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University of Oregon, Eugene Sterling Green, Editor Grant Thuemmel, Manager Joseph Saslavsky, Managing Editor . EDITORIAL BOARD Doug Polivka and Don Caswell, Associate Editors; Merlin Blais, Guy Shadduck, Parks Hitchcock, Stanley Robe UPPER NEWS STAFF ■Malcolm Bauer. News Ed. Estill Phipps, Sports Ed. A1 Newton, Dramatics Ed. Abe Merritt, Chief Night Ed. Peggy Chessman, Literary Ed. Barney Clark, Humor Ed. Cynthia Liljcqvist, Women’s Ed. Mary Louiee Edinger, Society Ed. George Callas, Radio Ed. DAY EDITORS: A1 Newton, Mary Jane Jenkins, Ralph Mason, John Patric, Newton Stearns, EX E( I. I1\E REPORTERS: Ann-Rced Burns, Howard Kcss FEATURE WRITER: Henriette Horak. REPORTERS i.ipr im Eicln.tr. \ : . nia Renville, Marian John Ketni.-u t ivtii Veima •.IcIiRvie. Ruth Weber, Rose Hunelstein, .'.I; garel Bn i: I, ano: Aldrich, Leslie Stanley, Newton Stearns, Fred Colvin, (iuy Shellenbarger. Sl’OR rs SrA I" I Rid I'.herhai't. A-st, Spoils Ed.j Clair Johu smi, George J”ii. -, Dan I ! irk, Don Olds, Betty Shoemaker, Bdl Aetzei, Charles Paddock. COPYR EAD ERS: Elaine Cornish, Dorothy Dill. Marie Pell, Phyllis Adams, Ma-gery Kis-.ling, Maluta Read, George Bikinan, Vkrg.nia Endicott, Corinne LaBarrc, Mildred Black WOME.VS PAGE ASSISTANTS: Mary Graham, Bette Clutrclt, Ruth Hedjerg, Pauline George. NIGHT EDITORS: Mob Parker, George Bikman, Tom Bin lord, Ka.pu Mason, A1 Newton. ASSISIANJ NIGHI EDITORS: Henryetta Mummey, Vir gmia Cat lerwoon, Marpdee Morse, Jane Bishop, Doris l,; ' Eleanor Aldrich. Margaret Rollins. Marvel n Clark, Mary Eilen Eberhart. RADIO STARK: Barney Clark, Howard Kessler, Eleanor Aid rich, Rose Jiimeistein. SECRETARY: Mary Graham. UPPER BUSINESS STAFF I wiuiam Meissner, 7\rlv. Mgr. Ron Kew, Asst. Adv. Mgr. William Temple, Asst. Adv. Mgr. Tom Holman, Asst. Adv. Mgr. Eldon Haberman, National4 Adv. Mgr. Fred Fisher, Promotional Mgr. ADVERTISING Bob Cress well. Hague strap, .Jack McGirr. unne Skirving. OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Belloni, Doris Osland, Mae Schellbacher, Pat Vivian Wherrie, Jean * earl Murphy, Asst. National Adv. Mgr. Ed Labbe, Circulation Mgr. Ruth Rippey, Checking Mgr. Willa Bitz, Checking Mgr. Sez Sue, Jar.is Worley Sez. Sue Assistant, Jean McCusker. Alcne Walker, Office Mgr. SALESMEN: Bob Ilelli well, Jack Lew, CaHister, Jerry Thoma.s, Phil 011 Gertrude Boyle, Blaine Ballah, Mary Gretchen Gregg, Janet Hall, Dolores Mary Jane Moore, Cynthia Cornell, Nelson, Thelma Cook, Betty Gallaher, Pinney. BUSINESS OFFICE, McArthur Court. Phone 3300—Local 214. EDITORIAL OFFICES, Journalism Bldg. Phone 3300—News Room, Local 355; Editor and Managing Editor, Local 354. A member of the Major College Publications, represented by A. J. Norris Hill Co., 155 E. 42nd St., New York City; 123 W. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Ave., Seattle; 1206 Maple Ave., Los Angeles; Cal! Building, San Francisco. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, Eugene, published daily during the college year, except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, examination periods, all of December and all of March except the first three days. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. THE AMENDMENTS—CONTINUED A S briefly as possible, we conclude today our *■ recommendations on the 38 amendments sub mitted by the revision committee and three inde pendent sponsors which will be voted upon today. Yesterday we recommended the passage of the six amendments proposed by the revision commit tee, and the following amendments of the independ ent sponsors: (1) the amendment exempting needy or physically disabled students from fee payment; (2) the amendment to require publication of full proceedings of the executive council meetings in next day’s Emerald; (3) the amendment to relieve graduate students from compulsory fee payfnent; and (4) the amendment to have A. S. U. O. books audited by state auditor, and the report published in the Emerald. We continue, with the proposed amendments to , the by-laws: 20, 21, 22. (To revise various student commit tees, in accordance with the provisions of item 7, mentioned yesterday, creating two new positions on executive council for unuffiliatcd man and woman.) Again, our recommendation is; Vote NO on all i three. 