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The Show I Diplomatic Visit IS civ C a m p a ig n Insurgents Knifed Extra Relief Urged By PAUL DEUTSCHMANN | Mussolini Plus Hitler? Meeting in what is expected by informed observers to be the fore runner of a face-to-face meeting of Mussolini and Hitler, II Duee and Chancellor Kurt Schusehnigg of Austria will confer this afternoon at Venice about Hapsburg restora tion in Austria, a move Mussolini has long objected to. The conference is expected to show European powers that Italo German cooperation is such that II Duce will release his grip on Aus train affairs,, official circles be lieved. Employer Protection Business and industrial leaders were believed yesterday to be lay ing plans for a campaign agitating for union restrictions and greater employer protection under the Wagner Act, informed circles re vealed. Chief proponents of the campaign were expected to be the National Manufacturer's associa tion and the United States Cham ber of Commerce, both of whom desire that labor's legal responsi bilities be increased. Loyalists Advance Protected by tanks, machine guns and aerial bombing, loyalist forces yesterday routed insurgents from the heart of Teruel Province’s iron mine lands, long the spear head of General Franco’s Aragon rebel army. When loyalists swept into the city of Celadas, they re moved the long-time threat of Franco to communications between Valencia and Catalonia in north eastern Spain. Passing Billion Dollars More Disregarding President Roose velt’s budget warning that relief appropriations would be cut to a billion and a half for the coming fiscal year, Representatives Voor his and Maverick enlisted the sup port of between 50 and 100 house democrats to increase the amount by a billion dollars. Another house group requested that the relief bill be upped to three billion. Admin istration leaders yesterday felt con fident both measures could be stop ped. Girls Rushed By Old Phi Phi; On Wrong Lists By BERNADINE BOWMAN The fraternity rushing season at the University of Pennsylvania has broken all precedents for novel, unusual tactics. At the be ginning of the season two coeds’ names were placed mistakenly but quite officially on the university fraternity pledging lists. The Greeks lost no time in initiating the most intensive rushing pro gram in a long time. The girls were wined and dined and told of the glories of old Phi Phi fratern ity. From every side they were be seeched to “join with the brothers; you won't go wrong.” Einstein Is 4 All Star’ Interested in all-star selections in the field of sports, professors at the University of Pennsylvania decided to pick a ten-man squad that would represent the “all stars” of history in every field of human endeavor. The list contain ed the names of Dr. Albert Ein stein. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Da Vinci, Shakespeare, Newton, Darwin, and Pasteur. Einstein is the only living all-star. Deficiencies Indicated The 1937 undergraduate has jerky reasoning, quarrels with re ligion, gains nothing from lectures, is dispassionate and animalistic, and cherishes a planned loneliness, according to the McGill Daily. A recent editorial in that Cana dian university daily states that “he knows his way around in the intellectual world and has plodded along the path of determined pri vate thought. But his reasoning is jerky, and his mental interests have not yet accumulated a weight of stability. GRIFFITH TO CONCLUDE George E. Griffith will speak on “The Forests in their Economic and Sociological Aspects” in Room 101, Condon hall at 8 p.m. Thurs day. The talk will be illustrated b> slides. It is the last of the 1936-31 lecture series of the Museum oi Natural History. UO Students to Join Nation-Wide Protest Against War Today Steps of Old Libe Meeting Flaee at 11 For Annual Strike; Noted Leaders of Movement to Be Heard The historic steps of the old library furnishes the scene this morning for a drama which will be enacted on hundreds of campuses across the entire continent. When 11 o’clock class bells ring from coast to coast one million students will lay aside bocks and assemble for the annual strike against war. At Ore gon it is officially a “protest,” but the unity of the nation-wide walkout will be felt as speakers from other student bodies bring messages of similar action. A lark for some, an interesting hour for others, and an ex pression of deep conviction for still others, the protest and strike will feature two prominent speakers — Raymond L. Buell, president of the Foreign Policy association, and Prof. F. B. Farqu harson, University of Washington. Charles Paddock, chairman of the sti'ike committee, will speak on "Fascism.” Harold Barton will de fend the pacifist position. Gray Skies Forecast The sky