The
Passing Show
Court Dimgrppmpnt
Capitalism Dpfpnsp„
Stop thp Prpssps
Flood on Ohio Again
By PAUL DEUTSCHMANN
Members of the senate commit
tee investigating the court reform
swapped notes yesterday and dis
covered that no one agreed with his
colleagues after hearing seven
weeks of statements on the bill.
Proposal of Senator Logan that
final vote be set for May 11 after
two more weeks of debate will pro
bably be blocked by objectors.
Various plans were offered with no
hopes for a rapid stttlement.
Ideal Never Achieved
Hailing capitalism as an econ
omy of free and fair competition
that has "never lived” James
Cromwell, husband of Doris Duke,
the “world's richest girl," and
Huge Czerwonky, set forth their
opinions in a book to be published
by Scribner's today.
“In Defense of Capital," their
volume, decries the charges of capi
tal's failure which have been elic
ited by seven lean years. They seek
to prove the superiority of a true
capitalism over a "new order of
tyranny, regimentation and collec
tivism," which has been offered as
the solution.
Span ish Neivspapers
Latest move of the Spanish
rebels was an attempt to stop the
Madrid newspapers. Four plants
were definite objectives of insurg
ent bombs during a heavy artillery
attack yesterday. One paper was
hit. Shells fell near three others.
At the end of the sixteenth day of
shelling the death toll rose to near
ly 300.
35,000 Homeless
Eastern rivers rampaged again
in the Ohio valley and in Canada
yesterday driving thousands from
their homes, taking over a score
of lives, and causing hundreds of
thousands of dollars damages. Lon
don, Ontario, was hardest hit with
the Thames river 28 feet above
regular level, drinking water dis
appearing, and 6,000 homeless.
In Pennsylvania, Maryland, and
Virginia flood waters began reced
ing. Other points were not yet safe.
Wheeling, West Virginia, with 10,
000 already homeless feared a high
er level with added deaths and
damages.
1 ■ ■■ - an
Modern Co-ed’s
Purse Contains
Pajamas Even
By BERNADINE BOWMAN
How many things a woman can
carry in her purse has long been
a/ subject of conversation among
men. Now the males at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin have a new
one to add.
It seems that a coed lost her
purse at one of the night clubs.
She didn’t notice the loss until
returning to her sorority house
after the date.
Instead of fussing around and
driving out to the club the next
day, she decided to wait until the
following Saturday when she had
a date to go there.
At the .checkroom, she asked if
anyone had found her bag. Several
were brought out. Could she iden
tify hers by the contents, she was
asked.
“Why, yes,” answered the coed,
“mine had a pair of pajamas in it.”
Take a Bow, Fijis
The crime class at Ohio Wesley
an university went on a laboratory
trip to the United States Indus
trial reformatory recently. The
group was taken through the en
tire plant and was climbing the
stairs to the library when an in
mate called, “Where you guys
from ?”
“From Ohio Wesleyan univer
sity,” one replied.
“That so?” queried the prison
er. “Is there a Phi Gam in the
crowd? That’s my frat!”
If there were any Fijis present
they did not say anything about it
then.
Eleanor Gets a Kick
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt got
a big kick out of her visit to a
“certain college" for she referred
to it humorously in a talk to the
congressional wives.
“I went to a ceretain college,”
she said, “to speak twice—in the
afternoon and evening. The college
president was anxious that I shake
hands with the audience after both
programs. I explained that I did
n’t make a pracitice of it. But the
president said, ‘If you have to can
cel anything, I’d rather you shook
hands and didn't give the lectures.”
U. OF 0. LIBRARY
VOLUME XXXVIII_ UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1937
Now Library to Opon
Friday Footling With
S porial Co r onion ion
NUMBER 105
New Library to Open
Monday; Preview Is
Scheduled for Friday
Old Libe Circulation and Reference
Departments to Be Closed Thursday
Evening at 10 o'Clock
Oregon’s new library will open for student use Monday morn
ing, after a preliminary open-house for University students and
townspeople Friday evening from 7:30 to 10 o’clock, M. H.
