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I VOLUME XLI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1940 NUMBER 03 Dads Assured of a Good Dinner LI3RARY U. OF ORE. Boost in Fees Explained by Registrar Students to Hear Dr. Harold J. Noble Address Will Concern U.S. - Japanese Trade Oregon History Professor, on Leave of Absence, Returns for ASUO Assembly At 11 a.m. in Gerlinger Hall Stressing the economic importance of Japanese-American trade pacts which expire at midnight, Dr. Harold J, Noble, Oregon professor of history, will reveal an inside story of international relations this morning, when he addresses University students in Gerlinger hall at 11 a.m. Dr. Noble will speak on, “Japan and the United States" and will summarize one year of study and teaching on the Oriental peninsula of Korea. He left the Far East last December and at present is on a speaking tour of the western states. Japanese Pacts According to Karl W. On thank, dean of personnel, Dr. Noble will discuss various phases of America’s long-time pacts with the Japanese. He is expected to point out some of the complications that may arise from non-renewal of the agree ments and show why the United States is not anxious to continue the present setup on permanent basis. Born in Korea Dr. Noble, in addition to the past one year, has spent a large part of his life in Japan and is well acquainted with the people and their language. He was born in Korea, son of a missionary, and has come in close contact with Orinetal customs. His past year’s study has been at the University of Tokio, where he received a Rocke feller Foundation scholarship. Next fall Dr. Noble is. expected to return to the Oregon teaching staff. He has taught at the Uni versity over five years since re ceiving his Ph.D. degree at the University of California, Berkeley. CAMPUS CALENDAR The Daly Scholarship club will meet at the Anchorage at noon to day. Kwama will meet today at 5 o’clock at the College Side. Im portant. Please bring dues. Students interested in national affairs will meet at the Westmin ster house tonight at 6:30 to hear prominent men discuss the ques tion “Should We Support Presi dent Roosevelt’s National Defense Plan” which will be the topic of “The Town Hall of the Air” pro gram. Because of the concert being given by the St. Olaf choir next Tuesday, the fireside meeting in the browsing room will be at 7 in the evening instead of 7:30. Miss Ethel Sawyer, browsing room li brarian, will read the dramatic poetry of Edgar Arlington Robin son. A meeting of the upperclass stu dent union committee has been called for 1 o’clock in the student union room. Christian Science organization at the University of Oregon will meet at 8 o’clock tonight in the YWCA bungalow. Phi Beta meets tonight at 7:15 in Alumni room of Gerlinger. Both members and pledges are to be present. A program will be pre sented. .Amphibians will hold an impor tant meeting in Gerlinger hall at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. All committee chairmen for the AWS convention are asked to at tend the meeting to be held today at 4 o’clock in the Side in the up stairs room. Students to Speak At Triangle Lake Three speech students will talk before the Triangle lake CCC camp next week, J. L. Casteel, director of the speech division, has an nounced. The students to go are Charles Devereaux and Leonard Clark who ! will speak on “The Problems of i Distribution” and Dorothy Durkee ■ who will give a humorous reading. OSC Officers Will Attend Military Ball Invitation Is First Of Such Extended; Governor Coming Governor Charles A. Sprague will escort Oregon’s “Little Col onel’’ through an arch of crossed sabers at Scabbard and Blade’s Military ball February 3. The Oregon State college ROTC has been invited to attend, mark ing the first time that this cour tesy has passed between the two schools. Col. H. B. Keene, Lieu tenant-Col. W. H. Wadsworth, and Col. E. M. Sloan of the Oregon State infantry department will represent the military faculty at the dance. “Bob Mitchell's orchestra has been signed to play for the ROTC convention, and will furnish the necessary music for all the marches of the evening,” said Harry Milne, captain of the military honorary. There will be a sizeable collec tion of honored guests at the ball, according to advance reports from the dance committee. Governor and Mrs. Charles A. Sprague will be present. Others include Major-General Charles H. Martin-. Chancellor and Mrs. Fred erick M. Hunter; Dr. and Mrs. Don ald M. Erb; Colonel Robert M. Lyon, commanding officer of the University ROTC; Col. E. V. D. Murphy, U. S. Army retired; Col. H. C. Dempewolf of the reserve officers; Major J. W. Crissy, Major A. L. Morris, and Major H. L. Bar rett of the University ROTC; Ma jor Carlton E. Spencer, director of civil aeronautics training; Dr. E. C. Waller of the national guard; Cap tain Kenneth Dalton of the Port land reserve officers, and Captain George Spilver of the Lane county reserve officers. 