UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1932
VOLUME XXXIII
NUMBER 59
125 Delegates
To Gather for
Press Meeting
Luncheons, Discussions
On Program
23 Publications Entered in
Newspaper Contest;
Banquet Tonight
With a total of 23 publications
as contest entries for Oregon’s
best 1931 weekly or semi-weekly
newspaper and approximately 125
delegates expected, all prepara
tions are in readiness for the four
teenth annual Oregon Press con
ference to be held at the school of
journalism starting today.
The winner of the Sigma Delta
Chi cup will be announced by
Ralph David, president of the jour
nalistic professional, at the annual
conference banquet to be held this
evening at the Osburn hotel. A
certificate of award will also be
presented to the Heppner Gazette
Times, winner of the cup last year.
Two years ago, the Oregon chap
ter of Sigma Delta Chi offered
their cup for the first time. It was
won by the Hillsboro Argus at that
time. In presenting this award the
journalism professional members
did so with the hope of stimulating
quality development in Oregon
weekly and semi-weekly newspa
* pers.
Survey Opens Session
After registration is completed
this morning the delegates will
convene in room 100 Journalism
building for the beginning of their
general session, which will last
throughout the morning. Members
of Theta Sigma Phi, women’s jour
nalism honorary, will assist in the
registration. '
The major part of the morning
sessions will be devoted to the sur
vey conducted by two Oregon pub
lishers, Henry N. Fowler, Bend
Bulletin, and Earle Richardson,
Dallas Itemizer-Observer, concern
ing the methods employed by daily
and weekly newspapers in reducing
operating costs in proportion to
the advertising reductions.
At the conclusion -of these ses
sions members of the United Press
and Associated Press will be enter
tained at a special luncheon at the
Anchorage. Alpha Delta Sigma
and Sigma Delta Chi, advertising
and journalism honoraries, will
^ give a no-host luncheon at the An
chorage for the other delegates at
tending the conference. The wom
en delegates and wives of the dele
gates will be entertained by Theta
Sigma Phi, with a no-host lunch
eon at the Green Lantern Tavern.
Departments on Program
The afternoon meetings will be
devoted entirely to the daily and
weekly department sessions. Many
outstanding journalistic authorities
of the state will lead the discus
sions and present various topics of
interest at these meetings.
Gamma Alpha Chi, women’s na
tional advertising honorary, will
entertain the women delegates
from 3 to 5 p. m. at a tea in Al
umni hall of Gerlinger hall.
Eric W. Allen, dean of journal
ism school, will act as toastmaster
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Pfaff Will Speak Before
Wesley Group on Sunday
r “Christianity in Orient” * Will Be
Topic of Address
Roger A. Pfaff, Pacific basin de
bater, will talk to the Wesley club
Sunday evening at 6:30 on “Chris
tianity in the Orient.” The meet
ing will talke place in the Wesley
room of the First Methodist
church.
Pfaff, who is a member of the
University Wesley group, was a
guest at the student center of the
Wesley Foundation in Japan when
he was in Tokyo on his recent
good-will tour. At that time he
gave the Japanese Wesley stu
dents a message of good-will from
the local organization, which each
year sends $25 to help carry on
the work that is being done by the
Japanese student groups of the
Wesley foundation.
The greetings sent by the Tokyo
students to the Oregon Wesley
y foundation will be incorporated in
Pfaff’s talk Sunday evening, as
well as other aspects of the Christ
ian movement in the Orient which
he observed.
A social hour, beginning at 5:30,
will precede the 6:30 service. '
Students' Checks
0 K Most of Time,
Co-op Discovers
QUT of $130,000 worth of
checks cashed to accommo
date students during 1931, n. s.
f. checks cost the University
Co-op exactly $17.50, or 1-15 of
1 per cent, the annual report of
Marion F. McClain, manager,
revealed yesterday.
In addition, during the calen
dar year just past, Co-op dis
tributed 110,000 Emeralds, 25,
000 blotters, 5000 tickets for
campus functions, 3500 free
stickers with football tickets,
15 gallons of lighter fuel, sold
1500 postage stamps, and
bought 1200 column inches of
advertising space in the Emer
ald, it was shown in the report.
Music Events Fill
Campus Calendar
For Coming Week
Press Conference, Teas and
Lectures To Interest
Students
—
The calendar for the coming
week, as compiled in the office of
the dean of women, contains many
events of all-campus interest.
