VOLUME L
Fiftieth Year of Publication and Service to the Unive?sitv
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1049
NUMBER 90
Army Ball
Set for Next
Saturday
Little Colonel to Be
Announced at Dance
With music by Jerry Van Hoo
missen and his 12-piece orchestr,
the second annual all-campus Mili
tary ball, since the close of the
war, will be held Saturday night
at McArthur court.
Van Hoomissen, from Portland
where he broadcasts over NBC,
features a style which “tries to
give the dancers moderately tem
poed music, with not too many fast
tunes or drags—just something in
between.”
i The University dance is formal, I
J>ut Scabbard and Blade President
Carl Miller emphasized that flow
ers are not in order. Tickets for
the event are $2.50 and may be
purchased at the Co-op or from
any member of Scabbard and
Blade.
At the dance, the Little Colonel
will be announced. Selection will
be based upon votes, for the nine
Little Captains, with all votes to
be cast at the Co-op. The nine Little
Captains are: Georgianne Balaam,
Jo Ann Jarvis, Mary Sexton, Lois
Ann Kaegle, Marilee McFarland,
Roberta Tussing, Gay Williams,
Beverly Zamsky, and Pat Husband.
Miller announced that men pur
chasing tickets should give the
name of their living organization,
and the men’s organization pur
chasing the most tickets will be
given a 5 per cent rebate on the net
proceeds for the dance. Veterans
and ROTC students are also en
couraged to wear their uniforms
to the dance, Miller said.
Van Hoomissen, having one of
the few bands in the West which
features a French horn and bas
soon, features John Waitt, one of
the leading musicians and French
horn players in the country.
Coeds to Select
Group Officers
Women students will vote for
next year’s AWS, WAA gmd
YWCA officers tomorrow at the
YWCA.
Candidates will be introduced at
a nominating assembly to be held
at 12:30 tomorrow at the YW.
Nominations may also be made
from the floor at that time.
An AWS regulation requires
that no names of candidates be
disclosed until the day of elec
tion, in order to prevent cam
paigning. Tomorrow’s Emerald
will list the candidates.
Voting booths will be open
willfrom 12:30 to 6 p.m. and ASUO
cards are required.
Outgoing presidents are:
Bev Pitman, Associated Women
Students; Betty Jean McCourry,
Women's Athletic association; and
Laura Olson, Young Women’s
Christian association.
The Weather . . .
Mostly cloudy and mild with oc
casional rain.
Top Sideman
JOHN WATT wll show off his
talent as a French horn player
when the Jerry Van Hoomissen
orchestra plays for the Miliatry
ball Saturday night.
Rabbi Speaks
On Tolerance,
Brotherhood
The word “tolerance” should be
obsolete, Rabbi Saul Appelbaum, of
the Congregation Beth Israel, Port
land, said in a University Assembly
program last night.
The Portland rabbi spoke on “Are
Men Brothers or Bothers?” in con
nection with National Brotherhood
Week. He objects to the word tol
erance because he feels it is out
moded in our thinking.
Tolerance implies “a lordly gift
and a humble receiver,” Appelbaum
said. “It implies condensension and
we do not need condencension in
our world. We need all our strength
to unite to succeed.”
“I am not interested in tolerance
per se,” he said. “The kind of world
in which we live demands a feeling
of oneness of man.”
The rabbi warned that the great
est enemy of ours in Europe today
is the gap between what we pro
fess and what we do. He believes
that this is the time for Americans
to take action.
Don’t Overlook Learning
He mentioned the danger of
“glossing over learning from high
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Student Traffic Court Urged
In ASUO Committee Report
News Strike Impairs Legislature
SALEM, Feb. 21—(AP)—The senate was only kid
ding, but it voted today to limit its daily sessions to 30
minutes because the strikebound Portland newspapers
can't print the legislative oratory.
Then, the senate launched into a long debate on
whether congress should repeal the Taft-Hartley labor
law.
They also voted to collect “all cast-off clothing; bot
tles, filled or half-filled; uncolored margarine and skim
milk for the benefit of the six unemployed legislative
correspondents of the two papers.
The resolution, written by Sen. Thomas R. Mahon
ey, Portland, said the newspaper strike has “rendered
innocucous and useless senate oratory, inasmuch as no
publicity will result.”
Dr. Newburn's Son
West Point Choice
Robert Lee Newburn, son of
Dr. and Mrs. Harry K. Newburn
was nominated recently by Rep
resentative Harris Ellsworth as a
principal for appointment to
West Point.
♦ Newburn is a senior at Univer
sity high school. Upon successful
completion of final mental and
physical examinations he will en
ter the academy July 1.
State Board Offers
Fee Scholarships
State fee scholarship applica
tions must he filed at the regis
trar’s office by April 1 to be con
sidered for the 1949-50 scholar
ships. The application blanks are
now available in room 104, Emerald
hall.
These scholarships are awarded
by the State Board of Higher Edu
cation, and amount to $22 per
term for undergraduate students
who are Oregon residents. Gradu
ate students may receive $21.50;
$72 per term is awaraded to out
of-state students.
