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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1949)
Oregon Emerald Fiftieth Year of Publication and S ervice to the University VOLUME L UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY. JANUARY 14, l»4l» NUMBER fi.<F $1250 Needed To Equal 1948 Gifts to WSSF Only $500 has been turned in by house representatives and . individual contributors to the World Student Service Fund drive, with the deadline set for Saturday noon, it was revealed . yesterday. “This is far below last year’s total of $1750, which we had hoped to surpass,” said Art Johnson, chairman. “Last year the University of Oregon gave more to WSSF Dean Weigle Interviewed on University Hour The University Hour today at four p. m. will present a well rounded program opening with a fifteen minute interview with Clifford F. Weigle, dean of the school of journalism. Following will be “Some thing For You’’, fifteen minutes ' of popular music presented in an interesting and unique way. An nouncer Cliff James drops in on the living room of the Chi Omega house for ah informal eavesdrop - ping session on a Chi Omega trio practicing for a house dance. Do lores Kletzing, Sally Terril, and Joanne Skordahl sing, accompanied by June Fitzgibbons. - At 4:30 the drama program pre sents “Three Strikes, You’re Out.” The cast, headed by Norm Lamb as Joe and Carol Jo Driskell as Mary, also includes Bill Alley, . Marv Horenstein, Jay Ryerse, Mary Ellen McKay, Mort Bonime, and Dale Tyler. The st9ry involves [ ' a young man who has an extreme ! fondness for automobiles, travel, baseball, and adventure in general. Joe is somewhat of a dreamer, with a powerful ego. He has great plans . for himself, but one night he meets Mary, and from then on his dreams begin to dwindle. His baseball bud • dies advise him to forget Mary and to concentrate on his baseball. However, in this drama love does conquer all, and adventure and ego fly out the window. “Three Strikes, . You’re Out” is produced by George Watkins. Marjorie Truchon has charge of sound effects. Doors Close At 7:30 Tonight Students will not be admitted to the Idaho game tonight after 7:30, warned Howard Lem ons, athletic business manager. It is necessary to close student doOrs half an hour before confer ence games in order to estimate the number of general admission seats that are available. The doors open at 6 for the Frosh game. Students who still haven’t pick ed up their activity books can get them at the ticket office in >Iac Arthur court until 4:30 today or before noon tomorrow by pre senting their student cards. I’m not undemocratic, but, gad, the man doesn’t even wear argyles. man any otner institution in tlic state, ' Johnson said. "Contribu tions are certainly going to have to pick up if we’re going to hold our own.” “It isn’t really the tradition that's important though.” he continued. “The thing that matters is that we can't let those foreign students down. They’re counting on this aid to help them help them selves.” Kwamas and Phi Thetas yester day appealed to living organiza tions in brief mealtime speeches ex plaining the Fund. Faculty members will be con tacted today by WSSF solicitors. Spot announcements at tonight's basketball game will also plug the drive. “This is the one drive of the year in which students will be officially requested by the ASUO to con tribute,” Johnson concluded* “Re member—invest in tomorrow—to day.” Marriage Talk Draws Crowd By Barbara Hollands “It is indicative of a notorious failing in our society that we, who should have been told these things by our parents and in our schools, are here tonight to hear discussed the facts of life,” said Dr. L. F. Beck, delivering the first in a ser ies of talks on “Majoring in Mar riage” last night at the YMCA. The lecture series is being sponsored by the YMCA and the sophomore com mission of the YWCA, and is open to all students. Dr. Beck, member of the Univer sity phychology department since 1934, is known throughout the country for his film, “Human Crowth,” a picture on sex educa tion for junior high school students. “The main objective of the mov e,” Dr. Beck said, “is to present some meaning and an acceptable vocabulary, which is an aid to the development of a healthy attitude toward sex.”. Addressing an overflow crowd, Dr. Beck discussed the subject, “Marriage and the Facts of Life,” and particularly stressed psycho logical factors which contribute to marital happiness. “Children have relatively little affect on the psychology of mar riage happiness,” according to Dr. Beck. “Childless couples are as happy as those who are parents, and children are definitely not a ; solution to incompatibility.” “It can easily be told whether or | not a mariage wiM last during the j first two or three years," Dr. Beck j went on. “Marriage counseling ser vices are helpful, but only in those (Please turn to page seven) ueorge, iney ve nxea tne muirace. Robert Miller Heads Alumni Association Robert S. Miller, law school graduate of the class of 1937, as sumed office as president of the University of Oregon Alumni as sociation on January 1 for a term of one year. Vice-president of the association in 1944, Miller now has law offices in Portland. During the war years he served as dean of the North western School of Law in Portland. Miller, together with Francis Heitkemper, class of 1931, newly elected vice-president, officiates over the largest alumni association in the history of the University. Plans Progressing On Frosh Honorary With approval of the national or