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Press Conference Oregon editors start their annual gathering today. Faculty, students, and all interested are welcome at meetings, as well as journalistic ally inclined persons. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1935 VOLUME XXXVI NUMBER 53 > Resume of the Day’s News 15y the Associated Press -- JANUARY 23 _ WASHINGTON — The adminis tration's $4,880,000,000 relief pro gram today was shorn of some o its proposed presidential powe grants and faced a severe battli for further curtailment befori house action tomorrow that wil send it to the senate. The way was smoothed some' what today for the Democratic leaders by definite assurances frorr the White House that Secretary Ickes would not administer the New York relief fund. DODSON CANNERY BURNS CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. — The P. J. McGowan fish cannery at Dodson, near here, burned to the ground this afternonon with an estimated loss of $215,000 equip ment and supplies. Minor face burns were suffered by Superintendent Arthur Eade and an employe, Alfred Wester lund. A gasoline explosion in one ol' the company's 26-foot power launches ignited the fire which de stroyed 28 of the power boats used lor fish taking on the Columbia river. INFLUENZA IS PREVALENT PORTLAND—Dr. Frederick D. Strieker, state health officer, an ) nonunced today that influenza is three times as prevalent in Oregon as it was at this time last winter. However, he commented that “the situation does not call for alarm." Last week 134 cases were reported, of which 17 were in Har ney county and IS in Klamath county which was in the grip of the worst snow storm in years. SOVIET CONGRESS MEETS MOSCOW — The seventh all union Soviet congress—the nominal board of directors of the world’s biggest, most complicated indus trial apparatus—meets here Fri day to review operations of the last four years. Not since March, 1931, have dele gates from the Russian federation, Transcaucasia, the Ukraine, White Russia, Uzbekistan, and Turkmen iistan, the republics included in the union, made their way to Moscow. BANDITS GET $129,000 FALL RIVER, Mass. — In the largest postal robbery in the his tory of New England, five bandits today held up a United States mail truck and tonight had apparently made good their escape with $129, 000 in currency. The men were armed with machine guns and pis tols. Apparently in conformance with a carefully prepared plan, a sedan was driven ahead of the small truck, forcing it to a halt. Two of the sedan's four oc cupants jumped out and leaped aboard the truck. At pistol point, Herbert B. Reid, 43, for 20 years a. postal employe, who was trans ferring registered mail from the railroad station to the postoffice, was forced into the sedan, bound and blindfolded. ASSAILS TOWNSEND PLAN WASHINGTON — Harry Hop kins assailed the Townsend old age pension plan today as ‘‘cock eyed”, even as the administration's own proposals on the subject were be ing scored by Senator Byrd (D-Va). Byrd, who heartily dislikes some new deal ideas, told the senate fi nance committee he proposed to make some changes in the social security bill, asserting it would create a “dictator” in the person of the relief administrator. Campus Calendar Dr. V. P. Morris will speak to YWCA industrial group today at 4 o’clock at the bungalow. Waffle Wiggle directorate will have a meeting today at 4 p. m. upstairs in the College Side. Phi Mu Alpha will meet tonight at 7:30 in the music building. All members and pledges be present. Very important. Junior weekend directorate will meet today at the Alpha Phi house. Important that every member be present. A. W. S. council at 5:00 in the women’s lounge of Gerlinger hall today. Christian Science organization will meet tonight in the YWCA bungalow at 8 o’clock. All students and faculty members interested are invited. Short meeting of mem bers following the meeting. .Student Christian council meets today in Westminster at 4 p. m. Max Adams will be there. Meeting: is open to all. Adams talks Tonight at 8 In Villard Hall : Former Student Pastor Speaks on Religion Of Educated Man — Assembly Opens Lee Sure Series for Students Opening' a series of five lectures on religion and the spirit, Max Adams, former student pastor of Westminster house, will speak on "Religion cf the Educated Man” at Villard hall tonight at 8 p. m. The religion series proper open rext Thursday with Dr. P, A. Par tons, professor of sociology, speak ing. There will be a small admis [ s;.on charge, for the five lectures but tonight's assembly is free and open to both students and towns people. Adams Directs Work Adams is now director of Uni versity work for the Board of Christian Education for the Pres byterian church. He is in charge of the 43 university Presbyterian centers throughout the United States with his headquarters in Philadelphia. Before taking over this position he was pastor of the Presbyterian church near the cam pus of Ohio State university at Columbus, Ohio. After visiting four universities, Adams makes the statement, "I have not yet discovered a single university campus that is not re (Please turn to peu/e 2) Northwest Area Awaits Advance Of Fresh Storms Last Deluge Brings Death, Damage to Districts SEATTLE, Jan. 2?.