To be eligible to apply, the stu
dent must have at least a 2.50 cum
ulative GPA and must be in need
of financial assistance.
Shakespearean Company
Will Present Macbeth
Margaret Webster’s Shakespear
ean company, currently touring
universities and colleges in the
Northwest, will present “Macbeth”
to Eugene audiences on March 2
in McArthur court, announced Hor
ace W. Robinson of the drama de
partment.
Mail orders are now being accep
ted for tickets for the production.
They should be addressed to Box
Office, University of Oregon.
Reserved seats are priced at
$3.60, $2.40, and $1.80, and will go
on sale and the box office in John
son hall this Friday. General ad
missions will be sold at the door
and will cost adults $1.20 and stu
dents 60 cents.
Proclaimed one of the finest di
rectors in modern theater, she is
also an actress and author of
“Shakespeare Without Tears." She
has received honorary degrees from
Lawrence college, Russell Sage col
lege, Rutgers university, and Smith
college, and was one of the co
founders of the American Reper
tory theater.
The daughter of Ben Webster and
Dame May Whitty, Margaret Web
ster was a member of London's Old
Vic theater, and has played with
Judith Anderson and Lunt and
Fontanne.
Her first New York production
was “Richard II.” She has directed
other Shakespearean dramas which
starred Helen Hayes, Paul Robe
son, and Maurice Evans.
Schumacher
Sets Plans For
Essay Contest
The Philo Sherman Bennett prize
of $35 is being offered this year for
the best student essay on the prin
ciples of free government, Waldo
Schumacher, professor in political
science, and chairman of the essay
contest committee, announced
Monday.
“Any interested undergraduate
is invited to participate to matter
in which school he may be major
ing,’’ Dr. Schumacher said. “Any
person who is interested in essay
writing and in government would
find it profitable to participate be
cause he might win $5, but more
important, he could put his
thoughts down on writing and thus
proceed to educate himself.’’
Essay subjects, which University
students may use are, “Academic
Freedom and Democracy” and
“Civil Rights in Oregon.” Contest
rules specify a length of 6,000
words or less, while standard doc
umentation practices are to be ob
served. Essays are due by May 21,
1949, while the committee adds
that it reserves the right to with
hold the award.
Papers may be turned in to Dr.
Schumacher, who added that the
contest expiration date has been set
for May 21 so that the winner's
name may be placed on the com
mencement calendar.
Other members of the contest
committee are P. L. Kleinsorge, as
sistant professor of history. Addi
tional information on the contest
may be secured from Dr. Schu
macher or other members of the
committee.
President Newburn
To Speak in Frisco
j President H. K. Newburn will go
• to San Francisco this week to at
tend a meeting of the American
Association of Junior Colleges.
The president will speak on
“Equipping Youth to Create New
Frontiers" at a meeting February
26. On Friday the 25th, he will be
present at a San Francisco gath
ering of Oregon alumni. He is
! scheduled to return on Sunday.
Three-Member
Court Will Have
Faculty Adviser
Establishment of a student
traffic court was proposed by
the ASUO executive council in
its meeting last night.
The council unanimously
adopted the report of a three
man committee which has been
studying campus traffic prob
lems and their probable solutions.
According to the plan, a student
traffic court will be set up to act
on all traffic violations on the cam
pus. The court will be composed of
three students — a sophomore, a
junior and a senior.
The three members will select a
faculty member to serve as a non
voting advisor.
At the meeting ASUO President
Bob Allen pointed out that this
court could be one of the first tseps
in proving the students capable of
self-government.
The court will have power to act
on all cases occurring on Universi
ty property, those referred to it by
municipal authorities, and those
ASIJO President Bob Ailen last
night issued a call for positions
on the traffic court. One sopho
more, one junior, and one senior
will be seelcted at the next execu
tive council meeting to make up
the three man- court. Petitions
may be submitted at the ASUO
president’s office in Emerald hall.
given to it by student compaint.
The plan also calls for a registra
I tion system for cars on the campus.
According to the proposal, only cars
carrying a University registration
sticker will be able to park on the
student parking lots. Money collect
ed from the 25 cent registration fee
will be used to improve parking fa
cilities.
Members of the committtee that
submitted the report were June
Goetze, Ed Ladendorff, and Bob
Pearce.
SDX Will See
Lawmen Work
Members of Sigma Delta Chi,
men’s professional journalism hon
orary, will descend on Salem this
Thursday to attend a session of the
state legislature and “talk shop’’
with press correspondents.
Termed a ^legislative field trip,
the day will include, in addition to
attending the session, a dinner with
correspondents of the Oregonian,
Journal, Associated Press and Unit
ed Press. Members will also have
an opportunity to attend the "hot
test special session of the year,’’ at
8 p.m. Thursday, which will deal
with the Columbia Valley Author
ity.
Larry Lau, SDX president, has
called a meeting at 4 this after
noon in room 104, Journalism, to
discuss transportation problems
and make final plans for the trip.