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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 2, 1933)
VOLUME xxxiy ___UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1933 _" _NUMBER 62 SEN. WOODWARD INSISTS ON REDUCTION OF $1,000,000 Prospect For LoweringGym Losses Seen Waslike To Make Study Of Reductions t. CHARGES EXPLAINED Cuts Would Bp in Proportion to Downward Trend in Prices By JULIAN PRESCOTT Prospects that reductions in charges made for lost gymnasium equipment might be forthcoming were seen yesterday when Dean John F. Bovard of the school of physical education, and Paul R. Washke, director of the men’s gymnasium, conferred on the sub ject. The cuts, however, would be only in proportion to the general downward trend of prices. Dean Bovard said afterward that Mr. Washke was to make a study of possible reductions in the sched ule of charges. The director said that he had met with members of his staff and discussed the matter and that he would have recommen dations to make to Dean Bovard within a few days. Words were not minced by the physical education dean yesterday in -explaining the reasons for* in stituting the high charges for miss ing equipment. He said that re sults of careful study of the “miss ing gym clothing” situation sever al years ago revealed that the “lost” equipment had not been sto len from the students, but by the students who were responsible for it. “We found that there were many students using the shirts and pants for underwear as a reg ular practice. Gym socks were worn by a large number of stu dents right along. These things would all be turned in for launder ing by the gymnasium. Laundering Too High “Where we provide free laund ering, we couldn’t allow this prac tice to continue as it occasioned a great extra cost. To stop it, we put on a high penalty for missing equipment that would make such use of gym suits unprofitable. “The students then provided their own clothes and our costs went down considerably. Other ef forts were made to stop the prac tice of using gym suits, but this was the first one that proved suc cessful." Another favorite way of “chisel ing” explained by Dean Bovard was that of substituting partially wornout or cheaper equipment for new clothing supplied by the gym nasium. This was stopped by stenciling with indelible ink all equipment issued to students. Ar ticles not marked would not be accepted. Dean Bovard pointed out that if the student used reasonable care there was no opportunity for him to lose equipment by its being stolen. The lockers will hold ev erything the student might wish to put in it while in class or in the showers. In purchasing the lockers, thought was given to providing sufficient space for overcoats, golf bags or any other thing the student might be carry ing with him. Carelessness Is Blamed “If the student follows the di rections of never leaving his locker without locking it, there is no way (Continued oil Page Four) The Weather Continued warmer weather with only slight precipitation prevailed yesterday. With fair weather pre dicted, indications are that incle mency of the past two weeks is at an end. Daily forecast: Fair today but with some valley fogs; little change in temperature; gently changeable winds off shore. Local statistics: Minimum tem perature yesterday, 34 degrees Precipitation, .11 of an inch Stage of Willamette river, 3 feet Wind from south. Professor Reveals Cosmic Secret Dr. Joel Stebbins of the University of Wisconsin gazing through the telescope that helped him make many of his startling discoveries regarding a star haze (above) which have revised the estimates of distances to many stars. The intervening haze is believed responsible for much of the light-absorption previously attributed to great dis tance. Miss Milam Will Speak Before AWS Vocation Meeting Subject Is Part Home Economics Plays in Woman’s Education Miss Ava B. Milam, dean and director of home economics of the Oregon State system of higher ed ucation, will talk before the A. VV. S. vocational conference today at 4 o’clock on the third floor of Gerlinger. Her subject will be: “The Part Home Economics Plays in Woman’s Education.” Last year Dean Milam was a vis iting professor in Yenching uni versity, Peiping, China; Lingnan university, Canton; Ewha college, Seoul, Korea; and Kwassuai col lege, Nagasaki, Japan; helping in the development of their home economics programs. Miss Milam was appointed by President Hoover as home eco nomics director for the state of Oregon under the food administra tion during the war and in this ca pacity organized the homemakers of