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Air Alert By SHUBERT FENDRICK President Truman's broadcast address from Washington to the delegates at the opening session of the United Nations conference at San Francisco Wednesday evening, April 25, was heard by an audience of 30,400,000 adult listeners within the United States, according to a survey made by C. E. Hooper, inc. The Hooper rating was 41.2. His April 16 daytime address to the joint session of congress had an audience of 16,850,000 adult listen ers, and his April 17 broadcast di rected to the armed forces had ■40,080,000 adult listeners. • Fred Waring, has begun a new series of- broadcasts mornings, Monday through Friday, from 8 to 8:30 over NBC. He brings to the air his large orchestra and choral group, instrumentalists, soloists, and arrangers, all of whom have combined to make the Pennsylvan ians one of the best known musical aggregations in the country. KflSS VERA VAGUE Man- chasing Vor» VrtKiie of IBot» Hope'* NHO program is n« luall.v one of tlio <11 o s t bpmiHfuI woau'Q lu radio. VEKA VAGUE The I’mmarmomc-sympnony so ciety of New York has announced ttio soloists to be heard with the orchestra during the next five months on their Sunday CBS 12 to 12:30 broadcasts. John Gorig liano wil lbe heard on May 13, and .A rthur Rubinstein on May 27; Pianists Rudolf Serkin and Artur Schnabel are scheduled for June: Duo-Pianists Luboshutz and Nera euoff and Violinist Erica Morini ioi July: Pianists Alexander Bail owsky and George Sandor and ’Violinist Isaac Stern are listed for August: and September will bring performances by violinist Nathan Mdstein, pianist Ania Dorfmann, arid Negro Contralto Carol Brice. Conductors for this summer sea son will be Arthur Rodzinski, Bruno Walter, Fritz Reiner, Eu gene Ormandy, George Szell and Dimitri Mitropoulos. Hollywood star J. Carroll Naish. and broadway actors, Phyllis Pov ab, John Lund, and Gwen Anderson are cast in an original drama, “They Eight Together," over Thea ter of Today on CBS this morning from 9 to 9:30. The story concerns a father who is estranged from one of two sons because of a belief that the son is a coward. An all-star broadway cast can tie heard on Grand Central Station over CBS this morning from 10 to 10:2d. Fames Melton and William Prim rose will be guest soloists on CBS' Family Hour tomorrow at 2. Pa trice Munsel and Jack Smith offer a varied selection of songs accom panied by A1 Goodman and his or chestra. Frank Gallop plays host. Olivia De Havilland, Jackie Kell; and Count Basie will be guests on the Kate Smith Hour Sunday from 4 to 5 over CBS. Miss DeHavit laud's latest picture is Paramount's "The Well Groomed Bride." Jackie Kolk is Homer of the Aldrich Fam ily, and Count Basie is the popular jazz maestro. Vera Vague can be heard on Bob Hope's CBS show every Tuesday ail 7. Also on the program are Jerry Colonna, Frances Langford, and Skinnay Ennis and his or ct estra. Phil Baker and his Take It or Leave It broadcast wdl be in Port land Sunday. The program will be field in Portland's Municipal audi torium, and admission w ill be one war bond. Oregon W Emerald ANNE CRAVEN Editor ANNAMAE WINSHIP Business Manager MARGUERITE WITTWER Managing Editor PATSY AlALUiN I Advertising Manager WINIFRED ROMTVEDT News Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Norri9 Yates, Edith Newton Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and final examination periods bv the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene. Oregon._ ^Jlte Odea al lladitixm... This afternoon we shall witness one of the loveliest and truest traditions practised on the campus . . . the crowning' of Queen Joann, along' with the additional ceremonies associated with Junior Weekend. The tradition of Junior Weekend is probably so successful among students because it has been a natural and gradual development of student effort, and because it has a universal appeal through beauty, to all natures. Universities have made the principle of tradition so delib erate, and have kept it before the consciousness of students so persistently that it somehow has lost much of its original flavor and purpose. Or perhaps universities cannot be blamed— perhaps it is rather an American characteristic to seize upon an idea and enforce it so eagerly and enthusiastically that its potency may be lost in the hearts of the few who resist mass motivation. Apart from the fact that traditions should be few and far between, simply to maintain the necessary atmosphere, it should also be understood that the idea of tradition merely for the sake of tradition cannot be tolerated. Because it is an element of human nature to capitalize upon anything which involves fun for the average majority, with little thought to that individualistic minority, ever present and troublesome which refuses to be herded, traditions have a tendency to hurt a number of people if handled with little imagination. An institution as large as a university, containing as it does such an assortment of human beings and opposing personalities, must certainly realize that the forcing of any practice indis criminately upon its students is a delicate matter. No one group should be allowed to practice its concept of fun without check, upon others. The human personality, complex and not to be forced into a general, average mold, has its right to live com paratively, as it wishes. The scene which takes places each noon during Junior week on the steps of Fenton hall, “in the spirit of fun and sportsmanship," cannot he said to have universal appeal. Be cause objectively viewed, a group of boys hauling an individual up before a crowd of people for a game of who can hit him the hardest, is not only brutal but disgustingly connotative of individuals completely under the influence of mass hysteria—it has its dangerous aspect. There is no thought of what is going on in the mind of the person to be beaten. Perhaps he is a "sport,” willing to do what the majority thinks is right, and manages to maintain a sensible attitude towards the affair. And then we have our few who for various reasons will always find themselves on the other side of the fence of public opinion. For them, the whole affair is one of brutality and enforced humility—of bow ing down to a group of boys who carry paddles because they have good muscle coordination ... of persecution. They are the ones who take the fun out of the thing. They make the average person either uneasy or merely mad. But it is the responsibility of whoever makes traditions to first make sure that they hurt no one. Because YOU think its fun and great sport, is no sign that the other fellow harbors the same thoughts and fears. Traditions are supposed to be sacred—-not campus laws carried out with rigid and unimagin ative force.