Saturday Events Climax Joint Homecoming - Dads’ Day Fete Oregon Alums Elect Officers For New Year Date for Commencement May Be Earlier Alumni Association Votes Unanimously Against Tax Limitation Merle Chessman, ’09, Astoria, was elected president of the Uni versity of Oregon Alumni associa lion, Saturday, to succeed Ralph Cake. James H. Raley jr., ’31, Pendleton, was named vice-presi dent; Henry Fowler, ’14, Eend, was elected to the board of directors; and Bob Allen, '32, Eugene, was re-elected secretary-treasurer. The new officers will take office January 1, 1935. There was no op position to any of the candidates. While only 180 alumni regis tered, it is believed by officials that about 300 were present in Eu gene November 3, Allen said. A committee was appointed to study the advisability of making commencement date one week ear lier, before the undergraduate fin al examinations are given. The committee: Fred Shaver, Portland, chairman; Nick Jaureguy, Oscar Furuset, Dean Karl On thank, and “Slug” Palmer. The alumni were guests of the Oregon Dads for the Dad’s day banquet. Merle Chessman, newly elected president, spoke in behalf of Ralph Cake, outgoing chief. President C. V. Boyer greeted the alumni and suggested the arrange ment of special two-weeks summer courses for alumni only. Various reports on the affairs of (he organization were given by Bob Allen and Ralph Cake. The asso ciation voted unanimously to send an expression of sympathy to Mrs. Lawrence T. Harris, Eugene, who has been prominent in alumni ac tivities but who was unable to at tend this meeting because of ill ness. The association passed the fol lovving resolution regarding the 20-mill tax limitation bill: WHEREAS, there is now pend Well in p;t on Letter Tolls Stand of Oregon Dads For 11. of O. and Boyer T? ARLE Wellington, Portland, president of the "Oregon Dads” sent the following mes sage for the "Dad's Day” edi tion of the Emerald. "Oregon Dads” stand solidly behind the University, and we are always ready to do anything in our power to aid the progress of the institution in which we are so vitally interested. The or ganization has been working for the best interests of the institu tion and is willing to continue this service indefinitely. We have learned to admire and re spect President Boyer, and will back him in every constructive step. mg at the November election a constitutional amendment popu larly known as the twenty mill limitation; and WHEREAS, this destructive measure, by making sweeping and impossible reductions in property taxes of state, counties, cities and school districts without providing. any substitute revenues, would cripple and disorganize the educa tional program of the State of Oregon from the elementary schools through University, Col lege and Normal schools; and WHEREAS, many civic and edu cational organizations have gone on record as opposing this negative and destructive approach to the problems of tax reform and of popular control of public budgets and expenditures; and WHEREAS, the experience of other states points unmistakably to the damaging effects of tax lim itation laws on the educational and cultural life of the commonwealth. BE IT RESOLVED That the ■ University of Oregon Alumni as sociation in meeting assembled, places itself on record as. opposing the twenty mill limitation, and urg ing upon friends of education the necessity of defeating the amend ment and leaving the way open for a more constructive approach to a solution of our tax problem—a solut.jou consistent with the main tenance of our educational institu tions in times of increasing enroll ment and of expanding demands for public services which such in stitutions stand ready to offer. Many Dads Return to Campus To Relive Days at University ■j" OST youth regained for a day! J That’s what homecoming and Dad's day meant to many who vis ited the campus over the weekend. (And it was reported that some of the dad's who came down set a "capacity example” that is the en vy of many a boistrous lad.) Mr. Bayard T. Merrill, '29, one of the visitors, is known as the champion Oregon dad. He had four children enrolled in the University at the same time that he himself was. The principal of Vida schools is the father of Marian Merrill, '30, teacher; Mrs. Ruth Merrill Travis, ex-'28, secretary for the A. S. U. O. offices; Charles K. Merrill, ex '29, clerk in the Eugene postoffice; Mrs. Jean Merrill Riddell, ex-’3t, wife of Stewart E. Riddell, jr., ex '32, of Eugene. Mr. Merrill never misses a homecoming. Jack Bellinger. '33, former mem ber of the Emerald's editorial staff, was also back for a visit. He is now a reporter for the United Press in Salem, Oregon. Franklin Hall, '29, parole agent for the Wisconsin Board of Con trol, was in Eugene over the week end. He now lives at Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Anil then there was one well known Portlander who listed his occupation as "lawyer and hus band." I Many other alums were here. Among them were: Otto H. Reichman, ex-1900, was up from Montague, California. This [ flour milling and grain dealer is both an Oregon dad and an alum nus. Mrs. Lois Hall Bond, '21. member ARE \ Ol DOING YOl