Oregon
VOLUME XLV11
UNIVERSITY OF ORECxON. EUGENE, SATURDAY. MAY 25. 1946
Number 133
OREGON NINE WINS TITLE
Metropolitan Opera Star Patrice Munsel
Booked for McArthur Court June 14
Packaging Begins
For French Drive
^►The final step of the French food
relief drive will be taken today
when the food and clothing col
lected is packaged at the YWCA
building. Packaging will be done
all day today, Bob Kyle, president
of the French club, said Friday.
The drive was sponsored by the
French club, the YWCA, and the
One World club.
The drive officially ended Friday
when food and clothing was col
lected from campus living organi
zations. “We collected quite a bit
of both food and clothing,” Kyle
said. There was $40 cash contri
butions also collected Friday and
more are scheduled to come in.
Working on collections yesterday
were Bob Staples and Jimmy Chan,
One World club members, and Anne
Paulsen, Keith Noreen, and Bob
v ^ampbell, French club members.
The boxes will be sent directly
to the following schools in Europe:
Volksschule in Son, Holland; Ecole
Decroly in Bruxelles, Belgium; and
the two Center Scholaire schools,
one in Gip, France, and the other
in Vence, France.
Patrice Munsel, the “baby of the
Met’’ is scheduled to appear at Mc
Arthur court June 14. Starting
time for this eighth and final con
cert of the season is 8:15 p.m.
Miss Munsel made a fifteen-cent
wager at the age of twelve with
a high school friend that her
friend would become an opera star
before she would. Five years later
she had lost fifteen cents, but had
won two prizes of $1,000 each, a
$12,000-a-year contract with the
Metropolitan Opera company, and
a $120,000 concert contract.
Met Contract
At seventeen, Miss Munsel was
the youngest star ever given a con
tract by the Metropolitan. In three
years she has learned 11 major
roles including: the gay young
Rosina in “The Barber of Seville,”
the courtesan Philine in “Mignon,”
in which she made her debut with
the Met three years ago; the un
happy “Lucia di Lammermoor”;
and the tragic heroine in “Romeo
and Juliet.”
A native of the Northwest, Miss
Munsel’s home town is Spokane,
Washington.
One Before
Only one star made her debut
earlier than Miss Munsel and that
was Adelina Patti, with whom
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Eugene Gleemen Concert
To Honor U.S. War Dead
UO Faculty Members to Perform
With Town Group In Igloo Tuesday
A musical memorial, “That Peace Shall Prevail,” com
memorating the nation’s dead in three wars, will be featured
in the annual spring concert of the Eugene Gleemen at Mc
Arthur court Tuesday, May 28. The tribute, a creation of G.
E. Gaylord, a member of the Gleemen, and Dean Theodore
"&ratt, the group’s conductor, will include songs that were
Appointment Cards
Distributed June I
Registration appointment cards,
which will be needed by all students
enrolling next fall, will be given
out beginning at 12:30 next Sat
urday at McArthur court.
By using these cards each stu
dent will have an appointed time
at which he will register for class
es, eliminating the long lines and
confusion caused by increased en
rollment.
Similar to U. of W.
The university has adopted this
system, similar to that used by the
University of Washington which
has an enrollment of 12,000, be
cause a registration of 5000 stu
dents is expected next fall, 1200
more than the record-breaking to
tal of this term.
More than 1500 cards are expect
^“"ed to be given out the first day,
according to Clifford L. Constance,
assistant registrar. The first ones
issued will be for the earliest ap
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can war, World War I, and World
War II.
“Requiem,” by Robert Louis
Stevenson and Sidney Homer will
honor the dead and the “epic” will
end on a note of hope with the
stirring “Dawn of World Peace,”
by R. S. Stoughton, with words
written almost 100 years ago by
Tennyson, prophesying “airy navies
dropping a ghastly dew” and urg
ing a “federation of the world.”
Narration for the memorial was
written and will be delivered by
Gaylord.
Outdoor Songs
The rest of the program in
cludes a group of three outdoor
songs: “Jolly Fellows,” by Rhys
Herbert, “Come Roam With Me,”
an old folk song, and “Pioneers
West,” by Elias Blum; a sacred
group: “Now Let Every Tongue
Adore Thee,” by Bach, “Lo, How a
Rose E’er Blooming,” by Prae
torius, and “Hallelujah, Amen,” by
Handel; two sea chanteys: “From
Boston Harbor,” by M. Bartholo
mew, and “What Shall We Do With
A Drunken Sailor,” by David
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Political Scientist
To Speak on Atom
The implications of the iatom
bomb as affecting international re
lations and government will be dis
cussed Sunday, 7 p.m„ at the First
Congregational church. The speak
er will be Dr. Eldon L. Johnson,
head of the University department
of political science. This is the
second of a series of three discus
sions on “Man and the Atom” open
to the public.
Dr. Johnson was born and raised
in Indiana and received his A.B.
at Indiana State Teachers’ college
and his Ph.D. at the University of
Wisconsin. He has spent the last
four years in government service
as director of the graduate school
U.S. department of agriculture; ac
ademic director for the premeteor
ology training program of the army
air forces, and editor of the maga
zine, Personnel Administration.
The concluding talk of this se
ries will be given Sunday, June 2,
by the Rev. Wesley G. Nicholson,
pastor of the First Congregational
church.
Trip to Coast Planned
General geology and geography
students are scheduled to take a
field trip to the coast tomorrow.
Approximately 30 students will be
under the supervision of L. W.
