Petitions Now Due For Oregon’s 18th Dads Day The eighteenth annual Dads weekend program will be held February 10 and 11, it was announced Tuesday by Dean Karl Onthank. The student chairman for the University portion of the program will be chosen next week. All petitions for this position must be submitted to Jean Taylor at the Alpha Phi Coop Textbooks Now Available Ada Zinser, manager of the Co op textbook department, reports that almost all winter term text books are now available, although quantities of some are limited. The "Oxford Anthology of Eng lish Poetry,” which failed to ar rive fall term, is now available once more. Some special orders which went unclaimed all fall term will now go back on the general shelf. The Co-op urges that students be pa tient when orders fail to arrive on time. Inexperienced help in the publishing houses and poor ship ping service often delay arrival of the books. It cites the following example: September 25 the Co-op ordered, by telegram, textbooks and other "^materials for the beginning class in “Principals of Accounting.” Jan uary 2 a portion of the spring ma terial arrived—three months over due. A grand total of 18 telegrams was exchanged between the Co-op and the publishing houses both in San Francisco and New York, The fall term materials have yet to arrive. Needless to say, the incoming class will return to the old text books. house before Friday, January 5. Petitioners must present eligibility slips from the dean of men or dean of women, and should list their previous experience. Included in the tentative sched ule for this year's weekend pro gram are the executive committee meeting, the annual Dads day luncheon in the Eugene hotel, the annual business meeting of the Oregon Dads and the election of officers, a campus open house fea turing special departments, dinner with sons and daughters, and a varsity basketball game in McAr thur court. The program for February 11, as yet not planned in its entirety, includes a breakfast meeting of old j and new members of the executive committee, special Dads day ser vices in the Eugene churches, and dinner with sons and daughters. Professor to Take Leave Professor At. B. Stillman, of the school of business administration, vyill take a sabbatical leave of ab sence from the University spring term to make a trip to Southern California where he plans to study problems in cost accounting. More definite plans will be announced later by Professor Stillman. Instruction in ballroom dancing is to be offered to Oregon State college students. These classes will be open to both men and women. AMERICAN HEROES BY LEFF A B-25 was taking off somewhere in North Africa. It crashed and hurst into flames. Private Eugene A. Ganter rushed forward with three other soldiers to aid the crew. The heat was overwhelming hut Ganter and his companions, drenched from the hoses of rescue apparatus, rescued three crew members from the blazing ship. Then Ganter returned to remove loaded 50 caliber machine guns. He won the Soldier's Medal. Such are the men your War Bonds fight beside. USE YOUR RATION STAMP at and you will’have used it wisely BUSY IN HER NEW JOB As Acting dean of women, Golda Parker (Mrs. J. Alan) Wickham fills the position left vacant when Hazel P. Schwering died late in November. Oregon ^Emerald Night Staff: Maryan Howard, night editor Shirley Peters. Wednesday Advertising Staff: Mary McClintic Betty Hanks Virginia Peterson Bessie Babin Louise Vadnais Patsy Maloney Rosemary Jones Dr. Erb Memorial Fund To Provide. Student Awards A fund to provide scholarships in the name of Dr. Donald M. Er'o, former University president, is be ing raised by members of Oregon Mothers and Oregon Dads organ izations. Ed F. Averill, scholarship com mittee chairman, explained that both single contributions and con tributions given over a period of five years will be accepted for the fund. The five year plan will insure the raising of a fund large enough to furnish ample scholarships. A number of members have sub scribed to it already. During his life Dr. Erb was keenly interested in promoting scholarship and often expressed the wish for more University granted student aid. The actual number of languages, computed by officers of the French Academy, is put at 2,796. Men Occupy Sherry Ross, Omega Halls John Straub hall, a pre-war dormitory for men, has returned in part to its original status with the Sherry Ross and Omega hall units occupied by men students who lived in the Kappa Sigma and Sigma Nu houses during fall term. Women residents of the two units have moved into Mary Spiller hall, vacated in December by ASTP soldier-students. The change in dormitory housing was necessary because of the lower registration of winter term students, according to Karl W. Onthank, dean of per sonnel administration. The board and room charges will , be the same, since that is , a set University price. The girls living in Mary Spiller will have their meals at Hendricks hall and Miss Mabel Potts, Hendricks housemo ther, will be the head housemother for Mary Spiller, although there will probably be a graduate stu dent living in the hall acting as housemother. Mr. Onthank stated that this move will probably be perma nent for this year since the difference between winter and spring term registration is never great. The dean feels that next year a- definite increase in male students will occur and it may again be possible to house only men in John Straub hall. Dean Onthank feels that the stu dents will take cheerfully what ever changes are made and real ize that the best arrangements pos sible will be made. The dean stated that one of his greatest hopes is that the girl's units will stay to gether and keep their organization Letters to the Editor (Continued jront paeje tivo) used to have a lot of nice arches in the U. S., but that we broke them all down for the war effort. She was much impressed, so 1 asked her if she’d like to see a couple of our wrecked arches. She said she certainly would. So I took off my shoes. I saw Buckingham palace. The English ships are all named after the guy who lives there, His Maj esty. It’s a big place. His Majesty must be a big shot, probably even bigger than a second lieutenant. They've got a bunch of guards around the palace. A waste of man power. The place is much too big for anyone to steal. The guards When