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Newspaper Page TextAnswer Hr. de Villiors answers yester day’s Kmprald pditorial in the Safety Valve today. Prizes Cash awards are being offered for edits on proposed Nye-Kvale amendment on optional military. Story in today's Emerald. VOLUME XXXVII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1935 NUMBER 40 i STAGE I ! of the j i WORLD ! T_* *r -—“i «s» X ■5* By Tex Thomason ? For those in on the know there is always a quiet little chuckle when they see a squib in the daily Clarion about Senator Whosis or Rep. Zilch tearing back to Wash ington to battle to the last ditch for the interests of his “peepul.” Take It Senator McNary is the latest to work this old gag. Don’t hold it against him. They all do it. And for a good reason. You may be of the opinion that for those high and mighty all is a bed of roses. More thorns than rosea do the big wigs recline upon. Never-say-die .iob-hunters, give-us-a-story news hawks, and we’ll-put-you-back-in the-Senate-“if” racketeers descend on their backs like a swarm of tsetse flie.s on a water buffalo. Talk about people who give until it hurts! No one gives more than a politician. He gives his all, ev erything to retain that privilege of cocking his feet on a Capitol desk and missing his mirror-like cuspi dor by a full two feet. Some Do, Some— But even the patience of politi cians wears thin in time. After a hectic session they have to go home to patch political fences. Which is the greater strain is no moot question. They all agree they had rather be damned from afar by mail than “aclose” by con stituents. Some few enterprsing souls do take vacations to ease the tension, but these are mostly Senators who only have to cam paign every six years. For a mere Representative such action would be unthinkable. He knows the home folks don’t like no high brow galavantin’ around. No siree! Solution Well, what are the poor down trodden to do? No sooner asked than answered—they return to Washington, leaving the greater hell for the lesser. Much of the time the excuse is that they sim ply must hurry back to get their apartment and office in good or der for the coming siege. This one of course can’t be worked sooner than a couple of weeks before Congress convenes in the early part of January. Because of that it is considered a real break if something bobs up that demands the return of the hero quite a while before then. Now Just such a break did the senior Senator from Oregon get. Little over a week ago neighbor Canada signed a trade pact with us. Need more be said ? The emissary of the people winged a bee-line to the doorstep of the President and the Secretary of State. The former had pulled up his stakes to take another of his frequent recupera tive tours, but word comes that the Secretary and the Senator pow-wowed for two whole hours. Whether the nearly fatal stab re cently dealt lumber will be ban daged neatly enough to appease those with the crying towel is hard to say, but at least the Senator is no doubt feeling much better after his earlier-than-expected escape from the mauling of the elector ate. Campus •> ❖Calendar Long- dinner dresses and corsag es will be in order for the Spinster dance tonight. This was the an nouncement of Betty Church, cam pus social chairman. Second year students interested in the position of sophomore man ager of the varsity swimming team should report at the men’s gym this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Westminster 01 d Testament study group will not meet this evening, but will meet next week, with Mr. Higginbotham leading. Dorothy Nyland will give an an alysis of the philosophy and work of the Japanese Christian, Kaga (Please turn to page 2) Elective’Drill A Amendment Edit Subject Emerald Is Sponsor Of Contest Discussing Nve-Kvale Optional Military Training Bill The Oregon Daily Emerald to day announces its sponsorship of the national editorial writing con test on the Nye-Kvale amendment, on this campus. The Nye-Kvale measure will, if passed by congress, abolish com pulsory military training at all schools of higher education (ex cept in the case of essentially mil itary schools). C.M.E. Is Sponsor The topic of the contest is “Why Congress Should Pass the Nye Kvale Amendment.” The national sponsor for the contest is the Com mittee on Militarism in Educa tion, 2929 Broadway, New York City. All editorials must be mailed to that address on or before Jan uary 3, 1936. The three best edi torials will receive prizes of $30. $30, and $20 in order of their ex cellence. While the Emerald is acting as the local sponsor for the contest it does not indicate its stand through its sponsorship. This will be taken care of in the Emerald editorial columns. Will Publish Editorials The contest is open to any under graduate. Contestants are asked by the C.M.E. to submit their edi torials for publication in their own campus paper before mailing them on to New York. The Emerald will run the editorials in the “Safe ty Valve” column during the last five issues fall term, starting next Monday, December 2. If contestants are unable to