VOLUME XLV NUMBER 83
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE, TUESDAY. MARCH 21, 1944
| JMatUesi Qaaie an the Jlaale
Mother Goose in War Theme
Chosen for Junior Weekend
By JEAN TAYLOR
"Mother Goose Goes to War” this year, as all of the Uni
versity of Oregon campus begins preparations for its celebra
tion of a wartime Junior Weekend.
The secret was out Monday when Anne Craven and Edith
jNewton, co-chairmen of Junior Weekend, announced that
Charles Politz, junior in journalism, and Bill Buell, iunior m
liberal arts, had conceived the
winning theme for the 1944 Junior
Weekend. The $5 prize was award
ed them for their effort and its
results.
“Mother Goose Goes to War"
will be used as the theme through
out the weekend, according to Miss
Newton. Plans are getting under
way this week for a program which
will approximate that of other
years.
The fourth annual All-Campus
Sing, under the chairmanship of
Arliss Boone, junior in journal
ism, is scheduled for Friday
night, May 5. In addition to
the usual singing competition
among the choruses of the var
ious living organizations, Miss
Boone has announced that there
will also be presented a program
of skits provided by both civilian
an»J'army students.
The Terrace Dance, a part of
Junior Weekend which was not
held last year, will be revived, to
be held Saturday afternoon. Mar
ion Schaefer, business administra
tion, will head the committee in
charge. The terrace in front of the
library will be the dance floor, and
the dance, according to Miss
Schaefer, will run from 3:30 to
5 p.m. Saturday.
Following the Terrace Dance will
be the Campus Picnic on the old
campus, under the chairmanship of
Flora Kibler, liberal arts. The pic
nic will be held from about 5 to 7,
during which time this year's Jun
ior Weekend queen and her court
will be formally presented. The
coronation of the queen will be
held at that time.
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Allen's Influence
Recalled By Hoyt
In a quiet and reverent atmos
phere, a few words honoring the
memory of Dean Erie W. Allen of
the journalism school were spoken
at ’H^raorial services in the music
auditorium Sunday afternoon.
“We, of the press of Oregon,
feel that Eric Allen is partieularly
ours, by training in his early years
and in thinking in his later years.
Ho believed in newspapers and ever
was anxious to improve them. Ore
gon journalism is undoubtedly bet
ter for his having lived, and for
his having lived in Oregon,’’ said
Palmer Hoyt, managing editor of
The Oregonian, who represented
the press of the state.
Speaking for the faculty, W. F.
G. Thacher, professor of English
and advertising, told of the dean’s
more in relation to those
among whom he lived. During the
30 years since he came here and
founded the school of journalism,
the newspaper conference was es
tablished, and as the first gradu
ates began to join professional
ranks, there came final convincing
evidence of the success of the
school. He was a great student,
an idealist, but not a dreamer. He
was a moralist and reformer, in
tensely committed to society, said
Mr. Thacher.
The Allens were an unpreten
tious family. They lived their lives,
rqjpred their children, and left
their imprints on us, pointed out
Wjlliam Tugman, managing editor
of the Register-Guard, who repre
sented the community. He was re
sponsible indirectly for many civic
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Song Titles
Due Friday
Titles of songs to be sung by
living organizations at the fourth
annual All-Campus Sing to be pre
sented May 5 during Junior Week
end must be turned in to Arliss
Boone, chairman of the sing, at
Alpha Chi Omega before Friday at
| 5, it was announced today.
Miss Boone asked that the songs
be as nearly as possible in keeping
| with the theme "Mother Goose
: Goes to War.” She cautioned that
' living organizations should begin
j working on their songs as soon as
j possible.
i This year, aside from the enter
| tainment provided by the musical
! competition between houses, spe
j cial enjoyment will be offered par
| ents and friends visiting the Uni
| versity for the weekend. The inno
I \ at ion which Miss Boone plans for
the Sing, will be student-presented
skits.
Anyone, including soldier-stu
dents who will be on the campus
at the time of Junior Weekend,
who has a skit which he wTould like
to present should contact Arliss
Boone, 1307, as soon as possible.
The skits may be of any type,
running from 10 to 25 minutes,
Miss Boone said. She urges that
groups or individuals contact her
soon, so that defiinte plans for the
All-Campus Sing may get under
way.
Social Leaders to Meet
All social chairmen will meet
at 4 p.m. this afternoon in the
alumni room, Gerlinger, Mrs.
Alice MacDuff announced.
OceanHitch
Suggests Tra
Hitchhiking on six different si
tral Pacific ocean trying to find
shot down at Kwajalein, Ensign
gon’s football team in 1942 anc
is in favor of a traffic contrc
theater between Pearl Harbor
ENSIGN CLYDE J. LEE
Phyllis Horstman New
Secretary of ASUO
Phyllis Horstman, former junior class representative of the ASUO executive council, was
unanimously appointed as secretary of the council Monday, Nancy Ames, ASUO president,
announced.
Miss Horstman will succeed Martha Jane Switzer, who was graduated last term and re
signed her position. This advancement of Miss Horstman to the number four position in the
council leaves open the position of junior representative and petitions for this office are now
PHYLLIS HOKSTMAN
Mt. Holyoke Instructor
To Speak Thursday
Oleda Schrottsky, former in
structor in dramatics at Mount
Holyoke college, will speak Thurs
day at the. AWS assembly in alum
ni hall, Gerlinger, at 3 p.m. Miss
Schrottsky is a member of the
New York story telling club, and
served as president of this organ
ization at one time.
