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'■ ■■■■■. - - .. WT* ‘Little Colonel" Title Sought by 15 Coeds For Military Dance VOLUME XXXVIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1937 NUMBER 75 The Passing Show Nation ‘Sits Doini' Toumscnd Case Italy Liquidates Good Jew's Harps By PAUL DEUTSCHMANN Strikes Everywhere Sitdown strikes were the fashior yesterday as laborers from coast to cast followed the example ot the Flint, Michigan, GMC work er's who occupied their factory for 44 days. Largest firm tied up by the developments was the Dougla? aircraft factory at Santa Monica Calif., which was idle due to a “parking" strike of 500 workers representing a unit of the CIO The plant employs 5,600. In Groton, Conn., submarine manufacture was delayed as em ployers and workers attempted collective bargaining. Six hundred pressmen of the Crowell publish ing company threw 4,000 em ployees of the plant into idleness, when they initiated a “sitdown." Small groups of workers occu pied plants in Decatur, and Chi cago, while in Detroit seven brief strikes were settled, several fiew ones called, and six continued. Contentptuous Walkout ? Claiming that Townsend's ‘walk out’ on the house committee was not contempt, as he was not being questioned when he left, counsel for the California doctor asked a directed verdict in Washington district court Tuesday. Townsend left the investigation last May after politely saying to the committee. He was being questioned in regard to his activi ties as head of the OAR.P. Ethiopians Submit Opposition to Italy's rule in Ethiopia which flared up in the recent bombing of Marshal Rod olfo Graziani, was being rapidly stamped out in Addis Abba yester day as Italian soldiers rounded up at least 100 natives having guns and shot them on the edge of town. Almost 2,000 Ethiopians were yet under surveillance. Germany w ants None The world’s only manufacturers of Jew’s harps reported yesterday that Germany, formerly an import ant purchaser of the instruments, no longer shops in the Semetic noise-makers. In spite of possessing an all exclusive monopoly, the firm em ploys only 10 men in its Birming ham, England, plant. Douglas Burns Again Coast guardsmen patrolled the (Please turn to page four) Novel Grading Idea Astonishes Texas Students By BERNADJNE BOWMAN Something new in the way of exams was given to a class at the University of Texas. The exam lasted 15 minutes, the students cal culated their own grades, and al most everyone went away happy, but some flunked. “I am just as tired of these darn exams as you are, so I have de cided to give you an easy one to day. Just one question, in fact,” the instructor said. Everyone in the class did a ser ies of mathematical calculations and arrived at the neat sum of 100. “Wait a minute, I forgot some thing,” he said as the class start ed to leave after the exam, “recall the number of times you were ab sent from this class, multiply that by two, and subtract it from the answer on the problem.” So the grades did not run so high after all, and tljere were even a few of the very familiar “F’s” on the record sheet. Dream Girl Feted The Pi Kappa Alpha chapter house at USC • recently honored Miss Marsha Hunt, Paramount star, with a “Dream Girl” dance. Miss Hunt was given the title of “Dream Girl of Pi Ka,” after being selected from a group of 10 motion picture actresses as most nearly approximating the college man's ideal. She shortened a tour in the East in order to attend the dance given in her honor. The frat ernity turned out enmasse to greet her. She was escorted to the dance by the house president and sang the hit number “Sweetheart Waltz,” from her recent starring vehicle, “College Humor." Teach Neophyte Skiiers Swarthmore college has engaged Rene Montrezza, Alphine ski ex pert, to teach neophyte skiiers When snow is unavailable, they practice on a boraz hill set up in an old swimming pool. , Status of Classes Will Be Settled Thursday J By Officers, Council Seniors Will Consider Situation and Choose Candidates for Office At Evening Meet 2 Positions Open Classes ‘Orphaned’ Under Newly Accepted ASUO By-Laws By LLOYD TUPLING) (Emerald News Editor) Status of class governments, left out on a limb since adoption of new by-laws by the associated students last Thursday, will be de termined at a joint meeting of the executive committee and class of ficers at 4 Thursday. At present freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior classes have neither constitution or by-laws, al though Gilbert Schultz, president of the student body, believes that they are still governed by the old constitution. Members of the judiciary com mittee will give no decision until the question comes before them for 'official consideration and discus | sion. Several Proposals Made Several proposals have been made (Please turn to page four) Journalists Hear Harrison Brown Inside Information About European, Asiatic* Press To Be Revealed Inside information on the press cf Europe and Asia will be given members of Sigma Della Chi to night at 6 o’clock when Harrison Brown, noted English newspaper man and news commentator, speaks at their banquet in the Col lege Side. The world-touring journalist, who is personally acquainted with political leaders of the important