The
Passing Show
Aviators Back Home
Explanation Accepted
Waterways Bill Up
Loyalty Strike Ends
$250,000 for Portland
By MILDRED BLACKBURN
Aviators Back Home
Completing the first round trip
North Atlantic flight without mis
hap at 3:32 p.m. eastern standard
time, Dick Merrill and Jack Lambie
landed at Floyd Bennett field after
24 hours of flying through rain and
fog.
The return trip was made from
Southport, England, in 24 hours
and 22 minutes. Several thousand
rain-soaked spectators watched the
Silver twin-motored monoplane,
overdue, as it settled on the field.
A forced landing was made at
Squantum naval air base in Massa
chusetts to permit the fliers to
check their bearings and fuel sup
ply.
('apt. Eddie Rickenbacker, World
war ace and now general manager
of Eastern air line, greeted the
tired, happy pilots, predicting the
establishment of a regular airplane
service across the Atlantic in the
near future.
The fliers brought back pictures
of the coronation. On the 21-hour,
2-minute flight eastward, pictures
of the Hindenburg disaster had
been transported.
Explanation Accepted
Tentative acceptance of the ex
planation that a floating mine
caused the explosion which badly
damaged the British destroyer,
Hunter, off the southern coast of
Spain Thursday was made by Brit
ish naval authorities, yesterday.
.Waterways Bill Up
An estimated $31,140,300 omni
bus authorization bill proposing 117
waterways developments was intro
duced yesterday by Chairman
Mansfield, democrat of Texas, of
the house rivers and harbors com
mittee. The bill was referred back
to the committee by Speaker Bank
head. No reference was made to
the Bonneville dam nor the Florida
ship canal in the measure.
Possibility of the inclusion of
these two projects in the commit
tee's omnibus recommendations
was seen by Mansfield. War de
partment surveys of 102 proposed
waterway projects were included in
the bill.
Loyalty Strike Ends
Coquille high school students
ended their day and a half strike
yesterday when a committee an
nounced that P. W. Lane, superin
tendent, had not resigned under
pressure. The school head had re
signed to accept a better position
in the Fast, it was learned.
$250,000 for Portland
Portland will receive $250,000
annually for two years to maintain
arterial streets, Henry F. Cabell,
chairman of the state highway
commission, said.
Sole Bargaining Next
Union leaders were ready to push
demands for sole bargaining rights
against major independents in the
steel industry yesterday after two
strikes had been settled. Jones and
Laughlin Steel and Pittsburgh
Steel company workers had reach
ed tentative agreements to end
walkouts of 31,000 employees.
Eclipse Expert
I>r. Theodore Dunham Jr. of Mt.
Wilson observatory, makes a last
minute cheek of new Knifings,
ruled wifh 15,00(1 lines per inch,
which will be used as part of the
special apparatus in observing the
June eclipse of the sun from tiny
Knderbury Island, in the South
Seas.
Speech Teams
Meet Tuesday
Three teams made up of mem
bers of Professor John L. Casteel’s
class in parliamentary procedure
will participate in a contest to be
held Tuesday at one o’clock in
Friendly hall.
Each team will have the floor
for 12 minutes and the members
will be judged on knowledge of
parliamentary procedure, skill in
handling the business that is con
sidered, and the way in which they
conduct the meeting.
A $5 prize will be awarded the
team judged the best by former
members of the parliamentary
procedure classes.
Library Study Will
Serve as Tea Room
For Project May 28
Mrs. CIsire Warren Churchill of
Portland, field supervisor for the
WPA American Guide project, has
accepted an invitation extended
by M. 11 Douglass, librarian, to be
the speaker at the fourth annual
Pauline Potter Homer collection
tea, which will be given in the
browsing room of the new library
May 28.
This tea is sponsored by the Am
erican Association of University
Women, the Association of Uni
versity of Oregon Women, and the
library staff, to raise money for
books for the beautiful book collec
tion. This year, however, the funds
will be diverted and used to buy
furniture for the Pauline Potter
corner of the browsing room.
Oregon history is the topic for
this year's tea. Exhibits will be
put up, and Mrs. Churchill, who for
the past year has been working
under Dr. Albert Powers, on the
historic landmarks of Oregon for
that division of the guide, will cen
ter her talk around the ghost
towns of the state.
A !•:. Kom-'.UTS, President
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Summer School
EUGENE BUSINESS COLLEGE
Minor Building A Good School Eugene, Oregon
4Socialized Mathematics
For Freshman’ Title of
Professor DeCou’s Book
"Socialized Mathematics for Freshmen” is the title of a book now
being written by Professor Edgar E. DeCou, head of the mathematics
department at the University, one section of which is already published
in a planographed edition and in use this term by two sections of the
premedical students.
The purpose of the book is to cover in a one-year course, the funda
mental mathematics needed by students in the social sciences who enter
with a minimum of one vear of high school algebra.
Is Handin'!)
