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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1939)
Like Fines to Remain Same Until Later, Council Decides Employment Secretary’s Work Fruitful Miss Janet Smith Leaves On Annual Pilgrimage to Interview Job Applicants Leaving the affairs of her office in the hands of Miss Violet Runtc, her secretary, Miss Janet Smith, employment secretary, Saturday started her annual pilgrimage throughout the state. During the week she will interview all high school students who have applied for work, especially board and room jobs, for next year. She will also talk to employers about positions for graduates. The state tour, she explained, is an annual affair for her because past experience has taught her that letters are often deceptive. It is her unbreakable rule that she gives a job to no person whom she has not interviewed. Ability Amazes How she manages to obtain in terviews with the many outstand ing employers she does mystifies many, “but you can if you're crazy enough about your job,’’ declared Miss Smith. Five years as head of the University employment office has brought to her a variety of ways and means to see employ ers. The growth of the office during her administration testifies to her position as friend and adviser to the numbers of University students working their way through school and to the graduates she places at the end of each year. Came in 1933 Coming to the campus in the late fall of 1933, she was installed in the little office in Johnson hall which is today occupied by Miss Elinor Stevenson, Dean Onthank's secretary. To care for those seek ing her assistance, chairs were placed along both sides of the hall. “And Dean Onthank and Dean Earl couldn’t scold anybody,” Miss Smith recalled, “because those waiting could hear every word that: was said.” Room Too Small Before the year was out, the tiny room became inadequate for the employment work. Miss Smith j moved to her present location in the YMCA hut, but she had a little less than half her present office space. Since that time the walls have been knocked out twice to enlarge the office. Now the time has come when another wall should be knocked out. The only trouble is that there is no wall to knock out. The files are now occupying most of the office and there should : be a special conference room for' employe-seeking men to interview students, Miss Smith said. Began m 1932 The year 1932-33 marked the beginning of the University em ployment service. In previous years it had been a part of the YWCA 'S MCA program. Reports for that year show that 337 students sought aid of the service. There were 113 i “permanent” jobs lasting three months or more with a wage val ued at $10,516. Two hundred stu dents received “temporary” or as | they are now known “odd” jobs, earning $949.35. Card Files Grow Reports for the year 1936-37 re-] veal that the card file had grown to 885. Odd jobs numbered 2,038 and permanent 207 with a total income for that year of $45,837. The numbers for 1937-38 increased to 2,852 jobs worth $54,187. The 2,494 jobs the first two terms this year have brought $54,421. Jobs found during the last summer were 370, paying $2,148. Two years ago Miss Smith added to her responsibility by organizing a graduate division in her office. Zeiss Cameras, Agfa Film DOTSON’S Job Hunter Miss Janet Smith . . . her tireless efforts have secured hundreds of jobs for worthy students. Sigma Delta Chi Men To Discus 'Goose/ Convention Today Sigma Delta Chi, men’s journal ism fraternity, will discuss the 1939 national convention to be held this summer at Stanford univer sity at a meeting in 104 journalism 4 o’clock this afternoon. Among the items considered will be the exhibit which will illustrate the work of the nationally cham pion Oregon chapter during the past year. The newsmen will check on the latest plans for the spring scandal sheet of the campus, the “Green Goose.” On March 22 of this year, she had found 285 jobs giving $342,000. Portland Branch Started Last summer she started work on a Portland division of the of fice. Ninety-two total placements were made with the temporary set-up then. This week she plans to do more work with the Oregon Dads who have undertaken the ad ministrative duties of this newest branch of the work. Miss Smith promised that the service will open in May so that everything will be ready for the June graduates. Income for all positions is based, Miss Smith said, on the average of $1.50 per odd job and $30 a month for permanent work. Helps in Other Ways Miss Smith does not stop her service with finding a student a job. In her office is a cupboard stocked with canned goods of all kinds donated by various service, mothers clubs and the students themselves. This is kept for batch ers who sometimes find it hard go ing. An emergency loan fund let out in small sums and having no in terest attached was started by the Spinsters group and has been add ed to by service groups. Declining to talk about herself. Miss Smith said that one should talk about the swell people that come to her office, work their way through school, get scholarships and high paid positions. Gifts for mother Your photograph will make Mother mppy on Mother's day. Phone for an ap pointment today or make your se lection from your* Oregana proofs. Kennell- Ellis %1 Willamette l’iione 1G‘J7 Nicknames Do Not Make Weak Ego, Says Beck Just because they used to call you ‘‘sissykisser" or "flopears” when you were a kid, is no sign you have grown up with a “weak ego" or “inferiority complex,” is the opinion of Dr. L. F. Beck of the psychology department. “Uncomplimentary nicknames may have a humiliating effect on a youngster, but if he can't overcome this effect, it is a symptom of poor adjustment on his part.” Rev. John Delauney, dean of men at Portland university, on the other hand, believes that nicknames in one's childhood may develop into a “weak ego” in later life. “The weak ego,” he said, “shows itself in many different lights." “Henpecked husbands,” “yes-men,” and “self-imposed martyrdom” are examples of such complexes, according to Father Delauney. A nickname is only one of many causes of of an inferiority com plex, Dr. Beck explained. “Physical handicaps, lack of money and social position are others.” Dr. Beck believes that a nickname may work two ways. “It may inspire a child to try to live up to his nickname. Because the fellows call a youngster 'toughy’ he may learn to take the raps,” he said. I Jane Thacher to Present Spring Piano Concert University students, faculty and residents of Eugene who enjoy piano music will have a chance to hear many of their old favoi ites next Tuesday evening, May 2, when Jane Thacher, professor of piano, : plays in concert in the music auditorium on the campus. The public ! is invited. A student for many years in Vienna of Lesclietizky, the instructor, JOBS AVAILABLE F. V. Spooner, division per sonnel supervisor of the Seattle branch of the Union Oil Com pany of California, will be on the campus all day today to interview senior students inter ested in working with his com pany, particularly in the sales division. Interviews can be arranged by calling the office of the school of business . Library Shows House Designs Representative work by students of interior design is being dis played in the circulation room of the library, Miss Brownell Fra sier, associate professor of interior design, is the instructor of the class. Models and interior plans of small modern houses which ex press the Japanese influence on American architecture were de signed for a lot on Fairmount boulevard. The plans, which were made by junior pupils, show the simplicity and restraint resulting from designing “from the inside out”—that is, considering first the practicability of each room and the house itself. Exhibited also is the plan of a liV.ing room designed around a painting. Colors used in the com position, “White Plumes,” by Henri Matisse, are reflected in the room. Another student shows the plan of a breakfast room in a country house reflecting the early Ameri can influence. Eob Swan (Continued! from page one) pointment it turned out that he is also an authority for “Alice in Wonderland,’’ having carefully studied the story for a series of etchings not long ago. He has been Igloo decorator all year. Function of the official adviser ■ will be to help house planners with their floats. He will not actually build them himself, but instead will show' how to make them tell the story in harmony with the theme. Addition of such expert guid ance will not take the contest as pect away from the canoe fete, which carries first, second, and third prizes traditionaliy, Junior Weekend Jieads felt. Each house must still create its own design and do the building, which leaves the lion's share of the effort at its original incidence. Work will go ahead on the floats from now on, Swan said last night. There will be none of the usual last-minute frantic throwing to gether of floats, he declared. A planned program will hold instead Another department which will come under his jurisdiction will be the queen’s campus luncheon throne or whatever is used. Pres ent plans call for a scene from the "Wonderland” sequences, rather than the traditional throne where previous Weekend queen- nave been crowned.. counsellor, and friend of Paderew ski and other less renowned artists, Mrs. Thacher has concertized .in Europe and all parts of the United States. Now professor of music in the University school of music, ! Mrs. Thacher was formerly head i of the piano department. The spirit of Old Vienna will be the theme of two of Mrs. Thacher’s selections, Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s “Alt Wein’’ and Kreisler’s “Leibes lied.’’ Both are waltzes, the former being translated “Old Vienna" and the latter, “Love's Sorrow,” which will be played in Rachmaninoff’s! piano transcription. From the works of Chopin, Mrs. Thacher has selected three selec tions. “Etude in Double Notes” is George Liebling's arrangement of Chopin’s “Impromptu in A Flat," and the “Revolutionary Etude” will be played because of many re quests. The “Ballade in G Minor” ; is said to have been inspired by the historical poem, “Konrad Wal- | lenrod,” by the Polish poet and j friend of Chopin, Mickiewiscz. A group of piano compositions from the works of Alexander Scria bine, will conclude the program. Among these will be the famed “Sonata in F Sharp," “Fantastic Poem,” two preludes, a scherzo, and etude, and “Album Leaf.” Beginning of (Contrmied from page one) Future Projects Told Professor Cuthbert also told of several other new projects that would be taken up sometime in the near future. According to pres ent plans the walks in the wo-, men's quadrangle between Gerling er and Johnson halls will be ce mented and some of the old walks torn up and new ones put