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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1941)
ED,TS: Organizations Number 123 U. OF 0. LIBRARY CAMPUS PO SPORTS: . Rube-Varsity Scrimmage Tonight VOLUME XLIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1941 NUMBER 43 Moving Film OfChristPlay Shows Today Hailed by critics as a moving and inspiring play, “Journey to Jerusalem” by Maxwell Ander son, the story of Christ’s early years, has been recorded on film and will be presented in 207 Chapman hall this afternoon and tomorrow under the auspices of the educational activities board. Performances will be continu ous, beginning at 2, 3:30, and 5 this afternoon, and 4, 5:30, and 7 Thursday afternoon. Students will be admitted free to all cam BPS, showings upon presentation of their educational activities cards. The dramatist and Pulitzer prize winner, Maxwell Anderson, has written a remarkably dra matic and inspiring storp of the boy Jesus. Mr. Anderson has chosen a passage from Luke which tells of a Passover pilgrim age to Jerusalem and has built a play around this little-known period of Christ’s life. The original broadway cast of 33 artists portray their same roles in the film. Mr. Anderson is the outstanding contemporary exponent of verse-drama. ^The picture will also be shown at the Methodist church Wednes day evening at 7:30. Wesley house will sponsor this presentation and admission will be 55 cents. Flood Waters Cover Floor In UO Building Rain poured down all over the campus Tuesday morning, but it seemed to somehow do an extra gQgjl job of pouring down on the northwest corner of the architec ture building. By 7 o’clock the drain had stopped up and water backed up through the sink in the jewelry room until water was about iy2 inches deep all over the floor. The University plumber was called at once and he managed to save the school from its watery grave by digging down to the drain pipe and breaking into it to release the water. BOY GOD Sidney Lumet has the difficult role of the boy Jesus in Maxwell Anderson’s play, “Journey to Jerusalem,” which will be pre sented at Chapman hall today and tomorrow. The story concerns a passage from Luke which tells of a Passover pilgrimage to Jeru salem. Z Z-Z-Z-Z That warm air in the libe is 'nuf To snooze most everybody in. I like to study, but it seems So queer and fuddy duddyin’ To have to search throughout the rooms To find a draft to study in. J.W.S. • ^lJtey'te All Wei .... Rain Floods Campus Houses Oregon Ducks were wishing they really had webbed feet last night after a day’s torrential rains and promise of more left basements flooded, sewers over run, and more than 3,000 decided ly wet Ducks. Campus living organizations in the millrace area reported the >most damage. A member of the Sigma Nu house reported their furnace was nearly flooded and that “We’ll be without heat after tonight probably.’’ Members of Sigma Phi Epsilon reported water in their basement also, but indi cated the furnace was still in good condition. If the rain served no other noble purpose it did put some water into the millrace, which has been nearly dry for two weeks. The race was almost com pletely devoid of water last week after flood waters of two weeks ago broke a retaining wall at the upper end of Oregon’s most fam ous {andmark. Further harm was done in homes of students and professors who live in the Amazon “mud flats,’’ area west of the campus. East Nineteenth avenue was bad ly flooded between Willamette and Hilyard streets, but most of the high water seemed to be concentrated nearer the down town district and on the west side of Willamette. Late last night water was re ported over the highway at Jud kins point between Eugene and Springfield. This was not caused by high water in the river, how ever, businessmen in that dis trict reported, but from water draining off the high ground be tween the highway and the Sou thern Pacific tracks into the river. Warm weather last night was (I’lcasc turn to page eight) Bela Bartok to Play Piano, Speak In Music Building Tonight at 8 Campus Will Hear Famed Hungarian Composer-Pianist Bela Bartok, famed contempo rary Hungarian composer will ap pear in a lecture and recital at the music auditorium at 8 o’clock tonight under the joint auspices of the University lecture series, Phi Beta Kappa, the educational activities board, and the faculty of the school of music. Bartok, a frail, shy, gray man of 59, with a sensitive face, was born to music-loving parents at Nagyszentmiklos, in the heart of (Please turn to page eight) WATER IN THE DESERT ^.A slight Decembral precipitation wet the hanks of the now water hungry millraee Tuesday as for the second time the Oregon campus felt a rain which culminated in a near-flood. The