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Oregon VOLUME L Fiftieth Vear of Publication and S ervice to the University UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1949 NUMBER 116 Editor, Business Manager Picked Editor—Don Smith ( Business Manager—Joan Mimnaugh These two were named to head the 1949-50 Emerald by the Educa tional Activities Board yesterday. ~ Business manager was chosen from five applicants interviewed in the afternoon and editor was chosen from nine petitioners last night. Second British Vessel Hit '1001 Nights'Court Selected by Voters Princesses fot Junior Weekend this year, as announced last - night after late tabulation, are: Mary Margaret Jones, Pi Beta Phi; Donna Masterson, Delta „ Delta Delta; Phyllis Morgan, Delta Gamma; Virginia Thomp son, University house; and Harriet Vannatta, Kappa Kappa Gamma. One of these winners will be Weekend queen, but her name Politics Not Involved, Allen Says The proposal to amend the ASUO. constitutional provision on amendments is not being backed as a political measure by any one party, according to student body president, Bob Allen. Allen gives as his reasons for supporting the move, activated by , the circulation of petitions, as‘fol lows: “Next year the constitution may need to be amended in order to start the Student Union adminis tration. It is now virtually impos sible to push an amendment through because passage requires a two-thirds majority with at least half of the student body voting. Spring Elections “Only in spring ASUO elections •—and sometimes not even then— fifty per cent of the students vote,” Allen claimed. When asked whether taking out the 50 per cent requirement, as recommended by the petitioners, would not make it possible for a small minority to push through any amendment, Allen answered: “I don't see how it could, be cause the present publicity require ments would be retained. Any election for amendment consider ation must be publicized at least twice in the Emerald, the last no tice appearing at least a week be fore the election date. Chance to Fight Proposal “Thus any political party would have ample time to marshal forces for or against a proposed amend ment.” This publicity requirement was the reason for the petition method used to bring the amendment be fore the student body, Allen claimed. “I didn’t have time to bring it up before the executive council, and in order to get it in the Emer ald before the week deadline, we had to have petitions signed.” The president stated that he nevertheless intends to bring the matter up before the next execu tive council meeting for ratifica tion. will be kept secreta until the coronation at the All-Campus Sing, May 6. Counting was done by two unknown tabulators who relat ed the results to Susie Michel, co-chairman of the elimination and coronation. Students voted for their choice of queen from a list of eight candidates at the Co-op yes terday from a. m. to 5 p. m. The queen and her court of four princesses will reign over the ma jor events of Oregon’s traditional Junior Weekend. These include the parade, picnic and prom. Interviews of each winner will be forthcoming in the Emerald. Last year’s queen was Nancy Swem. Mary Joy Hamm, Mary Handelin, Mary Lou Hill and Donna Stage burgh made up her court. Maggis Johns directed the bal loting this year. Co-chairman with Miss Michel is Dorothy Orr. Oratorical Contest Deadline Nears Tomorrow is the deadline for en tering the Failing-Beekman senior oratorical contest to be held on Commencement eve. Any interest ed graduating senior should confer with W. A. Dahlberg in room 210 Villard hall. Prizes of $150, $100 and $50 are being offered for the best speeches on any topic. Interdorm Council Gets New Officers Interdorm council officers for the coming year were elected at the council’s first meeting of spring term, Wednesday night. Newly elected officers are Pres ident Victor Fryer, Stitzer hall; Vice-President, H. Paul Jaeger, Stan Ray Hall; and Secretary Treasurer Betty Horand, Hen dricks hall. Ducklings Need 200 Counselors Petitions Due Petitions for YWCA Duckling counselors may be turned in at the bungalow beginning today and ending Thursday, April 28. Flying speech groups called for freshman, sophomore, and junior women to fill these posts yesterday. House representatvies are to pick up their petition forms at the bungalow tonight for distribution in their living organization. “Any girl who does not receive a blank in her living organization may pick one up at the “Y,” Bar bara Metcalf, sophomore commis sion chairman, stated yesterday. The purpose of the Duckling program is to get new women stu dents acquainted with the Univer sity by having a counselor to help them get adjusted. Each counselor will be assigned about four Duck lings. She will contact them by letter during the summer and ar range to meet them on the cam pus during Freshman week. I “We will need girls from all classes, not just freshmen,” Miss Metcalf explained. “The upper class commission is taking over the responsibility of counseling transfer students.” Training meetings will be held to acquaint the 200 counselors needed with their duties. The first of these is scheduled for May 2. Communists Shell English Warships In China River SHANKHAI, Thursday, April 21 — (AP) — Foreign naval sources said a third British warship was shelled today on the Yangtze by Communist artillery. There was no confirmation the craft had been hit. First radio reports said the sloop Black Swan had been dam aged and that she had