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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1943)
Abbe Qualified to Speak On Dads’Day; He Has 8 By EDITH NEWTON Being the father of eight children makes James Abbe, news commentator and photographer, well qualified to speak at the annual Dads’ Day luncheon scheduled for February 13 in John Straub memorial hall. His oldest child is 30 years old, and the youngest only a year and a half. Abbe’s three famous children, who wrote the 1936 best-seller, “Around the World in Eleven Years,” are expected to come with their dad to attend the Dads’ celebration on the campus. Patience, Richard, and Johnny wrote their book after traveling for 11 years and having a variety of experiences in places all over the globe. Mail Heavy Abbe receives a goodly amount of mail since he started making nine news broadcasts a week and he has made a point of answering each letter personally. When he first started, this wasn’t much of a job, but as the mail kept grow ing Abbe fell farther behind in his correspondence. He refused to- give up his pol icy of answering all letters, but it became plain that something must be done. So he appealed to his daughter Patience for help. She promised to cooperate, but refused to let “Papa” tell her what to write. As Abbe says, “she has a mind of her own.” As protection to himself, he wrote the following letter and had it mimeographed, sending along a copy with each letter Patience answers: “Dear Listener: My new secre tary, my daughter Patience, has undertaken to answer my lis tener mail, which, I am happy to say, has reached large propor tions. Wrote Book at 11 “Inasmuch as she and her younger brothers wrote a suc cessful book, ‘Around the World in Eleven Years,’ when she was 11, she is prone to express her own views and opinions, which are not mine. Now that she is 18, she has even more definite opin ions than when she was 11. “My bargain with her is that she shall have a free rein, and I'm hoping for the best and hold ing my breath. Please believe me, that both Patience and I ‘mean Arthur Dance Set by Dorms “King Arthur,” a drama in blank verse by John Dryden set to music by Henry Purcell, will be presented March 1 by the Uni versity of Oregon choral union under the direction of Dr. Theo dore Kratt, dean of the school of music at the University of Ore gon. Also to be given at the same time is a choral fantasia from Wagner’s music drama, “Tann hauser,” and a choral work, “America,” by Ernest Bloch. Of the number, “America,” Dr. Kratt said, “This number is taken from the symphony “America” by Er nest Block. Bloch is a nationally famous composer and makes his home at Agate Beach, Oregon. Published 1691 The words to “King Arthur” were originally published in 1691 by Dryden. The music was never published during Purcell’s time, and in consequence much of the music was lost. William H. Cum mings, present publisher of the work, says, “I have been able to make this edition of Purcell’s ‘King Arthur' more complete than any previous publication of the opera.” The work is dedicated to King Charles XI. It was first performed at the Queen’s theater in London. Downes’ Account A music critic of the time named Downes wrote the follow ing account in his Roscius Angel icanus of the first performance of the work: “King Arthur, and opera, wrote by Mr. Dryden; it was excellently adorn'd with scenes and machines', the musical part set by famous Mr. Henry Purcell, and dances made by Mr. Jo Priest. The play and musick pleas’d the Court and City, and being well perform’d, ’twas very gainful to the company.’’ The complete score to “King Arthur” has never been discov ered. well.” Very sincerely yours, (signed) Jim Abbe. But to top things off. Abbe says he had to write another note, ex plaining away his daughter’s lack of spelling ability, fie say's, “When she was four, she could speak excellently in four lang uages, but to this day, she can’t spell worth a darn in one of ’em.” Strike Out for Fun • 'You’ll have a ipiod time knocking over the pins on our modern air-condition ed allev. Corner West 11 tli and Willamette French Desire Security First Says Dr. Wright (Continued from page one) of these methods had been used, but each at the wrong time, ex plaining that the “mailed fist,” which would have stopped Hitler, was ineffectual against the Ger man republic, while the concilia tion which France did offer Hit ler would only have been profit able against the republic. Although there were 11 for eign ministers during the “twi light” of the third republic, and 30 cabinets, which “followed each other like a litter of guinea pigs,” according to Dr. Wright, the whole epoch can be divided into four major periods of unique poli cies. “Good Will” The first period from 1918 to 1924 was dominated by right wing nationalists, men of the Poincare school, which gave way in ’24 to a period of conciliation and “good will toward all men, including Germans.” With the rise of Hitler in the early ’30’s, French politicians played a “confused brand of blind man’s buff” with the government