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n daily EMERALD I'XIVEK.NITV OF OREGON, El'GENE, TlH ltSDAY, APRIL 19, 1951 VOLUME LI1 NTMBER 110 r 4 MacArthur Denies Any Political Aims ny iUi»i nii’Nti | I lie city of the Golden Gate called down one of its great - lest and moat colorful tributes Wednesday, to give leaped land honor to the man of the hour, Gen. Douglas Mac iArthur. And It heard him climax his stay here by an nouncing that he had “no political nsplrations.’' An estimated 500,000 people clogged fhe streets and looked out from the wlndow-topa in the. heart of down town Han Francisco in celebration of the special "Mac Arthur Day" parade and civic ceremonies. From his long, black 1931 Lincoln Phaeton, the 71-year-old soldier acknowledged the thunderous cheers of a crowd that took time off from everything else to shower its praises upon the man who Tuesday returned to these shores after an absence of H years. Thursday he will speak In Washing ton, at a Joint session of Congress. No Polttlral Ambitions As a grand finale, the General rose behind a battery of microphones located In front of the city hall to surprise the excited throng by saying he held no ambitions in poli • tics. Ibis headline-making announcement followed a warm and moving "thank you" speech in which he said: "I cannot tell you what It means to be home how I have longed for it, dreamed of it, through the dreary years of being abroad. My emotions almost defy descrip tion, as I find myself once more among my own people. . ..speaking for both Mrs. Mar Arthur and myself, I cannot tell you how deep is our appreciation for the wonderful hospitality with which this great city has welcomed us. 'J he memory will live in our hearts always." This ended the General’s prepared address but he They Were There— Emerald Trio Tom King. Ken Metzlor, and Jim Hay cox, three of th«- Kmc raid's top newsmen, were among the thousands listening to and watching the return of General Mac Arthur to the 1 tilted NtHtes. They saw his plane land at Man I‘ranciseo’s International Airport Tuesday night. They heard his first words spoken to the crowd. In fact, the three Oregon students were only two people away from the General at one time. And they joined in the official celebration for the World War II hero Wed nesday. Tom King here tells the story of General Mac Arthur's first full day back In America. looked out over the crowd and continued: "I wai Just asked if I intend to enter politics. My reply was 'no.' I have no political aspirations whatsoever. I do not intend to run for any political office and I hope that my name will never be used in a political way. "The only politics I have is contained in the simple phrase, known well by all of you- ‘God‘Bless America.’ Again, my sincere thanks." Paraded to City Hall The morning's festivities began as MacArthur emerged from the St. Francis Hotel. The slow, crowd-bound motor I cade formed, inching forward from the hotel through a j winding procession up to the city hall. There the General ! | gave his talk. He made no references to the situation in j the Far Fast. Immediately after the overwhelming public tribute, the General, his family and the official party left for the In ternational Airport where he took off for Washington aboard his special plane, "Bataan." True Hero's W elcome The tremendous throng — police said some *00.000 saw him since his Tuesday night arrival- -then sat back and reflected upon what had transpired in the last 17 hours. Some characterized the wild welcome as San Francisco ■> greatest and grandest celebration. Many, including young and old alike, had hung around all night, and in the early morning hours Wednesday crowds began to gather around the hotel, the city hal:; lines formed along the parade route. From Visitacion Val ley at the south end of the city, up through the Mission District, Nob Hill, and Chinatown, down around Fisher mans Wharf, MaeArthur has been a standard topic <i conversation for days now — no one dared miss the big public homecoming. Swamped Continuously Wearing a heavy trench coat and his well know n “scrambled eggs cap," the General met more than 200 newspapermen as he left his sixth floor suite at the SK Francis prior to the calvacade. He and his family went straight to the elevator. When he stepped out into the lobby several hundred persons stood by to greet him in a roped-off area. Before entering the parade car with Gov. Karl Warren and Mayor Elmer E. Robinson, he waved in semi-salute manner to the thousands who had blocked off nearly every enrtanee of the big hotel. The crowds hemmed him in and broke through the thin police lines as the parade got underway. The streets were filled from one side to