Who Is This Goy? 1 '} lie name alone is enough to scare a person off. » Dr. Mortimer J. Adler. Sounds high-tone, doesn't it? And )»ij>e this. He's going to speak on "Art and Aesthetics. Might ■Hri i then be a fine opportunity for us to politely evade the dis cu -sion and spend a few extra minutes with coffee, cards or any number of other painless pleasures? Herhaps there have been times in the past few years when stub a question, to be answered honestly, would have needed a ‘ yes.” But in Dr. Adler’s case, it's definitely "no." * We think he’s one of our most provocative educators— • but that’s not the reason. It’s because he can write about ( tr.d we presume talk about) five dollar ideas in those com forting words of one and two syllables. We know he has something to say;, we’re sure we’ll understand it when he s tys it. ■And \ve*re not just saying- this to till space (either here or at the assembly). We can cite an example, his classic work in -■•Aflimtely unclassic terminology,. “How to Read a Book.” If ytv.Ve' neveT read it, you’ve been cheated. Tor in-that book. Dr. Adler tactfully tells- you tlrat you prob ably don't know'how to read.' Unihiportant? Hardly, when ,.ys« think of lfbw much of tlvis.'CO^lege^ “education” of yours ‘based ou.„readin,g» .how much of your future life will de ^Mpewd on it. . • Why cheated? Because he offers you the means to learn -Tow to read. ... 1 ' \\ e don’t -meaii to- imply that the book is just another of ■ dhe “How to . . affairs. A«ller himself describes it as a ‘'light book" about “heavy reading.” It is mudi more, in our estimation. -• It may,- foe •example,- leave you feeling- that you've so far •J>>> i for two,-three or four years of underlining books and -j4ie.«.ring- dead;facts droned from lifeless teachers—little more.! St may make you angry with yourself, or with the school. In fact we’ll suggest-you could do worse, a lot worse, than d> Doping over to the library some rainy afternoon and pun ning one of the half dozen or so copies of it off the shelf. . -V. e suggest' you read 'just the first page of it. then deciding whether you want to'go on with it or not. It you don't, and tD o it hack on the "counter "neither remembering or caring VTTr'i.t he said. then, forget we ever mentioned it—and consider •four “education” £a&$4acbiry. We think, however, tfikh you’ll find the first page will de ■tn3ud reading the second, the third, the fourth, and so on to the end of the hook (which itself is only introduction to a ‘t'r.v of “Great Books.’j In that case, we need say nothing —Dr. Adler is his"own best salesman. Try it. If not completely satisfied in ten minutes, return the unused portion of the book to the desk and your inclina tion to keep on squeeking through with as little mental effort a possible will cheerfully be refunded in full. Oh, no. Nobody can make you learn or understand one frarticfe more than you want to learn or understand. But if tftof mystic fire is still burning-, after one or two or three years *{ intellectual stupor, there’s fresh, life-giving fuel for you tin those pages. (j.H.) jHutesUna %v : f •***»• mu ...On KWAX ■V Monday * rt % 6:03 Piano Moods * 6:10 News Till Nou " “ . 6:13 Guest Stuf 6:30 Campus Interview 6:43 Here Is Spencer-Snow “ :00 Window ili.IllOlfiO Tower -- ‘ 7:30 Showtime •««—. 8:00 World in Review^! 8:13 Campus RectTttT' 8:43 News Roundup - 9:00 Cavalcade of .\luiTh~ 9:30 Kwax worKT --- 10:30 Emerald of the-Air 10:33 Softly Now " Journalist to Talk On Foreign News Jerome L. Heldring, .director of the Netherlands Information serv ice in the United States, will ex plain - -how the . newspapers of America handle f6fe~igh“ news to Oregon newspapermen at the Ore gon Rrese* conference on- oampus. The conference,• 34th in an- an nual, series,, .wifi. be. Held liiday and Satujrday, Feb. 20 and 21. It is sponsored by the school of jour nalism and Oregon Newspaper Publishers.' association. Heldring and Henry R. Luce, editor in chief of Time, Life and Fortune magazines and director of Time, Inc., will be featured speak- j ers at the conference. Luce will de- | liver the annual Eric W. Allen Me- ! morial lecture at the conference. I • Campus Briefs • Confined in the infirmary over the weekend were Phyllis Johnston, sophomore in liberal I arts, James Hughs, sophomore in business, Bob Southwell, sopho more in business, Yoshinobu Ter- \ ada. junior in art and Henry Kai uro, junior in physical education. 0 Assistant professor Herbert : Bisno of the sociology department will speak at Wesley house tonight at 8. The meeting is under the sponsorship of the local National Ass’n. for the Advancement of Colored People. Topic of Bisno’s speech is “Accommodating Lead ership in a Period of Political Crisis." A discussion will follow' the speech, and the interested pub- j lie is invited. FOR DABNEY, TREATMENT 'A' Needed: Rebirth in Local Politics ! >| By Sill Gurney The thought occurs that per il 3.ps it is nearing the time when campus politics will rise, like a Phoenix from the ashes, and plague us. ' Even now, decisions are un d >tibte<fly being made in smoke ■ filled rooms that will affect the course of campus history. For instance, perhaps a TNE cell is : again operating insidiously. i i hope so, because what this campus has needed for a long j time is a little more Machia , vellian maneuvering and old fashioned free- style bade « scabbing. ; 'The old-timers who were here E Ol. (Before Deferred Living) ; volt tell you that you didn’t rate a;, a Power, per se, unless you t «» td made-a few ASUO Number I Odes,-and broken a few others. Let’s go to a TNE orgy. It is - being held by candlelight in the bitti-basement of the Awful Al* fa!fa house, and the meeting has been called to order by the Worthy Boss. YVB: