VOLUME XLVI NUMBER 115
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1945
Assembly to Welcome Dr. Koo
Dr. Koo Suggests
’Moderate’ Terms
By MARGUERITE WITTWER
and JACK CRAIG
“When I escaped from Hong
Kong after the Japanese took
the city, I looked a lo|t like
those pictures you see in your
daily papers of starved prison
ers of war in Germany; I had
lost 32 pounds,” Dr. T. Z. Koo
told interviewers Wednesday.
Dr. Koo, short, slim, bright-eyed
in his long grey Chinese dress and
Vfrack soft leather slippers, ar
rived in Eugene Wednesday night
from San Francisco where he has
been attending the peace confer
ence. The Chinese delegate ex
plained that he had been able to
make his getaway from the Jap
anese by destroying all his pass
ports and identification papers and
by traveling under what he termed
his “school name,” Tien Chai. Chi
nese children are named by their
parents and renamed by their
teachers in school.
‘Inferior’ Japanese
4 “No peace can be possible except
on terms of unconditional surren
der,” Dr. Koo emphasized, accentu
ating his words with descriptive
gestures. However, the Chinese
educator continued, “hard peace
terms” would embitter the proud
and sensitive Japanese people who
for many years have lived under a
national feeling of inferiority. “You
cannot keep 70 million people dis
satisfied and unhappy and expect
to live in a peaceful world,” he
said. Exploitation of a conquered
nation inevitably leads to war after
a period of years, Dr. Koo pointed
TfUt, citing Germany and Austria
as examples.
He explained “hard peace terms”
as the kind of treaty which would
allow perhaps a 30-year period of
U. S.-Chinese occupation of Japan,
the complete reorganization of the
educational system, and other rad
ical measures.
A “moderate peace” imposed on
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MOVIE SCHEDULE
Movies to be shown tonight at
7:30 and 9 in 207 Chapman hall
are: “Iceland on the Prairies,”
“Heroes of the Atlantic,” “Hot
Ice,” and the March of Time spe
cial film', “Canada.” All of these
films feature Canada. Movie
^ night this Week was changed
from Wednesday to Thursday be
cause of the concert originally
scheduled for Wednesday.
Law Lads,
BA Boys Will
Climax Feud
The school of law student body,
headed by President Harry A.
Skerry, today voted to consider the
business administration school’s
reply to the law school’s previously
issued softball game challenge as
intended to be an acceptance. Due
to the ambiguity of the alleged re
ply and the loquacious indulgence
in typical business administration
falsehoods, and in light of a prece
dent of reluctance on the part of
business administration student
body, it was difficult to ascertain
whether the propaganda was in
tended as acceptance or refusal.
The law school students were
swayed to request the business ad
ministration students to accept
their challenge when Donald E.
Turner, commissioner of athletics,
reported the campus was looking
forward to the annual defeat of the
BjM student softball players. The
feud is a traditional Junior Week
end event.
ONE MARDI GRAS, COMING UP!
. . . Junior Weekend Cp-chairmen Jean Kirkwood and Ed Allen look
over pictures of last year’s weekend events to check last-minute details
for this year’s Mardi Gras celebration.
Committee Reveals
Junior Prom Plans
Final plans for the biggest dance of the year, the Junior
Prom, were announced today by Signe Eklund, chairman of
the dance. The Klamath Falls marine band which was well
received at the Butler’s Ball has consented to play for this
highlight of Junior Weekend.
The dance will start at 9 p.m. and will last until midnight
Spring Clean-Up
Begins Today
Armed with brooms and rakes,
Oregon men and women will start
at 1 p.m. today to slick up the
campus for Junior Weekend. The
cleaning spree will last from 1 to
5 p.m. During this time, Mary
Corrigan, chairman of the clean
up, will conduct a committee of
judges on a tour around the cam
pus to determine which organiza
tion is entitled to first prize for
doing the neatest job.
The dean of women has approved
the wearing of jeans or slacks for
womeh. The campus ' j.s been di
vided into sections and assigned to
various living organizations, ac
cording to the list which appeared
in Wednesday’s Emerald.
The prizes last year were award
ed to Delta Delta Delta, Hillcrest
lodge, and Casablanca lodge.
THEMES PLANNED
All women’s living organiza
tions have turned in their float
themes, Lois Evans, chairman of
the parade, announced today.
Gamma hall will present “Can
dy,” Alpha Phi, “Dreams,” and
Chi Omega, “Rhapsody in Blue.”
It was incorrectly reported that
Gamma hall had not turned in
their theme by the deadline set.
They submitted ‘Candy” on time,
but through a duplication with
another house, it was overlooked.
samraay. nonets are per
couple. It will be a formal affair,
and flowers may be worn.
The decorations have been kept
secret by the prom committee, but
they have revealed that it will be a
masked ball, and couples will re
ceive masks at the door that even
ing.
Immediately following the grand
march at 10 p.m., Queen Joann and
her court will be presented to the
audience. Gene Conklin will serve
as prime minister. After the pre
sentation of the court, the Ger
linger and Koyl cups will be award
ed to the junior man and the junior
woman judged outstanding of the
year.
