VOLUME LI
Fifty-First Year of Publication and Service to the University
I XII LKSIT\ OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8,1949
NUMBER 13
Rally Set
For Team
Welcome
Third in this year’s series of wel
coming rallies for the Webfoot grid
team is slated for Sunday noon,
rally board chairman Art Ross an
nounced yesterday.
Sound equipment will start
rounding up houses at 11:30 a.m.
Because a large number of stu
dents will be attending church ser
vices, the rally will not be the
paired snowball type used last
week, but a regular rally with
each house furnishing its own
transportation.
The train bearing the team back
from Pullman is due in Eugene at
12:10 p.m. Churchgoers are reques
ted to come to the Southern Pa
cific depot immediately after ser
vices.
“The rally will be over about
12:30, leaving adequate time for
students to make 1:00 Sunday din
ner in their living organizations,”
Ross stated.
Bob Stageburg, rally duke, will
head the six-girl rally squad Sun
day in the absence of Jim Crismon,
0 who followed the Ducks to Wash
ington State.
"It isn’t necessary to wait for
the sound truck to come to your
living organization,” Ross ex
plained. "Students may go on down
to the depot.”
“We had a big turnout at the
rally last Saturday and we’re hop
ing for another good showing
this week,” the chairman conclu
ded.
AWS to Auction
Guys and Gals
Tentative plans for this year’s
AWS Auction, scheduled for Oct.
39, include auctioning off one class
each of a men’s and women’s living
organization to entertain in other
houses.
This plan was utilized last year
when Alpha Phi freshmen and a
group of Phi Gamma Delta'enter
tainers were rented to the highest
bidder. The two organizations were
chosen by lot.
Main portion of the material up
for auction will be items from the
lost-and-found and campus living
organizations.
The Auction is held annually in
front of the College Side. Proceeds
go to the Associated Women Stu
k dents.
General chairman is Kathy Lit
tlefield; committee chairmen are
Diane Ford, posters; Gretchen
Grondahl, publicity; Ruth Dexter,
decorations; Mary Hall, program;
Ann Darby, collections; and Vir
ginia Kellogg, cleanup.
Committee members will be an
nounced next week.
Chest Drive Goal
Near; Students Lag
The campus Community Chest
had less than $250 to go to reach
its $4000 goal late Friday after
noon.
Minturn Hall leads men’s houses
in contributions, while Delta Gam
ma is first for the women. Only
houses to respond 100 per cent by
Friday’s report were Rebec and Al
pha Delta Pi.
Total contributions for the stu
dents stands at $297.76. Only 23
houses have turned in their reports
at this time.
On the faculty side, the picture
was brighter, with all but six cam
pus groups reporting by Friday
afternoon, according to Paul R.
Washke, head of the faculty drive.
First Fun Night
Attracts Crowds
To Gerlinger
More than 300 students enliv
ened Gerlinger Hall last night
making the first Fun' Night this
term a success.
Groups of 120 couples at a time
danced to “Birdie in the> Cage’’ and
other square dances from 8 to
10:30 p.m. These were called by
Margaret Logan, physical educa
tion instructor. Piano accompani
ment was provided by Wally Bul
lard, music graduate.
Students also waited their turn
to play ping pong on the sunporcli,
and volleyball and badminton in
the outdoor gym. Many took ad
vantage of the Gerlinger pool.
The event, which was no-admis
sion, no-date, was arranged by the
Women’s Athletic Association.
They plan to hold more such, re
creational evenings during the
year.
Co-chairmen for last night were
Joan Carr and Janet Frye. Dough
nuts and cokes were sold.
Visit Planned
By Mademoiselle
Representative
Darcy Friedman, assistant col
lege board editor of Mademoiselle
magazine, will visit the University
of Oregon Wednesday and Thurs
day, Oct. 12 and 13, to tell Oregon
coeds how to compete for one of 20
Mademoiselle guest editorships.