—(API—The Pacific Northwest was barely struggling from under a deluge of snow, rain and floods tonight when fresh storm warnings were posted all along the coast and more rain was predicted. Vancouver, New Westminster, and towns in the Fraser river val ley battled snow, ice, and rain, with two dead and damage estimate at 5100,000. Several small towns in Washing ton were evacuated as rivers ran over their banks, while Grays River and Rosburg, on the shore of the Columbia river were inundated. Damage mounted into the hun dreds of thousands of dollars as roads were overrun with rushing torrents or blocked by snow and earthslides at many points. In Washington, the Cowlitz val ley and the Olympia peninsula ap peared hardest hit. Bridges went down or were threatened by ice jams, and traffic and .communica tions to several towns and cities were cut. Speaker Hugh G. Call, president of the Oregon editorial association and editor of the Hood liiver News, in one of the speakers slated for the press conference this weekend. He will speak on “City vs. Country, the Editor's Biggest Problem and Biggest Opportunity,” Friday morning. Debate Members Continue Series On KG AC at 8:40 Hall, Camion Choose Topic On County Government William Hall, forensic oratory manager and member of the men's University debating squad, and Kessler Cannon, also a member of the debating team, will give a comprehensive discussion over KOAC tonight at 8:40 on the “Re organization of County Govern ment in Oregon.” This is one of a series of dis cussions in a student forum spon sored by the speech division which it being broadcast over KOAC ev ery Thursday evening during the winter term. Avery Combs, man ager of the discussions, will act as interviewer. William Hall opened the student forum earlier this term with a dis cussion of the “Uni-Cameral Leg islative System” which has al ready been adopted by Nebraska. Many current questions are re viewed and criticized in the week ly broadcasts, presented by mem bers of the men's and women’s de bating teams and other students who showed an interest in the forum. Pre-Medical Students Elect Carter President Max Carter was elected presi dent of the newly formed society of pre-medics last night in a meet ing held following the address by Dr. A. H. Ross. Constitution and by-laws for the i society, the purpose of which is to ! promote the activities and interests ‘ of the pre-medical students, were presented and accepted, after which officers were elected. Others elected were John Derbyshire, vice president, and Bonnie Walker, sec retary-treasurer. Barristers’ Brawl Features Talk on N.R.A., 'Egg to Bird’ Hear ye! Hear ye! Dignitaries features, surprises, and contests will all be found at the Barristers Brawl, Saturday evening, January 26. Those present may have the exclusive opportunity to hear Gen eral Hugh Johnson speak on “The NBA—from Egg to Bird,” accord ing to the latest rumor from the law school. Because of the weather, Presi dent Roosevelt may be unable tc accept the invitation to attend, but in case of his absence, it is ex pected that he will send a special radio message to the gathering. The hall and music committee composed of John Pennington anc Arthur Jones, are in the process of making arrangements to trans port Waring's Pennsylvanians anc Ted Fio Rito to Eugene for the dance. “A Battle of the Bands’ will be a great attraction for or chestra lovers. Some traditional features of thi dance will be carried out again The "Black Maria" will again con vey the faculty to the dance. Thi faculty dance contest, held even year, is expected to be a real com petition this time. Carlton E ! Spencer, law school professor, has: won it time and time again; but j | Orlando John Hollis, law professor, j I i"> expected to overcome this long standing lead. The betting odds on j the contest stand 10-6 in favor of^ Mr. Spencer. Harry McCall, first year law stu- j dent, will repeat his special dance feature, “The Carioca,” which was so popular last year at the Barris ters' Brawl. Walter Hempstead, alumnus of the law school, will be present to give his now famous oration, “The Face on the Bar Room Floor,” with gestures. Joe Bradshaw and George Belt have been appointed bouncers. Ca pable, strong men, (the one with the black eye is Joe), they will be able to perform their duties well. As for dates—well, here is news! Portland girls, who have been asked to the dance, are so anxious to attend that they are hitch hik ing down! That proves something. i A search has been institute to j . discover an honest man to take1 ■ tickets at the dance. Anyone who s considers himself a second Diog-i ■ enes please apply—otherwse, out-! ■ side talent will have to be import-! . I ed. Band Student Fee Difficulties Bring Suggested Cures Rpmotlies Propose ROT( Of Sehool Control Due to agitation on tlie part of dissatisfied band members regard ing the matter of being forced to pay ASUO fees to play in the stu dent body band, several sugges tions have been offered to ease the friction. The ROTC has supplied uniforms and many instruments and because