in. Also, it is planned to cement the driveway in front of Hendricks hall, he said. One of the biggest of the new projects is the plan to sow grass in the field south of Hayward field and east of the football team’s practice field. In order to carry on all these new projects, Professor Cuthbert said, the University will ask the federal government for enough more WPA workers to keep the total number up to about 50. At present, there are only about 22 workers on the University projects, : he said. Right now, Professor Cuthbert said, the big concern is to get some of the smaller projects fin ished up and get the campus in order before Junior Weekend and commencement. One of these pro jects which they expect to finish up soon, he explained, is the con struction of a new walk beside the journalism building. Howard {Continued from page one) superintendent of public instruc tion for the state for 13 years, and was president of the Southern Ore gon Normal school for six years before he became director of edu cation. Members of the board extended Churchill a rising vote in tribute to his 00 years of service in Ore gon education. Irishman Will Lead Assembly O'Duilearga, Irish Folklore Expert, Speaks Tomorrow University students and faculty I members will get an intimate glimpse of Irish folklore and the people who keep it alive Thursday evening when Seamus O'Duilearga, director of the Irish Folklore com | mission, lectures on Irish folk tales. The lecture is one of the Univer sity series and will be held in room 101 of the physical education build ing. Mr. O'Duilearga grew up in County Antrim in the northeast of Ireland, a region in which the an cient Gaelic tradition is still domi nant, and where folk tales remain as much in vogue as ever. His Gaelic background led him later to take up the study of the oral tra ditions of the language. A tour of Sweden, Denmark, Fin land, Estonia, and Germany in which he studied the scientific folk lore research and collections being made in those countries inspired Mr. O'Duilearga to establish the Folklore of Ireland society in 1927. In 1930 the Irish Free State gov ernment endowed the collection of Irish folklore. The society’s journal, Bealoideas, is edited by Mr. O’ Duilearga. Next to Mr. O'Duilearga's love of Irish folklore is his love of fish ing of which he wrote to Karl W. Onthanlc, dean of personnel ad ministration: “I do hope that you will allow me to stay long enough to have at least one day's fishing, because I have heard so much of the salmon and trout in Oregon, and apart from that the country people in Ireland will want to hear from me about your country and whether the fishing there is as good as in County Mayo.” Mr. O'Duilearge will arrive in Eugene today or tomorrow and it Is hoped that he will remain sev eral days. The Thursday night lecture will be accompanied by slides of Irish story-tellers and their families. Art Students Display Drawings, Paintings Walls of the display room of the art school are now decorated with a new exhibit of student work from four classes. The lower division composition class is represented by color land scapes, while the lower division drawing students are showing live model sketches. Paintings from up per and lower division painting classes are also included in the group. Staff Board Sets Up (Continued from fane one) to care for increased teaching loads due to increases in enrollment throughout institutions of the sys tem. A total of $34,048 was ap proved for equipment replacements. The board authorized the estab lishment of a department of re ligion at the University, and au thorized the appointment of a full time professor to operate under the school of social sciences. The promotion of A. F. Mour sund, Jr., to the position of head of the department of mathematics, was approved by the board mem bers. Moursund will succeed Pro fessor E. E. DeCou, who has reached the age of retirement and was granted a request to be placed on a part time teaching basis. The retirement of Dr. F. G. G. Schmidt, head of the department of German at the University, who has reached the age of retirement, and will spend his time in study and travel following his retirement. E. C. Sammons, chairman of the finance committee, Charles D. Byrne, secretary of the state board, and H. A. Bork, comptroller, were commended by a vote of thanks from the board for saving the sys tem approximately $100,000 in re finanenig bond Issues. A vote of thanks was also ex tended to President Donald M. Erb of the University of Oregon and to University officials who extended hospitality to board members dur ing the two-day meeting on the campus. Master Dance will meet Wed. nnsday from 3:40 to 0:30 instead of I lie usual time. All meuibco : plea.e be there. Mothers' Day Committee Heads Named A student committee in charge of Mothers’ Weekend festivities, scheduled for May 12. 