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Webfoot Nine Takes Lin field ft-4 iti Spite Of Blustery Weather VOLUME XXXVIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1937 NUMBER 100 The Passing Show — Hitler, fl 1 Years Old Blockade Runner Labor, Capital British Tax Latvs By PAUL DEUTSCHMANN Swastika Cake Celebrated appropriately with military reviews and a swastika decorated cake, Adolph Hitler, feuhrer of Naziland, appropriately passed his 48th birthday yesterday. Fourteen thousand soldiers, squad rons of planes, 275 tanks, 1,500 horses paraded the streets of Ber lin, to receive the Nazi salute from their leader. At the same time rumors sug gested that Hitler would write a secret sequel to his “Mein Kampf' to be used as a guide for future leaders of Germany. Government. Victories Battle-bound northern Basques held in Bilbao by surrounding rebel troops rejoiced yesterday with the arrival of the British steamer bear ing 4,000 tons of food supplies. The vessel ran the blockade yesterday, found no evidence of rebel mines in the 11-mile channel. Loyalists reported several vic tories in eastern Spain in the Ter uel area. Nationalist territory, al ready under semi-dictatorship, was brought nearer complete domina tion byl Franco following a decree Monday evening which increased his power and created a one-party authoritarian state. Sacred and Binding Eight to collective bargaining, battle cry of labor for fifty years, was elevated to a “sacred and binding” state yesterday at a meet ing of 27 employers and union lead- ! ers who agreed that the Wagner act was “the law of the land” and would be obeyed by employers. Strikes continued in Canada, looked possible in England, and were evident throughout the United States. AFL and CIO continued their filed quietly. Both Green and Lewis attended the meeting. One-third of Profits England, laboring under a $7, r>00,000,000 armament program, came forth with a new barrage of taxes yesterday in an effort to in crease the national income. Profit increase will be heavily hit, if the bill, strongly supported by the national government, goes through. An increase in the income tax (Please turn to pane two1 H 2 Plus 7Equals W Gives Solution For Newlyweds By BERNADINE BOWMAN Impossible, incredible, unbeliev able! Yet here it is. A mathematical formula for making a go of mar riage. Martial happiness, according to professor of the University of San Francisco, is simply the solu tion of a mathematical formula. It’s H 2 plus 7 equals W. In plain language this means simply that at marriage the wife’s age shauld be equal to that of the husband's divided by 2 plus 7. For example, if the groom is 28, the ideal bride would be 21. A man of 36 ought to marry a girl of 25, while a centenarian should lead a bride of 57 to the altar. COEDS NOW HANDY MEN Montana co-eds are learning how to be “handy-men” around the house after they are married. The girls are learning how to re pair waffle irons, electric toasters, hair-curling gadgets, washing ma chines, irons and other household appliances. Manufacturers have contributed $5,000 worth of equipment for the girls to tinker with. They learn K how to assemble as well as repair. PHOTOS THW ART CRASHERS Going about getting rid of the gate-crashers in a most scientific manner the purchasers of tickets to the Junior prom at Purdue uni versity recently had to have their picture taken and attached to the ticket. If the picture did not look like the person presenting it at the door he was not permitted to enter. STUDENTS CAN’T WRITE Henry N. MacCracken, Vassar college's president, says “College students produce two kinds of lit erature, neither of them good. Either they try revealing their own hearts, which are not very full yet, and which they are gener ally unable to interpret, or they de ^ cide to imitate some well-known author in describing artificial situ ations which they know even less well than themselves.” PEA Raps Modern Education for Being Over Standardized Teaching Is too Formal And Artificial, Claims Colorado President; Changes Needed Hits ‘Standpatters’ College Students Unable to Read Intelligently, Says Dr. Frazier By BILL PENGRA Protests against modern stan dardized education was voiced sev eral times yesterday, during the various sessions of the northwest regional conference of the Progres sive EJducation association, being held in Eugene yesterday and to day. Changes in curriculum were ad vocated which would take into consideration the differences of children, and which would tend toward training them along more useful subjects. Helping the child ren to find their places in the com munities and in life, is the fore most purpose of education under the system proposed by the mo dern educators. Suggests Changes Formal and artificial education, such as exist at the present time, were decried by Dr. George Fra (Please turn to page tzvo) Ballard Is Chosen Speaker for Grads Presbyterian Minister Will Deliver Message to Class At Baccalaureate J. Hudson Ballard, minister of the