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University of Oregon, Eugene Sterling Green, Editor Grant Thuerrunel, Manager Joseph Saslavsky, Managing Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Doug Polivka, Executive Editor; Don Caswell, Associate Editor; Guy Shadduck, Stanley Robe UPPER NEWS STAFF George Callas, News Ed. Bill Bowerman. Sports Ed. A1 Newton, Dramatics and Chief Night Ed. Elinor Henry, Features Ed. Barney Clark, Humor h,d. Cynthia Liljeqvist, Women’s Ed Mary Louiee Edinger, Society Ed. Janies Morrison, Radio Ed. DAY EDITORS: A1 Newton, Mary Jane Jenkins, Bob Moore, I Newton Stearns. EXECUTIVE REPORTERS: Ann-Keed Burns, Howard Kess ler. REPORTERS: Miriam Eichncr, Marian Johnson, Ruth Weber, Leslie Stanley, Newton Stearns, Clifford Thomas, Henry etta Murnmcy, Helen Dodds. Henriette Horak, Dan Clark, George Jones’, Roberta Moody, Peggy Chessman. SPORTS STAFF: Clair Johnson. Asst. Sports Ed.; Don Olds. Margery Kissling, Bill Mclnturff. COPYREADERS: Elaine Cornish, Dorothy Dill, Marie Pell, Phyllis Adams, Maluta Read, Virginia Endicott, Mildred Blackburne, George Jones. WOMEN’S PAGE ASSISTANTS: Mary Graham, Bette Church, Ruth Heiberg, Betty Shoemaker. NIGHT EDITORS: George Bikman, Rex Cooper, Tom Ward. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Irma Egbert, Margilee Morse. Jane Bishop, Doris Bailey, Mary Ellen Eberhart, Dorothy Dykcnian. RADIO STAFF: Howard Kessler, Eleanor Aldrich, SECRETARY: Mary Graham. 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; Call 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. Representing Oregon THE University will be ably represented this summer when the envoys from here go to the student conference in Japan. The four places al lotted to Oregon out of the American delegation have been filled by Bob Dodge. Orton Goodwin, Sterling Green, and Jay Wilson. The keen interest in this project, evinced by the fact that more than 30 students applied for places, is a healthy indication of the student mind. It is a demonstration of both a desirable interest in international affairs and of a certain quality of farsightedness on the part of those who were will ing to tackle such an undertaking. It means that a large number of students thought it worth while to give up their chances ! for summer jobs, spend a considerable amount of money, and make an investment in a cultural ex perience. Every student who applied for the trip is to be commended for his enterprise, the more so if he is not copiously supplied with funds. If college has endowed him with intellectual curiosity that car make him mortgage his future and go packing oft to the Orient on short notice to take advantage of such an opportunity, his academic maturity has been well advanced. The interest in the conference was especially ■ rn.tllj itig in of the fact that numerous other umversiti •, im! lieges were barely able to raise their allotted comas. Oregon, with its wide field from which to oh ose, has been able to bring forth a, group that cannot but do t.he University honor j when it car r u ir good will to Japan this summer. ! Swastika in the Saar Basin GERMANY’S Nazi government has once more gone afield when its highly developed propa gandizing machinery, this time in the Saar basin. Anticipating the allegiance plebiscite to be taken in that tiny mining region under tire direction of the League of Nations, Hitler lias sent his public enlightener, Dr. Goebbels, to extol to its people the charms of Naziism. Next January, provides the Versailles treaty, the 800,000 inhabitants of the Saar will choose by popular vote between the French and German flags ITnder one of the more farsighted provisions of the treaty, the region has for the past 15 years been under league sovereignty, but this period is to end with the 1935 plebiscite. Ownership of its 31 exceedingly productive coal mines is in the hands of France, in compensation for mines destroyed during the war in northern France. If Germany is the popular choice, that country must purchase these mines—the price is certain to be dear. The population of the Saar is entirely German speaking. Not since the Napoleonic regime has the district been under French influence, but rather has always been identified with the German states and later with the empire. Under normal condi tions a popular vote in favor of Germany would lie overwhelming. The Nazis, however, find it necessary to carry out an energetic campaign of persuasion to make annexation probable. Hitler's rule of the "Vater land” is perhaps not so popular with those who may still voice an opinion outside Germany’s boundaries. Undercover Nazi intrigue in Austria aided in precipitating the crisis of several months ago that resulted in the Viennese artillery