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Toward One World . . . Editorial, Page 2 Cougars Clout Bevos... Sports, Page 4 VOLUME XL VI11 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2(\ 1947 Nunilu'r 91 AWS, YWCA, WAA to Elect New Officers Assembly Tomorrow 6 Scheduled at 12:30 Tomorrow is ladies’ day on the campus, as the Associated Women Students, the YWCA, and WAA present their annual election as sembly, followed by voting. The as sembly begins at Gerlinger prompt ly at 12:30, with balloting from 1 to 5. Candidates will not be announced or even known to themselves until the time of the assembly to give each candidate an equal opportun ity. For this reason, all women are asked to attend the pre-voting as sembly. rso Speeches At the time the candidates’ names are announced those present will be introduced to the assembly. No speeches will be made. The AWS officers elected tomor row will carry out next year the plans laid by this year’s cabinet in its reorganization program. The work of the present officers has been mainly to contact similar groups on other campuses and plan among themselves suitable activi ties and projects for succeeding years. This work has been carried on this year by AWS President Bea King, aided by Dorothy Davis, vice president; Barbara Johns, secre tary; Mickey Metcalf, fall term treasurer; Ann Burgess, winter term treasurer; Trudi Chernis, re porter; and Prudy McCroskey, ser geant-at-arms. YWCA Officers YWCA offices to be filled include president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer. Present officers are Marge Skordahl, Martha Thorsland, Beryl Howard, and Nila Desinger. These officers act as the govern ing body of the cabinet, which in cludes the leaders of all the activi ties offered by the YWCA. Only YWCA members will be al lowed to vote for these officers. Bible Class Thursday The UO fellowship will conduct two Bible studies Thursday from 8 to 9 a.m. in the men’s lounge of Gerlinger hall and in the committee room of the campus YMCA from 11 to 11:50 a.m. Patients' Tender Ode Kicked Backed by Doc Last week two patient patients of the infirmary, Phyllis Potter, freshman in liberal arts, g,nd Robbie Mulkey, sophomore in physical ed ucation, were nearing the dis charge stage. To say farewell and offer a general opinion of the in firmary, they wrote a poem dedicat ed to the nurses and doctors. The authors fittingly titled it “Such a Life.” In response to this literary show ing, Dr. Fred Miller, head man of the health service, composed an an swer titled, “The Doctor Talks Back.” Students who now agree with “Such a Life” are Jean Girts, Larce f MacFarlane, Patricia Stone, Do lores Madden, John Kovenz, Donald Skoog, Robert Schooling, Robert Kerr, Jim Lafferty, Thomas Dry den. Gordon Wilson, Jacob Reese, and John Starvaggi. BEA KING . . . Retiring AWS Presient Theta Sig Fashion Showing Thursday Fashions, from morning casuals to evening formals, will be accen tuated tomorrow at the Theta Sig ma Phi fashion show and silver tea, scheduled from 4 tp 5:30 in alumni hall, Gerlinger. Miss Vogue, the University’s rep resentative of the well-dressed col lege girl, will be presented at the show. She has been named from 15 finalists chosen from women's or ganizations, and will receive a full i page spread in this year's Oregana. Campus clothes will be in order for the guests, Marilyn Sage, presi dent of Theta Sigma Phi and gen eral chairman of the event, an nounced Tuesday. Proceeds from the silver tea will be utilized in the development of better relations be tween Oregon women in journalism and women in journalism through out the country. Musicians to Hold Woodwind Recital A woodwin recital will be pre sented by University music stu dents Thursday at 8 p.m. in the mu sic school auditorium. The pro gram will be composed of student solo numbers with student piano accompaniment. The program will consist of: Mu sette and Scherzo, Leclair, by Mar garet Holm, clarinet, Wilma Jeanne Wilson, piano; First Movement, Sonata, Hindemith, by Jean Hud speth, bassoon, Ailene Wendt, pi ano; Staccato March, Maganini, by John Stehn, clarinet, Jean Hud speth, bassoon; Sarabande and Al legro, Haendel, by George Warner, clarinet, Thad Elvigion, piano; and Piece Lyrique, Mawet, by Shirley Gay Williams, clarinet, Lucretia Prentiss, piano. Mu Phi Epsilon Plans Silver Tea Today Early England will be the theme of this year’s silver tea which will be given by patronesses of Mu Phi Epsilon this afternoon, 2:30 to 4 :30 at the Pi Beta Phi house. The tea is for the benefit of the scholarship and loan fund of the group. The program will be given twice, at 3:15 and at 4:15 o’clock. Jerine Newhouse, Elizabeth Pollock. Vir ginia Burt, Patricia Heinrichs, Joyce Davis, Jean Paris, Marie Per ry, and Mary Margaret Dundore will sing1, according to Miss Maude Garnett and Mrs. Pierre Van Rys selberghe, program chairmen. Mrs. Delbert V. Hill is general chairman of the affair. Annual Speech_ Tournament Set For This Week Linfield College Host; 34 Schools to Attend The 17th annual intercollegiate speech tournament will be held Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at Linfield college. Contests will begin Thursday morning and continue through to Saturday night. Entered in the group discussions from the University of Oregon are: senior men, Warren Miller and Wal ter Mead; junior men, Elwin Pax son, Hugh Cook and Tom Powell. Leland Cramer will represent Ore gon in the junior men’s division of extempore speaking, and Ann Bra dy will enter the junior women’s di vision. Entered in the junior men’s mem orized speaking group will be John Backlund, Eugene Gillard, Dale Harlan, Don Tykeson, Warren Ar cher, Norman Bishop, and Harry Connick. Junior women's division will be represented by Nancy Pe terson, Anita Jackson, and Gloria Bates. Warren Archer, Norman Bishop, and Harry Connick will enter the junior men’s section of speech of occasion, and Anita Jackson and Gloria Bates will speak in the jun ior women’s division. Walter Mead and Warren Miller will enter the impromptu senior men’s