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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1949)
WEATHER, Eugene, and vicinity, partly cloudy with possible snow flurries. Slightly colder. OREGON loses 46-43 to Washing ton State in Friday’s game at Pull man. See story on sports page. Fiftieth Year of Publication and Service to the University * VOLUME L UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1949 NUMBER 59 IFC Plans To Sponsor Scholarship Plans for sponsoring a for “ eign student on the Oregon campus each year by the Inter ► fraternity council have been given a boost with the need of approval from the director of the Institute of International Education. Many college and university in terfraternity councils are adopting - programs similar to that which the j local council has already approved, according to a letter from the In stitute received by Stan Pierson, chairman of the Oregon Interfra ternity council’s foreign 'scholar ship committee. According to the plan an amount sufficient to pay for books and the living expenses in. , a fraternity for one school year will be raised proportionately from members of the IFC. Any * fraternity already participating in a similar plan shall be exempt from the assessments. Transportation costs to and from the University must be secured by * the foreign student selected and tuition costs for the school year will be assumed by a Universi ty scholar ship fund. A committee of not less than three men shall be appointed by the IFC for the purpose of select ing the foreign student, ascer * taining the amount of the assess ment per fraternity, and deter mining the fraternity which will house and feed the student. Wesley House To Hold Party Wesley Foundation, Methodist » Student Center, will start the win ter term tomorrow night at 5:30 p. m. with a New Year’s party. Both old and new students are urged to „ attend. Supper will be served for 35c, fol lowing which will be a period of rec - reation and business, conducted by Kathy Dobson, Wesley president. Rev. L. O. Griffith, pastor of the local First Methodist church, will be guest speaker of the evening. , Rev. Griffith will lead a discussion on the new year’s theme. A worship service will conclude the program at - approximately 7:30 p. m. » Rh Factor Topic For Pathologist R. D. McMilan, local pathologist, - will speak before an open meeting of Asklepiads, pre-med honorary, 7 p.m. Tuesday at 103 Deady. Dr. McMilan will discuss "The Rh Factor in Blood.” The public is - invited to attend. . Emerald Staffs Meetings of the advertising, sports and news staffs of the Emer ald have been postponed until next - week, awaiting the' arrival of the . managing editor. * However, a meeting of reporters will be held today at 1 p. m., room 6 journalism. Term Change Vote: Yes, Quite Close On Thursday the Emerald re ported that the University fac ulty had voted by a “very nar row” margin in favor of chang ing from a term to a semester. The faculty meeting was the largest of the academic year, with some members standing in the back of room 3, Fenton. And every vote counted. After scouting around a little yesteray the Emerald discovered from several unimpeachable sources just how narrow that margin really was. The recommendation was passed by—one vote. ROBIN ARKLEY University String Quartet to Give First Winter Concert Tomorrow ine university string Quartet, a School of Music faculty group, will present its first concert of the term at 4 p. m., Sunday, in the music school auditorium. The concert will feature George Author to Talk At Theta Sigma Lunch Today Mrs. Martha Ferguson McKeown will tell of her book, “The Trail Led North”.at a luncheon in her honor at noon today at the Faculty club. The luncheon is sponsored by The ta Sigma Phi, national professonal fraternity for women in journal ism. “The Trail Led North,” which was recently published by the Mac Millan Co. was her first attempt at a book-length work. She is now working on another to complete the story of “Uncle Mont” Haw thorne, who is the hero of the book. Students and faculty interested in book writing or publishing or in the history of the West are invited to attend the luncheon. Keservations may be made at the school of journalism. Mrs. McKeown, who has often contributed to the Oregonian’s Northwest magazine s.ection, is rec ognized as an authority on early Oregon history. She has done many feature articles on the Indians at Celilo Falls and assisted in gather ing information on them for use by Oregon congressmen. At one time dean of women at Multnomah college in Portland, Mrs. McKeown received a master’s degree in English from the Univer sity of Oregon in 1938. Theta Sigma Phi will tap new members from upper-division wom en in journalism at the luncheon. This afternoon Mrs. McKeown will autograph copies of her book at Kressey’s book store. Boughton and Mary Kapp Allton, violinists; E. A. Cykler, violist, and milton Dieterich, cellist, in Beeth oven's String Trio, Op. 9, no. 3; the String Quartet by Schostakowits ch; and Brahm's Quartet, Op. 51 no. 1. The performers, with the excep tion of Mary Kapp Allton, are in structors at the school of music. Mrs. Allton is the wife of D. W. All ton, assistant professor of organ and theory. Quartet programs are to be given on the second Sunday of each month for the remainder of the school year, and are open to all students and townspeople free of charge. USA Committee Sets Interviews The United Students association steering committee will interview petitioners Sunday