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Quirpers Commentators Marsh and Clark satirically quirp on affairs of world, nation, state, and campus on the edit page daily. Letters Today's e ditorial columns have a letter to the editor discussing the intramural athletic program. NUMBER 36 VOLUME XXXVII I STAGE t i , i | oj the | ! WORLD 1 + * T-* * By Tex Thomason + * <*■ ^ »jj wjj ijj ^ >jj t.^-* vj-> Jjj ^ kjL. i*; iji lJ-i ^ >jj T roes The most popular song in the Northwest today is “Trees.” This has come to pass quite recently, in fact simultaneously with the sign ing of a trade agreement between this country and Canada, by Pres ident Roosevelt and Prime Minis ter King. From the yowls of distress clut tering up the newspapers the lum ber interests seem to have taken a beating. And the Northwest with it. I suppose so, but let’s put our sectional sentiments aside long enough to look at the subject as a whole. Protection There are two distinct schools of thought on the subject of for eign trade. The protectionists and the free-traders. The theory of the protectionists is that on any for eign product that can come into our markets and, because of lower costs and in production, undersell our produce, there should be placed a tariff high enough to equalize the initial advantage of the imported goods. After duty imposition the domestic and for eign products can then compete fairly with one another, the pro tectionists say. In fonts The argument as applied to in fant industries is sound, and in deed, this was the real reason for the creation of tariffs. But the conclusion of that argument has always been that as the young in dustries become established and stabilized the tariffs were to be lowered or done away with. Such has not been the case. Higher and higher have gone the tariff walls, defended by the argument of “you just can’t let a gang of foreigners come into our country and ruin us all.” The result was tariff in sanitj'. It culminated in that nightmare of all tariff laws, the Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930. Retaliation When someone strikes you the impulse is not to turn the other cheek, but to strike back. It is natural. Just as natural is the im pulse of countries to retaliate, blow by blow, as the glove of high import duties flicks their jowls. As we put tariffs and quotas on their goods they in turn put them on ours. Then how is the result of the application of the protectionist theory beneficial to our industries? It isn’t. It is harmful. Proof? American industries have had to close down plants in this country and establish them abroad to es cape the retaliatory tariffs of those nations themselves. This is the course that looked toward restriction of production, self-containment and a controlled economic life. This has been tried. It is failing, step by step, and there is reason to believe the lat est reciprocal agreement i3 one of the first of the many strides yet to be made to attain the normal intercourse between nations. Old But True In spite of the qualifications economists make to the law of supply and demand it still oper ates. It is inexorable. Restriction of production and price pegging may last for a while, but they have invariably failed in the long run. Their companion, high tar iffs, must of necessity go down with them. For as soon as produc tion is at maximum there is need for markets, and to export there must be imports. Free Trade Today the application of the theory of the other school, the free-traders, would be impossible. They say that all countries and people will produce that which they do best, gradually eliminating those industries which they do least well. Goods will be exchanged nation to nation, each one import ing the products which a neighbor makes better and cheaper, and ex porting those things it produces most efficiently. Why this is impossible is appar ent. This is a world of tariffs. There is no such thing as unity of action. But is it not better to look toward an enlarged foreign trade resulting from reduction of tariffs, (Please turn to pane two) Students Laugh as Spaeth Romps Through Well-known Tunes in Musical Lecture ‘Take Music Seriously But Not Hard,’ Is Critic’s Advice; Shows Growth Of Modern Melodies From Old Songs Seldom do college students hear lectures on the art of enjoying music that are directed first toward the effect on the feet and progress upward toward the head, culminating in a hybrid song the words of which read, “Hallelujah, bananas—oh bring back my bonnie to me,” etc. sung to the tune of “Yes, We Have No Bananas.” However yesterday in a well-filled Gerlinger hall, the largest assembly crowd of the year listened intently, smiled quizzically, as Dr. Sigmund Spaeth, nationally known “Tune Detective” romped through an hour