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EMERALD
Fifty-first year oj Publication
UNIVEHSITUY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1952 NUMBER 66
Volume Mil
UO Officials Say Phone Case 'Good'
Bishop Declares Gospel of Christ
Is Only Road to World Salvation
If the world Is to be saved, the
gospel of Jesus Christ and his
< hurt h must take hold in every
country, Bishop Gerald Kennedy,
of the Portlund Area Methodist
Church, said Thursday night.
In his talk "Christianity in the
World of the Mid-Twentieth Cen
tury," Bishop Kennedy said that
the one great hope for the woild is
^Christianity,
Christians Should I>ead
"The Christians should take the
lead in the huge revolution taking
place today," he said. "Our danger
is that we shall throw the weight
of our church on reactionary
movements. The Communists are
lending the revolution today."
"There has never been a nation
that hns been more truly Christian
than the United States of Arner- i
ica." Bishop Kennedy said. "I
think theie is a real spiritual pov
erty in Europe. The Europeans are
spiritually exhausted."
Decent l.ixing Standard
He told of the "real spiritual
ism" in American life. A decent
standard of living. Bishop Kennedy
believes, is the type of thing Jesus \
would have wanted.
"In some ways our church has .
never been healthier than it is
right now in the United States,” 1
he said. "There is a great hunger
for religion. If we do not feel this
hunger, the fault is ours."
Bishop Kennedy feels that the
Westerners' preaching! »bout -
brotherhood have "burst upon us,"
and we are not willing to help the
East gain an equal footing with
us. He said that the East is no
longer willing to be the colony of
the West.
Minority Is Best
"Maybe the best thing that could
happen to Catholics or Protes
tants. wherever they be, is to be in
the minority in a society,' he said. :
"Then they would see the differ-!
cnee Christianity makes."
"I am very suspicious of relig- i
Daily Emerald
Has Everything
A girl came into the Emerald
Shack Tuesday and asked for a
copy of the Parliament of World
Religions program. She was sup
plied with one.
So what’s wrong with that?
The girl was Jane Simpson,
student chairman of the Parlia
ment of World Religions.
lou* monopolies" Bishop Kennedy
said. The Catholic is the better
IJISIIOP GERALD KENNEDY
Methodist speaks on Christianity
for the Protestant and the Protes
tant is the better for the Catholic."
"Don’t believe that church unity
is the answer to all your prob
lems," he warned. "The thing for
us to do is to walk together with
respect. The real strength lies in
a fellowship.”
Bishop Kennedy said that he
does not know what the future
will be politically. He doubts if de
mocracy could be taught by force.
We in America, he feels, have not
been bearing our responsibility to
wards democracy.
"We can not have a democratic
way unless we have a gospel which
can hold it up,” he said. “If you are
going to win men over, you must
tell them the gospel.”
He sees the Japanese as a "key
people in the orient in the future.”
Recently returning from a trip to
Japan, he told of the Christian
work being done there.
“There has never been an occu
pation in the world that has been
ho fine so high as the American
occupation of Japan,” he said. "We
have not exploited Japan. If Chris
tian education is the key to the
future, then the future of Japan
belongs to the Christians.”
"The Christian Church in Ja
pan may suffer some persecution.”
Bishop Kennedy said, "but funda
mentally there is a real respect or.
the part of Japan for the teachings
of the United States.”
Senate Committee Seeks Data
On Dime Phone Experiences
Questionnaires asking about ex
periences with the pay phones will
be sent to all living organizations,
the special telephone committee
decided Thursday.
Such questions as "How many
students have lost money by not
being able to complet their calls?"
and "How many calls per day does
your house make off campus?"
will be asked.
A Formal Hearing—Maybe
The committee decided, pending
st nate approval, to go ahead with
a formal hearing without waiting
for Oregon State college to decide
its course of action. The committee
also felt that OSC’s case was dif
ferent from Oregon's in that OSC
is concerned with getting the pay
phones out of the fraternities and
sororities and not the dormitories.
