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VOLUME XLIX UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE.TUESDAY. MAY 25. 1948 --^rMHKR U{
Allen Wins ASUO Presidency
Wallace Speech Set
For Mac Court at 3 p.m.
Henry A. Wallace, third party candidate for president, will
address University students and Eugene townspeople this af
ternoon at 3 in McArthur court.
Roy C. McCall, head of the speech department, will intro
duce the speaker, who is sponsored by the University assembly
committee.
Topic for the speech, one of the four Oregon talks on Wal
Alpha Xi Delta
Leaves ASA
Geraldine Hettinger, president
of Alpha Xi Delta, withdrew the
support of her house from the Af
filiated Students association at a
meeting of the organization Sun
day night.
Miss Hettinger read the follow
ing statement to the Greek bloc:
“We, the members of Alpha Xi
Delta, hereby endorse the state
ment made by the seven Greek
houses which was published in the
Emerald Saturday, May 22, 1948,
and which reads as follows:
“ ‘We, the undersigned, official
representatives of our respective
houses, in order to guarantee that
our members may vote according
to the dictates of their own con
sciences, and not be forced or bound
to endorse any political party,
“ ‘Do hereby signify that our re
spective houses have, by decision of
their members, voted to withdraw
their house endorsement from that
political organization known as the
Affiliated Students association.” ’
Seven houses issued this state
ment last Friday when they with
drew from the ASA. The houses
are Phi Sigma Kappa, Zeta Tau
Alpha, Phi Kappa Sigma, Delta
Zeta, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Phi Kap
pa Psi, and Lambda Chi Alpha.
lace’s far western speaking tour
is not known. He will arrive in Eu
gene from Corvallis at 2:15, speak
at 3, and leave for Coos Bay at
4:30 p.m.
Wallace is one of the most wide
ly-read men in public life. He has
a simplicity of style and can ap
plaud observations of Pope Pius
and Karl Mark on the same page.
Has Long Service
In seeking the presidency, Wal
lace has behind him a long record
of public service. He has been sec
retary of agriculture, secretary of
commerce, vice-president of the U.
S., besides editing the Iowa Home
stead and Wallace's Farmer, and
just recently the New Republic.
Wallace has led an unpredictable
and stormy public life. He bolted
to the Democratic party in 1928 be
cause he though A1 Smith had
“social vision.’’
His first Agricultural Adjust
ment act was declared unconstitu
tional, and he rewrote it into the
second AAA. He won the vice
presidential nomination with the
backing of Roosevelt in 1940 over
strong opposition.
A senate investigating commit
tee centered around Wallace’s ap
pointment as secretary of com
merce in 1945. The department was
stripped of the reconstruction fi
ance corporation as a result of his
opponents’ action.
Honorary Chooses
Officers for '48-'49
Mortar Board officers for the
1948-49 school year were chosen
at a recent meeting of the new
and old members. Nancy Peter
son, junior in journalism, was
elected president of the group,
and Bobolee Brophy, junior in
journalism, will serve as vice
president.
Olga Yevtieh, junior in liberal
arts, was elected secretary, while •
Jordis Benke and June Goetsee,
both journalism majors, will
serve as treasurer and editor re
spectively.
Anne WoodwOrth, junior in lib
eral arts, will serve as historian
of the group.
ISA President
Resigns Office
Joe Conroy resigned his position
as president of the Independent
Students association last night at
6 p.m.
In his statetnent to the Emerald
lapt night, Conroy said that “in
view of the policies and platform
of the third party, I can no longer
follow the ISA.”
Conroy turned in his resignation
after the ballots were cast and be
fore they were counted, he said,
he did this in order that the vote
would not be influenced.
He said last night that he would
give all his assistance to the USA
in the year to come.
La Verne Gunderson, former
vice-president, automatically be
came president of the ISA last
night. She will hold this position
until the ISA election of officers
on June 3.
Emerald Reporter Finds Conductor Ormandy
'Personable' in Leisure Moment Before Concert
By MIKE CALLAHAN
A blue dressing gown and a hotel
suite is a far cry from formal dress
and the podium of a symphony con
cert, but conductor Eugene Or
mandy is as personable in his lei
sure moments as he was last night
when he led the Philadelphia sym
phony orchestra in its Eugene con
cert at McArthur court.
Maestro Ormandy interrupted
his study of the night’s program
to receive reporters in his down
town hotel suite. Questions were
sandwiched in with a tape-recorded
interview from the University ra
dio workshop staff, but the veteran
conductor handled both with per
fect ease and pleasure.
“One of the hardest jobs of a
conductor on a nationwide tour,”
Ormandy said in his slight Hun
garian accent, “is to remember
where he is. Never ask a perform
er where he has been before or
where he is going next, it is all so
confused. Why, one time I did not
even know what was the program I
would play, and it was very em
I
barrassing when I was interviewed
over the radio.”