Okay, men, let’s get to work. First, about this Brows ing room art subchairman job. It’s big—see—really big, and we got to get it. If we can, nothing can stop us, but noth ing. "Why we could even . . . FIRST PLOTTER: You mean WB: Exactly, and we’d be able to smash those louts over in the Omicron Kegga house who think their boy Dabney is the man for Number One. We all know Dab ney isn’t Number One material, unless his house bolts the block. SECOND PLOTTER: Dabney’s out, definitely out. Should we give give him the treatment type A? CHORUS: Right! THIRD PLOHLSK: But what will his folks think if he vanishes for six mouths aud turns up in Candied Yam, Georgia, working in a cotton gin and think’s he s A1 Jolson. Isn’t Type A a little rough ? \VB: Whaddya mean, rough? Remember what we did to Smithers? He tried to get Num ber One. TP: Oh, yeah, I heard a skull washed up in Japan—but no one ever knew for sure. Ok, Type A is fine, \VB: Good. Now I got some thing else to bring up. That lit professor, Mr. Utter Cading ton, he’s been giving me a bad time. I want him eliminated. Get the Contact on that right away. CHORUS: Right, chief. WB: And tell the Contact ten percent of the dorm profits is plenty for his cut. This fifteen percent stuff don’t go, see, it don’t go. Meeting adjourned. MOST FROM OREGON W'ebfoot Students Hail FfOtir Many Countries IBy'Anne. l\.iUlic; . . 1 „* — —• •— Emartld Reporter Where are you from? Jf you are like most students, you ' have asked and answered this , question many times since T coming to Oregon. The probable answer would be that you * are front some town in this state, as most of Oregon's 4,231 ’ students are. „ , - j But if, as is the case with 127 students, you should say vou - were from sora» foroigru country it would- not be unique. There are 3S-^separate' countries represented Bn 4h* campus 4his-4errrh-Largest representations are from Morocco, Pbl-tugdl, Belgium, Finland, Indo nesia, Italy, Colombia, Palestine, Greece, Peru, Okinawa, Panama, Israel, Lithuania and Holland. Eugene lands Leading with the largest , num ber of students from one town is Eugene, which has 335 men and 323 women on the campus. Port-, land is next with 443 men and 285 women. Springfield is well represented, being next in line with 73 men aad 37 women. From Salem there are 54 men and 49 women. There are students here from 37 other states, including the Dis trict of Columbia, besides Oregon. The states not represented this year aie Arkansas. Arizona, Del iware, Kentucky, Maine. Massa chusetts, Mississippi, New Hamp shire, South Carolina. Vermont md West Virginia. Many Keligkins California has the largest num ber of out-of-state students, 155 men and 133 women. From Wash ington there are 73 men and 74 women. From New York there are 13 men and 4 women, and there ire 8 students fiom Illinois. Seven students are from Pennyslvahia. The students from foreign coun tries represent many different types of religious groups. There ire Moslems from the Near and Far East, Buddhists from Siam md Japan, Mohammedans from Pakistan and members of the Church of England from Canada md England. The missionary in fluence -is shown in the figures of Protestant and Catholic member ship from such countries as Afri ca and China and there is a Quak er from Japan. WRA Calls Petitions Petitions are now being called for chairmen of the annual WRA Carnival, to be held Feb. 28, ac cording to Mary Wilson, sopho more in liberal arts. Chairmen for tickets, finance, promotion, publicity, booths, deco rations, the food booth and clean up are wanted. Petitions, available in the Student Union, are to be turned in by 5 p.m. Wednesday to the cage at Gerlinger or to Miss Wilson at the Delta Gamma house. Rally Board... Positions Pilled Terry O'Brien, sophomore in * English; Ely nor Robbie**, sopho more in pre-law, and Pete Will iams, sophomore in business, have ■* been appointed- to fill the three vacancies in the rally board. The appointments, which are ef- *. fective immediately, were made Thursday, according to A1 Golden- I berg, chairman of the board. This * brings the rally board to its full strength of 14 members. Head Petitions Due Chairmanship petitions for the campus Red Cross drive must be * turned into Pat Ruan, general - chairman, at Delta Gamma by 5 pm. Thursday, according to Miss Ruan. Chairmanships open are secre- .. tary, collections, promotion and publicity. Petition blanks are " available in the Student union, » third floor, Muss Ruan said. The drive will begin late in February. • * Ex-Student Asks Help For Stricken Hometown VVim Van Eekeren. former for eign student at the university, has asked aid for his flood-rav aged home town, Bergen op Zoom in the Netherlands. He received his master’s degree in journalism here last year and is now a student at Georgetown university. Van Eekeren is asking that do nations for the town, which has been nearly destroyed by war and - storm three time's, be sent to the school of journalism. Money or ders or checks which are sent * should be made out to him, he said. Deadline for the contribution is Wednesday, Gordon Sabine, dean of the journalism school, stated. Campus Calendar lOa.iu. PE Lect fieri 2nd I I Noon Reg. Traffic Ct 112 SL* 4 p.m. Jones Dance Lect Ballrm. SF Heads of Houses 324 SF 6:30 Yoemerj fieri 1st I I Grides Gerl 3rd IT 7:30 PhiMu fieri 2nd FI ~ Red Drive Or&grQn Daily EMERALD 08eg°n l>AiLy F-mera'.d published Monday through Friday during the college year ’^thP™u«h 30; June 1, 2 and 3 by the Student Publi ' V cl' VV amJ “1 *»ar- 13 through 30; June 1, 2 and 3 by the Student Publi cations Board of the University of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the post oflice, Eugene, Oregon. 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