23. (To revise athletic committee.) ; Gives a larger and more experienced group on the most important committee of the A. S. U. O. Vote YES. : 24. (To revise student relations committee.) See reference above to items 20, 21, 22. Vote ; NO. 25. (lievision committee's amendment to revise student relations committee.) A trivial amendment, but in harmony with the : rest of the revision committee's program. Vote - YES. 2(5. (To limit all employees of \. S. U. O. to i $35011 salary maximum.) I An obvious blow at Graduate Manager Hugh < Rosson. The A. S. U. O. once had a graduate man- ( ager of the $3500 caliber and went $200,000 in debt. I Vote NO. I 27. (To revise salaries of editor, managing edi tor, associate editor, sports editor, news editor, i business manager and advertising manager of the < Emerald, giving each an increase in salary.) ; Naturally, we listen attentively to any proposals j for legislating ourselves a raise in pay. But the i increase of more than $450 in the Emerald's care- i fully pared annual budget would have to come out of a reduction in the quality of the Emerald else- I where. Further, we have already expressed our t opinion on arbitrary constitutional stipulations as i to salary and expense figures. Vote NO. i 28. (To make removal of an Emerald editor eon- r tingent upon a vote of the publications committee c and a two-thirds vote of student body.) C In line with our views upon making recall more 1 t difficult, and as a safeguard of the freedom of the press, we recommend: Vote YES. 29. (To send free subscriptions of the Emerald to every daily newspaper in the state.) As a matter of publicity for the University, this amendment is advisable. Vote YES. 30. (To create the position of a director of inter collegiate athletics, and defining his powers and duties.) Proposes a complete and abrupt change in Ore gon's system of handling its athletic program. No j one of the coaches or athletic captains we have1 questioned has known enough about the plan to! express a definite opinion or recommendation. We i suggest that the proposal be given further investi-l gation, but for the present we recommend that stu dents vote NO. 31 (To permit fai'.i’.ly member:; to enter A. X. U. O. functions without charge.) Because the expense would not be great and because the proposal is s ,nply a matter of courtesy, we see no objections to this proposal. Vote YES. OPEN UP THE LIBRARY 'T'HE curtailed library hours that annoy students in their work all term are not to be altered during the last two weeks preceding examinations, it was announced Monday. At present, the schedule runs like this: Daily hours from Monday to Thursday are from 7:45 a. m. until 10:00 p. m. This is a fair allotment of time for regular work. But over weekends, the schedule is greatly cut: On Friday the reserve libraries close at 5:4o' while the circulation and reference department closes at 9:00. On Saturday circulation closes at 6:00 and re serves at 5:00. On Sunday circulation is open only four hours, from 2:00 to 6:00. Reserve is open six hours, from 3:00 to 9:00. Even in ordinary activity during the term the student finds himself locked out of the only place where he can do his work. The Sunday hours in particular are unjust, because of the shortness of time, and because many concerts and the like occur in the afternoon, the only time when the library is open. At the end of the term this lack of working time is felt especially keenly. Term papers have piled up and have to be turned out in prodigious quantities, by dint of long bursts of titanic labor. Along with this is the necessity of preparing for final examinations. The closed weekend, when no official social ac-1 tivity is allowed, takes cognizance of this fact. But j the libraries still maintain their short hours through this period without the slightest allowance. ! At least for these last weekends longer hours are absolutely necessary. Sunday evening in the circulation would be the first place to add time. I Friday night in all libraries would come next, and finally Saturday night in all libraries. After this, in lesser importance, would come earlier hours on Sunday. If finances cannot permit these few hours for two weeks, then let some time be taken off the morning hours earlier in the week when most stu-1 lents are occupied with classes. Some allowance, j certainly, must be made for the extreme