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To the Grads la dedicated this edition of the Emerald. The students are getting the old campus ready for a big weekend Friday. Come and get it. 70LUME XXXVIII UNVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1938 NUMBER 11 The Passing Show Ethiopians Slaughtered Senator Vandenburg Morgenthau Replies Spanish War By DARREL ELLIS Italian Vengeance Ethiopian tribesmen were tracked down and killed by a col umn of 500 Italian soldiers yester day in a belated “mass reprisal” for the killing of Fascist aviators last July. Military headquarters announced the purpose of the “mass murder” . was vengeance for the death of ' their men. Interruption Defended While Senator Vandenburg de clared the incident close, word from - Washington yesterday paid the Federal Communications commis sion would investigate the inter- - ruption by CBS Of a radio debate Saturday between the Republican ■ senator and “excerpt” recordings of Roosevelt speeches. | Harry C. Butcher, director of the Washington office of CBS, yester day issued a statement tending to explode published inferences that i the company's action “was dictat ed by fear of either the Democrat ic administration” or the commis sion. Vandenburg is expected to comment on the incident in a radio address over CBS tonight. And Vice Versa A dash of comedy was added to the political “stewpot” yesterday , as Joe Phillips of Nebraska City, Nebraska, agreed that if President Roosevelt \vins the election he will take one dozen eggs to court house square and wash “Landon man” Mason Colbert’s face with them, and if Landon wins—well, vice ver sa. No announcement was made as c to age limitation on the eggs. t ISine Pages of Reply 1 Charges of “juggled” fiscal re- J ports in the United States treasury i department, made by ex-President s Hoover in a radio speech Friday j night, were answered in detail last s night by Secretary Morgenthau. t The treasury chief's reply, embod- r ied in a nine-page statement which 1 he read to his press conference, de nied that the department was us- t ing an “entirely new system of s double bookkeeping.” , “Treasury accounts are kept ^ strictly in accordance with law, and ( are not based upon any partisan t political considerations,” he do- £ dared. Although it is not ordinarily treasury department policy to an- j swer charges made against gov- ( ernment records during the heat t of political campaigns, Morgen- , thau said, public interest demands s that such statements be not ig- ^ nored “when a former president of , the United States in a public ad- , dress charges the treasury depart- t ment of the United States with ‘in- ( tellectual dishonesty’ and ‘perni- , cious deceit.’ ” , Mystery Blaze Fire of unknown origin which t swept the third class quarters of « the Italian liner Vulcania resulted t in the death of four persons yes- c terday. Three of the victims were 1 stewards. The fourth, a musician, t crazed with terror, leaped from the side of the ship and drowned. The blaze was first discovered < (Please turn to page five) 1936 HOMECOMING TO OPEN FRIDAY ! Campus United Against Tax Limitation i Various Opposition Elements Hit Evils Of Proposed Measure Student Conservatives, Liberals, Militarists, Anti-Militarists, All to Oppose Measure Unanimous Feeling ■Special Poll of Students Shows Few Favoring the Limitation Bill By CLAIRK JOHNSON Campus liberals and campus onservatives, required military ackers and anti-militarists, inde lendent groups and fraternity ;roups, student leaders and aver ge students, all these varied and ometimes conflicting interests iresent a united front on one is ue, and that is in their opposition o the proposed tax limitation measure appearing on the Novem ier ballot. Almost unprecedented in the his ory of the school is the unanimous entiment against this measure, /hich would by 1942 cut another 1,000,000 from the revenues of an )regon system of education al eady suffering a $1,000,000 de rease in allotment since 1929. Prexy, Average Student Agree Student body President Fred lammond and "Mr. Average Stu lent” agree in their opposition to he measure. Hammond, when .sked for his views on the subject aid, “My contact with various de iartments of the University has hown that they are already oper ting with inadequate funds. Fur her cuts in revenue, as would no loubt come under the proposed tax imitation measure, would be ir eparably disastrous.” In a special poll of 50 students o determine the views of the av rage University man and woman his writer found not a single stu lent favoring the measure. Nine een were acquainted with it, while he other 31 definitely opposed it. Thomas, Ohmart United Although they were very decid dly on opposite sides of the mence (Please turn to page two) Boyer Fears Tax Bill May Cut School Revenue With the investigations of such men as Henry F. Reed and Attorney L. B. Smith indicating that should the proposed tax limitation measure pass, education would suffer a cut in revenue of $1,000,000 by 1942, President C. Valentine Boyer is definitely worried about passage of the measure. “The apportionment for higher education this year is $1,000,000 less than in 1929, although enrollment is again at peak,” Dr. Boyer