Oregon daily emerald., January 18, 1933, Alumni Edition, Image 1

VOLUME XXXIV ~-" NUMBER 51
EMERALD TO REMAIN ON FIVE-DAY SCHEDULE
Conference On
Religion Slated
This Afternoon
Dr. Parsons To Present
Survey Findings
TWO MEETS SLATED
Representative Students Invited
To Sessions at 4:30 and 7:30;
Movement Is Nation-Wide
Gerlinger hall this afternoon and
^ evening will be the scene of a pro
gram of conferences and discus
sions for a group of students,
townspeople, and teachers inter
ested in a program to promote
work carried on by the committee
on religious and spiritual activi
ties.
The afternoon meeting will be
held at 4 o’clock in the Alumni
hall, with Dr. Philip A. Parsons
in charge. The evening gathering
will take place in the same hall at
7:30.
Dr. Parsons, president of the
western division of the American
Board of Religion and Higher Ed
ucation, recently made a tour of
colleges and universities .west of
the Rocky mountains in which he
made investigations and laid plans
for the securing of 10,000 students’
and leaders’ opinions on religious
problems and their solution. He
spent a day on the campus of each
college and university, in the
course of which he has met with
student and faculty groups sepa
I rately and in joint meetings. His
extensive work gave him a good
insight on religious problems of
students and methods of solution.
It is planned that he will lead in a
series of meetings to be held on
our own campus.
The meeting today will be the
foundation of a program for work
in the religious field in the Uni
versity. The committee, which has
been somewhat inactive, due to un
settled conditions of our schools
will revive the work started at a
previous time. The committee is
non-sectarian, as is shown by the
personnel of the national commis
sion, which is composed of ten
Catholic priests, ten Protestant
ministers, ten Jewish leaders and
ten outstanding college presidents.
Representatives of fraternities,
sororities and campus organiza
tions have been asked to attend
and help spread the work suggest
ed by Dr. Parsons and the commit
tee. In addition leaders of com
munity activities and club organi
zations in the city of Eugene have
been invited.
The movement on foot will at
tempt to bring the student and his
problems closer to the advisers and
leaders of the University. Such a
need was felt in many other col
leges of the country and similar
programs are being instigated.
Among the schools of higher edu
cation on the coast with such pro
grams are Oregon State college,
Stanford, Southern California,
Washington, University of Califor
nia and others.
Dr. Nelson Bossing of the school
of education has been in charge of
the work on the campus for the
last several years and will have
general charge of this meeting.
Dancing Hours Changed
Miss Ruth Bloomer’s open hour
for dancing will be held Monday
and Thursday afternoons at 5 in
the dance studio of Gerlinger hall
instead of at 1 o'clock, as previ
4 ously announced.
Campus Calendar
Sigma Delta Chi will have pic
tures taken for the Oregana to
day at 12:30 in front of Condon.
Westminster worship group
meeting at 9 p. m. with Fred Mor
row.
Nature group of Philomelete will
meet at 4 o’clock today in Susan
Campbell hall. Everyone be there.
Theta Sigma Phi meeting to
night at 7:30 at Sally Allen’s home
on Birch lane. Take University
loop bus, get off at Birch lane.
Alpha Delta Sigma meeting this
y afternoon at 4 o'clock in Thacher's
' -.office. All members please be
present.
Muscle Shoals To Be Surveyed This Week
President-elect Roosevelt has invited Senator G eorge VV. Norris of Nebraska, right, to join an in
spection party which will inspect Muscle Shoals th is week "as a preliminary move to action as to what
will be done with vast wartime enterprise. The Wil son dam and a portion of the hydro-electric plant are
pictured above. Roosevelt is shown on the left.
INITIATION HELD
FOR ‘SENIOR SIX’
IN GERLINGER HALL
Robert W. Sawyer, Editor of Bend
Bulletin, Welcomes New
Members
Phi Beta Kappa, national scho
lastic'fibnorary; initiated'‘lRe'Sen-J
ior Six at 5:30 yesterday in Alum
ni hall. A dinner at 6:30 followed
the initiation.