fin ish their editorials in time, or more entries are submitted than the Emerald can print in five is sues, the editorials (in typewritten form) may be sent on to the C. M. E. without being published in the Emerald. Should Mail Clipping Those who submit their editor ials to the local sponsor (the Em erald), as is recommended by the national sponsor, are asked to send the clipping of the editorial to gether with the typewritten copy to the C.M.E. The entries should be written in editorial form The length suggested by the C.M.E. is 800 to 1200 words. The Emerald recommends that the copies submitted to them be of shorter length. It believes this length to be most forceful and ef fective. Contestants may send j their longer editorials (if they care I to make them longer) in to the C.M.E. with the Emerald clipping. Would Require Optional (Please turn to farje two) Holiday Eve Open House Announced Students who would like to while kway a pleasant Thanksgiv ing evening are invited to open house at the home of Dorothy Ny land and Betty Hughes at 713 East Eleventh, Thursday night. Miss Nyland is director of Metho dist student activities, and Miss Hughes is secretary of the campus YWCA. The open house is an an nual event. Athletic Heads Will Attend Alumni Dinner The Mark Hopkins hotel in San Francisco will be the scene of a dinner dance for the alumni of the University of Oregon on the night of December 7, prior to the Ore gon-St. Mary’s game on Sunday, December 8. Hugh Rosson, Prink Callison, Robert Allen, and Bill Hayward have been invited. Teachers’ Placement Bureau Meets Dec. 3 There will be a meeting of all prospective teachers who plan to avail themselves of the services of the University placement bureau for next year’s jobs, Tuesday, De cember 3, at 4 p. m. in room 4 of the education building. This meeting does not have ref erence to supervised teaching. A SI JO Urges Timely Purchase of Student Campus Directories Students are urged to get piggers guides at the Co-op store today to avoid extra work for the Co-op workers during the rest of the term. A special representative of the ASVO of fice will he on hand to take charge of the sale in its last day. New Libe Gets Additional Grant Pouring for Foundation Will Begin in 10 Days Due to the fact that a change was made in the drawings for the new library an additional grant from the Portland PWA office was necessary so that the excavation work could be completed. This grant and contract for the digging has arrived and the scoop-shovel is hard at work digging the dirt for the additional length of build ing. The change in plans will add about forty feet to the length of the brick structure on the surface of the ground and about fifteen feet more to the length of the basement whose floor will be ten feet below the surface of the ground. All of the concrete forms for the upright beams to support the first floor of the building are in place and the pouring of those and of the foundation slab will begin in about ten days. Band Will Begin Concert Practice Intensive Winter Study To Start Next Week The University band is through with its ballyhoo work for the year. The trip to Seattle was un usually successful considering the heavy competition offered by the 100 piece University of Washing ton band. As a reward for service, the bandsmen are being given a com plete holiday. No rehearsals are being held this week. Next week the band will be re organized into a concert group and will begin intensive practice for the coming winter term concert season. It is expected that the band will give two full concerts this coming term. An unusually fine repertoire of numbers will be prepared. The excellent caliber of the musicians and the well bal anced sections make possible the presentation of musical numbers of a type never before offered by the University band. Fraternities House Visitors Each Oregon fraternity will en tertain an International Relations conference delegate during the three day meeting opening Friday on the University campus. This decision was reached at a brief special meeting of the Inter fraternity council held yesterday afternoon. House presidents who attended the meeting agreed to aid in their organizations with the sale of Christmas seals, the pro ceeds of which will go for the prevention of tuberculosis. W. A. Dahlberg, assistant professor of speech department, is in charge of the Lane county drive. House presidents agreed to take blocks of seals ranging in value from $2 to $5 which will be sold in the fraternities. At a regular meeting Thursday the council will take action upon proposed changes in the constitu tion of the organization and upon other old business. Schwerin gs Visit Friends in Medford Dr. and Mrs. C. L. Schwering are leaving today for Medford where they will spend the Thanks giving holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Crawford Lemon. They will return to Eugene Sun day, and Mrs. Schwering will be in her office Monday. De Villiers Says UO Life Luxurious Scholar Compares Student Life Here With Universities Of South Africa By BILL ROBINSON University life in the United