will probably be gray, the weatherman forecasts, but col or will not be lacking. Literally hundreds of banners, slogans, plac ards and signs, of all hues and all descriptions, will dot the crowd. No two sponsoring organizations have identical peace programs, with the result that slogans will reflect at least a half-dozen dif ferent points of view on the road to peace. Mingling in the crowd will be the student body of University high school, one of the protest’s sponsors. Also in the congregation will be many curious townspeople. Around the fringes, news photo graphers, reporters, amateur snap shotters, and, perhaps, a few heck lers, will indulge their interest in the colorful demonstration. The University’s public address system, mounted at the head of the library steps, will bring speak ers’ words clearly and forcibly to the assemblage. Promptly at 11, Gilbert Schultz, student body presi dent, is scheduled to call the crowd to order, make student body an nouncements, and step aside for the barrage of speaking. Pep and celerity will mark the assembly. The speakers will follow one an other in rapid-fire fashion with no pause for introductions. (Please turn to page two\ Commencement Speaker Chosen Public Service to Be Gist Of Talk by Aitcliison, Member of ICC Clyde B. Aitehison, member of the interstate commerce commis sion, and a former chairman of that body, has been selected as the commencement speaker, announced Dean James H. Gilbert, chairman of the commencement committee. Exercises will be held at McAr thur Court at 8:00 on May 3. Mr. Aitehison is recognized as one of the most outstanding alum ni of the University of Oregon. He received his master of arts degree here in 1915. Since 1917 he has served on the interstate commerce commission and comes from Washington, D.C. He is recognized as one of the nation’s foremost authorities on railway economics and rate regu lations and is one of the more ex perienced men on the commission in regard to long and short haul problems. During commencement, he will receive the degree of doctor of laws from the University. Degrees will be conferred upon the graduates and in addition to the main speaker, short addresses will be given by Chancellor Hunter and President Boyer. Trend of Pacifistic Thought During Last 20 Years Told By Dean Morris, Dr. Moore Opinions in regard to peace problems and the trend of pacifistic thought of the present day world were brought out in interviews yes terday with Dean Victor P. Morris of the business administration | school and Dr. E. If. Moore of the sociology department. Dean Morris said that sentiment in favor of world peace and a deter mination to do hard thinking and planning is stronger today than it was before the world war because of the lesson this disaster has taught the nations of the world during the last twenty years. Pacifism Becomes Militant Mr. Moore agreed with this statement but believes that paci fism during the past 20 years has become more militant. Formerly, he pointed out, pacifism was an in tellectual, academic question, ra ther than an organized movement relying upon enthusiasm. He showed how the nation-wide stu dent strike against war was a typical example of the modern militant type of pacifism. Both professors agreed that paci (Please turn to page two) 3 Students to Represent Oregon at Science Meet Thurston Skei, Gordon W. Link, and Donald Hunter will attend the fifth annual ‘'Willamette Valley Students Scientific Conference” at Portland, April 24, representing the University. The conference will be held at St. Helens Hall with Miss Alberta Vaillencourt of Port land, as general chairman. Papers to be presented by the three students are: “Current De velopments in Radio Activity" to be given by Skei; "Physical Pro perties of Stars" by Link; and “Sound Motion Pictures” by Hunter. Art Gallery Shows Dixon’s Paintings A collection of 29 paintings by Maynard Dixon, Western artist, is being shown in the art gallery. The set, which includes several prize winning canvasses, is being displayed throughout the Pacific Northwest and is soon to be re turned to Dixon in San Francisco. “Deer Haven,” “Land Westward,” “Moonlight over Zion,” and “Nov ember in Nevada” are examples of Dixon’s distinctive style of de corative interpretation. One of Dixpn’s most notable works is a painting for the California state capitol at Sacramento. Most of the artist’s canvasses have depicted desert scenes and Indian life in the Southwest, but recently he did a series on the maritime strike in San Francisco. Prices on the pictures, which are for sale, range from $30 to $1500. COUPLE WED APRIL 18 Miss Ailene Carroll and La Grand Houghton were mairied in Portland on April 18. Mr. Hough ton is a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Talks on Youth