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Editors Listen
To Many Talks
At Dinner Meet
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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Washington Is
Victor; Final
Score 56 to 38
Webfoots Rally Gamely
In Second Half
J. FULLER SCORES 17
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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
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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
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