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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1952)
History Behind Finals ... ... Mprlng form for nrntorH told on pn|(i< five im Ntudrnt again auk* for iibolifthinrnt. Voluino LI II Daily EMERALD S Fifty-third year of Publication I'MVKRNITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THERHDAY, FEB. 21, 1952 Partly Cloudy ... .. . today and Friday. Warmer today. High, 48. Low, 28. NEMBER Labor Leader To Give Address In SU Assembly Walter P. Reuther, president of the United Auto Worker* and vice preaident of the Congress of In dustrial Organizations, will give an assembly address at 1 p.m. Tues day In the Student Union ballroom. Long an active worker in union activities, Reuther has also been associated with racial tolerance movements in this country. He is u member of the executive boards 'of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloted People and the Religion and Labor Found ation. Reuther has served as UAW president since March, 1946, and has been CIO vice-president since November of that year. He is also president of the Automobile Divi sion of the International Metal workers Federation, a position he received In December, 1949, at a meeting in Zurich, Switzerland. Reuther appears on the campus ns a part of the university's 75th anniversary program. He will give the first of two talks by outstand ing leaders in labor and manage ment. His topic will be "Problems of American Labor.” He will be guest at a Tuesday morning press conference and at u luncheon sponsored by the univer sity assembly committee. At 4 p.m. a coffee hour will be held in his honor in the Student Union. Pre-registration To Begin Monday Material may be obtained begin ning Saturday for winter term prc registration, which starts Monday. Pre-registration will necessitate five steps, which are to be com pleted by March 8 in lieu of a $5 penalty fee. The steps arc: 1. Feb. 23-29: students obtain registration material in the regis trar's office, Emerald hall. This Saturday, material may be ob tained between the hours of 1 and ^ :30 p.m. From Feb. 25 to 29 ma terial will be available during the regular office hours. 2. Feb. 20-29; students are to confer with advisers to build study programs for spring term. 3. Feb. 20-29; students may en I Please turn to pane eight) Jenson M To SaonL "*°We p-_ .. p on Uq res'dentr '■°oipt/s Eric A. Johnston, president of the Motion Picture association of America and former head of the Economic Htablization agency, will apeak at a 1 p.m. assembly on the campus sometime in March or April. Announcement of Johnston's ac ceptance of the speaking engage ment was made Wednesday by Di rector of Publjc Services Lyle Nel son who said that no definite date has been set for the movie man's campus appearance. Arrangements for Johnston’s visit are being handled by the University assembly committee. His topic will be “Problems in Operation and Management.’’ Johnston's talk will complete the assembly series and cover the sec ond half of a program on labor and management. Walter Reuthcr, vice-president of the CIO and president of the United Auto Workers, will speak for labor in an assembly Tuesday. While on campus Johnston will speak to University classes and attend a coffee hour in additfon to a 1 p.m. address in the Student Union. Moore Explains Author's. Vision F. Scott Fitzgerald had a "dou ble vision" that enabled him to write both as a spectator and a participant in his books, Carlisle Moore, associate professor of Kng lish, told a browsing room audi ence of about 200 people Wednes day. All of Fitzgerald's works are characterized by lucidity and co herence, Moore said, but in order to understand Fitzgerald's works it is necessary to have an under standing of the eastern United States during the 1920's. Fitzger ald was a product of his time and he injected himself into his writ ings, Moore explained. Although his work is small in quantity and uneven in quality, all his work is now in print except for one play, “The Vegetable," Moore stated. At his death in 1940, all were out of print and Fitzger ald was badly disillusioned, he remarked. tI’lrasc turn In {•atjc ciiihl) Johnston was appointed head of the Economic Stabilization agency in January, 1951, and resigned the position in November, of the same year. He has been president of the Motion Picture association of America since 1945. Johnston was president of the Chamber of Com merce from 1942 to May, 1946. Johnston served on numerous government boards and commit tees during the 1940's. He was a member of the public advisory board of the Economic Co-op ad ministration in 1948; the Economic Development committee, the War Manpower committee; and the committee for drafting federal em ployees during the war years. In 1947 he was awarded the Medal of Merit. In 1946 he was director of the American Cancer society and the next year was named chairman of its board of directors. He ran as Republican candidate for senator from Washington in! 1940. Johnston graduated from the University of Washington in 1917 and holds honorary degrees from 10 colleges and universities. He was a captain in the marines dur-. ing World War I. Pope, Louisville Editor, Will Speak to J Classes The executive editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, James ; S. Pope, will speak to two journal ism classes today and give an eve ning address in the Student Union , for journalism and pre-journalism . students. Pope, who is on campus for the I Oregon press conference Friday (end Saturday, will discuss "Tech 1 niques of Journalism," emphasiz ; ing desk work, to the 9 a.m. copy | editing class in 103 Journelism. > talk to the 3 p.m. graduate and ■foreign student class, and address journalism and pre-journalism stu ! dents on "What Does Journalism Hold for You?" at 7:30 p.m. ir. the ! SU Dads' Lounge. Opponent of Suppression The nationally-known journalist | is chairman of the American So j ciety of Newspaper Editors' com mittee on Freedom of Information; : he has been an active leader in the | battle being waged by American ! journalists against the suppression I of news by President Harry Tru ; man and other government offi I cials. | Pope will give the Eric Allen Memorial lecture in the Friday af ; ternoon session of the conference. ' The 33rd annual conference will be held in the Student Union Friday ! and in the Eugene hotel Saturday. McClure Friday Speaker Speaker for Friday evening's banquet is Brig. Gen. Robert