Oregon Press
Delegates To
Open Session
Conference Is Fifteenth
To Be Held Here
TO REGISTER TODAY
Morning Session, Noon Luncheon,
Afternoon Session on
Today’s Program
Program for Today
8 a. m.—Group breakfasts, Eu
gene hotel.
9:30 a. m.—Registration, school of
journalism.
9:45 a. m. — General sessions,
school of journalism.
Noon—Special luncheons.
1:30 p. m. — General sessions,
school of journalism.
3 p. m.—Business meeting of Ore
gon Editorial association.
C :30 p. rn. — Eugene banquet to
visitors, Osburn hotel.
8:15 p. m.—Basketball game, Ore
gon vs. Washington, McArthur
court.
By OSCAR MUNGER
The 15th annual Oregon Press
conference being held here at the
school of journalism, got under
way yesterday when approximate
ly 30 newspapermen from all parts
> of the state met for informal
i round-table and dinner at the Eu
gene hotel at 6:30.
Charles F. Bollinger, Oregon
City Enterprise, was toastmaster.
An execuuve commiu.ee meeting
of the Oregon State Editorial as
sociation at 2:00 p. m. preceded
the dinner.
Highlights in today’s program
for the visiting newspapermen in
clude registration at the school of
journalism at 9:30, general session
beginning at 9:45, special noon
luncheon, general sessions at 1:30,
banquet at the Osburn hotel at
6:30, and the basketball game be
tween Oregon and Washington at
8:15.
Nelson to Preside
The morning general session at
the Journalism building will be
presided over by Thomas Nelson,
Junction City Times, president.
R. H. Jonas, Prineville Central
Oregonian, will speak on “The
Cooperative Spirit in the News
paper Profession”; Lucien P.
Arant, Baker Democrat-Herald,
will speak on “Rates—Where Are
We Headed?”; H. G. Ball, Hood
River News, will speak on “As the
Weekly Sees It”; and H. R. Fail
ing, Oregon Journal, will speak
on “What Can Be Sold to the
Public in 1933 and What Can’t—
the New Advertising Survey.”
Noon luncheon will be held at
the Anchorage under the spon
sorship of Sigma Delta Chi. The
assemblage will be addressed by
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Campus Calendar
All women interested in tumb
ling turn out in suits at 4 this
afternoon in the women’s gym.
Free social swim for men and
women at women’s pool from 7 to
8:30 tonight, towels and suits fur
nished. Come in before the game.
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Women's intramural swimming
meet, between Sigma Kappa and
Hendricks hall, in the women’s
pool, at 4 o’clock.
Dial will meet Monday, January
23, at 8:00 p. m., with Margaret
Clarke, 1003 High street. Pro
gram, Edna Landros on humor
among the Greeks.
Chi Psi fraternity announces
the pledging of Cyrus Golph of
Portland and Alfred W. Eames of
San Francisco.
All who are interested in any
phase of Wesley club dramatics
are asked to attend the meeting
Sunday afternoon at 4:00 p. m. in
the Methodist church ofice.
Theta Sigma Phi and Gamma
Alpha Chi joint no-host luncheon
this noon at Silver Latch tea
room.
Favors Bill
,
Dr. Henry Sheldon, who favors
Philippine independence, as op
posed to Dr. Warren D. Smith,
who upholds Hoover’s veto. Con
gress recently passed the measure
over the president’s head.
EVA ANNOUNCES
NEW SCHEDULES
FOR TABLE SONGS
AH Houses Must Be Prepared To
Sing at Appointed Time;
Six Songs Required
Breaks in the schedule an
nounced last week have caused de
lays in the interfraternity table
song contest, Don Eva, contest im
presario, reported last night in
announcing a new schedule to
bring the contest to a close within
the next week. The schedule fol
lows:
Friday lunch, Sigma Chi; din
ner, Alpha Phi. Tuesday lunch,
S. A. E.; dinner, Kappa Kappa
Gamfna. Wednesday lunch, Fiji;
dinner, Tri-Delt; Thursday lunch,
Theta Chi; dinner, Kappa Alpha
Theta; Friday dinner, Alpha Chi
Omega.