Douglass, head librarian who returned Monday from a month’s
vacation, announced yesterday.
Thursday evening at 10 o’clock will be the deadline for draw
ing books from the circulation and reference departments at the
old library. At this time these departments will close, to open
Monday morning at the new library. Books already taken to the
library can be obtained through the
old library circulation desk by mes
j senger service until 4 o’clock
Thursday afternoon, when this ser
vice will be discontinued.
Board Approves
At a meeting of the board of
higher education in Corvallis yes
terday, members accepted the new
library building and approved an
appropriation to match WPA funds
for remodeling the old library
building into a law school. The
board commended contractors on
the beauty of the new structure.
CO Percent Work Done
Sixty percent of the books have
already been moved, Willis Warren,
reserve librarian said yesterday. It
is planned that the remainder shall
be moved by Friday evening, and
that the week-end will be spent
moving office equipment.
Although the new library will
not be completely furnished by Fri
day evening, the entire building
will open for inspection, with libr
arians in their offices to furnish
any information desired. Student
assistants will act as guides,
through reference rooms, browsing
room, major rooms, and one lower
division room are not completed as
yet. Mural work on either side of
the stairway Will not be completed
in time for the opening either. The
upper division room was completed
yesterday when wood carving were
put in place.
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10 Coeds Pledged
To Phi Chi Theta
Ten women were formally pledg
national business honorary, last
ed into Phi Chi Theta, women’s
night in the women’s lounge of
Gerlinger hall.
Those pledged were: Rosalie
Steinmetz, Ruth A. Ketchum, Mary
Elizabeth Norvell, Marjorie L.
Bates, Katherine Miller, Edna
Bates, Winogene Palmer, Dorothea
Davidson, De Etta Sandgathe, and
Winifred Henry.
Initiation date has been set for
May 16 at the Eugene hotel. Fol
lowing initiation, breakfast will be
served at the hotel.
A Phi Chi Theta key will be pre
sented at the breakfast to the most
outstanding junior or senior wo
man in the school of business ad
ministration. The key is present
ed each year on the b°«is of scho
lastic standing and activities.
UO Symphony
To Play Operas
For Canoe Fete
12 Floats to Participate
In Water Parade; NBC
Will Broadcast Word
Picture of Festival
With the University symphony
orchestra under the direction of
Rex Underwood playing: inspira
tional opera melodies, 11 floats de
picting: scenes from well-known
operas will glide down the mill-race
on May 8 in the traditional Junior
weekend canoe fete, according to
latest reports from Bill Dalton,
general chairman.
There will be 12 floats including
the queen’s to be constructed by
the Yeomen, which will open the
fete to the strains of the theme
song of the “Romantic Serenade”
idea selected for Junior weekend
this year. This song, composed by
Dean John F. Lansbury, will intro
duce and close the music accom
panying the passage of the floats.
Themes Changed
Several of the themes for the
paired living organization floats
have been changed, and the final
choices for operas to be used have
been released by Doug Milne, chair
man of float construction. They
are: "Hansel and Gretel,” Alpha
Tau Omega and Chi Omega; “Ma
dame Butterfly,” Sigma Phi Epsi
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Women’s Symposium
Discusses Cooperatives
Members of the womenfc discus
sion group of the University will
discuss the co-operative movement
at a meeting of the PTA to be held
Thursday evening at Westfir.
Lorraine Larson, Pearl Paddock,
and Betty Brown will tell of the
history and backgrounds of the
co-operative movement in Europe
and America. Bill Lubersky, ac
companied by Kessler Cannon, will
give his interpretation of “Lips
That Touch Liquor Shall Never
Touch Mine.” In charge of the pro
gram is D. E. Hargis; instructor
in sneech.
Bulletin Boards Like
Monday Clothes Line
Notice. Post no new bills. '
That might very well be the slogan from a look at the bulletin boards
in the University buildings. A survey has revealed that notices, clip
pings and advertisements, posted thereon fall far short of being of real
benefit as news bulletins.
