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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1944)
VOLUME XLV NUMBER S5 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE. THURSDAY. MARCH 23, 1944 ' ' R; <U08h WORKING FULL TIME . . . , . . the co-chairmen of the campus Red Cross drive, Mary K. Minor and Dorothy Rasmussen, even work on the drive while sipping' cokes at the Side. FourHousesContribute 100% . In Campus Red Cross Drive Kappa Kappa Gamma, con tributing $39, was the first house to report 100 per cent membership in the 1944 Red Cross war fund drive which started Wednesday, Sigma Kappa with $30 and Delta Delta Delta with $44 were second and third, respectively. Pi Beta Submit Skits Quick, Asks Arliss Boone An urgent call has gone out for *..skits which may be presented as added entertainment May 5 at the all-campus sing during Junior .Weekend, according to Arliss Boone, chairman of the sing. The skits do not have to be in Completed form to be submitted, Miss Boone said Wednesday. Out lines and ideas should be turned in to Miss Boone at Alpha Chi Ome ga not later than Friday at 5 p.m. She asks that students who plan to submit ideas to her do so at once, and continue working on their plans until she contacts them. Any student on the campus who will be here during Junior Week -end may turn in ideas for skits. Four skits will be chosen of those submitted. They may run from 10 to 25 minutes, in length. Dr. Landros Tells YWCA About Peace Points Dr. Edna Landros, head of the classics department who recently attended a conference of the tTnit ed Nations association in Portland, told members of the YWCA forum yesterday that she was particular ly impressed by the frequent re currence of the phrase “third world War” in the Speeches at the con Mention. An 11-point program to prevent another world war has been evolved by the association, and Dr. Landros emphasized this program in her talk. Two of the following ideas have been put into working order directly, she said, and the leaders of 26 of the United Na tions, including Russia, Great Brit ain, China, and the United States, have already subscribed to the plan. First of the points advocated is Immediate action so that all na y, tions will participate in the or ganization; second, universal obli gation to resort to peaceful means for the settlement of disputes; third, prevention of aggression by having available an international (Please turn to page four) Pho turned in the largest amount on the first day of the drive, $53, and was fourth to report 100 per cent subscription. According to Mary K. Minor and Dorothy Rasmussen, co-chairmen, the competition between the houses is being judged on a percentage basis in order to be fair to the smaller organizations. The winner of the first prize, a cup awarded by the war board, will be the house with 100 per cent membership and the best support per member. The money collected by five other houses was on record by Wednes day night: Alpha Chi Omega, $20; Laurel lodge, $14; Hillcrest lodge, $11; Hilyard house, $10; University bouse, $8.27. “Today the activities of your American Red Cross girdle the globe. In directing your attention to this graphic presentation of some of the services rendered, I ; can affirm from personal obser vation on recent inspection trips that your Red Cross is faithfully fulfilling its obligations at home and abroad,” stated Norman H. Davis, national chairman of the American Red Cross in Washing ton, D. C. This is what the Red Cross, backed by American dimes and dollars, does at the side of soldiers and sailors overseas: Red Cross field directors with miniature offi ces composed of packing crates set up in foxholes are trouble shooters who help servicemen with personal ' difficulties or home worries. The Home Service may secure the co (Please turn to page Jour) S Change Cabinets Eligible Voters Register In Room 312, Fenton For the convenience of Ore gon students who are eligible to vote in the May primaries, Har ry Skerry, first vice-president of the. ASUO, will bo in Room 312, Fenton hall, to register stu dents who are not registered voters. Skerry is a deputy regis trar and will be at the office from 1 p.m. to S pan. Monday through Friday. Students are reminded that April 18 is the last day for regis tration. They may also register at the county clerk's office at the county court house. Those who are already regis tered in other counties may ob tain applications for absentee ballots either at the county clerk’s office or from Skerry. To he. eligible to vote in the primaries on May 1 f>, the stu dent must be 21 years old before that date. Mothers’ Day Plan Underway Plans for Mothers' Day will be discussed at a state executive board of Oregon Mothers in Port land this coming Saturday, Karl W. Onthank, executive secretary, announced yesterday. Other action will be taken on the scholarship awards and also, in conjunction with the Oregon Dads, on the proposed Erb endow ment fund. There will also be a joint meet ing of the Northwest College Per sonnel association, Association of Collegiate Registrars, and Associ ated Junior Colleges this Friday and Saturday in Portland, to dis cuss the postwar problems affect ing higher education. Wayne Morse, former dean of the law school, is scheduled to be one of the main speakers and sev eral members of the faculty and personnel staff are expected to at tend. Duo Feature Offered Women; Dramatist, New Officers Billed Associated women students will get a double bill this after noon with a speech by Oleda Schrottsky, who has been iv* charge of the national dramatic department for the Girl Scouts for a number of years, and