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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1952)
Election . ... of (In* ASt'O officers and members Is talting place today. It's your rlulit and responsibility to vote. Volume l.lll n Daily EMERALD 1'ifly-third year of Publication t MVKK.HITV Of OKKtiON, Kl tiKNK, \VKI>NKSI)A Y, AI'KII. HO, 10r, > NTMBER 113 'Operation Politics'Gains Momentum; Stassen for President Rally Set Today ‘‘Staesen for President" will be the theme of a noon rally today, the third of a series of demonstra tions preparatory to Oregon's rnoek Republican presidential nominating convention to be held Friday. Houses representing states in sup port of Stassen will meet at Phi Sigma Kappa and proceed through and around the campus. Thursday night the Taft for president committee will stage a torchlight parade down "Sorority How" starting at 10th and Alder and proceeding through the cam pus. Student demonstrations previ ously held Include a Gov. Warren rally on Monday by the “Warren for President" committee and a torchlight parade Tuesday night by the "Eisenhower for President” committee. Francis Gillmore, general chair man. stated that the rallies "were very successful." Gov. Val Peterson of Nebraska, keynote speaker at Friday's con vention, will arrive in Eugene Fri day. Upon his arrival a reception in honor of Gov. Peterson will be held. Leaflets describing ‘‘Operation Politics,” theme of the convention, will be circulated through the campus and city by committee members. A sound truck will drive through campus and city from noon to 2 p.m. announcing the Governor's parade at 4 :30 p.m. and the convention at 6:30 p.m. The Governor's parade starts at the Southern Pacific depot and ends at McArthur court where the actual convention takes place at 6:30 Friday night. Featured in the Governor's pa rade will be: The University's ROTC Army drill team and ROTC Air Force drill team. Gov. Peter son's officiail party, a motorcycle police escort, Eugene Junior Cham ber of Coominerce's float, junior Young Republicans’ float, other (Please turn to baoc jive) 'Red and Whites' To Be Sold Today and Whites", the I’hi Theta "mystic” will be sold today from booths on campus, but jiiHt what will be sold will remain a secret until booths open this morning. In 19-1!). it was "Twislies" doughnuts; in 1950, it, was "Mys Ucks” candiied apples; in 1951, it was "Don’t Mistic a Kistie" again candled apples. Three years ago, in 1945, Phi Theta Upsllon, Junior women's honorary, sponsored on the Ore gon campus a unique sale in order to raise money for junior women's scholarships. The sale was sur rounded by an air of mystery be cause the nature of what was being sold was kept secret until the day of the sale, when the mystery “Twislies" were found to be dough nuts. The next year on May 3, 1050, the mystery slogan was "Mys tjeks," v.’hieh were revealed as candied apples. This time the f’hi Thetas also had a secret “Mr. Mys i tic.” He was reevaled to be Ken Metzler, a junior in journalism, and the only boy who hud petitioned for a committee head on the sales. The sales are run completely by fresh men women. Apples were sold as desserts and snacks at the living organisations and at booths In front of the Co-op, the library, the 'Side, Fenton and between Oregon and Commerce. They sold for 10 cents apiece. The third annual sale took place on May 2, 1951, the day of cam pus elections, with the slogan of “Don't Mistie a Kistie" and the product was again candied apples. This time the booths on campus couldn’t be missed with their col ors of chartreuse, fuschia and 1 black. This year's slogan is "Take a bite . . of Ked and White,” but what will it mean this time? Talk Arranged Arnold .1, Toynbee \\ ill speak at a coffee hour sponsored by the Stu ’ (lent Union board Thursday at 1 • p.m. The coffee hour Is open to all students, faculty members and „ townspeople. 'Was Cooper Goethe's Idol?' Is Topic For Schwarzlose, Majlis' Speaker The question, "Was Cooper Goethe's Idol?" will be discussed by Walter Sehwarzlo.se, special jouornalism student from Ger many, at 7 ;30 tor.ight in the Stu dent Union. Schwarzlose will discuss the in timate relationship of German and American literature and give a survey of their influence on each other during the last 200 years. Students and townspeople are in vited to attend the program, spon sored by the Oregon Majlis club, a group of foreign students inter ested in promoting better under standing of the cultural bonds be tween America and the rest of the world. Other activities of the Majlis club, only recently formed on cam pus. will be tile presentation of an “India Day” sometime in May. Meeting Set All house representatives for “Operation Polities" are urged by Bob Kiddcrhusch, eredentails committee chairman, to attend a meeting at tt:30 Thursday night in 3 Fenton. Talks, plans and exhibits climaxed by an Indian dinner are planned for the public. Similar observances for other nations are to be held in the near fuliire. DeVoto To Discuss Writing Tuesday "The Professional Writer" will be the topic when Bernard A. De Voto, American author, writer and lecturer, speaks at 1 p.m. next Tuesday in the Student Union. DeVoto is currently the editor of "The Easy Chair", a feature in Harper's magazine. He held that position since 1935. Previously he was editor of The Saturday Review (of Literature) and the Harvard Graduates' magazine. He is the author of the books "Mark Twain at Work," "The Lit erary Fallacy," "Mountain Time,” "The Year of Decision,” “Across the Wide Missouri," and numerous articles, stories, historical essays and reviews for various publica tions. Sing' Contest Eliminations Set For Court, SU All-Campus Sing eliminations will be held tonight at Mac Court for men's groups and in the Stu dent Union Ballroom for women's groups. The first groups of men's houses will meet at 6:45 p.m. in the Stu Court. Those singing in the first group are. in the following order: Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Alpha