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Naval Rare Possible
Mine Strike Threat
Senators Rap Court
By PAUL DEUTSCHMANN
German Property Rights
New civil laws which will prac
tically abolish private property
rights were announced by Nazi of
ficials yesterday, as the Hitler re
gime marched forward in plans to
put interests of the slate above
individuals. Through a planned
gradual introduction the new codes
will supplant present civil law giv
ing Germany in effect a corporate
state.
Inheritance, status of Jews,
rights of parents over hildren, pro
perty ownership, and relationship
between workers and factories will
be radically changed. The new laws
are already in partial operation and
will gradually be extended to sup
plant the present system.
Folly on FooFs Day
With the lapsing of the last in
ternational agreement regulating
naval armaments last night at
midnight, threat of a naval race
became a veal possibility. Size of
guns, up to yesterday limited at i
34 inches, brought fears that larg- !
er ships would be built to accomo- j
date 60-foot, 16-inch weapons.
Labor, Capital Bicher
Strike of 400,000 mine workers
hung- over the heads of conferees
attempting to draw up a new con
tract to replace the present one
which expires at midnight tonight.
Unions said they would leave work
if agreement was not reached.
At the same time Congress con
tinued the labor argument, Sena
tor Wagner declaring that a “few
great corporations” were the cause
of sitdowns. Representative Dies
answered with the hackneyed
charge of communistic planning of
the recent labor troubles.
Unman Frailty in Justice
Two more senators were inspired i
to oratory yesterday by the su
preme court reversal, Minton of
Indiana complaining that justice
was dependent upon the “human
frailty of a single judge.” Wash
ington’s Senator Schwellenbach
likened the power of Justice Rob
erts, who was the margin in the
women’s minimum wage decision,
to that of a “Mussolini.”
Autonomy for India
Dissatisfied India, seeking
home-rule for 20 years, prepared
for general strike today as a pro-,
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U W Adopts Plan
For Improved
Faculty Advice
By BERNADINE BOWMAN
The University of Washington
has adopted a new plan whereby
faculty guidance in registration is
compulsory. Under the new pro
gram all students must plan a
year’s schedule of courses with
the approval of a faculty member
of his major department. The
schedule must be arranged before
the student may register for fall
quarter.
From April 1 to 23 the advisors
for each department in the univer
sity will be available for counsel.
The students are responsible for
securing their own conferences.
The new plan is designed to eli- ]
minate hurriedly-planned schedules
and poorly-selected courses.
Police Tags Raise Riot
USC students answered the at
tempt of police -to tag student
cars parked on a university
thoroughfare by staging a minor
riot one morning a week ago.
While delegations of students
climbed on the police-car running
boards and jumped up and down,
others let the air out of official
tires and disconnected the spark
plugs.
Despite pacifying speeches de
livered in an assembly hastily call
ed by President von KleinSmid,
students continued to tear police
cars apart all afternoon and police ,
continued to tag parked student
cars.
Student Acts as Robot
David Gaede, Ohio State univer
sity, helps work his way through
school by appearing at fairs, car
nivals, dances, in front of movie
theatres, and at openings of stores,
dressed as a mechanical man.
“One woman was absolutely
sure that I was radio-controlled,”
he relates, “and she insisted on
seeing the radio apparatus in the
Chamber of Commerce building
which she supposed controlled my
movements.”
Men Songsters
To Vie Tonight
For Loving Cup
4 Living Organizations
To Be Judged at Music
Building; Each Group
To Sing Three Songs
Four men’s living- organizations
will vie Thursday night at 8
o'clock in the music auditorium in
the finals of the Phi Mu Alpha
group singing contest, with a sil
ver loving cup going to the win
ner.
Originally planned as a competi
tion between all men's living
groups, the contest has been nar
rowed by withdrawals to partici
pation by Alpha hall, Theta Chi,
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Sigma
Chi.
Judges of the contest will be
Hal Young, professor of voice in
the music school; S. Stephenson
Smith, professor of English, and
George McMorran, of the Eugene
Gleemen.
Three Numbers
Entrants will sing three num
bers: Sibelius’ “Dear Land of
Home," an Oregon song exclusive
of "Mighty Oregon” and “As I Sit
and Dream at Evening,” and one
optional number.