The Senior Six were elected fall
term, as those seniors most out
standing in scholarship. Another
group of students will be chosen
for Phi Bete later in the year.
Those initiated last night were Ar
thur Cannon Jr., Lewis Fendrich,
Janet Lynn Fitch, Elma Doris
Havemann, Helen Johanna Raitan
en, and David Wilson.
Dr. George Rebec, president of
the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta
Kappa, presided at the initiation,
and welcomed the initiates. David
Wilson gave the response in be
half of ’the Senior Six.
At the dinner which followed the
initiation Judge Robert W. Saw
yer, editor of the Bend Bulletin,
gave the address of the evening.
About 60 people attended the din
ner, which was not open to the
general public as it has been for
merly. All members and initiates
with their husbands and wives,
were invited to attend.
Education Seminar Held
The semi-monthly meeting of
the education seminar was held
last evening in the education
school with Professor Fred Stetson
in charge. This group discusses
current education problems and
makes studies of particular phases
of the teaching field.
Senior Traditions
Council Will Meet
Thursday at Noon
IMPORTANT d e v e 1 opments
were-promised by Bill Bow
erman, vice-president of Ihe
student body, when he an
nounced to the Emerald last
night that the traditions coun
cil and the senior traditions
committee of 15 will meet for
an important session at the
men’s gymnasium Thursday at
12:30.
Bowerman would give out no
information as to the nature
of the meeting, but issued a de
cree that every member of the
traditions enforcement bodies
must be present.
Seniors Named
For Upperclass
Ball Directorate
Eighteen fourth-year students
will compose the directorate dele
gated to formulate plans for the
senior ball under the general
chairmanship of Chuck Stryker.
The affair will be held in Ger
linger hall on Saturday, February
4, and will be preceded by a formal
reception in alumni hall in honor
of the seniors.
Announcement regarding distri
bution of tickets will be made in
tomorrow’s Emerald, at which
time house representatives will be
named.
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Does Technocracy Oppose
Orthodox Economic Theory?
By CALVIN CRUMBAKER
As told to Jack Bellinger
Has technocracy, the research
organization at Columbia univer
sity, been violating the rules of
CQmity of the sciences in invading
the jurisdiction of the economist,
laying waste to his domain, de
throning his cherished idols, and
sacrificing his "sacred cow"? It
would seem that certain spokes
men for technocracy have not only
attempted to set up a program es
sentially economic in nature, but
they have attempted to tweak the
noses of the economist in the bar
gain, if literal interpretation is
given to statements attributed to
them. For example, a writer in
the New Outlook says that tech
nocracy challenges “the orthodox
economist, the political scientist,
and other ’ists’ of the so-called so
cial sciences." Associated Press
dispatches of January 14 credit
i Howard Scott, head of the cult,
j with the statement that, "Econom
ics hasn't much to recommend it.
It’s as good as bridge, I guess . . ”
What the handful of persons
calling themselves technocrats
' think of economics, or of the con
tributions of economics to modern
life, is a small matter. What tech
nocracy, in the broader sense of a
new social order, would have to do
with economics and economists is
quite another matter.
Most readers would like to know
what orthodox economics is, and
when an economist is orthodox.
Apparently technocracy believes
economics to be a set of antiquat
ed, philosophic formulae, developed
some time after the later middle
ages; and orthodox economists to I
be those who believe these formu
lae to constitute the sum total of
economic knowledge. It seems to i
believe that the principal use to be!
made of economic dogma by the
orthodox economist is interference j
with adoption of new ideas.
It must be admitted that the:
words “economics" and “econo-!
mist” as well as the word “ortho-1
dox" are about as unreliable as
the words "doctor" and "profes
sor" when popularly used. Charla
tans and fakirs in the once popu
lar medicine shows were "doctors," ;
while fiddlers and jugglers in the
carnival side show were addressed
(Continued on Page Four)
WARREN D. SMITH
BRANDS PHILIPPINE
BILL BIG MISTAKE
Sentiment, Altruistic Motives Not
Responsible for Passage
Of Measure
Branding the passage of the bill
'granting freedom to the 'PhnTp'"
pines as a blunder of the first mag
nitude, Dr. Warren D. Smith of the
geology department, in an inter
view in the Register-Guard yester
day went on to declare that “ev
eryone knows that the bill was not
passed from sentiment or altruis
tic motives, but is actuated by
selfish interests. Those interests
include sugar, butter, and hemp.
