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
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BA Students Accept'Duel of Honor'
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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.