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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1937
NUMBER 52
The
Passing Show
Cascade Miner Dies
‘Budge9 Coes Horne
Mo Conciliation
$200 Test Spreads
By DARREL ELLTS
Operation Fails
Fred White, 25, asurite miner
who withstood a harrowing dog
sled ride from high in the Wash
ington Cascades to undergo an ap
pendicitis operation at Okanogan,
died last night a few hours after
coming from under the anesthetic.
Hospital attendants said expo
sure to cold during the 60-mile
trip through deep snows had so
weakened him that he could not
withstand the shock.
flonip-Lovina Cat
If Beniamin Baker Budge could
speak, he probably would explain
it something like this: “Home's
home, and that’s where I belong,
and there ain’t no use you trying
to move me, ’cause I won’t
‘budge’.”
Beniamin, who is a big tomcat
belonging to Alice K Gregory,
Portland, resented moving into new
quarters 6 1-2 miles across town.
Twice the animal found his way
back to the ‘fence in the alley”
and twice was he returned. Since
Beniamin now seems to like his
new home, perhaps he will become
Beniamin Baker “Budged."
Your Move, Frank
Settlement of the motor indus
try "sit down” strike was left vir
tually up to the president last
night as Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., Gen
eral Motors president, in leaving
the capital, told reporters that
“any time the president sends for
us, we'll be there.”
John L. Lewis, labor representa
tive, said labor wrill accept “no
half-baked compromise.” Asked if
it was time for President Roose
velt to intervene, he said, “That’s
up to the president—but labor in
tervened for him.”
Faith and $200
Reminiscent of the 1934 chain
letter craze is the spread of the
Townsend pension-testing plan. It
started in Chelan, Washington, was
followed1 by Eugene, and now mer
chants of Brewster, Washington,
plan to pay off the town's munici
pal debt of about $3000 with earn
ings from the two per cent tax as
sessed on transactions.
The original $200, with which
some suitable pension-spender will
be started off, will be donated by
local merchants. When tax pay
ments to the “kitty” are sufficient,
another pensioner will be started,
and so forth until the town’s 25 or
so eligibles are pensioned. The
earnings from this point will be
used to take up municipal bonds.
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California Plans
$15,000 Athletic
Insurance Fund
By BERNADINE BOWMAN
Athletic insurance, under consid
eration by the associated students
at the University of California for I
the past two years, will probably ■
become a reality within the next1
month or two.
The present plan calls for the
setting: aside of $1500 annually as i
a, reserve for use in case of an ath
letic iniury leading' to permanent
disability or death. The fund will
continue to grow until $15,000 has
been accumulated, at which time
only additions of interest on the i
sum will be made.
The money v/ill be used in case j
of permanent disability or death
resulting from an iniury received in
or directly caused by, competition
in any A.S.U.C. athletic contest, j
No definite sums have been decided
upon for disability in different
parts of the body or for death.
Passes Million Mark
Margaret Mitchell's 1039-page
book, “Gone With the Wind,” has
gone over the million mark, which
makes it the most successful first
novel since Cervantes' “Don Qui
xote.” But Cervantes didn't collect
50 cents a copy royalty on his mas
terpiece . . . Margaret Mitchell is!
sure of $500,000 excluding picture
rights, radio rights, and newspaper
syndicate rights.
Professor Some Talker
A professor at the University of
Washington was very earnestly ad
dressing his psychology class re
cently. Suddenly without warning,
the table in front of the class col- !
lapsed one-sidedly as one leg fell
off. The professor interrupted his
learned discourse at least, remark
ing, “That’s the first time I ever j
talked a leg off a table.”
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Cuthbert Sets Cost
OfTurfingHayward
Gridiron at $1,770
j Women’s Chairman, Men's Committee
Are Named, Will Take Up Active Work
On Tag Drive and Dance
A definite estimate of the cost of turfing Hayward field
: given by F. A. Cuthbert, professor of land architecture and
| appointments of men to handle the drive in living organiza
tions held the spotlight Thursday night as definite progress
I became evident.
! Total expenditures will amount to $1770, estimated Cuthbert.
