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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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