said, "and with every department operating at an absolute minimum, a further cut of $1,000,000 by 1942 would mean direful results.” In his article published in thr Oregon Voter of August 15, Mr Reed, a realtor and former assessor of Multnomah county who has gained national recognition as a tax administrator, shows how, ir addition to the $1,000,000 cut ir education's revenues that passage of the measure would harm the small home owners, would necessi tate many special elections, and would fail to provide adequate fi nances for the state’s operating costs. Attorney Smith, general counsel of Oregon Business & Investors me., director of Northwest Munici pal Statistics Inc., and a recognized authority on taxation in Oregon, says in his extensive analysis of the proposed measure: “The portion of the state tax levy that supports higher education would not be in creased by the six mill allowable limit for state tax levy, but the -•mount of the state tax for higher ’ducation in dollars and cents would 'luctuate, as now, according to "■hane-es in assessed valuation. If ‘he 1937 state valuation should ap proximate the 50 per cent true cash valuation of $837,240,087, as esti mated, the total state levy for high er education for 1937 would be $177,136 (estimated) less than for 1936. Other faculty members in ad dition to President Boyer are also very concerned about the harm that would be done to education should the measure pass. Dean James H Gilbert, a noted authority on taxa tion has carried on an extensive campaign against the proposed limitation by a series of articles ap pearing in various papers through out the state. In the August-Sep tember issue of Old Oregon, Dear Gilbert showed revenues would be so seriously cut that it would dam (Please turn to page two) What Price Tax Reduction? Shall Governments Continue To Function or Fail? The amendment limiting and reducing permissible taxes is not “moderate and gradual” tax reduction. By making arbitrary selection of the 1935 levy as the base, and by applying these millage rates to a 50 per cent valuation it in volves immediate and abrupt re ductions ranging from 30 to 63 per cent in the tax levies of local governments. On top of these abrupt reduc tions it pares down another 20 per cent in five years. One-half of our Oregon coun ties would lose more than 40 per cent of permissible tax levies— four of them 50 per cent or more. Where reductions are taken and debt service is provided for, many Oregon cities would have nothing on which to operate. It would destroy the credit of port districts, irrigation and drainage districts, by fixing a levy so low that interest and maturing obligations could not be met. With teachers’ salaries notor iously low, equipment reduced to depression level, and needed con struction long delayed, the amendment would force a fur ther reduction of 30 to 40 > per cent in school budgets. Higher education, down a mil lion a year below the pre-depres sion level, would be forced to take another cut of $175,000 a year. The measure provides no sub stitute revenues and the people seem inclined to “accept no sub stitute.” Shall we cripple our county functions, undermine police and fire protection, demoralize our schools for the sake of a taxpay ers’ holiday? Political Debate to Be Held Thursday The platforms of the three majoi political partie dominating tht coming presidential election; Re publican, Democratic and Socialist will be debated at the next stu dent body assembly next Thursday October 22, in Gerlinger hall. David Eccles, state chairman oi the Young Republican Teague wil present the platform of the Repub lican party and discuss the party’: candidate, Governor Landon o: Kansas. W. L. Gosslin, secretary to Governor Martin, will outlim the Democratic platform and sup port President Roosevelt. Monroi Sweetland, state chairman of thi Socialist party will debate in favo: of Norman Thomas, Socialist can didate for president and presen the platform of the Socialist party No formal question will be de bated but the general procedure will be in the form of a debate. miss mccarter working Helen McCarter, who obtained her master of science degree thi spring, is now working in a relie office at Longview, Washington. ALUMNUS HAS SCHOLARSHU Irene Smith, graduated in ’3 from the department of sociolog; has a two-year scholarship in pei sonnel work in the University c Ohio. Pallett Releases Dads’ Day Slate In Final Form Weekend tor fathers Begins November 13: Frosli Game Will Be Evening Highlight Student and faculty committees | formulating plans for Dads’ day are not letting homecoming prep arations halt their plans. Evidence of this was seen Monday through the release of the finished program from the office of Earl M. Pallett, general chairman. Dads will be beckoned to the campus for two days of feting, No vember 13 and 14. Registrations will begin shortly after noon Fri day at Johnson hall. In the evening the University of Oregon Frosh will play a football game against the Oregon State Rooks at Hay ward field. At 8:30 Saturday morning an 1 executive committee breakfast will be served in the Regents room of John Straub memorial building. Mass Meeting in Guild Hall The annual mass meeting will be held at