Staples, assistant professor of
geology. The party will go to
Florence and up the coast from
there.
CO-OP NOTICE
Co-op slips must be turned
in by noon today at the Co-op
if students wish them redeem
ed at the five per cent rate.
Envelopes may be obtained at
the store.
Beavers Go Down, 5 to 3,
In Rain-soaked Clincher
By Art Litchman—Co-sports Editor
Oregon s powerful baseball team won its fourth straight
Northern Division championship and the eighth title in the last
10 years yesterday on Howe field by turning back the Oregon
State Beavers, 5 to 3, before 3500 rain-drenched fans.
Big Hal Saltzman bested Chuck Sauvain in a fine pitching
battle and became the sole claimant to the league hurling title
with a record of seven wins in eight games.
It was a return to the type of baseball that has been over
shadowed in the last 20 years by the sluggers that won the game
for the Ducks yesterday—hard base running, squeeze plays
and tight defensive play.
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ISA Elections Postponed;
Polls to Open Wednesday
Brooks, Grossman, Lemons In Race
To Lead Independent Politics
I he Independent Students asso
ciation elections, originally sched
uled for May 23, have been post
poned until next Wednesday to al
low sufficient time for campaign
ing.
These elections will serve the
purpose of filling the posts for
next year’s ISA executive council.
All students living in independent
houses and those who are unaffili
ated are urged to vote for the stu
dents who will direct Independent
activities starting fall term.
Monday and Tuesday will be
spent by the candidates in appear
ing at the various living organiza
tions in order to acquaint the stu
dents with those who are running
for positions.
Nominees for president include
Cliff Brooks, sophomore in liberal
arts; John Grossman, junior in
business; and Howard Lemons, jun
ior in business.
On the ticket for ISA vice-presi
dent, which includes presidency of
the ISA senate, are Bob Chapman,
sophomore in journalism; Gordon
Halstead, freshman in liberal arts;
and Dale Harlan, special student
in law.
Two representatives, a man and
a woman, will be elected from
each class to complete the council.
Aspirants for senior positions
are Paul Marcotte, Don Derrick
son, and Barbara Weisz. The junior
representatives will be chosen from
this group: Si Ellingson, Bob
Krause, Dorothy Fowler, Helen
McElfresh, and Joyce Neidermeyer.
Sophomore nominees are Louis
Knight, A1 Cutler, Trudi Chernis,
Margaret Reese, and Mavis Knorr.
Dr. Adler to Speak
At Forum Sunday
Dr. D. L. Adler, assistant profes-'
sor of psychology, will speak on
the topic "The Atomic Bomb and
Its Social Implications” at the
Westminster Sunday evening open
forum.
Dr. Adler has spent a year and
a half at the University of Roches
ter medical school as a psycho
biologist working on the medical
aspects of the bomb in relation to
the protection of workers on the
project.
The discussion will include the
general effects of the bomb on so
cial conditions in the world, such
as strikes and' international rela
tions; governmental regulation and
placement of control and the re
sultant effect on peoples of the
world; and the meaning of the or
ganization of the workers on the
atomic project.
The forum, beginning at 6:30,
open to all students or faculty who
wish to participate.
Democracy;
Wsma»J-AlL
By Ted Hallock
War Correspondent Jay Allen
believes democracy is here to stay;
but only if we fight to keep it
strong. After speaking for a total
of two hours, to students gather
ed in McArthur court, and to cam
pus Sigma Delta Chi members, Al
len still evidenced a sincere desire
to answer any and all questions
dealing with his favorite topic, how
to defeat fascism.
Falsehood in the Press
Because he had stressed freedom
of the press during his McArthur
lecture, Allen was asked for a more
complete attitude toward the na
tion’s newspapers. He explained,
“We have the greatest press in the
world, which is faintly damning
praise. Have some very fine papers,
yet actually a lousy press. By and
large, the good papers are few and
far between, and are rapidly fall
ing by the wayside. Many wilfully
mis-inform the people, creating a
mass psychosis. To understand
American newspapers, you have to
try to picture the financial setup
in the press, as regards advertis
ing’s effects on policy. Then draw
your own conclusions.”
Asked whether he believed in a
change in journalism school curric
ulum, to familiarize budding re
porters with the realistic status of
the press, Allen replied, ‘‘Introduce
students to the facts of American
journalism as it is practiced, rather
than to an idealized picture which
romantic reporters cherish.”
In Fact and Truth
“The purpose of the press and
the radio is to inform; to serve as
the antenna for transmitting news.
At present it falls down on the
job.” Realizing that sincere and
neo-sincere liberals regard George
Seldes, and his newsletter In Fact,
as the Bible of truth, and an anti
dote for ‘‘daily falsehood in tb©
press,” your reporter asked Alien
for his views on Seldes’ work.
‘‘Seldes is courageous and essen
tial, with the reservation that he is
woefully and inexcusably inaccu
rate. He is essentially honest and
sound, but slipshod. His facts are
documented heavily, but he is care
less in transmitting them. He is a
useful citizen, but I am sorry that
he is given the important job be
has, and is not more capable.”
AP Is Objective
Acting on Allen’s suggestion that
the press often selects its facts
with bias in mind, we asked the
correspondent about the recent
anti-trust thoughts directed against
national wire-services (AP, UP,
INS), to which he replied, ‘‘I don’t
believe that AP is consciously bias
ed. (Allen then cited Col. McCor
mick’s effort to prevent the Chi
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