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, . m Editors Listen To Many Talks At Dinner Meet - I Kerr Describes Crisis Facing Education MEIER SENDS NOTE flcott and Herrin Among Speakers At Annual Banquet of Press Conference By JULIAN PRESCOTT Sixty-eight delegates to the fif teenth Oregon Press conference and a large group of Eugene busi ness and professional men and rep resentatives of the state govern ment gathered at the Osburn ho tel for the annual banquet. They heard numerous talks, sortie serious and some not. Dr. William Jasper Kerr, chan cellor of the Oregon state system of higher education, told of the fi nancial situation facing higher ed ucation and expressed his appre ciation for the support given it by the editors of the state. He said further: “Higher education in Oregon is facing a crisis at this time more than it ever has before. It needs the friendly support of the press.” Kerr Speaks for Staffs Speaking for the staffs of the educational institutions, Dr. Kerr said, "It should be our duty to co operate and help in every way pos sible to keep down expenditures. It is our duty to do our part in help ing to solve the economic prob lems of the state.” Dr. Kerr went on to point out the great reductions that have al ready been made in the budgets of the higher institutions and sketched the further cuts that have been proposed in the legisla ture. TFl P 1 m nnccihi 11 f xr /Inm'noninrY' The impossibility of decreasing the staff in proportion to the de crease in enrollment was empha sized with the illustration that should a class of 20 be reduced 25 per cent, the 15 students remain ing will still require a professor. He also stated forcefully that while the enrollment may fall off, the overhead for heating, lighting and repairs does not shrink material ly. He said that there are numer ous repairs that have been stalled off for two years that must be made this year to prevent the property from depreciating con siderably. Measures Would Be Disastrous “Any such drastic measures as suggested by the legislature will mean absolute disaster to hierher education in the state,” Dr. Kerr declared. “Such large reductions in salaries as have been proposed would mean the rapid withdrawal of faculty members. Many would immediately be drawn to other in stitutions which could offer higher salaries. Years of work have been spent in building up the faculties of the University and the college, and such action would undo it overnight. “It is not the faculties that will be injured, but the state of Oregon that will take an irremedial loss. Trained intellectual leadership was never more needed by the state.” Kerr Introduced by Irvine Dr. Kerr was introduced by B. Frank Irvine, associate editor of the Oregon Journal and member of the board of higher education. Mr. Irvine has known the chancel lor for 25 years, first as member of the board of regents of the col lege and later as president of the college. The greetings of Governor Meier were extended to the delegates by Leslie Scott, chairman of th high (Continued on Page Three) Social Calendar For WinterTerm Will Be Released rpHE social calendar for the winter term will be released in Tuesday’s issue of the Emer ald, it was announced yester day by Alice B. Macduff, assis tant dean of women. Persons responsible for the registration of house functions on the calendar must do so by today if their functions are to be included on the calendar. ^ w. . Akl MM 4. . ■ — iiy klifJ l'KKGUSON OREGON’3 EDITORS, MOULDERS OF PUBLIC OPINION, ARE OUR GUESTS TODAY 50 PER CENT CUT IN KERR’S SALARY IS RECOMMENDED •Joint Ways and Means Committee Approves Big Slash in Pay Of Chancellor Salary cuts approved by the ioint ways and means committees of the senate and the house include the recommendation for* a 50 per cent cut in the salary of Dr. Wil liam Jasper Kerr, chancellor of Oregon’s system of higher educa tion. The cut suggested for Chancel lor Kerr is the highest of the cuts of state employees in the report, the others ranging from 5 per cent upward according to the monthly remuneration. Since Dr. Kerr is the lone state employee receiving in excess of S750 per month, his reduction is the only one of its magnitude. Among other items listed for re ductions was the proposed cut of $49,937 in the budget of the na tional guard. This was amended to a $12,554 reduction, leaving $186, 383 in the appropriation. Fur Coat Disappears From Deady Hall Lab The theft of a valuable fur coat from the biology laboratory in Deady hall Thursday has been reported to the dean of women's office. The coat was of muskrat, with a roll collar and dark brown cuffs. Anyone knowing anything con