Reliqioiis Notes
Compiled by Mifzi Asai
Emerald Religious New* Editor
Charming Club
('Hanning club meets every Fri
day at 8 p.m. in the Unitarian
church's social room. The church
is located on the corner of Elev
enth and Ferry streets, four blocks
west of tin* campus. This Friday
tvening's program will include a
lalk by Ur. M. S. Christianson on
the topic, "The Minority Housing
Problem in Eugene,” followed by
discussion, social dancing, singing
ar-i refreshments.
!i/CF
Inter-varsity Christian Fellow
ship, an inter-denominational or
ganization of Christian students,
meets each Tuesday in the Student
Union at 7 p.m. This Tuesday,
Robert Atwell, representing West
minster Theological Seminary, will
be the speaker. Atwell is currently
in the Pacific Northwest interview
ing prospective students of the
seminary.
Christian House
Informal open house will be held
at Christian house tonight.
Sunday morning the Donut Hour
will begin at. 9:15 apd will be fol
lowed by two Bible study classes.
One is taught by V. P. Morris,
(ban of the business school; the
other by Miss Martha Goodrich,
t The Hillel foundation, Jewish
group on the campus, will be
guests ot Christian house Sunday
evening at 5:30. One of the stu
’ dents, Jochanan Stensch, will speak
on "Life in Palestine."
A smorgasbord dinner will be
held Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. for
all students. Tickets are 05 cents.
Oregon Bonds
Perform Friday
"Experiments in Jazz." a pro
J. glam presented by the combined
(••Oregon bands, will be held in the
Dads’ lounge Friday at 7:30 p.m.
The concert is open L> band mem
bers and their guests.
The pep band, conceit band.
ROTC band and football band will
make up the group.
Theodore Kratt, dean of the mu
sic school, will discuss admit.rstra
tive viewpoints on Oregon band
problems. Immediately following
the program, a dance will be held
in the lounge, and refreshments
K ser ved. Admission will be by invi
tation of band members only.
Band arrangements will be pre
sented by Dick Ramsdel, Dick
Stuart, Rod Vlassock and Bob
| Moore.
Executive council members will !
meet Tuesday for a luncheon meet
ing.
Newman Club
This Sunday Newman club will ;
join with 600 other Newman clubs
in the observance of National Car
dinal Newman day. In commemo
ration Father Nurname will speak
on “John Henry Cardinal New
man" at the Sunday Communion
breakfast In St. Mary’s school
cafeteiia after the 9 a.rn. mass.
All Catholic students are invited
to attend.
Len Casanova, faculty adviser to
the- group, has invited Marlow
Brannigan, sports editor of the
Oregon Journal, to speak in the
evening after Benediction at 7 p.m.
in Sacred Heart hospital.
Daily Lenten mass is held at 7
a.in. in Sacred Heart chapel.
Wesley Foundation
Sunday at 9:30 p.m. the Koino
nia Klass at First Methodist
church will discuss the meaning of
Christian dedication. The morn
ing worship at 11 a.rn. will center
around "A Day of Dedication"
theme. AL 5:30 a supper will be
served at Wesley house. Byron
Waite, prominent layman, will
speak on the meaning of steward
ship to the, fireside group.
Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. a potluck
dinner is scheduled. The "Opera
tion Reaction” series will be con
tinued. Wesley chorus will prac
tice at 7:15.
Thursday noon a luncheon will
be followed by a student-led chapel
service.
Lutheran Students
A Taffy Pull has been scheduled
Friday at 7:30 p.m. Pastor T. M.
Gebhard, from Salem, will talk on
"Why Lent?” Sunday at 6:15 p.m.
Thursday at 9 p.m., Basic Chris
tian Ethics class will be led by Rev.
Ed Svendsen, from Corvallis.
Orchids to You
A unique rainstorm of orchids
fell on the campus Wednesday
noon. A shower of pamphlets
fell at the same time explaining
the whole situation.
This phenomenon was a pub- !
lieity stunt, engineered by Jim
Solidum, senior in journalism, to ;
advertise the Phi Kappa Sigma
house danre which will take )
place Saturday.
The orchids were sent from j
Hawaii by Mr. and Mrs. No
briga, parents of Phi Kap pledge
Gordon Nobriga.
Morton Kroll Discusses
Dulles' European Trip
Morion Kroll, assistant profes
■^of political science, was the
^Paker Tuesday at the meeting of
P.e International Relations club.
|Iis topic was "Western Europe
|knd Mr. Dulles.'’ Kroll outlined
some aspects of Dulles’ recent Eu
ropean trip.
The purpose of the trip, made
£ by the secretary of state, accord
ing to Kroll, was that of acting as
a catalyst in the establishment of
a European Defense community.
Stops in the tour, made with Har
old Stassen, were Rome, Paris and
, London.