During intermission the two win
ners of the All-Campus Sing Fri
day evening will repeat their win
ning performances. Following the
entertainment, a special dance will
be played for the court and their
escorts.
Working with Miss Eklund on
the dance arrangements are: Anna
mae Winship, tickets; Bernice
Granquist, patrons and patroness
es; Louise Goodwin, programs;
Bobbie Bealer, decorations; Betty
Lu Siegman, publicity; and Mari
ly Rakow, entertainment.
Do You Dunk Well?
Sad is the fate, (the pond's wet
they say),
For many an Oregon lass,
And shortly our coed shall rue
the day
She walked on the green cam
pus grass. -—D.F.S.
Football Poll
Continues
Thirteen men notified the Em
erald Wednesday of their inten
tion to turn out for football fall
term, if football is to be included
in the University athletic pro
gram next year. Returns on the
Emerald survey of available foot
ball manpower, in conjunction
with the current campaign to in
terest potential players to par
ticipate, were not complete Wed
nesday and the survey will con
tinue until Saturday.
All questionnaires turned in to
the Emerald or dropped in the
box in the Co-op will be given t#
Cornell, University athletic man
ager.
Chinese Delegate
Will Discuss Peace
Dr. T. Z. Koo, Chinese gov
ernment delegation adviser at
the San Francisco conference,
will speak at an all-Universitjr
assembly today at 11 a.m. in
McArthur court. He will also
speak at a YMCA - YWCA'
sponsored forum in the Alumni;
hall of Gerlinger at 4 p.m.
Dr. Koo arrived by plane last
night at 7:15 p.m. and will be on
the campus all day Thursday be
fore returning to San Francisco.
He is appearing in Eugene under
the auspices of the YMCA and the
YWCA with the cooperation of the
University and the chamber of
commerce.
Dr. Koo has lived, until recently,
in Japanese-occupied territory
since 1941, and the bombing of
Honk Kong'. Later he went to
Shanghai and finally to Chung
king. Early this year the Chinese
government appointed him as an
adviser to the Chinese delegation
at San Francisco.
After graduating from St. John’s
university in Shanghai Dr. Koo
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EMERALD’S 1945-46 FOOTBALL MANPOWER
SURVEY
All men returning to the University fall term, 1945, and
who are willing to turn out for football, are requested to
fill in the following blank and turn it in to the Emerald
managing editor’s office or the box in the Co-op.
Name. Age.
Weight. Height. Class.
Experience .
“FOOTBALL DEPENDS ON YOU”
University Is Heaven After
I wo, Says Major Smith
By JEANNE SIMMONDS
A new and shiny gold oak leaf sparkles on each shoulder'
as Major Warren E. Smith, USMC, home from 27 months in
the Pacific, walks across the campus of his alma mater, the
University of Oregon. For the major, a 1941 graduate, received
his promotion March 31, and month-old oak leaves still retain
. . their shine.
Today's World
ALL GERMAN LAND, SEA,
and air forces in Italy and sou
thern and western Austria—esti
mated at nearly 1,000,000 troops
—were surrendered uncondition
ally to the allies by tlieir com
mander,
* * *
MARSHAL STALIN an
nounced the capture of Berlin,
the Red army’s greatest victory
of the war, in a triumphant or
der of the day broadcast from
Moscow.
* w *
PRESIDENT TRUMAN said
that he had it on the best author
ity that Adolph Hitler is dead.
* * *
GENERAL SIR MILES C.
DEMPSEY’S British 2nd army
plunged a spearhead to the Bal
tic cutting off all of Denmark
and the northerly corner of Ger
many adjoining Hamburg, Kiel
and Wilhelmshaven.
NOTICE
There will be an official prac
tice of the law school softball
team at Howe field, 4:30 this af
ternoon. There will be a spec
tator charge of fifty cents per
person, according to the law
school commissioner of athlet
ics, Donald E. Turner.
Home on a leave from the south
and central Pacific, Major Smith
wears a ribbon with three stars—
one each for the campaigns of Bou
gainville, Guam, and Iwo Jima,
Outstanding bravery on Guam
merited him a citation and a let
ter of commendation from Admiral
Chester Nimitz. But Major Smith Is
very modest about the letter, and
claims that it is for a little skirm
ish with some Jap snipers. The
fact that five Nips were killed by
the small ambush party he led
seems an unimportant detail to
him.
Back on Oregon's green campus
after the dust and volcanic ash of
Iwo, Major Smith claims "the Uni
versity looks like heaven, com
pared to Iwo Jima.” He added en
thusiastically, "The change from
sand and rock to flowers and trees
is certainly a relief.”
Known as ‘Teenie’
"Teenie,” as he was known to
his Sigma Alpha Epsilon fratern
ity brothers, was the number one
man in his class in the school of
physical education. Graduated in
June, 1941, after a successful col
lege career of freshman and var
sity basketball and baseball, Major
Smith entered officers’ candidate
school at Quantico, Virginia, in the
same month. Commissioned in No
vember, 1941, he received more
training in reserve officers’ class,
and was transferred to San Diego
in February, 1942. After almost a
year’s duty in California, he left
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