States is luxurious compared to that of South Africa, according: to Dr. Cornelius de Villiers, visiting professor from the University of South Africa at Stellenbosch, who spoke to Oregon students at an assembly Tuesday morning in Ger linger hall. At this unique university there are no fraternities or sororities. No student works his way1 through college, but loans are available to the many poor students. Hardly I any students own cars and a GO- j mile drive to the sea coast for a j week-end is considered a great privilege. “South Africa is a pau- ; per country. compared to Ameri ca,” Dr. de Villiers said in explain- | ing the apparent lack of luxuries enjoyed by the student of that country. Students Self-Governed Student government has re placed almost entirely faculty management of student affairs. Under their system, the students elect a representative council which selects one of its number as president. Only in cases -of se rious trouble does the council ask for faculty guidance, the lecturer said. To correct the belief that South Africa is a tropical jungle in which lions meet travelers as they disembark, the educator described his homeland as a country in which the climate is similar to that of Oregon, although slightly colder in the winter and not so rainy. Its prevailing culture dates back to 1652 when the Dutch first settled there. walking Tours I'opuiar As South Africa is on the other side of the equator, Christmas comes in the middle of the sum mer season, and for that reason, Dr. de Villiers stated, the holidays find the cities deserted and the population congregated at the sea side resorts. Everyone speaks two languages, he said, English being official, and Afrikaans, a local dia lect. Walking tours during the holi days and vacations are one of the most popular sorts of recreation, Dr. de Villiers said. The students make the tours in parties, some times of one sex, sometimes of both, planning and looking forward to them months beforehand. Dr. Yooom Presides Trips to Europe are popular too, he added, _ many students taking advantage of the low rates offered by the Italian lines. A round trip to Europe, tourist class, costs only $150, and the accommodations are agreeable, he declared. Dr. de Villiers spoke at 10 a. m., and was introduced by Dr. H. B. Yocom, professor of zoology. The African science professor will re main in Eugene for a month, un der the auspices of the Carnegie peace foundation. Peace Students, Ministers to Meet Year-round education for peace will be the goal of Eugene stu dents and ministers when a repre sentative committee meets on the first Monday in December. A de mand for action grew out of the protest meeting sponsored by Uni versity students last Armistice day when they were refused per mission to carry peace slogans in the city observance. John Luvaas and Charles Pad dock will be the students acting with the Eugene Ministerial asso ciation to promote a permanent peace program. When the Armis tice day protest meeting passed a resolution calling for city-wide ac tion a committee was named to carry it to the ministers, and to work wit% them in planning a program. MISS PORTMANN NURSE Margaret D. Portmann is em ployed as> a public health nurse in Umatilla county. Office is at 361 Federal building, Pendleton. Says Boo! to FDR J Federal Judge William C. Cole man, who rendered one of the first derisions against NRA, who dealt a hard blow to President. Roose velt's pet utilities holding com pany bill when he declared It un constitutional in its entirety in a test case brought by the American States Public Service company at Baltimore. Coleman is a Coolidge appointee. Yeomen Plan Yuletide Revel S. S. Smith Reviews Former Gala Events Plans for the annual Christmas Revels sponsored each year by Oregon independents were dis cussed at the regular Yeomen meeting at 7:30 in the Y-hut last night. ^ S. Stephenson Smith, professor of English, explained particulars of the Christmas program and told of some of the humorous incidents that occurred last year when Bar ney Clark and Parks Hitchcock, both journalism majors, presented the dean of women, Hazel Schwer ing, a pair of green glasses with the Christmas greeting, “No more Schwering on the campus” tied to them. Brittain Ash was appointed chairman of the committee that is to represent the Yeomen, and the meeting was scheduled for 4 o’clock Friday, in the men’s lounge in Gerlinger. A report was made of contest ants to enter the cross-country race to be run today. The eight runners, it was decided, are to be given colored identification rib bons. An announcement was made by John Luvaas telling of registra tion plans for the international re lations conference and naming some of the leading speakers. Cider and donuts were served following the meeting. Phi Befa Pledges Are Entertained “Southern Moon,” specially ar ranged by Helen Jones and sung by members of the Phi Beta dou ble quartet, was the highlight of the social meeting last night at the Osburn hotel, when pledges of the women's music and dramatic honorary were guests of active and associate members. Members of the double