VOLUME XXXIX
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1938
NUMBER 104
G-Man to Talk
At Assembly
This Morning
FBI Activities in Fight
Against Crime Will
Be Discussed at 11
By Vice Head
W. H. Drane Lester, vice head
of the Federal Bureau of Investi
gation, will discuss the operations
and activities of the FBI at an
assembly this morning at 11 o’
clock in Gerlinger hall.
Today’s 11-o’clock classes will be
held Thursday at the same hour.
The renowned G-man spoke last
night before members of the Eu
gene Rotary club on the subject,
“The FBI as a Factor in Law
Enforcement,” and will discuss the
“Training and Personnel Problems
of Peace Officers” before delegates
of the Commonwealth conference
(today.
Typical G-Man
“He talks like a machine gun,”
is one of the remarks heard to
describe the speaker. Of special
interest will be his descriptions of
the training program which poten
tial G-men find themselves forced j
to undergo. Mr. Lester plays an
important part in this program.
A southerner who is a graduate
of the University of Mississippi,
Mr. Lester also went to Oxford as
a Rhodes scholar. He holds the of
ficial rank of major in the military
intelligence division of the Offi
cers Reserve corps of the United
.States army. For several years he
has assisted J. Edgar Hoover in his
fight against crime.
Child Actress
Offers Art for
Stanford Mag
By ALYCE ROGERS
Shirley Temple will lead the list
of art contributors in the spring
issue of the “Chappie,” Stanford’s
spring-term 44-page humor maga
zine which will be crowded also
with poems, stories, and editor
ials, that tell of “a young man's
fancy.”
Repeating the triumph she
scored in a contribution last year,
Shirley has turned in an original
drawing composed especially for
the Stanford Chaparral, and
heads a group of “Chappie” art
ists of equal fame and even more
ability. The magazine will “knock
the reader's eyes out” in its pho
tographic layout of black and
white, according to Editor Bob
Hartmann.
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Stuff...
Then there was the dumb coed
who fell in love with an English
major—because she adored mili
tary men.—Indiana Daily.
Her father sold Venetian blinds,
and just to look at her would
make you shutter.—Westpointer.
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Canoes...
Spring brought forth its first
upset as far as canoes are con
cerned this week at the University
of Washington when two students,
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At Assembly Today
W. H. Drane Lester . . . one of
principal speakers at Common
wealth conference yesterday who
will speak in Gerlinger this morn
ing at 11 o’clock.
Bob Garretson's
Senior Recital
Wins Audience
Chopin, Gershwin on
Program; Student of
George Hopkins
By CATHERINE TAYLOR
Enthusiastic applause greeted
the selections of Robert Garret
son last night as he presented his
senior recital in the school of mu
sic to an appreciative audience.
Mr. Garretson, student of
George Hopkins, professor of pi
ano at the University; and senior
at the University, played a group
of selections popular with all con
cert-goers.
The program was begun with
several members by the favorite
composer, Chopin. Outstanding
was the “Waltz in E-flat major,”
a. selection requiring a nimble
fingered technique well-handled by
Mr. Garretson.
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Press, Education
Relations Rank
High in Oregon
The relations in Oregon between
’ the press and higher education
are more mutually helpful than in
any other western state, it was
brought out at the Stanford-Press
and University relations confer
ence in Portland Monday night,
said Eric W. Allen, dean of jour
nalism yesterday.
Chancellor Frederick M. Hunter,
President Donald M. Erb, Dean Al
len, Charles D. Byrne, director of
information, and secretary to
Chancellor Hunter, and George H.
Godfrey, associate in the news
bureau, represented the University
at the conference.
The purpose of the conference,
which is one of several on the
coast as well as throughout the
country, is to further relations be
tween higher education and news
papers.
Marshall Dana, associate editor
of the Journal was toastmaster of
the dinner meeting with the Port
land publishers as hosts. About
twenty newspaper editors and a
like number of educators attend
ed the conference.
Commonwealth Meet
In Second Day; 'Few
Caught’, Says Judge
Three and One-Half
Million Criminals.
90 Per Cent Free.
Speaker Says
By WALDEMAR UPDIKE
The fact that there are 3,500,000
criminals in America, and that 90
per cent of these criminals escape
punishment for their crimes ac
counts for the stress laid by crim
inologists on crime control and
prevention, said Judge Richard
Hartshorne of New Jersey, chair
man of the Interstate Commission
on Crime, at the Tuesday evening
banquet of the commonwealth con
ference in the men’s dormitory.
Causes Listed
“The popular causes of crime
are those which intelligent pre
vention, directed in the home, the
school, and the church, or by the
community; could remove,” said
Judge Hartshorne. “Parents,
churches, motion-pictures, radios,
and newspapers must learn to in
cite only the better nature of peo
ple to action.”