suffered 15 or more casualties. Later, how ever, British naval sources here said they had not been informed of either damage or casualties aboard the ship. British naval sources said all three shelling definitely came from the Communist side of the great river. The Reds are known to have heavy concen trations or artillery in position to support a crossing of the Yangtze. The toll in the attacks on the Amethyst and the Consort was 27 dead and at least 23 wounded. A British naval attache source in Shanghai said 17 were known dead on the Amethyst and 20 wounded. The Consort docked in Shanghai today and 10 bodies were removed. She carried 16 wounded, some of which may have been pick ed up from the Amethyst. U. S. Navy and Marine corps men formed an honor guard at pier one of the Shanghai dockyard on the Whangpoo river where the Consort docked. The British were preparing to remove the bodies. The destroyer showed evidence of her engagement with the Red shore batteries but the side of her hull facing the dockyard was not punctured. The Black Swan was shelled, naval sources said, while thrying to aid the stricken Amethyst, the first British ship caught as China’s civil war broke but in full fury again along the great river. The Black Swan was shelled be tween Nanking and Shanghai in (Please turn to page two) BA Students Accept'Duel of Honor' * ¥ ¥ * * Strong Language In Reply Berates Law Scholars TO THE LAW SCHOOL STUDENT BODY WHEREAS, (to point up the use less and obscuring phrase so com monly employed by those members of the legal fraternity) the able, honest, diligent, capable, and cul tured members of the School of Business Administration have been challenged to a duel of honor on the softball field with aforesaid mem bers of the law school, let it be known that we of the business school, whose noble ancestors have so gallantly withstood the repeated verbal onslaughts of the irrespon sible members of the bar to their detriment, hereby accept with glee the opportunity to again prove our unbeaten superiority in the fields of art, music, religion, philosophy, medicine, science, and softball on Saturday, April 30, 1949, at such ambush as the lawyers may desig nate. It is with unmitigated delight that we in the healthful and scho lastic atmosphere of the business school contemplate this contest, in spite of the handicaps imposed on us by those of us whose back grounds are tainted with the odor of law books before realizing that the “profession” of law held naught but sorrow, poverty, disappointment, and disilusionment to a spirit whose anticipation at first was to rise above the common levels im posed on those who must "earn” their daily bread by conniving, scheming, and unmeritorious con duct in the affairs of their fellow men. » Indeed, it will be with righteous indignation that we students have revenge on those gullions of society who will later deprive us of our last cent in the business world, who by their lechery have imposed such a hopelessly confused array of legal maxims on us that even they them selves fail to understand them, and who are using these maxims have drugged society to the extent that only the dishonest survive, to the end that there remain nothing but fertile ground for the dictatorship of the legal eagles. Therefore, “STUDENTS" OF THE LAW SCHOOL, be advised that in due course your palsied hands, and dim eyesight will give evidence to the world of your utter dissipation and inability to give ev en niiddleing competition to the stalwart captains of industry at the appointed hour. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION • • • Won't Mean Much, According to Dr. Dull WJiat’s the meaning of this shell ing of British warships in China’s Yangtze river? That’s the question The Daily Emerald put last night to Dr. Paul Dull, the University's specialist in Far Eastern affairs. His answer: “I don’t think this is going to lead to anything very serious.” His explanation: “This sort of thing has been go ing on for 100 years. The British have had warships in the Yangtze ever since 1840, and this sort of thing has happened before, and nothing much ever has come of it. It’s a natural consequence of the civil war in China. “I suspect it’ll probably just fiz zle out, and we’ll never know for sure just who did the shooting. “The British government is in a very touch spot, naturally. But I don’t think it has either the power or the willingness to do anything serious about the shooting.’’ Will the United States get in volved? “I don’t think the II. S. will want to get involved in China. "After all, our major problem is to work out the European mess. Russia wrould just love to have us fritter away our strength in China, where it wouldn’t hurt her, but would sap us.” Service Project Petitions Due Petitions for YWCA service pro ject workers are due tomorrow, ac cording to Beverly Buckley, co chairman. ‘‘We will need non-Eugene girls for all-year work and Eugene girls for summer positions,” Miss Buck ley stated yesterday. This year’s Y service projects in clude work with “Y-Teen” groups; counseling; big sister programs; play ground supervision; Commun ity house work; emergency help for the Red Cross and Spastic hospital. Other service projects include baby sitting, helping foreign brides to speak English; work at the Alice Marie home for underprivileged children and the nursery for child ren of students and faculty. Petitions may be turned in to Miss Buckley at the Delta Delta Delta house; Jean Armstrong at Gamma Phi Beta, or at the YWCA bungalow.