Guild theatre at 10 o’ clock. The sons or daughters of the fathers on the campus will take them to lunch at noon at' the men’s dorm dining room. The highlight of the entire weekend, the banquet, is to be staged Saturday evening at 6 in John Straub memorial building. Here different fathers will give toasts to be answered by their son or daughter. Music and features will also be enjoyed, say committee heads. Saturday evening will be spent with Dad. No special event has been planned. At 11 o’clock Sunday morning dad will attend church with his college son and daughter. The churches are making special prep arations for this day. Houses to Serve Dinner Dinner will be served in the liv ing organizations at 1:30 at which J the fathers will be honored guests. Barney Hall heads all student committees. Assisting him are Robert Lee, publicity; Robert Mof- • I (Please turn to page tzi'u) McDonald Rally To Top Program Friday Evening There'll be a hot time in the old town Friday night! Out standing on that evening will be the first big rally of the year, to be held at the McDonald the ater as a homecoming event. Alums and students alike will flock to the theatre to join in the fun, including pictures and a program in charge of men’s and women’s rally committees. The program, which starts at 8:30, will feature prize awards for the best parade floats, music by the Oregon band, speeches by Coaches Hollingberry and Calli son, and songs, yells and acro batic stunts. Every student should be there, urges theater rally chairman, Vic Rosenfeld. Two feature-length pictures will be shown. One of these is a football musical comedy, “Pig skin Parade,” starring Jack Ha ley, Patsy Kelly, and the Yacht Club boys, while the other is a comedy by P. G. Wodehouse en titled “Trank You, Jeeves.” An other highlight is an edition of “The March of Time.” Admission charge will be 40c with part of the receipts going to the ASUO. Political Stickers On Cars Prohibited Violators Subject to Fines From $25 to $100, Says Officer Rhinesmith Political stickers on the wind shields or windows of automobiles ire prohibited by state law, warns J. L. Rhinesmith, automobile en forcement officer of the University. The law prohibits, in the cause )f safety, all signs, painting, or dickers of any sort that have not seen sanctioned by the secretary >f state and that are used in such i. way as to impair vision. All po ice cars have been ordered to en orce this ruling. Violators are subject to a fine of !25 to $100, informs the office of he state police. Tooth Paste Ads 'ourtesy Oregon Jouma Coed cuties “opened up” to show their pearly teeth and laugh dowi f the efforts of the Idaho V’andals against the Webfoots last Saturday | Barbara Williams, Alphi Phi, registered the prize-winning smile. Emerald Straw Vote Brings 800 Students to Polls Sentiment Favors Every Candidate, Both Sides ROTC Issue; Balloting Continues Today Approximately 800 students vot ed yesterday in the Emerald's offi cial straw vote of the campus, reg istering sentiment in favor of ev ery one of the six presidential can didates and almost equally on both sides of the voluntary-compulsory ROTC question. Complete returns will be printed in Wednesday’s pa per. Almost an equal number is ex pected to call for ballots today at the polling place between the law and business administration schools. The booth will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, the second and last day of the election. All Students Can Vote Every student in the University will be allowed to vote regardless of legal qualifications merely by appearing at the booth and indicat ing his name to the poll clerks who will check his name off a list of all students and give him a printed ballot. The Oregon Liberty association was the only group active in cam paigning during yesterday’s voting. Robert Prescott, publicity chair man of the group, spoke through a public address system from the second floor of the College Side urging votes for compulsory mili tary training. Although the Democratic, Re publican, and Socialist groups here were active, individual members of each were on hand distributing “facts” and buttons. The Emerald endeavored to maintain impartial ity by placing members of all fac tions on both poll and tabulating committee. The Liberty associa tion was the only group to send a representative officialy as a poll clerk. Pay Cutting Tactics Lose U of 0 7 Profs Careful checking of University records discloses the fact that since faculty salaries were cut at the University during the depres sion, the state institution of higher education has lost at least one out standing faculty man each year since 1932. Salaries have been cut in the state system of higher learning un til the University of Oregon has the lowest salary scale of any state university in the United States with the exception of Wyo ming, North Dakota, South Caro lina, and Missouri. Dean James Gilbert of the school of social science and national tax expert, says that in the past five years the more worthwhile salaries which all but four state universi ties in the United States can offer University of Oregon faculty have i drawn away seven men: David Fa | ville, '32; Donald Erb, ’33; Edmund Conklin, '34; Robert