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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1943)
"ooks Needed or Soldiers— See Column 1 Marine Ted Harmon Gives Second Report See Page 2 VOLUME XLIV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1943 NUMBER 73 UO Library Receives Best Sellers for Army 1 Count your book and give the books that count,” say offi cials of the 1943 Victory Book campaign which is conducted to give our service men more and better books. I This year no official quota will be publicly announced, ex cept in general terms looking toward the collection of millions of books for the armed services. The strategy of the campaign is ro enaoie every individual giver to identify himself with the read ing needs of an individual soldier, sailor, marine or merchantman. Quality Important Officials stress quality first, then quantity. Only books in first class physical condition can be used. The fighting man likes to lead the same books that every American, man or woman, likes to read. Give him these books in good condition. Among the books already turn ed in at the University library, collection center for Lane county, were “For Whom the Bells Toll,’’ “I Married Adventure,” “The Cita del,” “Lost Horizon,” and other ■urrent best sellers and pocket Wook editions. Books in Use^ The books are put to use every day. The Victory Book center in Salem recently filled a request for 1,000 books, one to be given to each man being sent cut from an air base. Books are to be turned in at the library before the termination of the campaign on Victory Book day, March 5. Chief Heart Throbs To Get Recordings Three records to be chosen by the winners will be the prize for the first women’s living organi sation going 100 per cent in the purchase of tickets for the an nual Heart Hop, girl date boy dance, Ruth Van Buskirk, pub licity chairman for the Hop said Thursday night. All other houses going 100 per cent before February 9 will re ceive special recognition. Tickets, priced at 25 cents per couple, are on sale beginning to day in all women’s living organi zations, and may be obtained from sophomore commission rep resentatives until Tuesday, when (Please turn to page three) 'French Desire Security First/ Says Dr. Wright By JUNE TYLOR French foreign policies through the declining years of the third republic were dominated by a "passionate desire to find secur ity”—so Dr. Gordon Wright, pro fessor of history, explained the constant shifting in the last 20 years from Versailles to Vichy, in his lecture to a capacity crowd of students and faculty in the fac ulty room of Friendly hall at 7:30 Thursday night. “France won the last war but emerged with the psychology of a defeated nation, doubtful of her own strength, fearful that an other test might bring disaster,” he emphasized/ “France was not the cocky, breast-beating con queror; she could not be, when her victory of 1918 proved far more costly than defeat.” Conflicting Policies While united in a desire for safety, French statesmen dif fered in the methods of achieving it, leading to two conflicting poli cies, one. domination by military might, and the other appease ment. Wright regretted that both (Please turn to page eight) W. A. Dahlberg . . . . . . heads Odeon committee. Odeon Plans Meeting Today Members of the student-faculty committee sponsoring “Odeon,” the creative talent program, will hold a meeting' Friday at 4 p.m. in 107 Friendly. The meeting will give final form to the program and it is imperative that every committee member attend, ac cording to W. A. Dahlberg, chair man. “Odeon” will be held February 22 in Gerlinger hall with art ex hibits on the sun porch and the stage used for musical numbers and the original play. Mr. Dahl berg will be master of ceremonies. Fifteen or 20 guest critics will be present, men and women who have national or international reputation in some field of art. (Please turn to page three) Al Larsen, Jack McCiiment To Compete in Radio Debates Al Larsen, senior in economics, and Jack McCiiment, junior in law, have been selected as the University of Oregon’s con testants to compete in the second series of National Intercolle giate Radio Prize Debates, according to Dr. William F. Peirce, chairman of the board of trustees of the American Economic Foundation. YOUTHFUL AUTHORS . . . . . . Patience, Richard ar.d Johnny Abbe with their mother. These authors of the best-seller, “Around the World in Eleven Years,” are expected to attend the Dads7 Day celebration here February 13. The contest will be held Febru ary 15 to April 18 under the aus pices of the American Economic Foundation with tire coperation of the Blue Network. Question Stated The debate question is: “Should American youth support the re establishment after the war of competitive enterprise as our dominant economic system?” Students are certified to