K DUTY ? Daily Eugene Merchants Advertise in Your Paper You as an Emerald reader can do much to encourage the mer chants of Eugene to advertise in your paper. Always Partonize Emerald Advertisers of Delta Gamma. Her home is at Santa Monica, California. A. M. Collier, M3, banker and ice manufacturer of Klamath Falls, Oregon. Mrs. Anna Grimes Calef, ’99, (Mrs. Mahlon Calef, from Port land. Carl E. Davidson, '3*1, (LL.B.) attorney, state tax commission, Salem, Oregon. Curtis Gardner, '08, and his wife, Mrs. Hattie Hyde Gardner, Ml, of Portland. Mr. Gardner is a gen eral contractor and road builder in Alaska for the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads. Robert L. Gardner, '26, member of Phi Kappa Psi, now living at the Multnomah A. A. club, Port land, and representative for the Armstrong Cork company. Circuit Judge Arthur D. Hay, Ml, of Lakeview, Oregon. Luke L. Goodrich, ’01, former Eugene banker, now engaged in banking at Longview, Washing ton. L&urids Laurldson, ’07, electrical engineer for the Portland General Electric company. Zells Ruble, ex-'30, had not visit ed the campus for seven years. She is employed by the National Park Service in Salem, Oregon. Jack Allen Warded. ex-'30, mem ber of Delta Upsilon, from Yakima, Washington. Thomas Winn, auditor of the Oregon Milk Control Board, from Portland. Oregana Salt's (Continued From Page One) will also receive free copies. Sub scription books will be distributed to the houses before 12:30 today. Only members living in the house will be counted. Due to the new payment plan and the radically different book proposed, sales are expected to be far greater than in previous years. A group of speakers representing the Oregana will appear at the various houses for several nights and will give actual proof that this year’s layout will be exceptional. Oregon Dads and Their Officers Above—Oregon Dads, assembled on the steps of Johnson hall, fo llowing the mass meeting Saturday morning. A record number oJ fathers of students was present for the eighth annual mass meeting. Below, new officers of the Oregon Dads and the University alumni association—left to right—Earle Wellington, Portland, president, Oregon Dads; W. M. Davis, Portland, member of the executive committee; W. Lair Thompson, retiring president; C. W. Morden, Portland, member of the executive committee; James Raley, Pendleton, vice-president of the alumni association; Ralph Cake, retiring president, alumni association, and Merle Chessman, president of the alumni association and vice-president of the Oregon Dads. Dad’s Day Groups Praised by Casey John T. Casey, general head of Dads’ Day today praised the work and cooperation of his various committees, and the faculty com mittee in making the annual event such an outstanding success. “Special credit is due to Ami Reed Burns for the decorations and the general attractiveness of the banquet; Mark Do Launey for the ability in which he conducted the advertising program; Louise Beers for the capability with which she handled the registration; Mary McCracken, whose assistance as secretary was invaluable to me, and Dan Maloney for the efficiency with which he handled the public ity for the occasion. All members of the committees greatly appreciate the help and co operation given them at all times by the faculty committee. Without their help it would have been im possible to make such a success of the occasion,” stated Casey. Non-Fiction Hooks Added to Library Outstanding among recent non fiction books at the Co-op lending library are “Experiment in Auto biography" by H. G. Wells, noted scientist and radcial thinker, and William Chamberlin’s “Russia’s Iron Age,” a successor to his fam ous “Soviet Russia.” "Soviet Russia” was written when Chamberlin was employed by the Russian government. Mrs. El sie Belknap, Co-op librarian, said yesterday that "Russia’s Iron Age" is a new book and is therefore written from a diferent point of view. Mrs. Belknap announced that other books of special interest are "Decline of American Capitalism" by Lewis Corey, economist, and "Autobiography” by the famous English novelist, John Cowper Powys. The Co-op has just received cop ies of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s first publication in three years, "Wine From These Grapes.” This book contains poems of many types, including a long sonnet se quence called "Epitaph for the Race of Man." Miss Millay has proven herself to be America's most popular poet of today, ac cording to Mrs. Belknap. In drama, Noel Coward’s “Conversation Piece." a sophisticated farce now playing on Broadway, is on dis play. N e w fiction features " T h e Folks," a story of the mid-west by Ruth Suckon, "The Foundry" by Albert Halper, a proletarian writ er, and Jules Romains’ "The Proud and the Meek. " translated from French. Send the Emerald to your friends Morale, Spirit of University Gets Praise of Board Offichd Greetings from the state board of higher education were brought to Oregon Dads by C. A. Brand, Roseburg, vice-president of the board. Mr. Brand warmly praised the spirit and morale on the Uni versity campus, pointed out pro gress that had been made in high er education