Dr. Smith said that “the third
item mentioned, hemp, is a sub
stance out of which they make
rope for hanging people; and inde
pendence at this time and under
those circumstances may furnish
the rope that will'hang the Fili
pinos economically and ourselves.’’
Dr. Smith declared that he was
going to further state his argu
ments on this matter over the Em
erald of the Air program in a few
days. He lived in the Philippines
for 12 years, and is the author of a
book, “Geology and Mineral re
sources of the Philippines.”
New Translation
Of Books at Libe
The League of Nations collec
tion room at the old library now
has the second volume of Index
Translalionum, a bibliography of
all translations appearing in
France, Germany, Great Britain,
Italy, Spain and the United States.
The International Institute of In
tellectual Cooperation, a subsid
iary of the League of Nations,
compiles these quarterly publica
tions exclusively from transla
tions listed in the various national
bibliographies.
The subject matter of this sys
tematic classification includes the
names of authors and works on
philosophy, religion, social science,
applied sciences, literature, art,
history and geography. A com
plete list of the translations from
such a number of languages has
never before been attempted and
the league plans to add more coun
tries to its list as the work ad
vances.
These books, which are a prac
tical instrument for research in
tracing the translations of any au
thor, are in room 32 on the third
floor of the old library.
Tonqueds Have Social
At Westminster House
Tonqued, organization of Uni
versity women who live in Eugene,
held a social meeting from 7:15 to
8:15 last night at the Westmin
ster house. All Eugene women
who are on the campus were in
vited to attend.
The social hour was spent in
dancing and talking. Coffee and
cake were served.
Reporters Find
Students Want
Five-Day Paper
Opinions Indicate Heavy
Majority for Daily
SURVEY IMPARTIAL
Survey Made Before Final Edict
Shows Campus Sentiment in
Favor of Big Issues
Campus opinion, as gleaned
from a sampling taken at random
yesterday by Emerald reporters,
indicated by a heavy majority that
students in general were heartily
in favor of a five-day Emerald,
such as was assured late yester
day afternoon by action of the
publications committee.
The opinions were given before
the committee took action—conse
quently they represent impartially
the students’ judgment on the
question during the time the
Emerald’s status was under dis
pute.
A!1 Want Five Issues
Only three of the students in
terviewed were entirely acquies
cent to the decree of the executive
council that the Emerald be cut
Practically all felt that a five-day
paper was imperative, even if it
involved issuing a smaller edition.
Replies taken at random follow:
James Dutton, sophomore in
business administration: “I am in
favor of a five-day paper.”
Juanita Young, graduate stu
dent in physical education: “The
fSkuerakk-is- important enough to
warrant its publication five days
a week.”
Bob Patterson, journalism: “We
should have a paper with seven
columns, five times a week. I
think that the news of the Emer
ald could be put into a seven
column paper without leaving any
thing of importance out.”
Rolla Reedy, senior in education:
(Continued on Page Pour)
HOMER D. DODGE,
OKLAHOMA DEAN,
TO VISIT CAMPUS
To Survey Teaching Improvement
For Carnegie Foundation;
Visits 45 Schools
Dean Homer E. Dodge, of the
University of Oklahoma, field
representative for the committee
on improvement of teaphing for
the American Association of Uni
versity Professors, will be on the
campus of the University of Ore
gon Thursday, January 19, it was
announced yesterday by Dr. H. G.
Townsend, president of the Ore
gon chapter.
Dean Dodge is now on a tour of
colleges and universities and is
making a survey of work being
done in the field of improvement
of teaching. The project, which
is being carried on by a committee
of the association, is financed by
the Carnegie Foundation for the
Improvement of Teaching. Dean
Dodge has already visited 45 in
stitutions and has devoted nine
months to the survey.
While at the University Dean
Dodge will survey projects under
way here, some of which have al
ready been widely recognized. He
will meet with faculty members
here at dinner Thursday night and
will enter a discussion of the work
his committee is doing at a meet
ing to follow this.