pressure ; that is on every student at the end of the term. CWA OUTGROWN? tlTHKN the national administration announces 1 that the CWA would be abandoned and its | rooks closed by May of this year, the first question , rsked involves the fate of the 4,000,000 civil works I j “mployes, who will be thrown back into the ranks if the jobless, following a few brief months as s vage-earners. j i Dropping the CWA does not imply the end of!1 federal works employment as an administration11 rolicy. This part of the national relief plan was iet in motion under the direction of Harry L. Hop- '! tins because Harold Ickes' huge public works pro fram proved unable to give immediate employment o labor. With $400,000,000 allotted him from PWA ( unds, Administrator Hopkins had since November !5 taken over hundreds, if not thousands, of minor nojects in communities throughout the country, ind in remarkably short time 4,000,000 men were nit to work. The CWA's term was declared at the outset to I De only to the middle of February, but a congres- j iional appropriation of $900,000,000, half of which I vill go to the CWA, assures operation until May. Disclosures of graft in nearly a score of local CWA iffices have precipitated the issue of closing down he whole project, though it does not materially I liter original plans. Among complaints was that if Oregon’s American Legion department, claiming hat people not in need were getting CWA job., hrough favoritism and inefficiency. While 4,000,000 CWA employes are being dis missed during the early spring months, other proj- j cts are expected to get under way. There is no ipparent intention to curtail the PWA, which will nvolve the spending of billions, not hundreds of millions as in the ease of the CWA, on projects ! most of which are expected to be self-liquidating. Abandonment of one type of public employment or another will involve serious problems of re mployment and shifts in location of jobs, but many eminentators are inclined to think the cliapge is i lOt only advisable but necessary, because, relying ,s it does on borrowed funds, the CWA could not untinue indefinitely. Immediate liquidation of the 'WA is desirable only it the PWA is at last ready •) take up the burden of relief employment. ! DUNN RECALLS VILLARD HALL GIFT AS LIGHT (Continued from Page One) to practice “O ye hard hearts, ye cruel men of Rome,” or Longfel low's "Excelsior” in all the keys and tones known to man. Then, too, it afforded ample room for the squads of girls in “calisthenics,” inarching and retreating with white wands in their hands and beau bags on their heads. Well, it was like a miracle from Oat the old testament when Henry Villard appeared on the horizon and rubbed that Aladdin lamp of his. What an event it was when the cornerstone of the new hall was laid and Ivanhoe Conunandery cl Knights Templar marched out to participate in the ceremonies! ■My father chanced to be in cum- j maud of the "v, hilt plume .' that ! day, and, kidlike. X vowed to my self that some day I, too, would make similar cabalistic passes over some cornerstone. Villard hall in its newness looked most grandly imposing to us. To! the struggling University it was { like a child's first red-painted ex-1 press wagon at Christmas time, particularly as it was learned that ! it now made possible the supplant ing of three whole professors, with rooms, divided by the intersecting ! hallways, with a sumptuous audl- i torium above. (To be co'htinuidi STUDENTS WILL VOTE ON MAKING CHANGES (Continued from Pam' One) Oregon, should hold himself re sponsible for knowing what the proposed amendment igutly so * Hilt he may east an intelligent ballot. There must be r>00 ballots! east to insure the validity of the1 election. If less than this number are secured, the work of the pro ponents of the revisions will have been hopelessly scrapped." Those who will officiate at the polls today, and the hours which they will report, are: 9 o'clock. Walt Cl ray. Chester Beede. George Birnie; 10 o'clock, Tom Holman. Cosgrove LnBarre; 11 o’clock. Bill Bans. George Bennett. AI Nielsen. George Bennett, Bij,l Marsh; it’ o’clock. George Bennett. John Casey. Reva Herns; 1 o'clock. Cot win Calavan. John Bennington. Roberta Moody. Ruth Bycrly: 2 o'clock, Butch Morse. Allen Wall. Bill Manning. Nancy .Archbold. An auditing committee, yet to