Perhaps no one wants the authority to take down old notices, and
perhaps there is no reason why they should, as long as thumbtacks can
go through several notices posted one on top of another. Tabulations
Combs, Cannon Speak
On Supreme Court Issue
The history of the supreme
court, recent proposals for changes
in its power, and the economic and
social problems that have made
changes proposed will be discussed
by Avery Combs and Kessler Can
non at a meeting of the Riverside
community club, near Albany, Sat
urday.
Edgar Wulzen will give a read
ing and Freed Bales will sing sev
eral numbers. John. L. Casteel, di
rector of the speech division, will
be in charge of the student dis
cussion.
snuw tuc uuaru m vmiiuon nan me
most used with ads and propagan
da covering it two or three deep.
Most ancient of all notices was
a. program of forums at a local
church—which will begin on Janu
ary 10. Another on the law school
linoleum board reminds the classes [
to be out for their Oregana pic- !
tures, on the afternoon of Febru
ary 11. The words, “Isn’t this an
nouncement slightly ancient ?”
scribbled below, show that some
person does read the billboards.
It may have been slick adver
tising in its day, but the card
"Bundling in Pursuit of Happi
ness” doesn’t catch anyone’s eye
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4
110 Co-op Pays Highest Rent
In City9 Says McGirr; Prices
To Be Compared hyMacLain
Five Sophomores, Two Freshmen Are
Nominated for Positions on Board,
Three Will Be Fleeted May 6
“The University co op nays the highest rent for the space that
is paid in Eugene,” asserted Jack McGirr, retiring president of
the student co-op board at the annual meeting to nominate can
didates for three vacant offices on the board. McGirr was dis
cussing the reasons the co-op was unable to reduce its prices
more than it has.
Dean James Gilbert, the member of the faculty co-op board
present at the meeting, told how the building the co-op was in
had originally belonged to Marion
MacLain, manager of the store,
who sold it to Or. George Rebec of
the University department of phi
losophy. Rent now paid is $200 a
month.
McGirr (lives Report
President McGirr gave the re
port on the store's business in the
absence of Manager MacLain, who
has been in California attending a
meeting of the Pacific Coast co
operative store association. Mc
Girr explained that the leason the
new two year lease has been made
for the present site is that plans
were to be considered to move the
co-op, and they wanted to be in
sured of a location until they were
ready to move.
President McGirr explained to
the small group attending the
meeting that the co-op had been
originally purely cooperative in or
ganization. Dues were payed and a
rebate was made on sales slips at
the end of the year. This was an
unsatisfactory arrangement be
cause only a small group reaped
most of the benefit. The present
system was thereby devised, with
the co-op a non-profit making or
ganization for the expressed pur
pose of giving students articles at
a lower price. The question was
raised from the floor whether or
not the organization was fulfilling
its purpose of poviding articles at
lower prices.
Gilbert Defends Co-op
Dean Gilbert then told the meet
ing that Manager MacLain would
compare his prices with those of
any other store in the city on
books, and that books were sold
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S. Smith Leaves
To Attend Meeting
Of Profs in Chicago
S. Stevenson Smith, professor
of English at the University, left
yesterday afternoon for Chicago
where he will attend the national
convention of the American asso
ciation of university professors to
be held on the Northwestern'camp
us.
Professor Smith, who represents
Oregon as the president of the lo
cal chapter of AAUP, stated he
expects to be gone nearly 10 days.
I
Stickers for Junior
If eekend Available
!\oiv at Co-op, Free
Due to tin' great demand by
University students for Junior
weekend stickers for placing
on out-going mail, an addition
al 5000 have been printed, Zol
lie ..Voleliok, co-chairman of
publicity for weekend activi
ties announced last night.
These stickers, in form of
tlie traditional Oregon duck ex
tending an invitation to Junior
weekend events, are available
at the Co-op.
Emerald Special
Editors Elected
John Pink, Eloytl Tupling,
Clare Igoe Win Posts-,
Frosli Edition May 1
John Pink, Clare Igoe, and Lloyci
Tupling were elected editors of thl
Emerald special freshmen, women's
and men’s editions at a meeting
held last night in 105 journalism
building.