Since play groups are the basis
of the social development of
American youths, Judge Harts
horne advocated that these groups
be provided with better leader
ship, better recreational facilities,
and that slums be eliminated,
along with their causes and ac
companying conditions.
Urges Better Laws
Legislation must be enacted
which will provide for the capture
of criminals who have escaped
into states other than their own,
for the extradition of criminals
and witnesses, and for the inter
state control of parolees, said
Judge Hartshorne. Laws should
be enforced by well-equipped po
lice, by prosecutor devoid of per
sonal or political manipulation,
and by shorter trials with fewer
technicalities. Criminals should
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Prevention Important
Judge Richard Hartshorne , . .
told conference that 90 per cent
of America’s 3,500,000 criminals
are allowed to go free.
'Pledge Dag' Once
Oregon Tradition
UO, State Dignitaries
Renewed Fealty to
Commonwealth
What has become of Oregon’s
traditional “Pledge Day?”
For nearly twenty years stu
dents at the University of Oregon
set aside October 15 as the date
on which each man and woman
on the campus, together with the
faculty and the governor of the
state and a few distinguished vis
itors, paused beneath the old trees
which cluster around Villard hall
to renew' their fealty to the Uni
versity and to the state of Oregon.
In 1912, students said for the
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Junior Weekend to See
Campus in Usual Mess
Another Junior weekend tradition showed promise yesterday
of being fulfilled as campus WPA officials announced that a WPA
crew would begin work Monday on another operation on the face
of the campus, this time in front of McClure at the art school end.
The announcement of the project brings one more fulfilled tra
dition into the fold, in keeping with a long-time record of some
part of the campus torn up for every weekend, which brings many
visitors to the campus.
Work Starts Soon
Workmen had already placed their tool boxes yesterday at the
scene of the projected excavation, which will house a concrete
underground transformer vault, one of nine on the campus.
The vault will be of reinforced concrete seven feet wide, and
nineteen feet long, and seven feet high. Whn completed, it will put
underground all power lines and pole transformers in the old part
of the campus.
Funds Provided Already
Funds for the work will come from the campus tunnel project
allocation, made some time ago, with the transformer scheduled to
be ultimately included in the tunnel system as part of the projected
“tunnel eight,” not yet built.
Questioned as to the appearance of the projpet in relation to
Junior weekend, PA heads said, “Visitors wouldn’t feel at home
unless the campus were torn up.”
Judge Brands Leads
Prison Discussion;
UO Profs Speak in
Meetings
By WALDEMAR UPDIKE
The division of the Common-*
wealth conference on prison ad
ministration and reform met this*
morning- in the faculty room of
Friendly hall under the leadership
of Judge James T. Brand.
Recommendations of the state
planning board, made following a
survey last year of the penal sit
uation in the state, were present
ed to the conferees by Dr. P. A.
Parsons, board member and head
of the University sociology de
partment. These included: reor
ganization of the present parole
board, appropriation of funds lor
employment of an adequately
trained staff of parole officers,
creation of a receiving station or
observation clinic for 'criminals
sentenced to the penitentiary, em
powering of the parole board to
fix terms of sentences after ob
servation periods, expansion of
the present industrial program to
provide.work for idle men, estab
lishment of a program of rehabil
itation for less hardened men, and
improvement of present facilities
for prisoners.
Prison Reform Topic
James P. Davis, executive sec
retary of the Prison Industries
Reorganization adm inistration
spoke on recent trends, in prison
reform, with special reference to
the needs of Oregon.
Howard R. Taylor, head of the
psychology department, spoke on
the psychiatric clinic as an aid to
the treatment of criminals.
The morning was rounded out
with five-minute talks on concrete
cases of the need for an adult-re
formatory by Judge James T„
Brand, Judge Jacob Kanzler, Judge
| Donald' E. Long, Chief Probation
Officer Dan Northrup, followed by;
a panel discussion,
j A luncheon was held at the
men’s dormitory with the Eugene
Rotary club. James H. Gilbert,'
dean of the school of social sci
ence, presided. In an after-dinner;
' speech, activities of the federal
bureau of investigation were out
| lined by W. H. Drane Lester, No.
2 G-Man, administrative assistant
to J. Edgar Hoover.
Judge Bailey Presides
The afternoon session on parole
and probation met in the same
place at 2 p.m., with Judge J. O.
Bailey, associate justice of the
Oregon supreme court, and chair
man of the interim legislative
■ commission on parole legislation,
i presiding.
Experience of other states has
shown that an efficient parole
board cannot be maintained by ex
officio or voluntary member, but
should be composed of members
whose primary interest is in this
work, it was declared by Francis
H. Hillar, senior analyst for the
Prison Industries Reorganization
administration, who spoke on "Re
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