The trophy is being donated by
W. W. Bristow, local jeweler. If
won three years' successively by
one group, the cup will become
that group's permanent posses
sion.
Prior to the awarding of the
trophy, all four choruses will join
in singing the Sibelius number.
To Revive Songs
Sponsored by Phi Mu Alpha,
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New Men’s Gym
Filled to Capacity
1350 Use PE Plant During
W i n't ejr • Recreational
Facilities Well-Liked
A twenty percent Increase in
the number of participants in
men’s physical education during
the winter term was reported yes
terday by Dean John F. Bovard.
“We have had to add more help
in the basket room to take care of
the 350 additional baskets, which
made about 1350. Of course that
number will drop off during spring
term, but the recreational activi
ties are just as busy. For instance,
last Saturday, I would estimate
there were about 200 men using
school facilities and the fly-cast
ing class at the same time. This
increased interest in the school’s
physical education program shows
that the students appreciate the
new facilities and well rounded
recreational program.”
Dr. Bovard expressed his reluct
ance to leave the University
faculty to take his new position
of professor of physical education
with the University of California,
at Los Angeles. He will specialize
there in training graduates in phy
sical education teaching,' a field
in which he has long been inter
ested. His research work in this
field has resulted in many articles
published in vocational magazines.
ASU Will Choose
Year’s Offieers in
Meeting Tonight
The American Student union will
swing into spring term action to
night with election of officers and
planning for the student strike
against war. The voice of action
reporter will comment on strike ac
tivities on other campuses through
out the nation.
The ASU, cooperating with the
central strike committee, also plans
to conduct forums on the why and
wherefore of the student strike
against war. Forums will be in
charge of John Valleau.
Charles Paddock, retiring presi
dent of the organization, urged all
members to attend tonight's meet
ing because of its importance in
determining next year’s policy of
the organization through the elec
tion of new officers. The ASU
meets in the Alumnae hall, Ger
linger, at 7:30.
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lii the Hand
Soloing with the dancing
rhythms of Jimmy Dorsey's hand
is Boli Eberle, ahove. Klierle will
appear here when the hand comes
north to play for the annual Sigma
Delta Chi dance and an ASl'O
concert on Saturday, April 10.
FE Group to Meet
At UO April 2-3
Campus Men Speakers at
Two Day Conference of
Oregon Educators
With final arrangements com
pleted, the annual spring meeting
of the Oregon State Physical Edu
cation association will be held April
2 and 3, according to- Earl E. Bou
shey, assistant professor of phys
ical education and chairman of the
program committee for the meet.
Built around the program theme:
“How our facilities exemplify our
philosophy of physical education,”
the short convention will give the
first opportunity to show the new
gym to any group of teachers.
The Friday dinner will be .pre
sided over by Miss Madeline Lar
son, director of physical education
at Eastern Oregon normal school,
and president of the association.
Speakers of the evening will be Dr.
Howard R. Taylor, head of psy
chology department, and Henry M.
Foster, professor of physical edu
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ill Pease Named
'Scruples’ Editor
“Scruples” editor will be Bill I
Pease, it was announced yesterday
by Don Casciato, editor of the Ore
gana. Martha Stewart will be asso
ciate editor.
The humor magazine of the Uni
versity will be issued during Junior
Weekend in two publications. One
issue will be bound in the Oregana,
and the other distributed over the
campus.
Included in the magazine with
its “humor” will be a fashion sec
tion for both men and women, a
story by Cliff Wilson, campus
graduate student, and drawings de
picting students and campus life
by unemployed "Jungle Jim,” who
resides at the “jungle” across the
millrace and northeast of the An
chorage.
Bob Colvig will draw a map for
the book, Pease said. It will also
have a large number of pictures to
supplement its 39 pages, he said. 1
U o f O Mobilizes Strength
For Great War Mission;
3 Before Treason Board
Full and Furious Cooperation Called
For at Meeting of League Against
Paeafism and Radicalism
ByCHARLES PADDOCK
The grim reality of war today found the University of Oregon mobi
lizing all its strength for support of the nation’s destiny. Yesterday's
war declaration saw the campus disorganized and unprepared, but
today.it buckled down to the task of what President C. Y. Bayer called
“our great mission."