of this fact, the credit earned by bandsmen is given in the form of military and net music credit. The student body contributes much of the financial support for music and pays half of John H. Stehn’s sal ary as director of the organization Because of all these complica tions, it has been suggested that the band should be taken over either entirely by the University or the military branch of the school. If the University were to take over the organization, credit would be given from the school of music. Upon being questioned, however, Dr. John H. Landsbury, dean of the music school stated: “The Uni versity band was once under the school of music and I had more difficulty with it than with any other branch of my work. When the chance came, I, figuratively speaking, laid it on someone else’s doorstep and I'm very glad to let it remain there. I’m perfectly will ing to cooperate in every way pos sible, but I definitely don’t want the band under my wing.!” Inventors Claim Novel Type Wire Carries Images Engineers Finish Work on New Circuit NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—(AP)— A new kind of telephone wire, which promises to be the televi sion, picture and music wire of the future, was described today to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. The new circuit is a wire within o wire. It is capable of concen trating within a channel half an inch wide a band of million cycle electrical energies which hitherto have needed open air and radio waves to escape interference. Experiments Complete It was reported by Lloyd Es epnschied and M. FI Striby of the Eell Telephone laboratories. The experiments on this wire are al ready complete, but they said it will probably not come into com mercial use until television or en larged wire facilities demand. The wire is a hollow tube with a solid wire inside. Both are con ductors. They are insulated from each other largely by air. Espen schied said that wires of this form have been used a little for many years, but never in the new way now perfected. wire uses "Skin Effect” The double wire uses the “skin effect,” the fact that electricity likes to travel on the outside of a wire. The million cycle frequencies in this new channel travel on the outside skin of the inner wire and and on the inside skin of the hol low tube surrounding it. The outer skin of the hollow tube acts to carry the undesired, inter fering electrical frequencies. This outside skin becomes the shield of the wire. Frequencies Multiplied Existing wires, the report states, can be worked at frequencies of tens of thousands of cycles. This new wire multiplies that by 100 times, carrying all the frequencies from zero to one million cycles. It can carry a band of electrical energies which may be either sub divided into 200 telephone circuits or used en bloc for television. It can be worked both directions si multaneously. “The telephone channels provid ed," the report states, “may be used for other types of communica tion services such as multi-chan nel telegraph, teletype, picture transmission, etc.” SOLICITOR ADDED Ann Herrenkohl, freshman in science, has been added to the classified staff, it was announced yesterday by Dorris Holmes, classi fied advertising manager. Honor Group Ofters $100 Scholarship Alpha Sicilia Bases Award on Student's Success, Merit Alumni, Actives Cooperate In Assistance Move One hundred dollars will be available at the end of the school year for the unior student in ad vertising' who is most outstanding in scholarship and active advertis ing work done here on the campus, it was announced yesterday by W. F. G. Thacher, advertising profes sor in the school of journalism. Personal qualifications will also be taken into consideration before the amount will be awarded to be used during the student's senior year. The money will come from the active chapter of Alpha Delta Sigma, professional advertising fraternity, that is awarding the scholarship. Alumni and associate members are also helping the ac tive organization to finance the award. Scholarship Renewed This scholarship supercedes one that was established about 10 years ago by the Portland advertising club, but it was allowed to be dis continued during the depression, although appointments have been made each year. The selection will be made by Alpha Delta Sigma senior, Eric W. Allen, dean of the school of jour nalism, H. V. Hoyt, dean of the, school of business administartion, and Professor Thacher. Arrangements for the continua tion of the award were made by Thacher while in Portland recently. Weber Gives Assistance George Weber, an alumni who once won the award, and who is now vice-president of McWilkins and Cole advertising agency in Portland, and Merriman Holtz, an associate member of Alpha Delta Sigma, are lending valuable assist ance in giving the scholarship. Holtz is manager of Proctor’s in Portland. Thacher also announced that “There is better than an even chance of also reviving summer scholarships in advertising which have been allowed to lapse during the depression. These scholarships provide a certain amount of em ! ployment and experience for quali fied students in the summer be (Please