installation of the new AWS offi cers. The assembly will be held in alumni hall, Gerlinger, at Social Side Talked At Union Confab Social facilities were discussed at a meeting of the sophomore Student Union committee Wednes day afternoon, Dorothy Rodgers, chairman, reported. The committee decided that as a starting point the building should have a ball room, lounges, a re ception room, private party rooms, a smoking' room, and a faculty club. As their project the members of the committee will find out what social facilities are now available on the campus and what ones are needed. They will also investigate other student unions in the United States in regard to such facilities as they have and the manner in which they are run. Red Cross Offers One Week Course Robert Culbertson, a well-known district examiner in Red Cross water safety methods, will be on the campus from April 24 to April 29 to conduct a 15-hour course for future Red Cross instructors of this division. (Please turn to page four) •i p.m. Miss Schrottsky was formerly an instructor in dramatics at Mt. Holyoke college. She is a member of the New York story telling- dub, and at one time served as presi dent of that organization. At the present time she is tour ing the Lnited States. Her speech today will be about coeds in tho war and the problems of leader ship they must face. Marilyn Campbell, outgoing president of AWS, will intredu. e the speaker. Ensign Elizabeth Hill, navy recruiting officer from Port land, and Lieutenant Barbara Smith, air Wac, will also be intro duced. Both will speak to coeds at a later date and Ensign Hill wdl see any girls interested in the Waves at the dean of women’s office all day Friday. New officers to be installed arc: Mary Riley, president; Ardis Jen sen, vice-president; Signe Eklund, secretary; Mary McCandless, trea surer; Beatrice King, sergeant-at arms, and Roseann Leckie, re porter. Retiring officers are: Marilyn Campbell, president; Kay Jenkins, vice-president; Mary Riley, secre tary; Phyllis Horstman, treasure: ; Phyllis Evans, sergeant-at-arms; and Betty Lu Siegman, reporter. Following the assembly the an nual banquet for the new and re tiring cabinets will be held at 5:10 p.m. at the Alpha Chi Omega house. High School Speakers, Actors, To Bat Verbal Ball on Campus Approximately ten schools represented by about 50 students are expected to participate in the annual Oregon High School Speech league tournament on the campus from March 30 to April 1, Robert D. Clark, assistant professor of speech anil dramatic arts, announced yesterday. Five schools, who havo entered contestants, are: Klamath Falls, coached by Walter Oregon Swimmers Paddle to First Place in Western Regional Division First place in the Western Re region division in 1943. That year al Intercollegiate Telegraphic swimming meet went to the I'ni versity of Oregon women’s swim ming team. Dorothea Moore, in structor in physical education and faculty adviser for the team, an nounced the results Wednesday. High point girl, with 10 of the winning 36 points, was Beverly Hauser, freshman in liberal arts, who did not return to school this term. Miss Hauser came within 1.5 seconds of breaking the record for the 40-yard crawl. Runner-up, with 7 points, was Doris Traske, fresh man in business administration. Other members of the winning team are Charlotte Wicke, Bar bara Huntington, Barbara Hinds, ! Ada Anderson, Sharlee Heimann and June Spor, freshman in lib j eral arts; Virginia Wright, 'sopho ! more in liberal arts, and Mary Jo i Geiser, senior in journalism. Bett y Crabb, sophomore in physical edu cation, was the student manager. Seven members of the team belong to Amphibians, the swimming hon orary. There are four regional divisions of the National Intercollegiate meet: eastern, western, central, 1 and southern. Each school in eaeii division holds its own meet, and sends the results to the division sponsor. The school sponsoring the division meet is the school which won the meet the preceding year. Thus the University of Oregon was the sponsor this year, through winning first place in the western : region division in 1043. That year j and the preceding year, the Uni- ! versify placed fourth in the mi- ] tionul meet. This year seven schools in the western division turned out for the meet. In order of their place, they are: University of Oregon, 36 points; University of Hawaii, 31; University of Utah, 21; College of the Pacific, 18; Utah State college, 16; University of Idaho, 14; and Washington State, 12. The only record made during the Western region meet, this year was made by Maxine Finder, Utah State, who broke the record for the 60-yard individual medley, originally held by Helen Gilbert of (Please turn to page three) r.KcncoecK; Mecuorci, Ann Alien:; Salem, Ellen Rose Mason; Grant1* Pass, Alvera Brooknian, and Beav erton, E. C. Webb. The seven divisions of the contest in addition to debate are panel dis cussion, extempore speaking-, ora tory, after-dinner speaking-, radio speaking, poetry reading, am» humorous reading. Panel discussion has a.s its subject “Are the high schools of Oregon adequately meet ing- the needs of the students' ’ Each panel will consist of from five to eight students with a facul ty member or University speech student serving as chairman. Them are no set speeches or order of speaking. Subjects for the extempore* speaking section will be drawn from a list compiled from Harper Magazine for January, February, and March, 1944. One hour before draw three topics, one of which he will use for his speech. No limitation is placed on the subject matter for oratory exeep# (Flease turn to page three)