MERALD
VOLUME XLIV NUMBER 101
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1943
ERC Rally Snowballs to Igloo
JuniorQueen
Preliminaries
Due Tuesday
Women’s living organizations
selected their candidates, names
have been turned in, and the an
nual race is on for 1943 Junior
Weekend Queen who will reign
from April 30 to May 2.
The following girls have been
selected by their respective
houses:
Frances Johnson, Alpha Chi
Omega; Dawn Trask, Alpha Del
j^Pi; Norma Baker, Alpha Gam
ma Delta; Beiyl Robertson, Al
pha Omicron Pi; Kay Jenkins,
Alpha Phi: Joan Woodward, Del
ta Delta Delta; Peggy Magill,
Delta Gamma: Betty Christensen,
Hendricks hall; Josephine Regi
nato, Hilyard house; Mary
Wright, Gamma Phi Beta; Su
san Sawyer, Kappa Alpha The
ta; Mary Bentley, Kappa Kappa
Gamma; Dolores Wheeler, Ori
des; Nancy Ames, Pi Beta Phi;
Patricia Martin, Sigma Kappa;
Marie Nichols, Susan Campbell
hall; and Dorothy Jean Carter,
Highland house.
Faculty members will act as
judges, and the selection of final
ists will be held Tuesday at 4
p.m. in Gerlinger hall. Soon after
this selection, students will vote
to the queen and four princesses.
■^Deadline for all candidates’
names to be turned in to the edu
cational activities office was 5
p.m. Friday.
With a wartime year minus
the traditional Canoe Fete, this
year’s royal party will reign in
McArthur court, instead, and will
be the main attraction at the
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FOL K KNIGHTS AND A DREAM . . .
. . . are spending spare time rehearsing for ERC rally show — Me
Arthur court, 7:15 p.m., Tuesday.
Garcia-Prada Closes
Pan-American Institute
By TED GOODWIN
Speaking in rapid-fire English with Latin gestures and ac
cent, Dr. Garcia-Prada, University of Washington professor,
led a forum on “Social and Cultural Relations” Friday after
noon to close a two-day institute of Inter-American relations
on the campus.
At the time of his arrival in the United States in 1919, Dr.
Prada said that the emphasis in South American universities
Sing Entries Due
Tuesday, April 16
All entries for the all-cam
pus sing must be turned in to
Ted Goodwin at the Emerald,
by Tuesday. The sing event
will take place Friday, April
30, in connection with Junior
Weekend.
Violinist Francescatti
Ends Concert Series
By BETTY LU SIEGMAN
Zino Francescatti, celebrated French violinist, will con
clude the University’s Greater Artist concert series Thursday,
tiril 8, at McArthur court when he presents his program, one
several given on his national tour of the United States.
During the last war Francescatti attended school on week
days and played his fiddle for wounded soldiers in the hospitals
ot Marseilles on sunaay : un
these occasions he fraternized
with some of the most distin
guished musicians of the day and
was treated by them as an equal.
Abandons Law Studies
He was in the midst of his le
gal studies when his father died
suddenly. The family needed
money badly and their most sale
able asset was Zino’s talent. Ac
cordingly he abandoned the study
of law and went to Paris to enter
a musical career.
^^rancescatti was 22 when he
iJmved in Paris. Almost at once
he won an audition with Jacques
Thibaud. The same year he made
his debut with Frank’s most
distinguished orchestra, the So
ciete des Concerts du Conserva
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ZINO FRANCESCATTI
was on r rencn ana continental
culture to the near exclusion of
North American. Since the pres
ent administration and especially
the war, however, a trend toward
mutual study and understanding
between the Americas has devel
oped.
Language Most Important
Naming language as the most
vital single factor in common un
derstanding, Dr. Prada declared
that without a study of English,
Spanish and Portuguese by all
countries in this hemisphere, a
serious barrier to understanding
would exist.
Next to language, the former
Colombian emphasized the contri
butions of art, religion and poetry
to an ideal society. He declared
that Latin American universities
are making new contributions to
science but are still looking to the
United States for leadership in
this field.
Medium Between Continents
Comparing what he called the
Northern and Southern minds,
Dr. Prada pointed out that a me
dium between the clock watching
northern culture and the siesta
loving Latin should be reached
for best results. "The United
States has a problematical mind,"
he declared, “while the South Am
erican is given to contemplation."
He contrasted the Yankee love of
problems with the Latin ability
to philosophize, saying, “The Unit
ed States is the only country on
earth where love is a problem.”
