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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1948)
Weekend Talent To Audition Today To complete the list of enter tainers for Homecoming weekend, there will be another talent audi tion this afternoon, October 13, 4:00 o’clock at the Kappa Alpha Theta house. Singers, actors, comedians, dancers, and musicians are needed and will be used in various rallies during Homecoming. Chuck Corgan, Homecoming promotion chairman, will be in charge of the audition. Williston States (Continued from paye one) tionalism speedily ana effectively. Nationalism, he pointed out, is one of the “virus of modernization’’ accompanying the Impact of West ern technology on ancient custom. In China, he described as an ex ''ample, this spirit is imported—in past centuries the Chinese didn’t even have a word for nationalism. Besides finding themselves inde pendent, the Chinese saw their na tion raised suddenly to a first class power, a “heady wine to drink,” Williston said. “Can we expect them to exchange this new won nationalism so soon for fnterna tionai control?” he asked. When asked if the Chinese Com munists were not more interna tional in their outlook, Williston replied that they had not yet been put to test. “So far they have fol lowed the party line,” he said, “but there is some evidence that they are ‘Chinese first’.” The best Far Eastern policy for the United States to follow, he an swered another questioner, is one of continued but carefully directed and supervised economic aid. Williston is opposed to further military aid to the Nationalists, however, .because “the resentment it causes on the part of the people actually harms the Nationalist cause.” Economic aid should be extended to private enterprise rather than government agencies, he added, for the most effectiveness. Williston is here as part of the Religious Evaluation week lecture program. At the University of Washington he is faculty adviser to the campus religious council, and on the “Y” board. Primarily interested in Far East ern and international affairs, Wil liston was an UNRRA representa tive in China after World War II. After the first world war, he did student relief work there. He received his A.B. degree from Ohio Wesleyan college and his Ph.D. from the University of Chi cago. To enjoy the local scenery at this time, one needs only keep his eyes open and his ears covered. Russian-Born Professor (Continued from page one) sons can be absorbed into the diplo matic service, industry, scientific work, teaching, and, of course, the army.” As for the Oregon campus, Mr. Strash seems to be impressed; ‘‘Why—even the air here is con ducive to study!” He also notes a marked change between the'atmosphere at UO— enrollment 6000 plus, and the UW —enrollment 18,000 plus. Mr. Strash is anxious to see a Russian study club started. Plans for such a group are being formed at the present time. An Appeal to Reason (Continued from page six) Neither teachers nor librarians nor anyone else can devise a for mula of caution which will free responsible officers from the ex ercise of judgment or protect them from the passions of those who, whatever lip service they may pay to freedom, do not ap prove,of freedom when their own beliefs are challenged. The only test with books and periodicals as with men is the individual test —the decision of each case on its merits. In this book or this pe riodical, regarded as a whole, a serious and responsible exercise of the right of free inquiry and free report ? If it is, and if it deals with matters within the general interest of the citizens, in terms which students can understand, then there is no justification for its suppression because an article or groups of articles or several passages scattered through vari ous articles are objectionable to special groups, whatever the grounds of the objection. Certainly the fact that relig ious questions are often contro versial is not a reason for sup pressing ..them., in ..the ..nation’s schools. One of the principal pur poses ..of ..American ..education should be to see to it that no gen eration grows up in ignorance of the controversial issues it will have to face. In our opinion the solution of the entire problem requires that the school authorities in the city of New York give up forthwith their claim to dictate what the children of New York shall not read. In place of issuing a per missive list of books and period icals, as they do now, they should return to the democratic practice of issuing an advisory list. That list should be drafted with the counsel of a group representing the best and most disinterested judgment available in the city, carefully chosen so as to avoid dominance by any special interest and expressly protected from special influences however exer cised. Both the advisory group © HOGAN'S GROCERY 544 13th E. COOK'S MARKET Phone 2066 Lutherans to Meet A coffee hour will ue held at Lu ther house, 1376 Alder, from 9 to 10 p.m. this evening. Cleone Olson, counselor, urges all Lutheran stu dents on campus to attend. and the school authorities, more over, should give up the notion that there are any subjects which are verboten to the children of America or that the likes and dislikes of any group in the com munity can be permitted to dic tate the limitations of the knowl edge of the rest. Had these fair, decent and dem ocratic considerations been ap plied in the case of THE NATION the suppression would have been unthinkable. THE NATION is one of the most respected period icals in the world today. For more than eighty years it has been a courageous champion of minority rights and democratic causes. No one has questioned and no one can question the rec ord of its total achievement un der its present editor or under her predecessors. To bar from the schools of New York future issues of one of the country's leading periodicals with a history of responsible journalism since 1865 because a past issue or issues contained par agraphs which one of the many groups which compose this coun try found objectionable seems to us a violation of the most funda mental principles of American equality. We believe the wrong should be righted at once, not so. much in the interest of THE NA TION as in the interest of the people of the United States. Hardly a reformer is now alive who ever saw a permanently suc cessful campaign against gam bling. Infirmary Staff Adds New Nurse Student health service has an nounced the addition of Mrs. Don na Williams to the nursing staff of the campus infirmary. Mrs. Williams, formerly of Sa cred Heart hospital, was appointed to help care for the unusually large turnover of patients. Her husband is enrolled in the Univer sity law school. At the present time there are ten bed patients in the infirmary, all of whom will listen to the Port land game via radio this coming weekend. In spite of the number of students off campus for the game, the infirmary will be open all weekend to incoming patients. x-dge /, G an Students Present Puppeteers A puppet show will be presented tonight at 7:30 on Gerlinger sun porch by the Deutsche Gesells chaft in their reorganization meet ing. The potato-headed puppets I will enact a scene from a “Non Typical German Classroom.” The Gescllschaft is a social and cultural club for all students of ; Geiman and those interested in the German language. There will | be singing and a short business meeting. For Fish 'n' Chips Delicious Snacks MIDWAY DRIVE-IN Main Highway South ELLIOTT’S Your One Stop Shopping Center -Close to the Campus We carry all lines of Groceries, and Specialties ’n fresh tasty bakery goods. ELLIOTT'S GROCERY 13th & Patterson Phone 95 pin-tucked pockets pin-money price for your new TOMMIE AUSTIN A Class-Room or Campus Treasure With pockets full of Chic . . . Tailored of Crease-Resistant Rayon Gabardine with a Pretty Chevron Weave. 14.95 * ;> 0 Green 0 Brown • Urey • Bed (As Seen in GLAMOUR)