First Presbyterian church, Portland, has been selected to de liver the baccalaureate sermon, an nounced Dean J. H. Gilbert, chair man of the commencement com mittee. His subject will be “Interpreta tion.” Mr. Ballard will address the graduates, who will be attired in their academic costumes on May 30 at 8:00 in McArthur court. Eugene Gleemen under the di rection of John Stark Evans, fill out the program. The majority of the churches are dismissing even ing services to attend, which as sures a bigger percentage of towns people. The baccalaureate has been changed for the first time this year from 11 o’clock for the convenience of people wishing to come. Mr. Ballard is well known to stu dents and townspeople, according to Dean Gilbert. In addition to his doctor of divinity degree, he has a Ph.D., A.B., A.M., and B.D. degrees. Women’s Career Talk Postponed Miss Janet Smith, employment secretary, who was to speak to night before University coeds, has postponed her talk until next Wed nesday, April 28. No other changes will be made in her schedule, it was announced last night. . Miss Smith will talk on “Women and Careers,” giving specific in formation on positions open to and held by women. She will use much of the material which she has available from her work with the employment bureau at the Univer sity. This talk will be the third in a series especially relating to wo men which has been directed by Theta Sigma Phi, women’s nation al journalism honorary. The first was given by Eric W. Allen, dean of the journalism school, who spoke on women’s relationship to the news. The second talk was given by Victor P. Morris, acting dean of the business administra tion school, on women in the world of economics. 1 Tickets are being sold by mem bers of Theta Sigma Phi for ten cents. The final meeting is scheduled for the regular time, from 7 until 8 o’clock, and will be held in Alumni hall of Gerlinger. Wednesday Program For PEA Meet Has Curriculum Lectures Wednesday's p r o g r a m for PEA meet. 9:00 a.m.—Sectional meetings. Evaluating the Intangibles of Progressive Education, Dr. Ralph Tyler, University music auditorium. Initiating a program of Pro gressive Education, Urs. Carson Ryan and George Frazier, Uni versity' high school auditorium. Meeting the needs of adoles eents through the curriculum. Dr. Caroline Zachry, room 4, Education building. 10:30 a.m. — Sections meet ings; School activities and emo tional development of the child, Dr. Daniel Prescott, music audi torium. Educating for tolerance in a democracy, Dr. Rachel Davis DuBois, University high audi torium. Problems of schools in under taking new programs in educa cation, Dr. Caroline Zachry, room 4, Education building. 1:30 p.m. — General session, Dr. Daniel Prescitt, music audi torium. Subject: Re-thinking the problem of classroom moti vation. 3:00 p.m. — General session, Dr. Ralph Tyler, music auditor ium. Subject: Significant devel opments in current experimental secondary schools. Oregon’s Forest Shown In New Maps at Condon The Condon museum has just received a set of lithograph maps of the state of Oregon which show the types of forests in the differ ent parts of the state. They are the gift of the Pacific Northwest experiment station. They are large-scale maps, being one inch to every four miles. Besides show ing the different types of forests, the burned-over areas are also included. All parts of the state are shown except the northeast section, which maDs will be here soon. Shaw’s ‘Pygmalion’ Slated May 14,15 Helen Roberts ami Jerry Smith Cast for Leading Roles in Play One of George Bernard Shaw's most popular comedies, "Pygmal ion," will be presented by the Guild hall players on Friday and Satur day, May 14 and 15, in the Uni versity theater, directed by Mrs. Ottilie Turnbull Seybolt. The theme of the play is the de cadence of phonetics in English speech and the hero is a professor of phonetics. Gerry Smith, head bundler of “Pursuit of Happiness.” is cast as Pygmalion Higgins, the phonetic expert who bets that he can take a flower girl and by improving her speech, pass her off as a duch ess. The littl eflower girl, Liza, is played by Helen Roberts, Smith’s romantic team mate of “Pursuit of Happiness.” Higgins' friend Pickering, with whom he makes the bet, is to be played by Ethan Newman, and Liza's father Doolittle, who is a self-styled member of the unde serving poor, is to be presented by Adrian Martin. Other members of the cast are: Mrs. Pearie, Adelyn Shields; Mrs. Eynsford Hill, Alice May Seiling; Clara Eynsford Hill, Patsy Neal; Mrs. Higgins, Ottilie Turnbull Seybolt; first bystander, Ted Thompson; second bystander, Jack Lewis, and Freddie, Milton Pilette. A few minor roles are yet to be filled. Phi Theta Pledges Tagged by Posies Members of Phi Theta Upsilon, junior women’s service honorary, visited living organizations at the . dinner hour last evening a nd pin ned pledge ribbons and corsages of Oregon spring flowers on their new pledges. Headed by Martha Stewart, president, members of