Eva declared that all houses
must be prepared to sing at the
appointed time, or they will be de
clared disqualified. Six songs will
be required, four to be judged at
the table, after which the judges
will retire to the next room to hear
the remaining two. '
Judges for the competition are
John Stark Evans, John Mueller,
and Mrs. Doris Helen Calkins.
New Magazine Will Be
Added to Libe Shelves
An entirely new type of mag
azine has just entered publica
tion.
It is “Scripta Mathematica,”
and deals with the history and
philosophy of mathematics. To
be published quarterly by a New
York firm, it will be an object
of great interest to all who deal
with any type of mathematics.
The Uhiversity of Oregon li
brary has subscribed to the
magazine.
Professors Air
Views On New
Philippine Bill
Smith and Erl) Condemn
Action of Congress
ONE BACKS PASSAGE
Many Uefusc To Discuss Views;
Sheldon Sole Supporter of
Island Independence
Not all members of the Univer
sity of Oregon faculty agree with
the stand taken by Dr. Warren D.
Smith, geology professor, in con
demning the action of congress in
passing the bill granting freedom
to the Pilippine islands. Most ot
the professors declined to comment
on the situation, but H. D. Sheldon,
chairman of the department of so
cial science, spoke favorably of
the policy congress has adopted in
the matter. Donald Erb, professor
in economics, was the only other
faculty member interviewed who
made a definite statement, and he
agreed with Dr. Smith.
Mr. Sheldon considered the mer
its of the bill and the need- of the
islands for independence of great
er importance than the motives
or interests backing the measure.
'He said:
"I favor the policy congress has
adopted in regard to Philippine in
dependence. We will lose the is
lands sooner or later because of
their location, and their value is
not too great.
Sheldon Approves Attitude
“The people of the islands want
to manage their own affairs. I
am not acquainted with the details
of the bill, but I approve the atti
tude of the legislators on the in
dependence question.
“In regard to interests who are
said to be backing the bill in hopes
of curbing competition, the fate
of the bill ought to be decided on
the merits of the bill, not on mo
tives. Every bill that has been
passed has had sponsorship that
would not stand close investiga
tion.”
Backing up the statement made
by Dr. Smith earlier in the week,
Donald Erb, economics professor,
deplored the bill as an attempt at
class discrimination at the expense
of the consumers. Mr. Erb said:
Erb Backs Smith
“From the economic standpoint
Philippine independence assumes
a form which means that the do
mestic producers of a number of
articles, particularly sugar and
hemp, can limit the competition of
just one more force from their en
joyment of the domestic market.
“A few years ago a discussion
of the Philippine independence
problem centered around a discus
sion of the moral responsibilities
of the United States to set the
islands free or on a discussion of
the possible military consequences
of their freedom and around a feel
ing of sentimental conceit that
the islands would be worse off if
they were freed from our benign
overlordship.
“Now, however, the issue is
openly a materialistic one, freed
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Mrs. Warner Urges Interest
In Foreign Students Here
By HAZLE CORRIGAN
Lack of sympathy for the for
eign student is not only an un
kindness, but also an oversight of
a fine opportunity for the promo
tion of international goodwill,
Mrs. Murray Warner, donor of the
Murray Warner collection of Ori
ental art, housed at the Museum
of Art, and sponsor of the Mur
ray Warner essay contest on rela
tions with the Orient, said yester
day in commenting upon the atti
tude toward visiting students.
Mrs. Warner stressed the pos
sibilities of spreading a feeling of
friendliness through the dean of
men's office and through the pres
idents of fraternities. “Think what
it must mean to a Chinese or
Japanese student to go back to his
country without having seen the
inside of a fraternity house, un
less possibly when he went there
as an employee."
“The foreign student comes here
i without much money, without
friends; he comes because we have
something to offer him, something
which he cannot find elsewhere.
He feels forlorn, but no one real
izes it.”
“If we go to a foreign country
and are treated well we want to
go back, but if we are treated
discourteously, we will never want
to see that country again. The
student from the Orient feels the
same way about our country.”
The lack of sympathy for visit
ing students, Mrs. Warner attri
butes to a selfish interest in one's
own good times and not to any
dislike for these students. If Ore
gon students would only realize
their responsibility toward the
Oriental student, she believes they
would be furthering the interests
of international peace.