lecture on the enjoyment of music. • Schoolmate ot Boyer Some 15 years avo, Dr. Spaeth, who once was a Princeton class mate of Oregon’s president, Dr. C. Valentine Eover, grew tired of writing “unread” music criticism for big eastern newspapers. Dis couraged over his lectures on music made in Carnegie hail before poor listeners who sat in "luscious leth argies and comfortable comas” he started out to find points of con tact between music and the aver age layman. In the past ten years he has established a unique reputation as the man who by simnle formulae and illustrations has done much to open the average untrained mind to an appreciation of music. Spaeth Defines Music Dr. Spaeth first offered as a def inition of music ‘“the organization of sound toward beauty.” He then proceeded to explain the simple five-point structure of music, il lustrating his remarks on a grand piano with phrases from familiar piano compositions, rythmic beat ings with a hand-full of keys, and the syntheses of harmony from one, two, and three tones in various combinations. He explained the effects of simple regular rythmic beats on “foot listeners” represented by “early and modern savages.” With a cluster of keys, Dr. Spaeth pounded away showing the anal ogy between the savage war dance and the modern jazz rhythm. He illustrated the recognizable extrac tions of rhythmic beat between the Lohengrin wedding march and Chopin's funeral march. Shws Basic Notes Then by taking: two notes on the piano, he plunked out the simple melody of the “cuckoo” and has tened to dash off several pieces which utilize this basic melody pattern. Dr. Spaeth quickly picked out the three notes that make up the well-known bugle call “reveille” and played several selections built around this pattern. Dr. Spaeth did not find it nec essary to confine his illustrations to popular music but reached into the realms of the classics or what he preferred to term "permanent music.” Drawing piano illustra tions from pieces built around a melody of four and then five notes he played selections which em ployed all four combinations em phasizing the possibility of dis cerning the basic tone patterns that go toward the composition of a complete number. (Please turn to page 2) Court Comedy Will Be Repeated Performances Slated For Friday, Saturday After two hit performances last weekend which drew capacit.v crowds, the Universitv theatre will again present “The Queen’s Hus band’’ this Friday and Saturday. November 22 and 23. As King Eric and Queen Martha, Prof. John Casteel and Alice Hult will be seen in the roles which brought them acclaim in the open ing performances. An excellent supporting cast will once more en liven the Robert E. Sherwood story about a quite limited mon archy on its royal road to revolu tion while the king is in the parlor playing checkers with his favorite footman, and the queen is on an American tour. Portia Booth and Charles Barclay furnish the love interest in their portrayals of Princess Anne and Frederick Granton, the king’s private secre tary. The play is under the direction of Otillie Turnbull Seybolt, head of the drama division, with set tings designed by Horace W. Rob inson. Seats are now on sale for the last two performances at the theatre box office in the adminis tration building. The box office will be open today from 1 to 4 p. m. and Friday and Saturday from j 10 a. m. until curtain time (8 p.; m.l Tickets may be reserved byj either calling for them at the box office or by telephoning 3300, local 216. Callison, Rosson To Attend Dance Coach Prink Callison and Hugh Rosson, graduate manager, will be among the many Oregon alumni who will attend the informal din ner dance to be given at the Seattle Yacht club after the Ore gon-Wasliington football game in Seattle ne*t Saturday. The dinner dance will begin at 7:30 p. m. Tickets may be obtained through Robert Allen, alumni sec retary, or through Dr. J. Albert Bowles, 503 Stimson building, Seattle. Quaint Snaps of Sorority 'Gals' Fill Annual of 1915 j Deady hall was surrounded by mere shrubs, the sorority gals did their hair on trellises much as movies of today would have us be lieve the Africal belles do, and a young man named Vernon T. Motschenbacher headed the stu dent body, a hasty glance at the 1915 Oregana discloses. Sororities of 1915 are all still on the campus with the exception of Mu Phi Epsilon. The others were Gamma Phi, Chi O, Theta, Tri Delt, Kappa and Delta Gam. But the popular woman of 1915, a look at the pictures convinces, didn't have the stream-lined effects which the girls of today possess. Feature Silly Clothes It seems that in order to impress the males favorably in the Ore gana, the sorority women donned the silliest clothes they could find, then stood in awkward poses be fore the camera