Daily
EMERALD
VOLUME III UNIVERSITY OF OREGON,EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31,1951
NUMBER 69
Dimes Day to End
Annual Polio Drive
Match of Dimes Day” today is the last opportunity for stu
dents to contribute to the 1951 polio drive and bring the total col
lections from the University closer to last year's $500.
' "Looking at the $85 total reported Monday,” says Lillian
Schott, general chairman, "it is quite evident that only 18 per
T
Opposing Views
Two exclusive articles writ
ten for the Emerald by Senators
Wayne L. Morse (R., Ore.) and
Robert A. Taft (R„ Ohio), will
be printed in Thursday’s paper.
In there editorial features, the
two Republiean senators give
opposing- views on the eontro
versial Taft-Hartley Bill after
its first three years.
ui me suiaeni Dociy con
tributed dimes.” The Univer
sity was not se't a specific goal,
but contributions were to be
added to the $50,000 quota of
Lane County.
The March of Dimes committee
appointed representatives in each
living organization to contact
Specifically each member of their
group for contributions today. They
will turn in their collections to
Miss Schott today or tomorrow.
Houses with the largest contribu
tions will be announced in Friday’s
Emerald.
A March of Dimes dance spon
sored last year by the University
March of Dimes committee and
the Eugene Junior Chamber of
Commerce accounted for the high
figure of $500 collected and don
ated to the drive. The committee
attempted to repeat last year’s
success, but restrictions imposed
since then have made it impos
sible to find a place to hold the
benefit dance.
The committee urges every stu
dent to drop a dime into the iron
lung containers in the Co-op or
Student Union or turn their con
tributions in to their house repre
sentatives.
Chambers Discusses
Engagement in Talk
By Kathleen Fraser
“Engagement is a time of mu
tual understanding,” said Dr. and
Mrs. O. R. Chambers Tuesday
night in the third of a series of
four lectures on Marriage and the
Family being sponsored by the
YW and YMCA.
Before going into the discussion
of engagement proper, Dr. and
Mrs. Chambers first talked about
pinning. Dr. Chambers called pin
ning a ‘‘trial engagement” and
Mrs. Chambers a “declaration of
intention,” but both agreed that
various campuses differ as to
what they think pinning means
and that it was important that
each party concerned know what
the other means by it.
Then getting into the discussion
of the engagement, they explained
that our society likes the period
of personality exploration and get
ting used to the idea of living to
gether. In spite of what some peo
pie think, Dr. Chambers said that
people do marry into families and
that the engagement period is
needed so that faftiilies involved
can get accustomed to the idea of
a son or daughter marrying.
Engagement Changes Tone
Mrs. Chambers said that, during
the dating period, people are just
out for the fun more than any
thing else, but that after the en
gagement, the dates change tone.
“Now you are exploring the areas
of mutuallity, finding out where
you have the same interests,” she
said.
“The engagement period ought
to be one of practibility,” Dr.
Chambers said, in emphasizing the
importance of investigating stand
ards. “Standards are the least you
can have, be, or do and be happy,"
he stated, and said that a couple
should agree on standards of
money, food, clothes, and they
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Different Type Play, New
Director Arrive Together
A different type of play, directed by a new director in the Uni
versity Theater is in store for students who see “Right You Are
(If You Think So) ’ which opens Friday at the theater.
Frederick J. Hunter is directing his first play at Oregon, and
FREDERICK J. HUNTER
'Finian's Rainbow'
In Need of Star
If you're a harmonica player,
you may have a chance of be
coming a theater star.
Horace Robinson, director of
the University Theater, wants
a harmonica player for the part
of Sonny in the forthcoming
„ musical production, “Finian’s
Rainbow.”
Interested students may con
''ytact Robinson today by calling
’ Ext. 403 or by contacting him
at his office, 208 Villard.
audiences will be able to judge
his abilities at this weekend’s
performances, and next week
Wednesday through Friday.
His production is also the the
ater’s attraction for delegates
to the Northwest Drama con
ference Feb. 8, 9, and 10.
“Right You Are,” which Hunter
terms an “ironic-drama,” was
chosen by the speech instructor for
several reasons—one simply being
that he finds the plays of Luigi Pi
randello fascinating, and he’s par
ticularly fond of this particular
play.