turn to pai/r 3) Democrats Call Artists to Work On Huge Picture You can win! So say the magazine advertise ments, but this time it’s really true. Here’s how. The Lane county Young Demo crats are throwing a big birthday ball for Franklin D. in the Igloo next week. When Harvey Blythe, chairman of the decorating com mittee, started browsing around in search of pictures of his highness he was surprised to find that big gest he could locate was only about eight by ten inches. ‘That will never, never do,” muttered Blythe. “I want some thing big. So many feet by so many feet! Let me think." As a result, three worthwhile prizes are being offered for the largest por traits of the president turned in at DeNeffe’s store, downtown, before 5 p. m. Saturday. Drawings, sketches, calendar tops, framed portraits, they all j may win, says Blythe. It’s size that will count. First prize is a one month pass to the McDonald theatre. Second prize, $2.50 in merchandise at DeNeffe’s. And third, an ensemble of VanDuyn chololates from Seymour’s. Blythe thinks that students are most likely to walk off with the stakes, since it is hard to secure a ready-made picture that would be large enough. Any good artist, he says, should be able to produce a large, true picture of the presi dent that is suitable. Winning pic tures will decorate the ball room at the president’s birthday party, along with names of the winners, and plenty of red, white and blue. To work, artists! Phi Theta Upsilon Sponsors Benefit Dance on Friday i __ J ^ omen's Honorary Fixes Low Prior for Affair Phi Theta Upsilon, upperclass women's service honorary will play host to the entire campus Friday night, at an all campus dance to be given at the Chi Omega house. The affair is being given for the benefit of Philomelete, organization of hobby groups on the campus. One of the chief attractions for the dance is the low price of ad mission — 25 cents for a couple. There is nothing “fishy" about the price, those in charge of the dance point out, and nothing the matter with the dance, for the guests will dance to the music of one of the best orchestras on the campus. The price has been set low in order to facilitate the “run down” condition of most student pocketbooks, since {I*lease him to finite 3) Blood Pressure American Failing, Dr. Ross States Hurried Life, Over Activity Shortens Human Span "Essential high blood pressure i? a disease of Americans," Dr. A. H. Ross, local diagnostician, stated last night in pointing out to a small group gathered in Deady hall that 23 per cent of the deaths among people over 50 years of age in this country are due to high ^blood pressure. Dr. Ross, who is a member of the American Medical association, a fellow of the College of Physi cians, and a former president of the Lane County and Mid-Willam ette Medical associations, stated that this is due to our hurried man ner of living, worrying, too much activity, and lack of a rational at titude toward life. "If we could slow down our activities, change our ways of working and thinking, control and subjugate our emo tions, that would be amelioration and a cure of high blood pressure,” he stated. High blood pressure is a condi tion, not a disease. Because of the fact that Bright regarded it as a symptom of Bright’s disease it has long been associated with kidney diseases. However, nine out of ev ery ten cases of high blood pres sure are what are known as es sential hyper-pressure in which the kidneys are not apparently af fected. The walls of the arteries, capil laries, and veins which make up our closed blood system are made up of two types of tissue, elastic and muscular. When the elastic tissue is replaced by muscular tis sue the vessels lose their elastic ity. This effects the amount of (Please turn to page 3) Press Co Begins W With Boa Neie Dealer m mm S uexier ivi. ixeezer, president oi Heed college, is not only n scholar and newspaper man but a member of the new deal personnel. He will address the Oregon press confer ence Friday afternoon on “What’s Ahead? How Much Can One Safely Predict?” 4Anti-Huey’ Drive Goes on Despite Oil Compromise Dictator Laws Arouse Ire Of Square Dealers BATON ROUGE, Jan. 2.—(AP) —The Square Deal association an nounced late today it would con tinue its fight against the dictator ship of Senator Huey Long re gardless of a compromise on the oil refining tax announced by Long and the Standard Oil company of Louisiana under which the oil com pany would receive a rebate on the tax. The determination to continue the fight until Long’s dictator laws are repealed by the legislature was announced by Ernest J. Bourgeois, president of the Square Deal as sociation, just after Long today had assumed control of East Baton Rouge parish and made his plans to transform the capitol city of Louisiana into a miniature Wash ington, D. C. The Square Deal association had jta first company organized and on parade in military gesture Satur day afternoon. Don Seitz rGreeley’ Verifies Turnbull’s Early Interview Editors note: The following is the second in a series of articles presented by the Emerald des cribing the history of interviewing. The material is based on informa tion secured from