division. In the junior men’s division will be John Backlund, Le (Please turn 10 page seven) Drive Victors Win Trophies Chi Omega and Pi Kappa Alpha: took top honors in the campus' World Student Service fund drive i held at Oregon February 3 to 8, Tom Hazzard, drive chairman, has announced. The two winning or ganizations have been presented with trophies for their effort in the drive, he said. A total of $2011.76 was collected during the drive, Dick Savinar, drive treasurer, has revealed. Of this total, $1,329.56 was contribut ed by living organizations and clubs, $382 was received from res taurant admissions, $283 from fac ulty contributions, and $24 from the Eugene Baptist church. Expenses for posters, etc., amounted to $6.80. Average contributions from the two winning organizations were $2.63 per person from Pi Kappa Al pha and $1.29 from Chi Omega, Beverly Pitman, chairman of the living organization contest, said. The second place organizations were Kappa Alpha Theta and Al pha Tau Omega, she added. The WSSF drive was held as a part of an international effort to aid students in other countries. Gio vanna Ribet, Italian student from the University of Rome, appeared on the campus during the drive to speak on behalf of the WSSF ef fort. Vet Office Time Same The change of hours for the Veterans’ Administration of fice as reported in yesterday's Emerald applies only to the Eu gene office, not the branch on the campus. Occidental Customs, Language Enliven 'Yellow Jacket' Drama Ihe strangeness of the oriental theater when viewed by occiden tal standai'ds is bound to make “The Yellow Jacket" an amusing and unusual evening of entertain ment, Alan Foster, who plays the hero Wu Hoo Git, predicted yes terday. As examples of the strange manner of the Chinese theater, Foster cited the practice of as suming the character of the role after entrance into the scene has been made and dropping out of character before completing an exit. Characters never leave the stage by the same opening through which they enter. “One of the hardest things for for the actor is the flowery, elaborate language,” said Foster. “Take for example Wu Hoo Git’s speech to Plum Blossom in which he says, ‘My ladder is love-woven and each rung is a love-strand upon which the humblest may tiptoe to heaven.’ ” Foster said his fight in the play with Yin Suey Gong is a great deal of fun, because it is done in the Chinese manner with two handed swords which “never touch but seem to touch." Roles calling for a versatile actor are right up Foster’s alley, whether they be a witch boy “a i longin’ to be human” as in “Dark ■of the Moon"; a “hero of the Wu ! family” searching for his ances tral throne in “The Yellow Jack et”; or Quiz West, the soldier hero of "The Eve of St. Mark.” Foster.-’who is a drama major and affiliated with Phi Gamma Delta, graduates this June, after which he plans to head for New ALAN FOSTER York with James Bronson, an other graduating' drama major. They intend to try their luck in summer stock, and hope to go abroad later for etuuy probably to England. Aside from the theater, Fos ter’s interests run to hunting, horses, and dogs. During his serv ice in Germany, he hunted deer and elk with the help of the tra ditional European “beaters." In Mannheim he got a prize dachs hund, which he shipped back to his California home. “The Yellow Jacket" opens March 6 under the direction of Mrs. Ottilie T. Seybolt. Atomic Physics Lecture Slated Tonight at 8 Sigma Xi to Honor Princeton Professor The University corhmunity will be initiated in the scientific main springs of the atomic age, this eve ning at 8 o’clock, when Dr. Henry Smyth, professor of physics and chairman of the department at Princeton university, lectures on “Fifty Years of Atomic Physics’’ in 207 Chapman hall, under auspices of Sigma Xi, national science hon orary, and University lectures com mittee. Dr. Smyth, a member of Sigma Xi, will be honored by the Univer sity chapter at a banquet set for 5:30 p.m. in the Faculty club. A Sigma Xi business meeting will pre cede the lecture, at 7:30 p.m. in 204 Chapman hall. Bomb Consultant After two years as consultant to the atomic bomb project, in 1945, “Atomic Energy for Military Pur poses” was written by Dr. Smyth and issued by the war department for two purposes: to reduce the an ticipated flood of pseudo-scientific explanations of an infernal machine that harnesses the basic power of the universe and to allay fears of millions over a “force from which the sun draws its powers.” The Smyth report was written for the scientist and not for the lay man. Its author explained at the time of its release: “The average citizen cannot be expected to under stand clearly how an atom bomb is constructed or how it works, but there is in this country a substan tial group of engineers who can un derstand such things and who can explain the potentialities of atom bombs to their fellow-citizens. The present is written for this profes sional group.” I’h.D. at Cambridge Dr. Smyth received from Prince ton a BA in 1918, an MA degree in 1920 and a Pb.D. in 1921. A Ph D. was leceived at Cambridge univer sity, England, in 1923. He was Na tional Research fellow at Cam bridge from 1921 to 1923, at Prime ton from 1923 to 1924, and a fellow of the Guggenheim Memorial fo m dation from 1931 to 1932. Dr. Smyth authored “Matter, Mo tion, and Electricity” in 1939, and was named consultant on war re search projects to the National re search council and to the Office of Scientific Research and Develop ment in 1940. Registration Deadline Extended to Thursday Deadline for registration has been extended to 12 noon, Satur day, according to an announce ment by C. E. Avery, University registrar. This lias been done to enable those students oho were not aide to pick up registration material to do so. Oregana Seeks Typists Students oho previously vol unteered to type index lists for tiie 1947 Oregana and others o idl ing to do this work should appear at the publieation’s office, Mc Arthur court, this afternoon after 2 o’clock, Ross Yates, managing editor, announced yesterday.