'First Mate Bob' Will Speak Tonight “First Mate Bob,” of the Haven of Rest radio program, will speak at the Eugene Baptist church to night at 7:30 p.m., the church com mittee announced yesterday. “First Mate Bob” has appeared in Eugene several times and most recently addressed a gathering of 5000 people in McArthur court. In cluded on this evening’s program will be a Minute Man quartet com- i posed of Rollin Calkin, John Harms, Estley Schick, and Gordon Frazee. All interested students are in vited to attend. Dr. Gage to Speak At Portland Realty Board Luncheon Dr. D. D. Gage, associate pro fessor of business administration, will speak on “Title Problems in the Selling of Real Estate” this j Friday at a noon luncheon meeting of the Portland Realty board in the ! Imperial hotel. Professor Gage will point out1 how selling real estate is unlike | selling other commodities, as even after the buyer and seller have agreed upon a price, there is al ways the question of whether or not the seller can furnish a title to the property. The five members of the committee in charge of the banquet for Dads’ Day are shown personally selecting the chicken to he used (Courtesy of the Register-Guard) for the meal. The girls from left to right are Virginia Gray, Nancy llieseh, Phyllis Foster, Elizabeth Steed, and Lisheth Daggett. ! Librarian, 1891 Tells of Rise To Library, 1940 The recent visit of Miss Dora Scott, first full-time librarian of the University, brought to light an old report by Miss Scott which gives a good picture of the early library conditions here. Miss Scott who now lives in San Francisco came to Oregon in 1891 when the library was in Villard hall and boasted 391G volumes. In 1893 the library was moved back to Deady hall where it had been originally. Librarian from 1991 to 1896, Miss Scott bared her troubles to the state board in a report of September 21, 1891. She men tions cataloging in the dictionary system all the books under her care and publishing 300 copies of a list of those books. Concert Series Being Lined up For Next Year Educational Board Listing Probable Artist Attractions Already anticipating next year’s ASUO concert series the educa tional activities board met yester day afternoon to decide on proba ble immediate booking of at least one of the prospective attractions. Occasion for the meeting was the fact that the board had two choices for their list which would have to be decided and wired with in a day or so. Accordingly, one was chosen, and the result of tele graph dickering will be revealed when the complete list is an nounced. Quick action was necessary in order to alleviate one of the pe rennial problems of the board in arranging attractions, namely the arranging of suitable dates. The reason many outstanding attrac tions never see their names on the ASUO list is because schedules cannot be made to coincide. The one choice was the only de cision made at the meeting. Work of lining up next year’s concert slate ,now complicated by the ad dition of a new inflexible univer sal fee, will be gone into more ful ly at the next meeting. The new fee setup came in for considerable inconclusive discus sion. Eight faculty members, headed by President D. M. Erb, and two students were present. Only miss ing members were J. O. Lind strom and Jeannette Hafner. Dads Will Be. Entertained In Villard Hall } Novelties Program To Be Featured Saturday From 4 to 5 Saturday afternoon, Oregon students will show that Hollywood has nothing on them when they present a novelty pro I gram for their Dads. I Arrangements are being made I to move the entertainment from the Music building where it was formerly scheduled to the Villard assembly hall. ‘Orphans’, Too Students who are “orphaned” this weekend because their parents were unable to attend this 13th annual Dads visit are urged by John Cavanagh, general chairman, to attend the program anyway. “We are planning a musical pro gram spiked with humorous skits, readings, dances—in other words —just a real good variety of num bers,” Pat Taylor, chairman, stat ed, “so that each talented student may have a chance to take part in entertaining the Dads.” Joe Gurley will be master of (Please turn to page three) Treece Fiddles (By Request) as Cavanagh Burns Walker Treece, Dads’ Day hos pitality chairman, probably over did "warming-up” exercises for his position, got ultra-hospitable, And poured out a hearty "Wel come Home!” to the wrong “in sect.” Anyway, he's holding down a berth on the infirmary’s “sickaroo” squad. However, the boy who has “bugs” on the bean is John Cavanagh, Dads’ Day head. John’s poring over Houdini books hoping to discover how the de ceased escape artist went through blank walls. If John does find out, observers say, he’ll "spring” his hospitalized hospitality-gusher and make the infirmary’s walls, visiting ban, et al, look like a wet sack. In the beds January 24 were Betty Seeley, Virgene Wade, Adelaide Timmons, Francis Quig ley, Leone La Duke, Elizabeth Baldwin, Ruth Wright, Nancy Lee Stratton, John Bjork, Clif ford