A. McClure, chief of psychological j warfare for the army. Other Fri ) day speakers include : Charley H. Broaded, director of | industrial relations for Fisher JAMES S. POPE Journalist Speaks Today 1 flouring mills co. in Seattle. "De I veloping Good Employee Rela I tions.” | Combat.Correspondence Speaker Donn Bonham, editor of the 'Pi'ease turn to fioge eight) Both Mog-Mog and the Senior Ball Become An Island Interlude' for Bandleader Jurgens (Ed. Note: Bill Clothier, an Em erald associate editor, hummed around the South Pacific with the Marines during the last war. He reminisces about the wartime ac tivities of another ex-Mnrine, Baud Leader Dick Jurgens who will play for the Senior Ball Saturday night.) By Bill Clothier Playing for an island interlude is nothing new for Dick Jurgens. He's done it before. In early 1945 the Jurgen’s musi cal band entertanied on the Island of Mog-Mog, Ulithi Atoll, Caroline group. Mog-Mog is a lovely piece of real estate about the size of Hayward Field. It was the Navy’s recreation area (i.e., beer bust is land) for the western Pacific. Scenery Nice Physical characteristics included ,a few battered palm trees, a thatched hut, gooney birds, wind, | sand and stars. The only women in a thousand miles were confined on a neighboring island frequented by staff officers only. Or maybe it was flag officers only. At the Ulithi party, the sorrow invoked by Jurgen's music was al most fatal to one brave soul. This Marine became so sad (after mix ing his beer ration with the Jur gen’s swingl that he climbed the nearest palm tree and executed a sloppy swan dive into a. mudpuddle. Hymn Revives Marine Jurgens had to play the Marine's Hymn to revive the pathetic char acter. It's really wonderful what some music can do for a person. Jurgens fought the war about the same way he fought his civil ian battles. There is some scuttle butt to the effect that he and his entire orchestra were sworn into the Marines one night while play ing at the Hollywood Canteen. Eight after they said "I Do" to, Uncle Sam's representative, they shouldered their pieces, musical, and shoved off across the dance floor at a smart 120 per minute, singing the Marine’s Hymn. Baton Instead of Club If true, this was a patriotic ges ture in a noble and publicity-con scious sort of way. But regardless of what it was, Jurgens soon be came one of the few six-stripers in the Marines who waved a baton at his men instead of the regulation size club, mark four. He waved it once for a battalion dance at Camp Pendleton's Tent Camp Two. Oceanside, Calif. Tent Camp Two was the most God-for saken place this side of "yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild,” in Milton's Paradise Lost. It was so bad that men begged to go back overseas just to get away from it. This may have been part of a fiendish plan. Six Lauds <>f Girls Anyway, the special services of ficer imported six bus-loads of pretty USO girls from Los Angeles to cheer up the troops and save the remnants before they all went over the hill. It was afterwards said that that j occasion mar ked the most unfavor I able balance of trade Camp Joseph i H. ever had. About 10 per cent of | the pretty USO girls disappeared | in them thar hills and ain't been i heard from since. Ditto for the ! heavy weapons platoon. The bat talion's table of organization had to be completely revised. During the evening, Jurgen's band proved it was a well-disci plined outfit by playing the Ma rines Hymn every fifth number as was requested by the command ling general. At the same time each J pretty USO girl held her hand over jher heart and looked patriotic. I They had real school spirit. Sarongs, Leis To Provide Color For Senior Ball Brightly-patterned cotton sa rongs and crepe-paper leis wilf help provide the atmosphere of "Island Interlude” for the Senior Ball, featuring the music of Dick Jurgens, scheduled for 9 p.m. Sat urday night in the Student Union - ballroom. Decorations chairman Carol Lees Tate announced Wednesday her committee's plans for transform ing the ballioom into a South Sea scene. Tickets for the bail are now 07* sale in the Co-op and -Student Un ion iron-, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through Friday, Tickets now being" Ears ringing? Probably not. There’s a simpler explanation: recordings of Dick Jurgens' or chestra will |*> played from tho Co-op at class breaks today andk Friday. Reason: John Gram, promo tion chairman for the Senior Ball, who arranged the im promptu record concert*, says this wilt give the campus a chance to hear Jurgens’ brand of danreahle music.” aoicl by social chairmen in n living organizations will be picked up tonight, according to Ticket Chairman Kay Moore. Price i# • $2 60 a couple. Pastel Scenes Planned Decorations plans call for spot lighting six different scene? fora in Filhouette on the east and west w-alls. each in a different pastck shade. TheFe silhouettes will depict such activities as surf-boarding, hula and feasting. To add a three dimensional aspect, the island girl# in the scenes will be adorned with crepe-paper leis and the men with sarongs of printed cottcn. On the north end of the ball room. a volcano will be depicted*, over the doors leading to the Dads’ Lounge Corners of the room wills be draped with flower-decked fish netting. Native Weapons Decoration Forming a setting for Jurgens’ orchestra on the stage will be na tive spears and corrugated shield# draped with netting. A,dmg Miss Tate on the decora tions committee are Den. GarteN, Maralyn Dyer. Tedic Croley an*. Janet Kregness. Dress for the annual al±-campu# dance, sponsored by the senior class, is formal, with flowers op tional. UO to Sponsor Fiction Lecturer ' Troxis jn Modern Americant Fiction ’ will be the topic of Hugh M. Gloster head of the department of language and literature at Hampton Institute, Va.. when he speaks in the Student Union bail room at S p m. today. He will held a coffee hour at 4 p.ra. in the Student Union. Gloster will be on campus J.e speak to University classes in ad dition to his public lecture. Spon sored by the University assembly committee in cooperation with the English, department. Gloster is a visiting lecturer on the program of the American Friends service com mittee. Gloster has been with the Hamp ton institute since 19-56. He ha* previously served as associate pio fessor of English at Le Moyne col lege, Memphis, Term., professor of English at Morehouse college an* Atlanta university in Atlanta, Ga.