One-hundred-fifty loads of loam will be needed for the final
seeding at a total cost of $450. Grass seed for the final seeding
and replacement for sod will require $240; foreman to handle*
the work, $210; tile connections, $110; fertilizers, $200; pipe
Orchestra’s Rise
Due to Director
UO Musicians Will Play
In Nation-Wide Hookup
January 27
Rex Underwood, director of the
University symphony orchestra
which is to broadcast over a coast
to coast network from the music
auditorium January 27 from 6 to
6:30 p.m., is largely responsible for
the orchestra’s present success and
popularity.
In 1920, when Mr. Underwood
took over its direction, the orches
tra, consisting of only 20 pieces,
made annual trips to Oregon cities
to give concerts. The last of these
tours was made in 1930, when it
had a week’s engagement at the
Paramount theater in Portland
with four performances a day.
The orchestra, now with approx
imately 65 members, gave its first
concert of this season on Novem
ber 23.
The numbers to be played by the
group on the radio program will
be the “Russian and Ludmilla”
overture by Glinka, and Bach's
“Air for Strings.”
Gaffe to Discuss
Federal Housing
Tonight on KOAC
Daniel Gage, associate professor
of business administration, will be
guest speaker Friday evening, Jan.
uary 23, on the business hour pro
gram, which is heard over radio
station KOAC from 8:15 to 9 p.m.
“Federal Aid in Housing” will
be the subiect of Mr. Gage’s talk.
He will talk on the history of hous
ing problem, the types of housing
required by different income
groups, the relative high cost of
home owning and the aid given by
the government in housing pro
jects.
In regard to the government’s
handling of the housing problem,
Mr. Gage will discuss direct subsi
dies such as loans, slum clearances
and PWA, and indirect government
aids through the Federal Savings
and Loan association, and Home
Loan Bank system.
King Announces
Law Dance Date
As January 30
Saturday, January 30, will be
the date of the Oregon law school
dance, Ercel King, general chair
man of the event announced yes
terday.
Committees are: dates and pub
licity, Harry McCall, Reva Hems,
and Tony Yturri; hall, Dick Dev
ers: orchestra, Bill Davis; decora
tions, Ed Wheelock; prize dance,
Sid Milligan, Frank Nash, and
Hale Thompson; door, D. R. Dim
ick: patrons, Fred Hammond, and
Jack McGirr.
Bob Miller, president of the law
school student body, will be master
of ceremonies.
SALEM TRIP MADE
Dr. Philip A. Parsons, head of
the sociology department, went to
Salem yesterday to appear before
the ways and means committee of
the state legislature, on behalf of
the state planning board.
lor me sprinkling; system, $120;
tractor expense, $200; miscellan
eous, $150.
A tag drive among the Eugene
business men to be put on by sor
ority women on Saturday, January
30, will be one of the eight sources
of income planned. Personal con
tacts with the business men will
also be made.
Women Heads Named
Women's houses have cooperat
ed well in pushing the drive, Bill
Van Dusen and Dick Watson, orig
inators of the funds campaign said
last night.
Felker Morris, Pi Beta Phi, and
Elizabeth Norvell, Alpa Phi, have
been named as general chairmen
to handle the drive in sororities.
Working with Watson and Van
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$1000 Offered for
Book on Business
A cash price of $1000 for the
best manuscript of an unpublished
book on business ethics is being
offered by the William A. Vawter
Foundation committee of the
Northwestern university.
The manuscript must not con
tain more than seventy-five thou
sand words nor less than thirty
thousand words. The contest closes
midnight December 31, 1937.
The manuscript must be con
cerned primarily with business
ethics and must make a contribu- :
tion to knowledge or understand
ing of the subject.
Complete information of the 1
contest is posted on the second
floor official bulletin board of -
Commerce hall.
Co-op Students
'Monopolised’by
Monopoly Come
The midnight oil burned for
a 17-hour stretch in the room of
Ken Rolfe, Campbell co-operator
- but not for study reasons, it
was revealed last night. Rolfe
and two fellow co-operators,
John Heitzman and Bob Duncan,
were only indulging in a little
game of monopoly.
The three “students" started
their game at two o'clock Sun
day afternoon in Rolfe's room
and played until seven Monday
morning. The battle for banks,
real estate, and railroads would
not have taken so long, accord
ing to Heitzman, if “Rugged In
dividualist” Rolfe had been eas
ier on his rivals.
Toastmaster
Alton F. Baker, publisher of the
Eugene Register-Guard, presided at
the round table banquet of the Ore
gon Newspaper Publishers’ asso
ciation Thursday afternoon.