—P.F.O. Meet 'Ijeu'i P*i&J Miss Wood Gives Facts On Home Ec Department By DOROTHY HABEL With her silvery grey hair and soft black eyes, Miss Mabel Wood declared that publicity wasn’t exactly her business, but she would be glad to describe the home economics department. Coming to the University of Oregon from Oregon State college in 1932, Miss Wood was appointed to her present position as head of the department. Before this time she spent four years JlettesU. 7a the £dUosi Dear Minority: To be or not to be that is the question ? Interposed into campus termin ology, the foregoing question reads thus: To have Junior Weekend or not to have it? As long as there has been a University of Oregon there has been a Junior Weekend. Certain traditions of this campus have been upheld for many years, many of them interrupted as silly traditions but after all what tra ditions make sense. Hacking and millracing have always been the debt to pay for violations of these traditions. What right do “stu dents of the day,” have to change the traditions set for us by those who are fighting for much higher traditions of the United Nations? In . letters to the editor, these statements have been set forth: The “Order of the O” is to be com pared with the “Black Shirts” in brutality. “They are nothing but overbearing individuals with sad istic ideas.” It seems to me that freshmen enrolling in the University of Ore gon would resign tehmselves to the traditional customs of the school, instead of trying to scrutinize their place in the history of the campus. I for one, am a freshman. I have taken my punishment for viola tions of traditions, and have passed it off as the penalty I must pay. Who am I to say that these pen alties are unjust. I am out of high school, and trying to adjust myself to college life. To me these tradi tions and standards set up are but a part of what I expected when I finally did reach college. To those who have objected to their treat ment on Junior Weekend I can only say this: “You’re away from mother now; try to show your age.” I would like to ask this question of those who have contested the traditions of this campus. “Has anything but your pride been hurt?” I don’t think so. In closing, I should like to say this, “There has been a span of 18 years between now and the time I first wanted to attend the University of Oregon. The time has come for me to attend the University — why not accept the traditions, customs, and life of this University without prejudice or recall ? What’s the matter, Oregon? Let’s get on the boat. BOB L. MORAN 91 A Qud&u Meet A Biu&du | By JEANNE WILTSHIRE Recently arriving overseas, Mini Lt. William Candee, Phi Dolt and former member of the U. of O. basketball team, has been assigned to combat flying with a P-3S Lightning group, a part of the 15th air force in Italy. Lt. Candee will begin his combat mission with a group which, lead ing the 15th air force in “strategic strafing" of Hitler's transportation and supply system since the first of the year, has destroyed over 300 locomotives and 170 oil cars. Lt. Candee is also authorized to wear the distinguished unit badge indicative of the citation awarded the group for destruction of 20 en emy planes in aerial battle protect ing bombers over Steyr, Austria, last April. Perm Wins Cluster CpI. John H. Perin, U. of O. graduate, has been authorized to wear a second bronze cluster to his distinguished unit badge as a ground member of the veteran 4olst bombardment group. Cor poral Perin, an engineer, arrived in the Mediterranean theater in De cember, 1943, with his present group. Second Lt. Merlin G. Dow, co pilot of a B-17 Flying Fortress of the 96th bombardment group, has been awarded the second oak leaf cluster to the air medal for ‘meri torious achievement" while par ticipating in eighth air force bomb ing attacks on Nazi war targets. Before he entered the army in March, 1943, Lt. Dow was a stu dent here. Second Lt. Harold Maddren, for mer students now a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot, flew in several of the mighty eighth air force 1,000 plane airmadas which rocked Nazi military and industrial installa tions with thousands of tons of bombs during the recent unprece dented two-week aerial onslaught against the German reich, 14-Day Offensive During the 14-day non-stop Dl l' Please turn to page three) in tne nome demonstration agency. Miss Wood went on to explain, “the home ec department has many classes, but it is really lower di vision work with elective credits and no research, so those who wish to major in this field customarily transfer to Oregon State. There are usually 300 to 400 students en rolled each term, and before-^fetie war four instructors were em ployed, but since last year the number has decreased to three. It is hoped in the future that the department will return to its pre war basis.” Teaching classes herself, Miss Wood has had an opportunity to come in contact with many of the coeds “and fellows too.” When asked her opinion of the domestic qualities of the girls, Miss Wood said, “The work is an elective course, so those who are genuinely interested are taking the clashes. There has been a definite increase in students in the past years for in my first term here I had an enrollment of 96 students. In 1945 the total number of registrants was 1,471.” Dr. Popenoe stressed in his re cent lecture that those women whose husbands are away in the service have an excellent oppor tunity to receive training in home making, and this Miss Wood heart ily approved, although she said, ‘ It depends on the girl herself.” As an interesting sidelight, Miss Wood mentioned that before tfit war many of the Oregon men were registered in the home economics department, and there still are a few enrolled in dietetics. The average girl would rather be looked over than overlooked. A simple job for an expert ASSOCIATED SERVICE 11 th and Hilvard HI GUESTS DROP IN AND GET ACQUAINTED WITH * THE STUDENTS' PLACE FOR GOOD FOUNTAIN REFRESHMENTS the Lemon-0 Cor. 13th and Alder “Doc” Ireland, Prop.**.