cerning this coat is asked to com municate with Hazel Prutsman Schwering, dean of women. Glenn Frank Tired of Attack On Technocracy Proposal MADISON, Wis.,.Jan. 20—(Spe cial)—According to Glenn Frank, president of the University of Wisconsin, “Technocracy is a stimulating gadfly, whose sudden and pestiferous visitation may spur the nation to action which will hasten our emergence from the depression. “The tempest stirred by the technocrats,” Dr. Frank said, “still lashes unabated about the heads of the frightened guardians of our laissez faire capitalism. “I have grown weary of read ing and hearing uncritical berat ings of this new gospel of gov ernment of technicians, if I may steal a phrase from the late Thorstein Veblen, the philosophic sire of technocracy. "I am not inclined to rush to embrace this new evangel of the engineers; I would prefer first to see more of their date than thus far has been displayed. In the meantime, I shall not be greatly impressed when some economist or business man exposes inaccur acy or inflation in the assertions of Howard Scott or any of his technocratic colleagues. “By investigating this problem with a contagious quality that is giving it an epidemic sweep, the technocrat is rendering an invalu able service to contemporary civi lization. “No useful purpose, it seems to me, can be served by poking fun I at Mr. Scott’s five-fold words, Manhattan Students Ready \ For Downward Pay Changes (From New York Times) NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—That the i depression has finally caught up j with the financial and marital as pirations of City college seniors | became known yesterday when Mi crocosm, college yearbook, made public their likes and dislikes as I recorded in its annual question ; naire. Although some seniors ex : pected to be paid in dollars and some in energy units five years af ter commencement, all agreed that drastic downward revision must be made of the average salary esti mates of previous classes. This year’s composite senior ex pects to earn only $2,750 five years sence, little more than half the forecast of his prototype of 1932. He indicates his increasing preoc cupation with materialistic con cerns by admitting that he would prefer financial success to recog nition in any other field. He adds by a vote of more than five to one that he would not hesitate to mar (Continued on Page Pour) although he would bear transla tion into English; his data must run the gauntlet of ruthless veri fication before technocratic theory is considered seriously. “We have let our machine economy fall into its deepest fail ure just when its technical effi ciency was highest,” he said. “Our economic policies have lagged so far behind our technical processes that our capacity to produce has outstripped our capacity to pur chase to such an extent that, if tomorrow morning we could by executive order restore the volume and flow of business that pre vailed in 1829 we could not, with maximum profit making effici ency, re-employ more than about half the 12,000,COO now unem ployed.” Dr. Frank believes there is a direct causative relation between this country’s post-war foreign policies and the near collapse to which our economic machine has come. We cannot beat our way back to prosperity, he feels, under the foreign policies that were in force before the onset of the de pression. “It is essentially true that, from 1900 to 1929, we never sold (Continued on Page Pour) SCABBARD, BLADE ABANDONS PLANS FOR ANNUAL BALL Formal Dinner Dance To Replace Old Event; Affair Open Only to Members A formal dinner dance to be given February 17 in Lee-Duke cafe will take the place of the an nual military ball, it was an nounced yesterday by Forrest Pax ton, captain of the Oregon com pany of Scabbard and Blade. Plans to hold the ball were definitely abandoned earlier in the week. The affair will be closed to all but active members of Scabbard and blade and army officers sta tioned here. All men will be at tired in military dress. Newly initiated members of the military honorary will be honored at the dinner. The winter initia tion will be held the afternoon be fore the social function. Rudy Crommelin has been ap pointed chairman of the commit | tee in charge of the affair. He will I be assisted by Web Hayes and Bud Smith. Mueller To Continue Talks Dr. J. H. Mueller of the sociol I ogy department will continue his series of Sunday morning talks on ! Russia tomorrow morning, when he will address the adult class of the Congregational Sunday school i class at 10 o’clock. Anyone inter | ested is invited to attend. Oregon State Press Conference Schedule for Saturday, January 21 9:45 a. m. General session room 105 Journalism building. “The Story of Daily Circulation in 1932” -G. S, Garner, Eugene Register-Guard. ° o “The Stofy of Weekly Circulation in 1932”—R. B. Swenson, Monmouth Herald. “Wise Depression Policy” “As the Economist Sees It”—Dr. Victor P. Morris. “How a Weekly Newspaper Meets the Situation”—H. L. St. Clair, Gresham Outlook. “How a Daily Newspaper Meets It”- Merle R. Chess man, Astorian-Budget. “Why My Accounts Are Producing More This Year Than Last" Alice Vitus, Klamath Falls News and Herald. 