Date for the annual picnic was
set for Sunday, May 16. Mildred
Blackburne, Clare Igoe, and Vir
ginia Endicott were appointed by
Editor Fred Colvig on the commit
tee to investigate locations and
make general arrangements.
Colvig also announced that Le
Roy Mattingly, recently appointed
editor for next year, would take
over the editorship position for the
remainder of the term. Colvig will
leave for Portland today for a job
with the United Press.
Frosh edition will be published
this Friday evening. Assisting
Pink will be Bill Pengra, managing
editor; Wen Brooks, assisting man
aging editor; Irvin Mann, news edi
tor; Myra Hulser, women's editor,
and Relta Powell, day editor. All
freshmen interested in working
Friday afternoon and evening
should see Pink today or tomorrow.
Staffs for the men’s and women’s
editons which will be published
i May 8 and 15 will be announced
later by Tupling and Miss Igoe.
Bill Pease, Clare Igoe
Up for ASUO Positions;
No Other Intentions In
i
Frosh, Sophs
Plan for New
I
Constitutions
Orphaned Groups Will
Meet During Week to
Form Regulations for
Glass Aetivities
Leading the way to formulate
constitutions for classes orphaned
from ASUO by-law guidance,
freshman and sophomore groups
laid plans yesterday for adopting
sets or regulations at nominating
meetings Thursday. No definite
plans have been made yet to sup
ply a constitution for the junior
class, also bereft of their constitu
tion by adoption of ASUO by-laws.
Both groups expect to adopt new
constitutions at nominating assem
blies to be held this week.
No Provisions Made
The new ASUO by-laws do not
have any provisions for govern
ing class activities, therefore mak
ing it possible for students to vote
and participate in class activities
minus an ASUO card, as required
in the past, the only requirement
being a class card.
Recognizing the need of action
on the currently popular question
of “political gravy,” the constitu
tional committee headed by Lloyd
Hoffman, appointed by frosh class
president John Dick, has drawn up
a provision providing for political
appointments.
The provision is to have an “ap
pointment” committee composed of
representatives from all campus
organizations to meet, make ap
pointments, and submit them to
the executive council composed of
the class officers for veto or ap
proval.
Freshmen Meet
A freshman constitutional com
mittee met yesterday to make em
bryo plans for a constitution with
provisions for an important “poli
tical gravy” clause. The commit
tee will present the new constitu
tion to the freshman class for
adoption at their nominating as
sembly Thursday.
Noel Benson, junior class presi
dent, announced he would appoint
a constitutional committee in the
near future, but has not set a defi
nite date for the hearing or for a
nominating assembly.
Harry Weston, sophomore class
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‘Mom’s the Word’
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(Courtesy the Register-Guard)
“Mom’s.the word” say student committee members as they make plans to entertain Oregon mothers
on the University campus oxer -Junior weekend, May 7, 8, and t*. This year the Eugene Mothers are co
operating with '.he student committee. Reading from left to right, Bernadlue Bowman, banquet; Jane
Bogue, social affairs; Myra Ifulser, publicity; Mrs. Dan E. Clark, president Eugene Mothers; Gladys Bat
tleson, secretary; Mrs. C. t*. Tillmah, Eugene; Khoda Armstrong, chairman; Betty Jane Bernitt, registra
tion; William Lubersky, advertising. " •
Moyers to Ploy
at Libe Opening
Celebration Hop
Cus Meyers’ orchestra has
been signed to swing rhythm for
the “Terrace Stomp" to be held
in front of the new libe in cele
bration of opening day, May 3,
from 7:30 till 10, Mary Jane
Tyler, head of the library dance
committee announced yesterday.
Ice cream bars will be sold at
the dance. Proceeds of the dance
will go to the browsing room
fund.
Campus clothes are in order,
Miss Tyler said. Tickets are 35
cents a couple and 20 cents for
stags. They will be on sale in
living organizations and at the
library.