Mrs. Warner told of visiting a
Japanese school during her last
trip to Japan and of asking that
some of the Japanese girls be
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To Attend Press Conference Today
The top picture shows Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bladine, publishers of
the McMinnville Telephone Register, which last year won the Sigma
Delta Chi trophy for being the best weekly newspaper in the state.
They will be present here again, when the loth annual conference of
the Oregon State Press association convenes here today. Below, at
left, is H. R. Failing, advertising manager of the Journal, who will be
one of the main speakers. At the right is an old friend, Professor
George S. Turnbull, secretary of the conference. (Journal photos.)
Psychology Test
Make-ups Set for
Monday at 4:00
"TIAKE-UP psychology tests
for those who missed them
earlier this week will be given
on Monday, January 23, in 301
Condon at 4:00 o’clock, under
the supervision of Professor
Howard Taylor.
Any student in the Univer
sity who has already taken the
examination, but wishes to
take it over to determine his
progress, may do so by seeing
Dr. Taylor before the examina
tion.
KOAC Presents
Oregon Students
Three students, Grace Burnett:
soprano, Norma Lyon, pianist, and
Maude Stehn, accompanist pre
sented a group of varied numbers
over KOAC last night.
Miss Burnett, who was the so
prano soloist for the “Messiah'
last year, sang two Brahms num
bers, “Feldeinsamkeit” and “Sap
phische Ode’’ for her first group
“The Hills of Grusia” by Medinoff
a song of stirring beauty and “D(
Not Go, My Love’’ by Hjagemar
concluded her selections.
Couperin’s “Soeur Moneque" and
the brisk little “En Bateau” b>
Debussy were played by Miss Lyon
She also played Rameau’s “Riga
dou” and Mendelssohn’s “Son£
Without Words, No. 15.”
This program is given weeklj
over KOAC at 8 p. m. by the Uni
versity music department. Mr
Arthur Boardman, professor ol
voice, is in charge.
Fellowship Offered
Notice has been recently re
: ceived at the school of educatior
of the granting of a number ol
fellowships for graduate studj
abroad. These fellowships, whict
are available through the Institut«
of International education of Nev
York, cover board, lodging anc
tuition. Applications must be madi
which will be judged on their mer
its. Complete information may b<
j secured from the office of th<
I school of education.
RESULTS DEPEND
UPON BEGINNING,
SAYS F. McCLUNG
College Gives Background Which
Enables a Girl To Go Fast
In Business
“It depends upon the founda
tion you lay how far you can go,”
Mrs. Frances McClung, buyer for
Lipman Wolfe company, told
about 50 women at a meeting of
the A. W. S. yesterday afternoon
in the vocational conference room
in Gerlinger hall. She was speak
ing on the subject of “Training
for and Opportunities for Women
in the Field of a Department
Store Buyer.”
The college graduate, she said,
has a background which enables
her to go farther and faster than
a girl with less education. The
young woman who aspires to be
come a buyer must, however, be
prepared for hard work and must
be enthusiastic in her approach
to her chosen profession. The
sales girl who is afraid "to soil
her hands” will never attain the
position of department manager.
She began as a sales girl in the
silverware department, of which
she is now manager in addition to
the jewelry, handkerchiefs, and
hosiery departments. She gradu
ated from the University of Mis
souri, where she majored in home
j economics.
She was entertained last night
at dinner at the Kappa Alpha
Theta sorority, of which she is a
member.
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Symphony Orchestra
Concert To Be Sunday
The University Symphony or
chestra presents its first con
cert Sunday at 3 o’clock at Mc
Arthur court. The program
consists of the following num
bers:
Lenore Overture, No. 3—Bee
thoven.
Unfinished Symphony—Schu
bert.
Kleine Nacht Musik—Mozart.
Overture on Jewish Themes,
string orchestra with clarinet—
Prokofieff.
Concerto, G-minor—Bruch.
Frances Brockman, violin
soloist.
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McKean Delcared
Ineligible To Be j
Maple Manager j
17ENNETH "Kek" McKean, ;
head basketball - manager,
was declared ineligible for this
position last night, when it was
discovered that his grade point
average was .02 of a point be
low the minimum required.
