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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1938)
Peace 'Strike' Will Be Limited This Year to Positive PadfistsOnly By GORDON CONNELLY Although the peace strike next Wednesday will be limited to those who refuse to fight any war conducted by the United States govern ment, various sentiments and slants to their pacifism are held by the participating students. Because they adhere to a new party line of “collective security,” a policy they hope will defend Soviet Russia from fascist states, the Communists, who once denounced all imperialist wars and compulsory military training, will be absent from this year’s strike. Also the American Student union, a coalition of progressive, lib erai, and radical students, which formerly led opposition to ROTC, will be absent. The last national convention of the ASU voted to favor “collective security” by a vote of four to ^ne—a change in policy attributed to the League of Nations advocates, Commun ists, and others, a member of the committee said. Locals Unorganized The leadership of the strike this year fell to the United Student Peace committee. Many Social ists and pacifists have deserted the ASU, and the local chapter has become defunct, because Ore gon Socialists and pacifists, who ■have always dominated the local chapter, have found it difficult to cooperate with those who justify “holy wars.” Socialists and pacifists general ly believe that if the United States becomes entangled in another war, permanent American fascism will develop out of the industrial con trol advocated by tbe war depart ment in the May bill now before; congress. Strikers Pledge Many of the local strikers will! take the Oxford pledge—“I refuse to support the government of the United States in the war for which it is now preparing”—which has a double significance. To complete pacifists it is an expres sion of their belief that the war method is always wrong and will demonstrate their determination to avoid its use in all cases. To the socialists it is a statement not necessarily of complete pacifism, but one of a pledge not to defend any capitalist government, and the pledge contains no statement against fighting for such a govern ment as that in Spain, which they deem a workers’ government. The communists have discarded the Oxford pledge. FROSH MEET FRIDAY There will be an important meeting of all freshman men this afternoon in the Igloo at 4 o’clock, Tiger Payne, class prexy, an nounced last night. Kid's Ma Weeps Mrs. Lillian Bernstein . . . Jack-j ie Coogan’s mother fighting his suit for accountings of his $4,000, 000 earnings, weeps, court ad journs. * I Fun Round Up Mayflower: “Awful Truth,” 6:32, 9:21. “Jones Family in Hot Water,” 8:03, 10:51. McDonald: “Merrily We Live,” 2:50, 6:05, 9:25. “Dan gerous to Know,” 1:10, 4:30, 7:45, 11. Heilig: “Lone Wolf in Par is,” 1:50, 3:50, 5:50, 7:50, 9:50. Rex: “Last Gangster,” 7:00, 10:05. “Nothing Sacred,” 8:50.' * # * Stage Peer Gynt at 8:15 tonight in Igloo. ' Radio KQRE: 10:30, Emerald News Reporter. NBC: 11:30 a.m., Anthony Eden; 5:30, Fibber McGee and Molly; 6, Ripley with the Mayor of Hell; 7:30, Johnny Presents. CBS: 11:30 a.m., Anthony Eden; 5:30, Benny Goodman; 7:30, A1 Jolson’s show, Parkya karkus, Martha Raye, Seven Dwarfs; 8, Ford Program with A1 Pearce’s gang; 8:30, “Big Town,'’ Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor. Dance orchestras: 9, NBC, Charlie Agnew; 9:30, NBC, Frank Trumbauer; 10:15, NBC, Carl Ravazza; 10:30, NBC, Skinny Ennis; 10:45, CBS, Ozzie Nelson; 11, CBS, Henry King. KORE from 9:30 on. Anthony Eden, ex-foreign min ister for Great Britain, will speak at Grosvenor House in London to day. The broadcast will be car ried to American ears through both CBS and the Blue network of the NBC. There will be no caustic comment, but the half hour chat should be interesting in that Eden has been in the big mix of foreign affairs on the Continent until his recent resignation. * * * “Believe It or Not’’ Ripley is bringing the Mayor of Hell to the ether this evening at 6. It proba bly won’t sound like the Devil be cause the mayor is Lorentz Sten vig and he is the mayor of Hell, Norway—a little village near the Arctic circle. Mayor Stenvig has. been visiting in New York and neighboring cities, but plans to go to Hell shortly. * * * Another mayor broadcasting to night is A1 Jolson, the city god father of Encino, California. More important than Jolson are his guests, the Seven Dwarfs. These are the real McCoys, though there are six actors instead of seven. (One doubles.) Doc is played by Roy Atwell, veteran mush-mouth radio play er. You may remember him as Senator Fishface on various pro grams, including Fred Allen’s Town Hall. Eddie Collins takes the part of Dopey. Collins has been in bur lesque theaters for years but now has a 20th Century-Fox contract. Vocal work for Sneezy is done by Billy Gilbert, a sneeze artist from way back. You’ve probably seen him in numerous shows as an Offers Eyesight Albert Kessel ... 