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VOLUME XXXVIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1937
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In 30-27 C.omvbach
NUMBER 70
New Library
Won’t Be Open
Until Summer
Strike, Contract Trouble,
Cost of Maintainanee,
Contributing Faetors
In Long Delay
A definite and final announce
ment concerning- the opening of
the University's $464,000 library,
came Tuesday when Dr. C. Valen
tine Boyer stated that due to the
difficulty in obtaining mill work,
the official opening of the build
ing would be during the summer
session in June.
Earlier in the year hopes were
held that the structure would be
ready for occupancy at the be
ginning of spring term in March,
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Doctor Wu Will
Meet Edit Class
Chinese Press Editor to
Face Several Groups
After Assembly Talk
Dr. Y. T. Wu, editor of the
Chinese Association press and sec
retary for the national YMCA of
China, will speak on “China’s Basic
Problem” in an assembly in Ger
ling-er hall at 11 o’clock Thursday.
Doctor Wu will also devote his
campus groups. On Thursday at 9
a. m. he will speak to Dean Allen’s
editing class. After his assembly
speech, he will attend a luncheon
at the faculty club, and at 2:00
he will lead an open forum in Ger
linger hall which will be a follow
up discussion of his morning’s
speech.
Following this open forum there
will be opportunities for individuals
or smaller groups to have indivi
dual conferences with Doctor Wu.
Tentative plans have been made
by campus groups for this free
time.
Doctor Wu will also attend the
Gleemen concert Thursday and
has been invited to the home of
Mr. and Mrs. John Stark Evans
following the concert where all the
gleemen are t<j>be entertained.
Published in the Christian Cen
tury his “China Must Resist" re
ceived international attention.
Other articles have appeared in
the “Student World,” “The Chinese
Recorder” and “Chinese Students
and Communism.”
On Saturday and Sunday of this
weekend, he will be the principal
speaker of the Oregon student
Christian council conference
which will make this the biggest
event of the year for the student
Christian groups on the campus
The conference is to be held in
Gerlinger hall and many campus
notables will enrich the program
with Dr. Wu.
Guest Librarian
To Talk on Books
At Tea Thursday
Miss Bertha Dubinsky, branch
librarian from Sacramento, Cali
fornia, will give a talk and lead a
discussion on new books connected
with all educational fields, at an
informal tea to be held in Gerling
er hall, Thursday at 4 o’clock. An
invitation is extended to all stu
dents.
Alpha Gamma Delta is enter
taining Miss Dubinsky, Mrs. Alice
B. Macduff, and Miss Bernice Rise
at dinner this evening at the chap
ter house.
Miss Dubinsky is staying at Su
san Campbell hall while in Eugene.
She will return to Sacramento
Graduate Applications
Should Be Arranged
By March 1, Said
Anyone intending to apply
for graduate work or fellow
ships should make arrange
ments before March 1. Posters
and announcements from
schools offering graduate work
are on vhe bulletin board in the
graduate office in Johnson hall.
Highest Vaulting Human
tCourtesy the Register-Guard)
Indoors or out, its all the same to George Varoff as far as pole
vaulting is eoneerned, for last Saturday Varoff added the indoor world’s
title ot the outdoors world championship which he gained last summer.
Varoff made the trip, both ways, by plane.
State Education Board
Awaits Legislative Action
On ’38 Budget Addition
$973,000 May Be Added to Funds; Will
Be Divided Three Ways If Passed,
Says Dr. Boyer
Members of the Oregon State Board of Higher Education anxiously
awaited today, news of action from the legislature's ways and means |
committee on the $973,000 addition to the proposed budget of the
1937-38 biennium.
"If we receive this money, it will be divided three ways,” stated
Dr. C. Valentine Boyer, president of the University yesterday.
"First, there will be a stabilization of the millage revenue for higher
education at the 1930 level effec
tive in 1938. We are striving, at
least, to keep the mlllage income
up to what it was for the last
biennium, $3,570,518,” asserted
President Boyer.
Secondly, the money will go to
take care of the increase in enroll
ment, which occurs each year. As
President Boyer explained, a stu
dent does not pay for all his educa
tion when he pays his fees. There
is still a large amount that has- to
come out of the state fund.