he appointed will direct the c>. tint- i iu„ of tbs ballot;. i Good and Bad - By STANLEY ROBE voter Henry Villard QSWALD GARRISON VIL LARD, who is scheduled to speak at the University Tuesday, March 6, is the son of Henry Vil lard, for whom Villard hall is named on this campus. Henry Villard had much to do with the 3arly development of the state of 3regon. While visiting Germany, his na ive land, Henry Villard was be sieged by foreign stockholders of he Oregon and California Rail 'oad company owned then by Ben Tolladay, to investigate the busi ness status of the organization. Villard made his first trip to Dregon in 1874 in company with Richard Koehler. Both Villard and Koehler were impressed with the :ountry and its possibilities. Dur ng his first visit, Villard insti uted a reorganization of the Ore ion and California Railroad in or ler to make certain its linking' vith the Central Pacific Railway n California. Villard's early railroad exploit erved only to instill more interest n the development of Oregon, for le soon turned his energies to the Columbia, river route to the east. In 1864 the United States con tress gave the Northern Pacific, ailway the right to build a road] vith a generous grant of land. By. 873 approximately five miles of rack had been laid. If the Northern Pacific could complete its plans of building a road from the Rocky mountains to Portland via the Columbia river, the road could easily form a link between the Willamette val ley at Portland and the eastern states. Villard returned to New York where he founded a bureau for the Atlantic states’, district for the promotion of immigration to Ore gon. Henry Villard returned to Ore gon in 1879 for the purpose of purchasing the Oregon Steam Navigation company or starting an opposing company. When J. £. Ainsworth, president of the com pany, refused to take less than $5,000,000, Villard paid the price, and formed the Oregon Railroad and Navigation company, which was recognized as Oregon’s first monopoly. The Oregon Railroad and Navigation company was in corporated on July 13, 1879, with a capitalization of $6,000,000, di vided into $100 shares. Henry Villard became the president of the company. The following year he built a continuous railway on the south bank of the Columbia to combine water and rail transportation. To insure getting the wheat from the Walla Walla district and to an ticipate such a move by the | Northern Pacific, he purchased the narrow guage line from Walla I Walla to the Columbia at Wal I iula. Villard's Columbia developments j led the Northern Pacific to aban | don its plan to build down the I north bank, and by a remarkable scheme of financing he seized the opportunity of gaining control of the Northern Pacific itself. With financial aid from his friends he organized a holding company called the Oregon and Trancontinental which held con trolling interest of the Northern Pacific and the Oregon Railway and Navigation company. The Northern Pacific was rushed through,- connecting in 1883 with the Columbia river road. Shortly thereafter the company was in volved in financial difficulties as the result of which Villard lost a large percentage of his fortune and resigned as president. He again controlled the railway in 1887 and was a director until 1893. Because of his interest in the state, Villard made numerous con tributions to state enterprises. Had it not been for Henry Villard the University of Oregon would probably have had to close its doors, so embarrassed by indebted ness was the institution. He paid its floating debt and presented the University with the | nucleus of a library. In May, 1883, he offered to donate $50,000 on condition that the state would levy a tax sufficient for its main tenance on a moderate scale. In recognition Villard hall was named after him. Innocent j Bystander j By BARNEY CLARK cpHE boss says to me, “Dammit, Clark, here it is 8:45, and you haven’t even started on your col umn, so called, and what do you think this is—an Oriental harem or a, beer joint ?'” So I says to the boss, “Ah, if it only were—think of a nice cool glass of beer with a half-inch of foam on the top and little bubbles coming up through it. And pret zels — very small pretzels - with large grains of salt on them. We could sing a song, too." Then Polivka comes in and be gins to talk about amendments, and