Ep silon, Phi Delta Theta. Beta Theta Pi. Campbell Club. Delta Upsilon, Sigma Chi and Sigma Phi Epsilon. The second men's group, at S:00. are: Alpha Tail Omega. Sigma Nu, Pi Kappa Phi, Delta Tau Delta, Phi Kappa Sigma, Lambda Chi Alpha. Theta Chi, Hunter and Minturn. The first women's eliminations begin at 7:45 in the SU ballroom. Singing, in the following order, are: Alpha Xi Delta. Carson Hall. Kappa Alpha Theta, Ann Judson, Delta Zeta, Sigma Kappa and Al pha Omicron Pi. Second women's group begins at 9:00. Houses singing are Kappa (Please turn to /'aye seven) Statute Change, Board Members Also Up tor Vote Oregon student? will go to ‘'~i polls today to pick their student body president, class officers a d senate members for 1952-53 an.l vote on a change in the ASUO con stitution. The polls will open at S a.m. a - l remain open all day until 6 p.rr. Location of the voting places s near Felton hall, at the Co-op, on ’he quad, at the library, in the St i dent Union and at Amazon Flats and Skinner's Bntte Villa for the convenience of the married stu dents. Voting Prerequisites All registered Oregon students are eligible to vote in the election upon presentation of their student body card. The preferential syste m in which voters number their choice for officers from one on rlown will be used. In addition, members of the Co op will be able to vote on the Co op board members for next year by showing their Co-op membership cards. Co-op Board Candidates Those limning for the Cn-cp board positions are Nancy Ran dolph and Ann Bankhead for the one year term sophomore repre sentative post and A1 Golden be? g, Barbaia Keelen. Joan Rademacher and Malcolm Norton for the t /o year term junior post. Pat Dignan. Associated Greek student candidate, and Helen Jack son. United Students association candidate, aie opposing each other for ASUO president. The can didate with the second highest number of number one vote.- v, ill become vice president. Class Elections In .the class elections, four can didates are running for each gic >p of class officers. Graduate students, special stu dents and seniors will not be elig ible to vote for class officeis. Freshman will vote on sophomoie class officers, sophomores on the junior officers and juniors for sen ior officers. The poll books will have the official class designation as listed with the registrar's of fice. Class Hopefuls Senior class office candidates are: President—Dick Davis (USA) and Tom Wrightson (AGS); rep resentative—Merle Davis i USA) and Jane Simpson 1AGS1. Pltiisc turn 111 seven) Religion May Be Liberty's Base-Toynbee Russia has challenged us to say what is at the bottom of our indi vidual liberty. Perhaps it has a re ligious basis, ignored in the export of Western civilization to the rest of the world during the past sev eral hundred years. This was the message Arnold J. Toynbee, noted philosopher and his teiian, gave to a crowd of approxi mately 2500 people in McArthur court Tuesday evening. Near the end of the 17th century the West abandoned its traditional leligion "and went secular." he said, “and the main center of in Uerest shifted to applied .science." "It was at that moment that Western civilization presented it self to the world, that it began to catch on like wildfire,” he explain ed. But Communism today, "the first serious reaction to mankind’s en counter with the west," he said, has a "violent, fanatical religion in the center.” From the collision between Greek, Roman and Oriental civili zations. he said, “sprang religions . . . whose founders were not think ing in terms of competition be tween evilizations . . . but bring ing a message about the ultimate nature and destiny of man.” ”If we could lift the curtain and see the ultimate outcome of the Western world,” Toynbee said, per haps we would see the same result, "some kind of religious reaction, a new flowering of religious life.” The impact of one civilization as it spreads and touches others, Toynbee said, may vary and some elements of one culture, when ap plied separately may have disas trous results in other places. The application of western na iionalism, in the Middle East where nationalists are not separated geo graphically, he said, resulted in "a century and a half of mutual mur der and eviction." On the psychological side of the encounter, he explained, members of a spreading civilization can take fouor different attitudes toward a subject people. They may regard them as heath ens to be converted, barbarians to be educated, natives to be tolerated or as people of a different race. Only in the fourth instance, he said, is there the possibility of "an impassable gulf that can't be bridged." On the side of the “assaulted party,” he explained, the people may follow three lines. They can resist, and he classified these as the "zealots" or they can adopt the new culture as Herod instruct ed the Jews to do. The Communists are both “zeal ots" and “Herodians," he explained in that “they are out to preserve a distinctive Russian thing . . . and to adopt Western technology." In the third case, new religions may result from the "encounters between civilizations," as they did in ancient times as they may again do in the future, he said. "Until the Russian counter of fensive,” he observed “we were, probably little conscious of the re: t. of mankind” and inclined to no tice our own national differences. The real divisions of mankind, he explained, could be seen by the two peace conferences of 1919 am* ! 1046. In the first, the Allies "veie | close enough to quarrel with eaclt j other” but in the second the R-us i sian and Western delegates v. eie | so far apart that “they could.it | even quarrel.” 'Razor's Edge' Is Scheduled j “The Razor’s Edge,” the movie j adaptation of W. Somerset Maugh am’s poweiful story, will be shown i at 2:30 and 5:00 p.m. Sunday in j the Student Union ballroom. The movie is sponsored by the j SU movie committee, under tho ' chairmanship of Sandra Price.