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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1943)
VOLUME XLV NUMBER 25 UNIVERSITY OR OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1943 Singer Marjorie Lawrence Wins Presidential Approval President Roosevelt was among the many persons who praised Marjorie Lawrence, opera singer, after her triumphant return to the stage following more than a year's struggle with infantile paralysis. “Your courage and faith and determination in overcoming the after-effects of infantile paralysis and thereby restoring to the public the opportunity of enjoying your beautiful art—all Parcel Service Extends Hours Starting Friday the student parcel service will be open from 12:30 until 1 on Monday, Wed nesday, and Friday to accommo date the soldier-students, accord ing to an announcement by the managers. The reason for the ad ditional half-hour is that the sol diers dO’ not have free time dur ing the hours the service is reg ularly open. The regular hours will remain the same, 3 to 5 p.m. on week days and 10 to 12 ,a.m. on Sat urday. The parcel service opened Monday on the balcony of the Cft^op. The service includes weigh ing, stamping, and mailing of the packages with a minimum charge of 5 cents a package made for all packages up to five pounds and an extra cent a pound j- 'jparged on all packages over 5 mi. unds‘ Dime-Digging Dinners Finish Second Week The second in the campus wide series of dime-digging” dinners was held this week in campus .living organizations, it W'as announced yesterday. Tri Delt led the list with $4.90 col lected in war stamps, followed by Alpha. Chi Omega which contrib uted $3.90, and Alpha Phi with $3.40. These dinners were originated by the campus war board and are "•$nder the supervision of Mary tr-Aentley, chairman of the war stamp promotion drive. The plan requires each member of a liv ing organization to “buy her way” into dinner with the pur chase of a 10-cent defense stamp. Miss Bentley announced that Sfcs stamp dinners will be held once a week, preferably Tuesday night, and urged that every house (Please turn to page tzeo) result m a victory, wmcn is an inspiration to everyone at any time,” he wrote. Miss Lawrence was stricken with the disease in June, 1941, while on her way to Mexico on her honeymoon and to appear in opera there. Although she is confined much of the time to her wheel chair, the famous soprano continually has a full schedule of perform ances and public appearances. She has entertained thousands of ser vice men, appearing at the Stage Door Canteen, and is a favorite of Aussies passing through the United States. She has toured the United States, Canada, and appeared in South America, returning to her native country, Australia, only once since she first left to con tinue her voice study. She will appear at McArthur court Sat urday at 8:15 p.m. Gl Thespians Hold First Meet Today The soldier drama group will hold its first meeting Thursday evening, at 9:30, in the drama studio, Horace W. Robinson, head of the drama department, an nounced yesterday. "The response has been gratifying,” Mr. Robin son said, “and we are definitely going ahead with plans for the group.” Definite plans will be made Thursday night and a synopsis taken of the available talent. The group is being organized under the auspices of the Student Theater guild and both profes sional and amateur directors will be assigned to work with the various units. These entertain ment units, with soldier casts aided by a few coed dramatists, will be used Ss entertainment for the USO, traveling groups for sol dier camps, intermission acts for dances, and possibly organized (Please tiwn to pane two) ‘Dream Girl’ Election Slated for Saturday Six finalists will be chosen Saturday from the field of fresh man girl candidates for the title of Oregon’s Dream Girl, it was announced yesterday. ..Judging will take place at 3 p.m. Saturday in Gerlinger, and all candidates are expected to be there at that time. Judges in the contest are Andrew Vincent, pro fessor of drawing and painting; Gerd Hansen, general chairman of Coed Capers; Sue Sawyer; Miki Riley; Pvt. Everett Riley, from the foreign area and lan guage students; and Bob Smith, a civilian sophomore. Six Finalists Pictures of the six finalists which are chosen Saturday will tc placed at the entrance of Coed Capers. Each ticket to Coed Ca pers will count as one vote, and the tickets will be dropped into boxes under the picture of one of the finalists. Entrants in the race for the Dream Girl are: Marilyn Walters, Kappa Alpha Theta; Nadyne Neet, Alpha Omi cron Pi; Benadine Thomas, Gam ma Phi Beta; Shirley Keck, Al pha Gamma Delta; Margaret La vin, Birch lodge; Virginia Shutz, Hawthorne lodge; Gayle Nelson, Kappa Kappa Gamma. Lombardy Lodge Loudella Louper, Lombardy lodge; Julia Evonuk, Alpha Xi Delta; Virginia Hayes, Alpha Phi; Ardelle Vicary, Orides; Al ice Chase, Casablanca lodge; Gene Mary Redmond, Highland house; Mary Dixon, Delta Gam ma; Betty Wilson, Laurel lodge. June Rodgers, Sigma Kappa; Janet Marugg, Alpha Chi Ome ga; Dorothy Koster, Chi Omega: Marilyn Rakow, Delta Delta Del ta; Norma Ryder, Mill lodge; Al ice Buckingham, University house; Beverly Listman, Hilyard house; and Yvonne Edwards, Al pha Delta Pi. Back The Fag Attack With a total of 53 packages of cigarettes collected in their house, the Alpha Phis took the lead Wednesday in the war board sponsored cigarette drive. Phyl lis Horstman, chairman of the drive, announced that a total of 324 packages of cigarettes had been collected at the end of the first day. “Buying a pack for a buddy is one of the many little things we can do to help bring the war to a rapid finish,” Miss Horstman said. “If everyone on the campus, faculty members included, will contribute at least one package we should easily make our goal.'’ The boxes placed in the Co-op, Side, Villard hall, Friendly hall, and the newsroom in the journal ism building are for the contri butions from the faculty and the male civilian students on the campus. Miss Horstman suggested that Today's Cigarette Total 1 11,800 the living organizations have a cigarette night either Thursday or Friday night with each per son contributing a package cl' cigarettes as her “ticket-’ for tbo meat. Houses that collected over :J 0 packages by Wednesday evening were: Alpha Chi Omega, •$?; Delta Delta Delta, 3S; Pi Beta Phi, 37: Alpha Delta Pi. 2S; Al pha Gamma, 26; Casablanca lodge, 25: Mill lodge, 17; Lom bardy lodge. 13; Delta Gamma, 12; Hilyard house, 12; and Aider lodge, 12. Deadline for the drive is Friday evening with 1S00 packages of cigarettes set as the goal. Daily totals will be reported in the Emerald and also on a thermometer to be placed in the Co-op. Members of Kwama are hand ling the distribution and collec tion. Members of the drive commit tee include Dorothy Pryor, Doris Chapler, and Jayne Kern. ASTU Meets Cavalry In Second Grid Encounter By LOREN SHANK Question: Will the Marshfield 104th Cavalry who lost to the ASTUs in their previous contest by a score of 33 to 12, be able to even the score or will the ASTU squad move on to their second victory of the season over them? The answer to this question will be given on the Marshfield high school turf when the two teams meet over the pigskin Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. Scrap Roundup Set For Friday The scrap drive which was called off last week because of rain will be held this Friday, Bib betts Strong, co-chairman of the salvage committee, stated Wed nesday. Every living organization is requested to conform to the fol lowing rules: The tin cans are to be placed in a substantial cov ered box. They should be washed, smashed, the labels removed, and placed on the front porch of the living organization by 1 p.m. Miss Strong stressed the fact that the tin cans are vitally needed in the war effort. A Uni versity truck will pick them up. The covered box is necessary be cause the truck is not covered. Interhouse competition will be stressed in this drive and the re sults will be published in the Em erald Colds and Weight Defy Blood Donors Although 20 students have signed up for the blood bank, only 12 of these have been typed due to colds and lack of suffi cient weight, Beverly Goetz, chairman of the committee, stat ed Wednesday There is no age requirement, but volunteers must weigh 135 pounds before they are allowed to donate blood Mortar Board, senior women’s service honorary, is sponsoring the drive, each member handling a group of houses. Marjorie Ma jor is in charge of the following (Please turn to paeje two) The Marshfield civic associa tion is sponsoring a celebration to be held before the game. The cavalry band, which is one of the best in the country, will play for the flag raising ceremony and the parade. The team and officials will leave here Saturday afternoon at 4 o’clock along with Lt. Da vis who is in charge of the party. Everything will be handled under military rule with the team mem bers being quartered at the Chandler hotel Saturday night. The pew members of the team, ROTC men, will be among those on hand from here. The team has been working on some new plays to throw at the “Tankers” and are still working on their timing. This World’ Swings Into Final Stage With dress rehearsal scheduled for tonight, Phi Thetas swing1 into the final stages of their alt campus production, "Out of Thin World.” Starting with a snowball rally from Lombardy and Casablanca, lodges, reminiscent of long, col orful, football seasons, coeds will converge at Gerlinger. Members of Kwama and the rally squad will lead the rally. Promptly at 7:36’& p.m. the curtain will rise, announced Mar ty Beard, assembly co-chairman. “And you'll be out in plenty of time for your Friday night dates,” she added. Contrary do former expecta tions. a weird contraption con sisting of a horse and buggy with an angel and devil ensconced therein will not appear on 13th street at 4 p.m. today. “The horse is running at Santa Anita this week,” Miss Beard ex plained. Dr. Jameson Urges Parents To Face Facts in Guidance By ELIZABETH HAUGEN ‘‘People—those responsible for guiding the education of young people—won't face fact.” This belief was stressed by Dr. S. H. Jameson, professor of sociology, at the meeting of Pi Lambda Theta in the YWCA bungalow last night. “The problem of children in war is the result of a society which adults made,” he pointed out. our cmiaren nave necome ex tremely dexterous, but they are the most socially immature in the world,” he exclaimed. "They lack respect for conven tions, ideals, institutions.” Youth, especially in time of war, is con fused. They begin to recognize the shams which are apparent all around them, and they develop an attitude of fatalistic futility. Climate of Social Lies ‘‘We have created a ‘climate of social lies'. In order to protect, adults unconsciously perpetuate falsehood,” he brought out. “For example, we preach superiority of one race over another; wo preach equality of man, equality of opportunity; we preach that war is inevitable—it is man made. Can it not be unmade by man?” Our fighting men arc paragons of virtue, the enemies are despicable creatures, prodded (Please turn to page jour)