“Hitherto,” said Professor De
Cou, “such students to meet this
need, have found it necessary to
take a year of freshman mathe
matics followed by a sophomore
course in calculus. This requires
more time than they can spare
from their major work with the
result that the great majority drop
out of mathematics and later find
themselves handicapped in statisti
cal and other work. Generally
speaking,” continued the profes
sor, “students and others usually
associate mathematics with phy
sics, chemistry, astronomy, en
gineering, etc., the physical sci
ences. Few realize that the social
sciences arc passing, some of them
rapidly, from the purely descrip
tive stage to a more truly scientific
basis in which they state their re
sults in definite laws, requiring
the graph, the formula, the equa
tion, and other mathematical re
lations.
“This means that to read much
of the recent literature in these
fields one must have a good work
ing knowledge of algebra and the
elements of calculus.”
Needs Outlined
Recent'y an eminent national
committee outlining the mathema
tics needed in the social sciences
said: “The advisory committee
feels that social science students
entering college with one or more
years of algebra should continue
their mathematical training and
should include the following topics
logarithms, graphs (as a tool in
the study of tabulated data), in
terpolation, equasions, and forms
of curves, probability, elements of
differential and integral calculus,
and curve fitting (mathematical
principles).”
The committee further recom
mended, continued Piofessor De
Cou, that courses he organized so
as to present this material in one
coordinated year's work in mathe
matics, which is the plan of his
own book.
To Re Ready In Fall
It is the purpose of Professor
DeCou to write the rest of the
book this summer and if possible,
to publish a preliminary piano
graphed edition for class use next
fall to meet the needs of students
in economics, business administra
tion, law, sociology, education, and
other fields.
The enrollment in mathematics
at the University of Oregon, has
more than doubled during the past
three years. Since the majority of
these students come from the so
cial science field, it indicates a
growing need for basic mathema
tics, which the department of
mathematics is striving to meet,
concluded Professor DeCou.
Spanish Award Won
By Sheldon W. Parks
Realizing that the supply of i
books printed in Spain is being ^
cut oft' by political conditions;
there, the local chapter of Sigma
Delta Pi, Spanish honorary, has
bought the two last copies of the
Spanish illustrated unabridged edi
tion of Cervantes’ ‘ Don Quijote de
la Mancha" from the Co-op. The
books have been presented to the
University library, where they are
available to students.
Dr. Emeny Will
Speak Tuesday
At Assembly
Dr. Brooks Emery, educational
director of the foreign affairs
counsel, and author of the now
famous book, “The Strategy of
Raw Materials,” which Walter
Lippman recommended every con
gressman should read before en
acting any neutrality legislation,
will be the speaker at the last
ASUO assembly program, to be
held Tuesday, May 18, at 11
o’clock.
Dr. Emery, who is only 36 years
old, is a graduate of Princeton uni
versity. He received his Ph. D.
from Yale in 1933 where he taught
international relations for five
years. For his outstanding work in
this field he received the Carnegie
fellowship in international rela
tions providing for four years of
study in Europe at the University
of Paris, Madrid, London, Vienna
and Ber’in. After this he spent
five months in the Far East study
ing the situation of raw materials
there.
The phiase, “The Haves and the
Have Nots,” came from his book
on “Raw Materials” which tells
of American strategic position in !
peace and war regarding these [
key products. He is also co-author |
with Dr. Frank Simons of two
books, "The Price of Peace,” and
“The Great Powers in World Poli
tics.”
Victor P. Morris, acting dean of
Quiz of Week
ANSWERS
1. c 6. a
2. a 7. c
3. cl 8. b
4. d 9. a
5. d 10. d
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Girl Date
Ball Tickets
Go on Sale
Men are wearing their best bibs
and tuckers these days for it is
only one week until the Mortar
Board ball, the annual girl-date
campus dance which will be held
in McArthur court May 22.
Members of Mortar Board met
yesterday to make final plans for
the formal affair. Tickets were de
livered to women’s living organiza
tions and to the University Co-op
to go on sale immediately. The
price has been set at one dollar.
Black, Siver Decorations
The court will be decorated in
silver and black with Mortar Board
caps, the symbol of the organiza
tion, used in the foreground. Pro
grams will also carry out the color
scheme and the theme of the senior
women's service honorary. Sam
Fort has been selected to prepare
the decorations.
Gus Meyers’ orchestra will play
for the ball.
In charge of arrangements are
Virginia Endicott, Elaine Cornish,
Margilee Morse, Helen Bartrum,
and Mildred Backburne.
Hwama Pledges to Be Named
One of the features of the dance
is the selection of new members
to Kwama, sophomore service hon
orary. Freshmen women who will
be sophomores the next year are
chosen by the active members of
the organization. Selection of
pledges will be made during the
intermission. Names of new mem
bers are kept secret until imme
diately before their selection. Kay
Coleman, president of Kwama, is
in charge of this feature of the
ball.
At the meeting of Mortar Board
held yesterday noon, plans were
made for initiation which will be
held on Wednesday evening, May
26. A dinner will be given for the
new initiates following the cere
business administration will intro
duce the speaker at the assembly.
Eleven o’clock classes will be dis
missed.
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