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NUMBER 36
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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.
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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.
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❖Calendar
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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.