Somewhere Tonight Dreaming of a Happier Day Sits Lizzie-Unclaimed-Just Settin' and Rustin' By LARKY LAU Somewhere tonight a tired old j , utomobile will sit friendless and rejected, a snuffling damp fog •Misting it's yellow and green paint • l sides. That is, unless the Web toots who own it take $17,50 (fori towing and storage i to the pudgy > ttle man who operates Mortons I Used Car lot at 68 West Fifth. On the mildewed seats lie a gas j • an, a twisted pair of pincers, a. t ided history examination, a brok-; -n ballpeen hammer and an empty j Dottle of Old Bard. The open leath-! • r top is sagging dispiritedly down! • u the middle; an occasional drop of water1 soaks through and hits the floor with a flat, lifeless sound. he sign, OREGON, on the back, '.i fading. It excites no memories :rom passersby. | Age Unknown It's a Star, but what year it is ■ .ve can only guess. Probably it j oiled off the assembly lines about the time most of us were cooing in 1 iour cradles. It must have been a proud, jaunty automobile then, all sleek and shiny. Now it sits hunched, cold and grim, waiting with stolid patience . . . there are no green pastures in which to re tire an old car. The little man at Morton's wants j his money, and says he’ll start fore closure proceedings pretty soon. J What unromantic fate lies in store for it once the auctioneer’s ham-J raer hate ’to guess. The little man sug gested it would make a good trac tor ... a tractor! Somehow, it seems a shame. W;hat a story this relic of a more frolicsome past could tell! We wonder what Other times this long-suffering mechanized beast of burden has seen ... of loaded picnic baskets, cold cases of beer, eight or ten Webfoots jammed into its stout hull, it’s lit tle tin nose pointed eagerly to a lush spot beside the river . . .and now ? Tonight may be the one when the thin, outsized tires will sigh Travel Enthusiasts Offered Trip Via Queen Alary to Foreign Soil Those with an urge to travel '.'ho would like to combine the d'e ights of visiting strange places with new insights into life and so-' ■iety, should tuck an old copy of dark Twain’s “Innocents Abroad" inder arm and prepare to climb aboard the Queen Mary. Sched uled to leave New York February !C>, the famous Cunard liner wTll carry a group of travel enthusiasts ... Europe for a 59-day studytour. The trip is sponsored by World Study tours, a non-profit corpor cial projects instead regimented sightseeing. | After landing in France, the j croup will head toward the Rivi ■ ra making brief stops at Toulous, larcassone, and Avignon. There! cell be chances to interview lead ers of political parties and social; Movements in Marseilles, center of economic and political struggle md second largest city of France Easter In Rome After a we A of relaxation at ( From a delicious selection of fresh hacked pies, cakes and cookies, you can have any of them on hand if \ oil’ll onh stop in at UNIVERSITY GROCERY 740 F. 11 I’h 1577 | _ Monte Carlo, Nice and Cannes a lcng the Mediterranean highway, the party will proceed, by bus, to Genoa, Italy and then to Pisa. Eas ter observance and political dis cussions will feature a weeks stay in Rome, the southern pinnacle of the tour. Sail on Queen Mary Returning across Germany to Paris the studytour will offer op portunity to meet artist, political leaders, and others of special in terest. Then late in March the tour will move northward to Milan, Lake of Lugano, famous St. Moritz, and i Zurich, Switzerland’s largest city, i Zurich will provide interviews with j people who can interpret the Swiss economic life, political position, and social legislation. The 600th anniversary of the founding of Charles university, one j of the finest in Europe, will be j terest to members of the group, | along with the usual sight-seeing I celebrated in Prague, capital of j Czechoslavakia. There will, also, j be an opportunity to observe how democratic freedoms are be-' ing continued with new ventures into socialist planning, behind the "iron curtain.” Dean and Mrs. Hubert Phillips of Fresno State college in Calif ornia will lead the studytour. Dean Phillips, nominated a few years. ago for congress, is a competent scholar who has travelled extensiv ely abroad. resignedly, gasp their last, and set- j tie, with dread finality, to the | earth, never to rise again. The steering wheel is made of wood-, polished like high grade ma hogany from the sweat and fric tion of many hands . . . hands that were nervous from the tension in | learning how to control the little car, or perhap^. a single hand, cas ually tapping the wheel to keep it true. The hood hangs a little to one side, as if it were winking. The headlights are square and purpose ful, like an old man with specs . . . This is the son of the iron monster t that chased the horse and buggies into retirement. ‘A Sittin’ and a Rustin’ Perhaps the little car gets tired, just sitting and rusting, and wishes it were bumping around the coun try again, full of kids, and ice cream and weiners . . . and just a little gas. Oil ? These were a tougher breed than the chromed dandies of today. They would gulp it gratefully, but were seldom tem peramental enough to balk without it. Oil was dessert—an extra frost ing. Perhaps it would like to smash into something before it goes; pio neers never died in bed if they could help it . . . Smash right into a great big truck, just as hard as it could. And maybe the radiator! would 'twist into a youthful grin ! . . . just for a moment. Fellowship to Hear Portlander Tonight Rev. Alexander Sauerwein, pas tor of the Staub Memorial Congre gational church of Portland, will i speak at the Intervarsity Christ ian fellowship meeting in the din ing room of John Straub hall at 7 tonight. A graduate of Dallas Theologi cal seminary, Rev. Sauerwein’s first ministry was at a Presbyter ian church in New York City. He came to the Pacific coast eight years ago, assigned to the Presby terian church in Beaverton, where he remained until he assumed the pastorate of Staub Memorial six j months ago. j The DUTCH GIRL under new management George Webb and Bill Countryman j Proprietors 1224 Willamette Phone 1932 ■ i i WE'LL MAKE YOU THE Smoothest dressed male at the MILITARY BALL Have your suit cleaned and pressed at Best Cleaners 821 H 13th Phone 740 Library Makes New Reference, Periodic Move Several changes have been made recently in the library con cerning periodicals and reference materials. Open shelf reserve has been moved to Room 150, the room in back of the lower division reserve bookshelves. The periodical divis ion of the reference department has been moved to Room 201, sec ond floor. Current periodicals are on open shelf reserve in Room 214, which adjoins Room 201. Books Moved Everything in . the present bibli ography room except the library of congress catalogues, and the sub ject bibliography, which was back of the reference desk, is now back of the former periodical desk. Also back of the former periio dical desk are the U. S. govern ment indices, United Nations mat eria land current college catalo gues. On the mezzenine above the former periodical desk is the leag ue of nations material, and on the floor below, the serial set of U. S. government documents, American state papers, and the congresional record and its predecessors. Also there, will bo the U. S. supreme oourt reports. The periodical guides will re main in the reference room, but' additional copies of “The Readers Guide to Periodical Literature” and “Poole’s Guide to Periodical Literature" will be obtainable in Goom 201. HEY DUCKS! c'mon in and RELAX over a coke or shake at i corner 13th and Alder 'Doc' Ireland, Prop. HOW! IH FE2SOH - T-rC= MtVm® REY k AND HIS ORCHESTRA Feb. 7 ! 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