Western Europe
Dulles made his western Euro
pean trip as the result of a con
ference with President Elect Eis
' enhower aboard the USS Helena
in December. The conferees de
_ cided that stronger pressure should
be brought to bear on the Chi
nese communists to come to terms
. in Korea, and that a firmer policy,
concerning European allies' co
operation in defense of Western
Europe was necessary.
“Enlightened self-interest" is the
policy which was agreed upon by
the pair at this and subsequent
meetings, and has been carried
out in dealings since. The theme
of Dulles in each of his meetings
at the various countries was that
unless the European powers co
operated and united, aid to them,
in the form of arms and money,
was impossible .
Time Test
Bob Maffin, senior in political
science, president of the club,
brought before the members the
topic of a news contest or test,
sponsored by Time magazine,
which is to be taken by club
members. It was decided to do
this Feb. 27, with time and place
to be announced later.
Other business concerned the
possibility of joint meetings with
Cosmopolitan club during spring
term, which is to be discussed fur
ther at a later date. The question
of financial backing for the Model
United Nations conference in Cali
fornia was also discussed but not
definitely decided upon.
Oregon Students Planned
Pre-War 'Peace Strikes'
By Len Calvert
Emerald Ati.'ifanJ Newt Editor
Although most of the students
now enrolled in the University of
Oregon have grown up in a period
of world unrest and war, the gen
eration of college students just
prior to the World War II years
were not so "conditioned” to war
and were determined to do some
thing about it through a series of
“peace strikes."
Emerald editorials in 1938 and
39 reflected the apparent current
campus feeling that the United
.States was impregnable to attack
from abroad. As one editorial put
it, "Let us cease to worry ourselves
. . . until conditions change our
present impregnability from at
tack. We have problems at home
more pressing and infinitely more
vital to our national welfare."
Strike for Peace
In 1938, Oregon students plan
ned to join the rest of the nation's
colleges in a national "strike for
peace" on April 27. However, the
Emerald said that many support
ers of the 1937 "strike" were not
supporting the action this year.
However, leaders of the "strike”
appealed for only “serious and con
Kcientious” students to attend the
event in the women’s quadrangle,
in front of Hendricks and Susan
Campbell halls. The Emerald said
editorially "The national strike
could be an important factor in
determining the policy of the
United States ... it is not planned
for clowns, fools, ridiculers or
vague-minded pacifists."
Although the “strike” drew only
about 200 students the Emerald
said that the “strike" was more
successful in the comment it in
voked. »
About 250 students attended the
1939 peace “strike" after which an
Emerald editorial declared “we will
go on pursuing the will-o-the-wisp
that is peace until we land in the
morass that is war.”
Walls are Down
In the fall of 1940, an Emerald
editorial commented that the col
lege “walls had come down” and
that students were being affected
by the happenings in the rest of
the world.
On Nov. 27, 1941, the campus
was concerned not with world
events, but with plans for Home
coming and the Emerald was com
plimenting the dormitories and
Greek houses on keeping their
board bills down in the face of ris
ing costs.
However, the Dec. 11 edition of
the Eiperald carried all war news
on the front page, accompanied by
sober editorials. The editorials
seemed to reflect a determined
calm which struck the campu3
with the news of Pearl Harbor.
Said one editorial, "The war can
be won. The war will be won. It
will be won by a united people
working for a common purpose
that transcends all other objec
tives: the right to their very ex
istence as a free people.”
Unlike the days before World
War II, college students of today
are interested and informed on
world events. No one believes that
the United States is ‘‘impregnable”
to attack from abroad and no one
is agitating for peace strikes.
The prevailing attitude among
most students seems to be one of
seriousness of purpose in their
college careers. They have grown
up with the draft, war and the
idea of delaying the start of their
life’s careers until after .they have
joined their older brothers and sis
ters in doing their “bit” for their
country.
From faraway
places-more
oil for yots
//I Sumatra back in 1924, Standard geologists began
mapping possible deposits of oil. But not until last year
did Sumatran wells start adding to available oil supplies.
This operation, costing some $62 million to date, was
pioneered by Standard. It is now carried on jointly with
The Texas Company under the name “Caltex.”
Into So. TOnCISCO Boy come tankers carry
ing Sumatran crude—returns on the long gamble
Standard undertook nearly 30 years ago. Other
shipments go elsewhere in the world, aiding prog
ress and adding defensive strength. Four friendly
nat ions in particular benefit directly. Firs t, of course,
is the young Indonesian Republic, of which Sumatra
is a part. Then Australia, Japan and the Philip
pines. They produce practically no oil of their own,
but will be supplied ip the near future by refineries
which Caltex is helping to build, q And, of course,
the Sumatran oil brought into this country helps
keep you in gasoline and the many other petroleum
products you’ve come to rely on. q Standard’s ac
tivities abroad, typified by this flow of Sumatran
crude, are constantly being expanded, as an added
guarantee that petroleum needs of the free world
will continue to be met.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA
plans ahead to serve you better