VOLUME XLVIH
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, W
ASUO Executive Group
Discusses Class Affairs
Proposals to clarify the status and functions of classes and
class officers were discussed at the regular meeting of the
ASUO executive council Tuesday.
The need for class constitutions or of a similar document
outlining the council's regulatory powers over the classes was
brought up at the February 4 meeting, ('.il Roberts, vice
president in charge of elections, pointed out that all class
Oregon Band
Plans Concert
For Thursday
The University of Oregon band,
under the joint sponsorship of the
school of music and the educational
activities board, will present a con
cert Thursday evening at 8 p.m. in
the music auditorium. John H.
Stehn, associate professor of music,
conducts the band.
June Johnson, soprano, and John
ette King, pianist, both University
students, will be featured soloists.
A varied program has been ar
ranged, ranging from Ravel to De
bussy, and from Puccini to Strauss.
The program will consist of: Fu
cik’s ‘"the Florentiner March”;
Goldmark’s “In Springtime,” an
overture; and the first movement
of Ravel’s piano concerto, with Miss
King as soloist. Following this will
be Bach’s “Little Organ Fugue” in
G-minor; Debussy’s "General La
vine,” and “the Puccini-Musetta’s
Waltz Song” from La Boheme
sung by Miss Johnson.
Concluding selections listed are
^Ihe Strauss waltzes from “Der Ro
senkavalier”; Moussorgsky’s “Bal
let of the Unhatched Chickens,” and
the “Glinka” by Komarinskaja.
UO Unit Plans
RC Workshop
Delegates from 18 colleges and
universities in the North Pacific
area will attend the American Red
Cross college unit workshop confer
ence at the University this week
end, February 21-23, according to
Geneva Davis, student director of
publicity for the campus unit.
Among speakers schdeuled to ad
dress the conference are Miss Mar
garet Hargrove, national director
of college Red Cross units, Ramone
S. Eaton, manager of the American
Red Cross in the Pacific area, and
Mrs. Waunda Marzolf, director of
Red Cross college units in the Pa
cific coast area.
In keeping with the conference
theme, "The World, Our Commun
ity,” the delegates will hold a series
of committee discussions on prob
lems common to university students
throughout the world. Reports on
the resolutions and recommenda
tions of these committees will be
made on the final day of the con
ference.
'Why We Fight' Series
Schedule Last Showing
Last in the "Why We Fight" se
ries, heretofore shown only to
members of the armed forces, will
be shown in 207 Chapman at 7:30
tonight, Activities Manager Dick
Williams said Tuesday.
"Battle of Russia” is a factual
presentation of the Soviet army’s
victory and the war effort of the to
tal population. The battles of Stal
ingrad and Leningrad are included.
The series, directed by Col. Frank
Capra, was issued through the war
department.
functions are simply based on
precedent and that there is no
legal authority to hold class elec
tions.
At that time ASUO President
Tom Kay appointed Harold Brev
ig, Don Pinkerton, and Laura Ol
son as a committee to study and
select a model class constitution
to be presented to the council at
this meeting.
The committee chairman, Brev
ig reported yesterday that his
conference with Professor C. G.
Howard of the law school had re
sulted in the suggestion that a set
of rules and regulations pertain
ing to the classes be adopted.
These rules could be written into
the minutes, or adopted by the
student body as an amendment to
the ASUO constitution, or added
to the constitution's by-laws by
the council.
The council directed Brevig and
his committee to investigate the
matter further and present a set
of rules for consideration at the
next meeting.
President Kay relayed a mes
sage from Dads’ Day Chairman
Bob Wallace thanking the ASUO
for their cooperation in obtain
ing the block of 500 seats for
visiting Dads at the Oregon-Idaho
game February 15, and the $30
appropriation for promotion.
'Look, Doc, Sudshide;
Cad We Go Oudside?'
“Such beautiful weather,”
sighed the inmates of the infirm
ary yesterday as they gazed at
fellow students happily trotting
by in the sunshine outside their
prison. Deepest sighs came from
two unhappy students facing
two-week quarantines.
Robert Wilcott, junior in biol
ogy, and Jean Girts, senior in
business are confined with the
mumps. Their contact with the
spring-like weather will be strict
ly through the window for the
present.
Other students enjoying the
quiet atmosphere of the infirmary
are Carol Blakney, Gloria Smith,
Carl Griffith, Donald Shoog, Nor
man Breedlove, Robert Koch,
Robert White, and Gilbert Davis.
University Student
Reported Missing
Police and University officials
were without further information
yesterday concerning the disappear
ance of Frances E. Babb, junior in
art at the University, who has been
missing since last Thursday morn
ing.
According to her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Avon D. Babb of route 1,
Eugene, the student left home car
rying a small bag in which she said
she had packed clothes for an over
night stay with friends on the cam
pus where she planned to attend a
social function Thursday evening.
Since that time nothing has been
heard of her and her parents are
unable to explain her disappear
ance.
Miss Babb's disappearance was
reported by her parents Monday af- ]
ternoon and state police have been
on the lookout for her since that
time.