“It’s a good example of the per
iod, fearly 20th century Italy,” Hun
ter said, “and it represents the rev
olutionary tendency of the better
playwrights of this period. Piran
dello has discarded many -of the
cliches and hackneyed ideas of 19th
Century drama.”
There is no pat boy meets girl,
love at first sight romance in
“Right You Are.”
It is a drama in which there is no
central figure, but characters who
are both good and bad.
“I’m trying to get my actors to
act as if there were a distinct four
th wall present,” Hunter explained
concerning his directorial tech
nique. “The cast should move as if
the room existed in its entirety.
They should be talking to one an
other, and not make attempts al
ways to be standing stage front
\ facing the audience.”
This will be in keeping with the
j intent ' of the dramatist, Hunter
said, because the drama, w’ritten in
' 1918, was breaking with much of
the artificiality of dramas of the
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Mortar Board
To Hold Party
The annual Smarty Party, honor
ing all freshman women achiev
ing a grade point average of 3.00
or better fall term, will be held at
6:30 p.m. today in Alumni Hall,
Gerlinger. Campus clothes will be
in order.
A plaque will be awarded by
Betty Wright, President of Mortar
Board, senior women’s honorary
which sponsors the party, to the
three sophomore women who earn
ed the highest grades in the fresh
man class last year.
A trio from Hui-O-Kamaaina,
Hawaiian club, will present part
of the entertainment at the party
which will last approximately one
hour.
Mrs. Golda Parker Wickham, di
rector of women’s affairs, will give
a short informal talk. Any girl
who is eligible and has not receiv
ed an invitation may call Mrs.
Margaret Kopp at the student af
fairs office.
Gordon to Discuss
Bridge Art in SU
Sam Gordon, author of “Horse
Sense Bridge’’ and card expert,
will be on campus to discuss the
art of playing bridge Thursday.
Gordon, whose columns on bridge
and canasta appear in the Oregon
ian, will appear at two afternoon
sessions and one evening meeting
in the Student Union.
Sessions at 3 and 4:15 p.m. will
be held for more advanced bridge
players. At 7 p.m. Gordon will dis
cuss bridge fundamentals with
non-experts.
Gordon's appearance is being
sponsored by the YWCA upper
! class commission and the Student
Union Recreational Committee.
I Anyone may attend.
Board Selects New
Business Manager
For Daily Emerald
Petitions lor the business managership of the Oregon Daily
hmerald " ill be accepted by the Student Publications Board up
to 3 p.m. l'lnirsday in the administrative oflices of the Student
Union.
I his decision was made unanimously by the board Tuesday
afternoon at a special meeting- called to consider the Hmerald s
financial problems.•'Before the meeting, the campus daily was ap
proximately $400 below its advertising budget for winter term.
1 his $400 was taken out of the photography, engraving, and
travel items of the 1950-51 Hmerald budget, so the deficit was
completely removed by action.
1 he board considered cutting the Hmerald from eight to four
pages daily to avoid dropping below the budget again. Instead,
it agreed to adopt a new plan for at least the remainder'of winter
term.
The plan—called an incentive system—is based on commis
sion selling. Formerly the business manager and his staff were
paid set salaries, regardless of the advertising sold.
Don Thompson, present business manager who is also a mem
ber of the publications board, agreed to stay in his position until
the situation is cleared up. lie will be allowed to petition, along
Judges Pick 12
King of Hearts
Semifinalists
Twelve of the 32 young men com
peting for the title of King -of
Hearts reached the semi-finals
Tuesday night. They are:
Pierre Pasquio, Alpha Tau Ome
ga; George McMath, Beta Theta
Pi; Dick Fuhr, Campbell Club;
Dick McLaughlin, Chi Psi; Fred
Schnciter, Delta Tail Delta; Jerry
Irion, McChesney Hall; Mike Lai
ly, Phi Gamma Delta; Wilson Wilt,
Phi Kappa Psi; Martel Scroggins,
Phi Kappa Sigma; Merv Hampton,
Sigma Alpha Mu; Curt Finch, Sig
ma Phi Epsilon; Henry Wedemey
i er, Sherry Ross Hall.
