EDIT PAGE:
Politics Presents
Annual Problems
With Progress
VOLUME XLII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1941
NUMBER 121
Assembly
To Clarify
Draft Doubt
Selective Service
Explanations Set
For Thursday Meet
What University students
should do when confronted with
a draft call will be explained at a
special assembly for registered
Oregon men, Thursday at 7:30
p.m. in Gerlinger hall, Dr. Earl
M. Pallett, registrar, announced
last night.
A plan under which many stu
dents will serve national defense
and yet not necessarily give up
educational work will be ex
plained at the meeting by Clif
ford Constance, assistant regis
trar, it was revealed.
Assembly was called by Dr.
Pallett after he received an
nouncement of a deferment sys
tem which would temporarily ex
empt some brackets of Univer
sity men. It was worked out by
the American Council on Educa
tion and national draft leaders.
Reclassification in certain “es
sential studies” of persons eligi
ble for drafting may be made.
Maximum period for deferment
would be six months with possi
ble extension of time, according
to Dr. Pallett.
The move to consider the stu
dent and educational side of na
tional defense has received in
creased government interest in
the past month, he stated.
Lawyers Battle
Thursday Night
Dunn-Wyatt Trial,
Larqest in History,
To Come to Close
By FRITZ TIMMEN
Promising a wide-open, no
holds-barred battle, the law
school legal lights are winding up
their final arguments to be pre
sented this Thursday night when
John Dunn will seek recovery for
the largest damages ever brought
before the student moot courts.
Valuing his reputation at $5000
and seeking reimbursement for
$68.65 actual damages, Mr. Dunn
has authorized his attorneys, Don
Richardson and Wendell Wyatt,
to bring action against John Hay.
Because of false representa
tions made by Mr. Hay when the
two were on a hunting trip re
sulting in the arrest and trial of
Mr. Dunn, the latter is suing for
the mental, moral, physical, and
monetary damages incurred.
Mr. Hay’s lawyers, Floyd Ham
ilton and Dave Rementeria, will
defend any actions presented by
the plaintiff. All questions have
now brought to issue and are
awaiting presentation before
“Judge” O. J. Hollis, professor
of law, at. the Lane county court
house, Thursday evening at 7:30.
Clyde Amgerman will serve as
notary and bailiff; Bob Havens
as sheriff and reporter; and Hugh
Collins as clerk. Any students
who wish to serve on the jury are
requested to submit their names
to Mr. Collins before Thursday
afternoon.
Seven Thieves,
Ali Baba Get
'Just Desserts'
Ali Baba, the Seven Thieves,
Yehudi, and the Little Man Who
Wasn't There were the guests of
Ward 3 at a bridge game and
preference dessert Tuesday af
ternoon. The guests were garbed
in robes befitting their status,
and hostesses Mary Word, Bar
bara Vail, Judy Sherman, and
Margaret Dake wore stunning
gowns (slack type) of striped
flannels decorated with kleenex
and poison oak medicine.
The afternoon was topped off
■with a thermometer race, the
winners being allowed another
day of rest in the measle mauso
leum.
Not of the "400” but having a
good time just the same are: La
Vaune McDonald (who had to
move her bed out into the hall to
accommodate the rush of visit
ors), Jeanne Mills, Elizabeth Hyn
son, Cecil Warner, James Kurtz,
Bob Marland, and Ray Blaylock.
Arabian Tales
To Lend Motif
For Decoration
Mothers' Dinner
Tables to Display
Oriental Themes
The official Junior Weekend
theme, Arabian Nights, will be
carried out in the decoration mo
tif for Mothers’ day banquet Sat
urday evening, according to Nel
da Christensen and Marge Cur
tis, co-chairmen.
Each table will illustrate a dif
ferent story from the Oriental
tales in a silver and blue color
scheme,*the co-chairmen said.
Decorations committee mem
bers include: Pat Longfellow, Sue
Sawyer, Micki Campbell, and
Helen Johnson.
