Coast Conference Official to Probe Athletes' Incomes Z7" - Radio Applications Expected to Read 1200 on Final Day VOLUME XXXIX UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1938 NUMBER 76 Ex-G-Man to Investigate Oregon University Athletes’ Incomes Atherton Will InvestigateUO Expenditures Ex-G-Mcrn Will Hold Survey of Athletes' Sources of Money For Research Webfoot varsity and fresh man athletes will next week un dergo an investigation of their incomes and sources of financial j aid when ex-G-man Edwin N. Atherton arrives on the campus as a special operative for the Pacific coast conference. Atherton, recently appointed conference investigator, is engaged j in a preliminary survey of all the I schools in the conference, having already been at UCLA, Southern California, Stanford, and Califor nia. He is now at Oregon State college interviewing Orange ath letes. Long Survey Due This preliminary probe is the first step in a survey which may require from one to two years to complete. The purpose, according to Atherton, is to get data and all information possible on sources of financial aid and income and event ually set up a standard of rules and probably an office or organi sation to enforce them. The results will not be made public in connection with any in stitution or alumnus, Atherton said at Corvallis yesterday. The con ference will probably not take ac tion or make any changes for at least a year or two. To Probe Incomes The income of athletes in institu tions of higher learning is one which is always a source of con cern in all amateur athletics. The coast conference is pioneering this method of treatment. The exact day of Atherton's ar rival here next week could not be given last night by the University athletic board. He has been devot- | ing a week to each school. Cornell to Get Oriental Brain For Collection By ALYCE ROGERS Cornell university's famous brain collection may have added to it its first Japanese ‘brain, if the reso lution of Dr. Tomitaro Makino, Japanese botanist, is carried out. Dr. Makino, 78, wants his brain to be the first of his race in the Cornell collection, and will come to the United States to die, if neces sary, to make that possible. Under the law in Japan, a body may not be dissected until 24 hours after death. Presservation of brains requires removal within an hour after death. Cornell's ( brain collection has been used to make notable discoveries about the mind in general and in a few cases about the perculiarities of noted men. It's Expensive ... The total value of 3000 fraternity and sorority houses in the United States is $85)000,000. The average house is worth- $28,118.04!—New Mexico Lobo^ s s Males Preferred ... Asked whether they preferred men or women bosses, 520 women studied by a Colgate university psy chologist, said they preferred men because women bosses let personal j things creep into work, get angry over errors, are jealous, are effic iency slaves, finds fault, and pay ✓ too much attention to details. Gleemen to Appear For Shrine Bennefit The sixth annual Gleeman con cert for the benefit of the Shrine hospital for crippled children in Portland will be given there Fri day night, February 25, in the civic auditorium. Soloist on the program will be George Hopkins, professor of mu sic at the University. Tentative arrangements have been made by John Stark Evans, >■ Gleeman leader, to present She program oyer short wave radio lines, which would give it a world wide audience. If this is done, a commentator will be used. Radio Contestants Top Marks Reached By Eastern Colleges Auditions to Begin at 1 o'Clock, Continue Until All Applicants Have Been Heard; 1200 Expected to Try Out Voices With 961 entrants signed up yesterday for The Emerald-Lucky Strike news commentator, and auditions lagging 200 behind registra tion, program directors laid plans last night to open the little broad casting station in the educational activities shack at 1 o'clock and run tonight until the last entrant has been passed before the mike. As preparations went forward to bring the auditions to an end, announcement was received here that Oregon already had more stu dents turn out thatn at either Yale or Cornell where the program AWS Committee Meets Saturday For Nominations Election Will Be Held March 2 Following Open Meeting The AWS nominating committee will meet Saturday morning to make selections of candidates for the March 2 elections, said Gayle Buchanan, AWS president, last night. The committee, appointed by President Buchanan, will meet to discuss the candidates for the va rious offices of the women stu dents’ organization. (Please turn to fac/c three) idea was first developed. New Mark Expected Don Hunter, technician in charge of the boardcasts, last night wired Corvallis for additional records. Expectations ran high last night that Oregon’s registration would top the 1200 mark. Oregon is the first college on the Pacific coast to have the auditions conducted. Officials in charge of the try-outs, said the University was picked as a typical school and because of its excellent broadcast ing facilities. HOUSEMOTHER HONORED A formal reception given Tues day night in honor of Miss Hazel MacNair, newly appointed house mother of Susan Campbell, was at tended by nearly two hundred guests, including faculty members, Eugene people, and the presidents of the various campus houses. The reception was given by the members of Susan Campbell. Oregon Rifle Team Gains I Point Lead Over U of W In Sprint for National Title Oregon's sure shooting rifle team is again after the national championship and have started this year’s shooting with victories in their first four postal matches. The postal matches are shot every Tuesday and Thursday with teams over different sections of the country. The teams mail their targets to each other and are able to shoot four or five matches at the same time. The Oregon team with 3G42 points defeated the Washington uni versity at St. Louis with 3641, South Dakota State college with 3508, US Becoming Trade Hermit Close Claims Fascist, Democratic Nations May Clash Soon, Far-Eastern Authority Claims Upton Close, internationally known authority on far-eastern af fairs, told students at the Univer- i sity of Oregon yesterday that Ja pan is forcing America into an economic hermitage. “In defending our military front, we are leaving our economic front wide open for the Japanese to march in,” stated Mr. Close (Josef Washington Hall) at an 11 o’clock assembly in Gerlinger hall. Introduced to a large gathering of students, faculty and townspeo ple, by Dean Victor P. Morris of the school of business, Mr. Close presented a graphic word picture of economic relationships among the foremost world powers and showed positions Japan and Amer ica will play in the approaching struggle for supremacy in the in ternational “ch^ss game." Terming his address “America in a Gangster World,” Upton Close brought into vivid relief the spec tacle of Great Britain and Ameri ca as the champions of democracy, in a fight-to-the-finish contest with Japan, Italy, and Germany . . . the nations employing gangster tactic? to establish their unchal lenged economic security, and new world empires. Ideals Threatened Democratic ideals to which the policies of the gangster nations would mean destruction are politi cal freedom, religious tolerance, and high standards of living by which the working man benefits from machine production, accord ing to the traveler and news com mentator. Rapidly sketching the history of Europe since the World war, Close drew analogies and comparisons between the Japantese-American situation and the Italian-British situation. He stressed the impor tance of the element of the divine origin which the Japanese attrib ute to their governmental heads. (Please turn to pa