The missing girl is 5 feet 5 inch
es tall, weighs 110 pounds, has light
brown hair and blue eyes and wears
glasses.
Randolph Churchill to Talk
On British Empire Tonight
RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
Government by Habit Decried;
Dr. Johnson Calls for Reason
By PHYLLIS KOHLMEIER
A government based on reason instead of one based on
habit was advocated last night by Dr. Eldon Johnson, head
of the political science department, in a University lecture
series speech in Chapman hall.
‘‘Man hasn't yet freed himself from habit and custom in
government, and still uses government in the same form as
he did centuries ago," Dr. Johnson said. Man still uses 18th
century politics on new problems,
and meets new needs with old
forms, instead of reasoning and
bringing the government up to
date, he asserted.
Example Oiled
Dr. Johnson cited local govern
ment in the United States as an
example of inherited and habitual
government, showing how it was
brought from England, and re
tained in its original form, even
traveling west with migration.
“Our government hasn’t re
ceived critical analysis, and is still
in the pre-Elizabethan form,” Dr.
Johnson said. As an example he
pointed to the custom of having
the sheriff collect taxes in the
United States today just as was
done centuries ago in England.
Two Houses
A second example given by Dr.
Johnson was the state govern
ment, which has kept two houses
in the legislature, as has been
done for centuries. This custom
was handed down from the ages
when two houses were needed,
even though this need has dis
appeared today, he said.
The gross under-representation
of larger cities in state legisla
ture, according to Dr. Johnson,
shows a failure of government to
meet an important obligation to
the country. Many of the states
haven’t adjusted to population
represenation for many years, and
“this truly is an example of gov
ernment by habit and inertia,” he
declared.
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Churchill, Panegyrics
Fascinate Professor
The coming of Randolph
Churchill to the Oregon campus
has more than ordinary interest
to R. D. Horn, professor of Eng
lish, who is making a study of
poetic panegyric relative to the
Duke of Marlborough, an ances
tor of Churchill.
Professor Horn is studying the
literature of the period of the bat
tle of Blenheim, August 13, 1704.
During this time, almost all writ-,v
ers with the exception of Swift,
Pope and the Tories, who were
pacifists, were political writers,
and the Battle of Blenheim and
the Duke of Marlborough were
*major topics. *
Professor Horn has in his col
lection early editions of Addison,
Defoe, Dryden, and other writers
of the period. He compares one
poem with another in their treat
ment of the Duke. He also com
pares the Duke with his famous
descendant, Winston Churchill.
Married Students Get
Red Cross Party Bid
All married students are invited
to a party sponsored by the Red
Cross at 8 o’clock Friday night.
The party will be held at the
YWCA building. Entertainment
will be furnished by the Eugene Red
Cross chapter.
Sigma Phi Epsilon
To Stage Reception
University s t u <1 e n t s will
have an opportunity tonight
to hear a man who has been
described as one of the great
personalities of the day when
Randolph Churchill, son of
Great Britain's wartime prime
minister, speaks to an ASUO
assembly in McArthur court,
beginning tonight at 7 AO.
Now on his second nationwide
lecture tour, Churchill will speak
on "The British Empire in the
Modern World.” In the address he
will give the background, ideals,
and present interests of his native
country together with its plans for
future development.
Before his speech, Churchill,
who will arrive on the campus late
this afternoon after delivering an
address at Oregon State college,
will be a guest of Sigma Phi Ep
silon fraternity at a reception
given in his honor. This is the
first time that any living organi
zation has been sanctioned by the
University to play host to one of
its speakers.
The fraternity reception will be
held from 4 to 5:30 p. m. A lim
ited number of invitations have
been sent to various campus or
ganizations. In the receiving
line will be Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Mead, Sigma Phi Epsilon house
mother and housefather; John
Middleton, house president; and
Dick Williams, educational activi
ties manager.
Suits for men and heels for the
ladies will be in order for the recep
tion to be held at the Sigma Phi Ep
silon house.
Press Meeting
Schedule Told
The University of Oregon school
of journalism plays host to the rel
egates of the 28t.h annual Oregon
Press conference, February 21 and
22. The conference begins at 9,45
a.m. Friday with P. L. Jackson, pub
lisher, Oregon Journal and presi
dent of this year’s meeting presid
ing.
Hugh Baillie, president of the
United Press association, has ac
cepted the invitation to speak at
the annual Friday evening banquet
to be held in the Eugene hotel.
As another special feature of the
Friday banquet, the Eugene Glee
men, under the direction of Dtan
Theodore Kratt of the University
school of music, will entertain the
conference delegates with several
songs.
Coming to Oregon as the f ust
guest lecturer for the Eric W. Al
len Memorial fund, J. Stuart Rus
sell, farm editor Des Moines Regis
ter and Tribune, will discuss news
paper coverage of rural news.
Other conference speakers will
deal with such subjects as local
news and the small town paper,
graphic journalism, club reporting,
the story of FM radio, libel, and the
problem of obtaining newsprint.