Restoration of salaries and
wages will be made with as much
money as is allotted. As was stat
ed in the yearly financial report
of Oregon's higher institutions
made by Chancellor Frederick M.
Hunter, Oregon pays its profes
sors the least of any of the nine
states reporting a range from
$2400 down to $1700.
Hope was seen for this bill when
the sub-committee of the ways and
means committee agreed Monday
to recommend to tne wnoie com
mittee this budget. In addition, the
sub-committee recommended a di
rect appropriation of $464,000 and
to repeal an act of the 1935 session
diverting $36,000 of the millage
revenues from higher education to
the general fund, points included in
Dr. Hunter's six proposals made
last week.
No word had been received by
any of the University officials as
to the action taken on this late
Tuesday.
Alpha Delta Signia
Pledges S i x M e n;
Project Is Planned
Six members were pledged last
Thursday to Alpha Delta Sigma,
national advertising honorary for
men. The pledges are Charles Skin
ner, Douglas Milne, Noel Benson,
Bill Lubersky, Sam Fort and Hal
Haener. The initiation will be in
spring term.
Plans were discussed for bring
ing more students to Oregon at the
luncheon held at the Anchorage
Thursday.. This is to be the pro
ject for this year. Jess Lacklen
was appointed chairman.
THESIS ON EXHIBIT
Philip Halley Johnson will take
an examination for his Master of
j Fine Arts degree. His thesis is a
project in buono fresco “Lumber
ing in the Northwest,” which can
be found on the western end of the
art building.
Varoff Brings Home Second
World Crown; Describes Trip
And Tells of Record Effort
Hayward Will Hold Champion Vaulter
Out of Indoor Competition Because
Of Strained Thigh Muscle
By HUBARD KUOKKA
With the satisfaction of having- just set a new world's indoor
pole vault record of 14 feet 47« inches as well as the outdoors
record of 14 feet 6 inches. George Varoff is back on the campus
to resume his studies as a music major.
Net only did Varoff compete in two “big time" meets back
east, one the Millrose games in Madison Square garden in New
York City, and the other the Boston Athletic association meet
in Boston, but also he flew all the wav, both ways.
Calls Trip “Great”
“Gee, the trio was great,” he said as he lay on the rubbing
table with hot towels on his leg. George made his new record
with a badly strained thigh muscle, which he injured about a
YW to Sell Yarn
'Basketeers’ for
OSC Tilt Feb. 26
Two hundred yarn basketeers
will play their first big game this
year at the hoop spectacle of the
year- the Oregon-Oregon State
game. They will be dressed' in the
regulation Oregon basketball out
fit with slight changes. Their
shorts are a trifle baggy but this
can be overlooked because of the
great yellow O’s on their jerseys.
The doll sale put on by the
sophomore commission of the
.YWCA will open Friday, Febru
ary 26, and will be continued at
the “big game.” Money from the
sales goes to buy song books for
the YWCA.
Roof on Delta Gamma
House Torn by Winds
What was believed to be a small
whirlwind tore the entire tar paper
covering from the roof of the Delta
Gamma house Monday night.
The railing around the second
floor porch was torn apart and
strewn about the yard by the
strong wind. The damage as yet
has not been estimated.
Scabbard and Blade
Call for *Little Colonels ’
Members of Scabbard and Blade will call at women’s living organiza
tions Friday for the house nominations of prospective “Little Colonels.1'
The method of choosing of the coed officers for the Military Ball to be
held March 6, will be the same as was previously announced.
This year the dance will have five feminine officers instead of only
one, as in the past. The Little Colonel will be assisted by a staff of
Barker Relates
Experiences of
Foreign Journey
Burt Brown Barker, vice-presi
dent of the University, told of a
significant change in relationship
between England and America in
a talk before the Eugene Rotary
club, Tuesday noon. He based his
talk on observations of his trip to
England last summer.^
Mr. Barker said he had traveled
to England several times since
1901. Before the world war, Eng
land looked upon America as a
child, he said, and after the war
when we did not enter the league
of nations the British were plainly
disgusted.
