Mostly Cloudy . . .
• . . with scattered showers is
the weather forecast for today.
High today will be 50 degrees
with a low Of 37, according to
the United States Weather
bureau.
NUMBER 75
I TITLES GIVEN
Oratory, Discussion
Contests Held Today
Contests for Oregon college
titles in oratory and fireside dis
cussion will be held on campus
today, Herman Cohen, director of
forensics, has announced.
The competitive speech confer
ence is held annually under the
sponsorship of the Inter-collegiate
Forensic association of Oregon.
It is one of a series held through
Prep IR League
Sets Conference
High school students from Ore
gon will -meet on campus for the
sixth annual conference of the
j Oregon High School International
■ Relations league Feb. 20 through
28.
General topic will be "The De
velopment of the Underdeveloped
Areas."
Principal speakers at the con
i ference will be Niharranjan Ray,
chairman of the department of art
and culture of the University -of
Calcutta, India, and E. J. Bell,
director of the Oregon State Wheat
commission and a member of the
board of consultants to the state
department on the agricultural
] ha -e of the Point Four program.
The. conference has been set up
in a seiies of roundtables for dis
cussion, according to Charles
Schleicher, professor of political
science and secretary of the Ore
gon Education association’s In
ternational Relations league.
The league, composed of Inter
ne lioi.al Relations clubs in the
f~ te high schools, is co-sponsor
of the conference with the Uni
versity.
t nfereaCe delegates will be
bur. • 1 on campus.
Freshman Girl Pledged
Patricia Liuer, freshman in mu
sic, was pledged Monday morning
by Alpha DMta Pi, according to
Margaret L. Kopp, Student Af
fair® office secretary.
the year in which state honors in
individual speaking events are
awarded.
Open to Public
The oratory contest, open to the
public, will be held at 3 p.m. in
Villard 102, The fireside discus
sion is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the
living room of the Sigma Alpha
Mu house. Judges will be the fo
rensic coaches from the partici
pating schools.
The subject for oratory will be
“World Peace." Speakers entered
in the event include: James Wood,
Willamette, “The Reality of
Peace"; Thomas Goldsmith, Lewis
and Clark, “The Peace Tradition”;
Paul Little, Linfield, “The Great
Design"; Kirby Brumfield, Ore
gon State, “Two Down, One to
Go.”
Fireside Talks
The fireside discussion on the
state of the nation is being ini
tiated in state competition this
year. Speakers deliver extempo
raneous speeches in a panel dis
cussion on the main topic.
Entries include: Donald Berg
strom, University of Portland; Al
fred Cave, Linfield; Allen Thomp
son, Lewis and Clark; Thomas
Scheidel, Willamette; Pat Adkis
son, sophomore in English, Uni
versity of Oregon.
Rectangular Holes
Do Have Purpose
The rectangular holes recently
dug around campus do have a
purpose according to I. I.
\\ right, head of the physical
plant.
Wooden markers with re
cessed aluminum letters will he
installed in front of each cam
pus building as soon as weather
permits.
Cement forms have been laid
for the signs, which will be
about 12 by 24 inches in size
and supported by a steel post
sunk in concrete.
Midnight Closing Hours Set
For Kenton Concert Thursday
■ m
STAX KEXTOX
To play Thursday night
Milton Bell to Speak
On 'Direct Mail' Tonight
Milton Bell, Portland adver
tising executive, will speak tonight
in the Student Union at 7:30 p.m.
on "Direct Mail."
Following the talk, students will
be able to visit informally with
the speaker and other advertising
men .
An authority on direct mail ad
vertising, Bell is a member of
Abbot. Kerns and Bell, Portland
lithographers and printers. His ap
pearance on the campus coincides
j with “Advertising Recognition
Week," being observed nationally
this week for the first time since
its origin on the west coast four
years ago.
Bell will bring with him a dis
play of direct mail materials. Re
cently the national winners in the
foster interest in advertising,
association competition were on
display in the school of journal
ism.