nations of Europe and Asia, is a firm believer in freedom of the press, which he states is gagged even in England by libel laws which prevent exposing of scan dals. Mr. Brown, who spoke at Ore gon State Monday, told of the re gulation of the German press where typographers' errors had sent typesetters, proof-reader and editor to the concentration camps. He quoted Goebbels as saying, “The press is my piano; I play on it what tunes I prefer." I I Scabbard and Blade Picks Fifteen Coeds for Annual Little Colonel Competition Scabbard and Blade’s selection of 15 campus women to run for the position of Little Colonel at the Military ball, March 6, was announced Tuesday. The candidates are: Gladys Battleson, Lorraine Barker, Doris Drager, Vivian Emery, Dorothy Hagge, Peggy Hay, Pearl Johansen, Starla Parvin, Alice Pauling, Dorothy Rinehart, Carlene Scott, Kay Skalet, ; Jean Stevenson, Elinor Stewart, and Francis Waffle, | Each living organization turned in the names of two or three poten tial candidates, which in turn were cut down to 15 coeds by the ballot ing of Scabbard and Blade’s mem bers. Two votes will be allotted to each couple entering the ballroom and the polls will not close until 10:30. The girl with the greatest number of votes will be named the Little Colonel. Of the next four highest, two will be appointed ma j jors and two will be named cap tains at the military ceremony at j 11:00. Candidates will have their pic tures taken in front of Friendly at 11:50 today. Greeks Also Had Political Bosses, S. S. Smith Says j Counterparts of twentieth cen j turv political bosses, who distribut I ed favors among the people and rewarded the politically faithful, were found in abundance-in ancient Greece, S. Stephenson Smith of the English department at the Univer sity, told Rotary club members at their weekly meeting at the Os burn hotel Tuesday noon. Comparing political activity of the modern time with that found in ancient Greece, Professor Smith pointed out the amusing aspects of both. “Political Comedy” was the title of the address. The courage of Aristophenes in ridiculing Greek duplicates of mo dern political bosses was mention ed by the speaker as deserving great commendation. Dean James H. Gilbert, chair man for the day’s program, intro duced the speaker. Naylor Wins First Place In Emerald Ad Contest The winners in the advertising contest for last month were; Wal ter Naylor, first prize; Charles Skinner, second; and Hal Haener, third. This contest is a competi tive one between the ad solicitors for the Oregon Emerald to deter mine the best ad seller. The first prize was S5; the second $3, and j $2 the third. Huskies Defeat Vandals, 44 to 29, to Take Hoop Lead; Ducks Still in liace Washington and Oregon Top Northern Loop With Four Losses Eaeh; Win Over Beavers Friday Would Put Till** on Seattle Series By ELBERT HAWKINS Coach Howard Hobson’s struggling Webfoots arc squaring off for a final three game championship rush down the home stretch of this year's titanic northern division race. Temporarily relegated to second place following a late drive by Washington's Huskies, who downed Idaho last night 41 to 29, the Ducks are out after their first title of recent years. Washington is in front of the pack by a slim half game margin over Oregon, while Washington State trails in third place a full game and a half behind. The Huskies and Oregon have each dropped four games, while the Cougars have lost five. Three Way Tie Possible Her Edmundson’s perennial champions can coast in to another title by spilling Oregon twice at Seattle. To avoid a possible three way tie, Coach Hobson's Ducks must sweep the Seattle series, and beat Oregon State here Friday. Victory over State here would give Oregon the first clean sweep of the four-game series. After pausing in the midst of their title drive to soundly trounce Gonzaga’s barnstorming hoopmen, the Webfoots resumed regular court drill yesterday afternoon. Three days remain before Ore gon’s basketball team winds up its home stand on the maple boards of McArthur court against Oregon State. Stresses Defense Still not pleased with the de fensive play of his Webfoots against Slats Gill’s fourth place Orangemen in Saturday's tcivif war” struggle, Coach Hobson stat ed yesterday that a lot of time before Friday's big game will be spent stressing that phase of the game. The Webfoot mentor feels that inability of Oregon State to score over Oregon's zone defense was (.Please turn to page four'/ Yearbook Seeks fMiss Oregon9 as Typical TJO Coed Miss Oregon who will she be ? This young lady will head the personality section in the 1937 Oregana and will typify all the qualities representative of a . ..true Oregon coecl. She may be freshman, sopho more, junior or senior. She need not be a Phi Beta Kappa or an outstanding activity woman but must be attractive with a pleas ing personality and a combina tion of a happy medium in ref erence to brains and activities. Caroline Hand, editor of the personality section of the Ore gana, has asked each sorority to choose one girl from its house who is representative of this type of a coed as a candidate for "Miss Oregon. An all-campus vote will nar row these candidates down to five, and from this number will be chosen the one representative girl