“Since this last trip, however, I
have found a great change. I had
scarcely landed in England last
summer when I noticed the mem
oirs of Lloyd George running in
the papers. There Lloyd George
gave the United States fullest
credit it could claim or could be
entitled to in regard to this coun
try’s part in winning the war,”
said Mr. Barker.
England, its old feeling of sup
eriority, disgust and mere toler
ance gone, is asking the coopera
tion of the United States and it is
significant that we are reciprocat
ing, he commented.
two majors, and two captains, all
to be selected by popular vote at
the dance.
Members of the honor society
will pick 15 coeds as candidates for
(he offices from a list of names
turned in by the president of each
living organization. The president
is to place her list of two or three
upper-class women in a sealed en
velope that will be picked up by a
member of the Scabbard and
Blade.
As these 15 names are to be
printed on the programs, all en
tries must be submitted not later
than Friday.
On the night of the dance each
person entering the ballroom will
cast a vote for one of the 15 candi
dates named on the programs. The
girl with the greatest number of
votes will be named the Little
Colonel; of the next four highest,
two will be appointed majors and
two will be named captains.
At 11 o’clock the appointments
will be announced and the com
mand of the ball turned over to
the girls amid the color of a digni
fied military ceremony.
The Military ball is the highlight
of the Scabbard and Blade’s social
program on the campus. All cadet
officers will appear in full dress
regalia.
While tuxedos will be the order
of the evening, ordinary dark suits
will be permissable.
month ago. The injury is still
hanging on.
Why did George clear only 13
feet 9 inches in the Millrose meet
in New York ?
“I just couldn’t get going,” he
said. “I felt heavy and logey.” The
Millrose meet, like the Olympic
trial finals last summer, was just
one of those things, as far as Var
off was concerned. He just didn't
click.
Unable to Sleep
George couldn’t get much sleep
on the plane, and the extent of
his workouts in New York and
Boston was limited to gym work
and calisthenics. Twice a day he
steamed his bad leg.
“How did you feel when you
made the record?” George was
asked.
“Tired,” he answered. “But, I
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All Co-op Dance
Set for Saturday
Co-operators and Guests
To Dance at Gerlinger
Hall in Semi-Formal
Plana are now under way for
an all co-op semi-formal dance to
be given Saturday, February 20, in
the AWS rooms in Gerlinger hall
The dance is open to co-operators
and their guests only.
The color scheme will be carried
out entirely in green and yellow,
streamers and balloons being used
to decorate the ceilings, and mot
toes and the co-operative symbol,
the two fir trees, will be used to
adorn the walls.
Crepe paper streamers will ex
tend from the corners of the rooms
to the center of the ceiling, and the
balloons will fill in the spaces be
tween the streamers. Hydrogen
gas will be used to fill the balloon.
to assure their staying up at the
ceiling.
Dinner dresses or semi-formals
for the girls and dark suits for the
men are in order for the evening.
General chairmen for the dance
are: Theda Spicer, Bill Lauderback,
and John Miller.
3 UO Professors
At Physics Meet
Three physics professors, W. A.
Miller, A. E. Caswell and Will V.
Norris, represented the University
at the fourteenth meeting of the
Orgon chapter of the American
association of physics teachers at
Willamette university in Salem last
Saturday,
Saturday’s meeting was the best
the association has yet had, Pro
fessor Caswell said. The entire pro
gram concerned one central topic
rather than discussion of general
topics of physical interest. Central
topic of the four speeches was the
nucleus of the atom.
Eight Oregon higher schools
were represented at the meeting,
University of Oregon, Oregon State
college, Reed, Linfield, Willamette.
Oregon Institute of Technology,
University of Portland and St.
Helen's hall.
Smarties’ Prove
Human after All
Spelling Bee, Skils Amuse
Bright Coeds; Barker
Only Male Guest
Smarties all, but gathered to
gether last night at the Mortar
Board Smarty party 175 women
with three point grade averages
showed that they are human as
well as smart.
Guests of Mortar Board were
instructed by Virginia Endicotl,
toastmaster, to talk during dinner
only about apple-polishing, mid
night-oiling, and book-worming.
Burt Brown Barker, University
vice-president, was the guest of
honor as the only man present, be
cause with his initials he had a
“B” average.
