'Oregon Trail’ Adopted
-As History Prize Topic
Competition is now open for the annual Oregon Historical
society essay contest, with “The Oregon Trail” the subject
of this year's C. C. Beekman contest. Prizes offered in the
23rd annual competition are: first place, $60; second, $50;
third, $40; and fourth, $30.
Prizes will go to the autnors
of the best four original essays
on the 1943 subject.
Competition Limited
Competition is limited to boys
and girls over 15 years of age
and under 18 years of age at
tending any public or private
school, academy, seminary, col
lege, university or other educa
tional institution within the state
of Oregon. Each of the four win
ners will also receive a bronze
medal.
The conditions governing the
competition are as follows:
(1) The essay submitted in
competition must not exceed two
thousand words in length.
One Side Only
(21 The essay may be in hand
writing or in typewritten form,
preferably upon paper of com
mercial letter size, either ruled
or unruled, the several sheets be
ing numbered consecutively and
written on one side only, with
blank space of about one and one
quarter inches at top and left
hand margin.
(3) The essay shall be accom
panied by a separate sheet con
taining the name and post office
/•ddress of the writer, the date
v%f his or her birth, and the name
of the school attended.
Teacher’s Statement
(4) There shall also be deliv
ered with the essay a certificate
signed by the principal or a
teacher of the educational insti
tution attended, stating that the
writer of the essay is a sudent
attending the same.
(5) In order to be considered
in competition the essay must be
delivered, by mail or in person,
to the Oregon Historical Society,
Public Auditorium, 235 S. W.
Market Street, Portland, Oregon,
not later than Monday, March
16, 1943.
No Tell-Tale Marks
(6) All essays submitted in
competition will be numbered and
submitted, without the names of
j\e writers or other identifying
marks, to three judges selected
by the undersigned committee.
(7) All competitive essays will
"be judged according to their gen
eral merit and excellence; but
the judges will also take into con
sideration, in passing thereon,
neatness of manuscript, accurate
orthography, correct grammar
and composition, and purity and
clarity of diction.
Books Obtainable
The Oregon State library in Sa
lem has a reading list or bibliog
raphy upon the above named
subject, which will be sent to any
student on request. Books per
taining to the subject are ob
tainable in most Oregon public li
braries. Students desiring such
books should apply first to the
^ cal library, which, if it does not
4te.ve the books, should secure
them from the county and state
libraries.
Down Front
(Continued, from page two)
fighters and their heavy tanks
roll onward through the snow,
forcing the Germans back, ever
back. Regaining their villages
one by one; cleaning up the car
nage and destruction as soon as
they are retaken. Then rolling
onward through the snow, forc
ing the Germans back, ever
back.
They regain once more their
^ ■ines: the homes of Tolstoy
and Tschaikowski. They scan the
snow in a search for the original
manuscripts of the great Rus
sian's immortal works, strewn
around the house by Germans
Play Finishes
Successful Run
With two successful perform
ances completed, ‘Watch on the
Rhine” will open again tonight
in the University Guild theater.
Tickets may he bought at the
theater box office until the close
of the play tomorrow evening.
Exceptional performances have
been turned in by Guild theater
players Kay Dougherty Richards,
Bob Farrow, Dan Wessler, Louise
Rossman, and Jim Bronson. Per
formances tonight and tomorrow
night are expected to surpass
last week’s, said Keith Hoppes,
theater business manager.
Jap Contests
Curfew Rule
Minoru Yasui, 26-year-old Jap
anese-Amer-ican and Oregon al
umnus, won his fight contesting
the Japanese curfew, but at the
same time was convicted of be
f.ing a Japanese agent by Federal
Judge James Alger Fee in Port
land Monday.
Yasui, a graduate of the school
of law in 1938, violated the cur
few in Hood River and voluntar
ily surrendered to the police. He
announced that he sought to test
the regulation in the light of his
American citizenship.
Judge Fee held that as long as
civil law is in effect, the military
command has no power to regu
late the life of the citizen. But
since Yasui was registered as a
Tokio propaganda agent, he, ac
cording to Judge Fee, "elected”
to become a citizen of the Nip
ponese empire.
The Japanese was brought to
Portland from an internment
camp near Twin Falls, Idaho.