Band to Perforin
In Local Armory
\\ omen’s closing- hours for
those attending the Stan Kent
on concert Thursday evening
will be extended until midnight^
according to an announcement is
sued Monday by the office of stu
dent affairs. All women except
those on scholastic probation will
be eligible for the extended hours.
Sponsored by the Van Tonkin
tours, the 25-member band will
play from 8 p.m. until 1 a.m. at
the Eugene Armory. The program
will be in two parts, with the con
cert portion ending at 9:30 p.m.
and dancing following.
Reduced Student Rates
Reduced rates for students will
be in effect, provided they sit in
the balcony during the concert.
There will be an extra charge for
dancing.
Kenton last appeared in Eugene
at the opening of the Arena ball
room during the fall term of 1951.
Early in 1950 he presented a pro
gressive music concert under the
sponsorship of the University at
McArthur court. For this appear
ance Kenton will have an all new
band which includes musicians
like Lee Conitz on the alto-saxo
phone. Last year vocalist June
Christy appeared with the band.
Flanked by Downbeat magazine
as the top band in the nation, Stan
Kenton has been referred to as
"the savior of American music.”
He features a loose, modern jazz
with emphasis on section work
rather than on soloists. However,
in a recent record release of “Pro
! logue,” he introduces members of
; the group, tells something about
them, and then they play solos.
Two Audiences
Kenton is now aiming his music
at two different audiences. For
one he plays jazz, complete with
‘‘atomic blasts softened with lan
guid music,” and for the other he
plays concert music. According to
Kenton, his band has gone be
yond his own technical knowledge
in its use of the complexities of
modern orchestration.
POOR BOY MAKES FORTUNE
Luce, Minister's Son, Now Journalistic Giant
Henry R. Luce, who will speak
at a University assembly Friday
at 12:45 p.m., is known as one
of the magazine world’s foremost
- publishers.
As editor-in-chief of Time, Inc.,
a 5130,000,000 corporation, Luce
heads such well known publica
tions as Time, Life, Fortune and
House & Home.
Luce was born April 3, 1898 at
. Tengchow, in the Shantung Prov
ince of China. His father was a
Presbyterian missionary.
Meets Hadden
At the age of 14 he set out alone
for America. Arriving in this
country he enrolled at Hotchkiss
school at Lakeville, Conn., on a
scholarship. While there, Luce
met Briton Hadden; the two at
tended Yale together and later
became the co-founders of Time
magazine.
Hadden died in 1929, six years
after the founding of Time, and
Luce carried on the enterprise. A
~ --
year after Hadden’s death For
tune was officially launched. It
was followed by a number of
smaller publications and finally
Life magazine.
Time’s various publications have
a combined circulation of seven
million. They wield a tremendous
influence in nearly every phase
What Do You Think...
... of Student Government?
Linda Muhr—freshman in liberal arts, said:
“In general, I think the senate is an excellent body for students
to represent the student voice and campus policy-making. But I
have heard that one of the major class Officers has shown up at
less than half the senate meetings. Is this really student rep
resentation.”
of American life, according to
Kenneth Stewart, of the New
York university jounalism depart
ment, in his book, “Makers of
Modern Journalism.”
Time magazine soon became
known for its style, which utilized
cumulative descriptive adjectives
like eagle-eyed, lantern-jawed;
telescoped words like cinemactress
and reverse word order. Hadden
was the chief architect of the
much-imitated “Time style.”
• Time’s Philosophy
“No article will be written to
prove any special case,” Time’s
first promotion said. “But the ed
itors recognize that complete neu
trality on public questions and im
portant news is probably as unde
sirable as it is impossible, and are
therefore ready to acknowledge
certain prejudices which may in
varying measure predetermine
their opinions on the news.”
This credo has apparently been
followed faithfully, and has pro
duced a wide variance of opinion
as to whether its influence is good
or bad.
Life, which appeared in Novem
ber, 1936, was first to develop the
reporter-photographer through its
extensive use of picture stories
combined with printed text. In the
summer of 1952, Life took an un
precedented step when it published
the full text of Ernest Heming
way’s novel, “The Old Man and
the Sea.”