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\ OLLME XLIX LXI\ ERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE_ THURSDAY. JANUARY 22. 1948 NUMBER (;9
Freshmen
To Choose
Candidates
Assembly to Begin
With Lemons Talk
At Gerlincer Annex
Freshmen will get their first
taste of campus politics this even
ing at the nominating assembly fpr
officers of the class of ’51 in Ger
linger annex at 6:30. ISA and ASA
will present their candidates to fill
the offices of president, vice-presi
dent, secretary, and treasurer.
No third party petitions were
filed, according to Howard
Lemons, ASUO vice-president and
director of the elections.
Candidates will be allowed five
minutes in which to state their
platform and aims. Speeches in
favor of the candidates will be
limited to three minutes.
“It is hoped freshmen will show
an interest in their class organi
zation by attending the assembly,”
stated Lemons. “By participating
in student governmental activities
their first year freshmen will as
sure themselves and the adminis
tration that student government
is worthwhile.”
Lemons will give a brief explan
ation of the preferential voting
system at tonight’s meeting and
outline the procedure of the elec
tion scheduled for Tuesday in the
YMCA building.
Druids, junior men’s honorary
under the presidency of Dave Sil
ver, is in charge of preparation for
the nominating assembly. Druids
and Phi Theta Upsilon will aid at
the polls Tuesday.
Bill Barnum handled special no
tices, and Don McNeil secured
microphones and loud speakers for
the assembly.
Gerlinger annex is the new
building behind the library and
can be reached via the walks be
hind or on the east side of the
library.
Pay Cuts Face
Delinquent Vets
Veteran students were warned
today by J. D. Kline, assistant reg
istrar, to get official cards for
classes they are not attending or
face cuts in their subsistence pay.
According to Kline, his office must
report to the Veterans Administra
tion names of all veterans carrying
12 hours work, but who have not
been attending at least one class.
Kline said his office is already
receiving such reports of attend
ance cuts from University faculty
members.
JtLven though a veteran is en
rolled in a class, Kline said, if he
has not been attending it is the ob
ligation of the University to report
attendance failures.
The subsistence cuts are made
on a 25 per cent basis with the first
cut of 25 per cent resulting from
failure to attend any class for
which the student received from 1
to 3 credits. A 50 per cent cut is
made on from 4 to 6 hour classes
and a decrease of 75 per cent is
made for classes up to 9 hours. No
payment is made for veterans with
a study load less than three hours.
Deadline for official class drops
is February 17.
Freshmen to Elect
Tuesday at YM C A
Election of freshman officers
for the class of ’51 will be held
Tuesday, January 27, in the
YMCA building, according to
Stan Williamson, ASUO presi
dent. All freshmen properly en
rolled in the University and hav
ing 35 credit hours or less are
eligible to vote.
No electioneering will be al
lowed within 50 yards of the
polls. Registration cards will be
necessary before voting will be
permitted, Williamson said.
Gl Dental Work
Now Available
Under VA Rule
War veterans discharged last
year before July 26 still are en
titled to what is left of their one
year presumption of service con
nection for free dental treatment,
while those discharged since that
date may receive the same bene
fit of the doubt during the months
remaining until July 25, 1948.
This clarifies a recent ruling of
the veterans administration, Don
ald C. Schworer, contact represen
tative in this area, explained yes
terday, and extends, for outpa
tient dental care only, the Decem
ber 31, 1947, cutoff date on ac
ceptance of cases regardless of
definite proof of service connec
tion.
Vets Get Break
The deadline postponement
comes as a break for the ex-GI
who entered service before hos
tilities officially ended on the last
day of 1946, and who wasn't dis
charged until 1947, or who will be
released before July 25 this year,
Schworer said.
Dental treatments, however, will
not be given by VA clinics or au
thorized for private dentists until
the agency’s claims service decides
the case’s merits, except, of course,
in emergencies, he pointed out.
Hospital Rights Remain
The cutoff date of last Decem
ber 31 still applies to outpatient
medical service, thus ending the
one-year presumption policy,
Schworer explained that several
slow-developing types of disabil
ity may be rated as service-con
nected even after a year, and so
gain free treatment and possible
compensation.
Veterans’ rights to hospitaliza
tion in VA institutions remain the
same, he added. They are accepted
on this priority basis: First and
immediate, service-connected, |
emergency and tuberculosis cases;
then, if beds are available, non
service connected cases.
Calenders Finance
AWS Weekend
Money raised by the AWS calen
dar sales last term will finance the
AWS preview week to be held early
in spring term and also go into a
scholarship fund.
Not all of the calendars are sold
and anyone desiring to purchase
one should contact Sally Waller at
the Kappa Alpha Theta house or
their AWS representative.
Plans for AWS weekend are to
be formed at the coming AWS con
gress meeting.
Holdridge Talk Due Tonight
Ross to Discuss Architecture
South American
Touch to Spark
Lecture Series
The first lecture of the Univer
sity’s winter term lecture scries
will be held tonight in 207 Chap
man at 8 p.m. Marion Dean Ross,
assistant professor of architectural
history will speak on ‘'Colonial Ar
chitecture on the West Coast of
South America.”
Ross' lecture will deal with the
style of architecture that evolved
from the fusion of Spanish Colonial
and Indian Traditional styles in
Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in the
16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.