Anet, John Murphy, Jack Newman, Tom Starbuck, Erwin Lesser, John Bustereed, Walker Treece, Les Anderson, Oberlin Evenson, James Fisher, and Lloyd Thomas. A new lown will soon be planted in the plowed area next to the Mur ray Warner art museum. F.M. Christianson Directs Famed St. Olaf Choir to Be Heard Here Next Tuesday By JONATHAN KAHANANUI Sans hundreds of years of tradition and background, its home a Lutheran college of 1200 in Northfield, Minnesota, but known musically from the United States to Europe ail'd back, Conductor F. Melius Christiansen’s St. Olaf choir makes its debut in Eugene after 20 years of concert touring. The 70-voiced a cappella group, with its repertoire of religious and folk music, performs in the University’s Igloo, feature number two of ASUO’s 1940 Great er Artists series, next Tuesday evening'. Herman Devries in the Chicago Herald-Examiner comments on the Lutheran choir as follows: Letter-Perfect “It is a group of young people, all of them letter-perfect, pitch perfect, tone-perfect, text-perfect in the most difficult classic choral music, singing absolutely from memory and without accompani ment, even without the opening assurance of diapason or tuning fork. Repeated success of the more than-a-quarter - of - a - century old choir is attributed to “hard work,” says Dr. Christiansen, for the group holds “arduous” practices daily except Sundays. Participation in the singing organization is ex tracurricular. Studies in Leipzig Conductor Christiansen, Norweg ian bofn, came to America at the age of 17, taught in cities of the middle west -later, then journeyed to Leipzig, Germany, for continued study in music prior to assuming his present position at St. Olaf college. Ticket sale is already under way for the concert next Tuesday. Tick ets may be purchased in the Edu cational Activities office by those not holding ASUO cards. Reserved ; seats are tagged 75 cents, $1, and $1.25. General admission is 50 cents. An ASUO card will admit the bearer. I Five Air Trips Will Shower On Oregon Dads Leaflets to Fall From Airplanes At 3:30 Saturday Air trips over the campus will be the value of five souvenir leaflets signed by Flying school instructors, to be released from the sky at 3:30 Saturday in honor of the Dads, reports John Cavan agh, Dads’ Day ghairman. The student or bad who picks up an autographed copy from the 2000 to descend campus-ward as all five planes in Oregon’s flying course fill the air with leaflets is eligible for the flight. It would be especially fitting, the committee believes, if a Dad should get the chance to see the campus from a bird's-eye view. Fly in Formation Arrangements are complete with the Dads’ Day committee and Carlton E. Spencer, head of the civil pilot’s training course at Oregon. The planes are to fly in mass formation releasing leaflets as souvenirs of the first flight of this kind ever attempted by the Oregon school, Mr. Spencer stated. To Check Currents The Cub trainers will make a pre-flight check-up of prevailing air currents to determine the best points for release of the leaflets. Flying yellow and green streamers, the planes are to circle at 600 feet as a special exhibition in honor of the Dads. Special permission has been granted by the University to strew the leaflets over the campus. At 3:45, immediately following the flight, Mr. Spencer will address the Dads in the music school audi torium. New Book of Homer Collection in Library 'Delights Ladies' A new book in the Homer col lection in the library, of interest to men as well as women in spite of its feminine title, is ‘‘Delights for Ladies” written by Sir Hugh Plat and first printed in 1602 in London. The ‘‘Delights for Ladies” are recipes for preparations to adorn their persons, tables, closets, beau ty, banquets, and perfumes. Now adays they are bought in a drug store without half the work men tioned therein. This copy of the book was print ed by Violet and Hal W. Trovillion at their private press in Herrin, Illinois. Press conference delegates and visiting dads will be shown through the Emerald offices Friday night when the daily holds open house. UO Official Answers Questions of Students On Increase in Fees Earl M. Pallett Explains New 'Incidental' Charges Raised to $7 Per Term to Replace Previous $5; ASUO Cards Will Be Lowered By HELEN ANGELL Answering puzzled queries of undergraduates concerning the in crease of college incidental fees in Oregon from $5 to $7 a term, Registrar E. M. Pallett last night explained that the new system will “constitute no increase at all in costs for nearly 70 per cent of the student body.” While the fees will be increased $2 each term, or $G during the year, the price of the University student body card will correspondingly Press Confab Opens Today At University 22nd Annual Meet Is Three-Day Fete; Over 100 to Attend Over 100 Oregon newspaper men will open their twenty-second an nual press conference at the Uni versity journalism school this af ternoon at 2 p.m. when members of the Oregon Newspaper