Close Two-Day PEA Meeting ‘Lost Generation' After Depression Gives Rise To Diffienlties, Says Child Educator Concluding: with an afternoon general session at which Dr. Ralph Tyler, chairman of the evaluations committee of the Progressive Education association, spoke on "Significant Developments in Cur riculum Experiments in Secondary Schools,” the two-day conference of the northwest section of the association ended yesterday. Most significant of the problems of modern educators to be present ed at the conference was that of the effect of the depression of vouth. according to Dr. Caroline Zachry, chairman of the commit tee on the study of adolescents. Society Molds Youth "The depression has left in its wake a 'lost generation’ of youth in even sorrier straits than after the world war,” she told a 9 a.m. sectional meeting. “The problem of adolescent youth as a result of the depression is exactly opposite from what it was after the war. Society, in accordance with its needs, decides what role youth is to play.” sne pointed out mat a program flexible enough to cover individual cases of meeting life should be started in all schools. Dr. Tyler, in his morning sec tional meeting, pointed out that observation by the teachers and use of questionnaires are two sub stitutes for examinations to deter mine the development of a child. This talk was an enlargement on yesterday’s talks about the elim ination of examinations as one phase of progressive education. Individual Attention Stressed Dr. Carson Ryan, president of the association, stated that educa tion is more a problem of indi vidual attention than general j standardized courses. He enlarged on this idea, one of the foremost aims of progressive education, in j a 9 a.m. sectional meeting in which Dr. George Frazier also spoke on \ “Initiating a P. E. Program.” Dr. Frazier advanced the theory that progressive education is a way of living, rather than an “administra tive device.” At the 10:30 a.m. sectional meet ings, Dr. Daniel Precott, profes sor of mental hygiene at Rutgers, stated that the behavior of child ren is motivated by attitudes and personality needs, and not instinct or inheritance, as is commonly be lieved. Emphasizing the point that movements for world peace and tolerance should be practically taught in primary and secondary grades of public schools, Dr. Rach el DuBois, of the association's com mittee of international relations, stated that, “It should be the duty of every classroom to work direct ly on the students to lessen the tensions between racial groups.” Music Honorary To Give Musicale At Gerlinger Hall Tau Delta Delta, local women’s music honorary, will present a musicale tea in the alumni room of Gerlinger at 4 o’clock May 2, it was announced yesterday by Janr> Hall, general chairman. A quintet composed of Dorothy Gore, Rachael Koken, violins; Madge Conoway, Jane Hall, cellos; and Martha Heunigan, viola, will be featured on the program. Jacqueline Wong will give piano selections, and a clarinet duet will be given by Charlotte Plummer and Phoebe Breyman. Short Silk Dresses, Suits are Appropriate Dress for Frosh Glee Short silk dresses for the women and suits for the men will be the appropriate dress for those attending the Frosh Glee, Friday night, Isabelle Miller, campus etiquette chairman, stated last night. Men are not to send corsages as the type of dress indicates, stated Miss Miller. 1 Proportional Representation ^ Voted by Executive Council; Coalition Break-Up Sighted Politicians Express Mild Approval But Fear Coalition Break-up; ‘Eligihles? List Reduced By LLOYD TUPLING (Emerald News Editor) Campus politicians, meeting- last night to reduce the list of possible candidates for the coming ASUO elections, expressed mild approval of the newly-adopted ASUO executive committee plan for proportional representation, but sighted the possibil ity of a break-UD appearing in the ranks of the “unite the campus’’ coalition set-un. Fear was expressed that because the election reform prevents a nominee from running for a specific office in the executive committee, individual houses would rally forces around candidates from their own houses. Theoretically, the new system places all nominees up for student body president. In selecting' one group of nominees the coalition group is now faced with the possi bility of the theory becoming real ity, with all candidates they have selected organizing forces to push election to student body president. Each Man a Party Instead of a united coalition group, the politicians who have worked for two months to establish a single ticket ballot are now faced with possibility of having a separ ate party for each nominee they select. Taking into consideration the desire most living organiza tions have for a student body of ficer in the