Thompson Wins
Hilton Contest
Hale Thompson with, his “A
Step Towards Tort Liability of the
Charitable Institutions of Oregon”
oral discussion, walked off with the
$50 first prize money in the Hilton
contest, held last night.
Second in the running was
George Birnie, taking the $25
prize, and Herb Skalet, coming
out third best for the $10 award.
Birnie discussed "Thene's no Need
for a Change in the Liability of
Oregon’s Charitable Institutions"
and Skaiet spoke on "A proposal
to Extend the Application of the
Last Clear Chance Doctrine in
Oregon."
Each of the entrants was allow
ed to speak for fifteen minutes,
without the aid of manuscripts.
They were judged on the quality
of content, organization of mater
ial, and effectiveness of presenta
tion.
George Neuner and William
Martin were the other two speak
ers in the contest. Carl E. Wim
berly, circuit judge from Hose
burg, John Bryson, Eugene jus
tice of the peace and Fred E.
Smith, local attorney were the
judges.
The contest is held yearly and
is sponsored by Frank H. Hilton,
Portland attorney, who gives the
$50 first prize. The other two
prizes are given by the law school
trust fund and the University
chapter of Phi Delta Phi, legal
honorary.
Oregon Retailers
To Meet Monday,
May 3 on Campus
The Oiegon retail distributors’
association will confer on thd Ore
gon campus Monday, May Ji, The
morning session will be given over
to a discussion of unfair trade
practices, according to Victor P.
Morris.
Questions will be raised to as
certain whether or not chaiio stores
thrive on unfair practices; whether
it is fair for a manufacturer to
make price discriminations favor
ing the chain stores; whether
stores should be permitted to sell
commodities at a loss in order to
attract trade. Legislation which
has been passed by federal and
state governments relative to re
tail trade practices will also be
discussed.
Merchants from all over the
state are expected to attend Mon
day’s conference.
Official Notice
Members of the sophomore
class will meet in Yillard hall
Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock,
to nominate candidates for jun
ior class offices, and adopt a new
class constitution.
HARRY WESTON,
Sophomer class president ^
Coalilion's Candidates
May Gel Nominations
By Petitioning on or
Before Saturday
50 Signers Needed
Only Two lip for Office as
United Group Postpones
Meeting, Delays Action
By LLOYD TUPLTNG
(Emerald News Editor)
At the midnight deadline last
night oniy two petitions declaring
intentions to run for positions on
the ASUO executive committee
were in the hands of Gilbert
Schultz, student body president.
Declarations were made by Bill
Pease and Clare Igoe.
Apparently the coalition group,
which postponed a meeting sche
duled for last night where four
candidates for ASUO offices were
to be chosen, was either ignorant
of the ASUO deadline ruling or
was playing “hide-and-seek” in the
tall political grass with the inten
tion of putting over a fast coup.
Others Must Petition
Any candidates which the group
might select at a meeting tonight
may become eligible to run for the
top student body offices by submit
ting a petition signed by fifty
members of the ASUO, not later
than two days after the regular
nominations. This action would
constitute a nomination.
A split in the coalition faction
was predicted last week when the
ASUO executive committee passed
a preferential balloting system for
campus elections. It was pointed
out that as soon as the coalition
faction announced selection of
nominees for the offices, the candi
dates would organize their living
groups around them in the hope of
obtaining the student body presi
dency.
Fist Choice Important
The new electoral laws state
that "the elected candidate receiv
ing the greatest number of first
choice ballots shall be president of
the associated students of the Uni
versity of Oregon; the elected can
didate receiving the second highest
number of first-choice ballots shall
be first vice-president,” and so
forth.
Thus, the important thing is the
number of first-choice ballots gar
nered by the respective candidates.
Supporters of each candidate will
be out to gain for him the greatest
number of first-preference votes
possible, and the coalition group
will split into four factions in sup
port of the separate candidates.
Problems Face Politicos
Male politicians at their joint
meeting with women tonight, to
make their final choice for coali
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