Radio Class Will
Interview Var o f f
Tonight on KORE
George Varoff, University of
Oregon student who holds the
vorld's pole vaulting record, will
re interviewed over KORE at 7:45
->.m. by members of the Univer
sity radio class.
Guy Pinkstaff, Harold Jepsen,
Warren Waldorf, and Donald
["homas will take part in the pro
gram which is broadcast each
veek under the direction of D. E.
-largis, instructor in speech.
Returns Show Students
Are Dictionary Users
Students use dictionaries between 10 and 15 times a week on the
average, early returns from the dictionary questionnaire composed
by Eric W. Alleij, dean of the school of journalism, show.
Answers to the question on how often the dictionary is used re
vealed that some students refer to them as much as 35 times a week,
while one fell as low as .000214.
The questionnaire also revealed that most of the students pur
chased their dictionaries in their home towns. The second largest
number acquired them as gilts,
while the University Co-op was
iust above agents and mail-orders
as a source of supply of the books.
In Dean Allen’s opinion, every
student should own at least one
dictionary and journalism students
should own two. One of these
should be a vest-pocket size to be
carried about and the other a desk
copy of the caliber of Webster’s
collegiate.
The freshman show a higher per
centage of dictionaries owned and
considered adequate by the faculty
than do reports from seniors con
tacted. High school and vest-pock
et dictionaries as the sole source
are considered inadequate. In a
freshman class of 39, 34 owned dic
tionaries and 27 were able to pass
the test.
Only 14 out of a class of 27 sen
iors have the right kind of diction
aries although all but five owned
books of some sort. All but a very
small number of the students con
tacted claimed access to dictionar
ies.
From among the dictionaries
owned one English-Finnish diction
ary placed. In class discussion con
cerning the dictionaries, many stu
dents told of owning Roget’s “The
saurus" which they said they used
as much if not more than the dic
tionary.
Episcopal Bishop Will
Visit on Campus Today
Rt. Rev. William P. Remington,
D.D., bishop of the Eastern Oregon
Episcopal diocese, will arrive on
the campus today to stay until
Monday noon, January 25.
He has made the trip from Pen
dleton to the University to visit
students. While here he will offi
ciate at several church services.
All students wishing to talk to
Bishop Remington should call Mrs.
Alice B. Macduff, assistant dean of
women, to make an appointment.
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Late Payment Penalty
On Mon-Resident Fees
Is 25 Cents Per Day
The late payment penalty for
non-resident fees, overdue since
Monday, January 18, is 25 cents |
a day instead of 15 cents a day
as appeared in yesterday’s Em
erald.
Unless the second install- ,
ment of $20 is paid by 3 o'clock
Monday, January 22, plus penal
ties accruing', students will be
suspended from the University,
it was announced from the bus
iness office today.
Editorial Heads
Hold First Confab
I-aCraiule Naim*<l Possible
Selection for Slimmer
Press Conference
Tentative selection of LaGrande
as the seat of the summer press
conference was announced last
night, as the board of directors
and the executive committee of the
editorial association met in private
conference and laid plans for ses
sions today and tomorrow.
With newspaper men from all
over the state flocking into Eu
gene yesterday, the first general
meeting was the annual dinner and
round table held at the Eugene
hotel starting at 6:30 p.m. Alton
F. Baker, publisher of the Eugene
Register-Guard, presided at this
meeting, which was open only to
publishers, executives, and owners
of papers.
A 3 p.m. meeting of the board of
directors preceded the dinner and
round table, and another execu
tive session was held late in the
evening.
General good fellowship and jol
lity filled the lobby of the hotel all
afternoon and evening, as the edi
tors drifted in to meet old friends
and informally talk over mutual
problems.
Old Oregon Gets
New Gala Attire
"Old Oregon" is dressing up. The
old cover which has been used for
four or five years has been replaced
by a full page picture, with mod
ern "Old Oregon” lettering on a
three-inch background along the
bottom. The picture for this
month is Johnson hall, done in new
infra-red photography by George
Godfrey.
The inside is completely changed
as to style, make-up and width of
columns, and there is an effort
toward the use of more pictures.
This month’s edition will be distrib
uted today.
“Quacks,” a page containing let
ters from the alumni, fcas been en
larged to a full page and is one of
the most interesting features, ac
cording to the editor, Clair John
son.
Woodrow Truax, business mana
ger of the magazine, made arrange
ments for the new cover design.
