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The Weather
Eujyme and vicinity, partly ~ PlOVe It
cloudy with rain today; moder- Oregon has a fighting footlwll
ate southerly winds; no temper- team. Prove that you’re behind
ature change. them. Attend tonight’s rally.
VOLUME XLIX_~ UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, OCTOHKR 24, 1947 -NUMB~FlT~^9■
Wages of Sin is Water
At a mid-week preview of today’s noon-time festivities Skull and
Dagger men administered a hair-growing treatment in a special
portable bathtub in front cf the Side. Whiskerino high sheriff,
Jack Schnaidt, and his henchmen report that the pictured treat
ment has been, proven highly effective in the promotion of facial hair.
(Phcto by Kirk Braun.)
Beardless Sophomores Face
Tubbing by Skull and Dagger
’Twas before the Whiskenno,
and in front of the Side, the tub
was awaitin’ those who didn't
abide.
Five violators of the sophomore
“no shave” edict will report in
front of the Side for their dunking
Ross Yates Lists
4 New Features
For Oregana
Seven new living organizations
and an increased number, of clubs j
will be represented in the 1948 j
Oregana Ross Yates, editor, said'
< I
yesterday.
Featured in the book will be:
1. 16-page duo-tone section,
2. Full-color cover,
3. Three two-page color in
serts, and
4. Second-color work in the
living organization sec
tion.
The sports section and schools
section will be enlarged over last
year. And entirely new traditions
section will be incorporated in the
yearbook. This feature is under the
direction of Howard Ramey, spe
cial features editor, and Mart Pond,
assistant features editor.
Yates explained that a 16-page
decrease on the over-all size of the
book has been necessitated by an
approximate 10 per cent price
raise. The 1948 edition will contain
424 pages.
An earlier decision was made to
give each living organization one
instead of two pages as in former
books. “Consequently, no aspect of
campus life will suffer a cut be
cause of the page decrease,” Yates
said.
Payment for Pictures
All social chairmen of living or
ganizations who want their pic
tures in the Oregana, are asked to
have the house representatives pay
75 cents to the dean of women by
November 1.
at 12:30. Apprehended were George
Rasmussen, Tom Dryden, Wayne
Fergeson, Hank Kamin and Bob
Lavey, according to Ed Anderson,
president of Skull and Dagger.
Victims of previous dunkings for
violating the rule include Pat Woh
lers, Louis Wright, and Jim Bern
hard.
Dunking will also take place dur
ing the halftime of the San Fran
cisco game Saturday, Anderson
stated.
Proposed plans to have the San
Francisco football team as special
guests fell through when word was
received from Coach Ed McKeever
that the team would return imme
diately after the game to San Fran
cisco. Sophomore officers sent in
vitational telegrams.
All sophomores interested in
working on decorations for the
Whiskerino are urged by decora
tions Co-chairman Barbara Vowels
to report Saturday morning at Mc
Arthur court to help decorate for
the dance. Workers will be needed
all day to work until dance time.
Even if students can come for only
a short time, they can be used, sh?
stated.
Turnidge Gives
Contest Rules
Rules for the Homecoming sign
contest Friday, November 21, were
released yesterday by Wally Turn
idge, contest chairman.
All themes for signs must be
turned in to Turnidge at the Pi
Kappa Alpha fraternity house by
4 p.m. next Monday. In submit
ting them each organization should
also include an alternate theme in
case of duplication.
A maximum limit of $20 has been
set on this >rear’s signs. An item
ized budget must be turned in to
Turnidge by November 20. All
signs should be completed and up
by 4:30 November 21 to be eligi
ble for judging.
Cups will be presented for the
best signs in both the men’s and
women’s divisions.
Or Would You
Rather Be A Pig?
If your name is Smith you're
causing trouble. You and 57 other
Smiths are worrying Howard
Ramey and his Piggers Guide
staff whose job it is to have ac
curate addresses and telephone
numbers with each name in the
student directory. To make mat
ters worse, there are two Dons,
Johns, Harolds, and Roberts
among the 58 Smiths.
Another Piggers Guide obsta
cle is Robert Gordon Brown.
There are two of him!
Despite Smiths, Browns, and
other difficulties, Ramey said
yesterday that the directory is
rapidly developing and will soon
be completed.
Eugene Rally
Set for Tonight
By Webfooters
Tonight at 7:15, Oregon students
i will twist and turn down Eugene’s
streets on their way to a. new-type
pre-game football rally, sponsored
by the Webfooters, for Oregon's
game with San Francisco univer
sity tomorrow.
The rally itself, to last approxi
j mately 20 minutes, will be staged
, in downtown Eugene, where the
1 rally squad will lead Oregon fight
songs and yells. Living organiza
tions have been paired for the rally,
with the men to meet the women
and assemble for the serpentine
between 12th and 13th on Alder at
7:15.
Police Escort
The University pep band, rally
squad and a police motorcycle es
cort will lead the serpentine down
Alder to Eleventh, down Eleventh
i to Oak, down Oak to Eighth, down
! Eighth to Willamette and up Wil
lamette to Tenth.
This serpentine rally will serve
as a test of Oregon spirit, and if
it proves successful, the plan will
be used in the future, according to
Yell King Johnny Backlund.