house, the possibility shows a chance of beconiing ef fective unless a gentlemen’s agree ment is reached. Politicians Express Views Politicians questioned last night expressed varied opinions on the newly-adopted measure. "I can't see that it makes any change in the system, although it prepares for the future. I don’t be lieve the campus in general will comprehend it,” Charles Irwin, ATO representative at the meeting declared. “What I hope it doesn't do is to throw campus politics back as it (Please turn ta pane turn) Students to Stage Walkout Over New Regulations A mass walkout of the entire student body of 2200 is threat- j ened in the Boise high school as students protest attempts of school officials to regulate their private as well as school lives. A pact is being circulated, and more than r>00 have already signed it. Jack Robertson, sen ior, leader of the group, stated confidently that every student was expected to join the strike. The list of protestors is grow ing hourly, he said. , Spencer Will Contribute To 5th Law Publication Dr. Carleton E. Spencer, profes sor of law, has contributed a chap ter to the Fifth Yearbook of School Law, annual law publication, in which he discusses and summar izes cases which have . during the past year involved private schools, j colleges, and all types of educa tional trusts. Dr. Spencer contributed a chap- ’ ter to the third yearbook two years ago, and has been asked to again contribute in 1938. ‘Dognapper’Y turri Will Defend Himself Tonight By WEN BROOKS Mr. Tony Yturri of the law school might he called a "hit, pick-up, and run" driver. He might be called a “dognapper”. He might, in fact, be called any one of a number of things at tonight’s Moot Court trial in the circuit court room of the Lane county court house. The purported facts of the case upon which Hizzoner Hollis will render a decision are: Mr. Yturri, while driving an automobile in an easterly direction on 15th avenue in the City of Eugene, between Kincaid and Alder streets, on March 7, 1937, traveling at an ap proximate speed of 30 miles an hour, ran over Mr. Hale Thomp son’s dog, a very valuable canine ! and one which Mr. Thompson was quite fond of. ' Mr. Yturri himself, it would ap : pear, took an immediate liking to the dog. For, upon making contact with the canine, he quickly stopped his car, picked up the wounded animal, deposited.same in his car. and drove home. The dog died eight days later. Now the grieved and much be reaved Mr. Thompson has retained Messrs. Edward McKeon and Ron Rew, attorneys at law, and his in structed them to bring action against Mr. Yturri if, in their opin ion, such action can be successfully maintained. Messrs. Chester An derson and William Martin are counsel for the defendant. Others taking part in tftnight’s trial are: Mr. Arvin Robb, bailiff notary; Mr. Robert Miller, clerk; Mr. Harry McCall, reporter-sheriff. Messrs. Herb Skalet, Hale Thomp son, and Tom Tongue are witnesses for the plaintiff and Messrs. Orval | Thompson, Keith Wilson, and Tony Yturri will take the stand for the defendant. This will be the second of a ser ies of six moot court trials to be held at 7:30 each Thursday night by third year law students in trial practice. The public is invited. Warren D. Smith Receives Offer Dr. Warren D. Smith, of the geology department of the Univer sity of Oregon, has recently receiv ed an offer from the Adamson School of Industrial Chemistry and Engineering to become a professor in the mining engineering depart ment. The school is a private insti tution located in the Philippine Islands. The school year starts June 21, 1937, and because of the fact that he is committed to certain other work during the summer, he can not accept. One year from now, when Dr. Smith’s leave is due, he may go over for only one year, if he is not otherwise employed. Dr. Smith’s particular purpose in going to the islands would be to revise his book, "Geology and Min eral Resources of the Philippine Islands," which was published in 1925. Dr. Smith was in charge of government geological work in the Philippine Islands for many years. EMERALD STAFF MEETING Members of the Emerald staff will meet in 104 Journalism tonight at 7:30 to discuss plans for the annual Emerald picnic and ban quet. Ballot Value Increased Vour fold in \(>ic Plan; ‘Straight Tickets' Out VOTERS will murk their ballots expressing their seleetions for first, second, third, and fourth choices—increasing the value of the ballot four times. POLITICAL PARTIES will vir tually he eliminated because it is mathematically impossible that “straight tickets" will he elected to POSITIONS on the student exe cutive committee. Of the final four elected the one receiving the highest number of first choices will become president, the second highest will lie first