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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1936)
Parole Officer States Crime Paying jj OREGON DAILY EMERAL T\ Model League Of Nations Has Install O*, 'f<’et Tonight OREGON’S INDEPENDENT COLLEGE DAILY VOLUME XXXVII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1936 NUMBER 111 Beta Theta Pi and Alpha Tau Omega Drive on Towards Softball Title in Race for Donut Crown ASUO, Classes, Constitution Vote Today Model League, ASU Meeting Due for Tonight International Ball Friday Ends Peace Week; Gerber Here at 4 With three major events remain ing on the schedule Peace week will draw to a close tomorrow eve ning at the International ball in Gerlinger. Model League of Na tions assembly and special ASU meeting will be held today in Vil lard and Gerlinger. Serrill Gerber, national field sec retary of the ASU, will be guest of honor at the meeting in Gerlin ger hall at 4 o’clock. He will ad dress students and ASU members on work of college and high school pupils in furthering peace. Anti-Foreign War Petitions The anti-foreign war petitions which have been circulated about the campus the past two days will be taken to fraternities and soror ities today and tomorrow. Gladys Battleson will arrange today to have the petitions circulated among the women’s houses by the speakers committee. These documents, which were approved by Major General Butler when he was here Monday, will be sent to Oregon senators and con gressmen in an effort to persuade them to vote against war by showing them student sentiment. League Discussion at 7:30 The remilitarization of the Rhine, (Please turtfto page three) Many States Give Scholarships General scholarships for stu dents attending state-supported in stitutions of higher education have now been provided by law in 20 states, it was announced here to day by Charles D. Byrne, director of information for the Oregon State System of Higher Educa tion. The scholarships, like those pro vided by law in Oregon, usually take the form of waiving of pay ment of certain fees, and range in value from $30 to $350 per year. Those in Oregon, in accordance with the measure passed by the 1935 legislative session, are valued at $54 for the University of Ore gon and Oregon State college, and $18 for the normal schools. As in Oregon, most of the states grant the scholarships on the basis of scholastic ability and financial need of the students. The figures were obtained by Mr. Byrne from the office of edu cation of the United States depart ment of interior. Junior Prom To Be Colorful Tickets Will Go on Sale Next Week; Ken Allen’s Orchestra Is Engaged "Color—and lots of it,” will be incorporated into the motif of Junior Prom, May 9, Dave Morris, dance chairman, said yesterday. The decorations theme will not be made known until just before the night of the junior affair in McArthur court. A varied colored canopy will hang over the danc ers and a unique lighting system will add atmosphere to the scene, Morris revealed. Kenny Allen's Portland orches tra has been engaged for the eve ning of April 9. Allen was for merly a member of the famed "Three Cheers,” radio song trio, and has been playing recently at the Supper Club of the Multnomah hotel. Tickets for Junior Prom will go on sale the first part of next week. Junior representatives in each campus living organization will conduct the sale in their respective houses under Dave Maguire, ticket sale chairman. The Saturday night dance will climax spring social functions and is the high spot of the weekend program. A special section for par ents of University students will be reserved in the balcony around the igloo dance floor. Students Choose Pendarvis Songs Sigma Delta Chi, men’s journal ism honorary, will construct a bal lot box to be placed in the Co-o-p store where students desiring to hear Paul Pendarvis play certain numbers at the forthcoming jour nalism jamboree may indicate the tunes of their choice. According to Dan Clark II, ten or twelve of the most popular sections will be wired to Pendarvis, and he will be asked to include them in his program for the evening of May 1. Yielding to last minute pleas to hold a few of the dance ducats for a while longer, WPA Correspondence Courses Soon Ready Seven courses prepared under the WPA project of adult educa tion through correspondence are now being completed and will soon be ready for the public, H. E. To bie, supervisor of the work, an nounced today. Designed primarily for adults who have leisure to study, these courses, which do not offer Univer sity credit, may be obtained by writing to the general extension division. Crime Field Lucrative, States Parole Investigator By GLADYS BATTLESON “Clime in the past few years has paid,” said James M. Brown, re gionafdirector of the survey of re lease procedures being conducted in every state in the United States and who is now on the Oregon campus collaborating with P. A. Parson, S. H. Jameson, sociology professors, and Dean Wayne L. Morse of the law school in making a study and report of a plan for a uniform parole