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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1943)
VOLUME XLIV NUMBER 72 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1943 UO Library Collects Books For Army, Navy, Marines; Readability Prereauisite ■ By DOROTHY ROGERS "More and better books for our armed forces” is the slogan of the 1943 Victory Book campaign now under way through out the United States, with the University library as the offi cial collection center for Lane county. Our fighting men need and want more books! As a weapon in the war of ideas, a book has ^ place to fill in this war. Yvnetner as a source or morale or information, it is recognized by our military leaders as part of our fighting equipment. Slogan “Good books are ammunition; good ideas are bullets,” say cam paign officials. In the 1943 campaign, no at tempt will be made to use the at tic-cleaning psychology in stimu lating people to contribute, ac Mfding to campaign leaders. The '®st function df a book is that it be read. Only books in first class physical condition can be used. Pulps Adventure and westerns, detec tive and mystery fiction, are de scribed by camp librarians as the two types of books mdst sought after and read by the men. Also on the preferred list are current best sellers as chosen by the Book of the Month, Literary Guild, and other book club selec tions. Books should be placed in the library to the left of the circula tion desk in the box'labeled “Vic tory Book Campaign.” Emerald Pictures Slated « Group pictures of Emerald ty editors will be taken for the Oregana at 7 p.m., Thurs day, February 4, in the jour naff ?m building. Group pic tures of day managers will be taken at 7:15 p.m. the same night at the same place. Individual pictures of upper staff members of the Emerald will be taken as scheduled. Music Student To Give Recital Everett Fulton, senior in Eu gene high school and piano pupil of Jane Thacher, professor of pi ano at the University, will pre sent a piano recital at the music auditorium tonight at 8:15 p.m. As his feature work on the re cital program, Fulton will play Anton Rubenstein’s Concerto No. 4 in D Minor. This rarely per formed ^concerto is a standard example of Polish music. Orches tral accompaniment will be played on a second piano by Mrs. Thacher. Other numbers on the program include Beethoven’s Sonata, op. 10, No. 3, Delius’ Three Preludes, “The Maiden with the Flaxen Hair” by Debussy, and “Reflec tions in the Water” by Debussy. Fulton will also' play two com positions by Bach, the Prelude and Fugue in C mijior and the Prelude and Fugue in D. Fulton has been accompanist for the Eugene high orchestra for the past two years. He start ed playing the piano when six years old, then quit for several years and later resumed his stud ies. He has given a recital each year for the past two years. Dads' Day Message Hiya, Pop; and best regards, Come down, and bring Your ration cards. J.W.S. Five o’Clock Shadow’ Predicted in Eclipse By ROSS YATES Just before the sun sets tonight, a shadow of the moon will steal across its face and, weather permi/ting, students of the ^liversity and residents of Eugene will witness an eclipse of the sun. Thus says J. Hugh Pruett, astronomer, general ex tension center, University of Oregon. The eclipse will he total in a strip running- across the ocean from Japan up to Alaska,” Mr. Pruett stated. Here in Eugene it will start at about 5:03 p.m. and leach its height at 5:57 p.m. At this time approximately 47 per cent of the sun’s diameter will be covered. ‘‘The sun will set short ly after that,” Mr. Pruett ex plained. Japs See First Because of the movement of the §i, orientals will see the eclipse ore we do. And although to tality wil lbe in progress for two hours at no place will it last quite three minutes. The eclipse will be visible to the inhabitants of western North (Please turn to page three) Pacific War Area Pix To Show Native Life As part of his class instruction for the “Peoples of the Pacific” study, Dr. H. G. Barnett, in structor of anthropology, is pre senting several films depicting native life and scenery in the Fiji, Solomon, and New Guinea areas this evening at 7 in 207 Chapman hall. Because of the war-aroused in terest in the Southern Pacific areas, Dr. Barnett has invited the public to attend, admittance free University students and Eugene residents will have an opportun ity to see first hand where Amer ican marines are fighting. Meteorology Program # Set for 5 p.m., KORE The special meteorology broadcast over the Mutual net work,. announced in Wednes day’s Emerald, will be heard tonight at 5:30 over HOKE in stead of as previously reported, according to Dr. Will V. Nor ris. A wire received by Dr. Nor ris from the army meteorology board urges all men interested in the program in particular and all men in the enlisted re serves in general to listen to the program. Flans for the fu ture of the meteorology pro gram will be discussed. Where ’s My Wandering List Tonight? Are you a member of Pi Delta Phi ? If you are a member of this French honorary, the officers of the organization would like to know about it. It seems that at