“The full and furious cooperation of every member of the Univer
Strike Committee
Meets Today at 5
Definite Plans for April 22
Walkout to Be Made;
Six Groups Represented
Oregon’s central strike commit
tee will meet this afternoon to de
cide whether or not a strike will
actually be held April 22. The com
mittee, organized a week ago to
plan the strike, adopted in toto the
national strike call but tabled the
motion that it be called a strike
when some objection arose.
Faced with the possibility of a
strike committee deciding not to
strike, liberal students are rally
ing sentiment to guarantee a local
demonstration against war which
will follow that being staged by
students on many other campuses.
Majority sentiment at the first
committee meeting seemed to |
favor a strike, although a sub
sequent meeting with faculty rep
resentatives showed the adminis
tration not too friendly to the
idea, according to Charles Pad
d’ddk, student strike leader.
Most of the organizations re
presented on the central strike
committee specifically instructed
their delegates to vote and work
for a strike. Organizations now
represented are the American stu
dent union, Student Christian
council, Wasley foundation, West
minster association, YMCA, and
YWCA. Baptist students will de
cide whether or not to join this
week. Representatives of the high
schools are also attending commit- |
tee meetings although neither of
them yet have definite permission
to strike.
The committee will meet at 5
o’clock this afternoon at the Y
hut.
Graduates Land Jobs
On State Newspapers
Carroll Auld, graduate of the
school of business administration
this month, has accepted a posi
tion with the advertising depart
ment of the Coos Bay Times,
Marshfield.
Larry Quille, Eugene, graduated
from the school of journalism this
month and is now working on the
staff of the La Grande Observer
as assistant to Howard M. Young,
advertising manager.
Elizabeth Shoemaker, Roseburg,
University journalism graduate of
last June, is also on the staff of
the Observer, doing general and
society reporting.
Tackle Difficult Roles
When “Ethan Frome," stage hit of 1935-1936, a play taken from
Edith Wharton’s grim New England novel, was chosen as a University
theater production, Patsy Neal and Walden Boyle were cast in diffi
cult roles. Horace Robinson is the director.
sity of Oregon is pledged to the
necessary and just adventure we
are undertaking," the president de
clared before an organizational
meeting of the local League
Against Pacifism and Radicalism.
"If we surrender our principles
now," he thundered, “the world
will become free prey to the hordes
of fascism and communism."
Hearing This Afternoon
President Eayer’s Treason Board
will hold its first hearings this af
ternoon, trying three students who
were brought in last night as a
result of the first raid conducted
by the League Against Radicalism
and Pacifism. The Treason board,
the president said, is empowered to
impose its own discipline.
Following the raids the local
post of the American Legion said
it will not police the campus, since
it considers the LAPR able to
handle the student body. "We leave
it with the University of Oregon
League,” the local commander said,
"to smash any lingering sources of
treason."
150 Leagues Formed
United Press reported last night
that 150 Leagues Against Pacifism
and Radicalism are already organ
ized and active. Their essential
aim, according to Frederick B.
(Umbrella) Robinson, former presi
dent of New York City college, and
now honorary national comman
der, is to “strengthen the morale
of those who might succumb to the
wiles of traitors and paid agents
of Moscow.”
The Association of College
Deans, meeting in annual conven
tion yesterday, pledged cooperation
with those “more brilliant spirits
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Plan for Pre-Rush
Week Undecided
Loss of Week of Vaealion
Is Chief Opposition;
Also Added Expense
“Pan-Hellenic’s pre-rush week
plan, which has been worked on
and talked about during the last
two months, will be a hard one to
put over but I feel a successful
one when put into operation,”
stated Mrs. F. M. Hathaway, presi
dent of the alumnae advisors, Mon
day afternoon.
“The chief opposition to the
plan, as voiced by women of the
individual sorority houses, is the
loss of a week of vacation. This
will affect all women who work
during the summer,” Mrs. Hatha
way continued.
“In the beginning, there will al
so be an added expense to the
houses, but this will be cared for
as the plan progresses. The Uni-,
versities of Washington and Cali
fornia, who have put into practice
this pre-rush week plan have
found it to work out this way. At
present the plan is so successful
that they would not restore the
old method for any reason,” she
continued.
