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VOLUME XXXVIII Oregon Beat O J\ S, B to 6, In 10-Inning Fir-Season Opener NUMBER 9) The Passing Show Henry Ford Speaks Lewis Sets New Goal Harvard Professors Strike Front Flares By PAUL DEUTSCHMANN ‘No Concessions' Declaring that improvements in labor conditions have come from industry, not coercion, Henry Ford announced yesterday that his com panies would never recognize the I7AWU or "any other union.” Com menting on Friday’s strike in his Kansas City plant, he said tersely: "We made no concessions.” A weak demonstration in a St. Louis Ford assembly shop yester day was ended when strikers were ejected from the plant, the auto magnate said. He regretted the ac tion, said workers wrere being duped of freedom by union leaders. "IT ill Change His Mind' John L. Lewis, CIO magna.te, had no doubt yesterday but that "Mr. Ford will change his mind,” in regaid to unionization of his vast auto manufacturing plants. While Lewis indicated that the CIO would wait until the problem was before them, he asserted definitely that organization of Ford employes was the next goal. Get Walking Papers Two Harvard professors were tendered two-year concluding ap pointments as economics instruct ors. Reason given by officials were "solely” teaching capacity and scholarly ability. By coincidence, both men, Dr. J. R. Walsh and Dr. A. R. Sweezy. have been active in the formation j of a Harvard teachers’ union. Ad ditional circumstantial evidence j was revealed when it was recalled \ that Dr. Walsh was a recent critic j of President Emeritus A. Lawr ence Lowell's opposition of the child labor amendment. Only Murphy Happy Girls pulled hair, ripped dresses, farmers evicted 1000 sitdowners in a Hershey chocolate plant, snipers : fired on miners in Tennessee coal works, and Governor Murphy, one 1 of the few' happy people on the labor front, announced “there is j every^ prospect for a boom in in dustrial Michigan,” as labor con- j tinued yesterday to settle major! disputes and to harass the na-, tion with minor difficulties. Lawmakers throughout the na tion moved in accord against "la- [ bor’s most effective weapon.” The senate passed its policy resolution against sitdowns, 75 to 3; in Michi gan sitdowns became a felony; ) similar measures were near com pletion in Vermont and already passed in Texas. In Lansing the Reo strike, af fecting 2,200 workers, was brought to a close. Prospects of settling i the Hudson str ike were good. In I the south the CIO moved forward j in its peaceful organization of oil | workers. Friendly Florida Dean Stirprised By Texan Snub By BERNADINE BOWMAN Three thousand men attending the University of Florida speak to everybody, students and faculty members, whether they know them or not, is the boast of Dean B. A. Tolbert of the University of Florida. Dean Tolbert was very much surprised to find that this altitude does not exist in all universities. He especially applied the criticism to the University of Texas. "I spoke to a boy while walking down your campus today, and he looked at me in surprise. He stared, then walked away without speak ing." he said while attending the National Association of Deans and Advisers of Men in Texas recently. New Time-Killer Found Are you reading this article to help pass away some dull class hour? When you get through reading it you might try the new way the students at Northern Illinois State Teachers college have invented to kill time. They draw a circle rep resenting a clock and hands. At five-minute intervals they ink out the sections around the dial. At the end of the hour it is com pletely filled Necktie Chain Started The chain letter disease has broken out again in the form of a necktie exchange at Oberlin col lege. Campus rumor has it the girls of that college are thinking of starting a silk stocking chain The hose they send muls^ be wear able. preferably new Faculty Denies Senior Class Test Petition Graduating Group Loses In Attempt to Discard Double Exam System; Finals Held Vital Seniors at the University of Ore gon will be required to take final examinations as usual, the faculty committee ruled yesterday at its regular meeting. A petition drawn up by a senior committee, headed by Elaine Co rnish, asking that seniors be ex empt from spring term exams be cause of conflicting schedules, was voted down by the faculty. Sym pathy for the seniors was express ed by many members of the com mittee. Little Heeourse Left Last week the senior class re solved to carry the bill through to the highest authority in the University in an effort to be re leased from what they consider an unfair and unnecessary procedure. Little recourse is left open to them now that the ruling has been made. The committee presented the peti tion last Wednesday to the aca demic