articles written by George Turnbull, professor of journalism at the University of Oregon. No one, of course, says Turbull’s report, can sully the fame of James Gordon Bennett as America’s great news gathering genius of that period. In this case, however, to give credit for the ‘‘invention” of the newspaper interview appar ently does violence to the fact of history and is unjust to his great contemporary, Horace Greeley. Greeley, in fact, had stopped off at Salt Lake City in July, three months before the raid on Har per’s Ferry and the Gerrit Smith interview that followed it, and had interviewed the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons). It is this interview (or a considerable sec tion of it) which Turnbull en countered while browsing in the old files. Now, was it really an interview ? Turnbull quotes Frank H. Vize telly’s Standard Dictionary (Funk and Wagnalls) a.s defining an in terview as follows: “2. Specif., in journalism, a col loquy with one whose views are sought for publication; also, the report of such a colloquy.” This definition of the interview apparently is accepted by Don C. Seitz, formerly of the New York World, who is a journalistic authority of standing and the bi ographer of Greeley and the two Bennetts as well as of Pulitzer. In his "Horace Greeley” (pp. 301-302) Mr. Seitz notes this interview, in cidentally and casually, in the fol lowing paragraph: "A memorable journey to Cali fornia by stage across the great plains was made by Greeley in 1859. He left New York on the ninth of May, going by rail to St. Joseph, Missouri, and thence by stage. He reached Denver when that aspiring town was six months old, and interviewed Brigham Young in Salt Lake City, where he found comfort after days of hard ship. The Prophet was grading a section for the rails. He saw no Idlers, and Brigham assured him there were none in all Utah. The habits of industry and thrift among the Mormons won his 'hearty admiration’.” (To be continued.) nference ork Today rd Meeting * - j Addresses, Banquets Fill Program for Editors At Annual Affair Dinner Set for 6:30 Allen, Ball, Tugimm Speak On Friday to Members By William Haight Opening this afternoon at 3 o’clock with a board of directors meeting at the Eugene hotel, the Oregon State Editorial association enters into a full weekend of con ferences, business meetings, ban quets, and addresses from news paper men. This will be the 17th annual press conference to be held on the campus. The annual publishers round ta ble and dinner, with Bernard Main waring, editor and co-publisher of the Baker Democrat-Herald, act ing as toastmaster will be held Thursday evening at 6:30 in the I Eugene hotel. Subjects Diversified A group of recognized authori I ties will address the members of ! the conference on many diversified subjects. On Friday’s program Eric W. Allen, dean of the school of journalism, will speak on "The Circulation Situation in Oregon,” Hugh G. Ball, of the Hood River News, on “City vs. Country, the Editor’s Biggest Problem and Big gest Opportunity,” and W. M. I Tugman, managing editor of the j Register-Guard, on “Do We Know How to Write News?” Lewis Talks at Meet In the afternoon Sol H. Lewis, editor and publisher, of the Lyn den Tribune, Dr. Dexter M. Keezer, president of Reed college, and C. L. Kelly, professor of insurance, University of Oregon, will address the meeting. Editors Robert W. Ruhl of Med ford and H. B. Ball of Hood River, will be publicly initiated into Sig ma Delta Chi, journalism fratern ity, at the banquet Friday evening, at 6:30 in the Eugene hotel. Group Makes Awards C. P. Haight, editor, publisher, and legislator of Canyon City, will speak at the banquet on "Ram bling.” Awards by Sigma Delta Chi for the outstanding weeklies in the state, a short skit, and the appearance of the Eugene Gleemon, will make up the program for the banquet. Dean Allen will be toast master. Students Compete In Essay Contest Oregon students owe the oppor tunity to earn ?30 in the Bennett essay contest to William Jennings Bryan, three-time candidate for the presidency of the United States. The sponsor of the contest asked Bryan to name the 25 outstanding universities and colleges of the United States before he decided which schools would be privileged to compete for the yearly prize. The University of Oregon was one of the institutions named by Bryan. This year the topic of the essay is “Individual Liberty or Social Justice." The essays must be orig inal and 5,000 words in length and must be submitted nol later than April 15. The committee chairman is George Turnbull, journalism pro fessor, and the sub-committee is composed of Virgil D. Earl, E. G. Moll, Mary H. Perkins, VV. F. G. Thacher, and L. O. Wright. Any one who contemplates entering the contest has been asked to contact Professor Turnbull or any of the above committee members. GROUP HEARS MORRIS Victor P. Morris, professor of economics, will be the principal speaker at the Alpha Kappa Psi meeting this evening in the men’s lounge of Gerlinger hall. A regular business meeting will be conducted, but each member is urged to bring a guest. “Economic planning’’ will be the subject discussed by Dr. Morris.