quartet are Mildred Hubbert, Edythe Farr, Carol McFall, Audrey Aason, Ro berta B. Humphreys, Helen Eck man, Juanita Mills, and Helen Jones. A group of musical and dramat ic numbers announced yesterday constituted the rest of the pro gram, which was followed by a social hour and refreshments. Announcement was made by Theresa Kelly, president, that both the music and dramatic groups of the fraternity will hold separate rehearsals next Tuesday night, the regular meetng time for the organization. C. L. HUFFAKER SPEAKS Dr. C. L. Huffaker will speak before the extension classes. Students Vote On New AWS Constitution Vow Measures Concern Activities; Quorum Reduced Fo 100 Members The new AWS constitution was iccepted yesterday by an over whelming majority of 193 to 1. t^otes were counted last night by :hree senior members of the AWS ?xecutive council after the ballot jox in front of the Co-op was ilosed at 5 o’clock. The main change in the consti ;ution was in regard to the time of dection of officers and their in itallation. The election will be at :he end of winter term and offi lers will be installed the first week >f spring term, allowing them to naugurate their own plans for the loming year instead of following :hose of the old regime, as has seen done before. The new constitution also makes special mention of various com mittees and organizations repre sented on the executive council which had not previously been listed. Those mentioned were the activities committee, the speak ers' committee, the Orides, the :ampus social chairman, and the secretary of the ASUO. The quorum for mass meeting lias been reduced to 100 members since the purchase of student body tickets has become necessary to be a member of the AWS. A vote of two-thirds in the affirmative is necessary to carry any motion. All past presidents will auto matically become honorary mem bers of the AWS. Qualifications were made that the reporter be a journalism ma jor. Are Green Lids Going to Blossom? Absent-Minded Council Overlooks Meeting Like the Pigger’s Guide which was always coming out and some how never did, green lids for frosh brows are always going to blos som, but have not, as yet. Some six weeks ago there was quite definite assurance that green lidsj would be sprouting within ten days at the most and upperclass men were prepared to see fresh man spirit rise to a frenzy under the hat’s gentle stimulus, but time passed and the frosh hirsute dec srations remained uncovered. Then last week, the Frosh coun cil, guiding spirit of the move ment for a rejuvenation of the yearlings, decided to put it up to the houses and this was done Mon day night. But the council mem bers always forget to meet unless there is a notice in the Emerald to the effect, so the hour of their meeting drew near and passed and nothing could be seen of the council but the anguished counte nances of the few faithful who showed up, Emerald or no Emer ald. But the faithful, being faithful, felt that this thing had gone far enough and started a weary tele phone canvass of various houses for statistics on decisions. At a late hour last night no definite de cision had been reached. But, the Pigger's Guide came through, and so may the hats. Oregana Pictures Of Independents Taken Today All Yeomen and Independents are to have their pictures for the Oregana taken at the Ken nel-Ellis studio today. This will be the last chance for this group to have a regular scheduled date. The studio will be open from 8:30 a. m. until 5:30 p. ni. and from 7:00 p. m. until 8:00 p. m. Anyone wishing to have his picture taken in the evening is requested to call Mr Ellis be fore 5:00 o’clock and make an appointment. Cords Must Submit Written Permission To Leave Campus All women leaving the ram pus t h i s weekend, or for Thanksgiving, must hand in written permission from home, and must fill out sign-out slips in the dean of women's office. Late permission for Wednes day evening has been granted, and women may stay out until 12:15. Junior Symphony To Give Concert Yolinfj Violinist Is Featured as Soloist The musical high-light of the Thanksgiving weekend will he the concert of the Eugene Junior Symphony orchestra at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon in the music auditorium. Rex Underwood, direc tor and professor of violin at the University school of music, will conduct the orchestra in its third concert since its organization a year ago. Of the 85 young musicians who will perform, the great majority are grade and high school pupils, and 30 or more are under 12 years old. However, about 20 musicians from the University Symphony orchestra are to assist with the concert Sunday, filling in with those instruments for which adults are necessary. Phyllis Falkoff, 13-year old Cor vallis violinist, will appear as solo ist, playing the entire Concero in A minor for violin and orchestra, by Vivaldi-Nachez. Miss Falkoff is described by Professor Under wood as a talented and interesting young musician. Other numbers scheduled for performance are the March of the Boyards, Helvorsen; Twelfth Sym phony (first movement), Haydn; Shepherd’s