the other, and viewers lined tie f him tu cm t o hnnr ris t L t 1 Houses Set Jr. Week Float Titles junior weeaena noai tnemes have bi-rn decided on by all paired living organizations taking part In the parade. General theme for the weekend is "Far Away Places." The themes include: Hendricks Hall and Alpha Hall, "The Lund of Make-believe;" Car son 2 and Philadelphia House, •'Land of the Northern Lights;" Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Kappa Alpha, and Stan Kay Hall, "Mars Preview;" Pi Beta Phi and Alpha Tau Omega, "Treasure Island •" Alpha Xi Delta and Theta Chi, "A Trip to the Moon." Carson 5 and Phi Gamma Delta, '•Holiday in Venice;" Delta Gam ma, Sigma Alpha Mu, and Delta Ujudlon, "Shanghai Sampan;?’ Carson 4 and Yeomen, “Mt. Olym pus;" Kappa Alpha Theta and Cherney Hall, "King Neptune’s Gardens;" Alpha Phi and Sigma Chi; "In a Dutch Garden," Delta Delta Delta and Hunter Hall, "Land of Nod;" Carson 3 and Mintum Hall, "Hawaiian Paradise;" Delta Zeta, Tau Kap pa Epsilon, and Delta Tau Delta. "Emerald City of Oz;" Alpha Gamma Delta and Sigma Phi Ep silon, "Heaven and Hades;" Chi Oy^ga and Phi Delta Theta, "In a Chinese Garden." j Sigma Kappa and McChesney i Hall, "Greek Court;" Alpha Omi cron Pi and Stan Ray Hall, “Wyn ken, Blynken, and Nod;” Zeta Tau Alpha, Sigma Hall, and Omega Hall. "I Left My Hat In Haiti;” Chi Psi and Orides, "African Voo doo." Ann Judson House and Beta Theta Pi, "Dixie Land;" Gamma Phi Beta and Pi Kappa Phi, "Out of this World;” Alpha Delta Pi, Sherry Ross Hall, and Campbell Club, "Stairway to the Stars;" Alpha Chi Omega, Gamma Hall, and Phi Kappa Sigma, “Siamese Fantasy;" and University House and Kappa Sigma, "Swiss Chalet.” Student Court Nets $8 in Fines Eight dollars was collected from offenders at Wednesday night’s session of the Student Court. Tickets were given chiefly for illegal parking in the yellow zone around the Deady-Villard area. Students are reminded by Mike Adams, head Of the student court, that failure to appear at the court Jesuits in eventual referral to the Office of Student Affairs. The next meeting of the court is scheduled for May 2. . . ••• ; 11’ ■■ -.! 1 ■ Visiting Speakers Discuss U.S.., Far East, Russia "Russia, the Far East, and the United Sttftcs Nationalism,” will be the topic of the conference to be held next Monday through Fri day on the University campus. Visiting lecturers who will take part in the conference arc H. J. VanMook. and Julian Towstcr, both of the University of Califor nia; and Nobutaka Ike and Robert C. North, both of the Hoover In stitute and Stanford University. Speeches relating to the main topic of the conference are plan ned for the public, selected classe-s, and selected faculty and graduate students. Committee Completes Deferred Living Report Tho Stanford Report, completed after an-all-night session Tuesday by the nine-man committee who studied the deferred living-in plan at Stanford last weekend, will be presented to student leaders Fri day. ASUO President Barry Moun tain explained that the report will be presented to five key groups— Panhellenic, Inter-Fraternity Coun cil, Inter-Dormitory Counc.il, Heads of Houses, and the Office of Student Affairs— Friday after noon before it is presented to the student body at large. Mountain said this method was decided upon to eliminate confu sion among the student body by explaining the report to student leaders first, since it is "com Deren, Artist-Author, to Explain Films As A Creative Art Maya Deren, who in her work ■presents the film as an indepen dent, creative art form, will give a lecture-demonstration at 8 p.m. tonight in the Student'Union Ball room as part of the University Lecture Scries. The purpose of her films is “neither to entertain nor to in struct, but. to be that experience which is poetry.” Although Miss Deren is an artist in the traditions of the “avant garde” school of the early Twen ties in Paris, she has advanced much farther technically and psychologically. Technical innovations are some times used in her films to express a particular meaning, but the sur prise which they may bring on in an audience unaccustomed to such methods is not their purpose. Only when familiarity has replac ed the first reaction can a person understand the true meaning, she says. Miss Deren made one visit to Haiti as a John Simon Guggen heim ■ Fellow for creation work in motion pictures, but she became so interested in the mythology un derlying the dances which she had intended to film, that she made two more visits. This spring she will present a • • jc, series of Haitian ritual films ac companied by drumming and sing ing, as well as a book on Haitian mythology. Miss Dcren is the only person to have filmed and record