system. Mr. Brown's statement contra dicts the usual theory that “crime does not pay,” but he is speaking in terms of what it costs society and the small penalty the average prisoner has to pay for what he does—also the cost to catch, de tain, and punish him. Thirteen years is the average life penalty served in prisons, Mr. Brown stated, and two years is the average sentence served for all crimes. “The federal government knows that the great majority of crimes are committed by youths 19 years of age or under,” Mr. Brown said, ‘‘and that of all persons convicted of crimes and either paroled or placed on probation or given con ditional releases, the young fellow is least liable to commit another crime.” In other words, the great ma jority of recidivists, habitual crim inals or second offenders, are over the age of 19. When asked whether he was a “G” man, Mr. Brown said that his work was not that exciting. A “G” man, he said, is presumed to be any man who works for the gov ernment, but the phrase originated, and properly belongs to the bu reau of investigation, department of justice. “I am merely a lawyer in the de partment of justice engaged in re search work in Oregon, Washing ton. Idaho, and Montana.” From 1931 to 1933, 93 per cent (Please turn to page two) Canoe Fete Committee Embarks on Plans Under Chairman Lowry Afloat on the old millrace is the directorate of the 1988 “Stardust" canoe fete under the direction of Dave Lowry. Already the houses have been working on the ideas for the elaborate floats which will drift past this spot the evening of May 9 before thousands of spectators. In the above photograph are, left to right: Don Chapman, Jane Greenwood, Howard Bennett, Jay Bailey, Kermit Paulsen, John Allen, Car men Curry, Ben Bowie, and Chairman Lowry. ♦ *• * Minstrel Show Will Be Thursday Plii Mu Alpha to Astonish Campus With ‘Swing’ Band Program Swing is here! Tonight Phi Mu Alpha will astonish the campus with a modern minstrel show at 8 o’clock in the music auditorium, according to Jimmy Morrison, di rector of the show. A modern “swing” band under the direction of Earl Scott will play several torrid numbers—the first time in history that jazz has been permitted in the University music school. Phi Mu Alpha members making up the band have been picked from the leading campus orchestras. They are Earl Scott, Ellsworth Huffman, Bill Gresham, trumpets; Edwin Waisanen, Vinton Snyder, trombones; Mayo Sorenson, Gor don Tripp, Robert Collins, Norman Easley, saxophones; Archie Par rott, Harold Hebard, Jimmy Morri son, Maxwell Morse, rhythm. Jazz is not the only type of mu sic on the program, however, Mor rison said last night; many other instrumentalists and vocalists will play and sing classical and semi classical numbers, making for a program of representative music of today. The admission price is 25 cents. Reserved tickets may be obtained today and tomorrow from Phi Mu Alpha members, or at the door to morrow night. Proceeds from the show will help send members to a province convention in Pullman, Washington, next weekend. Girls Learn to Work With Children at YW By making blocks from cigar boxes, cutting brightly-hued pic tures from magazines, and doing any number of other services, members of the YWCA nursery group learn the ins and outs of child life through actual experi ence with tiny tots of kindergarten age. It is to determine next year’s program that the group will meet Thursday at 4 o’clock in the YW bungalow. Evelyn King, who is discussion leader of the group, asks that all girls not in the groups and inter ested in such a project also come to the meeting. Their fresh ideas, she believes, will help to round out next fall’s plans as well as prove helpful in completing spring term meetings. Dean’s Office Makes Program Correction Through an error made through Dean Onthank’s office it was an nounced in yesterday’s Emerald that Dr. Stratton D. Brooks and Dr. Hudson J. Ballard would be commencement and baccalaureate speakers for the University grad uation exercises. Actually the two men will speak at the commencement and bacca j laureate of Oregon State. Speak : ers for the University program will ; be announced later this week. Junior Weekend's Spectacle Of Spring Glory Promises To Dazzle, Says Hammond Plans for Campus Lunch, Canoe Fete, Mother’s Day Quickening Junior Weekend, the three-day period when every Oregon student responds to the call of spring and engages in the hilarity of social life, will not be surpassed by pre vious years’ shows, Chairman Fred Hammond revealed yesterday. “Although strife within the jun ior class halted the naming of the directorate until an unusually late date, the committee now has every phase of the huge spectacle of campus life in hand,” Hammond said last night. The nomination and election of a queen will be held Tuesday or Wednesday of next week, it was announced. Hammond expressed it his aim that politics would not enter into the naming of the queen and princesses, but that the true beauty of the class be selected. Morse Heads Luncheon The campus luncheon, at first faced by financial