Women students interested in
hearing Mrs. Friedman speak
should leave their names with Mrs.
Golda P. Wickham, director of
women’s affairs, in her office in
Emerald Hall as soon as possible.
The 20 college “Guest Editors”
will be brought to New York City
next June to help write and edit
the 1950 August College issue of
Mademoiselle. They will be paid a
regular salary for their month’s
work and round-trip transporta
tion to New York City.
A full calendar of activities de
signed to give the “Guest Editors”
a head start in their careers has
been planned for them in New
York.
During her visit to the Univer
sity campus, Mrs. Friedman will
also talk with English and jour
nalism professors about Mademoi
selle’s annual fiction contest, and
will look for campus news that
might be reported in the maga
zine’s feature articles.
Journal Publishes
Foreign Data
The Oregon Journal is publish
ing a “Program of Information on
World Affairs” designed for class
room and individual study.
Charles P. Schleicher, professor
of political science, expressed the
belief that the program is worth
students’ attention. Schleicher is
a member of the Journal’s advisory
committee.
The program centers around an
annual guidebook with study out
lines and reading references on 26
major world topics. Background
articles on the topics appear in the
Sunday Journal.
Game Broadcast
The Oregon-Washing ton State
College football game will be
broadcast this afternoon over
station KORE, 1450 k.c., start
ing at 1:45. Damp, ehilly weather
is expected in Pullman for the
game.
Court to Hear
Suspect's Plea
The Co-op burglary case goes be
fore the Circuit Court Tuesday
when James Cameron, accused of
the entry, will make a plea of guil
ty or not guilty.
In a preliminary hearing before
the District Court Friday the state
introduced three witnesses — twe
Eugene policemen and G. L. Hen
son, manager of the University Co
op store.
Sufficient evidence that a crime
had been committed and that the
defendant was seemingly guilty of
the crime was produced by the
state's representative R. K. Rod
man, deputy district attorney, Cam
eron was bound over to the Grand
Jury by Judge Chester N. Ander
son.
The defendant has informally
waived Grand Jury action, however,
and will appear before the Circuit
Court, attorney William Roberts,
who was appointed by the court to
represent Cameron, reported Fri
day.
If Cameron pleads guilty at the
Tuesday arraignment, he w.ill b.e
sentenced immediately. If he pleads
not guilty a date will be set for a
trial.
Local police Friday had not yet
received a report on Cameron from
Seattle in connection with a Uni
versity of Washington burglary nor
an FBI report on his finger prints.
Class Registration
Ends Noon Today
Noon today is the deadline for
registration and addition of clas
ses to students’ programs.
Those students who have not
yet completed these processes
should do so immediately in
Emerald Hail, stated C. E. Con
stance, registrar.
Weather...
Partly cloudy today, fog in
morning.
Word Gets Out
DU Fraternity
Houses Kappa
By Gretchen Grondalil
There’s a Kappa living in the
DU house.
What’s more, until the other day
the DU’s didn’t know it!
Yes, the Delta Upsilon frater
nity’s pet skunk, Honeybun, is
making the headlines again.
Seems that Honeybun's keeper,
pledge Gus Garrlgus, took his
charge on a visit to the Kappa
Kappa Gamma sorority house.
We don’t know how Gus got
along, but Honeybun made such
an impression that the girls sol
emnly voted her an honorary
Kappa.
Post office department officials
were considerably puzzled when
they received the skunk's letter,
notifying her of the move. They
questioned the probability of any
“Miss Honeybun” living in a cam
pus fraternity house.
Anyway, the letter finally ar
rived Thursday, causing consider
able excitement among the good
brothers.
According to latest reports,
Honeybun is still happy at the DU
house—and the DU’s are quite
happy to have a Kappa living in
their midst.
Just to soothe all raised eye
brows: there’s been no stink raised
about a. sorority girl living in this
fraternity house, because the DU’s
report that Honeybun is com
pletely deodorized.