by an Oregana jury com posed of a representative from each fraternity house. INDUSTRIAL, PURCHASING Industrial Purchasing is the sub ject of a contest open to students in this University, with four prizes amounting to $470, offered, ac cording to an announcement A Bundle of Love Helen Roberts and Gerald T. Smith take advantage of a frugal Revolutionary custom and enjoy a bit of bundling, in “Pursuit of Happiness,’’ Guild theater play coming here soon. Many a romance was kindled this way, with the sanction of parents and the safety of a centerboard. Piggers’ in Colonial Times Bundled in Bed to Save Fuel By KEN KIRTLEY Bundling to the girl of George Washington’s time was what pig- j ging is to an Oregon co-ed. As demonstrated by Helen Roberts and Jerry Smith of the cast of “Pursuit of Happiness,” lovers did their spooning in bed to conserve the fuel supply. According to Walter Davenport, an authority on the gentle art, bundling was brought to America from several different countries by i the early emigrants. In Holland it was known as “questing," the! English called it “tarrying,” while the Scotch also had a word for it, [ "hand fasting.” I There were two forms of bundl- . ing. One was practiced when; travelers, because of a lack of! sleeping accommodations, found it necessary to double up with some I member of the family. The other 1 was the colonial form of pigging, love bundling. The ritual of bundling goes something like this: Some eligible young girl feels that it is time she found herself a husband. She conveys her wishes to her family who turn over the best bed in the house to her. If there was only one bed she got that. At nightfall the girl lighted a candle and put it in the window. The young men all knew that a candle in the window meant that a little bundling would not be out of order and would rove about the countryside hoping tp see a glow in the window of that certain someone. When a prospective swain locat ed a bundle beacon he would ad vance at once and rap on the win dow where the girl would meet him and let him in. The pair would then remove their shoes and pop into bed fully dressed. Some households provid ed bundle bags, long petticoats tied tightly around the neck and {Please turn to page two) I Eight Houses | Approve New Rushing Plan Seven Sororities Oppose Newest Set up One Is Uncertain After House Proxies’ Meeting: Eight sororities approved the proposed revision of rush week while seven opposed the plan, an nounced Genevieve McNiece, presi dent of Pan-Hellenic yesterday i following a meeting of all house presidents, rushing chairmen and alumnae advisors, yesterday. The vote of one house was not record ed, as representatives were not present. “If this house approves the plan, we shall begin perfecting plans for the change, but if the house op poses it, we shall have to take new steps," Miss McNiece stated. Nothing Definite Nothing definite was decided at the meeting, as the vote was mere ly to ascertain how the sororities felt about the new plan, continued Miss McNiece. “Objections to the plan are sev eral,” stated the president. "There are many girls who work through the summer and would not be able to come back the week early that they would need to. Women students from Cali fornia would miss the last part of their vacation. As it is, they do not register until after classes have begun. i (Please turn to paqe two) House Okays $873,000 Education Bill; Senate Approval Sought Next Hunter Talks to Portland Group Advocates American Kind Of Democracy to Solve World Problems Contrasting American democ racy of the present day with that of George Washington's time. Chancellor Hunter declared that unless "we bring to use the evi dences of history and the methods of Washington in a solution of the overwhelming issues which con front our people today,” a dictator ship is to be feared. In his address to an estimated 4000 at the Portland American ization council's reception for na turalized citizens at the municipal auditorium. Chancellor Hunter warned them that the American brand of democracy is the world’s final hope, "the last stand against the triumph of tyranny of classes through dictatorship.” “At the close of the war we thought the American conception of democracy had conquered the world. Now that conception is gone, as everywhere in Europe, and in Asia, millions of people through desperation have been driven to the instrumentalities of revolution and class dominance,” he said. Shumaker Draws Picture Of Ideal University; Hits Training of 'Learned Fools’ (Editor’s note: The following article liy Dr. L. Kenneth Shumaker, supervisor of the English bureau, noted for his clinical work among maladjusted students, is the first of a series in which Oregon professors will describe The Ideal University.) By DR. L. KENNETH SHUMAKER . The Ideal University has been discussed by so many philosophers and educators, that to add anything new seems almost hopeless; yet the problem that is very real to us at the University of Oregon Is: What kind of ideal should our University approximate? Does a university exist for the purpose of conserving knowledge and perpetuating truth? I think not. Whatever this purpose of higher education may mean to those who maintain it, the practical man is apt to say, what