during the past year, and predicted the return, in the near future, of upper division and graduate work in science to the University campus. Mr. Brand’s speech follows: "I appreciate your invitation to speak to you tonight for the State Board. And it is not a perfunctory duty but a privilege. No one knows better than we do that the interest and the loyalty of the fathers and mothers is one of the greatest assets that any university can have, and we appreciate your coming down here and meeting the student groups and getting ac quainted with the professors and the campus and the athletic field. “Your interest means much to the official family of the Univer sity but it means more, I believe, to the students. I shall never for get the thrill I got once when my father took me back to his college at New Haven, and all over the Yale campus, and he showed me the windowless walls of Skull and Bones, his old fraternity, and we sat together on the famous Yale fence, carved with the initials of generations of Yale students. You know I felt that we were of the immortals that day, my father and I on the campus of a great uni versity! “This is a great university. There is something in the atmosphere of the place, in the quality and the consecration of the faculties, dis tinguished scholars recognized the country over. They are modest men. as most great men are. who have stayed loyally here with di minishing salaries, though many of them have been called to high po sitions elsewhere. They stayed be cause they saw the opportunity here and believed, though some times it has been hard, that Ore gon is fundamentally sane, and is for education. I take off my hat to them! “The year has seen real progress in many ways. Some of the feat ures of the unified system of high er education that were experiment al have been modified. The Uni versity emerges an independent in stitution. And you have a presi dent : a wise and firm and friendly president, and I congratulate you in that. More power to him! Of course, from time to time, other modifications of the Unified plan are inevitable. One of them :oncerns upper division and grad rate work in science. I have been pleased to find that leaders on both campuses realize that a full fledged university must have this higher work in science. I think you may be confident that it will come. In curricular matters we are deal ing with educational right and wrong. If it is right that a cer tain course or department should be here or there that should settle it. Each question must be decided on its own merits, and trading is definitely out. “In defining morale the diction ary says “State of Mind, as of sol diers, with reference to confidence, courage and fidelity.” Morale on the campus, in that sensee,—con fidence, courage and fidelity,—is high. Relations between students and faculties on other campuses are cordial. I credit much of the year's gain in these things to the fine, constructive work of the or ganizations you parents represent here. The threat of the 20-mill tax lim itation hangs like a pall over the whole state, but whatever happens on November 6 I cannot believe that the people of this state will allow these marvellous institutions to be wrecked. Sometimes you have wondered why these things moved so slowly, haven’t you ? Sometimes Earl Wellington has had to sit on the lid till his cramped position was almost painful. He was right. And you know what I mean. But on that point may I say now that to the best of my knowledge and belief the board’s aims and hopes and ambitions are the same as yours. Personally, it is not my ambition to see the Uni versity of Oregon the largest, nu merically. on the coast, but under your new president I want to see © (iRAin: ('A1\1>S • News Letters • Stationery ® 1‘laee Cards © Bailee Programs • Business Forms V A L IL E Y PRINTING CO. STATIONERS Phone 470 76 VV. Broadway t it the greatest. And remember, the greatest universities have never been the largest. "We have not stood still this last strenuous year. There has been a steadying, a return of con fidence that what ought will be, a settling down to work, and a grow ing suspicion that possibly patience may be a virtue after all. "And so, with the members of the board, may you, President Boyer and your co-workers, and you fathers and mothers, and all the members of the great Oregon family,—may we all look down the shining path to the future with renewed faith,—and hope,—and charity. Boyer Explains University Aims At Dads’ Meeting Social Service Is Declared Means of Imparting Information Large Crowd 01 Dads Out For Banquet New Attendance Mark Is Set The addition of a third objective, :hat of social serivce, to the func :ions of teaching was brought out oy President C. V. Boyer in an ad dress before the Oregon dads Sat urday morning. Boyer explained the first two ob jectives as those of teaching and research. Social service work not only gives the state the advantage of the experts on the university staff, but makes them more efficient in teaching, since they will have more first hand information to impart to the students. "Every great institution must Foster research in order to develop new knowledge,” said