Oregon for food conservation. She was also a member of the Land Grant Survey committee ap pointed in 1928 and gathered data on home economics Since the majority of home eco nomics graduates become home makers, Dean Milam is primarily interested in seeing that home eco nomics training shall first of all be functional in a higher standard of living and particularly in more successful family relations. Miss Milam received her bache lor’s and master's degrees from the University of Chicago, and was on the staff at Iowa State col lege before coming to Oregon State college in 1911. Campus Talent To Go On Tonight at KOAC Alice Woodson, mezzo-soprano, Catherine Mishler, pianist, and Jeannette Denniston, accompanist, participate in tonight’s University music program given every Thursday at 8 p. m. over KOAC. Beginning the program, Miss Woodson sings “Care Selve’’ and “Dove Sei” by Handel. Besides the two numbers, Chopin's “Nocturne in F-sharp“ and Maszowiski’s “Bolero,” which she presented at Tuesday’s student recital, Miss Mishler also plays Rubinstein’s “Barcarolle in F-minor” and Dela haye’s “Minuet.” Four other numbers, Weaver's “Moon Marketing,” Kounts’ “The Sleigh,” and Hageman’s “Grand ma’s Prayer,” and “Do Not Go, My Love,” sung by Miss Wood son, complete the selections. All Frosh Wanted Out For Class Meet Today There will be a meeting of the freshman class tonight at 7 o’clock in Villard hall. It is urged that all freshmen attend, as plans for the Saturday dance will be discussed. According to Allen Wall, president of the class, previous attendance | has been small, and tonight’s sum I mons to the meeting is not an ! “urge” but a “demand.” _ Temenids to Entertain Temenids, campus organization } of the Eastern Star, will enter tain Sunday afternoon from 5 until 7 with informal tea. The af air will be given at the home of Mrs. F. S. Dunn. Emma Belle Stadden is in charge of arrange ments. America Expecting Too Much In War Debts, Says Winkler By MAX WINKLER COLLEGE OF THE .CITY OF NEW YORK, Feb. 1—Prior to America’s entrance into the Great War, she had loaned close to two thousand million dollars to the principal belligerents, whom it was our privilege later to join in the fray, presumably to make the world safe for democracy. Had Germany or her associates been as far-sighted as their opponents, and appealed to America’s gener osity for accommodations, it may be questioned whether we would have been quite so ready to throw in our lot against the Central Powers. Regardless of what may have prompted us to fhter the conflict, it is a fact that we declared war upon Germany on April 6, 1917, and that from that day on we were an integral part of the fighting machinery. Wars are waged with bullets and bullion. Both play equally important a role. It was months after the declaration of war, that America’s first men reached the trenches. In the mean time, our battles were being fought; the soldiers of our allies were being killed and wounded; the sailors of our allies drowned or blown up by submarines. We were fighting with dollars, which we maintain we were merely loaning. Why not apply the same process of reasoning as regards our for mer allies ? Have they not a right to claim that they were loaning their men, while ours were being prepared for the noble experi ment? We demand back what we insist we have loaned. Suppose our former allies also choose to ask for what they may reasonably claim to have loaned us ? So much for the sentimental side of the war debts. (Continued on Page Three) Fellow Society To Be Formed At Harvard U. Eligibility Not Restricted To Graduate Students NO DEGREE IS GIVEN Plan Unique in Education; Urged For Five Years by School Head CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 1— (Special)—Harvard has created the long sought "scholar’s para dise,” urged for the past five years by Pres. A. Lawrence Lowell. Twenty-four young men, picked for their promise of contribution to knowledge and thought, will be gathered at Harvard this year to form a Society of Fellows design ed to provide opportunity for in dependent creative work by a lim ited number of graduates of Har vard and other colleges. Members of the group, known as “junior prize fellows,” will be appointed for a three-year term, and will receive from the univer sity a stipend of $1,250 to $1,500 each, free board and rooms in the various houses and free use of all the facilities of the university, such as libraries, laboratories, and all privileges of instruction. Many Eligible Eligibility to the society will not be restricted to Harvard gradu ates . Selection will