Background material for the lec
ture was gained while Ross trav
eled in Europe, Central America
and South America. Further archi
tectural studies were completed in
1941 when Ross received the Lang
ley fellowship from the American
Institute of Architects.
A graduate of Harvard univer
sity, Ross also taught at Pennsyl
vania State and Tulane university
before coming to the University of
Oregon in September, 1947.
March of Dimes
Hits Full Stride
The campus March of Dimes
drive hit full stride yesterday as
members of Kwama and Skull and
Dagger, sophomore honoraries,
spoke before the campus living or
ganizations at their noon meal on
the need of such a program of po
lio prevention.
The speakers stressed the fact
that the drive this year is strictly
voluntary and that there will be no
competition between living organi
zations as there has been in past
years.
Collection containers were placed
in the living organizations only up
on request of the organizations.
University students are urged by
the campus committee to enter the
March of Dimes essay contest. En
try blanks may be obtained at the
library and Co-op. Prizes totaling
$500 are to be awarded the essays
which tell the best reason in 25
words why the writer contributed
to the March of Dimes.
Sale of Tickets
Ends Thursday
Tickets for the Senior Ball will
not be sold in the Co-op after
Thursday, according to Joyce Nei
demeyer, ticket sales chairman.
Because of the fire marshal's
restrictions, only 1200 tickets will
be sold for the Dick Jurgens dance.
The dance will be in Mac court
from 9 to 12 Saturday evening and
the tickets are $3 per couple.
Dance chairman Bob Wallace
announced that due to the high
cost of the tickets and limited ca
pacity, flowers will not be in order
although the dance is formal.
I
Speaker
MISS LOA HOWARD
Phi Chi Thetas
Issue Schedule
For Conference
A complete schedule of the Wom
en’s business conference to be held
today has been issued by Phi Chi
Theta.
The program begins at 10 a.m.
in room 105 Commerce building
with a welcome address by Dean
Victor P. Morris of the school of
business administration.
This will be followed at 10:15 with
an address by Miss Betty Robb on
the subject, "Buying as a Profes
sion.” She will cover the steps nec
essary to become a buyer and some
characteristics that a good buyer
should have. The address will in
clude the activities of an average
buying trip to New York, the con
siderations in fashion buying, and
the means of advertising these pur
chases.
The scene shifts at noon to the
faculty club for a luncheon sched
uled till 1:15. Mrs. Irene Taylor,
president last year of the Portland
Business and Professional Women's
club, is to be the luncheon speaker.
Her subject is “Future Place of
Women in Industry.”
Reservations for the luncheon
can be made in the office of the
business school room 108. Lunch
eon tickets are 60 cents.
At 1:30 p.m. in alumni hall, Ger
linger, Miss Loa Howard will ad
dross the group interested in so
cial work on the subject, “Social
Service.” Miss Howard is the ad
ministrator of the state public wel
fare commission.
The tea at 3 p.m. in alumni hall,
Gerlinger, will feature an informal
get-together of students and speak
ers.
At 3:30 p.m. the conference will
be resumed with a “Question Box”
consisting of a round table discus
sion and questions from the floor.
The president of Oregon Federa
tion of Business Women's clubs,
Mrs. Leone Jensen, will act as
chairman of the group.
All University women are wel
come, Phi Chi members stress.
Military Survey
By Army Brass
Evening Detail
Brigadier General Herbert C.
Holdridge, retired, will deliver a
comprehensive survey of the new
American militarism tonight at
7:30 in room 3, Fenton hall.
Early in 1946, Holdridge went on
record before congress in opposi
tion to compulsory military train
ing. He regards the program un
sound, unrealistic, and dangerous.
It violates every American tradi
tion, in his opinion, and demands
subordination of civilians to the
military.
For the past 30 years Holdridge
has been in a position to watch the
development of the new American
militarism from the inside. He be
lieves the army now assumes a
dominant role in national and in
ternational politics, in contrast to
the small paternalistic force it once
was.
The general will discuss the
army caste system, totalitarian
techniques, professional military
ineptness, lobbying and propagan
da, and indoctrination of army
leadership. He will explain the in
fluence the military has upon the
social and economical structure of
the United States.
Compulsory military training
constitutes an act of bad faith with,
other nations, avers Holdridge,
which increases the danger of an
other world war. A new race in.
armaments is leading to world sui
cide.
Holdridge served in the army
from 1917, when he was graduated
from West Point, until his retire
ment in 1944. He served both in the
United States and France during
World War I. In the second World
War, the general was plans and
training officer in the adjutant gen
eral’s office of the war department.
In this capacity, he initiated and
established on an operating basis
the psychological testing program,
the army classification programs,
microfilming of records, and the
army “machine record” system of
personnel accounting. Holdridge
also established the adjutant gen
eral’s school, Fort Washington,
Maryland, and the army adminis
tration schools located at 3 9
schools and colleges throughout the
country.
The general favors breaking the
monopoly of the armed forces over
national security. He stresses the
need for reorientation of national
and international policies directed
toward world peace and the out
lawing of war.
The lecture is the first of the
winter term series sponsored by
the educational activities board.
Ski Club to Meet
Tonight in Oregon
The ski club will hold a meeting
at 7:30 p.m. tonight at 105 Ore
gon, according to Saul Zaik, presi
dent. The outing held last Sunday
was attended by the majority of
the members and proved successful,
Zaik said.