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Voluino LI II
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Fifty-third year of Publication
I'MVKRNITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THERHDAY, FEB. 21, 1952
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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
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'■°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.
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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.