slaughter. France ! still cracks the whip in the Saar basin, for Ger- , many must buy its mines before the swastika can take command. Trouble, no end of it, besets the naive Nazi m his relations abroad. Significant Selection SIGNIFICANT is the current selection by the ^ Book-of-the-Month club of “Merchants of Death," a recently-published hook by H. C. Kngcl brecht and F. C. Hanighen, who arid an imposing ' array of facts to those which have been marshalled in other new volumes against the armaments makers of all nations. The book was selected because the judges "real ized immediately, ns every sensible person will, that it is a book every citizen of the country, every lit erate person in the world indeed, ought to read. ' For only if there is a complete understanding of \ this system, among plain people everywhere, will there be any leal hope of ultimately controlling end eradicating' this great cancel- which modern society is allowing to burgeon unrestrained within itself, to its own possible doom.” But "Merchants of Death” is not the only recetv bool$ scorching the activities of the munitions profiteers, it is one of a veritable flood of publi cations describing the sinister influence ot the "merchants of death," Seldes' • Iron, Blood, and Profit > Lehmann- i Russbuldt's "War for Profits,” Waldman’s "Death apd Profits,” the well-known expose of "Arms and the Men” in Fortune—these arc all powerful and overwhelming testimony to the need for curbing the insidious activities of the menacing arms ring. Student Journalists on Parade CTUDENTS in the school of journalism will be ^ kings and queens for a day as they collaborate in a professional performance to supervise publi cation of the Eugene Register-Guard today. As they continue this annual custom, they re ceive a journalistic baptism under fire and come to realize the complexities of a newspaperman's existence more poignantly than a series of lectures can demonstrate to them. All editorials, all 1 cal stories, headlines, and arrangements of pages will be student-created. Startling innovations are not in order, since it is interesting and informr tive to draw comparisons of the student edition with a regular publication of the Register-Guard. The neophytes have produced creditable issues in previous years. We believe that they will main tain that record today. Oil Other Campuses For Honor Students r t 'HE College of Liberal Arts at the University of Illinois is to have a tutorial system for honor students. The purpose is to individualize the edu cation of superior students. The tutorial plan will be available only for jun iors and seniors of high scholastic standing. Those who qualify will be able to pursue a part of their work under tutorial advisers; will be given students under this tutorial system at the end of their senior year. We advocate the adoption of this system in* our own College of Liberal Arts. When the student is accepted- as a candidate for an honor’s degree, he should be assigned a tutorial adviser from whom he would take a portion of his work. Moreover, the adviser could guide the student in his work, and watch his intellectual development as a whole. Of course, we now have faculty advisers. How ever, they are interested in their research and per sonal work, and have little real interest in the de velopment of the student. This is a fact, and wo may as well stop kidding ourselves. If the tutorial plan for honor students were adopted, it would make our College of Liberal Arts the most progressive and satisfactory of any simi lar school in the country. We have liberalized the old requirements. We have discarded the old major-minor arrangement, and have substituted the plan whereby each student selects his field of con centration. Moreover, in each field are candidates for pass degrees and honor degrees. Each student who qualifies for an honor’s degree should be ex empt from some regular classroom work, and be able to take special instruction from his tutorial adviser. Then, at the end of the senior year, the regular comprehensive examination would be given. Educators have long recognized the desirability of individualizing the education of superior stu dents. Obviously, the tutorial plan, whereby each student would have a tutorial adviser to guide, direct and assist him, would be an enormous step forward.