Dr. Boyer, "Teaching then imparts this knowledge to the student, and by developing a program of social ser vice, the service of the educator, the benefit of his knowledge is made available to the common wealth.” Students at the University need vocational and personnel guidance, which in accordance with Dr. Boy er’s plans, will be administered to them as advice, not as a matter of discipline, it was declared. “Uni versity students are not children or ‘youngsters’ but thinking men and women,” Dr. Boyer stated. "It is the purpose of the University to develop their capacities to the end that they may become useful mem bers of society.” The complete list of officers elected for the 1934-35 Oregon Dads organization includes: Earle Wellington, Portland, president; Merle Chessman, Astoria, vice president; Walter M. Cooke, Port land, secretary; Dr. Earl M. Pal Iett, executive secretary of the University, executive secretary; R. S. Hamilton, W. M. Davis, C. W. Morden, all of Portland and Carl Haberlach, Tillamook, two year terms as executive committee members; Arthur L. Fields, Walter M. Cooke, of Portland, Thomas H. Tongue, Jr., of Hillsboro and Merle R. Chessman, Astoria, one year terms a s executive committee members. Thompson Recommends Permanent Members Of State Board The biggest crowd of dads and students in the history of Dad's day attended the annual banquet in the John Straub Memorial building last Saturday night. Due to an unexpected rush of non-registered people, many had to be turned away from the affair. W. Lair Thompson, president of the dad's organization for the past, three years, presided as toastmas ter. In his address he recommended that two or three people be ap pointd as full time members of the state board of education, that these new people should be people who could "talk" education, and that they be apointed because under the present system memberships to the state board are political appoint ments and thereby the members of the board find their time too much taken up with their own affairs to adequately handle the demands on the board's facilities. Group Represented Mr. Thompson then introduced the various speakers for the occa sion. Dr. Victor P. Morris, profes sor of economics at the University, delivered the main address of the evening. Greetings from the state board of higher education were brought by C. A. Brand, member from Roseburg. Merle R. Chess man, Astoria, spoke for the alum ni; Mrs. O. F. Stafford, Eugene, represented the mothers, and Joe Renner talked for the associated students. The ever increasing demands made upon intelliegience by pro gressive civilization must be met by education, particularly higher education, declared Dr. Morris. He told of the constant advancement in thought necessary to become or stay intelligent, and the "group thought” which was necessary to control national and international situations, rather than "individual thought.” Theater Revue Many Out-of-State Dads Gather on U.O. Campus Many Dads came to the annual “Oregon Dads Day” at the Uni versity from neighboring states. Among the out-of-state dads were R. E. Hanrahan, father of Margaret Hanrahan, from Lewis ton, Idaho; F. A. McDonald, father of Bernice McDonald, from Long view, Washington; Giffrid L. So bey, dad of Betty and Giffrid So bey, of Paso Robles, California; and O. H. Reichman, father of I Paul Reichman, of Montague, Cal ifornia. C. W. La Barre, Portland, was : listed as the Dad who has the most i children attending the University. They are Cosgrove, Julia, and Cor inne La Barre. Send the Emerald to your friends. Subscription rates $2.50 a year. MCDONALD — “Servants’ En trance" with Janet Gaynor and Lew Ayres. By R. KNUDSEN College Night TTTHAT'S the matter with all ^ ’ the modest talent on this campus ? Friday night at the Mc Donald theater, Sheiwod Burr and his orchestra had to furnish prac tically the entire college night pro gram. The McDonald theater initiated the college night program with the purpose in mind of making one night a week during which con siderable of the program could be furnished by the University stu dents themselves. This would add interest in this night and not only boost attendance for the McDonald theater but open up opportunities for campus talent to express it self in a way which it could gain considerable helpful publicity and a small monetary return. Any thing in the line of enter tainment is given a chance. Several of the living organizations have quartets or blues singers of some sort which could surely find an ample reward in taking part in this program. Acrobats, contor tionists, and ventriloquists are all in demand. Servants’ Entrance Janet Gaynor and Lew Ayres in their lievly little picture ‘Servants’ Entrance” will run at the McDon ald theater all the rest of this week until Thursday when a double bill will be featured. University students may look forward in anticipation to “Cleo patra," a very popular picture of the new type being produced in Hollywood, which will play at the McDonald next week. •* © P. Lorilltrd Co., Inc. Who wouldn't prefer a cigarette that's easier on the throarsa^jctwv^ioHUul See Joan Blondeil in W arner Bros. Picture, “DAMES’