ganization granted, plans are go ing ahead for official installation of the Oregon chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, freshman men's scholastic honorary. Termed “the freshman’s Phi1 Beta Kappa,” the organization is open to freshman men with a 3.5 GPA for their first term in college, or a 3.5 accumulative. Installation will probably take j place in the next few weeks, ac- j cording to Vergil S. Fogdall, ad- j viser, at a time when national of- j ficers of the organization can be j present. ' McCown Talks On Timely Near East Situation First lecture in a series of nine on “Our Heritage from the Near East’’ was given by Dr. C. C. Mc i Cown, visiting professor, last ' night at Chapman hall. Entitled “The Dawn of Civili zation,” the lecture dealt with the dim beginnings of modern man as found in various excavations in Palestine. In his preliminary re marks, Dr. McCown noted that "there have been many crises throughout civilization fully as severe as those those which we are going through now,” and stated that the study of these cri ses serves as a comfort to mod ern man. The struggle of man through the “pre-dawn” ages in Palestine has been recorded by many ex cavations, chiefly made in caves. Dr. McCown illustrated his lec ture with slides of some of the more interesting excavations. He began with the account of the remains of a skull found in the hills above Galilee. The skull was at first believed to be that of a Neanderthal man, but was later established as that of a man of a later civilization. In the hills at Wadi el-Mughara, (Please turn to page eight) Academy Of Science Convenes The Oregon Academy of Sci ence begins its seventh annual conference on the Oregon campus today with the opening session of the academy council. At an open meeting at 8 o’clock tonight in 207 Chapman hall Dr. Hobart H. Willard, professor of chemistry at tlie University of Michigan, will speak on "Analytical Chem istry, Pathfinder of Progress.’’ Dr. Willard will be the honored guest of the academy council and Oregon section of the American Chemical society at dinner in the faculty club at 6:30 p.m. today. The opening meeting of the academy will begin Saturday morning at 10, following registra tion in 207 Chapman hall. Dr. Warren D. Smith, president of the group, will preside. He will in troduce the incoming president, Dr. W. E. Milne, head of the mathematics department at Ore gon State college. Section meetings for the differ ent science groups will follow at 10:45 a.m. After luncheon at John Straub dining hall, a 2 o'clock business meeting in 207 Chap man hall will be held. The second round of section meetings will be gin at 3 p.m. Sectional groups will meet ay follows: biology, 103 Deady hall; biochemistry, 105 McClure; inor ganic and physical chemistry, 101 McClure hall; organic chemistry, 103 McClure; geology and geog raphy, 101 Condon hall, and mathematics, listing a morning' section only at 202 Chapman hall. Delegates from all Oregon col leges, including Reed, Willamette, and OSC, are expected to attend the conference. Seems A Bit Young To Get'Hot Seat' PORTLAND, Jan, 13—(AP)— Darrell Craven, 10, sat down in hia bathroom. Whoosh. The seat ex ploded into flames. He suffered burns, not serious, where you might expect. Sheriff’s deputies still are puz zled about it. They found a por tion of the seat unburned. When they stripped paint away from the unburned portion, it exploded too. The investigation continues. BAR or Bar? ROTC Student Puzzled By Bob Funk To the young male of eighteen or nineteen who has lived in peace and innocence all his life, the campus ROTC course provides fascinating diversions. Guns, one learns, are utter non sense. Full of extractors, rejectors, inspectors, and various parts in cluded for artistic effect, the aver age gun isn't average at all. Quite the contrary, a gun's chief object joems to be to confuse the man be hind it, rgther than the one looking into the barrel. The ROTC course starts with the fairly simple “21” rifle, which sup posedly can be completely disas sembled and reassembled in a mat ter of a few short hours. Yet some where within the 21 there lurks a spring, which is handled recklessly tends to hit the ceiling, the floor, or worse yet, the instructor. When the time comes to un-fit the spring from whatevcr-on-earth it fits into, the instructor says reassuringly, “Now just ease it out gently and you won’t have any trouble.’’ Ha! A bit more complex is the ma chine gun, which can be aimed at enemies sitting around the room. This gives the aimer a feeling of power, a sneering superiority. The machine gun has things in it one would never expect to find, ev en in a cannon. This is rather dis couraging at first sight. However, as the course continues, one be comes attached to the monstrosity. ! It is with a tear in the eye that the ; student slings the last “dingus” in to the ‘tfedang” backwards, jam ming the danged thing forever. BAR stands for the Browning automatic rifle, it is not a placo where officers toss off dry martinis. The BAR was made completely au tomatic many years ago; no one cares, but this seems to be an im portant piece of information. One of the more lovable features of the BAR is that all the many and I various innards can be dumped in side, the outers, put on, and no one will know the difference, wjlich cuts down on working “time. However, this doesn't go over Jn a very big way with the instructor, who ob viously has no sense of humor. Supposedly the BAR can be tak en apart by anyone armed with a, (Please turn to page eight)