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Dads' Day
Activities
Complete
Luncheon, Basketball
Game Among Many
Features of Weekend
Dad’s Day plans are booming
ahead with weekend committee
members hard at work to wel
come Oregon dads in the best
possible way. Awards for the
most visiting dads, the best hel
lo sign will hold the spotlight,
of student interest next week
end, while the day’s day lunch
eon, basketball game and house
activities will top the dads list
of favorite things to do.
Tickets at $1.20 for Saturday’s
game will be on sale at Johnson hall
and the Osburn and Eugene hotels
from 9 a. m. until 5 p. m. Saturday.
A half-time basketball game be
tween the 1948 Cotton bowl football
team backfield and line, and intro
duction of the weekend hostess will
highlight the entertainment at the
game. The cups for best sign and
most dads will also be awarded at
the game.
Ernest Haycox to Preside
Luncheon tickets may be purch
ased for $1.25 by contacting Dean
Karl Onthank’s office in Emerald
hall. Ernest Haycox, Oregon grad
and noted author, will preside at
the affair in John Straub hall. Main
speaker will be Chancellor Paul
Packer. Rev. George Swift will give
the invocation.
Today is the last day tickets will
be sold, according to Onthank, as
mail orders are rapidly taking all
available tickets.
The Dad’s Day hostess will be
guest of honor.
The program will include Mrs.
Walter R. Thron, president of the
Mothers association; Mr. Edgar
Smith, president of the Oregon
State Board of Higher Education;
Mr. Robert Allen, president of the
student body; and Dr. Harry K.
Newburn, University president.
Judge Signs Friday
Welcome signs will be judged on
simplicity, color, expression, and
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Hostess Pictures
Due Today
Today’s the last day. Any vete
ran that wants to have a Dad’s
Day Hostess in the tardily, is urg
ed to rush over to the Emerald
and deposit his wife’s picture in
the news editors’ office. The dead
line is 5 p. m.
Joanne Frydenlund, chairman
of the contest, emphasizes that
all pictures will be returned if
the contestant’s name is on ilie
back of the photo. The Dad's Day
Hostess will appear at all Dad’s
Day functions, get her picture in
the Oregana, and be announced
in Thursday’s Emerald.
UO, California
Debate Federal
Aid to Schools
By Walter Dodd
University of Oregon debaters
met the University of California
in a non-deeision, exhibition de
bate in Fenton hall auditorium,
last night.
Subject for the debate was: “Re
solved that the federal government
should equalize educational oppor
tunity in tax supported schools by
means of annual grants.”
Frederick L. Harvey and Frank
lin W. Walker upheld the affirma
tive for California, while Don Dim
ick and Jerry Miller took the nega
tive for Oregon. Jack Miller, grad
uate manager of the University of
Oregon symposium group acted as
chairman.
The California affirmative con
tended that “ten million Americans
are virtually illiterate. States that
are in the greatest need are un
able to augment financial aid to
their education program. The
equality of men is the great Amer
ican dream. The grant in aid pro
gram is a new vital concept of
federalism, with an expanding pro
gram of local opportunity through
joint cooperation.”
Some 100 persons in Fenton hall
heard what appeared to be an out
[ classed California team unable to
fully meet the contention of the
Oregon negative.
Oregon reported to the California
arguments, contending that “fed
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US Response to Stalin's 'Peace'
Move Expected to be Delayed
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31—(AP)—Any American answer to Prime
Minister Stalin’s new “Peace” gesture appeared likely today to be
a delayed and carefully thought out move.
Administration officials said there probably will be no response
until the White House, state department and presumably congresssional
leaders get together on the best way of countering what the capital
generally views as a soviet tactical maneuver.
One idea reported under consideration is to use the occasion for
a review of Russia’s postwar dealings with the west, coupling this with
a renewed demand for firm evidence that this time Moscow is acting
in good faith.
Meanwhile both the White House and state department shied away
from comment on Salin’s press interview that he had “no objection”
to a meeting with PresidentTruman at some mutually acceptable place.
For a series of reasons, indications were the administration may
be unusually wary in deciding on a response. A brusk rejection such
as the United States has given some Soviet “peace” gestures might ffeed
Soviet propaganda.
Moscow’s timing deepened official suspicions that the Soviet pur
pose was propaganda rather than to feel out the American attitude
toward some sort of an East-West settlement. Stalin spoke out just a
day after Russia put pressure on Norway to stay out of the North At
lantic pact, and the effect was the push the Norwegian development off
front pages both within and outside the Soviet bloc.
'Semester System Rejected'
Honorary
Will Fete
Freshmen
Mortar Board's
Smarty Party
Scheduled Tonight
Seventy-three freshmen women,
who rated a 3.00 GPA or above fall
term, will be honored this evening
at the Mortar Board’s annual
Smarty Party.
Murals depicting various campus
activities will decorate alumni hall,
Gerlinger, where the party will be
held from 7 to 8 p.m. Campus
clothes will be in order.
Lucretia Prentiss, junior in mu
sic, will play Chopin's Nocturne in
E Minor. Two pianologues, “Elsie,
the Glow Worm” and “In the Good
Old Summertime,” will be present
ed by Steve Stone, senior in music.
The man chosen by the Mortar
Board as the ideal husband, Ralph
Johnson, third-year law student,
will be interviewed by Mistress of
Ceremonies Janet Beigal.
Donald M. DuShane, director of
student affairs, and Mrs. Golda P.
Wickham, associate director of
women’ affairs, will speak. The
Mortar Board scholarship plaque
will be presented to the three
freshman women making the high
est GPA’s last year.
Refreshments will be served by
Kwama and Phi Theta Upsilon,
sophomore and junior women’s
hnnoraries.