June Johnson will head the
hostess committee which will
greet special guests and mothers
at the banquet. Her assistants
will be: Alice Gregory, Barbara
McGee, Carol Cook, Marie Weath
erly, Mary Parkinson, Jean Ken
dall, Betty Dolan, Eileen Millard,
Dorothy Millard, Dorothy Hen
ning, Mary Jane Terry, and Bar
bara Jean Tuttle.
Complete program plans and
the guest speakers will be an
nounced later, Miss Phyllis San
ders, general chairman, declared.
A New Candidate Enters Race
An Editorial
LATE last night with eligibility certificates, declarations of
intention to run, and petitions floating around the campus,
it appeared almost certain that more than four candidates will
run for the four positions on the executive committee. That
is encouraging news.
"With only four candidates running for the four positions the
election would be a mere formality of marking the ballots.
With more than four candidates the voter can pick the four
that he considers the best qualified for the various ASUO
positions.
I>r. Efb has asked for a clean election—at least cleaner than
most student political elections are reported to be. To that
we can only add our second.
A straight bloc election on the basis of whether a man is an
independent or a Greek is almost certain to involve politics
of the kind that aren’t exactly to be called clean. With more
than four candidates—with a chance to vote on the basis of a
man’s qualifications and ability—the election should be more
fair.
Jim Frost has dared to throw his hat into the ring when it
appeared bloc politics were against his running. Because of
that and because we have worked with him and know he is
honest, well-qualified, and has the welfare of the University of
Oregon at heart, we will support him.
Sincerely, Lyle M. Nelson
Richard C. Williams
Wilbur Bishop
T ▼ T T V T T
Fete Insured
Against Rain
For 3 Hours
And what if it does rain for
the canoe fete ? Does this mean
that the University is out just
that much money?
The answer is no. Fortunately,
there’s insurance against the
weather. It might seem risky to
insure against rain in Oregon, but
in the case of the canoe fete it
is done, and has been done for
the past four or five years with
out loss to the agency handling
the account.
The policy calls for no special
amount of rain—just enough to
cancel the canoe fete entirely.
Also, it covers only the time from
6 to 9 p.m. when it is assumed
that the people will be congre
gating for the event. If the rain
comes after that, it’s just too
bad. Suggested alternatives are
umbrellas and drownings.
Tickets Limited
Students who wish to purchase
tickets to the Mother’s day ban
quet, Saturday at 5:30 p.m. in
Gerlinger hall, should get them
immediately at the office of Mrs.
Morris, housing secretary in
Johnson hall. Only a limited num
ber of tickets are available.
Going, Going, Gone!
Mock Queen on Sale
“Annabelle the first” isn’t the
only “queen” that is going to rule
over Junior Weekend, according
to Bob Whitely, mock canoe fete
chairman.
“Plans for the giant slave auc
tion have been completed, and it
will take place tomorrow at 4
p.m. in front of the Side. We have
been fattening up our slave girl,
and she should bring a much bet
ter price than if we sold her last
week,” stated Whitely today.
“Our ‘queen,’ Princess Belshaz
zar of Oran, wasn’t born in the
Hawaiian Islands,” Whitely stat
ed, “but she certainly will rule
over the mock canoe fete with
due pomp and splendor.”
‘‘Script for the fete will be
written today,” Whitely added,
“and Carolyn Holmes assisted by
Charlie Wiesberg, Jim Bronson,
Connie Averill, and Frances Cox
have promised a saga that won’t
be forgotten.”
“Floats entered include Sinbad
the Sailor, Ali Baba and the
Forty Thieves, Persian Slave
Market, Desert Oasis, and Alladin
and His Magic Lamp,” Whitely
added. “And we haven’t heard
from the Spanish Athletic club
members as to what kind of a
float they are building.”
New Oreganas
'Ready to Go'
Thursday a.m.
