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PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Fred W. Colvig, editor Walter R. Vernstrom, manager LcRoy Mattingly, managing editor Wm. F. Lubersky, Assistant Business Manager Associate editors: Clair Johnson, Virginia Endicott. UPPER NEWS STAFF Pat Frizzell, sports editor, licrnadine Bowman, exchange editor. Paul Deutsehmann, assistant managing editor Gladys Battleson, society editor. Paul Plank, radio editor. Lloyd Tupling, news editor. Edwin Robbins, art editor. Clare Igoc, women’s page editor. Jean Weber, morgue director Chief Night Editors: Bill Davenport. Martha Stewart, feature editor. Reporters: Myra Hulser, Rita Wright. Irvin Mann, Bill Pengra, Wen Brook', Dick Litfin, Boh Ritter. Kathryn Morrow, Louise Aiken, Louise Sheppard, Mary Failing. Margaret Rankin, Alycc Rogers. Laura Bryant, Marolyn Dudley, Parr Aplin, Maxine (dad. Catherine Taylor. Kenneth Kirlley, Betty jane Thompson, Warren Waldorf, Lew Evans, Ilubard Kuokka, Peggy Robbins, Gertrude Carter, Margaret Ray, Stan Hobson, Sports staff: John Pit k, Elbert Hawkins. Chuck Van Scoyoc, Bill Yorcne, Larry (Juinliii, Morris Henderson, Russ Jsell, Dick Hutchison, Lucille Stevens. City editors: Jean Kendall, Rita Lee Powell, Katherine Morrow, Jack Townsend, Warren Waldorf, William Robinson, Gladys Battleson, Alary Kay Booth, Dave Cox, Alice Nelson, Larry Quinlin. Night editor Assistant Night Editor George Knight Morris Henderson Ju»19 Dick Day editor: Assistant day editor Bill Cummings Bob Emerson Keystone of Reform 'J \l IE executive committee of the ASL'O yes terday put the cap on a year of activity iu ■which it lias done more to clean up campus polities than any other single group in the history of the University. Several weeks ago, they took into their own hands a major share of the appointive power formerly exercised, and frequently misused, hy student body presidents. Yesterday they voted through a measure which is the necessary complement to that move — proportional representation, which will insure that the committee itself represents I he cut ire campus. That 1 he reform measure did not originate iu Ihe committee, but was the work of a group of students led by Harney Hall, is true; nevertheless, the executive committee deserves credit for hav ing the keenness to see the value of the pro posal. Iii on sense is the new measure a negation of tile idealistic movement toward political reform now being promoted by members of the junior class. On the contrary, it is tin1 logical continuation of that movement. The juniors took into consideration a political system that each year split the campus into two antagonistic factions which continued to exist even after elections, so that, politically speaking, the student body was divided into the “ins’’ and the “outs.” They saw a sys tem in which a candidate for the student body presidency, one of the most active men on the campus, could be defeated by a narrow mar gin and entirely excluded from student activi ties for the year. And, with that in mind, they started a movement: to level political fences and choose the most capable men for office, regardless of party affiliation. # # * rjT'lll,i proportional representation measure passed by the executive council is merely a mechanical method of achieving the same purpose. Its effect will be to make the repre entation of campus minorities almost a mathe matical certainty, without depending upon the existence of a dominating non-partisan group like the juniors at present. Such groups of idealists come but once in a blue moon, but under the new election law the campus will not have to wait that long. The sway of the “gravy” politician is over. The plan adopted is modeled on the “flare system ol proportional representation, a method id'balloting which is now successfully employed in several of the nation's largest cities and which students in many a progres sive university have applied to their own gov ernmental problems. And, wherever it is in operation, if has rung the death knell over partisan politics. 