ed many of the ceremonies which will appear in these films. Miss Deren is also the author of “An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film," a book which has had considerable influence on new experimental film makers. Students will be given an oppor tunity to ask questions of Miss Deren after her lecture demonstra tion in the Student Union Thurs day night. Foreign Students Schedule Picnic Foreign students at the Univer sity will hold a picnic from 12:30 to 5 p.m. Saturday at "Little Pino,” a farm on the Hayden Bridge Road. The affair, open to all foreign students, is being sponsored by the International Affairs Committee of the YWCA. Everyone interest ed in attending should meet at the Y in Gerlinger by 12:30 p.m. with a sack lunch. Transportation will be provided. prehensive and complicated.’’ The leaders in turn can explain the re port to the student body. Mountain will explain the re port at a meeting of Oregon Moth ers in Portland today. "The committee has gone over each point carefully and reached complete agreement on the entire report," Mountain asserted. Stan ford delegates have been meeting each night, the final session break ing up at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday. He expressed appreciation to three volunteer typists, Barbara Sundet, JoAnne Gilmore, and Vir ginia Kellogg, who prepared the report for mimeographing. UO Blood Drive Sets 1000-Pint Quota to Fill . The quota for the second blood drive on campus this year is over twice the 400-pint quota of the last drive. With 1000 pints as a quota all students are urged to contribute in the drive which will begin on campus Tuesday and will last through Wednesday. Students who are 21 and over are asked to fill out the pledge cards which were distributed to the living organizations. Anyone who is under 21 and wishes to donate a pint of blood are to get the parent’s release slip signed by 5 p.m. Friday, if possible. After the pledge cards are filled out they should be dropped in the boxes pro vided for in the SU and the Co-op. "Although the quota is over twice last term’s we should be able to hit our total again this term since the flrive will b& held on campus 2 days instead of the former one," announced Pat Dig nan publicity chairman of the drive. The blood drive publicity committee also received a poem which was written to publicize OSC drive. It is as follows: RAH, RAH, RAH; We pull no BONERS! We are ALL, big BLOOD DON ORS! ! "With Oregon State making pre 1Flease turn to page eight) 100 Profs To Attend PS Parley Nearly 100 political science In structors are expected to attend the annual meeting of the North west Political Science Association to be held Saturday and Sunday in the Student Union. E. S. Wengert, head of the Ore I £on political science department, i is vice-president of the association. I C. P. Schleicher, professor of poli * tical science, is on the executive committee. The conference will consist of four round table discussions n which attending professors wid participate. Topics include: Cur rent Problems of State Govern ment in the Pacific Northwest; The Foundations and Limits of Civil Liberties; Point Four Pro gram and Reconstruction in South ern and Eastern Asia; and The. Effect of Mobilization on Nation al Politics and Administration. The conference will terminate ; Sunday with a breakfast in the 1 SU at which time Julian Towste>-, ; University of California, wi i ' speak on “The Strategy of the i Soviet Nationality Policy.” Claudius O. Johnson, * Washing jton State College, is president of ; the association. Health Service To Offer 'Shots' I An opportunity is being created to make available tetanus toxoid and small-pox vaccine at cost of j materials to University students, faculty members, and employees and their children of junior high | school age and above. Doctors and nurses of this area have volunteered to be available ; from 1 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. May 1-2-3, ; and May 22-23-24, at the Univer | sity Health Service, so all persons have a chance to get the shots. A charge of £5 cents will be made for each shot, which will pay for the material. Dr. F. N. Miller, director of th® health service, stated that the pro gram is in conjunction with a cam paign of the Lane County Medical Society urging all adults of the Eugene area to be vaccinated against small-pox, and injected ; against tetanus. The tetanus toxoid which will be used differs from tetanus antitoxin | in that toxoid guards against any ‘ future danger from lockjaw, while 1 antitoxin is useful only after an J accident has occurred. Small-pox j vaccination is necessary only if ! one has not had a shot within tbo ; last three to five years.