Athletic managers have been,
in the past, forced to conform
with the .75 grade point aver
age required of the competing
athletes, but an executive rul
ing yesterday boosted the mini
mum requirement for the man
agers to a full point average,
which is equal to a C.
McKean has been perform
ing his duties during the cui'- j
rent season unaware of the
. new requirement. No successor
has as yet been appointed.
Urgent Request Made
For Seal Sale Reports
A number of fraternities and so
rorities have neglected to turn in
their Christmas seal contributions.
Mrs. Frank Chambers, chairman
of the seal sale committee of the
Lane County Public Health asso
ciation, urgently requests that
their reports be turned in to her as
soon as possible.
Mrs. Chambers’ books must be
closed before the end of January,
in time for the meeting of the Ore
gon Tuberculosis association early
in February.
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Sigrid Christ Married
Yesterday to R. James
Sigrid Christ, sophomore in
music, and Robert James, grad
uate student in economics, were
married yesterday at the First
Christian church by Rev. S. Earl
Childers. Only a few friends at
tended them.
Mrs. James, whose home is in
Redmond, is a member of Pi
Beta Phi. Mr. James’ home isin
Sacramento.
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Bowerman Decrees
Demise Of Green
Lids After Session
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PRESS CONCLAVE
IS LAUNCHED RY
EXECUTIVE GROUP
McKinney, IJtfin, Gillette, Bladine,
Ballinger, Arant, Sawyer Are
Among Those Present
Ten members of the Oregon
Press association executive com
mittee opened the annual press
conference yesterday afternoon at
2 o’clock, meeting with Dean Uric
W. Allen of the University school
of journalism and Arne G. Rae,
field manager of the association
and professor of journalism.
Present were W. Verne McKin
ney, editor of the Hillsboro Argus
and president of the state associa
tion; Harris Ellsworth, of the
Roseburg News-Review, first vice
president; Ben Litfin, of The
Dalles Chronicle, treasurer;
Charles Bollinger, Oregon City En
terprise; C. J. Gillette, Marshfield,
Coos Bay Times; Jack Bladine,
McMinnville Telephone - Register,
winner of last year's best weekly
contest; Lucien Arant, Baker Dem
ocrat-Herald; Judge Robert W.
Sawyer, Bend Bulletin; Hugh G.
Ball, Hood River News, winner of
the Paul Kelty cup for the best ed
itorial page in the state during
1931; and Ralph Cronise, editor of
the Albany Democrat-Herald.
Approximately 30 newspaper
men had arrived in Eugene by 6:30
yesterday evening, when the an
nual informal round-table dinner
was held at the Eugene hotel.
Charles F. Bollinger was toastmas
ter.
The meeting of the executive
committee was devoted to prepar
ing plans for the business sessions
today and tomorrow.
Mathematics Group
Organized at O. S. C.
Dr. W. E. Milne, professor of
mathematics at Corvallis, who,
with his wife, was in Eugene last
Tuesday to attend the Phi Beta
Kappa initiation banquet, has an
nounced that a mathematics club
has been organized at Oregon
State college.
There has never been a mathe
matics society in Corvallis, but
since the shifting of the upper di
vision school from Eugene, there
are now enough advanced students
in mathematics at Oregon State
to warrant the formation of such a
society, he said. The club will
work in connection with Pi Mu Ep
silon, national honorary mathemat
ical society at this University.
WAA To Hold Initiation
At Gerlinger Tuesday
Initiation is to bs held by the
Women’s Athletic association
Tuesday, January 24, at 4 o’clock
in the women's lounge at Ger
linger hall.
All the physical education fac
ulty, and members of the ■organi
zation are invited. Eleanore
Coombe, vice-president of the as
sociation, is in charge.
Fifteenth Press Conference
Compared to That of 1919
By ELINOR HENRY
The 15th annual Oregon press
conference won’t be so much dif
ferent from the first. A few edi
tors and publishers are missing
from the ranks and some have at
tended the conference only a few
years, but many of the names
mentioned in the Emeralds of
April 25 and 26, 1919, will also
be recorded on the pages of those
for January 20 and 21, 1933.
Then the topic of discussion—
the wording may have changed,
but it’3 always the same old sub
ject: “How to Make Money.’’