be left entire ly to the (discretion of a govern ing board, subject to the approval of the Harvard corporation, and without regard for a distribution over academic subjects. Members who still give a strong indication of production of a fundamental nature may be re appointed for a second term of three years and very exceptionally thereafter. The plan, unique in education, (Continued on Paye Pour) Library Now Has Latest of Books On Technocracy “Towards Technocracy,” by Gra ham A. Laing of the California In stitute of Technology was just re ceived by the library the first of this week. Two fiction books, also arrivals of the week, are “The Shadow Flies,” by Rose Macauley, and “God’s Angry Men,” by Leon ard Ehrlich. T. S. Eliot's “Selected Essays” is another new publica tion. A list of the late novels now ready for circulation at the li brary includes: “Ann Vickers,” by jinclair Lewis; Invitation to the Waltz,” by Rosamund Lehman; "Peter Ashley,” by DuBose Hey ward; and a collection of “The Best Short Stories of 1932,” edit ed by Paul E. Anderson and Lio nel White. Novels translated from other languages include 01 a v Dunn’s “Odin in Fairyland” and “The Big Wedding,” two install ments of his saga of “The People of Juvik”; and “A Brazilian Tene ment,” Of recent works on political and economic subjects there is “Fare well to Reform,” by John Cham berlain; “Profits or Prosperity,” by Henry Pratt Fairchild; and Al fred Kreymborg’s “The Little World.” Competing for attention on the biography list are “Lances Down,” by Richard Boleslavski and Helen Woodward, and “Forgetten Fron tiers,” a story of the life of Theo dore Dreiser, by Dorothy Dudley. A story of the Russian theatre as well as a biography of Feodor Chaliapin is found in “Man and Mask” by Carl Van Velibten. Other new books are “The Stage Is Set,” by Lee Simonson, Theatre Guild scene designer; “Sketches in Criticism,” by Van Wyck Brooks; "A Woodcut Manual," book for beginners as well as advanced craftsmen; and “From a Sunset Garden,” by Sydney B. Mitchel, famous landscape gardner. A Showdown In Higher Learning --- EDITORIAL -.- -- HE STATE OF OREGON Is at a financial crossroads. So the legislature considers levying appropriation reductions upon higher education out of all proportions to those sustained hy other departments. Ruthlessly and methodically, the ways and means com mittee deliberates as to whether the cultural foundation of the com monwealth shall suffer a cut of $350,000, $500,00, or the impossible sum of $1,000,000. Senator Woodward holds out determinedly for the latter figure, despite the warning of Mr. Sammons that such action would cripple the state’s complete educational system. The latter even hints that it might necessitate the closing of one or more of the institutions. Ever since flic current legislature convened, higher education has been the target at which all reduction ammunition has been aimed. Evidently those representing the commonwealth at Salem either do riot realize or completely ignore the fact thut higher leurning is the very cultural'and educational roots of the commonwealth. It more vitally concerns the youth of the state than any other measure con fronting the legislature. l’crhaps such drastic economies as the ways and means commit tee contemplates are imperative to keep the state solvent. BUT HIGHER EDUCATION SHOULD NOT BE FORCED TO ACCEPT THESE UNREASONABLE REDUCTIONS IF OTHER STATE DE PARTMENTS DO NOT HAVE TO DO THE SAME. There are the asylums, the prisons, the state police, the high schools, the state ad ministration, the highway commission, and a multitude of other de partments. They have not had to sustain the economies being forced upon higher learning. The sort of legislation that is taking place at Salem is unfair. All other branches of the state should absorb equal reductions. Let the national guardsmen curtail their annual seashore rest at Camp Clatsop this summer to the extent that the state hoard has had to curtail the education curriculum. There also is this to consider. THE FACULTY SHOULD NOT BE FORCED TO BEAR THE BRUNT OF EVERY BUDGET CUT. If the higher education appropriations have to lie reduced, why auto matically construe that such action necessarily means fuculty wage cuts? Far better is it to eliminate buildings, drop outside activities and curtail administration costs than to impose tremendous salary reductions upon the entire faculty. A college is only as good as its personnel, and the wage cuts which the legislature contemplates are going to drive competent men away from Oregon. Rather than bear such humiliating reductions, the