I think about some very fine amendments that I would like to see added to the constitution, such as: No. 4612>4: That on every al ternate term our professors be required to reverse their seating arrangements so as to place the people whose names begin with S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, etc., in the first rows where they can hear the lectures (if they are so inclined). (You may not have noticed, but this also puts me in the back row where I cannot hear the lectures, even if I in cline until I am blue in the face.) AL.KO: No. 664: An amendment to pro vide a salary of forty-six and a half dollars (Mex.) per term to all humor columnists and the free use of an armored car during the course of their activity. (This will lower the death rate on the Em erald staff considerably after all big games and rowdy dances, and will assure a peace of mind that will result in considerably better work.) The boss is still busy chatting with Polivka, so I looks around and discover a picture on the wall of some doll. I read the caption and it says “Miss Virginia Fendall, Oregon State Junior Prom Queen." I am touched by this example of the friendly feeling existing between our two institutions and am de termined to go out and drink a glass of beer, or maybe two, in honor of the occasion. So I put on my coat and ooze out quietly while the boss is not looking, leav ing my six readers to their own devices. ‘BARRYMORE’ OF ART' TO SPEAK OK MARCH 2 (Continued-from Page One) ment and knowledge, then, guide : the hands of John La Farge’s des cendants as they guided those of John himself. How refreshing this is to one who has observed' and < studied many of the modernistic < paintings, where strident reds and i other clashing tones proclaim the seeker after publicity or sensa Reading -and Writing PEGGY CHESSMAN, Editor rT'0 those students who are still searching for a quiet place on the campus where they may study undisturbed for hour upon hour, we suggest the stack rooms of the old libe. It was there that Lewis Browne, a poor book-starved boy, denied entrance to the University of Ore gon on some technicality, received an education. He secured a posi tion working as assistant to the general librarian, and during his spare time he read for hours in the stacks, “far from the madding crowd.’’ Now Browne is a successful and admired author, who says that he learned more in that year of read ing in the library than in any other year of his life. His “How Odd of God” will be published in March by Macmillan. “It is an objective account of the Jews—what they are today and how they became what they are. It is at once a philosophical analy sis of Jewish history and a psy chological analysis of Jewish life.” His first published book, “Stran ger Than Fiction,” is now in its eighteenth edition. Browne lives in Portland. Edison Marshall, graduate of the University of Oregon, has started a new serial in Good Housekeep ing for February. “100,000,000 Guinea Pigs,’’ the book that reveals the dangers in everyday foods, drugs, and cos metics, has gone into its twentieth edition. The sales of the book hav been increased to a great ex tent recently by the publicity given the so-called Tugwell bill, a measure which denounces the abuses named in thd book. Vicki Baum's new book on Hol lywood life, reviewed in yester day’s column, is “Falling Star.” tion. The idea behind La Farge work does not shout; it humbly lays its thesis of happiness, seren ity and love of color and design before you, you to accept it if you have the capacity. For what the La Farges have realized, probably unconsciously is that art should be. dreamed and not, as some of their :ontemporaries have realized it, a bad dream.” U. S. ISOLATION TO BE TOPIC OF VILLARD TALK (Continued from Page One) lounced later by Near, and while n the city will be escorted through :he Murray Warner art museum ay Mrs. Gertrude Bass Warner; 'ViU meet with Dean Allen’s class n Investigative Methods in Edit ng Tuesday morning, when inter red students are invited to at end; and will be taken for a mo or tour Tuesday afternoon. It is expected Villavd will conduct an >pen forum after his assembly ad iress Tuesday morning. “Patronize Emerald advertisers.’’ I;:: a „ ^ ' 05t° \ ,HtN I SW*”D N«*VO» • NIvn UPS6T ON CAWE>-S* TH my NERVES ... AND, BOY, HOW GOOD THEY TASTE I ▲