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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1950)
Jr-Sr Breakfast Needs Chairman Petitions for committee chair manships for the annual Junior Senior breakfast Apr. 30, are due today, Karla Van Loan, YWCA upperclass commission chairman, announced Wednesday. Sophomores and juniors are eligible for positions. Petitions may be submitted to the YWCA office, Gerlinger. Chairmanships available include tickets, programs, publicity, dec orations, and speaker-hospitality. Time and location of the event will be announced later. The annual breakfast is spon sored by the YWCA upperclass commission, with junior women traditionally serving as hostesses to graduating seniors. WSSF helps in the placement of D.P. students, by finding open ings for them in universities in the United States, Canada, Eng land, and South America. Town Hall Slates Atomic Discussion “Atomic Energy in the Modern World,” will be'the topic for dis cussion at the first meeting of “University Town Hall,” sponsored jointly by the YMCA, YWCA, and International Relations Club, sched uled for 7:30, Apr. 12, in the YM CA building. Participating in the discussion will be Alburey Castell, head of the Philosophy Department; E. G. Eb bighausen, professor of physics; and R. A. Littman, professor of psychology. Moderator will be K.' [ E. Montgomery, professor of I speech. The meetings, to he presented twice a month, are aimed primarily at the student audience, but are open to any interested towns people. A supply of new textbooks, pur chased through the offices of CARE, has just been forwarded from New York to the students of Indonesia for World Student Re lief. Musicians1 Union (Continued from page one) In addition, Spaeth cited several instances of union “featherbed ding” where stand-by musicians from local unions had to be hired by a concert troupe when playing in a town. Dr. Spaeth is on an extended lec ture tour of the West Coast during a vacation from regular work with the Metropolitan Opera Associa tion. His next engagement is in Corvallis, after which he will fill engagements in Southern Cali fornia and Hawaii. No not you! — but possibly your country. Nations have collapsed before because they allowed disunity to destroy them. Why do we love America? Because, under our form of government, the individual — and that means you — is considered important. But this works two ways. If we want to be secure in our own right, each of us must be willing to respect the rights of others. If we discriminate against other people for any reason, we’ll soon find others discriminat ing against us. Then what will we have? A family squabble — national disunity — and the enemies of our system laughing up their sleeves. Make sure you are not spreading rumors against a race or a religion. Speak up, wherever you are, against prejudice, and work for better understanding. Remember, that’s being a good American citizen. Accept or reject people on their individual worth *