millraee has been dry because the check dam broke during a previous downpour. There is a possibility that this might interfere with plans for the 1942 canoe fete during Junior Weekend. Independent Students Elect Huestis President uerry miesus and Milton Small were yesterday elected as president and vice-president of the newly-organized Independent Students association, as a result of the first concerted attempt to organize the campus indepen dents into an actively functioning body. Huestis netted 23 votes more than Small, automatically desig nating them for the two offices from the campus at large. Warren Phillips was named senior representative. His name was the only one on the ballot for that position. Mildred Wilson, junior repre sentative, polled 10 more votes than her nearest rival. Franky Nelson beat out by 28 votes her closest contender for the sophomore position. Ralph Johnson was elected to the freshman berth. He gained 23 more tallies than his closest competitor. Although the persistent rain probably hampered voters from appearing at the polls, almost 300 votes were cast between 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Dancers Meet The Mexican folk dance group will meet tonight at 7:30 on the top floor of Gerlinger. This is the last time the dancers will meet this term and everyone interested is urged to attend. Instruction in the hat dance, one of the most colorful of Mex ican dances, has begun. Infirmary Stops Visiting Hours There will be no visiting in the infirmary until further notice, said a statement issued Tuesday by Dr. F. N. Miller, director of the Student Health Service. ‘‘We have at the present time two cases of mumps and six cases of pneumonia, all infectious,” said Dr. Miller explaining his ac tion. ‘‘However, if students were always cooperative with the rules wre would not have a gen eral closing man so soon.” Dr. Miller described general disregard of isolation and no vis iting signs. He said that the hos pital force was not large ehough to permit policing the halls dur ing visiting hours, to see that no visitors entered the isolation wards. “It is only to the best interest of patients and' wrell people that there be no visiting at the hospi tal until further notice,” Dr. Mil ler finished. Sig Eps Pledge Sigma Phi Epsilon has pledged George Hallock and Donald As selstine, reported the dean of men’s office Tuesday. Both men are from Kent, Wash ington. Argentinian Reminisces Of Home Rene Dussaq, naturalized Af“» gentinian, will speak to a Uni versity audience in Gerlinger h^d at 10 a.m. today. His subject i> “A South American's View of South America.” Charles W. Beeching, executive secretary of the Committee qf One Hundred, Miami Beach, Florida, writes, “You may bock Rene Dussaq anywhere, present him before America's most crit ical audeinces, feeling absolute’,/* confident that he will exceed the* greatest hopes of his auditors . . „ after a magnificent address, im mediate comment placed him ov a plane of full equality with the very best man to whom we have listened.” Third in Series And this seems to be typical of the printed Comments available on Mr. Dussaq, third in a seric » of noted assembly speakers. The lecturer has doubled fen* stars in Hollywood studios; ho has “stunted” in cars, planes, parachutes, platform diving, anil horseback riding. He is a deep-sea diver who, with Capt. John Craig, has found lost treasure on the ocean bed and photographed deep-sea wonders in the search for the lost jewels of the Empress CarlQtta aboard the wrecked “Merida.” » Tennis Champ . He is a champion in tennis for two countries, Cuba and Switzer land, and is a star in swimming, holding a 65-foot skin-diving rec ord, and was coxswain of a twice victorious Olympic racing team. In the last few years he has devoted himself to writing ami speaking, after an automobile wreck which broke his spine and prohibited him from serving with the armed forces of the United States. He recently revisted hi^ native country to keep himself up to date on the rapidly chang ing South American conditions. While there he talked with many, political heads. The ex-Argentinian spent .10 hours with Haya de la Torre, head of APRA, the largest South Am erican popular political party, ttn> Popular Alliance of American (Please turn to parte eight) Weekends Closed Friday, December 5, marks the start of closed weekends, it is announced by the dean of women’s office. Hours will be: Friday night, 10:30, Saturday night 12:15, Sunday night, 10:30. Girls may have two dates this weekend. The weekend before examina tions girls may have one date on Saturday evening until 12:15. There can be no entertain ing during the two weeks be fore examinations. This in cludes banquets, dinners, teas, and benefits.