Gayle Buchanan and Clare Igoe
gave impromptu skits, and twen
ty of the highest strata of grade
earners were called on for a spell
ing match. Phi Bete Dorothy Dill
and other honor rol habitues fell
before the spelling ability of Kay
Eismann on the word “plebiscite.”
Other guests besides Mr. Barker
and the “braintrusters" were Mrs.
F. M. Hunter, Mrs. C. L. Schwer
ing, Mrs. Alice B. Macduff, Mrs.
Virgil Earl, and Miss Janet Smith.
Members of Kwama assisted
Mortar Board in serving dinner.
Martha McCall was chairman of
the affair, assisted by Margilee
Morse, Elaine Cornish, Mildred
Blackburne, and Virginia Endicott.
Books Chocks in at
Wrong Reserve Will
Be Fined as Overdue
Because students have be
come careless in returning
books to the reserve libraries,
any books which are returned
to a reserve desk other than the
one from which they were
checkdi out will be held as
overdue, Willis Warren, reserve
and acting head librarian, has
announced.
Students will l>e fined for any
book thus checked In at the
wrong reserve and the fine will
mount until he has called for
the book and returned it to 1 lie
proper desk.
AWS,YW,WAA
Nominate 1938
Officers Today
Volin" to Re 9-5 Friday;
Mortar Board Plaqu°
Will Be Awarded to 3
Sopliomore Coeds
Nominations for AWS, YWCA,
and WAA offices for the year 1937.
1938 will be made at the second as
sociated women student’s mass
meeting of the year to be held in
the AWS rooms of Gerlinger hall
today at 4 o'clock.
Martha McCall, AWS president,
states that this afternoon's meeting
will be solely a business one. Cabi
net members will report on their
duties and accomplishments of the
past year and nominations will be
opened for the offices.
Nominees were selected by a
nominating committee early last
week. Any other nominations of
women students whether chosen by
the committee or not, will be ac
cepted, as the meeting is in the
form of an open caucus.
Voting to Be Friday
Women will vot for officers for
all three organisations on Friday
between the hours of 9 and 5. The
polls wil be set up in front of the
old library. Ballots will be distri
buted only to women holding stu
dent body cards.
Presentation will also be made
at this time of a scholarship
plaque to the three outstanding:
sophomore women who entered the
University in the year of 1935. The
plaque is donated by Mortar Board
and is offered for the first time
this year. It is to be presented an
nually.
Story Contest Entry List
Closes, Judging Begins
The Edison Marshall short story
contest conducted annually by
Professor W. F. G. Thacher of the
English and advertising faculty of
ficially came to a close last night.
All entries were due in then, in
accordance with the rules as set
down. The winners of the contest
will be anounced within the next
few days, after judging is com
pleted.
('HOIK TO SING HERE
The choir of the west, a noted
cappella chorus from the Pacific
Lutheran college of Parkland,
Washington, will sing a group of
numbers at the Central Lutheran
church in Eugene Wednesday, Feb
ruary 17, at 8 p. m.
Lemon-Orange Squeeze
First Interschool Dance
The Duke is gone but Smoky Whitfield will pick up where he left
off in the act of entertaining, when he, the Tri Delt trio, Gus Meyers'
and his soda jerkers, roll out sweet concoctions for the “Lemon
Orange Squeeze,” February 26
The doors of Gerlinger will be thrown open immediately following
the Oregon-Oregon State basketball game that evening, and students
of both schools will join in the first inter-collegiate affair of its kind.
Pasteboard replicas of the orig
inal Donald Duck and Benny Beav
er families will dot the walls and
hang from the ceiling, forming the
decorations. Lemon, green, orange
and black will be splashed together
to give added color.
“Program covers will be minia
ture pennants of the two schools,"
stated Peery Buren, general chair
man of the affair.
Gilbert Schultz, Oregon student
body prexy, has written the Ore
gon State student body, inviting
them to "bury the hatchet" and
join with Oregon in making this
an annual dance.
Homer Lyons, OSC student, is
promoting ticket sales and ar
rangements on that campus, with
the assistance of Phyllis Gardner
of Oregon, who is handling pub
licity.