^-Daily Northwestern. Proof of the Pudding I UST a.s the proof of the pudding is in the eating, so in a large measure is the proof of the value of college training in the ease with which gradu ates are able to find employment following com mencement. Indiana university can point with pride to the employment statistics recently released con cerning- the members of last year’s graduating class. The information was gained only by totalling the names of those whom instructors know to be employed. Naturally, the names of some employed graduates would not be recorded on the list com piled in this manner. Despite ihe conservative nature of the figures, however, il was found that 443 of the 534 students who received their diplomas last spring had secured positions. This is 82.9 per cent, as compared with 77 per cent for the year previous a fact which should be encouraging to the members of the Class of 1931 who are likely to find even greater oppor tunities for employment. Even during the worst of the depression it often was pointed out that the doors to employment were always open to a good man with thorough training. Undoubtedly this accounts in part for the success of so many college graduates in business and in dustry' today. It is a lasting tribute to the training Indiana is able to give its students. Indiana Daily Student. Early Enrollment AKLY registration for next fall has just been completed at the University of Nebraska, and, as a result. 2550 students are duly registered for the coming fall semester. This will relieve much ot the usual congestion and unnecessary rush which always accompanies the opening of the University. For some time authorities here at this Univer sity have been toying with the idea of early enroll-i men! or registration, and the students have become! so much interested in it that they have injected the basic principle into their election campaigns. Both political parties openly advocated the needed reform, feeling that this was tire best way to arouse interest and support which would lead to definite1 action of some kind. Now that the election is over and campus feeling has again subsided to its normal status, it is an appropriate time to reconsider and try to adopt some new plan of registration or enrollment that will niit students, instructors, and the administra tion. Pre-enrollment in the spring for the fall semester wmld be of great value to all concerned; it would make possible a planning of schedules tint would more nearly suit the needs of the students. It would also put an end to the silly two-day battle; of red tape which always takes place in Kobinsou \ gymnasium. The early enrollment of seniors last semester' proved successful, and the University of Nebraska has found that early registration is desirable The way is open for further action here at Kansas; it is lime foi* th> next move to be made Daily Kan r.n. 1 There’s No Lame Duck Here By STANLEY ROBE r'nc Hope* Selling Your Services Editor’s note: This is the third of a series of articles by Mr. Onthank, outlining a pro cedure which he hopes will be of assistance to University stu dents and graduates in ob taining employment. By KOHL W. ONTHANK Dean of Personnel Administration /"i ETTING a job, reduced to sim plest business terms, is “sell ing oneself.” More precisely it is selling the services one can offer to someone willing to pay the mar ket price for them. The applica tion of intelligent business meth ods and of hard insistent effort to this job of salesmanship is likely to yield surprising results. Scarce ly anyone able to graduate from college can fail to possess talents having a substantial market val ue. All that is necessary to find out just what these talents are and to display them attractively in a likely market. This discussion has to do with discovering and analyzing what it is that one has to sell. Finding a market and making the sale will be discussed later. Employers generally hire men for specific jobs or combinations of jobs. Assuming desired qualities of character, the man who gets the job is the one who appears most likely to do the precise work required. College graduates, even those of professional schools, dif fer widely in training and in ex perience. One can not plan his campaign for employment until he has clearly in mind exactly what he has to offer. A convenient way of inventory ing one’s “saleable assets” is to take a large sheet of paper and write down, preferably in outline form, everything one can do. List every ability or skill, even those you may not have regarded as marketable. Classify them con veniently. Pay particular attention to those occupations at which you have had actual experience. A college graduate who has held a variety of vacation and part-time jobs, who has participated in stu dent activities in high school and college, and who has developed a few healthy hobbies can list an im pressive array of occupations for which he can qualify by some training and experience. ^UCH a list might easily include k items like these and many more: play arul can coach basket ball and baseball, sing tenor in glee club, have automobile opera tor's license, can drive truck and well acquainted