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Hiker,Alum,
ffic Control
lips in five days across the Cen
his “home” carrier after being
Clyde J. Lee, a member of Ore
a navy torpedo bomber pilot,
1 policeman in the busy war
and Truk.
Ensign Lee has just returned to
the mainland for a leave after 10
months of bombing Japs at Marcus
island, Wake, Tarawa, Kwajalein,
Truk, and Saipan. He is a member
of Aircraft Carrier Air group "X"
whose fighters set a record at
Rabaul of downing 55 Jap planes
with a loss of only one United
States plane in a single day's work.
This is believed to be a record.
When Lee experienced his en
counter with anti-aircraft fire he
was piloting a three-man plane
over Roi atoll.
“We had just made our bomb
ing run,’’ lie related. “Something
hit us; flak I guess. The engine
sputtered and oil poured out. I
told my two crew members we'd
have to land in the ocean. They
weren't bothered a bit, so down
we went. It was my first water
landing and anything could have
happened, but I was lucky. The
ship landed on the crest of a wave
on the downhill and we stayed
afloat until a destroyer picked us
up. Incidentally, it was the 500th
iesoue that DD had made, they
told us.”
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■ open.
To be eligible, a .student most
have two terms at the University,
74 hours of credit, and an eligibil
ity slip from the dean of men or
women. Petitions should be given
to Jean Page, first vice president
of the council, at the Pi Beta Phi
house by Thursday noon.
During her freshman year, Miss
Horstman was a member of the
freshman student union committee
and ticket chairman of the Frosh
Glee. She was president of Kwama,
sophomore women's service honor
ary, ticket chairman for the sopho
more Whiskerino, co-chairman of
the Co-op receipt committee of the
campus war board, and co-chair
man of the Christmas Seal commit
tee during her sophomore year.
This year she is a member of j
Phi Theta Upsilon, junior women’s
service honorary, chairman of the
hospitality committee of the war
board, chairman of the Junior
Prom, outgoing treasurer of AWS,
a member of the campus coordinat
ing board, and she chairmaned sev
eral campus drives. Her appoint
ment leads to speculation as to
whether she will be a candidate
for a 1944-45 ASUO position.
Wednesday night open house
will be continued, according to the
vote of the council. Each Wednes
day five houses will be open to sol
diers and civilians, beginning with
the first, five houses listed in the
student director, Alder lodge, Al
pha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta, Pi,
Alpha Gamma Delta, and Alpha
Omicron Pi.
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Dr. Smith Goes
To Washington
With a background of nearly 12
years in the Philippines and travel
in the orient, Dr. Warren D. Smith,
head of the University geology
and geography department, is go
ing to Washington, D.C., this sum
mer as research analyst in the Far
Eastern section of the office of
strategist services.
Dr. Smith doesn't know exactly
what his work will be, except that
it will concern the Far East. Due
to report the first of June, he ex
pects to stay until October 1.
“Whether I stay on depends on ■
developments in the Far East and
other things," said Dr. Smith, “but i
I expect to come back." Depending i
on transportation, his daughter, !
Phoebe, a junior and Pi Phi on the I
campus, may accompany him to!
visit relatives.
In 1905 Dr. Smith went to the
Philippines, where he was geol
ogist for the Philippine govern
ment and chief of mines, bureau of
science. According to Dr. Smith,
this bureau was the largest institu
tion for tropical research in the
Orient, and perhaps in the world.
It carried on all scientific work for
the government. Half of his work
| took him all over the islands.
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Campus Goal
$looo in Drive
With a $1000 goal set for tto
1941 Red Cross membership dri\o
and a cup to be kept until 194
to be awarded to the house twin
inf;- in. the most money, the campon
campaign begins Wednesday, ac
cording to Dorothy Rasmussen,
general chairman.
Records of any kind totaling 3,1
we be awarded to the house con •
tributing the second larges t.
amount and another week of close
neck-and-neck competition betwee n
the living organisations is fore
seen by the chairmen.
Kwamas will man tables placed
at strategic positions on the cam
pus from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thurs
day and Friday and contribution s
will be taken there. In order to
catch any odd change, jars will be
found in the Side, Taylor’s and the
Co-op.
All house Red Cross representa
tives are to meet in the Red Cron
room in Gerlinger at 4 today for
final instructions. Daily reports
from the representatives are to bo
telephoned to Mary K. Minor, 290“,
and the amounts collected from
each house will be listed in tho
Emerald each day. A large poster
in the Co-op will display day-to
day recordings of the house result*.
Everyone contributing 10 cenl'b
or more will be given small flag*
pins; Rod Cross membership card*4
arc given for contributions of i.
dollar or more. The annual mem
bership drive will last until Wed
nesday, March 29.
Sinatra Type
Not For Pinza
By LOUISE MONTAG
"Sinatra? Never heard Sinatra! '
exclaimed Ezio Pinza, strapping1
six-foot opera basso, in an inter
view after his concert Monday;
night in McArthur court.
In Philadelphia ho had a. stage
door encounter which suggested1
the Sinatra type. As he came out
after an appearance a lady marine
kissed him heartily. He termed it
“silly.”
“Women are my hobby, but I
never sing thinking to impress'
women. I can’t sing with that in
tention,” he commented with a
gleam in his eye.
He doesn't think of women where
he sings, he protested, but about
what he’s singing. When the song V
about women? Then he thinks'
about the music, he said.
The biggest wolf in opera is Don
Giovanni in that opera, remarked
the handsome Italian after his ac
companist explained that a wolf
was a Casanova. Does he like tho
rde ? “Very much!” he replied^
with enthusiasm. “Don Giovanni
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