In conference talks, Elbert Bede
of the Cottage Grove Sentinel em
phasized the importance of saving
time in the country shop, and E.
E. Brodie of the Oregon City
Morning Enterprise stressed the
need of a cost-finding system.
The first officers were:
S. C. Morton, of St. Helen’s Mist,
president.
C. W. Robey, Oregon City
Courier, vice-president.
Elbert Bede, secretary-treas
urer.
Dean Eric W. Allen, chairman
of program committee.
The banquet was the usually
snappy affair. The visitors were
welcomed to Eugene by E. C.
Simmons, president of the Cham
j ber of Commerce, ‘‘in a happy lit
tle speech in which he called at
j tention to the ample jail facilities
, of this city for any editors who
might go wrong. He regretted the
absence of some of the more sen
| sational of the recent Eugene edi
' tors.”
A flaring yellow four-page
paper printed in gaudy green ink
was given out at the luncheon
held at Hendricks hall Saturday
noon. It was appropriately
named “Gibes and Scribes,” being
filled with little bits of personal
dope “gleaned from goodness
knows where.”
Skull ami Daggers Vote
Is Overruled
FACULTY APPROVES
Kerr, Gilbert, Morse, Kelnhart
Endorse Action of Senior
Enforcement Body
Freshman caps were abolished
an the Oregon campus yesterday
at a meeting of the traditions
council, according to announce
ment last night by Bill Bowerman,
vice-president in charge of tradi
tions.
Following a short, but lively con
troversy over the subject, Bower
man called for a vote to see wheth
er the wearing caps would be en
forced on the campus. The ballot
ing, which was oral, was 11 to 9
for continuance of the tradition.
However,, Bowerman said last
night that the 11 total represent
ed the vote of a considerable num
ber of Skull and Dagger members,
and that he could not recognize
their votes on the subject.
"Skull and Daggers last spring
was asked to help enforce tradi
tions," Bowerman said, “but large
ly because they are underclassmen,
and also because*they do not be
long to the tradition group prop
er, I cannot recognize their votes.
Therefore, it is apparent that the
wearing of freshman caps will no
longer be enforced here. I think
this is a worthwhile move, and
commend all the seniors who voted
for it.”
Football Captain Votes
Bowerman was one of the lead
ers in influencing the meeting
against the antiquated tradition
and urged those in attendance to
vote for abandonment of it. An
other who sided with him was Bill
Morgan, captain of the Oregon
football eleven, who just returned
from San Francisco, where he
starred in the annual Shrine game
between the Eastern and Western
teams.
At the men’s gym yesterday
afternoon Morgan said he thought
the abolishing of frosh lids was a
forward step for the entire student
body. Other prominent campus
leaders who upheld Bowerman an
Morgan at the meeting were Ster
ling Green, managing editor of the
Emerald; Bud Pozzo, football vet
eran; Jean Grady, senior sports
manager, and many others,
Long Ouarrel Ended
The abandoning of freshman
caps ends a controversy that has
alternately raged and subsided on
this campus for a decade. Long
ago lids for freshmen were abol
ished at the majority of the na
tion’s leading schools, but for many
years Oregon was divided on the
subject. On numerous occasions
the Emerald agitated on the mat
ter and even yesterday there ap
peared an editorial urging those
in charge of traditions to abandon
frosh lids.
Last year considerable comment
arose over the paddling bees which
took place on the library steps.
Finally the hacking orgies were
moved inside to the mens gymna
sium, but even there they pro
voked considerable unfavorable
comment. Bowerman’s announce
ment will end all such events and
will prevent their recurrence in
the future.
Prominent faculty, members
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The Weather
Almost all of the snow that fell
since Saturday had disappeared by
yesterday noon, only a few small
patches remaining here and there.
Forecasts from Portland indicate
that inclement weather, which has
held the entire state in its grip
for the past two weeks, is near
an end.
Daily Forecast: Cloudy today;
occasional rain or snow west and
snow east portion. No change in
temperature; moderate change
able winds offshore.
Local Statistics: Minimum tem
perature yesterday, 32 degrees.
Precipitation, .03 of an inch. Wil
lamette river, 1.5 feet. Wind
from north.