., Nov. 24 —
(Special to the Emerald)—Here,
in the polo citadel of the Far West,
the University of Oregon football
team started practice Monday for
its final game of the season. Near
the celebrated Burlingame country
club, where Eric Pedley and the
late Jim Colt rode to fame on the
turf, the Webfeet will prepare
themselves for their last 1931
chance to scale the football heights.
Ducks Leave Thursday
The Ducks leave here Thursday
morning for San Francisco where
they will match skill with St.
Mary’s college, previous conquer
or of Southern California, victor
over mighty Notre Dame. Victory
means much in this annual Thanks
giving day classic. Triumph for
either club will go far towards
erasing the stain of previous de
feats.
To date St. Mary’s has dropped
two games. Oregon has been on
the short end once. The Gaels
were blanked successively by the
Olympic club, 10 to 0, and by U. C.
L. A., 12 to 0. Oregon suffered its
only defeat to Southern California,
but it was a decisive one. The final
score was 53 to 0. St. Mary’s via
the aerial route, licked the Trojans,
13 to 7, in an early season encoun
ter. Neither team has met any
other mutual opponent.
Regulars WU1 Start
Both elevens will be at full
strength for the contest. For the
first time in its last three starts,
'the Gaels will have every first
stringer on the starting line, while
the Webfeet came out of last Sat
urday’s U. C. L. A. game without
a casualty. Leighton Gee, stellar
right half for the Ducks, will bol
ster the Webfoot lineup. He was
kept out of the Bruins game be
cause of a strained leg muscle.
Tomorrow’s game will end the
1931 season for the Webfeet. St.
Mary’s still has the strong South
ern Methodist eleven on its sched
ule.
Fire Drills Suggested for
Campus Living Groups
A plea to all fraternities on the
campus to hold fire drills one or
more times a month and so comply
with recommendations of the state
fire marshal’s office was issued
yesterday by Virgil D. Earl, dean
of men, at a special meeting of the
interfraternity council.
“We are anxious to cooperate
with the state fire marshal’s of
fice and always be prepared for an
emergency in case of fire. We can
best show our spirit of cooperation
by actually rehearsing fire drills
ocassionally,” Dean Earl told the
council.
December Issue of Alumni
Monthly To Appear Monday
The Christmas issue of Old Ore
gon will be off the press the first
of next week, said Peggy Boyer,
managing editor of the alumni
magazine. It should reach alumni
the first part of December to
carry to them the holiday greet
ings extended by the Alumni as
sociation.
"This issue will really be almost
i Homecoming number,” said Miss
Boyer, "for it will carry news of
the graduates and former students
who returned for Homecoming,
and stories of the events that
marked the week-end."
In addition, Miss Boyer pointed
out, there will be special feature
articles to interest the grads. One
article by Dr. John H. Mueller,
associate professor of sociology,
deals with the Russia of today.
Dr. Mueller is well qualified to
write on this subject for he re
cently returned from a trip to
Russia in which he studied condi
tions there. He was accompanied
on the trip by an economist from
the University of California and
by a professor from a Russian uni
versity who acted as interpreter
and guide. The article will be il
lustrated by photographs which
Dr. Mueller himself took on the
trip.
Dr. J. R. Mez, associate profes
sor of economics, writes on ‘‘Ore
gon and Orient” for this issue of
Old Oregon. Dr. Mez is well
known as a speaker and writer to
students, but is not so well known
to alumni, since he has been on
the Oregon campus only since
1929.
Mrs. David M. Graham suggests
a new name for the Oregon Web
foots in an interview with Robert
K. Allen. Mrs. Graham says that
alumni have long looked for a bet
ter name than “Webfoots” to de
note the Oregon teams, and she
makes here a pertinent suggestion.
Other articles include sports,
news of the classes, campus news,
and pictures. Miss Boyer is editor
of this issue, and Roger Bailey is
advertising manager.