Seashore, '35; George Williamson, temporarily, at a higher salary, and James Carrell, ’36. Dean Gilbert said that in the last few years three or four othet prominent faculty members in cluding the president have turned down offers of better paid jobs tc j stick with the University. “These men should not be penalized foi -their loyalty!” he said. CONWAY AT SALEM I Grant Conway, graduate of th i sociology department in ’36 i , working on a federal survey of re lief procedures in Salem. WSC Game Saturday Big Event; Grads to Register in Johnson Unnamed Heroes Recover Stolen 6Eazy Viber 8’ "Easy Viber 8,” ASUO crate which was stolen last week, was discovered Saturday night in the graveyard as an attempt was made to apprehend the thieves instead of paying the $10 ran som. Student President Fred Ham mond could give no clues as to the identity of the auto snatch ers, but reported that his repre sentatives told the following story of the recovery: “We found the designated O’Leary tombstone shortly after 11 o’clock Saturday. Upon the stroke of 12, a noise resembling a minor volcanic disturbance, proved to be the missing Viber 8 approaching with two men in the front seat. “After a brief gun battle we frightened the dark figures, who took to the hill country nearby. Returning to the long-missing vehicle, we found it not in the least damaged, although the bat tery was somewhat run down.” Ticket Contest Word Lists Must Be in at 4 Today Whirlwinds at puzzles and con tests who have been laboring over the free ticket contest for the somecoming dance, are reminded that their list of names must be in to Dave Lowry at the Theta Chi house by 4 this afternoon. The winner of this word-scram bling novelty will be notified by telephone and the ticket presented him later. An announcement will also be made through the Emerald as soon as the entrants’ endeavors are judged, Lowry announced. Float Parade and Rally At McDonald Theatre Scliedued for Friday Evening Luncheon in Dorm Dance, Reunion, Guild Play Saturday; Concert to Be Sunday Afternoon By MYRA HULSER While freshmen scoured win dows and cleaned hallways over the weekend, upper classmen wrote notes of welcome to their alumni, inviting them back to the campus for the University of Oregon’s 1936 program. When, the grad sets foot once more on the Oregon green Friday he will be greeted by characteristic signs in front of houses and by the reception committee at Johnson hall, where he will register and spend the remainder of the after noon until dinner meeting old and new friends. Parade at 7 O’clock At 7 o'clock the parade of floats will begin from the starting place. Thirteenth and Kincaid. “We’re setting up the evening program a half hour for each event. The parade was formerly scheduled for 7:30, but we see now that it will have to be sooner if we are to get out of the rally by midnight,” Walt Eschebeck, homecoming general chairman said Monday. ‘O’ to Flame As the parade wends its way down through the main part of Eu gene, the fieshmen will light the flaming “O” on Skinner’s butte, north of town. Committees consist ing of members of the frosh class have charge of the "O,” and promise a fire “that can be seen by Port land.” At 8:30 the annual rally will com mence in McDonald theater spon sored by the rally committee. A football feature will be shown on (Please turn to paqc five) Communists Seethe as Czarists Seize Sickle Shouts of protest came from the lips of campus communists yes terday because campus poster posters plastered campus treeskis with back and white placards, bearing the hammer and sickle, emblem of Red Russia, to advertise the Russian Rendezvous, czarist danceski. Rooted deep in the potato-cellar headquarters, communist lead ers seethed and muttered into their beards and answered inquiring reporters with pointed remarks punctuated by bombs. Disaster w u e 1 result, slightly failed pink deigned to de clare. “Eef our boys mistake this for our party, more than the usual; amount of blood will flow in Me-' Arthur court at homecoming.” Three-hundred-one Annas and a ditto number of Ivan Ivanovichs will whirl the native reel in Mc Arthur hay loft in honor of the beloved alums who will dot the campus over the weekend. Gypsy fiddles of Gus Meyer’s Campus Capers combined with two grand pianos, a special trom bone section and a steel guitar will grind out lyrics, mixing sketches of “Dark Eyes” with “Sweet Sue.”; While the band strikes up, local 'swains make ready for the grin 1 by doing the famous Russian knee bend and hop that lands amateurs on the floor. For this reason the shindig has been tagged informal, dance committees seeing the dan ger of dusting off the floor with pant seats, one which would bring ! the cleaners more than they are due this week. There will come a time, as there does in one of these all-school hop ; scotches when the band requires ) refueling and the strugglers a si • esta. While collegians wipe their (Please turn to fane two) Where’s George? i!UUiiui::iii!i!>!niii!U!imiiiiUttiiuuiiiuniHtmuiuiiu!fltiiiu I —gone to Eric Merrell I i Says George, “I’ve taken § | a shine to the new fall | 3 suits at Eric Merrell s. 1 Nothing like a new Soci- § | ety Brand priced at $39,50 j , to put a man on his feet | | again!”