Store Buyer To Speak
To All Women Students
Mrs. Frances McClung, buyer
for Lipman Wolfe & Co., will
speak to the A. W. S. at the third
vocational conference in Gerlinger
on Thursday at 4 o’clock. Mrs.
McClung wil lspeak on the subject
of “Training for and Opportunities
in the Field of a Department
Store Buyer.” The meeting will
be held in the vocational room on
the third floor.
Mrs. McClung has had a wide
experience in department store
buying and management. She will
include in her talk a discussion of
new spring styles and trends in
jewelry and accessories. The meet
ing promises to be of general in
terest and all women are invited
to attend.
Student Paper Will Continue
On Daily Basis, Council Rules;
Final Decision Is Announced
-il
Helps Cause
Eric W. Allen, denn of the jour
nalism school, in which is included
the University press, who worked
with Robert Hull, press superin
tendent, in making the reductions
that ^helped the Emerald to be
able to announce its policy of
continuing on its dally basis.
Special Bus for
Kreisler Concert
May Be Arranged
In order that those who wish to
hear Fritz Kreisler/ famous violin
ist, when he gives his concert in
Portland Monday, January 29, and
return the same day, bus arrange
ments have been made.
The bus will leave for Portland
in time for the concert and will
return in the evening.
Bus rates depend on the number
of people who take advantage of
the offer. If 18 people agree to
go, the round trip will be $3.54.
If 35, the round trip will be $2.28
apiece.
Anyone interested should make
arrangements with Vivian Malone
as soon as possible. Miss Malone’s
telephone number is 2257-M.
Young Democrats
Talk on Sales Tax
Plans for taking 25 University
high school civics students to Sa
lem Thursday to see the Oregon
state legislature in action were
formulated at a meeting of the
Young Democratic league of Lane
county, held last night at the home
of the president, Nathan Berkham.
The disadvantage of the sales
tax, particularly the retail sales
levy considered at the short ses
sion of the legislature, was the
subject of a talk by S. Eugene Al
len, treasurer of the organization.
A lively discussion followed, in
which the relative merits and de
merits of property tax, single tax,
income tax, and strict economy of
government were considered.
Bridge and checkers were played
during the social hour after the
meeting.
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Classes To Switch
Rooms Saturday
For Press Meet
l'|UE to the Oregon Press con
” ference Friday and Satur
day, all classes meeting in the
Journalism building will be
either dismissed or moved to
other buildings.
Professor Jameson's 8 o'clock
class in elements of sociology
will meet in G Friendly.
Professor Horn’s class in
Shakespeare at 9 o’clock Fri
day will meet in 108 Villard.
Dean Sheldon’s class in back
ground of social science at 9
o'clock Saturday will meet in
105 Oregon.
REX UNDERWOOD
TO LEAD CONCERT
OF CHOIR SUNDAY
Frances Brockman To Soio in
First Polyphonic Event of
Winter Term
The University symphony or
chestra, under the leadership of
Rex Underwood, will present its
first concert of this term, Sunday
at 3 o'clock in McArthur court.
The soloist for this concert is
Frances Brockman, who with or
chestral accompaniment will play
“Concerto in G-minor” by Bruch.
The program also includes Bee
thoven’s “Leonore Overture No. 3,”
“The Unfinished Symphony’’ by
Schubert, and two numbers,
“Kleine Nacht Musik” by Mozart
and “Overture on Jewish Themes"
by Prokofieff for string orchestra
and clarinet. The second of the
numbers for strings and clarinet
is very modern in contrast to the
first which is true classic style.
International Relations
Club To Meet Thursday
The Russian five-year plan from
a new angle—that of the business
man instead of the college profes
sor—will be considered at a meet
ing of the • campus International
Relations club at 7:45 Thursday
night at International house.
Frank L. Chambers, one of Eu
gene’s leading citizens, will talk
on his trip to Russia last summer.
Any student or faculty member
who is interested is invited to at
tend the meeting of the club,
which is sponsored by the Carnegie
Foundation for World Peace.