In the field of religion, he rec
ommended that the ethical and
social values of Northern religion
be combined with the aesthetic
emphasis of the Latin for the bet
terment of society on both con
tinents.
Assemblies Set for Tuesday;
Advocate General to Speak
By ANNE CRAVEN
Beginning with a patriotic assembly Tuesday afternoon,
kept rolling by a snowball rally immediately after dinner, anti
climaxed by a sendoff program in McArthur court at 7:15
p.m., University students will say goodbye to enlisted reserve
corps students who will leave Wednesday morning at 3:45.
Led by the rally squad, three snowball rallies will start
at 6:30 from the Chi Psi lodge, the ATOs, and the men's
Prep Debate
Nears Finish
Participants in the Oregon
state high school speech tourna
ment on the campus have fin
ished the preliminaries, and will
swing into semi-final debating
and speaking.
Preliminary winners were well
distributed among the various
schools. Seven Hillsboro speak
ers went into the semi-finals.
Salem kept four speakers in the
running; Dallas, Grants Pass, and
Ashland, three; Medford, Rose
burg, Bonanza, Klamath Falls,
two; Grant high school, (Port
land) and Eugene high school,
one.
Hillsboro vs. Medford
Semi-finalists in debate are
the Hillsboro affirmative vs. the
Medford negative. The winner of
this debate will compete with the
opposing side of the Roseburg
team.
The Hillsboro affirmative is
taken by. Ernest Seymour and
Orville Meyer. Medford negative
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Phi Theta Banquet
Honors ‘Brains’
The annual Phi Theta. Upsilon
banquet for freshman women
with an accumulative of a 3.5 or
over will be held Tuesday at 5:30
at the Kappa Kappa Gamma
house, according to Dorothy
Clear, chairman.
The freshmen who have re
ceived invitations to the party
are Phylliss Amacher, Betty Ben
net, Maxine Cady, Janice Carpen
ter, LaVerne Erickson, Barbara
McClung", Bernice Granquist, Jan
ice Hough, Irene Jolivette, Louise
Montag, Janice Nelson, Pauline
Suflow, Frances Wilder, Freda
Koehler, and Vena Opic.
Campus clothes will be worn,
according to Miss Clear, because
of the University rally which will
be held later in the evening.
Easy Foldin' Money
Awaits Idea Expert
For all those who need $5.00
urgently and easily please note
the following steps indicated
below:
1. Get an idea—suitable for
the 1043 Junior Weekend theme.
2. Limit the idea to popular
appeal, avoiding too in u c h
stress on the war.
3. Write the idea up simply
but completely.
4. Kemember that J u n i o r
W eekend will be mainly a Mc
Arthur court affair rather than
a canoe fete.
5. Submit your theme before
Wednesday, April 7, either to
Dick Williams at the education
al activities office or to Jean
Frideger.
dorms. The one starting at the
Chi Psis will pick up the mill
race houses; the ATO group will
gather together the upper cam
pus houses and sorority row;
while the dorm rally will pick up
adjacent houses and the women's
halls.
Roll to McArthur
All three snowballs ■will meet
with the University band on the
library lawn for a. short outdoor
rally. From there they will pro
ceed to McArthur court.
Ray Dickson will be master of
ceremonies for the rally in Mc
Arthur court. The program will
include the “Four Knights and a
Dream" Charlotte Gething, Fui
gene Cecchini, Don Bridenstine,
Frank Sardam, and Paul Beard.
Helen Holden will dance and Ted
Loud will lead yells. Mimeo
graphed copies of an original
song sung to a tune written by
Helen Jane Kerr with words to
fit the occasion will be distribut
ed during the rally.
No Prizes
There will be a sign contest,
with the best sign
carried in the rally. No judg'd
for the contest, have been ap
pointed as Jn>t.
The rally will last approxi
mately- 'a'n hdtlr and a half. Mem
bers of the committee in chargo
of arrangements for the rally are:
Ben Barde, chairman of the cam -
pus war board; Les Anderson,
ASUO president; Betty Kincaid,
member of the rally squad, and
Jack L. Billings, Emerald editor.
Coi. Spencer Speaker
Col. Carlton E. Spencer, judge
advocate general and assistant,
state director of selective serv •
ice, will be the main speaker at.
the army day assembly to be held
at 2 p.m. in McArthur court. Col.
C. L. Sampson, head of the mili
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Friday, 9 to 12
The thing about the E.R.C.
That I don’t like the best
Is their three-hour comprehen
sive
Psychometric tests.
— K.S.
KAY DICKSON . . .
. . . emcee for 'KKC rally show is* ■
Igloo.