"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
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'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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.