take either the affirmative or negative side of the question. From the University, Larsen will take the negative side, while McCliment will take the affirmative. A record number of 261 stud ents have been certified as con testants from various colleges throughout the country. They are now submitting 500-word argu ments from which the 16 best af firmative and 16 best negative arguments will be selected. Writers Qualify The writers of the selected ar guments will qualify to take part, at the expense of the Foundation, in eight local radio debates over (Please turn to page three) Silk, Nylons for Parachutes Fats for Explosives Slated For Saturday Victory Drive The weekly scrap drive will be under way tomorrow with records, silk and nylon stockings, and fats and greases as the articles to be collected, according to Marge Curtis and Art Damschen, co-chairmen of the salvage committee of the war board. The scrap is to be placed at the usual salvage pick-up de pots. The boxes are to be labeled with the living organiza '-- tion's name because results of the Record Hour Varies Time The Mu Phi recorded concert will be held Sunday evening at 7 p.m. in the browsing room of the library instead of the regular time at 4 p.m. Miss Celia Hager, formerly a. member of the psy chology department at the Uni versity, will present the program from her library of recorded 16tll and 17th century music. The program for the concert is as follows: a set of dances for lute and strings by Dowland, a group of airs of Old France ar ranged by Ben Stad, “Nymph's Lament” by Monteverde, “Dido's Lament” from the opera "Dido and Aeneas” by Henry Purcell, sung by Marion Anderson, “Pas torale” by Vinaldi, and “Village Girl,” “Bird Chorus,” and “Riga doon” by Rameau. Continuing the program will (Please turn to pa</e cii/lil) Kossack Signals Stay I>r. Karl F. Kossack Thurs day evening' notified men in the meteorology division of the En listed Reserve corps not to sever connections with the Uni versity untii' given actual notice to do so. “Notices of acceptance in the meteorology division are being sent out, lint {hese are not no tices to leave the University. All men enlisted in this divis ion should remain here until ac tually called, which may lie some time yet,” emphasized Dr. Kossack. scrap drive will be published i:r the Emerald. Since the war, there has been no shipment of raw silk, which is used in making parachutes, to the United States. The govern ment has to depend upon the supply that it already has on hand. Silk stockings are the only manufactured silk product which can be converted into parachutes. Fats and greases are turned into cordite, which is used in making explosives. The new records will be sent to army camps for the entertain ment of soldiers. Old ones will b*^ turned into shellac, from which" waterproofing for bullets is made. University Waits; No Broadcast Yet The announced broadcast in meteorology which had men wait ing- by radios on all sides of the campus, failed to materialize. The program was set for 5:30 pan. Thursday, but the news com ments of Norman Nesbitt occu pied the KOK.E ether waves at the appointed time. The station gave no reason for the missing' broadcast other than that it had never heard of it at all. Attendants said that at no time had any information reach ed them concerning such a pro gram. A possible explanation is that the Broadcast was aired on the eastern lines of the Mutual net work, but was not released to the coast. Dads Luncheon Heads Ration Points, not Food By TED GOODWIN This year’s Dads’ Day banquet will take the form of a Point Ration luncheon, a new and “in tune with wartime” combina tion of hot food, a lively program, and secret decoration sur prizes, Charles Politz, promotion director, asserted last night. Politz emphasized the hot food angle because the luncheon committee, Bet$y Ann Keup, Joanne Nichols, and Jean Fride ger stated mat all precautions are being taken to produce food in as “inferno-lilte condition as possible.” Straub Hall The luncheon will be held in John Straub hall at 1 p.m. Sat urday, February 13, and will be followed by Speaker James Abbe. His topic has not as yet been an nounced, but advance information on Abbe promises something good, Politz said. When sons and daughters write home and send the handbills pro vided for inviting their paternal and maternal elements, they should advise parents to write by return mail and secure reser vations f., the luncheon. Blanks are provided in the Oregon news letter sent out by the University editor, G. N. Belknap, for dads to send in their own reservations. Idea Trust The Dads' Day Idea Trust voiced a multiple prediction that ! Ph ase turn to pane three) Dear Bakers If you cannot slice it, then instea I Put dotted lines on loaves of bread. Fcr though I slice it straight and pious I always end up on the bias. —J. W. S.
