Fiftieth Year of Publication and Sendee to the University
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1949
VOLUME L
NUMBER m
Press Conclave Starts Today
Education
Meet Calls
Professors
Education and Psych
Instructors to Attend
Conference in Frisco
rive University faculty mem
bers will attend joint meetings
of the American Association of
School Administrators and.the
American Educational Re
search association in San Fran
cisco February 22-23.
Those making the trip are P. B.
Jacobsen, dean of the school of edu
cation; L. F. Beck, associate profes
sor of psychology; P. E. Eiserer, as
sistant professor of education and
phychology; R. G. Langston, assist
ant professor of education, and P.
E. Kambly, professor of education.
Human Growth
Dr. Beck will be a dinner speak
er February 22 at the School Ad
ministrators conference, discussing
the topic, “Human Growth”—“Its
Origin and Its Uses”—“What’s
Coming Next in this Field?” He
will also distribute test copies of
his recent book “Human Growth”
which is based on the nationally ac
claimed film of the same name.
Dr. Beck will lead a discussion on
the sex education film project of
the University and the E. C. Brown
Trust fund. Assisting him will be
John Fletcher and possibly Eddie
Albert, who produced the film “Hu
man Growth,” and is now working
on a series of productions in the
same field.
Dean Jacobson will speak at the
School Administrators meeting on
“How Can We Organize the High
School Curriculum to Serve the Life
Problems of Youth?”
Eiserer to Read Paper
A paper on “Implications of Non
Directive Counsel for Classroom
Teaching” will be read by Profes
sor Eiserer before the American
Educational association. Eiserer
will also participate in a discussion
of the human element in personnel
practices.
Post-Game Mixer
Planned March 4
A post-game, all campus mixer
to follow the OSC-Oregon contest
March 4 was scheduled at the first
meeting of the new freshman coun
cil last night.
The dance will be a date affair.
The council specified that campus
clothes will be worn.
Elected as dance chairman was
Dick McLaughlin; clean-up chair
man, Tony Geremia; finance, Dick
Stout; and publicity, Bob Funk.
Gerlinger annex has been tenta
tively scheduled as the place. All
Oregon State students will be in
vited to the dance.
The Weather
Mostly cloudy with occasional
showers. High: 46.
★ * ★ ★ ★
Weather Brings Spirited Phone Calls
By Bill Clothier
There has been a lot of molar mashing about
adverse weather during the past few weeks, and
a considerable number of people have tried to do
something about it.
According to M.- A. Arkin, assistant observer
for the weather observer for the weather bureau
at the Eugene airport, the station has received doz
ens of phone calls from persons who voiced the
most unkind reflections on what they considered
the weather bureau’s dereliction of duty. Mr. Arkin
noted with relief that these irate citizens were not
sufficiently irate to bodily assault a member of the
weather bureau with malicious intent and malice
aforethought.
Always an interesting subject for a verbal filler,
weather diagnosis serves numerous functions other
than a source of conversation. The weather is the
great regulator of human activity. Air commerce
stops or goes according to the precepts of the
weather, such precepts being foretold and dissem
inated by the weather bureau.
The flyers rely on a 12-hour forecast, the public
receives a 36, and area forecasts are given on a
five-day basis. Arkin believes about 90 per cent of
their predictions are correct, but admits the other
10 per cent gains the widest publicity.
When asked if the weather bureau makes any
attempt to regulate certain weather conditions such
as dropping dry ice in cloud formations to produce
rain, Arkin replied that such steps are being studied,
but as yet, are in no way a function of the weather
bureau.
This fading winter has been an unpleasant sur
prise to many native sons of Oregon. January was
the coldest and driest month of which the bureau
has any record. It produced bouquets as well as
brickbats for the weather prognosticators. Mr. Ar
kin holds the opinion that the congratulatory calls
were from displaced easterners. To him, a steady
diet of rain is just what the weather bureau ordered
■—and will probably get.
Slobbovian Folks Featured
At WAA Carnival Tonight
WAA CARNIVAL COMMITTEE members smile big for the photog
rapher. Left to right, front row: Barbara Stevenson, Katherine Lit
tlefield, Glenna Hurst, Barbara Ness. Back row: Joanne O’Neill
Foulon, Jeannine Macaulay, Jeanne Swift, Bonnie Ginger, Maggie
Johns, Ruth Landry, Barbara Schultz.
