Sign of Topsy-Turvy Times;
Jobs Call for Students’ Aid
By ANNE CRAVEN
Times have changed at the University employment office,
Miss Janet Smith, employment secretary, said. Instead of more
students than there- are jobs as in pre-war days, there are now
more jobs than there are students to fill them. Wages have
gone up too. At one time 35 cents an hour was the average
wage. Now the office thinks nothing of getting 60 or 75
cents an hour for the students.
Fall term registration figures
show that of the 2958 students
enrolled in the University 703
were supporting themselves 100
per cent; 384, 75 per cent; 410.
4)0 per cent; 357, 25 per cent; 2G6,
10 per cent; and 830 contributed
O per cent to their support. Of
these 830, only 112 were men.
Imagine
“University students work
if. heir way through school with ev
'cry kind of job imaginable," Miss
flmith said. Some work at the ice
•plant, some as night watchmen
fit lumber mills. The United
States Bureau of Entomology
and Plant Quarantine, Filbert In
sect laboratory, has spent $2400
for student help in the last four
years. One boy washes windows
at a hotel, another is an assist
ant cook in a hotel. Boys arc
hired as assistants at small an
imal hospitals and to wash dogs
for people at the hotels. Girls
model dresses, suits, and coats
for salesmen.
University students have
worked on many victory gardens
all over Eugene. They have also
weeded spinach, picked up fil
berts, and done other such work
to alleviate the acute shortage of
farm hands caused by the draft
and war work.
lambs
One student takes down dan
gerous limbs, another cleans off
roofs and eaves, and others take
care of children at hotels.
Of the students working their
way through college only 80 are
on NYA in comparison to more
than 400 of previous years, Miss
Smith states.!. There probably will
be no NYA at all next year. Miss
Smith felt that there would be
plenty of jobs available for stu
dents next year making NYA un
necessary.
Many large companies write to
the employment office for stu
dents. Among them are Firestone,
Goodyear, Boeing Ah-craft, Bank
of California, Borden Milk com
pany, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts,
Campfire girls, Federal Bureau
of Investigation, Federal Reserve
banks, Fuller Paint company,
Hawley Pulp and Paper company,
Jantzen Knitting mills, Lockheed
Aircraft, Swift and company.
United Airlines, Pan American
airlines, United States Weather
bureau, Standard Oil. Texaco,
Spool Cotton company, Schaeffer
Pen, Planters Peanuts, and many
others.
On File
Application blanks for most of
these companies are kept on file
in the employment office.
The graduate file in the office
has been very successful and
proved an aid to a great number
of students, Miss Smith said. Af
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Drive Collects
Ton of Tin Cans
In cooperation with a city-wide
scrap drive, 2000 pounds of tin
cans collected during' the year by
the scrap committee of the cam
pus war board were turned ever
to the city to be sent to Portland.
These 2000 pounds were collected
in four drives and stored on the
campus until orders could come
designating- where they should be
sent.
The last drive for this year was
held Thursday morning when the
Lane county truck picked up the
cans along with those from Eu
gene which were being collected
throughout the week.
“We certainly ppreciate the
cooperation students have shown,’.’
Marjorie Curtis and Bibbets
Strong, co-chairmen of the scrap
drive committee said. “There was
a very good showing all year.’’
Tin cans and fats will be col
lected next year, they said, and
anything else that the war board
decides is needed.
Besides tin cans and fats, 70
pounds of records were collected
by the committee this year.
University and Lane county
trucks were used to collect the
scrap.
ter a student graduates and re
ceives letters of recommendation,
copies of these letters along with
a list of the subjects he took while
in school, his experience, and his
objectives are kept on file so that
the student may use them when
ever he needs them. This file
saves the student from having
to get new letters of recommen
dation.
Joint Recital
Heard May 18
A joint recital by William Shis
ler, Hex John Underwood, and Vir
gene Lindley, will be heard in the
music auditorium at S p.m.. May
18, Rex John Underwood, profes
sor of music at the University,
will open the program with the
first movement of Mozart’s “So
nata in B-flat major." “Souvenir
de Moscow” by Wieniakske, “Ca
price No. 13" by Paganini-Kreis
ler, and “Variations on a Theme"
by Corelli-Kreisler will also be
played by the violinist.
Virgene Lindley, pianist, will
present “Ecossaises” and the
first movement of “Sonata Path
ctique," both of which were writ
ten by Beethoven, “Impromptu in
A-flat" by Chopin, and Saperton’s
“Cubanola." William Shisler, al
so a violinist, accompanied by
Everett Fulton, will play the first
movement from Mendelssohn’s
“Concerto" and "La Folia" by
Corelli-Kreisler.
Helen Nahm of the University
of Missouri is new director of the
Hamline university school of
nursing.
ONPA Picks Campus
For 1943 Conference
The annual convention of the
Oregon Newspaper Publishers'
association will be held on the
campus June 18 and 10 with two
nationally known speakers as
guests, according to Jack D. Bla
dine, president.
James Forrestal, under secre
tary of the navy, will be the main
speaker at the Saturday evening
banquet of the convention. Nel
son Rockefeller, coordinator for
Inter-American Affairs in WasFf
ington, D. C., is to address tfu?
Saturday noon luncheon of the
meeting.
Congressman Harris Ellsworth
of Roseburg will make the trip
West with the two speakers from
the national capital. Other state
and government officials are slat
ed to have parts in the confer
ence.
LOVELY FLOWERS FOR THE
UNIVERSITY GRADUATE
There is nothing that adds more thrilling, joy to
graduation day than a bouquet of lovely blooms or
an exquisite corsage. We have a varied selection of
fresh, attractive flowers at moderate prices.
Eugene’s Flouer Home
13th and Patterson Phone 654
DEARER IN THE FUTURE
THAN YOU CAN REALIZE!
The years ahead will make your graduation
photograph more treasured . . . by yourself
and all who love you.
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