Several other women of the
campus, in opposing the plan, sug
gested that freshman women like
to have rush week during the
week of exams and preliminary
work, she added.
"It seems to give the houses a
topic for discussion during their
rushing and gives the rushees the
idea that college is not all social
activities,” Mrs. Hathaway con
cluded.
The alumnae group plan to do
HO more work on this unless called
oh by the active council. The coun
cil is yet undecided as to its decis
ion, but will take a stand one way
or the other before the new rush
ing pamphlets are put out, stated
Genevieve McNiece, out-going
president of Pan-Hellenic.
Dr. Trueblood
Speaks Today
At 11 o’Clock
Religious Educator Will
Discuss Modern Ideas;
Assembly to Be Held
In Music Auditorium
Dr. D. Elton Trueblood, chap
lain and professor of the philo
sophy of religion at Stanford, will
arrive on the Oregon campus this
morning to speak to a student as
sembly at 11 a. m. in the music
auditorium.
His discussion on “Modern Reli
gious Attitudes" will not be given
in Gerlinger hall, the usual as
sembly place, because of conflict
ing schedules of the physical edu
cation classes. t
“College men and women of to
day are just as concerned. about
finding a way of vital religious
living and perhaps more so than
were their fathers and mothers,"
he stated Tuesdrjy in Corvallis.
He expressed his amazement at
the thought of students buying
tickets and turning out to a meet
ing on religion at 7 o’clock in the
morning.
Was Dean of Men
From 1927 to 1930, he served as
dean of men and professo of philo
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Libe Group Stalled
On Moving Books
Several Plans Offered;
Solution to Be Sought
At Meeting Today
Unable to reach a decision as to
the advisability of moving into the
new library immediately, the li
brary committee at a meeting yes
terday afternoon decided to further
discuss the various plans offered
for consideration today.
Among the plans suggested was
that of declaring a Roman holiday
and in a concentrated period do all
the moving. Dr. H. B. Yocum ad
vocated that if moving be done it
be complete, arguing that a short
disturbance would be less detri
mbental than a continual moving.
Moving by sections with advanc
ed notice being posted as to what
material could be found in the
different buildings was given as a
possible plan. Because this plan
would necessitate a full staff at
each library another suggestion
was that only one building be open
to the students but that messenger
service be installed and books al
ready moved to the new library
could be received on demand. As
the majority of books are moved
to the new libe it could be opened
and service reversed.
Style Show and Tea
At 4 Today to Honor
WAA Delegations
Faculty Considers
Final Exam Change
Academic Council Defers
Action; No Opinion on
Proposal Given
The academic council yesterday
afternoon considered the proposal
of the senior class for the exemp
tion of graduating seniors from
spring finals and pnssed it on to
the faculty "without recommenda
tion.”
The proposal was referred to the
faculty rather than to a commit
tee of the council because In the
latter case students might think
the matter "pigeon-holed" and be
cause there was no time to debate
it, according to C. Valentine Boyer,
president of the University.
The petition presented by the
aenior class to the council calls
for the exemption of graduating
seniors from final examinations,
providing that professors may at
their own discretion give hour ex
aminations in the regular class
periods if thought necessary. Ex
ception is made in the case of
courses in which comprehensive
examinations are ordinarily given.
Students doing "D" or “F” work
would be notified with a warning
slip "two weeks prior to May 24.”
Any senior feeling that an ex
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Sigma Nus Lead
Spring Rushing
Twenty men were pledged to
fraternities during spring rushing
according to the list compiled in
the dean of men’s office. The fol
lowing are tjje names and , the
houses which they pledged.
Beta Theta Pi: Ted Gebhardt
and Roderick Speetsen.
Phi Delta Theta: Henry Lind
strom and Carl Jantzen.
Alpha Ttau Omega: Max Pea
body, Fred C. Fisher, and Stewart
L. MacKenzio.
Pi Kappa Alpha: Merton Lar
sen, and Wm. R. Schaefer.
Sigma Nu: Darold Windsor, Eu
gene Schultz, Norman Conaway,
Kenneth Huycke, and Dale Peter
son.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon: John Val
leau and James D. Mont.
