U.5. Foreign Policy Clear
To Literate, Says Perkins
"The U. S. foreign policy Is clear
to anyone who’s literate,” was the
opinion expressed by Dexter Per
kins, history scholar and lecturer
speaking at a coffee-hour forum
Tuesday.
Having expressed earlier that
Kurope is more important, indus
trially, than Asia, Perkins answer
ed a question as to the compara
tive relation between Asia and
Europe by saying Asia, and more
specifically China, “will never be
industrial.” Asia has no oil and
little coal and China's technology
Is "difficult.”
Perkins added that a split be
tween China and Russia could be
done by "no formula—no positive
act,” but it was "something to
hope for." Stressing the import
ance of a long perspective, he said
no matters of foreign affairs could
be settled quickly.
Perkins expressed a "respectful
fear of Russia" several times, say
ing at one point that “the Russians
can't be taken for granted.”
A truce in Korea would not en
tirely settle the "Korean question"
Per kins commented. He maintain
ed there is “no answer to the prob
lem.” In the event of such a truce, J
however, of China and Korea to the
UN would not "rupture the gr and
alliance" against the Kremlin.
An old question, one which has
been asked many such speakers at
such meetings, was one about the
justness of the treaty of Versailles.
Perkins opinion, differing from
most, was that the treaty was "not
fair to Germany.” That the terri
torial settlement was “not grossly
irrational" and that the error was
in assuming Germany would be
satisfied was his contention.
Perkins emphasized several
times that the Russian people want
peace. He does not believe there
is an important internal struggle
in Russia, and he thinks there is
“very little chance of dramatic al
teration of policy" or deviation
from Communist principles.
Favorable Discussion
Dulles' point-four program was
discussed favorably by Perkins. It
demonstrates a “humane and altru
istic stand” of the U. S. It is not
an insurance against Communism,
he said, nor will it “allay social
discontent.” The aid in the pro
gram is simply from a “general
instinct to help.”
Perkins added that “total war
has been pictured as so terrible
that the countries involved are
afraid to take risks.” He said that
a war between the U. S. and Rus
sia was, in effect, an “ultimate
gamble.”
Scholarship Awards
To be Given at Dance
Two traffic court scholarships
will be presented by Fred Turner,
court chairman, at the Mortar
Board Ball Saturday, Money for
the scholarship is obtained from
fines assessed during the year.
Dress for the dance will be for
mal, according to Elaine Hartung,
campus social chairman. Women
will wear formats and dark suits, !
dinner jackets, or tuxedoes will be i
appropriate for the men.
Corsages are mandatory — for I
men. Women are encouraged to:
use their ingenuity in designing
the corsages for their escorts. A
prize will be awarded at the dance
intermission for the most ingen
ious. Judges will circulate during
the dance to choose finalists for'*
the corsage contest. Houses are
a!co to choo.-e entrants for the
contest from those attending their
living organization dinners.
Official chaperones for the tra
ditional dance will be Mr. and Mrs.
G. D. Hoyt, assistant professor of
physics and instructor in English,
respectively. Other honored guests
will include faculty and adminis
tration couples.
Mortar Board tickets went on
sale today in the women's living
organizations. They are also avail
able at the Co-op and at the Stu
dent Union and may be purchased
at the door Saturday night. Wom
en are to designate the living or
Tea Will Honor
Mrs. Edna Stokes
An all-campus tea in honor of
Mrs. Edna Stokes, Carson hall
house mother, will be held Thurs
day from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Carson
living room.
Mrs. Stokes, who has been at
Oregon for nine years and at Car
son since its completion in 1950,
will retire next year.
All former residents of Carson
hall are especially invited, although
the tea is open to all students, ac
cording to Barbara Dspain, Car
son president.
ganization of their escort when
they purchase the tickets.
Thirty freshmen women will be
tapped for membership in Kwama
during intermission and an award
will be presented to the men’s liv
ing organization with the highest
percentage of members in attend
ance.
Old Traditions
Mark'Her' Day
An old campus tradition will be
lesumed today with the celebra
tion of Women’s day, according to
Fhyllis Pearson, traditions chair
man for the Mortar Board Ball.
Women’s day has not been held for
several years.
Rules and regulations for the
day include the women making and
paying for all dates, and calling
for their dates at their living or
ganizations. They are also to ex
tend to men all of the smaller
courtesies, such as opening the
door for them, walking on the out
side of the street, helping them on
with their coats and carrying their
books.
All-campus "traditions” to be
followed include:
1. Everyone walk on the grass
wherever possible.
2. Senior men wear green rib
bons.
3. Senior women wear rooters
lids.
4. Everyone but seniors may sit
on the senior bench.
5. All men wear knickers.
6. Everyone growl on Hello walk.
7. All women smoke cigars on
the Old Campus.
8. No walking on the geodesic
dome.
9. Junior-senior party-party at
4 p.m. behind the Kappa Sigma
house.
10. Scrubbing of Fenton pool at
5 p.m. after the intermission of
the party-party.
"The election of Eisenhower in
1952 may be, in the long run, a
great boon to American foreign
policy. Establishment of a truly
unified policy may come about
with the election of our Republi
can president.”
This war the observation of Dex
ter Perkins in a lecture Tuesday
entitled "Pattern of American For
eign Policy—1953 Model.”
Perkins, a history scholar and
lecturer, said that life is not a
finality, but the American people
must make an effort of adjustment
from day to day to the present
problems and make decisions that
seem wise.