Upon hearing the decision, he in
dicated that he would appeal to
a higher court.
This “test case” was of wide
interest since many citizens of
Japanese ancestry are affected by
the decision, and other courts
have held the military restric
tions legal.
who knew of no music save mil
itary marches.
They see in reality what we
see on the screen,' and it spurs
them forward. Here is the answer
to questions about the Russian
soldier. Though his personal
equipment is better and his arm
ament superior to that of the
Germans which he faces, there
have been times when even these
factors could not have won a
battle. It is his spirit, his de
termination to free the land upon
which he fights, that leads him
to victories which seem impossi
ble.
Moscow r ignis dick nas a
message for every American: As
sure as the enemy was at Rus
sia’s throat, so shall he be at ours,
and only through courage and
Isacrifice can vfe hope to win
through to victory.
Thirty-one graduates of De
troit and other Wayne county
high schools have been awarded
Detroit board of education un
dergraduates at Wayne univer
sity for the current school year.
Training as volunteer nurses’
aides is open to University of
Michigan women students in a
new course.
“WATCH ON THE RHINE” CAST . . .
. . . who present their production for the last times tonight and tomorrow night in the University
theater . . . left to right, sitting, are Jim Bronson, Vivian MeXamee, Bobby Joe Quigley, Rob Par
low, Maxine McXoil, Gordon Cochran, and Beverly Beals; standing, Preston Phipps, I>nn We-vler^
Kay Richards, Louise Kossman, and Marjory Quigley.
Theta Sigs Sell
Christmas Cards
A Christmas card sale spon
sored by Theta Sigma Phi, na
tional professional women's jour
nalism honorary, got under way
Tuesday in campus living organi
zations, according to Carol Green
ing, chairman of the committee
in charge.
The greeting cards will be sold
in boxes containing 21 different
cards for $1.00. The freshman
girl in journalism who secures
the most orders will receive an
invitation to the annual Theta
Sigma Phi Matrix Table, to be
held winter term.
Representatives
Representatives in the living
organizations are: Peggy McGin
nis, Alpha Chi Omega; Elizabeth
iJohnson, Alpha Gamma Delta;
Altha Paul, Alpha Omicron Pi;
‘Gwen McQuay, Alpha Phi; Dor
othy Shepherd, Chi Omega; Jill
Ames, Delta Delta Delta; Mary
Sherman, Delta Gamma; Peggy
Allison, Gamma Phi Beta; Bet
ty Lu Siegman, Hendricks hall;
Martha Tapp, Highland house.
Lila Howe, Hilyard house; Aly
sonc Hales, Kappa Kappa Gam
ma; Dorothy Linhart, Orides;
Phyllis Van Pctten, Kappa Alpha
Theta; Anita Young, Pi Beta
Phi; Betty Lawrence, Susan
Campbell hall; Mary Corrigan,
Sigma Kappa; Jeanne Yearous,
University house.
RAF, Russia Pictured
In Film Shown Today
Interested students are invited
to see a historical film of Russia
which will be shown Wednesday
to Dr. Gordon Wright's class in
recent Russian history in room
207 Chapman hall. This film con
sists of newsreel shots taken dur
ing the Russian revolution and
afterward.
At the same time, pictures of
the RAF in action will be shown.
This film demonstrates how the
RAF prepares to bomb a target.
The films are released by the
offioe. of war information. All
persons are invited to attend.
UO Grad
Wed in CM
The marriage of Ensign Dan
Elbert Clark Jr., a graduate oi
the University school of journal
ism, and Mayella van Heeckeren,
the daughter of Baron and Bar
oness Willem van Heeckeren. took
place November 8 in Berkeley.,
California, according to an an
nouncement received by Dean
Eric W. Allen of the school oi
journalism.
Dan Clark Jr., who entered the
naval reserve early in 1942, is the
son of Professor D. E. Clark,
head of the history department.
He developed the “Front Page
Ballot Box,” a Gallop poll type of
feature, soon after his graduation
from the University. The feat
tire, which was used by the Ore
gonian and several U. S. newspa
pers, was taken over upon his de
parture by his assistant, Gordon
Connolly. Mr. Connally majored
in journalism at the University
and graduated in 1939.
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