Publish ers association gather at the Eu gene hotel for a budget committee meeting. This year’s conference will last three days from Thursday, Janu ary 25 through Saturday, January 27. Complete program for the con clave was announced yesterday by Harris Ellsworth, convention pres ident. I Today’s schedule, in addition to the budget meeting, will include a 3 o’clock gathering in the Eugene hotel of the board of directors of the publishers association. Confer ences have been planned both Fri day and Saturday with special din ner banquets. Highlight of the program will come Friday when Sigma Delta Chi, men’s journalistic honorary, with the help of a conference com mittee, announces winner of the Hal E. Hoss cup for the best Ore gon weekly newspaper with a cir culation of under 1000. The cup is now in possession of the Redmond Spokesman, a paper which received it last year for the third time. Joe C. Brown and Mary Brown are publishers of the Spokesman. Sigma Delta Chi members will judge the papers. Committee in charge this year includes, George Pasero, SDX prexy, Elbert Hawk ins, and Phil Bladine. The confer ence committee will be composed of R. C. Hall, manager of the Uni versity press, and two daily paper publishers. Theta Sigma Phi, women’s pro fessional journalism fraternity, will take active part in the pro gram, entertaining ladies attend ing the conference at Gerlinger Friday afternoon. They will help with registration and meeting of members today. College Traditions Told at Y Luncheon With “Fun and Frolic on Other Campuses’’ as her topic, Mrs. E. E. DeCou, acting executive of . the YWCA, spoke to the Dill Pickle club Wednesday at their weekly fireside luncheon. Mrs. DeCou told of the various traditions and celebrations she re cently viewed on college campuses all over this country and in Europe. As a member of the national board of the YWCA for the past two years, Mrs. DeCou has attend-1 ed a national board meeting in New York, as well ad regional meetings in Spokane and Asilomar,1 Calif. She is now acting as execu tive secretary to take the place of Mrs. John Stark Evans, who is ill. Mrs. DeCou is the wife of Dr. E. E. DeCou, professor of the mathematics department, and a resident of Eugene. move clown to $9 for the whole year. Since about 70 pet cent of the student body now buy ASUO cards, no change in their college budget will be noted. “The state board feels that cer tain extra-curricular activities now paid for out of that voluntary ASUO fee should be paid for by the whole school since they are an intrinsic part of a University edu cation,” Pallett explained. Activities Included .Included in this group of activ ities now supported by the Asso ciated students and henceforth by the University as a whole, will be the Greater Artists concert series, part of the Emerald subscription intake, salaries of educational ac tivities employees, symposium trips, etc., the registrar said. On the heels of the state board action Tuesday, Oregon’s ASUO executive committee decided to meet today to clarify just how the administration of this new fund will be handled, and the Associated students’ relation to it. University President Donald M. Erb has been asked to be present to explain the situation as it affects the finances of ASUO. OSC Also Affected The fee increase levied by the state board of higher education at their Portland meeting is not limited to the University, since a similar $2 a term increase has been voted for Oregon State college. There, too, the college proper will make certain Associated students activities a definite part of the curricular setup. Jewett Speech Subjects Listed Friday Is Deadline For Topics; Prizes Again $15, $10, $5 Friday is the last day to turn in speech topics for winter term Jew ett speech contest, according to J. L. Casteel, speech division di rector. The subjects are to be of the speaker’s own choosing but they must have the approval of a mem ber of the speech department staff. A list of proposed subjects has been posted on the bulletin board. This term’s addresses will be ex temporaneous and will advocate a policy, proposal or point of view with regard to the subject, chosen. The speech will be limited to 10 minutes. Only notes which refer to statis tics can be used during the talks. After each speaker has finished, the judges may question him on any point set forth in his speech. Prizes to be offered are: first, $15; second, $10; third, 5. The finals will be staged in room 12, Friendly hall, Wednesday, Jan uary 31. The Jewett speech contests are sponsored each term by Mrs. W. F. Jewett in memory of her husband, W. F. Jewett. Portland Art Staff To Visit Museum On Dads' Weekend The art museum will be open Thursday evening for the conven ience of the staff of the Portland art museum, who are being brought down by Mr. and Mrs. Burt Brown Barker. Both front and rear doors will be open from 8 to 10 and the public is invited. The museum will be open Satur day between 1:30 and 4 p.m. to give the dads a chance to look it over.