1’eople with the interests of (he I'niversitv at heart have long milled for a more united student hotly. It that man be brought about by ending partisanship in campus polities, then surely it is now something to which w may look forward with hope. jyt liC 11 ANK'S of the plan may at firs I seem rather involved, hut the lollowing puss ayc quoted from Crawford's “Headings in Amerieau Huverniuent'’ will serve greatly to clarify it. " i’lii' fundamental principles of the sys. tern can he grasped most easily, perhaps, in connection with an election without hatlots. Imagine the election of a council of five mrm hers. say, cairied out in a park. The rules for voting are announced. They are as follows: 1. lo vote, stand beside the bannerol' the candidate whom you prefer. —• ( image your vote us often as you please until I lie polls close. d. When the polls close the five can didates who are surrounded by the five larges! groups of voters will he declared elected. "ihc Hare system lias been called com plicated. ^ et those simple rules cover all its fundamental principles. With nothing more than those rules as a guide and without fur ther word or act on the [tart of the officials the election will probably carry itself through correctly according to the principles of the single transferable vote. “Each voter would discover that 101 voters were enough to insure election. How ever llie voters might arrange themselves, it would he impossible for more than five candi dates each to get as many as 101 out of 600. (The arithmetical rule which will always give the quota sufficient to insure election is to divide the total number of persons who east valid votes by one more than the number of candidates to lie elected and take Ihe small est whole number larger than the resulting quotient.) If 110 voters had gathered about one candidate’s banner, nine of them would move on to help other favored candidates who were not yet sure of election. “When all the voters had grouped them selves around candidates who actually needed 1heir support, the smallest group would break up: rather than waste their votes, they would support others who had a chance of election. Then other groups would break up one by one for the same reason. Each group would stay together so long as there was a possibil ity of gaining from smaller groups, but when it was the smallest one left each member of it would go to help the candidate lie liked best among those still in thr* running who needed mote votes. This process of gradual elimina tion would continue until there were only six groups left, then the smallest of the six would concede the election to the other five. “JN this way the greatest possible number of voters would have a real share in the clmiee. Eaeh of the five successful candidates would represent an approximately equal share of tin* voters who were united, under the circumstances, in wanting him as their spokesman. “If this method of electing a representa tive council is fair—and who would deny it? the Ilare system as carried out by ballots is still fairer, for it is the same as this method of voting in the park, except in certain res pects in which it is better. “The voter casts his ballot by putting the figure M’ opposite his first choice, the figure ‘11' opposite his second, the figure ‘3’ opposite his third, and so on for as many choices as he cares to express. “The count is a succession of simple steps which do with the ballots exactly what the voters would do with their votes if they could know how others were voting, as in our elec tion in the park. The figures on the ballots are sufficient directions f£>r the necessary transfers.” TODAY’S THE DAY (The following proclamation lias been issued in printed form by Governor Benson at the request of the University of Minnesota A. S. U. It is being sent to all school and county superintendents in the state.) PROCLAMATION The youth of our nation, alive to the dangers of another World War, have designated April 22nd as PEACE DAY. On that day the youth of our country will assemble from the farm, the factory, the schools, the colleges to tell their elders of the stupidity of the mad race for armaments and to protest against a policy which is certain to lead to wholesale international slaughter. In one European country we are now witness ing what they call a civil war, but which in reality contains all the elements of international conflict. A heroic people is struggling against foreign in vaders to preserve its democratic right of self determination, while lighting side by side with them arc also volunteers from foreign lands. The statesmen of Europe arc looking on nervously, not knowing when the spark will set the entire world aflame. And while this war is being waged with dread ful fury and with appalling butchery, the bombing! of exposed cities, slaughter of civilian populations, killing of women, children, and old men, the only solution which the statesmen can find is producing more armaments, more bombs, more airplanes, more poison gas, more and bigger cannon, more machine guns, more battleships, more effective engines of destruction. Fear has supplanted rea son and the nations are preparing to plunge head long into the maelstrom which they believe in evitable. Even the United States, whose shores are safe from foreign invasion, has joined the race for more armaments. Hut youth, winch will be called upon to do the fighting' and slu'd the blood, for what they know not why, is neither so blind nor so pessimistic as the statesmen. They will not accept war as in evitable. Youth believes that nations can come to their senses, and that peoples can lie aroused to dispense with the services of rulers and dictators who believe that the battlefield is the road to national greatness and national glory. 