on the back steps among the nasturtiums. The dresses hung to the turf, and it would seem that the hair styles decree^ 'that the “right thing to wear” was about three feet of hair wrapped around the head. Thetas on Parade A clever snapshot in the Theta section discloses two husky soldier girls, standing at attention with firearms pointing skyward. Gam ma Phis are pictured at work with garden tools in their picture group. Six Trl Delts beam gush ingly over the bannister of their old house on their page, and a Kappa poses in their .section in what appears to be a monkey suit, complete with the tail! The Delta Gams lived in the old Chi Psi house on Alder in 1915, and in their section, a rear view snap shows the D.G.’s burdened with suitcases. This caption grac es the picture: “Won't Somebody Carry These Suitcases?” Pushing the cardboard-covered Oregana of 1915 back into the re cesses of a dark, musty shelf, one cannot help but look forward to the 1936 Oregana with its modern features. Air Explorers Intrepid explorers of the stratosphere—Capt. Orval A. Anderson, left, pilot of the U. S. Army-National Geographic Society balloon, and Capt. Albert W. Stevens, right, flight commander and technical ob server, who recently broke all records for balloon ascension. Sanctions Topic For Meet Tonight Drs. rle Villiers, Morse To Lead Discussion Heralding the coming interna tional relations conference on the TTniversitv of Oregon camws next weekend. Dr. Cornelius de Villiers. dean of sciences at Stellenbosch university in South Africa, and Dr. Victor P. Morris of the University economics denartment. Will lead a discussion in Gerlinp-er hall tonight at 7:30 on economic sanctions as a method of controlling countries which refuse to arbitrate national differences. Plank Chairman The meeting- will e-ive particular attention to the Italo-Fthiopian sanctions invoked Monday by 51 member countries of the League of Nations, savs Paul Plank, chair man of tonight’s discussion meet ing. It is open to all students, he said. Dr. de Villiers is expected to vigorously defend Italy in its de termined resistance to the sanc tions. Since arriving on the campus he has said, ‘‘The Italians are the most maligned people in the world today,” and he has declared him self definitely pro-Italy. Dr. Morris is expected to defend sanctions as a justifiable way of halting irre sponsible imperialist powers. Pro moters of the discussion anticipate an enlightening and complete por trayal of the sanctions question. Students to Register Registration material for the in ternational relations conference will be available at the meeting for students expecting to take pert in the three-day session. The con ference, an annual Northwest af fair, is this year being held on the local campus. It will take place Friday, Saturday and Sunday of next week. Mrs. Kearney Works In Researeh Bureau Mrs. Leonard Kearney has taken the place of Miss Lynnette Davis in the office of the bureau of mu nicipal research and service. Mrs. Kearney worked under Mr. Kehrli at the city club in Portland for two and a half years when he was executive secretary. ‘Pigger’s Guides9 Sales Date Set For Friday at 1 Contrary to previous reports, the “Pigger’s Guide” will not be distributed, until after 1:00 on Friday afternoon. The printing has been held up and it is im possible to have the book out on the time formerly announced Students may secure their copies at the Co-op Friday af ternoon. National Officer Visits on Campus W. B. Keller, Hollywood, Pi Kappa Alpha Guest Pi Kappa Alpha is host this week at the chapter house on Kin caid street, to its national inspec tor, Wilson B. Heller of Hollywood, California. Although a prominent motion picture publicist and for many years an officer of the famed Hollywood press agents’ organiza tion, “The Wampas,” Mr. Heller finds time to visit all the eighty chapters of his fraternity at least once every two years. His visit to the Gamma Pi chapter on the Uni versity of Oregon campus will be concluded with a banquet given by active and alumni members in this vicinity in his honor, Thursday evening at the chapter house. From Eugene, Mr. Heller will go to Seattle and Pullman, Washing ton, to visit the local Pi Kap chap ters there and see the Oregon Washington game. Classes to Meet With de Villiers Dr. Cornelius de Villiers will be interviewed by Dean Eric W. Al len’s editing class this morning at 9 o'clock in a round-table discus sion of racial problems. Dr. de Villiers will also hold an open discussion with Karl W. On thank's class of personnel training for senior officers at 11 in the classroom. New York Alumni Honor Hunter, Boyer University of Oregon alumni in New York city will hold a meeting Friday, November 22 at the Town Hall club honoring Dr, Frederick M. Hunter