afternoon for USA nominations in the forthcom ing freshman elections. Judging from both the inter views and petitions, the steering committee will select several can didates for each nomination to rec ommend to a general USA meeting at 4 p.m. Tuesday in room 3, Fen ton. Further nominations from the floor will be accepted Tuesday, pro vided that the nominee is backed by 10 persons and had turned in his petition last term. USA membership Tuesday will also set a date for a second gen eral meeting, at which time the party’s candidates for the top frosh office will be elected from among the nominees. The steering committee has 13 members: Walt Freauff, USA president; Bill Tassock, vice-presi dent; Helen Sherman, secretary; and co-chairmen of the five stand ing committees. '49er Theme Chosen, January 22DateNamed For Annual Senior Ball “The ’49ers—Then and Now.” This is the theme selected by the class of 1949 for its annual Senior Ball in McArthur court on Jan. 22. The dance will bo under the general chairmanship of Robin Arkley, class president. The decorations committee, under the direction of Hans Wold, is vice-president of the class, will line the wall of Mac court with murals depicting Oregon "then and now." j.ne uauce is suiicumra lu uegui at • 9 p. m. Formals for the girls and tuxedos or dark suits for the men will be the order of dress. Corsages will be worn. Other committee chairmen are Janet Beigal, class secretary, tick ets: Mike Madden, program: Mike Mitchell, promotion: Ann Wood worth, chaperons: and June Goetze and Bobolee Brophy, publicity. Marriage Major Lecture Series Starts Thursday "Marriage and the Facts of Life" is to be the opening lecture in the annual "Majoring in Marriage” lec ture series presented by the YMCA and the sophomore commission of the YWCA. The series starts on Thursday evening, January 13. Dr. L. F. Beck, university profes sor of psychology, is slated to be the first speaker, and the others on the slate will be announced later. A feature of the lectures will be question boxes which will be placed in both the YMCA and the YWCA for questions on that week's sub ject. These will be put up at the be ginning of next week. As the registration is limiled w 100, those interested in attending are urged to sign up at the first of next week. Registration begins on Monday at either “Y”, and will con tinue until the first lecture or until 100 have registered. The committee arranging the ser ies consists of Barbara Stevenson. Jackie Barbee, Martha Piper, Nancy Chamberlain, Dale Crandall, and Stan Turnbull. Martin to Speak At Plymouth Club John Martin, graduate assistant in journalism, will be a main speak er at Plymouth club's Sunday evet ning meeting. “The Source of the Conflict in Palestine” will be his topic. Meeting at 5 p.m. in the Wheeler room at the Congregational church, guests and members will precede the discussion with a snack sup per. WSSF Campaign to Feature Movie a single picture is worth a thousand words.” Oregon’s World Student Service Fund committee, under the leadership of Art John son, is working under the assump tion that this old adage will prove true. As an integral part of next week's campaign to raise funds for students in war-devastated na tions, the WSSF movie, “This Is Their Story” will be shown to stu dent groups in as many living or ganizations as time will permit. It is hoped that several groups in a neighborhood can meet together so that all. can see this important and stirring picture, according to Johnson. The movie will show the work of WSSF dollars raised at Oregon and hundreds of other schools as they help to train the leaders of tomorrow in Europe and Asia. “There is no definite goal for the drive,” Johnson, explained yester day. Although the thermometer to be set up in front of the Co-cp will show the drive diming to beat last year’s $1750 goal, the committee is asking each individual student to give all that he feels he can. “There will be no definite contri bution necessary to entitled a stu dent to wear a green WSSF button, (Please turn to page eight) Truman Appoints Acheson WASHINGTON. Jan. 7— (AP)— President Truman today assigned a new team to run American for eign policy. Emphatically he denied that this means any softening of the “tough” policy toward Russia. At a news conference, Mr. Trun man announced: General George C. Marshall, 68 and in ill health, has resigned <33 secretary of state effective Jan uary 20. Dean Acheson, lawyer and for mer undersecretary who is 13 years younger than Marshall, will he the new secretary and GEORGE MARSHALL number one man in the presi dent’s second term cabinet. Robert A. Lovett, 53, Wall street banker and Marshall’s undersecre tary, will resign along with his chief January 20 for “personal rea sons,” meaning that he wants to get back to private life. James E. Webb, 11 years young er than Lovett at 42, and now Mr. Truman’s budget director, will suc ceed Lovett as undersecretary of state. Immediate reaction . to the Acheson appointment was most ly favorable. Cordell Hull, for mer secretary of state, called Acheson a man of “outstanding ability.” Senator Connally iD-Tex), new chairman of the foreign relations committee, expressed pleasure while calling Marshall's departure regrettable. Senator Wiley (R-Wis) said he I expected some “concern” among senators over frequent changes in the state department which, ho said, have prevented “consistency” I in foreign policy. ; In Britain, high officials ex ' pressed enthusiasm, terming Ache* j son “a friend of Britain.”