1 subscribe fully to the aims and objectives of PEACE DAY. The people a - a whole should join tiiis enlightened movement of our young' people, and direct their thoughts an energies to an analy sts of the causes of warfare, its futility, and the means of its prevention. I hope that not only wilt peace be discussed on our campuses and wherever young people gather, but that the entire week will he devoted in our schools to a study of the prob lems, and sermons on peace will be delivered from all our pulpits on Sunday. April 18th. THEREFORE. AS GOVERNOR. 1 PROCLAIM APRIL 22nd, 1H27 AS PEACE DAY and recom mend that the day be celebrated with proper exer cises and programs. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Soul of the State of Minnesota to be affixed this 7th day of April. U137. ELMER A. BENSON. Governor of Minnesota. (GREAT SEALl Attest; MIKE HOLM, Secretury of Slate XB-15—Most Powerful Airplane The new army bomber, with a wing-spread two-thirds greater than the YB-17 bomber, was recently shown in Seattle a* the Boeing plants. The new ship is capable of lifting heavier loads than any plane previously built, its motors are the ultimate in power, it carries six machine gun turrets and has a lon;j cruising range. Campus Calendar .John Miller, Earl Wasser, Chris Madera, Wallace Newhouse, Roy Vernstrom. Janet Johnston, Robert Herzog', Robert Goodwin, Bill Courtney, Max Carter, and Herchel Webber are in the infirmary today. Students wishing to attend the Westminster skating party Friday night sign up on the bulletin board at Westminster house. The YWCA freshman commis sion will entertain all freshman Women at a party this evening at the YWCA bungalow from G:30 to 7:30. There will he a Gamma Alpha Chi meeting at 4 today at the Col lege Side. All members and pledges must be there. There will be a meeting of Am phibians tonight at 7:15 in Ger linger pool for Amphibian mem bers and those on the varsity swimming team. Christian Science organization will hold its annual business meet ing- tonight at 8:00 'p.m. in the regular meeting room on third floor of Gerlinger. Second Moot Court trial 7:30 to night, circuit courtroom. Lane county court house. Everyone wel come. Newman club meets Sunday in Gerlinger hall at 7:30 to hold elec tion of officers for coming year. The Oregon Melody Men will 1 meet today in the music building at 4:00. All members are urged to be present. The l Diversity of Oregon Co-op store .will hold its annual meeting in 105 Commerce at 3 o'clock Tues day, April 27, to nominate offi cers for the coming year. Promotional (Continued from page one) formerly was. Under the system it will be difficult to place a coed in the tradition position for women on the executive committee, Bill Dalton, Kappa Sig political leader said. "It carries out what our group has been trying to do--select the best candidates for the office," Noel Benson, I’hi Delt representa tive stated. "1 contend that it will give the campus wliat we have striven to attain representation of all the Judging Music Festival Interesting, Says Dean After rendering 252 criticisms and giving 252 public adjudications at the Yale-Cariboo Musical festival held in Kamloops, B.C., April 8, 9, and 10, John J. Landsbury, dean of the school of music, returned to the University this weekend. Dean Landsbury, who was chosen as judge for this annual contest for amateur musicians, judged everything from vocal solos to the music of orchestras. Contestants ranged in age from 6 years up. The contestants were Psychology Classes Give Ad Questionnaire The elementary psychology classes recently carried on a psy chological survey in Eugene. The questionnaire was given to 39 peo ple by personal interviews. Four classes of people were in terviewed: wealthy, middle class, skilled labor, and foreigners, color ed and day laborers. The purpose of the survey was to determine and test the effec tiveness of advertising and the atti tudes which people have towards it for an eastern psychological cor poration. The questions were simi lar to those asked on the KORE program, “What Lane County Thinks." LINCOLN IN NEW POST Eugene V. Lincoln, ’35, who taught the past year in the Blachly high school, has been elected to the principalship of the Siuslaw high and grade schools. students on the campus,” Bill Jones, DU politician said. “It will undoubtedly give the | students a democratic govern ment,” Mel Shevack from Sigma Alpha Mu claimed. Prepare