Fire Precautions At UO
insure Against Disaster
By Marjory uusn
“The fire condition at Oregon is
generally very good,” was the
comment yesterday of 1.1. Wright,
superintendent of the physical
plant. Because of last Sunday’s
disaster at Kenyon college in Ohio,
where nine boys died as a result of
a dormitory fire, a survey of fire
conditions at the University seems
especially timely.
Campus fire protection will be
greatly increased, according to
Wright, upon the completion of the
new branch of the city fire depart
ment at 17th and Agate street
across from Hayward field.
This station, now under construc
tion will be completed by May 15,
and will be in operation by July 1.
It will have two trucks and will be
operated by four men. The station
will be first to answer University
calls, according to Lester Barker,
city fire marshall, and will be
backed up by the downtown divi
sion of the department.
Although some of the buildings
on the campus are not of fireproof
construction, they are all amply
protected, Wright said. Susan
Campbell hall, Hendricks, Mary
Spiller and the vets’ dorms, as well
as the clas9 buildings are not fire
proof. However there are alarms,
fire hoses, standpipes, and extin
guisners, as Well as me caeayco in
all of these buildings.
The dormitories are inspected by
the state fire inspector once a year
and meet all state regulation, ac
cording to Mrs. Genevieve Turnip
seed, director of dormitories.
Fire drills are heeld at least once
a month in all girls’ dorms but none
are held by the men. If the boys
hear the alarm they know it is
the real thing, Mrs. Turnipseed
said. As an added precaution for
vets’ roms, there is a direct tele
phone line from the dorms to the
fire department.
John Straub hall and the newer
campus buildings are fireproof, and
the new women’s dorm will be
completely safeguarded against
fire. A fire there, Wright noted,,
would affect only one room. Deady,
oldest building on the campus, is
insulated with earth between the
floors and ceilings which also
make it partly fireproof.
“If we ever do remodeling at
Deady, we will have a lot of dirt
to contend with,” he added.
One of the greatest fire hazards,
according to Wright, is the non-ob
servance of No Smoking signs. In
the past 18 months, there have
been five fires, all small, in and at
University buildings. It is thought
that four were caused by cigarettes,
and one, at McArthur court, possi
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Of Condon Talk
“We are inclined to discount the
past civilization of China,” Dr. Ken
neth Scott Latourette stated at the
Condon lecture Tuesday night in
Chapman hall. “Yet that country’s
ideas have come nearer to achiev
ing the ideal for such a large area
and population during so many
years than any other nation,” he
added.
Dr. Latourette, recognized as one
of the world’s outstanding author
ities on Chinese history, has done
much research in that country. La
tourette, now professor of missions
and Oriental history and chairman
of the department of religion at
Yale university, spoke on the topic
“The China That Has Been.”
Due to an overflowing crowd
Tuesday, the second and final in
the Condon lecture series sponsored
by the Oregon System of Higher
Education, has been changed to the
auditorium of the music school at
8 tonight. At that time Dr. Latour
ette will give a picture of the China
of today, the influence of the Occi
dent in China, and tell the direction
China is now moving in.
“The old China was held together
by a group of ideas,” Latourette
stated in Tuesday’s lecture. These
ideas sprang from Confuscianism,
which purpose was for men to real
ize an ideal state of society on
earth. Confusianism is based on
three things, Latourette said. They
are loyalty to the family, optimism
about the universe and human na
ture, and consideration for others.
The Chinese feel til at man by na
ture is good, therefore government
should be based on reason and ex
ample, not force.
Dr. Latourette named the fac
tors which maintained Confuscian
ism in China to be the state, educa
tion, the family, and general cus
toms or mores. The first two means
have disappeared and the other two
have proven inadequate, Latourette
noted. However, China's civilization
worked very well for 2000 years and
on the whole did much for the coun
try. Its pattern spread all over Asia.
“Confuscianism ceased to be
creative and was moving only on
inertia,” the speaker said. Reasons
bly by spontaneous combustion.
Wright emphasized that care on
the part of the students in extin
guishing cigarettes and in not al
lowing trash to accumulate were
the best fire preventives. He also
suggested that dormitory residents
should know how to handle equip
ment in emergencies.
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given for this were the biological
decline of the Chinese, the lack of
a new stimulus from the outside, or
some basic weakness in Confusc
ianism. Latourette disagrees with
the first point since he considers
the Chinese an able people. The lack
of a fresh impact from the outside
is, Latourette believes, the greatest
reason for the decline of Confusc
ianism. He also thinks that Con
fuscianism was over optimistic.
With this background of the his
tory of China, Dr. Latourette will
discuss tonight “The China That Is
and Is to Be.”
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