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.
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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
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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.
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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.
A discussion group will meet at
Westminster house at 9 o’clock to
night. Elizabeth Drews will lead
the discussion on “How We En
tered the World War."
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