out standing instructors will seek employment elsewhere. We don’t want any of our other noteworthy professors to follow the trail blazed by Hall, Spears and Faville. Further salary cuts must be opposed, if we are to maintain a representative faculty. Higher education faces a more perplexing crossroads than state finances. Let the legislature and the state consider carefully before irreparable damage is inflicted upon higher learning in Oregon. It has taken years of struggling and planning to get the system upon its present high plane. Once shattered, it will be decades in recovering. Our children might not even realize the benefits of that recovery. Majority of Fees Are Still Payable; Feb. 3 Is Last Day lt/TORE than 400 students have yet to pay the second in stallment on the registration fee, E. P. Lyon, cashier, said yesterday. Yesterday 50 students paid and Tuesday 18 made the pay ments. The second installment of*this fee and non-resident fees will be due on Saturday. The cashier’s office will close at noon Saturday. YW To Hear Talk On Life in China A new angle on Chinese life will be presented to the World Fel lowship group of the campus Y. W. tonight by Betty Rhame, who is to speak on “Home Life and the Place of Women in China," at 9 o’clock. Miss Rhame, a freshman with credentials from the Shang hai-American school, has her in formation first-hand and up to date, having spent four years in the Orient recently as a resident of China proper. She has also traveled extensively in Japan, Ha waii, Manchukuo, Canada, and the United States. Parts for the play, “The Color Line,” will be given out during the meeting. The play, based on a theme of internationalism, is to be presented at an International tea to be given by the group the second week of the spring term. Hermine Swanck is director. Re freshments will be served tonight during the meeting at the bunga low. Two In Infirmary The number of students in the infirmary has again gone down to two. Hazel Lewis and Louise Stein are the only 'patients at present, but the “week-end" rush has not started as yet. Mid-term examinations are under way, and none of the students feel they can afford to take a rest at present, according to the nurses. Ruling on junior Certificate To Be Used at Election Faculty - Student Group Decides Application of Recent Regulation An explanation of the action of the faculty in approving the report of a subcommittee on academic regulations was issued yesterday by Clifford Constance, assistant registrar. The rule on students who have been in school for six terms and have not received junior certifi cates will go into effect with the elections to be held’ next term, and the rule regarding students on probation is now in effect, Mr. Constance said. “The administration appointed (Continued on I’atjc l'our) - I Early Morning Hour Decision Possible; Members Adamant Defends Schools YV. J. Kerr, chancellor of high er education, who pleaded for the cause of higher learning at She ways and means committee’s cru cial session regarding the finances for education. The committee wns deadlocked at midnight last night. Dr. Schmidt Will Address Meeting Of Relations Club Speaker To Tell of Hitler Regime, Political Customs, Phases Of German Life “The Reorganization of Govern ment in Germany" will be the top iv of a talk by Dr. F. G. G. Schmidt, head of the Gorman de partment, tonight at 7:45 at an open meeting of the campus In ternational Relations club at In ternational house. The speaker will consider par ticularly the present Hitler regime, | giving a brief summary of events leading up to the recent rise to power of the Nationalists. He will also tell, however, of political cus toms and other interesting phases of German life which have an in direct, but nevertheless an impor tant, bearing on the situation. Dr. Schmidt spent the spring and summer of 1931 in Germany when he was on leave of absence from the University of Oregon, where he has been head of the German department since 1905. From 1897 to 1905 he was head of 1 the modern language department. Alumni Magazine to Solicit A r tides of Students, Faculty Student and faculty contribu tions, particularly campus histo-' rical articles, will be solicited for , Old Oregon, alumni magazine which was discontinued last May, and will be revived early in March,1 it was announced last night by rtobert K. Allen, alumni secretary. Those interested in contributing are urged to get in touch with the alumni office. The decision to resume publica tion of the magazine, which was I discontinued because of the more! pressing and urgent business