Chamber Concert Series
To Offer Noted Artist
Bernhard Abramowitsch, hailed
by San Francisco music critics as
one of the foremost pianists of the
nation, will exhibit his talent on the
University campus February 24 at
8:15 p.m.
The brilliant young pianist from
Berkeley, Calif., is the next attrac
tion offered by the Chamber Con
cert series, campus music group.
The series, sponsored by the three
national professional music organ
izations at the University, is de
signed to supplement the regular
offerings of the Civic Music asso
ciation.
Performances with the Portland
and San Francisco symphony or
chestras and the San Francisco
string quartet have gained the
(young pianist acclaim on the Pa
1 cific coast. Portland residents may
| remember Abramowitsch as the
promising pianist who lived in that
city for three years following his
I arrival in this country from Ger
many.
! Alfred Frankenstein, music critic
for the San Francisco Chronicle,
said of Abramowitsch, “He is the
kind of musician whose thought
processes strike you as being es
sentially creative rather than pre
sentative. There is a profundity
about his work that makes each
bar live afresh. Add to this hie
brilliant technique, genuinely liv
ing rhythm, and complete and ef
fortless command of pianistic tone
color and ycru have a picture of this
true artist.’’
Sideshow Acts
Keynote Living
Groups'Booths
Oregon students with a yen
for travel will shove off in a
“Slowboat to Slobbovia” to
night at the annual W-AA carni
val, which will be held at 9 in
the unfinished gym in the men’s
P. E. building.
Tickets are now on sale in all liv
ing organizations, and may be pur
chased in the Co-op or at the door.
The entire population of the lit
tle country #will be on hand to greet
travelers, including Lena the Hy
ena, Frankenstein, and many of the
Lower Slobbovian beaus and belles.
Some of these figures will also be
featured during half-time at the
game tonight.
Tourists will be able to earn their
way by winning prizes at the vari
out concessions, which are being
sponsored by the living organiza
tions.
“Snowfall over Slobbovia” might
be the title for the booth being pre
sented by the Chi O’s and Chemey
hall, and it should be just the thing
to cheer refugees from Oregon’s re
cent deluge. Three co-ed's heads
will appear behind a scene of snow
covered mountains, and spectators
may, by cutting the right cord,
cause a bag of flour to create a real
“snowstorm.”
The Delta Gamma's and the Sig
ma Chi’s will provide those who
want to enter into the Slobbovian
spirit and “shoot the Slobbovian
way” with air rifles and moving
targets.
“Take a slow turtle to Slobbo
via,” say the Beta's and the Sigma
Kappa’s, varying the general theme
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30th Meet
Pulls Noted
Journalists
Friday Docket Shows
Full Day Scheduled
For Visiting Newsmen
Despite possible floods, almost.
200 delegates are expected to regis
ter at Johnson hall this morning
for the 30th Oregon Press confer
ence.
Today’s program includes the
third annual Eric W. Allen Memor
ial fund lecture, which will be given
at 2 p.m. by Houstoun Waring, edi
tor of the Littleton Independent in
Colorado. He will discuss “An Ex
periment to Improve Editorial
Leadership.’’
Waring, who has edited the Inde
pendent for 22 years, won the Colo
rado state award for greatest com
munity service of that state’s week
ly newspapers 8 times in the last J4
years.
Since his arrival Wednesday
morning he has addressed several
journalism classes and a meeting of
Sigma Delta Chi at the Faculty
club.
Other out-of-state presonalities
in journalism who will appear to
day are: Adam Ooms, production
editor of Time magazine in Los
Angeles. Scheduled to speak at 2 p.
m., he will explain the intricacies of
“Producing Editions Throughout
the World.’’
Loren Hays, general manager of
the Hometown Daily Newspapers
in Los Angeles, will also talk at 2
p. m. on the “Value and Use of
Readership Studies.”
At the annual banquet tonight in
| the Eugene Hotel, Robert R. Gros,
manager of the publicity and adver
tising department of the Pacific
Gas and Electric company in San
Francisco, will tell t>f “The Cold
i War—Berlin to Delhi.”
Gros is known for his interviews
of famous people all over the world.
During the past six months he trav
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HOUSTON WARING, Colorado
newsman to speak at Oregon
Press Conference.