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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1947)
The Weather WSSF Eugene and vicinity, partly cloudy The World Student Service with scattered light showers today. Fund is aiding students Partly cloudy Wednesday. Little throughout the world. Contrib change in temperature. ute to a worthy cause. VOLUME XLIX _UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4. i')47 NUMBER S6 YWCA Speaker Mrs. Chase Woodhouse Woodhouse To Talk At YWCA Public Meeting Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse, ex ecutive director of the women’s division, democratic national com mittee, will address an open meet ing of the public affairs group of the YWCA in Gerlinger hall at 4 p. m. tomorrow. “Food or Famine” the topic un der discussion according to Janet Beigal, Y committee chairman. Mrs. Woodhouse has served as a congresswomen, teacher, and member of various women’s voting organizations. She was elected to the 79th congress by the second district of Connecticut. She served as secretary of state in Connecti cut in 1941 and 1942. During her term in congress, Mrs. Woodhouse was secretary of an informal congressional com mittee for the protection of con summers and was chosen the mem ber o congress who had done the most for the American consumer. Mrs. Woodhouse is vice-chairman of the national association of con sumers and managing director of the institute of women’s profession al relations. She has taught economics in several American universities, and was senior economist in the bureau of home economics, U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture. A daughter, Margaret, serves as her mother’s secretary. Mrs. Wood house’s son Noel is a captain in the army air forces. Adamic To Speak Here Tonight Commies, Democrats Said Same More Cooperation Between US, Russia Becomes Necessary Ultimate communism is the same as ultimate democracy, the International relations conference held at Willamette university de cided last week, according to Peter Linde, University of Oregon rep resentative. Russia’s aims are really iden tical to those of the U- S., the conference agreed in a panel board discussion of “Can We Get Along With Russia,” Linde said. More cooperation and better un derstanding are necessary between this country and the Soviet Union, the panel decided further. “Possibly Russia is not the only nation that does not cooperate,’’the board con cluded. The international relations con ference was held from Oct. 30 to Nov. 1, with representatives from Northwest and Canadian colleges participatifig. 'Tt~ opened with the panel discussion Thursday and continued for three days with social and educational activities. Friday evening a special tortilla dinner was held at the First Meth odist church. A student reception highlighted Saturday afternoon, at which Ralph Dobbs, professor of piano at Willamette, played for eign dance tunes. *, Following the musical entertain ment Dr. Warren Tomlinson, pro fessor of political science at College of Puget Sound, discussed “What Can We Do About Peace.’’ He suggested political and social ac tion in which students can play an important role. A costume ball Saturday closed the conference. Dr. Tomlinson was in charge of the panel board, other members of which included Dr. Ivan Lovell and Professor Bertrand of Willam ette. Sing Wu was the second Univ ersity of Oregon representative. Author Immigrated To US At Fourteen Louis Adamic, who speaks tonight in McArthur court, left j his native Yugoslavia at the age of 14 and is said now to know | his addopted land more intimately than most native-born Amer-1 mans, nis speecn, i oierance Is Not Enough,” will begin at 7 :30 p.m. Adamic’s first job was that of assistant to the mailer on a Slovenian newspaper in New York City. By reading everything he could find, with the aid of a Slo venian-English dictionary, and writing free-lance articles when ever he could find the time, he finally landed a position in the newspaper's editorial department. War Veteran There followed a rapid succes sion of jobs in various parts of the country. He worked in a Jer sey silK mill, on the docks in Cal ifornia, in restaurants, shoe fac tories, and, textile mills. During the first World War, he served with the American army overseas and after the armistice spent a ten month interlude at sea. He worked for a. time on a Los Angeles news paper. In1928,-while .he was working, on the docks in San Pedro, Cali fornia, II. L. Mencken accepted his first article for the American Mercury. This was followed by nu merous other magazines articles. Has Fast Rise The story of Adamic’s experi ences as an immigrant in America was published in 1932 under the title, “Laughing in the Jungle,” which won him a Guggenheim Fel lowship to spend a year in Yugo slavia. From that experience came his sensationally successful, “The .. LOUIS ADAMIC Native’s Return,” a Book-of-the Month-Club selection in 1934. Adamic received a three-year Carnegie grant-in-aid to develop what he calls the “Plymouth Rock and Ellis Island” project.lt enabled him to send out hundreds of thous ands- of questionnaires, to travel more than one-quarter million miles and to interview people in all parts of the United States. Three of a series of books result ing from these studies have been published. Among Adamic’s other works are “My Native Land,” “Two-way Passage,” “What’s Your Name?” and “Cradle of Life.” He has made frequent contributions