23, convict awaiting execution by gas in San Quentin, has agreed to an opera tion after death to remove the cornea of his eye and graft it onto a minister’s eye. Offered Eyesight Rev. V. E. Harding . . . Portland pastor, who has asked for1 and been offered a cornea from the eye of a condemned convict. Or. Miller comments on recent experiments: In an effort to restore eyesight to the blind, physicians have recently been conducting experiments where the lens and the outer portion of the cornea of the eye of a person willing to sacrifice his sight is inserted into the eyes of the blind. “In an experiment of this kind the patient has everything to gain, ’ said Dr. Fred N. Miller, of the student health service, “for since the lens and cornea do not have a biood and nerve supply they can be transferred without much danger of their losing their functional ability.” Italian chef with a spicy ker-choo. That’s his favorite part. Bashful is portrayed by Scott Mattraw, who has played minor parts in pictures for 15 years. Happy is none other tham Otis Harlan. You may remember him in his favorite characterization— that of a country judge in some backwoods town. Pinto Colvig doubles for both Grumpy and Sleepy. Colvig, a member of the Disney staff for six years, has given voice to “Pluto the Pup,” “Goofy,” “The Big Bad Wolf,” and one of the three little pigs as well. He also authored the lyrics of “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf,” and “The World Owes Me a Living.” * * $ Speaking ..of ..foreign ..affairs, Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy will be heard at 1, Thursday after noon over the NBC Blue hookup responding to a toast at a British Chamber of Commerce gathering. * * *i* Snapshots: Martha Raye may be co-starred with Joe E. Brown in “The Gladia tor.” With a salary boost coming up in their new Chesterfield con tract starting October 7, Gracie Allen and George Burns will take time off and do a quickie entit led, “The Gracie Allen Murder Mystery.” Another radio start to enter the films is Irene Rich, ten tatively cast in “After 40 Club.” . . . Deanna Durbin is about ready to appear with two beaus in a new show, “That Certain Age.” . . . Another film to be released shortly is “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” with Tyrone Power, Don Ameche, Jack Haley, and Alice Faye. ; Large Crowd Attends Eldorado Celebration A record-breaking AWS carni val crowd attended the Eldorado celebration Saturday night final door receipts showed. The cup for the most original booth was won by Chi Omega and Zeta hall. Zeta hall won the same cup last year. Honorable mention went to Alpha Phi and Chi Psi. Gamma Phi Beta, Gamma hall, Phi Kappa Psi won the cup for having the busiest booth. Honor able mention went to Hendricks hall and Sigma Chi. Send the Emerald to the folks. They want the campus news. i Ex-Faculty Members /Tell of Scientific Work in Quarterly Mentioning scientific experi mental work done on the Univer sity campus several years ago, Dr. Calvin Uall and Dr. Ernst Gel horn, former members of the Ore gon faculty, have contributed ar ticles to the new issue of Sigma Xi quarterly, scientific honorary magazine. Dr. Hall, who came to the Uni versity psycholQgy department from the University of California, writes on “The Inheritance of emotionality in Rats.” He makes prominent reference to many of his experiments with rats made here. He is now head of the psy chology department at the Uni versity of Washington reserve di vision. The contribution by Dr. Gel horn, “Psycho-Physiological As pects of Behavior,” mentions his University work. He was in the physiology division while here. * v a ua vg May Day Breakfast Chairmen Selected Committee members who aro preparing for the annual YWCA Junior-Senior “doe” breakfast, to be given on Gerlinger sun porch May 1 at 9:30 a.m,, were an* nounced yesterday. General chair-* man is Eleanor Hays. In the traditional manner, juni iors will escort seniors to thei breakfast, tickets for which are 35 cents each or 65 cents pen couple. Assisting in the praparations are Rosemary Geneste, in charge of tickets; LaVeme Littleton, proper ties, Betty Lou Swart, programs; Phyllis May Ricker, decorations; Betty Young, food; Aida Macchi and Helen Pearson, service; Jean Ramsden and Jean Kendall, pub licity; Marcia Steinhauser, secre tary; Barbara Ward, finance, and. i Mary Jape Wormser, clean-up. F aiiing-Beekman Contest Lists $250 In Senior Brizes The best original speech deliv ered by a graduating senior in the annual Failing-Beekman oratorical contest will receive a prize of $150* with a purse of $100 going to the second-place speaker, it has .been announced by the speech division. Open to any graduating senior, the contest will take place Friday, May 27, at 8 p.m. The deadline for entries is May 11. The speech es may be on any subject, but must not exceed 1500 words. No more than six contestants will be en tered in the final contest, with preliminaries scheduled for May 23 if the turnout necessitates. Anyone planning to compete is asked to consult some member of the speech division staff. Final AWS Meeting Thursday to Honor Royal Junior Court AWS meetings for the year vvill be completed next Thursday with an all-campus assembly in honor of Queen Virginia I and her royal Junior weekend court. Newly elected members of the council will be presented. Reports of the recent convention at Pull man, Washington, will also be given. Anne Frederickson is in charge of the program. Executed Pork Little JSrown Pig . . . became a guinea pig at San Quentin peniten tiary while 30 observers watched California’s lethal gas chamber being tested. Nine times the pig got to his feet, slowly walked away, fell down, finally rolled over dead after 2 minutes and 20 seconds of breathing fumes from cyanide eggs in sulphuric acid.