Hey, Percy Grainger; Fairy Tales, Komzak; and Fin landia, Sibelius. Douglas Orme, supervisor of in strumental music in the Eugene public schools, is assistant director of the group. The ticket sale for the concert Sunday is under the supervision of active and associate members of Phi Beta, women's music and dramatic group. Robe, Hufforcl New Club Heads Stanley Robe was elected presi dent and Leonard Hufford vice president, at a meeting of the newly-organized Digest club at the Y hut yesterday noon. Other offi cers chosen were Fordis Thorne burger, secretary, and Malcolm Hanson, treasurer. Plans were made for a meeting with the Dill Pickle club, an or ganization of all, girls who eat their lunches at the YWCA, today in the YMCA building at noon. Committees were appointed at yesterday’s meeting to plan games to be played at the joint meeting Winslow Cbamp Tennis Player To N. Winslow goes the honor of winning this year’s fall tennis tournament sponsored by intra mural athletics. In winning the crown, Winslow had to batter down the sterling play of an un known player, W. Chaney. Crawford and Eaton, No. 2 and 3 players on last season's varsity, reached the semi-finals but were beaten by the finalists very easily. Riordan in Infirmary; Nine Olliers Confined With only two losses and five new patients tne total number in the infirmary yesterday was raised to ten. Stan Riordan, football backfield hero, was in bed with a slight ill ness derived from the Ducks’ trek to the Husky lair. The other new inmates are Jane Whitmore, Ed Farrar, Arthur Stanley, and William Patrick. Those who have been in previous to yesterday are Dorothy Everett, Harvey Thompson, Ben Wiener, Harry Schliefer, and Dale Mali coat. International Relations Meet Starts Friday Delegates to Hear De Villiers, Hunter; Will Diseuss League Of Nations, Ethiopia The complete program for the International Relations conference scheduled to start Friday was re leased yesterday. Featuring such speakers as Dr. Cornelius de Villiers and Dr. G. Bernard Neale, the conference is expected to attract between 200 and 250 delegates from the Pacific Northwest and the Oregon cam pus. Subjects for Discussion Varied The conference will meet No vember 29 and 30 and December 1 and during that period will discuss and hear addresses on the Ethio pian question viewed not only from Ethiopia’s standpoint but from the standpoint of two other countries whose actions will have great ef fect on world peace, England and Italy. Other subjects for discus sion will be the League of Nations, its history and the actions it has taken on various controversies In the past, compulsory military drill, Japanese fascism, and discussion of various student movements such as the National St udent lea erne and the League for Industrial De mocracy. The program announced is as follows: Friday, 1 to 5 p. m.; reg istration of delegates at Johnson hall; 3-5, Museum of Oriental Art will be open; 6:30, dinner; 7:30, opening of conference with an ad dress by Dr. de Villiers, “Present Challenge to World Peace”; 8:30, reception at Gerlinger hall in the alumni room for delegates. De Villiers to Speak Saturday Saturday, 8 a. m.. symposium, “Ethiopia.” with Dr. Frank Willis ton as chairman: 10, recess; 10:15, Forum: open discussion of mate rial presented at symposium: 11, “Perspectives,” Dr. de Villiers; 12:30, luncheon; 1:30, symposium, "League of Nations,” with Dr. G. Bernard Neale as chairman, fol lowed by a forum; 3:30, recreation with an informal get-together; 6:30, dinner with an address by Dr. Allen Hunter on “Student Peace’Action,” at this time mov ing pictures of the Seabeck con ference will be shown. On Sunday, December 1, the con cluding day of the conference, the program starts at 9 a. m. with round table discussions of any subjects which the delegates wish to discuss but which will probably include Japanese fascism, and com pulsory military drill. At 11 o’clock there will be a brief business meet ing. At 11:15 Dr. Allen Hunter will speak, closing the conference. Journalism Staff Members Leave Three members of the faculty of the school of journalism will leave today for Palo Alto, Cali fornia, to attend the west coar.t journalism convention to be held at Stanford university Friday and Saturday of this week. They are: Dean Eric W. Allen, Professor George Turnbull, and Professor Charles Hulten. This is the first meeting of its kind held on the coast in several years and grew out of the desire of the various journalism school heads to exchange ideas with their contemporaries in the various states. Delegates from the univer sities of Washington, Oregon, Ne vada, Idaho, and Southern Cali fornia are expected to attend. NYA Checks Will Be In After Thursday; See Emerald Notice NYA payroll checks will not be paid until some time after Thanksgiving, the University business office announced yes terday. Payroll applications were sent in some time ago to Port land, and checks will be distrib uted as soon as they arrive from NYA headquarters in that city. Notice of the arrival of checks will appear in the Emerald as soon as they are received by the office.