Journalism Graduate
Visits Here Yesterday
Art Rudd, University graduate
in journalism, 1924, and editor of
the Emerald during his senior
year, was a visitor on the campus
yesterday.
Since leaving the University he
has been a representative for the
Publishers’ Newspaper Syndicate
of Chicago. Yesterday morning
Mr. Rudd spoke to Dean Allen’s
editing class at 9 o’clock on news
paper syndicates.
McGill Daily Editors Resign
Upon Suspension of Editor
MONTREAL, Can., Jan. 17—
(Special)—The entire managing
board and all associate editors of
the McGill Daily, student publica
tion of McGill university here,
have resigned as a result of the
suspension of a news editor by the
students’ executive council. Ernest
Crown, the news editor, assumed
responsibility for a story entitled
“Beer Infuses Students With
Carefree Jollity,” an account of a
trip made to a local brewery by
a McGill club.
Although the story, after publi
cation, was termed “tactless” by
the Daily, and news editors were
instructed to pass no others simi
lar to it in the future, its accuracy
and truth were unquestioned. In
spite of this, the student council
I
suspended Crown, over the objec
tions of Allan Talbot, editor-in
chief of the Daily and the council
representative from the schools of
law and dentistry.
In a leading editorial published
Wednesday, the editors stated
their position, saying in part:
“The students’ council .... in
spired by self-righteousness, glared
horror-stricken at the offending
article and passed a motion calling
for the suspension of the person
responsible. . . . Not realizing that
suspending because of such a tri
vial incident a man who has slaved
four years for a college paper is
ridiculous to the extreme, the
council refused to reconsider their
decision.”
Robert C. Hall
Makes Cut In
Press Expense
Cost Is Slightly Larger
Than Appropriation
WEEK IS ACTIVE ONE
Neuberger Appreciates Assistance
In Maintaining Organ on
Present Basis
By JULIAN PRESCOTT
The Emerald remains a dally
paper!
Through the timely action of
Robert C. Hall, superintendent of
the University press, in reducing
the charges for publication of the
Emerald, it was possible for the
publications committee of the ex
ecutive council to vote yesterday
to continue the paper on a five
issue-a-week basis.
Paring down of the various
items in the cost of printing and
distributing the Emerald was ef
fected by Mr. Hall and it was thus
that he could offer the A. S. U. O.
a lower figure. While the cost of
five issues under the new figure
will not be quite as low as that of
four under the old, it will be only
slightly greater and will come ap
proximately within the appropria
tion allowed by the executive
council.
Decision Follows Activity
The decision of the committee
came after a week of activity in
which the editor and managing
editor of the Emerald conferred
frequently with Hugh Rosson,
graduate manager, and members
of the publications committee and
of the executive council. The
committee had met Monday after
noon and after long discussion
could come to no decision.
His years of close contact with
the Emerald as superintendent of
the press was given by Mr. Hall
as the incentive to taking the initi
ative in offering the reduced
charges. Mr. Hall has been work
ing with Emerald staffs since
1918.
Tiny Edition Helps
A great impetus was given to
student interest in the publication
schedule of the Emerald when the
diminutive 5-column, two-page
paper came out last Saturday. It
was this that really called to the
attention of the students that they
might not have a regular edition
on Saurdays.
Events in the past two weeks
connected with the Emerald situ
ation are:
Announcement that only four is
sues would be published each
week, the Saturday paper being
eliminated because of insufficient
funds.
Handing down of an opinion by
the judiciary committee, at the
request of the editor, to the effect
that the word “daily” in the by
laws of the A. S. U. O. should be
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.. i i i
i The Weather
Mercury hit a new low yester
day, along with the stock market,
dropping to eight points in its de
scent to 19 above. It rallied
slightly at the close, but the
weatherman's prediction of warm
er weather to come was on the
long end of four to one odds, with
no takers.
Sunshine and blue skies were
present, but so were blue fingers,
and ice-men still found deliveries
slow.
Dally forecast: Cloudy with rain
or snow; not quite so cold; mod
erate southerly winds offshore.
Local statistics: Minimum tem
perature Tuesday, 19 degrees.
Maximum Monday, 38. Willam
ette river, 1.9 feet. Wind from
east.