Those scheduled are not only re
creational and musical, but also in
the field of education.
The calendar for January 22 to
28 is as follows:
Friday, January 22
Press conference banquet, Os
burn hotel, 6:30.
Committee for George Washing
ton’s Birthday party, 4 o’clock.
Faculty club.
Saturday, January 23
Press conference.
Thespian tea for freshman wom
en, 3 o’clock, Gerlinger.
Sunday, January 24
Gleemen concert, 3 o’clock, Mc
Arthur court.
Philomelete initiation, 4:30, Ger
linger hall.
Tuesday, January 26
Student recital, 8 o’clock, Music
building.
All campus tea, 4 to 5:30, Hen
dricks hall.
Dinner for debaters, Internation
al house.
Wednesday, January 27
University lecture, “The Art of
the Psychological Novel,” Profes
sor S. Stephenson Smith, 7:30, Vil
lard.
Thursday, January 28
University symphony orchestra,
8 o’clock, Music auditorium.
Education series on “The New
Civilization,” Y. M. C. A., 7:30 to
8:30.
TWO PREPARE FOR M. A.
Preliminaries of examinations
for master’s degrees are being giv
en this week in Dr. Boyer’s office
at Villard hall. Those who have
taken them this week thus far are
Robert Oliver, assistant in public
speaking, and Sister Matilda Mary
Xaverine.
Stay in the Hole
Or Try the Dole?
Queries Charley
Have Faith in Massachusetts.
Tighten up your belt.
Walter Gifford of the famous
President’s Relief committee,
tells the senate committee that
the nation-wide problem is be
ing “adequately” me£ by munici
pal and private charity.
But Senators LaFollette and
Costigan are dubious, and their
committee recommends $375,
000,000 for direct relief. Sen- 1
ator "Stand-Pat” McNary of
Oregon votes no, calling it a
dole.
Here’s how “adequate" pri- j
vate relief is, the committee re
ports :
Suicide rate has doubled; in
sanity cases multiplied, child
mortality from malnutrition
(fancy name for a bare cup
board) increased, juvenile de
linquency greater, and thous
ands of girls being driven into
prostitution.
Why worry? “Teltel” Gifford
says, "private agencies can take
care of the situation.”
Tighten up your belt.
Cheerfully,
WEBFOOT CHARLEY.
Co-op Report
Shows Fall in
1931 Business
No Gain or Loss Shown
During Whole Year
Financial Condition Best in
History, McClain and
Baker Announce
Showing a decrease of 11 1-2 per
cent in the total volume of business
for the year, the Co-op store owned
Wally Baker
by the Oregon
student body just
jbroke even in the
| calendar year
[1931, it was re
, /ealed yesterday
: jy Marion F. Mc
jjClain, manager,
: tnd Wally Baker,
president of the
Oo-op board.
Neither profit
lor loss resulted
from operation of
the store from January 1, 1931, to
January 1, 1932. The small profit
usually made in good years was
not realized in 1931, both because
of the drop in volume of business
and because of steady decline in
value of merchandise on hand, Mc
Clain reported.
In spite of a bad year, the Co-op
now is in the best financial condi
tion in its history, McClain and
Baker told the Emerald yesterday.
This is the Co-op store’s annual
unaudited report to its owners, the
students of the University of Ore
gon.
Business Financially Strong
In regard to the showing for the
year, McClain commented: “While
it has been the policy of the store
in the past to build up working
capital through profits at a rate of
$3000 to $3500 each year, the de
crease in inventory values due to
falling markets has eliminated this
item for the year 1931.
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Mueller Traces
Phase of Russian
Social Standards
Widely-Known Sociologist
Addresses International
Relations Group
“Russia is not radical,” declared I
John H. Mueller, of the sociology
department, Jast night in a talk
before the International Relations
club at the International house. “I
am speaking from the Russian
point of view, of course. I take it
that you know the American view
point.”
He explained how the Russians
rationalize their views in regard
to divorce, government ownership,
and the like, by considering them
merely an extension of principles
already in existence in capitalistic
nations.
“The Russians do have a relig
ious life,” Professor Mueller said,
"in spite of the inimical attitude
of the Moscow government. The
Russian religion was not worthy of
the name of religion, to our way
of thinking. Russia never had a
reformation.
“The anti-religious museums are
designed to break down this relig
ion of medieval superstitution
which is a barrier to scientific pro
gress. But you can still attend
beautiful and impressvie services
in Russia, though they do lack the
splendor of the old regime.”