the honor ary pledged the following sopho mores: Pearl Jean Wilson, Kath leen McAlear, Maude Edmunds, Bernadine Bowman, Beulah Chap man, Margaret Goldsmith, Peggy Lee Reavig, Kay Staples, June Phelp, Mary Catherine Sorenson, (Please turn to page two) Various Museums Located In University Buildings Boast Assorted Collections (Editor’s note—This is the fifth of a series by Lucille Finck which ' will tell the story behind interesting “landmarks” on the Oregon cam pus and which will appear in the Emerald from time to time.) Fossils, birds and mammals, plants—Oregon, too, has its museums, j some containing collections of not. Many of the collections are gifts i of people who made a life work of their collection. The herbarium, a botanical museum located in Condon hall, has specimens from Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, with several thousand from the eastern states and the Philippines. The Leiberg collection of botanical specimens was presented to the University by John B. Leiberg in 1908. There are 15,000 sheets of specimens collect ed principally from Oregon, Wash ington, and Idaho, but including some from other states. The Cusick collection has 7,000 specimens. They were donated by Edmund P. Sheldon, Martin W. Gorman, and Kirk Whitehead. The latter is made up of plants collect ed mostly in Oregon. The Sheldon Herbarium is made up of about the same number of plants gather ed by Edmund P. Sheldon in the mid-west state. Mrs. A. M. Spang-1 (Please turn to page two) University Women Will Attend Playdav at Reed Plans for University WAA wo men to attend the annual play day given each year by Reed college in Portland the first of May, were discussed by members of the WAA council at their meeting held last night. Gretchen Smith, president, stated that the names of the girls who will attend have not been handed in yet, but these will be decided upon soon. Reports of various committees !were also given. Motion Pictures To Show Travel, Polar Expeditions “The Story of Transportation and Travel” and “The Story of the Polar Regions,” two new sound educational films will be shown at 11 o’clock today in Villard hall. These films were brought from New York for use in connection with the visual instruction depart ment at the Inland Empire educa tional conference held recently in Spokane. They were shown earlier in the month at the University of Washington and before principals of Portland schools. The picture of transportation and travel begins with the ro mance of the far lands as it in fluenced the United States. His tory of the pioneer days through the express stage and railroads to the present day clipper ships and stream-lined trains will be shown. Moments of the expedition of General Greeley and the flight of Admiral Richard E. Byrd to the North Pole will be presented in the "Story of the Polar Regions.” The department of visual in struction will maintain an exhibit and demonstrate sound films in room 10 at the University high all day today. U. S. Eurt, head of the department of visual instruction, will be in charge. Tennis Courts or Library Terrace Seene o f Da nee j Re-kindle Oregon's school spirit! With this in mind co-chair men Frederica Merrell and Wayne Haibert are making plans for the coming ASUO political dance to be held Friday, April 30, from 3 to 5:30 p. m. The dance is fi'ee to all student body members, and will be a no-date affair, it was announced. Weather permitting, the dance will be given at the tennis courts. If the weather is bad, arrangements are being completed to hold the dance in the terrace of the new library, Harbert said. Decorations will consist mainly of political banners and cartoons. Candidates for ASUO officers will be intro duced during the intermission. Campus clothes will be in or der, and both dated couples and stags will be welcomed. The terrace will be cleaned •and waxed for the dance if it is secured. Oregon Retailers Will Meet Here Fair Trade Praetiee Acts In State to Be Discussed At Conference May 3 Fair trade practice acta will be discussed here May 3 by Oregon merchants at the first annual con ference of the Oregon Retali Dis tributors’ association. Considera tion will be given to the Oregon I fair trade act of 1935, the anti j price discrimination act of 1937 ; and the Robinson-Patman act. Taxation and retail research will also be studied at the conference, | according to announcement made today by Dr. N. H. Cornish, profes sor of business administration and secretary of the group. The conference will also serve to complete organization of the new association. Presiding will be Har old Wendel, manager of Lipman, Wolfe and company of Portland, and association president. “How Oregon’s First Fair Trade Act (1935) Works,” will be the topic of an address by Frank Nau, Portland, at the morning session of the conference. Edward F. Bail ey, counsel for the Home Owners’ Loan corporation, will speak on “What Oregon’s 1937 Anti-price Discrimination Act Is”; while “Re tailing Under the Robinson-Pat man Act’’ will be discussed by E. A. Tibbits, Portland. Featured speaker at the banquet at night will be P. J. MacAuley, advertising manager of Meier and Frank company, Portland. He will have as his topic, “Trends in Re tailing.” New Editor Calls Yearbook Staff Students interested in Oregana staff positions for the 1938 book 1 are asked to attend the meeting this afternoon at 4 o’clock in room 104 Journalism, stated Wayne Harbert, 1938 editor, last evening. Preference of positions will be handed in after the meeting by those desiring places on the staff, Harbert said. Previous experience is not needed. Work on the next year book was begun this week as staff Ihe University campus as it ap pears in the spring. A series of pictures, taken chro nologically, of all large campus events will feature next year’s book of informality, state Harbert. A series of this type of photo graphy will be taken of Junior Weekend. Students interested in taking pictures for the book are asked to see Harbert. Films will be paid for and developed at the expense of the year book, Harbert said. ROAD SURVEY OKS HERE Thomas M. C. Martin, assistant economist of the U. S. bureau of public roads, and D. W. Keef, direc tor of the fiscal survey for state highways, visited Tuesday morning at the University. They spent the morning confering with H. Kehrli, director of the bureau of municipal research, concerning the study of expenditures for streets and high ways, a study that is taking place in 40 states. Oregon to Join War ‘Protest’ At 11 Thursday Buell, Farquharson Are Visiting Speakers on Peace Demonstration Program Tomorrow at 11 more than 1, 000,000 college and high school stu dents will stage the annual protest against war. Oregon will be more in the picture this year than ever before, leaders of the local demon stration declared last night. Between 1500 and 2500 partici pants are expected. Principal R. U. Moore of University high school announced yesterday that school will be dismissed at 11 o’clock and the student body will be urged to participate in the University dem onstration. Speakers Named Heading the demonstration pro gram tomorrow will be Raymond L. Buell, president of the Foreign Policy association, and Prof. F. B. Farquharson of the University of Washington. Student speakers will be Harold Barton and Charles Pad dock. Also scheduled is music, the stu dent version of "Men of the Soil.” Exchange greetings with the stu dent bodies of Reed college and Willamette university will be heard. A representative of organ ized labor will ibring greetings. Master of ceremonies is Gilbert Schultz, president of the student body. The steps of the old libe, scene of one previous anti-war demonstration, will provide the ros trum for the protest and strike if weather permits. Difficulties Ironed Out Internal clashes of opinion over whether or not Oregon should strike seem to have been ironed out. The central strike committee i is sponsoring a "protest and de claration of intention to strike when war comes.” Two or three j of the groups consider themselves I as striking now, without waiting j for war danger to become more acute. Representatives of the American Student union, Wesley Foundation, ' and Young People’s Socialist league, declared they are striking in solidarity with the national strike, because they feel students (Please turn to page tzvo) Proportional Plan to Select ASUO Heads Up for Committee OK Preferential Voting Held to Eliminate Gravy in Polities; Insure Minority Representation, Hall Says By LLOYD TUPLTNG A detailed plan for proportional representation in student body politics, an oft-sought reform for selecting ASUO officers, will be sub mitted to the student executive committee for approval today. A student committee, headed by Barney Hall, drew up the plan. Under the new plan nominees would not run for any designated offices, all candidates would be up for election to the executive com mittee. The candidate receiving the greatest total of first choice votes We Change Little States Minister Holmes Urges Upholding Institutions of Fathers; Bill Hayward Talks Speaking in a fast-moving, stac cato style, O. H. Holmes, Forest Grove minister, related humorous incidents from American history and his own early life at a Univer sity of Oregon assembly this morn ing in Gerlinger hall and kept the audience of nearly 800 students figuratively “rolling in the aisles” with amusement. Mr. Holmes’ topic was “And It Reminds Me." In the closing min utes of his short talk he connect ed and gave point to the seeming ly unconnected stories which he had told by changing to a serious vein and pointing out the similari ties between these incidents of sev eral decades ago and present-day events and using these as basis for an appeal to uphold the insti tutions and government which were founded by oiir forefathers. "We don't change much during the ages.” Mr. Holmes declared. “We today think the same as our father did; we do the same things as our fathers did. We have in herited from them priceless insti