with streets and numbering system of Portland; can read, speak and write Span ish, can read French; have ama teur's license as radio operator and can repair radio sets; won prizes as amateur photographer, took ac-! lion pictures for school annual, operate motion picture camera and projector: earned high grades in English, was high school corre spondent on local newspaper, have written articles for publication, won prize in public speaking con-1 test; can operate typewriter and billing machine; sold knit goods one summer vacation, worked in print-shop another; solicited ad vertising for the Emerald, It re quires no imagination to see that every one of the above items con stitutes, a lead toward profitable1 employment. Seek especially for uncommon abilities. If you have unusual tal-1 cuts for which a market can Be found. \su arc .pared competition just to that extent. Avoid crowded fields. Ingenuity for seeking the best outlets for unusual ability of ten brings to light interesting and profitable employment. A Univer sity girl has created an excellent job for herself by studying the clothing tastes of college girls. She persuaded the manager of a de partment store to employ her to build his student trade, an enter prise which is proving profitable both to her and to her employer. A recent graduate, an accomplished public speaker who has had un usual travel experience, recently created for himself an attractive position as manager and spokes man for a party of foreigners tour ing America. This job was def initely sought by the man himself as a means of putting his unusual combination of talents to interest ing and profitable use. This is more or less apart from whatever vocational training may have been acquired in one’s college course. The amount and value of such training may be large or small, but it is nearly always bet ter not to stress greatly one's col lege work in hunting a job. Em ployers are mainly interested in what one has done or can do. They generally recognize the value of college study in teaching one to think and in expanding one’s range of relevant interests! If .besides that, one has acquired skills for particular tasks, define these ex plicitly and include them on your list. ITAVING listed marketable qual ities, do the same with your personality traits, both favorable and unfavorable. Set down physi cal traits, such as height, weight, complexion, health, physical strength, eyesight and the like. Then record the best estimate you can make of your character traits, such as initiative, industry, hon esty, cooperative ability. Be hon est with yourself. If you are weak in some particular, face the fact frankly and try to correct the fault. On the other hand, do not underrate real abilities and so dep recate your own confidence. Rat ings on mental tests and of apti tudes, and school and college grades are useful if not taken too deterministically. ! - Finally, analyze and set down your social and economic resourc es. Family connections, fraternity, lodge and club affiliations all have their value; so has ability to play a good game of bridge or of golf. Money in the bank, life insurance policies, personal library, wardrobe, and many another quality or pos session will impress favorably pros pective employers. For one's own use be sure to include shortcom ings and weaknesses. If you smoke too much, have poor health, are careless in dress, insult and lose friends by cutting remarks and offensive behavior, then the soon er you face those faults squarely and conquer them, the better your prospects for employment w'ill be. More jobs are lost, in normal times at least, through failure to get along comfortably with one’s busi ness associates than through in ability to do the technical work re quired. Finally, put together in attrac tive combinations grouped around particular jobs or types of work desired, as convincing an array of talents and personality qualities as you can muster from your list. Study each arrangement and see how you can strengthen it by' add ing new qualities* or assets and eliminating present weaknesses. Study particularly how these as sets can be presented convincingly by letter, application, and other wise to prospective employers. Influence of Mystery Stories Seen in Trial of Law School Too many detective mystery sto ries might have been the reason for the “hung jury” Tuesday night in the case of Karl Huston vs. Virgil Langtry, the first of the law school moot court trials in which the jury could not reach a verdict. The dissenting opinion of the jury was partly due to certain jurors' belief that a chain, intro duced as evidence by the defend ant, had been soaked in nitric acid to make it appear weaker . . . an idea mostly reminiscent of a detective ‘'thriller." At any rate, the jury was split in regards to the verdict, and af ter it had returned twice to ask for an explanation of the evidence, the court was obliged to declare a mistrial. The court had a rather difficult time with the case, anyway. In the first place, Wavnc L. Morse, dean of the law school, when called as a juror, refused to take the oath, saying that "I’m a Quaker." So the clerk went through the cere mony twice, first saying to the other eleven jurors "I do solemnly swear," _and then, to Dean Morse, j •'1 do solemnly affirm." At another time, it was neces sary for the judge to have the jury sent out. "The bailiff may take the jury out." he announced; ponderously -and then, suddenly,! v\ here i_ the bailiff? Bill White-1 ly, acting as bailiff for the case, hurriedly rounded the door from where he had been standing; out side the court room, and clashed up the aisle . . . The spectators in the court room were kept laughing almost throughout the whole testimony so that at one time the judge was obliged to announce that ‘‘This isn't a circus,” Some of the spec tators were especially amused when Ward Wintermeier .with tears in his eyes, pleaded that Karl Huston should be awarded SoOO damages because he had lost five i pounds while grieving ror his dog which had been killed . . . and when j C. C. Barkley, witness for the de fense, solemnly asked what Villard ' hall was ? The attorneys for the plaintiff were J. Hobart Wilson and Want Wintermeier: for the defendant, | Don Eva and Bill Goodwin. Carl Davidson acted as reporter and sheriff. Josephine Rice as clerk, and Bill Whitely as bailiff and no tary. History House I’ainted A new coat of paint is being given the history house this week under funds allotted by the state for this purpose. Five days are expected to be used in refinishing the building in a light green and v lute ensemble. Lost Cup Returns To Possession of Business School After four years of absence from the University, the Life Under writers’ cup, awarded each year to the business student who gave the best sales talk on life insurance, has finally been discovered. The cup was originally donated by the Oregon Life Insurance com pany. Each year the name of the winning student was placed upon it. Eight names already adorned its surface at the time of its dis appearance. How it left the school of business and who had it last, nobody seemed to know. For a while it was thought to be stolen. Finally in despair the life under writers bought a plaque which was hung on the wall of the business school. The former eight names were re-engraved upon this new plaque and everything went on as before. Tuesday afternoon a boy from Hoffman’s jewelry story walked nonchalantly into the business ad ministration office, placed the cup on the desk and said that it had been laying around the shop for quite a while so he thought he'd better bring it up. It had been left there to be engraved and had not been called for since. The business school is now in great confusion trying to find someone to place the blame upon, but no one seems to be able to re member that far back. Radical Club Will Sponsor Picnic Although the Oregon Radical club will hold its final meeting of the year next Monday, at least three activities will be held before June 1, it was decided at the reg ular meeting held last night. A picnic, in charge of Henry Ireland and A1 Parker, is planned for next week, with a nominal charge for all who attend. The committee ex pects to contact groups which co sponsored the anti-military ball and endeavor to get their support. New members will be pledged during the last two weeks. Elinor Henry, Alfredo Fajardo and Eda Hult will handle pledging. The club decided that the Palmer peace pledge, which received 34 signa tures at the ball, will become per manent, to be signed by any stu dents who are in sympathy with it. Emma Reiss is in charge of its circulation. University Band Will End Concerts Sunday The University band will con clude a busy and highly successful year Sunday, June 3, when it plays for the Lions’ convention at 6 o'clock in the evening by the mill race. John Stehn, director of the group, has announced the program as follows: Flag of Freedom.Panella Martha . Flotow Marche Slav .Tschaikowsky Louise . Fulton Semper Fidelis .Sousa VARIED PROGRAM TO BE OFFERED TONIGHT (Continued From Page One) Alison Huntley, while Ellen Dixon, violinist, and Roberta Spicer Mof fitt, cellist, will furnish the obli gato. Those taking part in the two piano numbers include Mary Ga iey, Doris Peterson, Helene Ferris and Maxine Hill, ah students oi Mrs. Jane Thacher. Miss Dixon is a student of Rex Underwood, Mrs. Moffitt studies under Mrs. Ware, Miss Heltzel is a student of Mme. McGrew, and Miss Huntley is a member of Mrs. Underwood's ac companying class. The program, which starts at 8 o’clock, is as follows: 1. Seeboeck ... Minuet Nevin .Country Dance Doris Peterson—Mary Galey 2. Beethoven.Minuet in G Clokey.Old Auntie Chloe The Kettle Boils t from "Fireside Fancies) Loree Laird, Organist 3. (a) Brago . .The Angel’s Serenade 3- ta) .The Angel’s Serenade Margaret Heltzel, Mezzo-Soprano Ellen Dixon, Violin Obligato Alison Huntley, Accompanist (b i Bizet.Agnus Dei Margaret Heltzel. Mezzo-Soprano Roberta Spicer Moffitt, Cellist Alison Huntley, Accompanist 1. Beethoven ...Concerto in C-minor Largo—Rondo Helene Ferris—Mary Galey 5. Strauss . . Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz Maxine Hill- Helene Ferris Dean Visits Campus Dean Ava B. Milam, of the school of home economics at Ore gon State college, was on the campus Monday. She was the guest of Professor Mabel A. Wood of the Oregon home economics de partment. Schivering to Speak Dean of Women Hazel P. Schwering will deliver the com mencement address at the Walker high school Friday. May 25. Dean Schwering’s subject will be ' The V orld of Tomorrow. Under the Mikeroscope By JIMMY MORRISON ’V'OU’VE heard of all the flap ^ doodles and fizgigs that have been named after Babe Ruth and Lindy. Well, listen to this: Al ready I’ve heard of six dance joints, a women’s shop, and an orchestra other than Glen Gray's which bear the name “Casa Loma,” which, ac cording to a Spanish friend of mine, advises me is translated “the house on the hill.” And if Gray’s lawyers could catch up with “Duke Reilly's ‘Casa Loma’ orchestra,” the duke would be up the creek— Reilly he would, Amherst and Dartmouth are boasting that Glen and the boys are playing dances on their cam puses this month. Phil Harris, that pseudo-bass or human bassoon, announces that his pet recreation is polo. One must be very versatile to maintain one’s social status, mustn’t one? When he left California for New York, he got a wonderful sendoff. Everybody was glad to see him go. His band was about the lousiest on the coast about that time, al though since then he has improved a little. George Gershwin, the millionaire interpretive jass composer-pianist, most famous for his beautiful “Rhapsody in Blue,” has his hands insured for $200,000. Let us hope Don Novis has his throat insured for a like sum, be cause rumor has it that since his tonsilectomy he has been unable to sing a note. Novis has been rec ognized by music lovers as one of the country’s leading lyric tenors. * * * Dance Bands Tonight 6:00—NBC, Paul Whiteman CBS, Glen Gray 7:20—CBS, Isham Jones 7:45—KSL, Henry Busse » 9:00—KSL, Gus Arnheim 9:45—CBS, Earl Hoffman 10:10—KYA, Jesse Stafford 10:15—KGO, Tom Coakley 10:30—CBS, Gus Arnheim KFI, Jimmy Grier 11:00—NBC, Ted F'io Rito KGO, Kay Kyser 11:30—KGW, Jack Bain KFI, Carol Lofner * * *E* Babe Ruth still goes over as big as ever with the kids. After being i on the air only two \ seks Bambino's fan mail has reach total of 260 letters from kids who want to join his baseball club * * * Today’s the last day fo the Em erald radio contest, Phi Mu and the Fijis being the broa ' arfers. The programs today will tuftrat 4:15 instead of the usual time, 4:30, and will be 15 minutes each in length. Sigma hall burlesqued the "March of Time” again yesterday, and burlesqued it well. Tomorrow’s Emerald will announce the winner. Phi Mu is a cinch to win something, because if they don't won the first prize, they’ll be awarded the cup for being the best group of the opposite sex from the winner. The | judges will go into a huddle after the airing today, and after a heat ! ed discussion which is sure to de ! velop, the majority will emerge j with a decision. Walt Swanson, radio contest chairman, wants the winners to know that there may be a slight delay in the dishing out of the prizes, but he would like to have them “keep their shirts on,” anyway. Temple, Mulder to Be ROTC Honor Graduates Mark V .Temple and J, Philip Mulder were announced yesterday as honor graduates from the de partment of military science and I tactics. Temple is a major in phy sical education and Mulder, in bus iness administration. Both of the men selected for the honor have been prominent in cam pus affairs. Temple was co-cap tain of the 1933 championship foot ball team, and made all-coast teams at halfback, while Mulder is a star member of the golf team. The department is authorized to make its selections because of its high rating in the senior R.O.T.C. units, ni which it was deemed "ex j cellent.” Students in Infirmary Students confined in the infirm I ary are Bill White, Bill Connell, Richard Cole, Randolph Pooley, Bartlet Cole, Jean Boe, and Elsie Peterson. 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