Ormandy conducted the full com
plement of the Philadelphia orches
tra last night, number about 110
players. It was the second visit of
the group to Oregon, Ormandy
said, recalling a concert presented
two years ago in Portland.
Skipping over his early career
with the comment that “I was born
in New York City at the age of 22”
(the age at which he came to the
United States from Hungary),
Conductor Ormandy was especially
enthusiastic about his war-time
trip to Australia in 1944.
“I used a nucleus of Australian
musicians to present concerts in
cities and camps in Australia. Gen
eral MacArthur said I was the first
lend-lease conductor in that area.
Plans for this summer call for
conducting the Hollywood Bowl
symphony orchestra, in a schedule
which Ormandy admitted would be
“very difficult.”
“We will use many great soloists
and musical stars from Holly
wood,” said. “One of the highlights
of the season will be the presenta
tion of Mahler’s monmumental 8th
symphony. This work calls for 160
players in the orchestra and a
1000-voice chorus, and even in our
limited production there will still
be more than 1000 persons on the
stage.”
The Philadelphia orchestra is
noted for its great library of rec
ords made over a period of years.
Two of the works performed last
night, “Der Freischutz Overture”
and Brahms’ “Symphony No. 3,”
are now available on records, and
the Strauss’ “Rosenkavalier Suite”
will be released in the near future.
“It might be interesting to
know,” Conductor Ormandy said at
the close of the interview, "that
recording a work may take many
times more hours than the work
itself does in playing. For example,
although the “Freischutz” takes
only 10 minutes to perform, it took
our orchestra more than two hours
to record it. And that after playing
for 12 hours straight for many
weeks before the recording ban
went into effect!”
♦ ♦ ♦ ~
Rasmussen Elected
To Second Position
Bob Allen, USA candidate, and
Marv Rasmussen, ASA candidate
will head the ASUO executive
council during 1948-19.
Priest to Speak
On T. Newman
Rev. Romuald K. Edenhofer,
O.S.B., will return to speak at the
Newman club tonight about The
resa Newman, German mystic. The
meeting will be heeld at Gerlinger
annex at 6:45 p.m.
Father Edenhofer, a former cap
tain in the German army during
the first World War, spoke to the
organization April 27 about his ex
periences in Germany during the
Nazi domination. In the three years
from 1934 to 1937, Father Edenho
fer was imprisoned seven times by
the Nazis in connection with his ac
tivities as advisor of the German
Catholic youth in Bavaria.
Father Edenhofer is now editor
of the German-language newspa
per published at Mount Angel, Ore
gon.
This meeting will be the final
Newman club meeting of the year.
Who Won:
ASUO:
1. Bob Allen, USA
2. Marvin Rasmussen, ASA
3. Jean Swift, ASA
4. Diana Dye, USA
Senior Representative, ASUO
1. Hank Kinsell, ASA
2. Olga Yevtich, USA
Junior Representative, ASUO
1. Ed Anderson, ASA
2. Art Johnson, ISA
Senior Class:
1. Robin Arkley, ASA
2. Hans Wold, USA
3. Janet Biegal, ASA
4. Don Latham, ISA
Junior Class:
1. Bill Duhaime, ASA
2. Malcolm McGregor, USA
3. Sallie Waller. ASA
4. Sue Michel, USA
Sophomore Class:
1. Herb Nill, ASA
2. Don Cairns, USA
3. Joanne Fitzmaurice, ASA
4. Don Smith, ISA
Co-op Board, Sophomore
Joe Richards, ASA
Co-op Board, Junior
Barbara Heywood
William H. Green
The USA, infant political party
on the Oregon campus, came into
its own last night, with USA vic
tories in the major ASUO posi
tions. The student government
next term will be headed by Bob
Allen, candidate of the new party.
Total ballot count was 2867
with 2795 tallied for the number
one position, indicating only 72
spoiled ballots in the hotly contest
ed election which saw a political
dark horse cop the coveted ASUO
presidency.
It was a matter of conjecture
last night whether the Indepen
dent Students’ association was here
to stay.
Joe Conroy, ISA president and
disappointed candidate for the
ASUO nomination two weeks ago,
resigned last night at 6 p.m., after
the ballots were in but before they
were counted.
Last minute attempts on the part
of the ASA to swing the votes of
“doubtful” students were of no
avail. Monday morning the Greek
party covered the campus with a
four-page throw-away, “The Ore
gon Daily Mist.” ASA speakers had
already told men in the vets’ dorms
that winning USA candidates
would immediately rejoin the de
feated “Greek bioc.” ASA repre
sentatives also visited sororities
where they assured the girls that
“we know how you vote.”
Count on the principal positions
follows:
Allen, 1247; Rasmussen 1215,~
Henderson, 333. Arkley, 147; Wold,
142. Duhaime, 529 McGregor, 470;
Waller, 297; Michel, 198. Nill, 326,
Cairns, 200.
The new party was formed just
a week ago tonight by dissatisfied
persons from both of the old par
ties, and came from way behind to
win the election, which was pre
dicted to be "unusually quiet.”
J