council, which passed it on to the faculty “without recommen dation." The proposal was referred to this body rather than a com mittee of the council because in the latter case, the students might think the matter pigeon-holed, and because there was no time to de bate it, according to C. Valentine oyer, president of the University. Exams Part of Education The ruling was made so because the final examinations, faculty members pointed out last night, are a deminite part of the educa tional process of this and other (Please turn to page two') Rules Laid Down To Check Coed Picnic Conduct A new set of regulations adopted by heads of houses at a recent meeting in the Delta Gamma house will set pleasure seeking students to w’atching their “p's and q’s.” According to the newly-adopt ed rules, girls going on picnics must check out and in with house mothers, must-return by 9 o’clock if the picnic -is on Sun day, and picnicking freshmen coeds must be accompanied by upperclass women. Girls who go to apartments are subject to expulsion, the new rules state. No food can be de livered to girls in living organi zations after hours. Shorts of the knee-free style worn by cyclists are not to be worn at the sorority house din ner table, the rules decreed. 0-Men Election HclchTony Amato Named President Officers for the coming year were elected at yesterday’s Order of the O luncheon meeting at the Beta house, presided over by John ny Lewis, club president. Tony Amato. football captain, was named president: Vernon Moore, vice-president; Don Kennedy, sec retary; Hank Nilsen, treasurer; and John Yerby. sergeant-at-arms. The club voted to take in the five men who made basketball letters: Urgel Wintermute. Bob Anet. Wally Johansen. Ray Jewel, and Laddy Gale Howard Hobson, head basketball and baseball coach, talked to the members about the banquet being held for the local high school teams by the down town merchants. The letterman's club will handle the ticket sale for the banquet to be given next week. Plans were discussed and com pleted for the Oregon-Oregon State smoker Friday night in the Corvallis gymnasium. Promoter Leif Jacobsen announced a com plete card of boxing and wrestling events in every weight, but stated that the Oregon squad has great need of a heavyweight boxer to fill the bill. Hannon Gotv mm Lester Miller will play the part of Harmon Gow in the University theater’s presentation of the dra matic tragedy “Ethan Frome," which will open Friday night at 8:30 for a two-night engagement at Guild hall. Dean Allen Talks To Coeds on News Women as Subject Matter For Newspapers ami as riters Is Topic How to interest women in the news is an important question which faces the editor of a news paper in determining their rela tionship to the news, Eric W. Al len, dean of the journalism school, said last night in his talk in Ger linger to University coeds. Two other questions are closely related to women in the field of journalism, he said—the use of women in the profession and as subject matter for the newspapers. In regard to the first question, it was shown that women are the greatest consumers of goods and spend a large proportion of the family salary in this consumption, and are, therefore, especially inter ested in department store adver tisements. In other parts of the newspaper, women are found to read the society page more or less carefully, Dean Allen said. Birth, death, and marriage notices also attract their attention. To gain more women readers, editors are using them on news papers, Dean Allen said, hut no matter how many women are used in the profession, there is no more sign of femininity than when only men are used, “Women are successful in al most every department of the newspaper,” he said, "but women writers are not found to contribute anything distinctive to journal ism.” As for the use of women in the news, this is also problematic, for the best type of woman usually leads a retiring life, the dean point ed out. McCosh Will Aid With Decorations David McCosh, instructor in painting and drawing at the Uni versity art school, has been in vited by the treasury department, with 11 other painters and 3 sculp tors from all sections of the coun try. to execute decorations for the new department of interior build ing. According to the Ait Digest, the news magazine of art, this will be the most important art project started by the treasury's procure ment division since the commis sions for the justice department and the post office department buildings According to the New York Herald Tribune, the decorations will illustrate the various activi ties of the Interior department bu reaus. Some of the themes of the different murals will be conserva tion. reclamation, the National Park service, the bureaus of In dian affairs, mines education and the