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VOLUME XLVII " -- __UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE. TUESDAY. APRIL Number 98 9. 1946 World Student Congress Proposed UO Delegate Lloyd Frese Suggests Plan to PNCC Victor P. Morris to Suggest Organization Of International 'Atomic Age' Meeting PNCC RESOLUTIONS The result of the first Pacific Northwest Student ongress is a set of long-- and short-range resolutions which will be presented to United Nations delegates at the UNO conference in New York. The 62 delegates to the Congress, representing 31 Schools m Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, and British Columbia, spent two days at Reed college last week end discussing atomic energy, social and economic welfare, dependencies and backward nations, world-wide civil liberties, and world courts. PREAMBLE Recognizing that to achieve the ideals set forth in the United Nations Charter, the inevitable and ultimate end in view must be supra-national world government, which is aware of the need for economic and social justice based upon the first principle of the .dignity of the individual, if we are to achieve world peace. Until the end can be more nearly approached, we recommend the following as specific steps toward the strengthening of the existing United Nations. For consideration in the review of the United Nations provided for in Articles 108 and 109 of its Charter, we recommend: a. Thiit the United Nations compose an international Bill of Human Rights which will ensure consistent and univer sal observance of civil liberties. b» That the United Nations be gradually transformed on a def inite program with specified time schedule and procedure into a world federation with specifically delegated powers for the enforce ment of the international Bill of Rights. c. That a principal representa tive organ of the United Na tions be vested with legislative power to make international law binding upon all nations. d. That unilateral arraignment be accepted, enabling any party to a legal dispute to bring its case before the International Court of Justice. That any government rec ognized by the United Nations be ipso facto recognized by all members. f. That an article be inserted in the United Nations Charter expli citly denying the right of any na t-ioji to withdraw from member ship. g. That the economic and social council work toward the aboli tion of trade restrictions. h. That an organ of the United Nations establish a policy, strin gent upon every nation, effecting a decrease in armaments and mili tary training of each nation to be the ultimate abolition of such. n. For immediate action by the United States Government and delegates to the United Nations we recommend: a. Senate passage of Senate Resolution 160 providing for United States adherence to the optional clause for compulsory jurisdiction under Article 36 of the Statute of the Interna tional Court of Justice, and that every effort be made on the part of the U. S. delegates to bring about unanimous ac ceptance by all its members. b. That the United States dele gates go on record by expressing “^Willingness to cooperate in the amendment of Article 27, section 3, that it might read: “decisions of the Security Qouncil on all (Please turn to page five) Houses to Choose Float Committees All campus living organizations should choose committee chairmen immediately to superintend build ing of their “State Fair” float for the 1946 Junior Weekend festivi ties, Dick Savinar, float commit tee chairman, announced Monday. These chairmen should be chosen in time to be at a meeting at 8 p.m. in Alumni hall of Gerlinger hall Wednesday night, he stated. At the meeting Savinar will of ficiate at a drawing to pair up teams of houses to make their floats. The float parade, substitu tion for the traditional canoe fete, will travel down Willamette street in a carnival atmosphere during the annual spring term affair. Best floats in the parade will be awarded cups, Savinar declared. The cups will be awarded at the Junior Weekend luncheon. The erection of the float for the Junior Weekend queen and her court W’ll be done by Druids, jun ior men’s honorary. Druids was reorganized on the campus last week. Floats should follow the "State Fair” motif, which has been chosen as the theme of the peace-time Weekend. Additional instructions on erection of the floats will be given the chairmen at the meeting Wednesday. DR. WILLIAM OGBURN University of Chicago sociologist is introduced to Univer sity of Oregon delegates to the College Congress, Lloyd Frese, right, and Lois McConkey, by Dr. Frank Hurley, Reed college chemist. World Offered Threat, Hope by Atomic Energy Young Scientist Who Worked On Atomic Bomb Urges international Agreement to Keen Penre By Tommy Wright “Atomic energy represents the greatest threat to the world, but also its greatest hope,’’ Dr. Philip Morrison, 29-year-old physicist of the atomic bomb project, warned delegates of 31 colleges and uni versities to the Pacific