is this knowledge that is to be conserved and what is this truth to be perpetuated? Is knowledge some hard and fixed matter to which additions may be made from time to time? Is truth an absolute that has been reached and which must be held? Such a point of view seems finite in a world in which the scientific in vestigator more and more feels that truth is infinite and that the frontiers of knowledge are without bounds. A Social Nursery Does the University exist to pro vide, not the conserving force of the philosopher, but the nursery of social adaptation which will en able the students to become good citizens rotarians and republicans and religious pillars in their com munities? This ideal seems to place increasing stress on the frat ernities and sororities and the ASUO and the Emerald and the "activities” of the campus in gen eral, The little girl who wants to learn how to appear gracefully in a drawing room and to attract an economically self-sufficient mate would seem to be a candidate for (Please turn to pane four) Members of Oregana Jury Committee Meet In College Side Today Oregana Jury members are asked to meet upstairs in the College Side at 4:00 Wednes day afternoon. The meeting is an important one. Harold Weston, Bill Sales, Jim Wells, Jay Scruggs, Boh Newlands, Bill Dalton, Noel Benson, Jack Lochridge, Dick Sleeter, Cecil Barker, Bill Pier son, Bob DeArmond, Mel She vack, Bob Gridley, Jack lend ers, Don Johnson, Henry Mlng er, Les Korden, Barney Hall, and Irwin Elden are members I of the committee. SMITH TO SPEAK Dr. Warren D. Smith, head of the geography department, will present a "Philippine Travelogue” to a group of Spanish War vet erans meeting as guests of the American Legion in the Eugene armory tonight at 9 o’clock. Attempt to Side-Track Measure Is Quashed; $473,000 Increase in Levy Granted Takes Effect in 1938 Act Repeal Mav Restore $38,000 to Total; Hyde Leads Defense Opponents of a bill apropriating $873,000 to higher education at tempted Monday night to side track the proposal and send it hack to the committee, but defend ers rallied to its aid, forcing adop tion in the house of representa tives at Salem by a 40 to 20 vote. A bill, repealing a former act which diverted $36,000 of higher education's revenue into the gen eral fund, was reporte passed by the house yesterday. The two separate bills amount to the $910,000 approved by the joint ways and means committee last week, and now face the approval of the senate. The bill adopted Monday includ ed: 1. A direct appropriation of $400,000 with a continuing clause carrying it into both years of the biennium. i. An increase in mgner euuca tion’s share of the millage levy to the 1929 level, amounting to $473, 000. Not effective until 1938. The third section of the three point proposal approved by the joint ways and means committee was included in a separate bill. It repealed a depression act which diverted $36,000 of higher educa tion’s fund into the state general fund. Hyde Defends Bill Opposition to the bill passed yes terday arose over the continuing clause in the direct appropriation proposal. Rep. Clarence F. Hyde of Lane county jumped to the floor to defend the measure against op ponents who arose to disclaim it. Mrs. Hannah Martin, represen tative from Marion county, object ed to the clause which provided continuation of the $400,000 allot ment into both years of the bi ennium. “I don’t object to the sum grant ed education. They need it and de serve it, but I don’t want it to be a continuing appropriation. The legislature should have some con trol over the institutions of higher learning,” Mrs. Martin declared. State Youth Act Similar To NY A, States Morris The recently proposed Oregon state youth act seems to be a dupli cation of the present NYA program, Victor P. Morris, acting dean of the school of business administration, said yesterday. "I am favorable to the whole NYA program. I think it has made a real contribution to better opportunities for American youth. But for the state to set up a duplicate administration would be unwise,” he said. Dr. Morris said it might be more desirable for the state to supple ment government money to the NYA prograrri. It would provide additional financial aid and yet avoid this undesirable duplication. One of the most important items contained in the proposed program is the placement service, and much more emphasis should be placed upon this activity, according to Dr. Morris. It is in many ways the ‘‘heart of a constructive youth program,” he said. It might be wise to use a con siderable amount of the money for a student loan fund, he stated. Stu dent loans are frequently better than outside work. We already have the set-up to administer loan funds, he contin ued, so that all the state would need to do is add to the funds. CHARMERS WATCHING Shine up your shoes, curl your hair and get rid of that gum, be cause Oregon’s charm school mem bers are looking you all over. As soon as the 1937 spring term gets under way, members of the school and its leaders will be on the look out for Oregon’s most charming coed, man student and professor, j w THE MANHATTAN HABIT Once you’ve tried Manhattan shirts, we know you'll be a Manhattan customer for life. 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