difficulties, now is a sure thing, Margilee Morse, chairman, has revealed. She is con tacting sorority house representa tives today to attempt to gain further support to make the event as successful as possible. Helen Jones’ “Stardust” canoe fete, is rapidly being realized on paper and Dave Lowry, chairman, has promised that it will blaze its success when the 10 floats drift down the millrace before the crammed bleachers the night of May 9. (Please turn to page two) James Illustrates Liquid Air Action Gapacity Crowd Watches Unusual Experiments at Seventh Science Talk With spectacular, demonstrations of the properties of liquid air, El liott James, demonstrator of high and low temperatures at the Chi cago world's fair, entertained a near capacity crowd in Villard hail Tuesday night with a lecture ac companied with experiments simi lar to those presented at the Cen tury of Progress Exposition. Sponsored by the faculty of the science school, the lecture was the seventh of a series of popular sci ence lectures planned for the school year. The experiments accompanying the lecture were upon the proper ties of substances cooled by the li quid air, which boils at the temper ature of 312 degrees below zero At this temperature even alcohol and kerosene can be frozen and nails can be driven with a hammer made of frozen mercury. The behavior of molecules at low temperatures was demonstrated when a bell of lead was cooled un til it rang as if it were steel, and a lead spring was found to be elas tic. The protective effect of a “va por film” was demonstrated when Mr. James poured some of the li (Please turn to pat/e tu’o) Let’s Go To the Polls! Well, it’s all over—even the shouting. Just the trip to the ballot-boxes today, and then the hand-pumping politicos, who have been lavishing their smiles and setting up the “cokes” for the last two weeks, can take their well-earned rest. Left only is the balloting, and if past years offer any prece dent the let-down really has started before a single vote goes through the slot. Because it is a fact, repeatedly demonstrated, that not more than half the eligible voters give a tinker’s damn about their voice in student government. * * * Critics of American democracy have be'-n frequent in decry ing the general lack of interest in the ballot. The rebuke is no less applicable to student democracy as it exists on this campus. Last year at this time, for example, when there were more than a thousand eligible voters, only slightly more than 500 of them went to the polls—a pitiful showing. If the ballot box is shunned in a similar fashion this year, into the waste-basket go all the plans for reorganization of the student body—indeed, into the waste-basket goes the student body itself, for unless the new constitution, setting the student body up on a new basis, is approved in today’s balloting, the ASUO will cease to exist. • • * AND the new constitution cannot be approved if less than 500 votes are cast, two-thirds of which favor the revision. Such are the provisions of the old constitution, which thus continues to haunt us, and which may still hang over us If today’s vote falls below the minimum requirement. In other words, of the eight hundred-and-some-odd ticket-holders at least 500 must be dragged to the polls. Let’s vote! Housing Sought For Visiting Members Of CE Convention Will persons who ran accom odate guests during the Chris tian Endeavor convention please call the Y.W.C.A. and leave their names and number of per sons they can house. Members of the convention will be here from Thursday eve ning until Sunday morning. It is customary to provide the guests’ breukfasts, hut not oth er meals. Doughnut Sale Proves Success Faculty Committee Boosts Browsing Room Fund; Plans in Library Between $20 and $25 was col lected on the faculty doughnut sale, Helen Bartrum, student chair man, said yesterday. “The whole sale was very successful and every one cooperated splendidly in this drive for browsing room funds,” Miss Bartrum declared. Dr. Rudolph Ernst, of the Eng lish department, is the chairman of the faculty committee to raise funds for the new library browsing room. The faculty took charge of the sale and used student help to sell doughnuts. During the day the rally committee assisted by carry ing around baskets of packaged doughnuts seeking out more pa trons. This is but one of the many money-making schemes which the faculty, the alumni, and the stu dents are undertaking in order to furnish the room. The browsing room is to be set aside for the especial use of student recreation. There will be shelves for interest ing books and other comfortaole facilities for students. Two copies of the plan for the room have been placed in the li brary for study. Morse Appointed On Bar Committee Wayne L. Morse, dean of the law school, received appointment in a recent letter from the board of governors of the Oregon State Bar, on the program committee for that organization’s next an nual meeting. The committee of four is to formulate plans for the entire conference. Dean Morse’s recommendation as to time, place, and contents