13, and 14, was recently announced by Jim Peake, general chairman of the weekend program to honor Ore gon mothers. Students named to head com mittees, as released by Chairman Peake, are as follows: Dorothy Magnuson, social affairs; Betty lou Swart, banquet; Mary Fail ing, registration; Pat Taylor, publicity; Elmer Hanson, promo tion; and Mary Jane Wormser, secretary. Mothers’ Day will bring a cli max to the three-day program which coincides with Junior Weekend; and the visitors will attend banquets, concerts, teas, special church services, and a tour of the campus, planned by student and faculty committee members. All University students are urged to invite their mothers to this weekend celebration. Garretson Pleases At Benefit Recital Sponsored By Phi Mu Alpha Fills Auditorium By GLENN HASSELROOTH From the beautiful opening! phrases of Cesar Franck's "Sym-1 phonic Varietions” to the final chord of a highly diverting encore, the audience that heard Robert Garrctson in his piano concert last night in the music auditorium did not hesitate to show their apprecia i tion and enthusiasm for a perform I ance that was as enjoyable as it was excellently played. Garretson, who now lives in i Portland, received a happy wel come from faculty, students, and Eugene residents who attended the benefit recital sponsored by Phi Mu Alpha, men’s national music honorary. His audience, who know the young pianist by high reputa tion if not actual performance, went expecting to be satisfied, and came away more than content, Hopkins’ Tunc Played Probably the two best-like num bers of the lot on the program were two which Garretson played with his former professor in the music school, George Hopkins. The sa tiric and delightful “Valse Bur ! lescjiic, or Mr. Hopkins own com position, was played in the same arrangement offered last fall here by the ASUO concert duo pianists, I’asmore and Trerice. The com poser and his pupil carried it through with a spontaneity and sophisticated humor that was nothing, if not commendable. The real “encore,” and the ex ploitation special of the program was George Gershwin’s "Rhapsody in Blue,” which Garretson, with Mr. Hopkins at a second piano and celeste, played with verve and understanding of the modern tempo. This number, which was played first by Garretson two years ago, at that time drew the largest crowd ever to attend a student rceital here. Once again, Garret son “wowed ’em.” Modern Classics Star Modern compositions from the potentially classical composers re ceive.! tiicir share of attention in the offering of compositions from Ravel, Carpenter, Debussy, and Prokofieff. The Ravel selection had a lightness of touch not usually associated with him, probably be cause of the fame of his rhythmie j ally sensuous "Bolero.” The Car penter selection, “Diversion,” was true to its name; while the diatonic measures of Debussy’s “Maid with the Flaxen Hair” painted a lovely, if somewhat elusive, picture. And the lively march from Prokofieff’s "Love of Three Oranges” provided a colorful and witty pattern of musical sounds. The variety of Chopin’s inven tion and charm was clearly evident | in the playing of four numbers from the pen of Frederick Chopin. Guyon's "The Harmonica Play er” was Garretson’s offering for an ; encore. Guar.mUvd Finishing JUOiLOH 0 JLHOl’J LtiOP Overdue Books Said Not New Problem Raise in Penalties Not Made to Increase Library Income, But to Speed Volume Return, Douglass Says Library fines of five cents a day for overdue circulation books will.., ! remain the same until further trial has been made to determine its effect on the number of books held overdue it was decided at the meeting of the library council Saturday. The fine, which was raised from two cents to five cents a day in 1937, was not levied to make money for the University library, stated M. H. Douglass, head of the lib rary. blit to decrease the number of fine notices which must be sent out. The fine money collected is put into the University general fund. In the year 1936-37, 5569 first notices were sent out, and 637 sec ond notices. Last year under the five cents per day fine, 4373 first notices were sent out for the over due books, anil 620 second notices. Until March 1, 1939, 2319 first notices have been sent, 401 second notices. The plan of raising book fines to lower the number of overdue notices, saving postage, and labor, was based on the experiences of the University of California where the book fine is 25 cents the first three days, 50 cents the sixth day, and $1 on the seventh. If the book is not returned by that time the stu dents are charged $1 plus the bill- ! ing of the book. The main reason for the large decrease of library notices this year is due to the modifications made to certain groups of students who are not able to return the books at the specified time, accord ing to Mr. Douglass. The council, which met with Chancellor Freedrick M. Hunter, also decided on a system of cooper ative indexing among the state schools of higher education. National Treasurer Of AOPi Visits Here Miss Helen Haller, national treasurer of Alpha Omicron Pi, was a guest of Alpha Sigma chap ter at the University this past weekend on a tour of northwestern-1 universities. Miss Haller arrived from California and will visit the University of Washington before going back to her home in Los An geles. Sunday she was entertained at a formal reception at the chapter house between 4 and 6 o'clock and Monday was taken on a tour of the campus. Are your shoes Getting worn? Brin}' 1 licni in tor a r (* |> a i r. lOxcellent work done promptly and at rea sonable rates. Makes them look like new. CAMPUS SHOE SHOP Across from Sigma Chi fH-H-t+tH-H-f+tf+M i-fr******' MR. uud MRS. NEWT I DK. HOYT AT BRIGHAM YOUNG Dr. H. V. Hoyt, former dean of' the University BA school, is now professor of business administra tion at the Brigham Young univer sity, Mr. M. F. McClain, Co-op manager, reported yesterday. 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