Delta Tan Delta: Gordon Pal
mer.
Sigma Chi: Albert P. Witchel.
Delta Upsilon: Richard Roberts
and Leonard Kelly.
Sweet Death Asked by
Spring Cold Sufferer
Thousands of people die every year with spring colds. They are the
lucky ones. Other thousands live on, hoping for death but, because
of the tenaciousness of the breed, continuing to exist with clogged nos
trils and rasped throats.
Air, when obtained at all by these sufferers, must be dragged through
the wide-open oral cavity by the heels. The noise, on this occasion, is
that of a passionate horse with asthma.
When one gets a cold at the University of Oregon one goes to the
dispensary under the impression
that a panacea awaits within its
door-checked portals.
After arriving and leaving one's
name, one sits disconsolately wish •
ing one had only a leg in a cast, as
does the smiling wench sitting at
the other end of the uncomfortable
bench.
Presently comes forth the doc
with his artificial and after a
while nauseating, smile. He calls
one’s name and one follows him
snuffling into a white-painted and
plastered cell filled with the tools
of his trade.
"Chest hurt?" he asks in an in
gratiating manner. “Hell, yes,” one
tells him politely. What does he
think one is here for, to look at
him ? He ponders. One can hear
the pages of a half-forgotten med
ical book ticking over as he trys
to remember all he learned years
ago. Ah, he has it!
“Take off all your clothes down
to your waist,” says the M.D. A
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Carnegie Funds
Granted Oregon
For 7tli Session
For the seventh consecutive year
the University of Oregon summer
session has been granted $4500
from the Carnegie Corporation by
the American Institution of Archi
tectural Education committee, for
the advancement of the apprecia
tion of art.
Invitations are necessary for en
rollment in the course. From the
26 invitations sent out there have
been so far 23 acceptances, Dean
Lawrence said yesterday. They'
come from as far east as Boston
and include 10 states.
Harvard and the University of
Oregon are the two art centers in
the United States granted these
funds, although a new center is
being started at Pennsylvania for«
Philadelphia art teachers only. J
Three-day Conference
Opens at Noon; Stylist
Features New Spring
Fashion Trends
F<i(‘s Miss Oregon.
I Housemothers, Faculty and
Townspeople Invited to
Attend Review
Whi'n the associated women stu
dents assemble in a mass meeting
in Gerlinger hall at 4 o'clock to
day, to sip tea and hear LaVerne
C. Axelson, Meier and Frank fash
ion co-ordinator, present Miss Ore
gon 1937 to WAA representatives
from 39 colleges, housemothers,
faculty members, and townspeople,
the first of the three-day WAA
western sectional conference will
be well underway.
WAA delegates will be register
ed at noon, tour the campus, have
their pictures taken at 3 o'clock,
and gather in alumni room at 4,
where they will be honored guests
at the fashion show and tea. At 8
o’clock, they will be entertained by
Master Dance in recital.
Helen Bartrum, retiring AWS
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‘As You Like It’ Is
Rex Show April 7
Funds to Go for New Libe
Browsing Room; Four
Showings Scheduled
Shakespeare’s riotous comedy,
"As You Like It,” starring Elisa
beth Bergner, popular English act
ress, is being brought to Eugene
April 7 by the University library
committee.
The proceeds from this film will
be used in part to furnish the
browsing room of the new library.
This picture, one in the series of
benefit entertainments, will have
four showings at the Rex theater,
at 3, 5, 7, and 9 p. m. Tickets
should be bought from the Co-op,
the library, or at the educational
activities building, so that the
committee may benefit. Box office
ticket sales will not count toward
the fund. Tickets are 35 cents for
adults at all performances.
"As You Like It” was released
by Twentieth Century-Fox last fall
for a British company, with an
English cast. Mark Van Doren,
critic for the Nation, writes
"Elisabeth Bergner is a delightful
Rosiland, and the parts of the play
which are photographed are beau
tiful.”
In furnishing the browsing room
an effort is being made to make
it the most comfortable room in
the building where students may
relax and read for pleasure. Of the
$9000 quota set for this room, over
$4000 has been raised.
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