of program was re quested. The other members on the com mittee are Judge James T. Brand, Marshfield, chairman; Nicholas Jaureguy, and E. K. Oppenheimer. attorneys in Portland. House Managers to Call Dean Sorority and fraternity house managers are asked to call at the dean of women’s office if they wish to rent their house for the sum mer. Several inquiries have been re ceived by students who will be here for summer sessions. Finley, Hammond Head Two Tickets; Polling at YM Hut Sample Ballot PROPOSED ASUO CONSTITUTION Yes. I vote for adoption of the proposed constitution. No. I vote for rejection of the proposed constitution. ASUO OFFICERS President: Craig Finley Fred Hammond Vice President: Ceeil Barker • Gilbert Schultz Secretary: Jean Stevenson Grace Peck Senior Woman: Marjorie Kissling Pearl Johunson Senior Man: James Hurd Walter Escheheck Junior Finance Man: Charles Ervvin Bill Pease SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS President: Have Morris Dave Lowry Vice President: Patricia Neal Margilee Morse Secretary: Betty Coon LaNelle Mathews Treasurer: Ralph Finscth Jay Bailey JUNIOR CLASS OFFICERS President: Noel Benson Vice President: Vivian Emery Jeanette Charmen Barbara Roome Secretary: Gayle Buchanan Genevieve McNiece Treasurer: Frank Cooper Don Johnson SOPHOMORE CLASS OFFICERS President: Harry Weston Vice President: Betty Funkhauser Secretary: Margaret Goldsmith Treasurer: Jack Lochridge CO-OP STORE BOARD Sophomore Positions: Phyllis Gardner John Luvaas William Thompson Senior Positions: Paul Plank Frank Drew Barney Hall Kessler Cannon Dick Sleiter oOO Hal In is, Two-Thirds Majority, Needed to Pass Con st i I n t i o n; Blais Gives Sanction Associated student voters will select their 1936 officers and ap prove or reject a new constitution for the corporation at the YMCA hut polls today between the hours of 9 and 3. Presented by a group of student leaders headed by Cosgrove La Barre and bearing the approval of President C. V. Boyer, the consti tution will be the first step in the reorganization of the student cor poration if it is passed, the fram ers declared last night. Boyer Accepts Plan President Boyer was in Portland and could not be reached for a statement last night but has in dicated that acceptance of the proposed statutes is a necessary and important step in reorganiza tion plans. Under the constitution formed by last year's student body presi dent, Joe Renner, a two-thirds majority is required to pass amendments, with at least a total of 500 votes being cast. All Urged to Ballot "Every student who is the hold er of a card should vote today,” President James Blais declared last night. "The new constitution must be passed before other work of straightening out the ASUO’s af fairs can procede. With less than 850 student body cards sold, each vote assumes a great importance in putting the constitution through.” A resolution, passed at the as sembly last Thursday when the constitution was proposed, pro vides for the placing of all officers who are selected this year, al though three elective positions will ultimately be abolished under the new set up. Both Craig Finley and Fred Hammond, presidential candidates upon whom the card holders will vote today, have indorsed the pro posed changes embodies in the new laws. Campaign Activities End Hammond and Finley wound up their campaign activities last night with twin torchlight parades and dances. The Hammond faction held its campaign dance at the Delta Gamma sorority, while the Finley group terminated an in tensive program with dancing at the Sigma Chi house. Candidates were introduced at both dances. Over-shadowed by ASUO elec tions and the vote on the new con stitution, class elections will also be held today. Voting for the class officers will also be held at the YMCA hut where six ballot boxes have been provided. (Please turn to tape two) Barristers Choose Bob Miller Law School President Robert S. Miller, prominent sec ond-year law school “playboy," was elected president of the law school student body at their elections held Saturday morning. Antone Yturri, also a second-year man, became vice-president; Andy Newhouse, secretary-treasurer, and William McLean, “class barber.” Two new offices were created this year, according to Tony Ytur ri, new vice-prexy. They are the | choice positions of yell leaders for : the school. Holders of these two J honored positions this year will be j Orval Thompson, and Herb Skalet. • Dayton “Champ” Stoddard was j appointed sergeant-at-arms. Before the traditional mill-rac ing of all newly-elected officers could take place, five official wa ter-testers, called water-warmers, were appointed to check water temperatures. They were Thorn ton Smith, Herb Oalton, Bernhard Fedde, George Birnie and Ercel King. “Judge" Miller, successor to for mer gavel-pounder Robert C. Hun ter, has been senior man on the executive council, a three-year let terman in varsity basketball, and a member of Phi Delta Phi, legal professional honorary. Fellow members of the law school added “very democratic personality” to Miller’s many assets.