general land office. Mr Me! Cosh is to do the theme of the; national park service. LEIGHTON IN SPOKANE R W. Leighton, professor of education, is in Spokane attending the Inland Empire Educational association conference. He is ex pected to return the end of the week. Book Moving Held by Libe Board Plans Holiday Not Approved By Boyer in Proposed Setup; Library Group To Meet Today Tentative approval was given the library moving plan by Presi dent C. Valentine Boyer, yester day. His final signature will be given when a detailed plan, satis factory to the library committee, is worked out. Willis Warren, re serve librarian, will present such a plan at a meeting of the commit tee this afternoon. Under Warren’s proposal _ the necessity of declaring a student holiday, an idea not approved by the president, will be done away with as the major moving opera tion will be done over a weekend. Because it will be impossible to move completely in three days without disrupting the library sys tem, in the week preceeding the final transfer, all materials not absolutely necessary for students will be removed. Moving Date to Be Set Date for the transportation of 150,000 volumes and other remain ing equipment •yvill be set today if the committee is favorable toward immediate moving. Necessity of vacating the old libe by April 23 to begin work on the WPA re-1 modeling project, made it probable that the date set would be within the next two weeks. Preliminary moving will be car ried on just as the pre-spring vaca tion job was done. This will in clude all stored equipment and books not regularly used by stu dents. Coalition Split Rumor Spreads boar in Politics Campus politicians wore, thrown into a furor yesterday, fearing that hope for a solid one man ticket had fled Into the spring air, when the noise of a political parade wending along Eleventh and Thirteenth avenues was heard over the campus. As the group of noise-making students, riding in cars covered with signs acclaiming their res pective candidates, neared Con don library and Oregon, despair ing- politicos and interested stu dents dropped studies and classes to watch the big parade. Humors spread rapidly in poli tical circles that an unexpected split had occurred in the coali tion line-up. Hurriedly they scrambled to the curbings where the crowd was passing. “Yes, it has happened. See Barney’s name of that car.” A vote for Barney Burney Traxler would put new power in the Northwest Christian col lege student body, the sign in sisted. Major W.C. Moore To Inspect Troops Annual inspection and reviewing of the ROTC will be made May 3 and 4 by Major W. C. Moore of the 7th Infantry in Vancouver, Washington. Every class will be examined on marching ability and knowledge of scientific warfare and maneuvers Troops will also undergo strict in spection of arms. Colonel E. V. D. Murphy, com (Please turn to paiie two) Faculty Advisers Suggest Change in Lower Division; More Survey Courses A recommendation that separate types of lower division courses be provided for those students who wish to specialize In a subject, and for those who wish to round out their general education in less than four years has been made by the lower divisions faculty advisory group. Plans for the development of a system of qualifying and comprehen sive examinations to be taken at or before the end of the sophomore year, and for a more complete advisory service for undergraduates were also suggesieu. At present, the committee stated, survey courses have the tendency to become definitely sub ject-centered. This is due, in part, to the fact that instructors have had educational experience both as students and teachers in courses which are definitely subject-cen tered. Besides general courses for the type of student who does not wish to centralize on any one thing, the group suggested that more courses be installed which place heavy em phasis upon interest, understand ing and appreciation. Advisers Overworked The special advisers for fresh men, appointed at fall term in 1935, are greatly overworked, the group stated. Lack of floor space during registration will be correct ed as space in the new gymnasium is available, but advisers, caring for about 1800 students, cannot give the desirable individual at tention to each student. More advisers are necessary Pre-registration of one-year stu dents would help distribute the load, the board said, but the Uni versity finds itself faced with the same old stone wall no finances Other Suggestions Offered A committee of the academic council is struggling with the ap proved project of comprehensive examinations. So far no satsifac tory solution of the problem has, been reached, but plans and sys-: terns of other schools are being; studied Faculty members are de-! finitely in favor of comprehensive ! examinations, either at the end of the freshman and sophomore years, or one examination covering: all material before a junior certi ficate is issued. With the repeal of the require- ] ment rule: “Unless otherwise au thorized, freshmen take two year sequences in the 100-110 courses and sophomores take one in the 200-210 courses. ' more freedom will be given entering students; than they have known before. (Please turn to page two) j Oregon Fencing (Huh Meets OSC Thursday Thp University of Oregon fenc ing club will meet the Oregon State club at Corvallis Thursday afternoon. Del Robinson, club presi dent. announced today. The Oregon State squad is led by Bruce Elliott, captain and club president. Renore Lavanture, Bill Youftg, and Henry Spivalt are on the tentative team picked by Rob inson to represent Oregon. Oregon fencers will meet at 4 :45 p. m. in front of Gerllnger to leave for Corvallis. Hand of Fate? “If I am guilty of this horrible crime, may God strike me (load before I get to my •••*11,” cried Samuel Whitaker, aged church or ganist. when a l-os \ngrles jury convicted him of wife slaying. Ho was sent to San Quentin and on the day he wu* to enter a cell | he dropped dead in the prison hos pital. Fall Rushing To Be Voted on By Girls’ Group Pan - Hellenic Members On Hnlrs Committee To Strive for Decision At Tonight's Meeting Members of the rules commit tee of Pan-hellenic will meet at 7:30 tonight in alumni hall of Ger linger to discuss and to take a preliminary vote on the pre-rush ing program proposed last term. Dean of Women, Hazel P. Schwer ing, will preside at the meeting. At the beginning of winter term, members of the present Pan-hell enic council worked into shape a re vised plan for fall rushing. This provided that all sorority women would return one week early to the campus and complete rushing be fore the customary freshman week. To leaders of the campus, the plan looked prospective from the rushee’s standpoint. She would complete her week of dinners and dates, ami would have the next week free for the entrance exams. But to women of the houses, it meant that those who worked dur ing the summer vacation would be forced to leave their positions earlier than they thought neces sary. Several houses called atten tion to the extra expense to the houses, and would call for an in crease in their rushing allowance. Sorority women would have no classes to attend and would feel that the daytime, between rushing dates, was a wnste of time. Rushees, as provided in the plan, would be housed in the two wo men's dormitories, but they would be forced to move out before the end of the week, that prepara (I'lease turn to page tu'o) Faculty Members To Attend Banquet Athletics will feature the nnnunl University nf Oregon Founders' day banquet in Portland Friday, with Mike Mlkulak, new backfield coaeh, giving the main talk on ‘‘My Experience in Professional Foot ball." Others of the athletic dp partment on the program are: Anse Cornell, George Varoff, Prink Calllson, Gene Shields, Howard Hobson, and Bill Hayward. "Recent Campus Developments” Will be discussed by Dean .lames H. Gilbert of the school of social sci ence. Elmer Fansett, alumni secre tary, will also be on the program. The outstanding Oregon alumns of the year will be awarded a scroll by Bert Gooding. “Marching Oregon,” new song composed for the University by Hal Young and George Hopkins, will be presented by them at the banquet. Janet Smith, head of the new placement service, will be In troduced by Dean Karl W. On thank. I)r. Parsons Attends (lonfcrcnce at Hoist* Dr. P. A. Parsons, head of the sociology department, is leaving for Boise to attend the fourth an nual Pacific Northwest regional planning conference which lasts from A pi ll X to 10. Dr. Parsons is on the state plan ning board and Is chairman of the lunch meeting on Saturday The subject of his meeting is “Human Resources and Social Planning He is a member of the program and policies committee. I'I.EIMiKS SIGMA KAPPA Irma L. Ib-likson was pledged this week to Sigrna Kappa, the dean of womens office announced yesterday. bran-inf! f or I’artnom In Final (.onntrinlion Finlay at (.olli'dr Siilr Living organizations will draw for partners In float con struction and for possible themes for the Junior weekend canoe fete today at the College Side at t o’clock, according to Bill Dalton, canoe (ete chair man. Houses which will par ticipate will la- notified. Assembly Cues! Guest anil speaker at the clv.in I cellor's assembly this morning' at 1 I will la* Chancellor Frederick M. Hunter. The ehaneellor has just completed a speaking tour through eastern Oregon. Rev. Ristow Talks On Labor Conflict The true economic problem of j our society today is not to elimtn j ate strikes, but to do away with ; the conflict of Interests that