for Elections At their meeting last night in the SAE house, politicians reduced a list of possible candidates for stu dent body and junior class offices from some 30 contenders to 13. In a joint meeting with coeds next week, the final nominees for eight senior class and ASUO positions will be selected. After voting on candidates sug gested, the 13 remaining included Noel Benson, Barney Hall, Bill Dalton, Sam Fort, Don Johnson, Bill Jones, Charles Irwin, Jack En ders, Larry Crane, Freed Bales, Frank Drew. Bill Pease, and Dave Silver. Women selected as possible can didates included Elizabeth Turner, Clare Igoe, Frances Schaupp, Bran don Young, Frances Johnson, Gladys Battleson. Genevieve Mc Niece, and Martha Stewart. Coed politicians met yesterday afternoon in the College Side to select candidates to accompany the men’s list. Names of those select ed were not available last night. 1 divided into two classes and gave their performances one after th; other. Each entry had a blank or which Dean Landsbury wrote hi: decision and criticism. In giving the public decision, he enlarged on the criticism. Among the most interesting tal ent he discovered was an excellent children’s choir, a talented men’s chorus comparable to the Eugene Gleemen and a junior symphony or chestra. “One girl,” he exclaimed, “had the most perfect voice I have ever heard for a child of 13." Dean Landsbury beamed as ht told of two little 13-year-old boy violinists, who were the best oi pals. They entered the competition together, and were racing each other for first place. There was such a hair’s breadth of difference In their playing, that the dean gave them a tie for first place. The boys were so pleased with the deci sion that before he left, one ol them came to him with a box oi clrolocates and said, “This is from us.” In commenting on the contest. Dean Landsbury said, “The thing I enjoyed most was the good sportsmanship. The people wore simply delightful.” W. E. Moore Will Study At Harvard Next Year Wilbert E. Moore, graduate stu dent in sociology, has accepted an Edward Austin fellowship to study at Harvard in the department of sociology next fall. This fellowship is granted to the graduate school oi arts and letters and there is no service required with it. Mr. Moore hopes to be able to work for his Ph.D. degree in his time at Harvard as he is now studying for his M.A. degree. The fellowship holds the possibility of renewal or promotion. Miss NISSEX IN YAKIMA Rowena Nissen '32. formerly ex ecutive secretary of the Red Cross at Boise, Idaho, is now at Yakima Washington. She is employed as zone supervisor for the State of Washington department of social security. No l'rofs at Taylor’s ? at ion W ithin a Mutton—for the Indians Flans to formulate a state within the nation to act as the government of 50.000 Navajo Indians of \ri/.ona were begun at a recent convention at \\ indow Kook Reservation. [>art of which is shown above. The Koilmen plan their own constitution, president, uuieatueral legislature and other government depart ments. (® re §*fn The Oregon Daily Emerald, official ■tudent publication of the University of Oregon, Eugene, published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mon days, holidays, examination periods, th« fifth day of December to January 4, except January 4 to 12, annd March 6 to March 22, March 22 to March 30. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscrip tion rate, $3.00 a year. Circulation Manager.Caroline Hand Asst. Jean Farrens Frances Olson.Executive Secretary Copy Service Department Manager ...Venita Brous National Advertising Assistant: Eleanor Anderson. Collection Manager.Reed Swenson Thursday advertising manager: Venita Brous; Assistants: Clifton Wilson. Mary Hopkins, Alice Chandler, Jack Leighton. 5 UO Students Will (Continued jrom page one) Delegates chosen from the Uni versity must meet these require ments: (1) under 25 years old, (2) must be returning to college next year, (3) average or above average grades, (4) good social personality, (5) interest in oriental affairs and the aims of the conference. The delegate must also be willing to sacrifice time to explain the work of the conference to the rest of the students. Burton Brown Barker, vice-presi dent of the University, is the Ore gon representative on the advisory board of the conference. Individual expenses of each dele - gate to the convention will include transportation, and a $20 fee to take care of registration, room and board while at the conference. The committee which will select the 5 University delegates are A. L. Lomax, chairman; Dean On thank, Dean Victor P. Morris, Dean Virgil Earl, Mrs. Alice Macduff, Dr. Warren D. Smith, and Dr. Waldo Schumacher. Application blanks and informa tion on the conference