affairs, Dr. Wright recalled, un til 1936, when Hitler re-occupied the disputed Rhine territory and cut France off from her eastern European allies. Appeasement “From that date, France found herself tied to the coattails of Chamberlain’s England, dragged without too much protest into the course of appeasement,” he add ed. Drawing a parallel between the fall of the Napoleonic empire and that of the third republic, Dr. Wright declared that neither dis aster, while each startled the world with the suddenness of its collapse, was purely military, re marking, “Both were prepared by futile, fumbling, short-sighted diplomacy.” “Rather Good” Statesmen, in his opinion, at first failed to realize that “they could safely live next door to one type of German government,” and then when that government had been abolished, considered Hitler, “rather good for France, because he made Germany un popular.” The Versailles treaty, which France felt too neutral for her national security, aroused fric tion with the British when Poin care tried to enforce it, determ ined that France would not have to pay the cost of the war. Bri tain, however, was just beginning to realize that a reasonably pros perous Germany was essential to English trade. Hence when Poincare moved troops into the disputed terri tory of the Ruhr valley, morally isolated France succeeded only in losing more money than she received from the land and en couraged the rise of the German militarists. Idea Killed This killed the old French idea that the only way to treat the German was to "knock him down and kick him until he apolo gized,” as Dr. Wright phrased it. From then on, France followed ENJOY Delicious meals prepared especially for you by our French Chef EUGENE HOTEL Record Hour Varies Time (Continued from taoe one) be the first movement of Haydn's Concerto in D major for harpis chord, a soprano and tenor duet, “Oh! the Transport of Possess ing” by Arne, a gavotte by Bach, and a work entitled “Green sleeves,” arranged by Vaughan Williams. Concluding the program will be a request number, “Return, O Zephyr” by Monteverde, for those who care to remain. Miss Hager Specializes Miss Hager has made a special ty of collecting music of the 16th and 17th centuries. Special refer ence is made in the program which she has selected to instru ments which are the forerunners of the modern, strings. Hostesses for this Sunday’s concert will be Miss Celeste Campbell from the Mu Phi Epsi lon group, Miss Wanda Eastwood from the Mu Phi alumnae, Miss Nymphia Lam from the active group, and Miss Ella Carrick from the library committee. The concert is being held in the evening instead of the afternoorr so that students may attend the orchestral concert which will be held in the afternoon at 3 p.m. in the music auditorium. the lead of England, reluctant to venture on any solo enterprise. Dr. Wright emphasized, "The memory of the Ruhr goes far to explain why France did not stop Hitler while there was yet time.” Capitulation From the Ruhr incident, Dr. Wright traced French history through the works of French for eign ministers, from Laval na tionalists, and Tardieu, to De Ladier, and the Munich crisis. He finally described the capitu lation of the republic to invading German forces, when through the insidious tutelage of Laval, the cabinet agreed in a 10-13 vote to surrender, and old Marshall Pe tain, the puppet, assumed con trol. Dr. Wright concluded, “The fall of France cannot be blamed on faulty diplomacy alone — they would have had to overcome the apathy and pacifism of the French public, as well as the hos tility and suspicions of Britain and the United States.” He added however, "It is a sad Ray Dicksorr Enacts Boxer In New Play By WILMA FOSTER Ray Dickson, journalism ma jor, returns to the Guild Hall theater in its second production of the year, "The Whole Town's Talking,’’ by Anita Loos and John Emerson. He plays the role of Donald Swift, a former Brooklyn welter weight boxing champion, who s become a very jealous motion pic ture director. Two years ago Dickson organ ized a campus band known as "The Collegians.” He writes mu sic, plays and articles. One of his pieces, "Nocturne in Blue” was first played at the recent Senior Ball. Dickson nopes to enter radio advertising when he leaves school and at present has a job waiting for him with the Nation al Broadcasting company in Hol lywood. His current part as a boxer with a Brooklyn accent is his first in this type of part. He played in “Idiot’s Delight” tak ing the role of an Italian. In “The Taming of the Shrew” he took the part of a man 92 years old. Several members of the \t have just returned from ElkiJTi, Oregon where they provided en tertainment for a group meeting to discuss the development of a station of the ground observa tion office of the army air corps. commentary that the nation of Richelieu, Fleury, and Talleyrand could produce no greater states men than Poincare and Laval.” 1 VALENTINE DAY ® Express your wishes in the time-honored way . . . with a bouquet or corsage of beautiful, freshly cut flowers. ARCHAMBEAU 11th and Willamette