One of the telephone company's
strong arguments, the committee
felt, would be that some living
organizations asked for pay
phones before they were installed
in every house.
Another thing in favor of the
Emerald Attacked by Sen. Barry;
Charges Pay Phone Stories Slanted
Tom Barry, senator-at-large, at
tacked the Oregon Daily Emerald
in senate meeting Thursday for its
"belligerent attitude'' and its lack
of cooperation.
Barry declared that in the pres
ent phone controversy the Emerald
has failed to present the side of
the Pacific Telephone and Tele
graph company.
"That’s not the attitude to
have,” Barry asserted. "All we
hear is 'free phones’. I want to
know what's going on.”
Barry also criticized the Emer
ald’s handling of the Oregon mock
convention stories, the Willamette
mock convention set for May
J,Barry is a member of a com
mittee working on the Willamette
convention I and the honor code
committee investigations.
E. G. Ebbighausen, associate
professor of physics and faculty
member of the senate, moved to
table discussion of Barry’s charg
es, including Emerald Editor Lor
na Larson's answer, until next
week’s meeting.
Barry said that it had been re
ported to him that the Emerald
had been “obnoxious” in its rela
tions with the honor code commit
ASUO \ ice-president, if this was
true.
Hampton said, “If you refer to
the Emerald as Miss Larson, she
has never been obnoxious to the
honor committee. She has set j
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phone company was the trouble
they had had in collecting phone
i bills from some of the houses un
der the old phone system. The
i committee pointed out that many
| distance calls which members
of the house denied making, were
charged to the house phone. Con
sequently. the house'refused to pay
the bill and both the telephone
I company and the house were left
1 with bad feelings.
Student Arguments
The committee felt, however,
[ that the students had many good
points on their side. One of the
biggest arguments for the students
is that they cannot afford to pay
ten cents a call when many times
the party they are calling is not at
the living organization and the
student has to call four or five
times before be finally gets his
party.
Another argument brought out
by the committee was that service
has been poor on many campus
phones since the price of calls was
raised to ten cents. Two of the
committee members told of having
trouble hearing the person they
were talking to on the phone.
Dimes Come Back
Judy McLough’in and Ann Diel
schneider told the committee that
they had gotten their dimes back
when they told the phone company
that they had r.ot gotten the party
that they were calling. Miss Diel
schneider said that her house
mother had made a list of the calls
not completed and sent it to the
telephone company telling who
made the calls and when. She said
that in a few days the women re
ceived their dimes back in the
mail.
Miss McLoughlin said that she
had failed to complete a call and
had dailed the operator and told
her what had happened. Her dime
was returned.
The committee is waiting for the
official University opinion before
planning further action. They ex
pected that opinion to come out of
Thursday's senate meeting.
Greeks and Dorms
Both Have Chance
For Private Lines
I he University of Oregon administration told the A SCO
senate I hursday that fraternities and sororities have a good
chance to win removal of pay telephones.
And if the case is won, the administration added, there was
j^ood reason to think pay telephones could be removed from
dormitories on the same grounds—that they too are private,
not public or semi-public residences.
uuoimrecior ox SLU- i
<1ent affairs, summed up the ad
ministration’s stand on pay tele
phones. He said:
,1. That Oregon was misled to
believe the tariff was mandatory
and that pay phones had been or
were being installed at other Ore
gon colleges including Oregon
State college.
2. That the tariff, based on the
contention that fraterniites and!
sororities are semi-public, is on du- j
bious ground,
3. That the organizations have a *
strong cabe to seek a favorable I
definition of themselves as not
semi-public,
4. That if the point is won, pay
phones in dormitories would be
contested on the same grounds,
and
5. That all university students
would be treated alike, whether
they lived in fraternities, sororities
or dormitories.
Want to Appeal
"The administration of the Uni
versity of Oregon feels that an ap
peal of the tariff should be made
before the Public Utilities commis
sion, ’’ William C.‘ Jones, dean of
administration, said. He suggested
that the ASUO senate work in co
operation with Oregon State col
lege and any other colleges in
volved in the controversy.