leads ! to strikes, maintained Rev. Cecil Ristow, pastor of the First Meth odist church, in a speech sponsor ed by the Community Forum group 1 in Villard hall Wednesday night. Speaking on "The Economic and Ethical Aspects of the. Strike," Rev. Ristow said that the right of the laborer to strike is embodied in his right of collective bargain 1 ing. The speaker paralleled the eco nomic system of today with the medieval feudal system. Rev. Ristow discussed the evils of spies, and racketeering that have entered into labor-capital re lations. "Both sides have plenty of sins to answer for, and the guilt cannot be laid to either," he said. As a remedy for this conflict of interests cited as the true evil of labor relations, Rev. Ristow sug gested action along two lines; eli mination from the human heart the desire to profit at the expense of others, and passage of whole some, sensible social legislation. MOTHER HIES Mrs. Jay K. McKeown, mother of Esther McKeown, student in urts and letters at the University, , died of heart attack at her home j here a little after noon Wednes I day. Hunter Speech Set for Today At Assembly Reaction oi‘ Old Heroes To Problems of Today Is Topic; New Oregon Son*; Debut Rilled Flexibility of the basic ideas and ideals of great heroes of the past, and the effectiveness they would have in dealing with the complex problems of our day, will be dis cussed by Chancellor F. M. Hunter in his speech “New Problems and Old Heroes," to be given at the Chancellor's assembly today at 1 L o'clock in Gerlinger hall. The Chancellor has just retained from a week's tour in eastern Ore gon. where he conferred with coun ty agents and educational leaders, inspected state experiment farms, and spoke at several service clubs. Welcome Urged A hearty welcome is urged for the Chancellor by Gilbert Schultz, student body president. “We have designated this as the Chancellor's assembly," said Schultz, “and we want to show him that we are thoroughly for him. Let everyone come to the assembly and give him p real demonstration." All members of campus honorar ies are requested by Schultz to come to the assembly in the dress of their organization, and to sit in a section that will be reserved for them. Singing Scheduled Another feature of the assembly will be the first assembly singing of the newly written song, “March ing Oregon.” Copies of the song will be distributed, and the singing will be led by Hal Young, who, with George Hopkins, composed the words and music. Whether or not the song is to become the offi cial Oregon song will be largely determined by the crowds' initial reception of it. plans, not yet announced, are being made to give a free ticket to the Jimmy Dorsey dance to some lucky student card holder. All who, have cards are Instructed to bring them, although It is not necessary to have a card to attend. Chancellor Hunter will be intro duced to the assembly by President C. Valentine Boyer. KX-STUDKNTH MARRIED Word was received by members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon of the marriage of Harry Ragsdale, SAE, from Moro, Oregon, and Janet Stevens, Pi Beta Phi. Both Mr and Mrs. ltagsdale were student; of the University last year. Ex-Band Leader Lauds Dorsey as Clarinetist Tom Coakley, ex-Callfornla band leader who gave up the gentle art of .swing to pursue law books, said, when he stopped here Tuesday night, that In his opinion Jimmy Dorsey and Benny Goodman are the two best clarinet players in the country today. That's w,hut is in store for the Oregon campus Saturday night when Sigma Delta Chi brings Dorsey and his band to the Igloo for a three i hour lesson in real swing music. Professor Dorsey plays an unbeatable swing style in the opinion of the j dancing public Pacing the style of the popular Benny Goodman, the i “bang-’em-otit" drummer of Dor sey's is considered by many musi cians in tiie land to be able to out 1 drum the great Gene Krupa of the aforesaid maestro's orchestra and quartet. When the Dorsey Brothers' or chestra split in 1934, Jimmy forged ahead until now he Is running neck and neck with Benny Goodman for popularity Benny still leads the race in the minds of music critics, however, since he has the added publicity of radio editors and an nouncers who started the word "swing” to characterize his style. "The Parade of the Milk Bottle Tops,” will be played Saturday ; night as only Dorsey can play it ; and other latest tunes will put feet I in dancing motion. Hpck, McAnaulty Named Ah I(i'u<Ih of Art League Kred Beck and Nancy McAn aulty were elected president and secretary-treasurer respectively of I the Art League at a meeting yes terday afternoon. Dean Lawrence spoke to the league on the tradi tions of the art school. >5? Your Palm Beach Suits are here—■ JOE RICHARDS MEN’S STORE 878 Willamette