to such leading publications as The Satur day Evening Pos; Reader’s Digest, and Harper’s. Danish Graduate Law Student Stresses Importance of WSSF The importance of this univer tity’s financial aid to the Univer sity of Burma and scholarship grants to Chinese students was emphasized by soft-spoken Bent Ex-Ambassador Kills Self CONCORD, N. H„ (UP)—John Gilbert Winant, 58, U. S. war time ambassador to Great Britain and three-times governor of New Hampshire committed suicide last night by shooting himself in the right temple with a foreign made pistol. An official verdict of suicide was returned by County Solicitor Ray mond K. Perkins and corroborated by Clarence E. Butterfield, medi cal referee of Merrimac county. No message was found near the body and Perkins, after questioning domestics in Winant’s palatial two story colonial mansion on Pleasant street, attributed the sui cide to “despondency occasioned by extreme fatigue and nervous ten sion.” Perkins said Winant killed him self with a 7.65 mm. Belgian auto matic. When found, the former am -bassador was wearing a lounging robe and was sprawled on the floor of his bedroom. Nearby, police found a German Luger pistol which had not been fired. Only two persons besides Winant John G. Winant I were in the house early this even ing when the single suicide shot was fired. They were his personal secretary, Miss Eileen Mason, and a maid, Miss Orol Mears, both English-born women whom Win ant had engaged while serving as ambassador to the Court of St. James. They rushed to Winant’s bed room, knocked and entered when they received no answer. Terrif ied, they telephoned Winant’s per sonal secretary and financial ad visor, J. Bernard Teulon. Teulon called police and said: “Come out to the Winant home right away. Something terrible has happened.” Friends said Winant had been on a business trip and had re turned home late Saturday. They said he stayed in his bedroom most of the day and the domestic, Miss Mears, said he “appeared awfully distant and tired.” W. Jorgensen, Danish law grauate, when he addressed student workers for the WSSF drive in Gerlinger hall yesterday afternoon. ‘‘As war starts in the minds, so peace must be built in the minds of men,” he quoted from the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Orgamzation charter. Jorgensen, who edited an under ground newspaper during the Ger man occupation of Denmark, has seen people living in huts and what were formerly cellars under ter rible conditions spending most of their time foraging for food, and yet these people in Germany and Poland were spending their spare time making small wooden crosses out of precious wood. He cited that his background gave him no matter what their material con ditions are, long for something to fill their minds.” ‘‘WSSF builds up international solidarity and understanding be tween people.” he said explaining this as an example that “people, knowledge of the European situa tion but that conditions are very similar in Burma and China. The organization is the Ameri can fund raising organization for World Student P.clief which in turn ' '(Please tiirn to page thftei) Newbry Appointed Secretary Jackson's Senator Succeeds Farrell As Sec. of State SALEM, ORE., (UP)—State Sen. Earl T. Newbry, 47„ a Jack son county fruit grower, Monday was appointed secretary of state of Oregon succeeding the late Robert S. Farrell, Jr., Gov. John Hall an nounced. Hall’s announcment came at 2:30 p. m. immediately after the state funeral for Farrell, Gov. Earl Snell and Sen. Marshall E. Corr nett. Accepted Last Night Hall said Newbry accepted the appointment last night in Portland. Newbry, a Republican, has been, senator for Jackson county since 1943. He served as state repre senative during the 1939 and 1941 sessions. He was considered a candidate for the senate presidency in the next session. He was a candiate ■for that post this year btit conceded to the late Sen. Cornett. Orchard Owner He is owner and manager of Newbry orchards, which has 250 acres of pears and apples in the Rogue river valley. He is past pres ident of the Ashland Chamber of Commerce and a Medford Shriner. Born in Rockyford, Colo., April 15, 1900, he moved with his family to Eastern Washington where he finished high school in Chewelab, 59 miles north of Spokane. He attended Washington State college and enfolled in the student army training corp there in 1918. He is a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the Methodist church. He is married and has a son and daughter. Wednesday Movie Features Mexicans The educational activities movies Wednesday will feature four shorts concerning Mexico, and one short on the World Student Service. Fund. The movies will be in 207 Chapman hall, and there will be two showings, the first beginning at 7:30 p. m. The movies on Mexicao are “To morrow's Mexico,” which begins with the revolution of 1910, and goes through the throes of Mex ico’s 36 year year social upheaval; “Heart of the Inca Empire,” tells of the modern city built on the foundations of their ancient Cap itol; “Xochimicco,” about the fam ous floating gardens of Mexico City, and “Valley of 10,000 Smo kes,” The WSSF movie is “Seeds of Destiny,” showing the destruc tion of Europe and China and the condition of the people there. Special 8us For Game A bus has been chartered for the Stanford game in Palo Alto, which will leave Eugene on Friday, interested should contact Marilyn Turner at the Pi Beta Phi house.