Action Postponed
On Local Group
No action was taken on the for
mation of a campus chapter of the
State Employees Association at a
meeting of a faculty-civil service
group Thursday night in Fenton
Hall.
Forrest V. Stewart, executive
secretary of the State Employees
Association, explained to the 15
present the purposes of the state
organization. It was decided to
have a later meeting and attempt
to have more civil service people in
attendance. At present there are
two chapters of the organization
in Eugene to which University em
ployees can belong.
Dirty Race
Said OK
For Winter
Kieth Fennell, local businessman
and vice president of the Millrace
Park Association, stated Friday
that he knew of “no immediate
need for the chlorination of the
millrace.”
“We’ve got the millrace now,”
pointed out Fennell, “and it is too
late in the year for swimming any
way. The pollution doesn’t inter
fere with canoeing.”
Fennell felt that the best solu
tion of the new problem of a sew
age-contaminated race would be to
wait until the situation is eventu
ally overcome by a new disposal
plant at Springfield.
NEXT YEAR
"Anyway,” decided Fennell, “it’s
something to work on for next
year.”
Evidence that the University at
least will be working on the prob
lem before next year was the ac
tion of the ASUO Executive Coun
cil in appointing Warren Davis to
head a new millrace committee.
(Davis, working in co-operation
with Lou Weston, will attempt to
deal with the contamination prob
lem.
Meanwhile, Dr. M. V. Walker,
president of the Millrace Associa
tion, expressed-surprise in the re
sults of the County Health Boards
Monday night meeting. The board
turned down the chlorination plan
on the assumption that such a
process would be uncertain and ex
travagant.
I’LENTY OF CASH
“There are sufficient funds avail
able to chlorinate the millrace,”
stated Dr. Walker. The millrace
association has had engineers esti
mate the cost, which would be ap
proximately $2000 per year.
"However, our funds are not
ours to control. The City Council
must make all decisions pertaining
to the millrace money.” The money
was raised last year in the drive
for millrace restoration. Only about
one-fourth of the money was ac
tually used in the restoration it
self.
Sabine Attacks Reading Public as 'Lazy';
Newspaper Week Talk Defends Journalism
By Ken Metzler
Lazy newspaper readers drew
verbal fire from Gordon A. Sabine,
assistant professor of journalism,
in a speech Friday.
Mr. Sabine spoke before a group
of Eugene businessmen at a Cham
ber of Commerce luncheon. His ad
dress was titled “How Stupid Can
You Get?” and was presented in
observance of National Newspaper
Week.
He said too many readers skim
the headlines of the daily news
paper and then turn to the sports
page or the comics.
“If you do skip the comics or
sports how in the devil can you
know what is going on in the
world?” he asked. “Some people
read so little that all they get is
a fool's glimpse of the world.”
Although the newspaper must,
compete with the multi-fold activ
ities of its readers, Sabine charged
that large numbers of people do
not know how to read a news
paper:
“It only takes 30 minutes of the
reader's time to get the main
trend of the day’s news.”
He pointed out that the news
paper is arranged in a manner con
ducive to efficient reading. Its
important news is all presented
in one section. Headlines give the
essence of a story in just a few
words.
Sabine asked readers to analyze
what they are reading and pay
particular attention to the quoted
source of the story.
He admitted newspapers make
mistakes. “But so do those in other
professions. However, the errors
i of no profession are as glaring as
those of the newspaper.”
And no profession is so abused
by the public as the newspapers,
Sabine added.
“The public doesn’t argue with
professional men in other fields.
Wo don’t tell a lawyer he is a dope
or a pastor that his sermon is all
wet. We don’t tell a doctor to move
over and let us handle this opera
tion.
“Yet that is precisely what the
readers do to the highly trained,
men who put out the daily news
paper. They lambast and cuss up
anyone who has the smallest finger
in the publication of a newspaper.”
However, they have a constitu
tional right to do this and whether
their criticism is just or unjust,
their voice will be heard, Sabin®
declared.