National Exec
TobeSDXGuest
Neal Van Sooy, national presi
dent of Sigma Delta Chi, men’s pro
fessional journalism fraternity,
will be guest of honor at the SDX
banquet to be held February 10 at
the Eugene hotel.
Oregon and Oregon State College
chapters of SDX will be joint spon
sors of the occasion, which will be
a combined initiation and meeting.
The initiation will begin at 5:30 p.
m., dinner starting at 6.
Van Sooy will address the meet
ing, which is expected to draw ap
proximately 75 SDX members from
Corvallis, Eugene, and the western
part of the state. Following the Eu
gene meeting, Van Sooy will speak,
before a meeting of the Portland
chapter on Friday night, traveling
to Moscow, Idaho, for a Saturday
installation of an SDX chapter at
The University of Idaho.
Publisher of the Santa Paula,
California, Chronicle, Van Sooy will
share honors with John McClelland,
Jr., newly elected vice president in
charge of undergraduate affairs,
who is editor of the Longview,
Washington, Daily News, who will
come south for the meeting.
Recital Postponed
The senior recital scheduled to
be presented by Wayne Sherwood
on Thursday, February 3, in the
music school auditorium has been
postponed until Sunday, February
113.
By Bob Funk
A release made late yesterday from Johnson hall administra
tion offices apparently doomed the controversial term-to-se
mester proposal.
In a statement made for publication in today’s faculty bulle
tin, the office of information declared that “President Newburn
has decided to make no recommendation at this time either to
the Chancellor or the State Board of Higher Education with re
jard to the recent faculty ac
tion recommending change to a
semester basi§.”
To Improve Terms
President Newburn stated
that “This decision results from
the closeness of the vote (a ma
jority of one, with a consider
able number not voting ) and the
decision of the Board of Deans to
make a careful analysis of the pres
ent term organization in an effort
to improve its effectiveness.”
In addition to his announcement
in the faculty bulletin, the Presi
dent sent a letter to the Student
Executive council, commending the
members for their interest in the
controversy. The council had sent a
letter to the President's office pro
testing tha proposed change after
surveying student opinion on the
subject.
Faculty Vote Close
Commenting on the President's
action Dean Orlando J. Hollis of the
law school noted that "In view of
the fact that the faculty vote on
the recommended change was so
close, I think the president’s deci
sion was a wise one.”
Hollis went on to say that the de
cision would be met favorably by
the law school, which would be fac
ed by grave curricular problems
were a semester system adopted. At
the present time the school offers
courses which could not be adapted
to a semester calendar without
lengthening the law course.
BA Dean Approves
Victor P. Morris, dean of the
school of business administration,
also commented favorably on the
President’s action.
“I have worked under both sys
tems,” stated Morris, “and al
though both have their corner on
advantage, I believe that the term
system had a slight edge over the
semester basis.”
Dean S. W. Little of the school of
architecture and allied arts observ
ed that a change would have little
effect on his school, most of the
courses being on a yearly basis at
the present time. Little stated that
he voted for the semester plan in
the faculty meeting.
The semester system has been
opposed by a number of students
in letters to the Emerald.
International
League Meet
Scheduled
The Oregon High School Inter
national ieague will hold its second
annual conference on the Oregon,
campus February 25-26, Dr. Char
les P. Schleicher announced yester
day.
Some 172 high school students
and their advisers will discuss ex
pects of the question “Can the
United Nations do the Job?”
A Friday evening banquet and
c'ance will top the social events of
the conference.
Plans Completed
Conference plans have been made
by state student officers and the
Oregon Educational Com m i 11 e e
which sponsors the conference.
Six specific questions will be dis
cussed in three sessions during the
two days by all members of all
roundtables. An outstanding au
thority on world affairs will ad
dress the group and foreign stud
ents attending the University will
participate in the discussion panels.
Discuss United Nations
The first session will deal with:
“Is the UN adequate to bring about,
the peaceful settlement of interna
tional disputes?”
Other topics include: “What has:
the UN done to bring about the
limitation and regulation of arma
ments" and “How effective is the
economic, social, and cultural ac
tivity of the United Nations in re
moving the causes of international
conflict and war?”
Wengert on KASH
Dr. Egbert S. Wengert, head of
the political science department,
led a group of four on the regular
Monday night round table sponsor
ed by the Eugene Council of World
Affairs at 7:30 p. m., Monday even
ing, January 31 over station KASH.
Whether the United States has a,
foreign policy, what it is, and what
should be done about it, was the
topic of discussion, Dr. Wengert.
said.
Campus Headlines to Discuss
Free Thought Versus 'Isms'
Something new — a thought
stimulating discussion regarding
the responsibility of mass commun
ications will be the theme of the
radio studio's “Campus Headlines”
on KOAC at 9 tonight.
Written by Norm Lamb, senior
speech student, and Hal Larson,
sophomore in liberal arts, the pro
gram defends free thought against
the many “isms” existing through
out the world.
Directed by Jay Ryerse, the cast
includes Warren Dobbins, Norm
Lamb, Hal Larson, and Anne Mc
George. Station KEX in Portland
will carry the program by trans
cription Saturday, February o.
The shining idealism that “on a
is the promised land, the golden
land of equal opportunities . . . no
tyrants . . . here is freedom,” Jb
branded as a series of glittering
generalities. Then there is the oth
er extreme: ", . . every time I make
a nickel, Uncle Sam steps in a-'d
grabs it. Equality my foot ... the
capitalists are getting richer and
we’re getting poorer.”
The script was designed, accord
ing to Co-Author Lamb, to provoke
thought and criticism among Uni
versity students.