Vice-president, and so on. OTHER CAMPUSES have fc.und that this system stimu lates interest in student affairs and bring out the most capable leaders to take active part in student life. 5U0Students Will Go to Conference Five University of Oregon stu dents interested in oriental affairs and problems will be chosen as delegates to the fourth annual Am erican-Japan conference, to be held at Stanford university, August 1 to 8. Delegates will be selected by a faculty board, and applications must be filed by May 1. These conferences were begun to strengthen relations between Am erican and Japanese students in 1934, when, at the invitation of a group of Japanese students, a dele gation of three American students went to Totcyo. In 193f>, the con ference was held at Reed college in Portland. In 1936, an American delegation went to Japan. (Please turn to parte tivo) Buys New Books Beys New Books About Chinese Art “The Manchu Lady,” by Eliza beth Keith has just been purchased by the museum library and is now on exhibition. This book shows the steps in printing blorkprints, which are now on display on the mezza nine library. Colored pictures illus trate the steps along with the de tailed description in the text. Other new books recently pur chased by the library are “China Magnificent,” by Dagny Carter, which tells of the history of 5000 years of Chinese art; "Chinese throughout the Ages,” by Stanley Charles Nott; “Jade Lore,” by Go ette; and "Romance of Chinese Art,” a de luxe edition of the En cyclopedia Brittanica. Witness Threatened Mrs. Agnes T. O’Brien, Los Angeles, was Instrumental recent ly in the arrest of two state boari of equalization employes in the lot est California liquor shakeup. Shi was receiving threatening tele : phone calls, she told police. Sweeping Measure Cuts Out ‘Gravy’ in Student Government; Ballots To Show Choices Minority Has Voice Elected Candidates True Representatives, Says Barney Hall ASUO officers, up for election May 6, will be selected by propor tional representation operating un der a preferential voting system as I be result of a meeting of an ASUO executive committee yester day where unanimous approval was stamped on the reform movement. The plan is the second sweeping measure adopted by the group in an effort to eliminate "political gravy” in student government. The reform was proposed to comple ment ft recently-adopted by-law which took major student body ap pointments out of the hands of the student body president and vested tlie selections in the executive com mittee. Hall Heads Committee Under the new plan, submitted by a self-appointed committee headed by Barney Hull, candidates will not he nominated for specific office. Nominees will run for of fices in the executive committee in general, and positions they receive will be an expression of the elec torates’ choice. Mathematically, the election re form will insure minority groups I of a representative on the ASUO executive committee. Under the old voting system two contenders headed party line-ups for the of fice of student body president, both men were considered capable for the positions but because of the “majority rules” voting system one man was eliminated. Barney Hall, creator of the plan said last night. The voice of both parties will be insured in the government instead of only the winning voice as for merly, he pointed out. Plan Explained A simplified explanation of the plan is ((noted in the editor ial columns of today’s paper from Crawford’s “Readings in American Government.” At the executive committee meeting, members discussed the measure after reading the con tents of the eight-page proposal twice. A unanimous vote placed the measure in the ASUO by-laws as an amendment to the former voting system. The proposal was the result of a study made by a student com mittee made up of Barney Hall, Bill Pease, executive committee member, Gayle Buchanan, AWS president, and Fred Colvig, Em erald editor. Men's Writing Group Announces Pledges Ye Tabard Inn, men's waiting honorary, announces the pledging of Harry Proudfoot, Freed Bales, Moritz T h o m s e n, and Wendell Brooks. The pledges, who will be initiated Tuesday, will wear green and white sack-cloth blouses to their Tuesday classes as part of their initiation ceremony. Ye Tab ard Inn is affiliated with Sigma Upsilon, national men's writing honorary. Oregana Staff Positions Will Be Named Tuesday Twenty-five students interested i in Oregana positions for the 1938 yearbook attended the special meeting called yesterday afternoon by Wayne Harbert, 1938 editor. Preferences for staff positions ; were turned in, stated Harbert, and | these will be announced in the Em i eruld next Tuesday morning. If any other students wish to turn in their preferences they are requested to see Harbert.