Copies of Annual
Available in Igloo,
Williams States
The new 1941 Oregana, com
plete with a full-color photo
graph cover, will be ready for
distribution Thursday morning in
McArthur court, according to
Dick Williams, business mana
ger.
Distribution of the yearbook
will continue till Friday noon,
Williams said, when it will stop
till the following Monday. Posi
tively no books will be given out
over Junior Weekend.
Oreganas may be secured at
the cashier cages in the main cor
ridor of McArthur.
Williams requested that all
house presidents pick up compli
mentary house copies some time
Thursday.
Anyone who has not ordered a
copy of the book and would like
to have one- may contact either
Williams or Cliff Stalsberg, Uni
versity cashier, and have his name
put on the waiting list. Williams
warned that this would not posi
tively guarantee a copy, since the
list is already very long.
'Majority' to Test
Council Nominees
Eligibility tests for candidates
to the council of the Majority
Class of 1944 will be given this
afternoon at 4 in 207 Friendly,
according to Chuck Woodruff,
Majority Class president.
Tests covering campus govern
ment and parliamentary law, are
required by the class constitu
tion.
Nominees who must take the
Fred Smith, Bruce Taylor, Fern
Swanstrom, Beverly Padgham,
Beauford Clemens, Chuck Wood
field, Tom Burbee, Ted Goodwin,
and Stan Weber.
Frost Entry
Rips Factions
Of Politics Pot
New Nomination
Drops Bombshell
Into Block-Lineup
A bombshell’ dropped into the
campus political pot last nigh*
when Jim Frost entered his peti
tion for one of the “big four’’ po
sitions on the executive commit*
tec .He had previously been run
ning for one of the senior com
mittee positions.
When Frost entered his new po
tion, Buck Buchwaeh, candidates
for one of the “big four" jobs*
withdrew and filed a new petition^
for one of the senior positions.
At 11:30 last night candidates^
for "big four" positions were:
Bob Calkins, Jim Frostrt Better
Morfitt, Janet Morris, Jean
Spearow, and Lou Torgeson.
At 11:30, political bloc-hcadfc*
were still pulling strings to bring
living organizations and indepen
dent groups, into “line."
Candidates for the senior posi
tions on the committee were:
Becky Anderson, Buck Buch
wach, and Bob Lovell.
Candidates for the junior posi
tions were:
John Busterud, Janet Far nil am*
Johnny Kahananui, Jake Risky,
and Steve Worth.
Candidates for the sophomci’O
positions were:
Roger Dick, Chuck Woodruff,
and Oglesby Young.
Helen McKean has withdrawn
her candidacy for a sophomore*
post.
All candidates will be voted,
upon by students tomorrow at
general elections in the YMCA1
but under a preferential voting;
system.
Frosh to Vote
On Constitution
Opposing Frosh
Heads Claim Unity
As Aim of Change
Adoption of a new constitution!
will be voted upon Thursday Iryf
members of the “official" fresh
man class, according to Jim Dur
ness, freshman president.
The new constitution is ib«
“model" constitution with appro
priate changes to fit it to the*
Class of 1944, Burness said. It
would abolish class cards as vot
ing requisites.
Designed to unify the entire
Class of 1944, which has been
split into two distinct campf*
since January, the proposed plank
would bring the two groups into
what Burness called a "real effec
tive organization.”
Suggested by members of thd
“official" freshman class the pro
posed constitutional switch han
the endorsement of loaders in thei
Majority Class of 1944. C'.ucW
Woodruff, Majority Class presi
dent, is aiding Burness’ groups in
drawing plans for it.
Our Prayer
Let the junior prom be corny.
Let all the floats run wild.
Let us even lose our bastbaH
° o
game.
Let the Dean of Men be riled.
Let the campus luncheon food bo
bad.
Let our track men try in vain.
Let almost anything else be
wrong,
But please don't let it rain.
—J.V/,3*