"I feel the telephone company
doesn't know how precarious this |
tariff is,’’ Jones stated. ”1 don't!
see how it could be binding on fra- I
ternities and sororities.”
"The case is strongest with pri- t
vate living organizations,” he said.
"Oregon State college asked for
pay telephones to be installed in ‘
dormitories. We did not.”
The administration would move !
to see that the dormitory case was j
pleaded if the private organiza- 1
tions win their case, he explained.'
And the case might not be hard to ;
win then, he added.
The Co-op Managers associa- j
tion at Oregon State has retained
legal advice and it was understood j
that they are soon to bring their
case before the Public Utilities !
commission, he said.
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Frosh Election
'Unfair Tactics'
Result in Ruling
Three "unfair practices" in cam
paigning preceding freshman elec
tions, one involving ASUO presi
dent Bill Carey, were reported to
the senate Thursdcv night by
Election Chairman Merv Hampton,
ASUO vice-president.
Hampton accused Carey ot
"flagrant partiality" in the single
incident and the vice-president'®
report brought a senate motion,
passed 10 to 8, that "no person or
group of persons except those act
ing in official ASUO capacity may
use ASUO materials."
The senate took no action
against the freshmen connected
with the reported incidents. The
election has not been contested.
Any qualified voter may contest
the election within 10 days after
the voting by placing an objection
with the chairman of the elections.
Hampton said that a personal
investigation disclosed that Bob
Glass, elected president of the
freshman class Wednesday, made
use of ASUO equipment and the
time of ASUO secretary Janet Lef
fel to mimeograph 150 letters sent
to selected freshmen for campaign
ing purposes with the knowledge
of Carey. Glass is a pledge in
Carey's fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi.
The second case reported by
Hampton involved John Tonack,
named vice-president of the fresh
man class Wednesday, who Hamp
ton said made use of the YMCA
mimeographing machine with the
consent of YMCA executice secre
tary Jack Merner to print elec
tion campaigning postcards. To
nack is a member of the YMCA,
he said.
Hampton also told the senate
1 Phase turn to pa tic sei en)
F.S.C. Norfhrup, Famed Educator,
Will Lecture Here Next Week
r.o.e. .MorLnrup, iamous eauca
tor and professor of philosophy
and law at Yale university, will be
on the Oregon campus Monday and
Tuesday.
Monday, Northrup will present
an evening lecture at 8 p.m. in the
Student Union ballroom, on the
subject "The University in the
Contemporary World" under the
sponsorship of the University lec
ture committee.
To Speak at Assembly
Tuesday, Northrup will present
an assembly-at 1 p.m. in the Uni
versity theatre on the subject
“East and West and the Problems
of World Law."
The Tuesday assembly is the 1
regular weekly assembly and is
held at a time when no regular
classes are scheduled. It is sched
uled for the University theater
because the Oakridge Atomic ex
hibit will be in the SU ballroom.
Northrup will also participate in
an informal coffee hour at 4 p.m.
Tuesday in rooms 333 and 334 in
the Student Union. The coffee
hour is sponsored by the Student
Union board and Mortar Board,
senior women's honorary.
As a graduate student. Northrup
attended the Friebarg. Germany,
and Trinity College, Cambridge, in
1922-23. Previous to this time
Northrup had engaged in social
work in New York City and was
educational secretary of the Inter
national commission of the YMCA
in Hong Kong.
He joined the faculty of Yale
University in 1923 as a professor
of philosophy. He was master of
Silhman College. Yale from 1943
until 1947.
Written Three Rooks
“The Meeting of East and West”
is one of three books written by
Northrup. He is also the author of
“Science and First Principles" and
“The Logic of the Sciences and the
Humanities'. He was the editor
and a contributor to the “Ideolog
ical Differences and World Order”
which was published in 1949.
Northrup has also contributed to
several journals, his latest article
appearing in the Life Magazine's
issue on Asia, entitled “The Mind
of Asia". Tiie article was the result
ol a nine month's tour of Southern
Asia and the Middle East.