! The 12 will appear for inter
views again Thursday night in the
Student Union. At this time they
will be narrowed down to six final
ists. The final student vote will
take place next week in the Co-op,
with the King of Hearts being an
nounced, crowned, and tubbed the
night of the Heart Hop at 9 p.m.
on the front porch of Zeta Tau
Alpha.
The 32 candidates were inter
viewed Tuesday night by Lois
Peterson (Betty Co-ed), Bill De
Land, Margaret Wiese, Milton
Dieterich, Ann Leonard, and.C. E.
Ivey. These people composed the
interviewing board of two students,
two faculty members, and two
townspeople. The judging was done
on a point system of five possible
points in each of the following four
divisions—looks, personality, poise,
and campus activities.
Besides Zeta Tau Alpha where
the coronation will take place and
the dance will begin, the Heart
Hop will be held at Hendricks
Hall, Pi Beta Phi, Alpha Delta
Pi, and Chi Omega.
with any other interested stu
dents,' {or the business manag
ership under the new plan.
The Student Publications
Board will meet at 4 p.m. Thurs
day. It will interview petition
ers at 4:30 in the Chambers
room on the third floor of the
Student Union.
The motion setting lip the new
plan was worded as follows:
“Student Publications Board re
quests petitions for the position of
business manager of the Oregon
Daily Emerald to take office
through winter term, 1951, and to
be paid:
a. . A guarantee of $70, or
b. 8 percent of the first $1760 of
advertising income, whichever is
greater (a or b.l; plus 25 percent
of all collected advertising revenue
from the Oregon Daily Emerald,
above the total of $1760.
Present Staff Continues
With the provision that the pres
ent advertising staff members of
the Oregon Daily Emerald be con
tinued in their positions at the
pleasure of the Student Publica
tions Board; with the understand
ing that any person so selected by
the Student Publications Board
serve through winter term, 1951,
unless earlier relieved, or not be
paid any amount for his services.’’
The total of $1760 includes na
tional and local advertising based
on 22 issues of the Emerald. Begin
ning next Monday, 22 papers are
left to be published this term.
Board members felt that the pro
vision concerning present advertis
ing staff members would be work
ed out with the business manager
chosen a;t the meeting Thursday.
Members of the Student Publica
tions Board present at the meeting
wore Secretary R. C. Williams, D.
M. DuShane, E. C. Robins, G. A.
Sabine, C. T. Duncan, Robert Funk,
Ruth Landry, Don Smith, Anita
Holmes, Don Thompson, and Larry
Davidson. Chairman C. G. Howard
and Bob Schooling were absent.
7000 Pictures Open
To Student Circulation
Sharing honors with Da Vinci’s
"Mona Lisa” for top billing in the
portrait world is the white-capped
mother of artist James Whistler,
who yearly symbolizes the Ameri
can mother on Mother's Day.
A print of the famous oil paint
ing featuring Mrs. Whistler is now
available for circulation at the
Library Browsing room as part of
a new service that allows pictures
to be checked out for 30 days. A
selection of 1,000 pictures is avail
able to choose from.
For those individuals who are
not especially fond of Whistler, a
more somber note can be found
in the French Impressionist Claude
Monet’s "Le Cathedrale de Rouen”
and "The Seine Near Argentual.”
Although spring is on the com
ing agenda, Norwegian artist
Jonas Lie’s “Autumn Landscape”
adds a bit of pastoral charm to
,an otherwise drab room. Also out
| of season but still full of present,
significance are American painter
| George Inness’s "After a Summer
Shower" and "Mill Pond."
English 18th Century Shown
A dash of quaint English 18th
century charm is inherent in the
portrait paintings, "Blue-boy,”
"View in Suffolk," and "Mrs,
Richard Brimsley Sheridan" by
Thomas Gainsborough in the stu
dent print collection.
Next week’s article on paintings
in the student print collection will
be dependent on Eugene weather.
If the weather is still below freez
ing, pictures with a sleepy river,
warm wind, and watermelon effect
will be discussed, but if the ground
hog forecasts early spring Friday,
the article will deal with picture-;
of sleigh-bells, snow, and Santa
i Claus nature.