12 noon Luncheon. No host. Men's dormitory, University campus. Reinhart Helps ! Put Into Effect Big Reductions -- i Basketball Budget Is Cut 25 Per Cent TRIP IS PROFITABLE Oregon Mentor Pays for Warmup Sweaters Out of Own Pocket; Small Economies Made Figures do not lie. But sometimes they tell only half a story. When athletic ' budgets were made for 1933, basketball took a 25 per cent cut from 1932. This, however, is only half a story. Three years ago when colleges were enjoying their most pros perous year, Hugh Rosson took over the reigns as general man ager. Although schools every where were building half-million dollar stadia and going on spend ing sprees, when Rosson took over the management of the A. S. U. O. it was with the understanding that he reduce the expenditures immediately and get the A. S. U. O. out of debt. Bill Reinhart Cooperates To say that the basketball coach has cooperated is putting it rather mildly. In 1931 the basketball budget was $10,000. In 1932 it wa3 $8,000—a drop of 20 per cent. In 1933, this year, slightly more than $5,500, a drop of nearly 50 per cent alnce 1931. But the Oregon team, although it has cut expenses to the bone, still looks presentable. It made a barnstorming tour through Cali fornia last month and under Reinhart’s excellent management actually made a profit of $150. Reinhart and Rosson got to gether this winter and decided that the budget would be cut, but the sport would be retained. Coach Pays for Sweaters And here is how it was done: 1. No new basketballs were bought; the old ones taken out ot moth balls and refinished. 2. The team needed new warm ups. There was no money for it. so Coach Reinhart purchased them himself out of his own pocket. 3. Training table was-abolished. 4. All practice games at Eu gene, except two with Southern Oregon normal, were dropDed. 5. No new suits were bought; all old ones utilized. 6. To preserve old basketballs they were inflated everv day just before practice and deflated everv night after practice. That put on only two hours’ pressure on the seams instead of 24, as formerly. Many other small economies were made. In fact, the expenses were so pruned that it was finallv decided that even were the sport abolished this season and only an intra-mural program conducted, that only a few hundred dollars could be saved. Blvthe at Vancouver Sargeant Harvev Blvthe, in structor in military science and coach of the University rifle team, has been absent from the campus for the past few days, his period of enlistment with the army hav ing run out. He is now at Van couver barracks, where he will re enlist and will be back to his class es by the first of next week. Farrs Cut Dr. W. <1. Kerr, chancellor of the higher educational institutions of the state of Oregon, who is facing the possibility of a 50 per cent salary reduction at the in stigation of the senate ways and means committee. INITIAL CONCERT IN SERIES WILL BE GIVEN TOMORROW Students and Townspeople Will Get Admittance Free to Concert at 3 V. M. Symphony Concert Program, McArthur Court, Sunday, at 3 P. M. Schubert’3 “Unfinished" Sym phony. Beethoven’s "Leonore” over ture. Frances Brockman as violin soloist in Max Bruch con certo in G-minor. Mozart and Prokofieff selec tions for strings. After two weeks of intensive rehearsal, the University Sym phony orchestra is ready for the McArthur court concert of to morrow afternoon. Students and the public will be admitted with out charge. The concert will in augurate a series of 12 to be pre sented under auspices of the asso ciated students before the end of the school year. Eight students from Corvallis, most of them students of Director Rex Underwood and Concert-mas ter Howard Halbert, will supple ment the University orchestra’s personnel for thia concert. Those who are coming Over for the oc casion are Brewster Smith, Flor ence Stone, Margaret Lilly, Enid Bosworth, Cassius Beardsley, Vivian Lora, Betty Stover, and Ellen Dixon. Mr. H. K. Lape, also of Corvallis, will join the double bass section. University students making up the ensemble to present the Pro kofieff’s “Overture on Jewish Themes’’ for