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Patriotic Society Donates
Fund for History Volumes
The Oregon Daughters of Found
ers and Patriots have sent the
University library $25 for the pur
pose of augmenting the history
books on hand, H. M- Douglass,
University librarian, announced
yesterday.
Miss Grace S. Hale, treasurer of
the society, sent the check by
mail, and enclosed also a note ex
plaining its purpose. Mr. Doug
lass, ih a letter of thanks and ac
knowledgment, told Miss Hale that
the money was to b$ used for the
purchase of A. N. Armstrong’s
“Oregon,” a brief history of Ore
gon and Washington and of the
Indian tribes which lived on the
Pacific slope; and Alexander Ross’
“Fur Hunters of the Far West.” j
Hopkins Shows Mechanical Skill
George Hopkins, professor of piano in the school of music, pro
duces model airplanes with his skilled fingers with the same ease and
accuracy he displays in playing musical compositions. Here he is
shown at his piano, while in the insert is one of his recently built
Lockheed-Vega model planes.
Pianist Makes Model Planes
In Artistic Home Workshop
George Hopkins' Creations
Really Take to Air,
Fly and Glide
*
By DOROTHY COX HESSE
There are hobbies and hobbies,
but George Hopkins, composer and
professor of piano in the school of
music, has developed his favorite
pastime to an art. Mr. Hopkins
delights in making airplanes that
fly; electric trains, directed by a
series of switches, that run; sail
boats that actually sail and mo
torboats that go putt-putting nois
ily through the water.
For a brief visit to the workshop
in the basement of Mr. Hopkins’
home, any boy (and some girls)
musically inclined or even disin
clined, would be more than willing
to do a daily dozen in piano sharps
and flats. And if he were air
minded! Well, even the old swim
ming hole on July days would have
less of an allure than Mr. Hopkins
colorful miniature airport.
In constructing his planes, Mr
Hopkins uses Balsa wood coverec
with Japanese rice paper, small
rubber wheels and long, strong
bands of rubber. The finished mod
els are painted in many gay color
combinations. The Balsa wood,
which is extremely light in weight
—no heavier than cork, in fact—
come3 from Central America.
Mr. Hopkins’ largest model is a
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Jameson Breaks Wrist in
Handball Play Wednesday
As he was attempting to return
a placing during a game of hand
ball which he was playing with
another member of the faculty at
the men’s gym Wednesday after
noon, Dr. Samuel H. Jameson of
the sociology department fell on
his left hand and broke fiis wrist.
In spTte of the accident, Dr. Jame
son said he will be able to attend
his classes a3 usual.
About two weeks ago Professor
Jameson had another mishap when
a fire which started of undeter
mined cause in his cellar did dam
age to the extent of $1000 to his
residence. All but $200 .worth of
personal belongings was covered
by insurance.
Thespians To Sponsor Tea
For All Freshman Women
Thespians, freshman women’s
service honorary, will give a tea
tomorrow afternoon from 3 to 5
o’clock in the sun room of Gerling
er hall. All freshman girls are
urged to come.
Alice Gerot is chairman of the
committee in charge, and Mary
Stewart and Lois Margaret Hunt
are working with her. The enter
tainment committee includes Sybil
Lou King and Mildred Kissling
Marie Saccomanno is in charge ol
all publicity.
Included on the program for to
morrow will be piano solos by
Norma Pickles, Josephine Waffle
and Peggy Newby. Charlotte El
diidge and Sage Madden will har
monize popular songs.
PRESS CONFERENCE PROGRAM TODAY
MORNING
7:30—Breakfast for Executive Committee, Eugene hotel.
General Sessions—Room 105, Journalism building,
President Litfin presiding.
9:00- 9:30 Registration.
9:30—“Oregon’s Newspapers’ Typographical Dress—As It
Appears to an Old-Timer’’- Davie Foulkes, mechan
ical superintendent of Morning Oregonian, Portland.
10:15-12:00—“Cutting Expenses on Oregon Newspapers”:
“How Oregon Dalies Are Doing It” Henry N. Fowler,
business manager, Bend Bulletin, Bend.
“Plow Oregon Weeklies Are Doing It”- Earle Richard
son, publisher of Itemizer-Observer, Dallas.
NOON
12:00—Adjournment for luncheons:
Associated Press—Anchorage.