Campus
Calendar
Hospital patients today are:
Margaret Johnson, Burrnice How
ell, Polly Lou Todd, Irene Williams.
Bettv Dye, Katherine Leuck, Phyl
lis Elder, Anne Barton, Ruth Star
rett, Helen Wooden, Margaret Pat
terson, Lois Strong, Beverly Wick
ler, Jean Beard, Helen Murphy,
Amy Johnson, Phyllis Gardner,
Anne Kohl, Marian Bauer, Doro
thy Bates, Joe McPhee, and Fran
cis Miller.
In the emergency hospital today
ire: Aaron Rubino, Milton John
son, Bill Pengra, Barnard Hall, Av-1
ery Combs, John Beckett, Richard
Russell, Kenneth Abraham, Robert
Morris, Harry Fall, George Wil
liams, Stuart Marsee, George
Smith, William Marshall, John Pe
terson, Fred Hammond, Leland
Terry, William Gordon, John
Keyes, Verlin Wolfe, Clayton Pier
son, Thurston Rieder, Byron Royce,.
and James Dimit.
Social swim will not be held Fri
day night because of the flu epi
demic.
Orides must have their names
signed on the slip in the dean of
women’s office before Sunday if
they want their names to appear in
the Oregana.
Westminster house will be open
to all students on the campus to
night from 8 to 11:30 for games
and dancing. Five cents admission.
Students wishing to dispose of
their copies of Riggleman and Fris
bee's “Business Statistics” are
asked to turn their copies in to the
Co-op or give their names to D.
D. Gage.
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1 Gammon, Sherrill
Lead in Whisker
Growing 'Derby'
Dave C.ammon and A1 Sherril
' are running neck-whisker to
neck-whisker in competition for
the silver loving cup to be
awarded the sophomore man
having the most profuse growth
| of whiskers, at the sophomore
j Whiskerino, Saturday night in
; Gerlinger hall.
I Hordes of other sophomores
j have been seen bearing varied
j styles and tones of chin plum
j age. Mottled red and blond and
! other two-tone effects, have been
j noted, as well as varying degrees
of scraggly hair.
Tufts Fellowship8’
Offered Women
$1000 anil Free Tuition in
Graduate School to Be
Given Annually
A teaching fellowship to a col
lege woman who holds or will
hold in 1937 an A.B. or B.S. de
gree in English, is offered by
Tufts college in Boston, for the
fifteenth consecutive year.
The teaching fellow receives an
annual award of $1000 and free
tuition in the graduate school of
the college. Fellows are .Selected
on the basis of personality and
scholastic attainment in the En
glish field.
The fellow will devote half of
her time to teaching and assisting
in the English courses and the
other half to graduate study in the
advanced courses. Under this ar
rangement a fellow is usually able
to obtain q, master of arts degree
in two years.
Kenneth Irwin
Talks on Strike
In Open Forum
The story of the maritime strike
was told Thursday afternoon
when Kenneth Irwin of the Marine
Firemen’s union addressed a forum
at 4 o’clock in the alumni room of
Gerlinger hall. Irwin, spokesman
for the maritime strikers, has been
a leader of the dockers’ picket lines
in Portland since the strike began.
In the forum yesterday, Irwin
answered questions concerning the
strike and the issues involved. Ir
win recently addressed a state con.
vention of Oregon college students
in Portland.
19th Annual Press
Conference Opens
Two-Day Program
Journalists Gather for Discussion of
Pertinent Newspaper Questions; Full
Program Scheduled
The Oregon Press conference goes into session for its nine
teenth annual conclave today with a general meeting at the
University school of journalism following Associated and
United Press breakfasts at downtown hotels.
With Lars E. Bladine of the McMinnville Telephone-Regis
ter and president of the conference presiding, around 150
newspaper notables from Oregon and from all parts of the
United States are expected to be in attendance.
Although no general meetings were scheduled for Thursday
evening, editors and publishers had already started to pour
Speaks Today
“Presenting Interpretations anil
Backgrounds of News” will be the
topic of an address which Frank
Jenkins, editor of the Klamath
Fails News and Herald will make
to the Oregon Press conference in
a general meeting this afternoon.
ONTHANK RETURNS
Karl W. Onthank, dean of per
sonnel administration, was in Port
land Tuesday, Wednesday, and
Thursday mornings.
He will be in his office in John
son hall Friday morning.