may be se cured fom the office of either Dean Onthank or Mr. Lomax. DO Students to Join (Continued from page one) Speakers Widely-known The main speakers are both widely-known. Buell has been asso ciated with the Foreign Policy association for many years and is considered one of the best-inform ed Americans on what is actually happening in Europe. Professor Farquharson, Washington Com monwealth Federation chieftain, is foremost in the intellectual leader ship of that state's progressive po litical movement. His wife, a state senator, is a militant progressive. Two thousand veri-colored calls to the demonstration will deluge the campus this morning, while more and more students are ap pearing with the lapel ribbons “Protest war preparations; prepare to strike in event of war.” While the crowd assembles, a quartet and chorus will vocalize student anti-war songs. At 11 the colorful banners will rise, and while cam eras click and the crowd grows quiet, Student Body President Schultz will officially launch the fourth nation-wide student protest against war. Freud of Paeifistie (Continued from payc one) i fistic thought lacked concreteness. Peace pledges arc not strong ! enough to stand in the face of war hysteria, no matter how sincere they might have been. Concrete Programs Dean Morris pointed out that the only real concrete programs that are to be found arc in conferences such as the World Court, the League of Nations, and agencies assisting the league such as the International Labor Relations board. In answering the question as to whether the United States could remain neutral in the event of an international war, Dean Morris said. "The United States is so tied up with the whole world that it would be an impossibility. I would believe in an honest effort to stay neutral, but I wouldn’t be too hope ful.” Whether or not an individual is a pacifist and whether or not he clings to his beliefs is not su much a matter of his moral structure as of a conditioning which some people have had which naturally make them supporters for such movements. Dr. Moore believes. Y\V TO ENTERTAIN' FUOSH All freshman women are to be guests of the YWCA freshman commission at a party at the Y bungalow this evening from 6:30 to 7:30. Marjorie Montgomery, chairman, extends an invitation to all freshman girls on the campus. MIS* X1SSEN IN YAKIMA Rowena. Nissen, ’32. formerly Cross at Boise, Idaho, is now at Yakima, Washington. She is em ployed as zone supervisor for the State of Washington department of social security. Subscriptions only §3.00 per year. W eek’s MigMicjlits Are Fr©slaGlee, Six House Dances Topping this week’s social pro gram is the Frosh Glee Friday night and six house dances Satur day night. The sports dance Fri day will be on an old "southern plantation.” Ellis Kimball and his swing orchestra will play. House dances will be given by Alpha Omicron Pi, Pi Kappa Al pha, Alpha Phi, Alpha Gamma Del ta, Sigma Kappa, and Delta Delta Delta. Most of the dances are fea turing spring flowers. The usual exchange dessert schedule finds Alpha Tau Omega going to the Kappa Alpha Theta house this evening, and Delta Tau Delta will be host to Alpha Omi cron Pi. Sigma Alpha Epsilon will be the guest of Alpha Chi Omega Friday evening. Alpha Tau Omega was host to Alpha Phi, Beta Theta Pi to Delta Delta Delta and Phi Kappa Pi to Delta Delta and Phi Kappa Psi to Alpha Gamma Delta last night. Pi Beta Phi will hold a founders day banquet in the Osburn hotel Sunday with the Oregon State chapter. Monday it will give a re ception for Mrs. Adele Taylor Al ford, editor of its national publica tion the "Arrow.” YW. Commission Will Hold 'Mom’ Sole on Moij 7,8,9 Students hurrying to and fro were startled by the appearance of many posters scattered about the campus bearing the inscription “Buy a Mom.’’ Many, worried, thought somebody’s misspelled a word, as mum sales are common occurrences on the Oregon camp us, but after ciphering the little figures in the corner, the problem was solved. The frosh commission of the YWCA is sponsoring a yarn doll sale for junior weekend, which is also mothers’ weekend. These yarn dolls are supposedly personifica tions of mother and just the thing that is needed to start mother’s weekend out right. They are 10c each. Yellow ana green, Oregon’s col ors, make up the combinations and there are big ones, small ones, medium sized ones, or whatever size mother happens to be. Representatives have been ap pointed in each living organization to take orders for the dolls. 4Miss California’ w— ..nwywmimy «i .. Lucy Ann MacLean, University of Southern C alifornia coed, named “Mfiss California” in the “Miss Western America" contest being conducted throughout the 11 wes tern states by the Golden Gut‘4 International Imposition,