present the organization is without a mem bership list. Not that there aren’t any members of the club, it's just that the officers aren’t very sure of who the members are. The cause of all this, Abbie Jane White, president of Pi Delta Phi, revealed Wednesday, is that the membership list has been lost. The only way to be sure of who the members are is to have a meeting and take roll of who are present, Miss White has decided. To clear up the mystery, all members are asked to meet at 4 this afternoon in the French seminar room in Friendly hall so a list of their names may be com piled for future use. Judges Named For Story Contest Mrs. Donald M. Erb, Mr. F. G. Black, assistant professor of English, and Mr. W. B. Gard, president of the U. S. National bank of Eugene, will judge en tries in the Marshall-Case-Hay cox- short-story contest, W. F. G. Tfhacher, professor of journalism, announced Thursday. Authors may submit stories of any length to compete for the $50 first prize or the $25 second prize, but stories must be filed with Professor Tliacher by Feb ruary 15. Each entry must consist of a manuscript and a duplicate, which may be a first carbon copy. The author’s name must not ap pear on the manuscript itself, but be placed in an envelope with the name of the work on the out side. Only one story may be submit ted by each contestant, while all University students may enter, except those who have previous ly won the contest. Gas War Talk Tonight Dr. D. S. Dedrick, professor of chemistry, will talk to the Tri Delts and ATO’s tonight about protection against chemical war fare. This is the second in a series of talks which will be given at different living organizations in connection witli civilian defense. Courtesy Kugene Reiristev-Curtr.] JOHN LAIJC AND DOROTHY HAYDEN ... . . . say drop in a penny for every axis loss and the more pennies, th*» more losses. The boys in the service will get the profit. Dough for Doughboys To Ring Co-op V’ Bell By BARBARA YOUNGER Ding! Ding! No that's not the sound of a fraternity rush meet ing, it's the service scholarship box in the Co-op. Every time a nickle is dropped in the box, a bell rings for an Oregon man in the service. “Beginning Monday we’re go ing to have a sign on the box tell ing how much should be put in,” Oge Young, chairman of the ser vice scholarship fund, said Wed nesday. According to Yroung, the amount will be determined by Axis losses. If, for instance, sever* Axis planes were shot down, the sign would read, "Seven axi? planes shot down this week. De posit seven cents." John Lauc, freshman in business administra tion, will have charge of the sign Students who do not live in or ganizations are given an oppor tunity to contribute to the schol arship fund in this way. The money will be turned into defense bonds and kept in trust for serv ice men and women who return to the campus after the war. Cup-Hunters Get Handbills To Provide Comeon for Dads Three cups are being offered to houses registering the most dads as guests for Saturday, February 13. Facilities have been provided for the use of cup-questing organizations by /he Dads’ Day committee in the form of insert sheets to be sent home, according to Jim Thayer, general chairman. Annual Heart Hop Heads Begin Work Getting plans under way for the annual Heart Hop tc be held February 11 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. the sophomore commission of the YWCA selected chairmen of the Hop committees Wednes day. Chairmen are: general chair man, Ardis Jensen; finance chair man, Peggy Gardner; publicity, Ruth Van Buskirk; election of the King of Hearts, Connie Full mer and Fran Anderson; corona tion, Sally Spiess, Betty McFad den, and Mary Riley; tickets, Al ice Pepion, Nancy McLynn, and Carol Wicke; posters, Betty Cas teel, Marian Schaefer, and Hilde garde Roseland. The hop will be held at Gamma Phi Beta, Alpha Phi, Pi Beta Phi, and Alpha Chi Omega soror ities. Dancers will rotate between the houses. The coronation will take place at the Gamma. Phi Beta house. Each men’s house will be asked to submit the name of their candidate for king early next week. These handbills have been placed in every living organiza tion for members to include with their letters home. Chuck Politz, promotion chairman, suggest.* sending these sheets home even in cases where the dad probably will be unable to attend the fes tivities. This will serve as an in vitation and will Jet him know what has been planned for the dads that do come. Mothers, too, are invited. For non-affiliated students, a. box, designed by Clell Crane, han been set up in the Co-op store with signs inviting each person to take one. These bills are very handy, Po litz revealed, saying “If you only have a short letter to write, writn it cn the back of the insert and the parent in his eager search fo • news of his son or daughter wilt turn it over and find his eyeo feasting on the outline of an at tractive program.’’ Jerry McCroskey, one of the brains on the Dads’ idea trust, devised a system for downtown window display. lie secured the few available laundry cardboards in town and Crane had postern pasted on them to be placed in. store windows.