of defeating the Zorn-Macpherson bill, was made last week by the alumni council, which unanimous ly voted to again publish the or gan, which for the past 14 years has served the interests of the University and the alumni asso ciation. Under the editorship of Miss Jeannette Calkins, Old Oregon be came one of the outstanding al umni publications in the country, and it is the hope of the council that the high standard attained 1 by the magazine can be retained. j Financial considerations, however, make it necessary that costs be considerably reduced over those of the magazine during its pre vious publication. The publication of the alumni Emerald has been discontinued as a result of this decision to again put out the magazine. Consider able dissatisfaction with the week ly Emerald has been expressed from many former student? who have stated that although it served an admirable purpose dur ing the political campaign, it does not now take the place of the more permanent type ofp ublica tion. The magazine, which will be ed ited by the alumni office, will be sent to all active alumni members. All graduating seniors receive a year’s membership in the associa tion. The first issue will probably be 16 pages, and will be printed at the University press. There will be four issues during this school year. They will be March, April, May, and June. L - Gordon Wants Decrease Of $500,000 MEETING AT HOTEL Proposed Salary Slashes Vary Fifteen to Fifty Per Cent Of Present Wages SALEM, Feb. 1.—(Special)—At midnight tonight the ways and means sub-committee on higher education was firmly deadlocked on measures relative to reducing the higher education salary bud get. Reports indicated that it rrtay be possible that the deadlock will be threshed out in a hotel room ses sion sometime in the early morn ing hours. Senator William Woodward of Multnomah county was stubborn ly insisting upon a $1,000,000 cut in the salary scale; Representative Herbert Gordon held for a $500, 000 reduction. The deadlock was brought about when Representa tive Dean H. Walker andSenator Isaac Staples proposed a $350,000 cut. Earlier in the day it was under stood that the sub-committee had agreed to a compromise measure whereby more than $550,000 would be saved during the current bien nium. It was proposed to reduce the present salary scale a little more than $350,000 in addition to cuts already in force, and to take credit for some $250,000 in reduc tions already made effective by the state board. Higher education payrolls for the biennium of 1929—30 were $6, 292,034; in 1931-32 they were $5, 670,722; and for the 1933-34 bien nium they will only be $4,410,000 if the plan is adopted. Cuts have been obtained partly by dismissing teachers and assist ants but actual pay cuts have av eraged 9 to 27 per cent till now. In order to obtain the additional $350,000 saving, it will necessitate a new cut of 15 per cent on the average, and in the case of higher salaries the total cuts will ap proach 50 per cent. Previous salary cuts of 9 to 27 per cent made a saving of more than $630,000 a biennium. The new cuts, if they go through, will bring the total pay cuts of those still employed to more than $980, 000. More than 200 teachers and other employes have been re leased. In order to continue appropria tions for Four-H clubs, farm agents and experimental stations, Governor Meier in his budget re port demanded only the repeal of $308,000, but the legislators have set out to raise the sum. Led by Representative Herbert Gordon, and Senator William F. Woodward, of Portland, a radical bloc has demanded $1,000,000 addi tion or a 50 per cent reduction in millage and had refused to cut the agricultural appropriations. Representative Dean H. Walker, of Independence, formerly of Eu gene, has led a fight in the sub committee against such extreme action. Chancellor Kerr, E. C. sammons, finance committee chairman of the board of higher education, and others had ap peared to warn the legislature that such cuts would be ruinous. Sammons stressed the serious ness of any further reduction in the budget. He told the sub-com mittee frankly that in case it was decided to reduce the budget by $1,000,000, as proposed by Sena tor William F. Woodward, it would be necessary to close either the University of Oregon, Oregon State college, or the group of in stitutions, including the Doern becher hospital, University medi cal school and the three state normal schools. He declared, “You have whacked around here for two weeks but you have not given the board any light on the situation. The governor, (Continued on Paye Four)