Backlund again requested that
all living organizations paint
signs, men wear their rooter’s lids
and women carry pom poms.
Living organization pairings
were listed on page eight of yes
terday’s Emerald. Alpha Gamma
| Delta and Kappa Sigma wTere omit
! ted from the list?
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Kaufman, Hart Comedy
Opens on Guild Stage
This Evening at Eight
with Uitton James in the leading role of Sheridan White
sides, I he Man Who Came to Dinner" will open on the
University theater guild stage in Johnson hall at 8 tonight.
1 he play, a crackling satire of modern manners and the
chief literary figures of the times, is dedicated by Authors
George S. Kaufman and Moss Mart to “Alexander Woollcott—
for reasons which are nobody s business.” The script is an tin
i ashamed broadside aimed at the ,
vitriolic "Town Cryer.”
In addition to James, Geraldine
Hettinger, Don Smith, Bob Over,
Jane Cordiner, Walter Payne,
Patricia White, Ron Phillips,
Emelie Jackull, Diane Barnhart,
Jeanette Grant, Sally Nicol, Char
les Boice, Elton Allen, Virginia
Woods, William Alley, James So
rum, Marie DiLoreto, Lavorn Tay
lor, and Dick Monnie will appear
in the drama.
The play,originally scheduled for
Ocotber 24, 25, 29, 30, 31, and No- |
vember 1, will be performed two I
additional nights, November 7 and j
8, Marge Ramey, business mana
ger, announced yesterday. A sell- ,
out within three days after gen- i
eral admission sales opened indi-:
cated that box office records will
be broken, Mrs. Ramey said.
Tickets are now on sale at the ,
' box office in Johnson hall from i
> 10 a.m. to noon and from 1 p.m. to j
5 p.m. On dates when the .show
will be played, the office will re
main open from 1 p.m. until cur
tain time.
Chapter Selects
Junior Delegate
Hans Wold, junior in journalism,
will represent the local chapter of
Sigma Delta Chi, men’s profession
al journalistic fraternity, at its
national convention in Washington,
D. C., Nov. 11, 12, and 13.
Sigma Delta Chi is the largest
professional journalistic group.
Delegates to its conventions come
from all undergraduate chapters.
Last year’s convention was held
at the Hotel Stevens in Chicago.
The Oregon chapter was not rep
resented at the convention.
Prominent speakers will give ad
dresses, national officers will be
elected, and policy determined at
the Washington meeting.
Local chapter president is Ross
Yales. Lyle Nelson is adviser. i
French Republic
In Fast Tailspin
Wright Asserts
By DIANA DYE
“France is in the midst of the
first tail spin since liberation,” de
clared I)r. Gordon Wright, first
speaker of the 1947-48 University
lecture scries, when he spoke to a
capacity crowd in Chapman hall
last night on the “Anatomy of the
Fourth French Republic.”
When the Vichy government
crumbled and the French govern
ment was reorganized after the
close of the war, hopes in France
for a new republic were high, he
said. Everyone was tired of the
negative compromise of the Third
republic and 94 per cent of the peo
ple voted against revision of this
republic.
Wanted Clean Slate
The people wanted to start with
a clean slate and hoped for a finer,
more solid government with soli
darity shown in the political par
ties, according to Dr. Wright.
By 1947, this enthusiasm had
been replaced by doubt for many
reasons, he said. It might have been
the rise of the communists; it
might have been DeGaulle; it might
have been the failure of the demo
cratic leaders to make the govern
ment effective; and it may have
been the sheer cussedness of the
people, he speculated.
The basic fact, added the speak
er, was that the republic was fac
tuous and built underground. In
reality it had to be built on deep
divisions. There was a choice of ig
noring the divisions, of one-half
building the republic and forcing
the rest to follow, or a compromise
solution in the middle, he reiterat
ed. The compromise was the only
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Truman Calls for Special Session
WASHINGTON, (U P)—Presi
de n t Truman Thursday called
congress into special session No
vember 17 to combat “alarming
and continuing” high prices ana
the crisis in western Europe.
The president said the increased
cost of living “is causing hardship
to millions of American families
and endangering the prosperity
and welfare of the entire nation.” |
It is also necessary for this
government to take adequate steps
' to meet the crisis in western Eur
ope,” he added in a new and j
broadened appeal for emergency
foreign relief.
The president then announced
that he would tell the nation in a
broadcast at 10 p.m. EST today
about these “two compelling
reasons” for convening a special
session- the 26th in the country’s]
history. His decision to put con
gress back to work seven weeks
ahead of its regular session sched
ule was handed to republican and
democratic leaders of the senate
and house at an hour-long emer
gency conference yesterday after
noon. Previously, he had talked it
over with his cabinet for two and
a half hours.
He said the foreign aid—parti
cularly for France and Italy—
coula not wait until January.
“It now apears,” Truman told
his news conference, “that the
minimum needs of France can be
met with present funds only until
about the end of December, and
that it will enter the new year
without funds to pay for essential
imports.
“Italy’s needs are even more im
mediate, for Italy will require sub
stantial assistance before the end
of this year.