“Imbibe freely of this luscious
refreshment for that after-the
game feeling," asserted Buren and
Margaret Bell, co-chairmen, Tues
day.
Admission to the fruit-juice jig
will cost 80 cents per couple, the
committee stated.
Francis Nickerson, is canvassing
for wrestling material for the com
ing tournaments, February, 22-24
JOE
RICHARD’S
MEN’S STOKE
873 Willamette
GIVE HIM . . .
A HAND
To George Varoff we
offer our congratulations.
He’s given U. of 0. a big
boost, the best kind of
advertising it could get
and we're grateful to him.
IT. of 0. doesn’t have to
take off their hats to any
university in the country.
Talk up your school,
support it, fight for it.
It's ‘tops” and we know
it.
The
Passing Show
Sharecroppers
Neutrality in Spain
May West' ‘lee’
Black Blizzards
By PAUL DEUTSCHMANN
Tenant Agriculturists
Aid for the nation’s 2,865,134
tenant farmers was demanded by
President Roosevelt yesterday
when he presented congress with
the problem which has been a
thorn in the side of the South since
Civil war reconstruction days.
In his message to congress the i
president gave a fourfold plan to j
aid the share-croppers, who are
estimated to constitute about 42
per cent of all farmers. The plan
included provisoins to offer oppor
tunities of ownership to the ten
ants, aid through loans, retirement
of unsuitable farming land, and
improvement of the general leas
ing system.
Action on the question has been
stimulated by the recent strike in j
Arkansas cotton fields, where cot
ton-choppers demanded §1-50 for
a 10-hour day. Current wage had
been only .75 cents.
eSanity cordon'
Complete isolation of war-torn
Spain was planned yesterday in
London when 26 European nations
gave final approval of a naval
blockade of the peninsula by
March 6. Only Portugal refused to
ratify the measure.
According to the agreement, vol
unteering from neutral nations
will be banned after February 20.
Last minute sympathizers rushed
to the conflict to beat the deadline.
Mostly they were from Italy and
France.
In spite of a warning note from
the Russian representative in re
gard to recalcitrant Portugal,
negotiators were hopeful and be
gan mapping plans for the inter
national blockade.
‘Diamond LiV
Playing with diamonds “like a
set of blocks” except that she
doesn’t “leave ’em laying around,”
May West has been earning her
movie title of “Diamond Lil.”
Buying, trading, and selling in
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Mail Takes Dive
Into Bay, But Is
Still Delivered
By BERNADINE BOWMAN
Airplanes crash, but the mail
goes through!
Despite the accident last Wed
nesday night which plunged an ill
fated' luxury liner into San Fran
cisco bay, carrying 11 to their
death, two Stanford students re- j
;
ccived letters last Thursday that:
had been carried on the plane.
The letters were water soaked,
the addresses were blurred, one of
stamps was missing, and the en
velopes unsealed.
But they were delivered, official
ly resealed, with the whole story
stamped on the back: “Damage
due to air mail interruption near
San Francisco, Calif., Feb. 10,
1937.”
A Students’ Union?
Professor Olsen, of the Univer
sity of North Carolina, says that
students could probably join a
union and strike for shorter hours
of expected work.
In most universities and colleges
students are expected to spend two
hours each day in preparation for
each hour on class. The regular
student, carrying three one hour
classes each day, would naturally
be expected to study six hours,
which total amount of work-hours
would be precisely 9 per day.
One-Tenth on 1SYA
A decision on the part of Con
gress could remove nearly 10 per
cent of college students in the
United States from school, accord
ing to the Daily Kansan. If the
National Youth Administration
should be abolished 124,818 young
men and women would be forced
to find other employment or else
do without a college education.
These young men and women
are found in every state in the
Union. The numbers range from
96 in Nevada to 13,070 in New
York. Approximately 98 per cent
of the accredited colleges and uni
versities have adopted the pro
gram.
Leading educators are beginning
to forget their fears that the pro
gram would be used as an “open
ing wedge’ toward ultimate federal
control of the educational system.
The actual working of the program
in each institution has been left
almost entirely in the hands of
the institution's own authorities.