DR. CROSLAND ILL
H. R. Crosland, associate profes
sor of psychology, is at home ill
with the flu.
Morris Writes Article
On Heating Labyrinth
An explanation of the University’s underground labyrinth, which
is being installed to perfect the heating system, appeared in the Decem
ber issue of “Heating and Ventilating,” an industrial press monthly
published in New York, The article was written by Will V. Norris,
professor of physics on the campus.
Professor Norris’ article said that the complete plan calls for 6920
feet of tunnel at an estimated cost of $400,000. The government is
financing the project which is now nearing completion by furnishing
the labor and sharing- with the
University the cost of materials
and equipment.
Services of the tunnels include
30-pound steam mains for heating,
condensate lines, city and irriga
tion water pipe lines, electric light
lines, telephone and fire alarm sig
nals, remote heat controls, com
pressed air for automatic controls,
gas lines, class bells, clocks, and
tunnel lighting effects. The steam
lines are supported on a trapeze
hanger on the inside part of the
tunnel loops, while other lines are
conducted upon steel channels on
the opposite side.
From the heating plant located
at the northeast corner of the cam
pus run the two main tunnels, one
to the old library then up to Ger
linger and finally to the new lib
rary. The other runs to McArthur
court. Depth of the tunnels vary
from 10 to 38 feet, their width
from 7 to 9 feet.
A system of 10 underground
transformer vaults is being in
stalled to handle the 2300-volt ser
vice of the campus. In the vaults
are transformers for reducing the
voltages to 110-220 volts for use as
power and light.
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Kehrli Article on Rates,
Water Systems Printed
An article on rates and related
facts regarding water systems in
Oregon cities, by Herman Kehrli,
director of the bureau of municipal
research, appeared in the January
edition of Western City. This is
the official publication of the
League of California Municipali
ties, the League of Oregon Cities,
and the Association of Washington
Cities.
The information continued in the
article was compiled by Francis
Beck, student NYA worker in the
bureau, from questionnaires sent
out. The WPA assisted in the dis
tribution and compiling of the
questionnaire.
BOYER IN PORTLAND
C. Valentine Boyer, president of
the University, will leave the cam
pus today for Portland where he
will meet with Chancellor Freder
ick M. Hunter and other members
of the state board of higher edu
cation in a meeting of the board
which will be held Tuesday, Jan-1
uary 26.
into Eugene last night. Among
them was Philip Sinnot, Pacific
coast manager of the NEA's San
Francisco office, who will attend
the conference. Main event on
Thursday night's program was the
annual publisher’s round table and
dinner.
Shack Is Cleared
The journalism building has
been cleared of all classes for the
day in order to make room for the
various meetings. Those classes
conducted by the journalism staff
have been dismissed with the sug
gestion that journalism students
thus freed will take the chance to
get acquainted with the guests of
the weekend. All other classes or
dinarily held in the shack have
been moved to other buildings for
the day.
Opening the discussion which
will follow closely on the heels of
appointment of ONPA committees
the association, and of conference
committees by Mr. Bladine, will be
a roundtable to be participated in
by prominent Oregon newsmen.
The subject will be "The Past
Year’s Progress with the News
Camera, Photo-Eng ravtng and Off
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Browsing Room
Given Books by
Math Honorary
Three new books for the brows
ing room of the new University li
brary will be ordered next week by
Pi Mu Epsilon, mathematics hon
orary, which has set aside a fund
for seven books for the room.
Four of the books have already
arrived. They are on matters of
popular interest in mathematics,
and include: “New Mathematical
Pastimes,” by P. A. Macmahon;
“An Invitation to Mathematics,” by
Arnold Dresden; "A Mathemati
cian Explains,” by Mayme Logs
den; anti "Insurance and Annuities
from the Buyer’s Point of View,”
by E. C. Harwood and Bion H.
Francis.
The three books to be ordered
next week will be non-technical
discussions on the subjects of phy
sics, chemistry, and astronomy. Ti
tles will be chosen by faculty mem.
bers of these departments.
It Pays
To Be Well Dressed
LOOK YOUR BEST
and
ENJOY YOURSELF
Enjoy the confidence
that comes from know
ing that your clothes
are made by America’s
finest Tailors.
Fabric Right and Style
Right. Dress for the
Occasion.
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Merrell
Clothes for Men and
Boys
The University Men’s
Store