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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1950)
'Falling in Love' Theory False, Kirkendall Claims The idea of “falling in love,” as depicted in the movies and roman tic novels, is false. Lester A. Kirk endall said Tuesday night in his first lecture of the Marriage and Family series. “Growing in love,” he believes, is a more correct term. Topic for Kirltendall’s speech, sponsored by the campus YWCA and YMCA, was “How Do You Know You’re in Love?” The lec turer is assistant professor of family life at Oregon State Col lege. “Love is built about the capacity of individuals to meet each other’s personality needs,” Kirkendall ex plained, “and upon the strength ening of an individual’s feelings of respect for himself through the association. It can seldom happen quickly.” Following an outline that he distributed to approximately 200 students present, the speaker first defined love, then explained that the emotion is most likely to en dure if it results from a process tjj^jgrowth and development. '"No one can foresee how perma nent that feeling will be because it can be furthered or lost in a single relationship,” Kirkendall pointed out, “but counselors can determine what kind of a mate a person should seek after interview ing him.” Ability to decide or foresee the genuineness of love doesn't depend upon chronological age, but upon the emotional maturity of an indi vidual. If an individual can analyze himself objectively, receive criti cism, compromise, and sacrifice for an ideal, then he is mature enough to decide whether he should marry. He can then test the genuineness of his emotions by using other criteria. Sixteen questions such as, “Do 5rou find when you are together that you have many things to talk about,” were offered by the speak er as a test. “Looking into each other’s eyes can be used to represent the usual high school and college type of i love,” Kirkendall stated, “but the most desirable and lasting rela tionship can be described as‘stand ing shoulder to shoulder and look ing into the future’.” i “Petting and such other overt acts of love are needed by an indi i vidual if he doesn’t realize that commonness of goals is desirable ■*a-nd not just the manifestations of such feeling.” No genuine relationship can be experienced unless both individuals have observed such relationships before, such as in their own home,” Kirkendall stated. Jealousy, Kirkendall believes, is another result of an insecure re lationship. A person feels insecure Mortar Board Girls Average 3.3 GPA Members of Mortar Board, sen ior women’s honor society, have worked hard the past term to merit their gold graduation tas sels, President Marjorie Petersen announced. The average GPA of the 15 women was a 3.30. Joan Mimnaugh, senior in English and business manager of the Emerald, topped the list with a 4.00. Browsing Room Gives Opera Broadcasts The Metropolitan Opera broad | cast of Puccini’s opera “Tosca” may be heard in the Browsing Room of the University Library at 11 a.m., Saturday. The Browsing Room opens at 11 every Saturday to allow stu dents to hear the broadcasts. in his emotion, because he does not recognize the inner signs of love, and therefore become ex tremely selfish in securing the overt acts of love. “A feeling of insecurity is no sign, however, that a marriage would fail,” the- lecturer pointed out, “because almost everyone has doubts as the marriage ceremony approaches.” “A free and frank discussion' by both parties should clear up these doubts; if it doesn’t then the vows shouldn’t be consummated until the trouble is cleared up,” Kirkendall advised. “Security in love can’t result when an individual feels he has a terrific “reforming job” to do on his mate. Such large personality prob lems may create friction and there fore, no one had betten plan a “ma jor overhaul job” after vows are ex changed if he wants a successful marriage, Kirkendall explained. Sexual attraction is not a cen tral factor of love, but an aware ness of a physical attraction is nec essary, the speaker added. Kirkendall will speak Jan. 24 on “Making Courtship and Engage ment Count.” The lectures are open only to ticket holders. University] Student Glen Stadler, Only Voice From Wartime Spain By WALIA’ BENSON “And now the CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) roundup of world news takps you to Spain. The next voice you hear will be that of Glen Stadler in Madrid.’’ To the millions of radio listeners in the United States during World War II, the voice that followed this announcement was the only regular radio contact they had with the rugged mountain fastness and rigid censorship of Franco’s Spain. KERG COMMENTATOR Stadler, now a commentator on station KERG in Eugene and a stu dent at the University of Oregon, usually presented about three 2 minute programs a week. The script for this short newscast took about half an hour to prepare—but usually took a day to clear all the censors. Regular news agency corres pondents had one—possibly two censors. There were four checking Glen’s copy. One was from the Propaganda Ministry, one from the Foreign Office of Press Censor ship, one from the Radio National, and one from the Securidad (Secret Police) who listened in to all radio broadcasts. Two personal censors sat by his side as he spoke on the air. One was a woman who knew all the cur rent American slang and the other was an ex-professor of history who had spent some time in the United States. This censorship did' not end here, however. Like all other for eign correspondents in Spain, he was shadowed at all times by the Securidad. Out of this tight control Stadler brought some of the best sneak in terviews of the war. OPEN WIRES His broadcasts wore carried bv the International Telephone and Telegraph to New York and then carried by radio across the nation. In order to assure an uninterrupted lesume of world news, cables were left open to all the commentators on the roundup for a period of about 15 minutes before broadcast time. The ex-professor censor was an amiable member of the Falange party (the official party of Spain), who considered all events from a historical basis and who was very outspoken on Spanish politics. One day, a few minutes before program time, Stadler maneuvered the conversation into a discussion of “What’s wrong- with Spain". The cable was open and engineers ini New York were amazed to hear a Falange party member speaking of dissension in his party. "The party has been getting too powerful,” he stated. "Franco has started to play the army off against it, playing both ends against the middle.” Stadler waited for the inevitable wrath of the Securidad. Oddly enough, nothing happened. LUCK PUSHED Pushing his luck, he repeated the stunt at his next broadcast. Again nothing happened. Glen then threw caution to the wind. For six weeks he led his voluble censor into more and more indiscreet revelations, while. CBS officials gathered the in formation and released it in regular news reports saying, “According to, reliable sources in Spain Then—one day the officer in charge of radio censorship, who had listened only to the broad casts, listened into the pre-broad cast round table discussion. A new censor greeted Stadler at his next broadcast. Because of You 99 The Notional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT, founder.