strings, clarinet, and piano are Delbert Moore, Peggy Sweeney, Vivian Malone, Douglas Orme, Martha Patterson, Howard Halbert, Charles Sandifur, Edou Ise Ballis, Corrinne Combs, and Roberta Moffit. The second program on the A. S. U. O. series will be the annual winter concert of the Eugene Gleemen, to be given on Sunday, January 29. University students will be admitted free to this con cert by an arrangement whereby 'the graduate manager's office will manage the concert for the Glee men. Unknown Purchaser Wants To Buy University of Oregon By BARNEY CLARK Somebody wants to buy the Uni versity of Oregon! A business firm of Los Angeles sent Dr. James H. Gilbert, dean of the college of social science, a very attractive offer, per letter. The missive was headed by a large and imposing letterhead, which consist ed mostly of an apoplectic, scarlet eagle squatting on a shield. It ran J as follows: j University of Oregon, | Gentlemen: Would you sell your business just as it is, for CASH? We have a buyer for a business such as yours. Wire or write us immediately and we will have our District Field Manager call upon you and inspect your business. The interview will be absolutely confidential, and without obligation to you. Yours truly, The Atkins Corporation, Business Brokers of America, By A. Clayton, Manager, (Continued on Faye Three) Washington Is Victor; Final Score 56 to 38 Webfoots Rally Gamely In Second Half J. FULLER SCORES 17 _ 4 Husky Captain Leads Champions; Reinhart's Men Display Dig Improvement By BRUCE HAMBY (Emerald Sports Editor) The Oregon Webfoots did bet ter than anyone expected of them against Washington last night at McArthur court, but all their im provement was shown in the sec ond half. They lost, 56 to 38, but made 25 of their points in the second period aftev a dismal first half start. Score at the half was 36 to 13 for Washington. After the sharpshooting Messrs. John Fuller, Harold Lee, Jack Hanover, and Bob Heaman non chalantly had dropped in baskets from all over the court for 20 minutes, while Oregon was fumb ling and slipping about the gym nasium, Bill Reinhart’s lads re turned after the halftime rest and rolled up 9 points before the Hus kies could get organized. At one time they were within nine points of the northern champions, but that was the final effort. Huskies Get Away Early Washington jumped into a 6-to 0 lead at the start only to have Cap Roberts, Kerm Stevens, and Jack Robertson ring up 5 for Ore gon. Fuller popped in three long ones, followed by Pete Antoncich and Lee to make the Husky total 16. Fuller and Lee alternated in shooting at the net the rest of the period, while Gib Olinger dropped in three more goals for Oregon. The defensive nlay of Oregpn was equalled in sloppiness during the first half only by the offensive work. Time and agkin Robertson threw nasaes into unoccupied _ minntwl nnarr nrinnl A shots, and Bob Miller let Fuller pet, bv him for cinch baskets. If the Webfoots had connected with a few more of their scoring at tempts, they might have been able to overcome the huge Husky lead in the final count. Stevens Gets Going Stevens, back in uniform after a two weeks layout, started the fiery rally in the second half. Af ter Reinhart’s proteges had changed the scoreboard figures to 38 to 21, Lee and Heaman added four points for Washington. Then the Webfoot attack really began to function. Roberts put in two one-handed shots, while Red Rot enberg. Hank Simons, and Olinger aided in running the score to 43 34, the closest Oregon came to the winners. Pete Antoncich finally put one in for Washington, followed by a contribution from the eagle-eyed Lee. Olinger added two more points for Oregon, but that was all. Hec Edmundson sent in hl» second stringers and the game ended with a series of wildly (Continued on Pape Four) Sidelights /~|H BOY! Oh boy! Oh boy! Did '' you ever think that those Webfeet would suddenly start to move ? — Neither did we —and were you there when the Huskies missed that shot near the end of the first half?—Olinger and his slide play—why do the “wimmin” always insist on screeching just at the most inopportune mo ments? Clark Thompson on the hori zontal bar!!! And Micky Vail! Did you see the Orangemen en joying the spec — debacle during the first half? Hope they en joyed the second half as much as they must have the first. And did you see Hal Lee, the Bremerton sharpshooter, miss that 13th long shot of his? Bremerton, by the way, is near Seattle—in case you hadn’t heard. We select for Lemonade: Emil Piluso, ace of refs, who was cer tainly calling them last night. "Keck” McKean seen standing in a doorway, the picture of de (Continued on Paye Four)