and Dr. C. Valentine Boyer, who have been attending an educational meeting in Wash ington, D. C., this past week. The alumni of Oregon State College have also been invited to greet Dr.. Hunter. Invitations have been sent to 350 people in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Campus Girls Must Have Permission For Seattle Game All women on the campus must hand In letters of permis sion from home to the dean of women’s office before they leave the campus. This ruling will hold good for all women who wish to go to Washington this weekend for the “Husky” game. . Sign-out slips, must also be turned In to the dean of wo men’s office before women leave the campus. Spaeth to Appear For Second Time [Extended Talk Won By Student Aeelaim Sigmund Spaeth, whose illus trated music talk was received with unqualified approval by Uni versity students and faculty mem bers at the morning assembly yes terday, has been persuaded to ap pear again in an extended pro gram similar to the one in Ger linger hall. He will be presented in an il lustrated talk tonight at 7:30 in the music auditorium. The topic, “Music for Everybody” will be ac companied by criticism and piano novelties. There will be a charge of 25 cents. In view of the enthusiastic ap plause with which Dr. Spaeth was greeted yesterday, another packed house is expected tonight, and as the music hall has only a limited seating capacity, a policy of "first come, first served,” has been adop ted. An extra 200 seats will be added', however, bringing the ca pacity of the hall up to 800. Phi Mu Alpha, men’s music honorary, sponsor of the program, has postponed its concert which was scheduled for tonight. Tonqueds Meet Tonight at 7:30 Tonqueds will hold their second mass meeting- of the year tonight at 7:30 at the Pi Beta Phi house, with Jessie Rae Atwater Ja charge* Thp membership committee has attempted to contact all girls who wish to join, but have not yet paid their dues. However, any girl who has not as yet been reached is urged to come to the meeting to night, and, if she wishes, pay her dues there. Those in charge of committees for tonight’s meeting are Alice Tillman, refreshments; Maxine Horton, clean-up; Clare Igoe, pro gram; and Roberta Marshall, host ess. Bible Study Group Will Meet Tonight The third bi-weekly meeting of the Wesley club Bible study group, conducted by Glenn Griffith, sec retary of the campus YMCA, will be held at 9 p. m. Thursday, in Dorothy Nyland’s apartment at 613 East 11th street. The discussions, which are open to anyone interested, are based on a textbook written by Bruce Curry concerning the Bible. Bureau of Education Wants U. of O. Thesis The U. S. Bureau of Education has asked for publication of the paper written by Fred L. Patton, superintendent of schools at Clat sltanie, Oregon. This master’s thesis, just completed, is entitled, “The Philosophy of the Platoon School Movement.” Mr. Patton has been working on it for several years. Visits Oregon Student radical leader at UCLA,! vivacious Celeste StraeU visits Oregon and will talk tonight in Villa rd at 7:30. Student Lutheran Meet in Eugene Regional Convention Is November 29, 30 The annual convention of the Northwest region of the Lutheran Student association of America will be held in Eugene on Novem ber 29 and 30 under the auspices of the University group. Fifty delegates and student pas tors from ten colleges and univer sities in Oregon, Washington and Idaho are expected for the con ference. The convention w.l start Friday evening at 5:30 with registration and dinner followed by introduc tions and mixer at the United Lutheran church. Student Pastors to Lend Saturday morning’s sessions at the Central Lutheran church will be devoted to a discussion of the convention theme, “The Christian Faith.” The central theme has been divided into three sub-topics, “What is it?,” “How to get it,” and “How to live it.” Each will be discussed by a stu dent pastor followed by a student forum. The afternoon will be devoted to committee meeting's, the reading of special papers, and to the business sessions, followed by a tour of the University campus. Casteel to Speak The convention will close with a banquet at the Del Rey cafe at which Rev. Christensen of Astoria I will act as toastmaster and Pro fessor John L. Casteel of the Uni versity speech department as the main speaker. All local students affiliated with any Lutheran church are invited to register at the special price of 75 cents which includes their ban quet ticket. Dr. Bowen Will Rea<l Paper at Convention Dr. Ray P. Bowen, head of the romance language department, will attend the 37th annual meeting of the Philological association of the Pacific coast at Stanford univer sity November 29 and 30, he said today. At the meeting he will read a paper he