United Press—Anchorage.
Alpha Delta Sigma and Sigma Delta Chi for those
attending conference—Anchorage.
Theta Sigma Phi—for women attending conference—
Green Lantern Tavern.
AFTERNOON
2:00- 5:00—Departmental meetings, Journalism building:
Daily Department—Room 101, President Litfin pre
siding.
Weekly Department—Room 105, Thomas Nelson,
Times, Junction City, presiding.
3:00- 5:00 Tea, honoring women attending conference, by Gamma
Alpha Chi Alumni hall, Gerlinger building, campus.
6:00—Annual banquet, courtesy Eugene Chamber of Com
merce, Osburn hotel:
Dean Eric W. Allen—Toastmaster.
French Farce
To Be Offering
Of Faculty Club
Matinee Series To Start
With ‘Le Million’
Farce Selected for Opening
Show Next Thursday
At Colonial
A real French farce comedy, "Le
Million,” made understandable to
those who do not understand this
language, and made especially en
joyable with its technique, music,
and cast, will be the first presen
tation next Thursday of the Uni
versity of Oregon faculty club
matinee series, it was announced
yesterday by S. Stephenson Smith,
chairman of the club committee.
The showings this year will be
held weekly at the Colonial thea
tre, and seven outstanding pictures,
all of them with international rep
utations, have been selected for
the series. Presentations will take
place Thursdays, with the first
show at 2 o'clock.
‘‘Le Million” is now playing in
Portland at the Studio theatre,
where cinema enthusiasts are fill
ing the theatre every night for ev
ery showing of this film. The clev
er story, music that everyone j
praises, and other features have |
made this one of the best-liked pic
tures of the year in Portland. A
clever device is resorted to so that
everyone may follow the action of
the picture perfectly, while those
who can understand French have
a double treat in store.
“Prince Achmed” Next
The next picture in the series
will be the famed "Prince Achmed.”
All action takes place in silhouette
cut-out pictures, which took the
producers five years to complete.
It is declared to be a charming and
delightful production, with unusual
effects adding to the interest of
the story. Its presentation has
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Five Orators Get
Chance at Coast,
Oregon Awards
Forensic Representatives
To Enter Six in Winter
Term Contests
As a result of the oratorical try
outs for the winter term contests,
held at Villard hall last night, five
men were selected to represent the
University of Oregon by a body of
three judges, Walter E. Hemp
stead, John Casteel, and Robert
Oliver, all of the speech depart
ment.
The entrants gave 10-minute
talks on some phase of American
party politics especially adapted to
the contest which they are enter
ing.
Thomas Hartfel, sophomore in
journalism, was chosen as the rep
resentative in the state forensic
contest in commemoration of the
200th birthday of George Wash
ington. Awards ranging from $50
down will be given. Judge Wallace
McCamant, Portland, will be in
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Depression Parly Planned
For Students on Sunday
Bread Line Will Feature Event
For Those Hard Up
A depression party Sunday to
entertain the Wesley foundation
members and the Methodist prefer
ence students who are experienc
ing hard times because of parting
with $20.25 registration fee, has
been planned by the social com
mittee of the club.
No “glad rags” or “Sunday
bests” are to be worn. Old clothes
or your every day garbs are the
proper dress for the occasion, it
was announced by the committee.
To obtain food those attending
may have to get in a bread line.
Thelma Shuey, social chairman
of the Wesley foundation, is mak
ing the arrangements for the par
ty, which begins at 8:30 at the
First Methodist church. The other
committee members are Donald
Carruth and Eula Loomis. Miss
Dorothy Nyland, foundation direc
tor, has been assisting the com
mittee.
Soloist
Hul Young, well-known Oregon
tenor, will sing two groups of solos
In the Sunday concert with the
Eugene Gleemen. This will be the
second program on the A, S. II. O.
winter concert series.
Sunday Concert
To Feature Two
Solos by Young
Oregon Son Is Graduate of
Eastman Music School
In New York
Hal Young, feature soloist for
Sunday's Eugene Gleemen con
cert, is one of the outstanding fa
vorite sons of Oregon in the field
of music. He will sing two groups
of solos on the program, and with
the Gleemen will sing Romberg’s
“Serenade” as the final number
of the concert.
The concert will be at 3 o’clock
A. S. U. O. cards will admit stu
dents. General admission is 25
cents, and reserved seats 50 cents.