tutions which are as valuable to us as they were to them, and we should carry them on in the same devoted spirit they did.” Bill Hayward, Oregon's veteran track coach, also spoke briefly, an (Ph'ase turn to paqe turn) Frosh Psych Examinations Show Possibilities9 Don’t Limit Entrance, Says Taylor By MARGARET RANKIN Very definite truths concerning an individual’s psychological possi bilities and intellectual qualifications are exposed in psychology exams given to entering freshmen, although applicants are never denied entry if they fail to pass the examinations, Dr. H. R. Taylor, professor of psychology, pointed out yesterday. The psychological exam is an example of the student’s ability to do abstract thinking and verbal symbols. The mathematical tests and Order of Mace To Name Pledges, Winners Tonight Winners of the ASUO forensic awards and new members of the Order of the Mace, forensic honor ary, will be announced at the an nual spring banquet of the society this evening at 6 o'clock at the Del Rey cafe. James Gilbert, dean of the Eng lish department, and Mrs. Gene vieve Turnipseed, director of dor mitories, have been invited as spe cial guests. Members of extempor aneous speaking classes will also be present. About 150 will pro bably attend, according to John Casteel, head of the speech divi sion and advisor to the Order of the Mace. Kessler Cannon, Avery Combs, Wilhelmina Gerot, William Lubersky, and Walter Eschebeck are in charge of arrangements. The program will include skits by representatives o^the sections of extemporaneous speech, high lights of speech symposium trips, singing by Freed Gales, and a violin solo by Dorothy Louise Johnson. Avery Combs, Walter Eschebeck, and William Lubersky will add a bit of humor with a demonstration symposium and an interpretation of "Lips That Touch jLiquor Shall Never Touch Mine." electric tests are used to find out if the student can think logically and reason out problems, Dr. Tay lor said. These exams are used in the majority of the universities in this country to show the psychological possibilities in a person before he is admitted to the school. Take All Comers The University of Oregon ac cepts any high school graduate who can meet the entrance require ments and do not refuse admission because of these tests. Schools such as Stanford and Columbia, who want their students to get the most out of facilities and feel that they must have a high degree of intelligence because of this, these (Please turn to page two) Washke Slated to Arrive Back on Campus May 9 Paul R. Washke, intramural sports director, is expected to ar rive on the campus May 9 from the annual Physical Education Conven tion held this year in New York City. Mr. Washke intends to meet Oregon’s tennis, team in Moscow, Idaho, where they will meet Uni versity of Idaho. He will travel with the squad to Pullman, Wash ington, where Oregon plays WSC. He will not return with the team, but will arrive on the train later. under a preferential ballot would be named president. Other officers in the executive council would be selected from the remaining list by the same process, Hall explained. The committee, composed of Bar ney Hall, chairman, Bill Pease, member of the ASUO committee, Gayle Buchanan, AWS president, and Fred Colvig, Emerald editor, will submit the plan to supplement a recent ASUO by-law to take “gravy” distribution out of poli tics, it was pointed out. Minority Itepresentation “The plan insures minority re presentation, and every vote is ef fective in selecting officers,” Hall claimed. "It works in with a recent by-law to eliminate gravy in poli tics, because it will make certain that the executive committee will be a representative body.” The proportional representation plan with preferential selection is now employed in New York City, Cincinnati, Ohio, Columbia univer (Please rum In page tu'o) NBC to Broadcast Junior Weekend lfi£hlii;lils Will B<* on Air Over Two Networks; Orchestra Undecided I _ Junior weekend highlights will be broadcast over the red and blue networks of the National Broad casting company, it was announced last night by Zollie Volchock, Jun ior weekend publicity manager. Volchock, Ralph Schomp, educa tional activities director, and Sain Fort, Junior weekend chairman, re turned last night from Portland where arrangements for the broad cast were made with Carey Jen ning, station manager of KGW. Final negotiations are being made to secure an orchestra, ac cording to Howard Overbade, chairman of the orchestra commit tee. Benny Pollock’s sophisticated orchestra, which is now playing at the Trocadero in Los Angeles, is among those being considered. Coronation of the queen, canoe fete, and the Junior prom will ail be broadcast. The events are to be scheduled to work in with Eastern daylight saving time schedule. Tentative arrangements have been made through A. Finklestine, district manager of Fox west coast theaters, to bring a news-reel cam era man here. Your agency for Palm Beach is JOE RICHARDS MEN’S STORE 873 Willamette