has written on “Some Dramatic Elements in the Con struction of Balzac's Novels.” Madame Miller Speaks Tonight on Fencing By LILLIAN MILA WARN Madame Hugh Miller, small, vi vacious Frenchwoman, and holder of many fencing championships will give “une converence” in French on “la vie sportive en France,” when she speaks on the history of fencing as the guest of Pi Delta Phi, national French honorary at the home of Monsieur R. P. Bowen tonight at 7:45 o’clock. As the only child of a fencer whose father had been fencing master to Napoleon III, Madame Miller was instructed as if she were a boy in all the fundament als of the fencing art. Commenc ing at the age of eleven, and taught only by her father, Captain Charles Vicol, well-known in in ternational fencing circles, Mrs. Miller progressed until in 1927 she won the Southern California championship for women. She attended the international meet in Dieppe, France, in 1928, where she merely “looked on.” Back in the States she kept her California title through ’28 and ’29, while adding to it in 1929 the Pa cific <:oast championship which was fought for in San Francisco. Later in the individual women’s fi nals she annexed the midwestern championship. According to Mrs. Miller there are three kinds of fencing bouts; that of the foil, saber, and epee, as well as three kinds of fighters; those who are fencers of the hand, fencers of attack, and fencers of the head. Those of the head are superior. A bout, which usually consists of fifteen minutes of actual fight ing, allows the combatants to have nine touches, the winner securing five or more out of nine. The psy-1 chology of each contestant, among the many rules of the game is us ually hammered down to “Touche, rnais pas etre touche,” while often the best offensive playing is the defensive. Mrs. Miller is the wife of Hugh Miller, graduate of the University of Oregon, who is now teaching at i the University high school. UCLA Radical Celeste Strack Talks Tonight Student Unions As Incentive for United Action Stressed By Youthful Leader Campus radical groups are bringing to the campus today Ce leste Strack, student radical lead er of UCLA, who will speak to an open meeting in Villard hall at 7:30 tonight, on the subject, “The American University Needs a Stu dent Union.” Miss Strack, along wdth the stu dent body president and three stu dent council members, was sus pended last fall from UCLA be cause of a campaign for an open forum. Following strikes at the University of California at Berke ley and Los Angeles, all the stu dents but Celeste Strack were re instated. She will meet with the National Student League and the Student League for Industrial Democracy in a joint meeting at the YWCA this afternoon at 4, to discuss the Unity convention of those two groups in the midwest, December 7. Amalgamation of the two groups will also be discussed. This summer Miss Strack was sent to Cuba as a representative of the National Student league, with an investigating committee of fourteeen, headed by Clifford Odets, young New York play wright. The commission was ar rested upon reaching Cuba, and subsequently deported. LeFcbvre Makes Best Rifle Score Freshman ROTC students con tinued with target practice yester day, 72 more members of Sergeant Blythe’s marksmanship classes shooting for the first time. A total of 162 freshmen have now made scores. By next week all freshmen will have had an opportunity. The best shot of the day was turned in by Ellis LeFebvre of Company E, the two o’clock class. Dave Gammon, Company C, had the second best target. Donald Brown and Bill Foskett, also of Company C, followed in target skill. Company C, which meets at eleven o’colck, has made the high* est records on both of the fresh man shooting days. Dean E. F. Lawrence Back From Trip East Dean Ellis F. Lawrence of the school of architecture and allied arts has returned from an exten sive trip in the East. He met with a committee of the American Institute of Architects in New York City, November 7, 8, and 9, which awarded a travel fel lowship at the meeting, arranged for lectures over the country and appropriated money for the res toration of Sano Sophia in Con stantinople. i Campus * ❖ ❖Calendar I Pi Delta Phi members will meet it the home of Dr. Robert Bowen, tonight at 7:45 to hear Mrs. Hugh Miller speak on “La Vie Sportif" in France. Amphibian meeting at the wo men’s gym this evening. Music group of Philommelete at the Kappa Alpha Theta house at 4 o’clock today. There will be a meeting of the women’s rally committee today at 5 o’clock at the College Side. Alpha Delta Sigma meeting this noon at 12 o’clock at the College Side. Members of the rally committee will meet in the graduate mana ger's office today at 3 o’clock to get tickets for the Oregon-Wash ington game.