Young is a graduate of Jeffer
son high school in Portland, and
for years was a chum of Mark
Daniels, radio and light opera bari
tone. They studied together under
Gio Tyler Taglieri during their
high school days.
Young graduated from the East
man school of music in Rochester,
New York, where Eugene Goosons,
modernist composer and conduc
tor, is a faculty member. While
studying in New York City, he was
tenor soloist at the Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian church.
Joining the cast of a Schubert
production in Chicago to fill an
emergency vacancy, Young was
maintained in the role after the re
covery of the principal tenor of
the troup, and later appeared in
other Schubert operettas on Broad
way over a period of about four
seasons.
Since his return from the East,
he has been engaged in radio and
concert work, and in directing
church music in Portland and at
the Baptist church in Eugene.
Biology Honorary Meets
To Adopt Its Constitution
Beta Lambda, new biological
honorary organized to promote re
search in the biological sciences,
met Wednesday night to adopt its
constitution.
Plans were also discussed for
the next regular meeting, which
will be held the second week in
February.
Officers of the honorary are
Dale Leslie, president; Phillip
Staats, vice-president; and Elaine
Williams, secretary-treasurer.
Members of Beta Lambda will
be chosen from students of high
scholastic standing and those who
are interested in biological re
search.
Entrance Exam
For New Students
To Be Given at 4
rpHE English examination for
students entering the Uni
versity this winter term will he
given today at 4 p. m. in room
108 Villard.
Registration of students
scheduled for the examination
but failing to take it, will bo
automatically cancelled by the
registrar’s office.
Honorary Will
Meet to Decide
On 'O’ Decree
Bush Believes Action Is
Evasion of Issue
Skull and Daggers at 4:15
To Discuss Question
At College Side
Signifying a feeling that the re
cent action of the Order of the O
in turning over the hacking of
freshmen to the Skull and Dag
gers, sophomore men's honorary,
strongly smacked of an evasion of
the issue, Neal Bush, head of the
sophomore group, announced last
night that a meeting of the or
ganization would be called today
to decide whether the commission
would be accepted. The meeting
is to be held at 4:15 in College
Side.
Bush declared that those of the
group whom he had interviewed
emphatically did not favor the
public hacking of freshmen, hold
ing such a spectacle to be a hu
miliation for the freshman and a
reflection on the campus as a
whole.
Bush Resentful
Indicating a feeling of resent
ment, Bush said that the group
believed that the Order of the O
was "passing the buck’’ when it
commissioned the Skull and Dag
gers for the hacking of freshmen.
Howard Steib, president of the
freshman class, when questioned
by the Emerald last night, said
that he experienced a feeling of
disappointment when the Order of
the O failed to abolish library
steps hacking.
Steib Disappointed
"We felt in our class,” Steib
said, “that we were going to be
greatly honored and trusted when
the abolition of public punishment
for freshmen was proposed. We
believed that it would make the
"wearing of the green" more of
an honor and privilege than it has
ever been before.
“Not only that,” Steib contin
ued, "but we feel certain that the
vast majority of the students on
the campus would have considered
the removal of the libe step ses
sions as a step forward and a
means for the betterment of cam
pus atmosphere.”
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Fellowships for History
Available at Tufts College
Two Positions of $1000 Offered by
Eastern School
Dr. R. C. Clark, head of the his
tory department of the University
has just received an announce
ment from the head of the history
department at Tufts college, Mas
sachusetts, that for the academic
year 1932-1933, two graduate
teaching fellowships in history are
available in that institution, each
of which bears a stipend of $1000
and affords free tuition in the
graduate school of the college.
These fellowships, the announce
ment says, are open to graduates
of recognized colleges and univer
sities, who have shown superior
ability in the field of history and
expect to continue in some branch
of historical work, or one who is
sufficiently mature to be entrusted
with considerable responsibility.
Appointment is for one year only,
although it is contemplated that
the fellow, if successful, will be
reappointed for a second year.
Applications should be filed not
later than March 1, 1932, with the
head of the department of history,
Tufts college, Medford, Massachu
setts.
Applications From Distant
Points Reach University
According to Mrs. Clara Fitch,
secretary of the graduate school,
applications for graduate assistant
ships have been coming in from all
countries of the world and all
states of the union, especially from
the southern part of the United
States.
One application has come from
India, five from China, and one
from Germany. Southern states
represented are Alabama, Florida,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
and Mississippi.