Northwest College Congress held at Reed col lege in Portland Saturday. “It is necessary for the security of the United States that an in ternational agreement be reached on control of atomic energy,” the dynamic young scientist asserted. Dr. Morrison listed three points which he says all peoples must know concerning atomic energy so that an atomic war will not de stroy the world. Wrote Book "It is a revolution in war and the most horrible means of fight ing war,” he said, reaffirming the information contained in the cur rent best seller “One World or No World,” of which he was co-author. Dr. Morrison flew from Los Alamos, N. M., where he is pres ently associated with atomic en ergy development, to address mem bers of the Congress and warned delegates in ^lis second point that (Please turn to pacie six) Speakers Plead for Wise Use of Atom, f See Destruction of World as Alternative By June Goetze Belief that nuclear discoveries could be turned into one of the world’s greatest blessings if prop erly used, was expressed in a round-table discussion Saturday at the Pacific Northwest College Congress at Reed college. Those participating in the dis cussion, which was broadcast over the Columbia network, were Carl Van Doren, world-famous historian and Pulitzer prize winner; Dr. Philip Morrison, nuclear scientist; Dr. William Fielding Ogbum, pro fessor of sociology at the Univer sity of Chicago; and Philip Drey er, Reed college student and chair man of the Congress. Dr. Arthur Scott of the Reed faculty acted as moderator. Dr. Morrison expressed his be lief that working out a control of the atom bomb could bring lo tions closer together. Dr. Ogburn called attention to the need of giving up some sovereignty and paying more attention to the dif ficulties involved in getting co operation, while Van Doren said he felt these difficulties were over estimated. Speaking for the students, Drey er said that they advocated giving up some national sovereignty and forming a more powerful supra national government. “The student has a stake of life or death in the atomic age. If the atom discoveries are used for war, it will mean death; if for good, it will mean new life,” Dr. Morrison told the group. Sees Hope Dr. Morrison said that he felt that “the atom is our hope” in that the problem of atomic control (Please turn to [’age six) ay .Louise Montag What would the PNCC dis cussion have been like if stu dents from Russia, Britain, and other lands had been present? This question intrigued Lloyd ' Frese, University of Oregon delegate to the Pacific Northwest College Congress. It interested him so much that he suggested that delegates and sponsors of the Reed college meetings start a movement for an international student congress on the student’s stake in the atomic age. The idea appealed to other dele gates and to Mrs. Virginia Shirley, originator of the idea for the Reed congress. Mrs. Shirley, prominent mem ber of the Portland League of Women Voters, which sponsored the meetings last weekend, said she believed an international con ference could be organized by August. Plans for the Reed meet ings were completed in six weeks. An enthusiastic response to the poll on the resolutions adopted at Reed will give momentum to the organization of such a congress, she emphasized. Mrs. Shirley pointed out that the league had hoped the Reed con ferences would inspire larger ones on the same subject. A national , student congress was a definite goal, she said, but she readily ac cepted Frese’s suggestion that the national phase be skipped in favor of a convention on an internation al scale. Mrs. Shirley suggested that the. national League of Women Voters sponsor the international congress. , She and Frese agreed that a national meeting would be very similar to the one held in Portland while an international convention would give students a more realis tic picture of the problems and the functioning of the United Nations. As the first step in the move ment, Mrs. Shirley approved of Frese’s proposal to con s.u 11. Dr. Victor P. Morris, dean of the school of business administration and instructor of the war and peace class at the University, on the organization and the program for an international student con gress. Violinist Presents I Program Tonight Mary Kapp Allton, violinist, wilt be presented in a recital by the i school of music tonight at 8 in tee music school auditorium. Mrs. Allton, who is a special student of George Boughton, as sistant professor of violin, will open her recital with the three movements from Mozart’s Con eerta No. 4 in D Major. Following this, she will play the Sonata rn. A Major Opus 100, by Brahms, Dvorak-Kreisler's Slavic Dance in G Minor, Suk’s Chanson d'Amour, and Scherzo-Tarentelle by Wieni awski. An accomplished musician, this will be Mrs. Allton's first appear ance before a Eugene and campus audience. Saga Collin-Boughton, instructor in music, will accompany Mrs. A il ton. There will be no admittance charge. Students and townspeople are invited.