Choice Will Fortify
The choice they make will fortify
the United States’ position in the
world at large. "I believe the for
eign policy is reaching a higher
degree of national consistency. It
will be effective in the objectives
in which it has viewed,” declared
Perkins.
Speaking of Latin America, the
lecturer observed that since 1928
we have had a "remarkably con
sistent policy in regard to the re
public which lies to the south of
us.”
The problem here is how to deal
with the anti-American regimes.
However, Perkins said that in gen
eral no government tn Latin Amer
ica is Moscow controlled. “The
museum piece is Argentina—a pol
icy of kicks and kindness toward
the United States.”
Keglmp Represses
Switching to the European
scene, Perkins declared the con
flict with Russia is in three parts:
“moral, economic and physical. The
totalitarian regime represses free
dom of thought and penalizes free
dom in the largest sense.’’
Communism narrows the Ameri
can economic range by suggesting
the American system is wrong.
The conflict is in part physical be
cause many believe our security is
threatened by Russian communis
tic imperialism.
The death of Stalin has created
an internal struggle for power in
Russia, Perkins averred.
Student Affairs
Calls in Surveys
All cost surveys from the U.S.
Department of Education must be
returned to the office of student
affairs by 5 p.m. today, according
to Clifford L. Constance, faculty
co-ordinator of the survey.
Oregon is one of the 100 colleges
in the nation selected to partici
pate in the survey. Near 100 per
cent return of the questionnaires
is essential to insure the accuracy
of the survey, emphasizes Con
stance.
The questionnaires were mailed
to 260 selected students earlier.
Those not returned will have to
be followed up by personal phone
calls.
Portlanders Address
Journalism Seniors
Seniors in journalism will hear
lectures from two Portlanders on
phases of organized labor and
newspapers on Thursday and Fri
day of this week.
A. R. Clayton, representative of
the International Typographical
union, will speak Thursday on the
union side of organized newspap
er labor and Donald S. Haines, lab
or relations man for the Portland
newspapers, will speak Friday on
the management side of large
papers.
Canada Diplomat
To Lecture at UO
The man described as Canada’s
first top homegrown diplomat, Les
ter B. Pearson, president of the
United Nations General Assembly,
will appear here as a guest lec
turer next week.
Pearson will speak at a Univer
sity assembly Tuesday at 1 p.m.
in the Student Union ballroom. A
coffee hour forum will be held
for him at 3 p.m. the same day. His
visit to the campus is being spon
sored by the University lecture and
assembly committee, and he will
make no other appearance in the
Northwest at this time.
Currently Canada’s secretary of
state for external affairs, Pearson
is a strong advocate of Canada’s
growing demand to be heard in its
own right. Favoring cooperation
with Britain and the United States,
he nevertheless maintains some re
strictions toward this country. He ■
was an outspoken critic of the use
of Canadian soldiers to quell pris
oner of war riots on Korea’s Hole
island.
Pearson was elected to his pres
ent position in October, 1952. He
participated in the San Francisco
conference which set up the UN
organization. He was also chair
man of the 1952 North Atlantic
Treaty Organization conference
held in Lisbon.
While in Eugene, the UN presi
dent and Mrs. Pearson will be
guests of President and Mrs. H. y.
Newbum.
'State of France'
Topic of Lecture
By Gordon Wright
Gordon Wright, head of the his
tory department, will speak on
modem French politics, “The State
of France," tonight at 7:30 in the
Student Union browsing room.
Wright, a student of French po
litical history, returned in 1951
from his third research trip to
France. During 1950-51 he studied
peasant politics while on a Social
Science Council fellowship, and
spent time in Paris gathering in
formation on central agricultural
agencies and interviewing peasant
deputies in Parliament.
In 1944, Wright was retained
by the State department as a spe
cialist on France, and from 1945 to
1947 he was vice consul and third
secretary of the American Em
bassy in Paris with special duties
as a political analyst.
A member of the University
family since 1939, Wright became
head of the history department in
1952. He has previously taught at
George Washington university,
Stanford and UCLA.
Discussion leader for the talk
is Chandler Beall, professor of ro
mance languages.
Signatures Sought
For Removal of 'O'
A Eugene woman has taken ac
tion to remove the “O” from Skin
ner’s Butte. Last week the con
crete letter was blasted from the
face of the hill for the second time
this year.
Dr. Eva Frazier Johnson who
lives on the south side of the butte
is circulating a petition asking for
the removal of the “0M to prevent
further blasts. The petition, al
ready containing two full pages of
signatures, will be presented to the
city council at its meeting Monday.
When contacted by the Emerald
Tuesday night, Dr. Johnson stated
that the “O" is dangerous, and she
is convinced that the blastings will
continue. Several windows were
broken by the last explosion, and
a flying rock battered a hole in
a nearby house.
Petitioners Sought
For Top Rally Post
Deadline for ¥<41 King peti
tions i» May 28, according to
Pat Dignan, ASUO president.
Any student is eUgiUe to peti
tion for the rally post, Dignan
said.
Petitions may be obtained on
the third floor of the Student
Union and are to be submitted
to the ASUO office, SU 804.
Candidates will be interviewed
by the ASUO senate, and next
year’s yell king will be selected
by the group.
Musical Tickets
Selling Out Fast
Tickets for Friday, Saturday,.
Monday and Wednesday night per
formances of the musical produc
tion, “Brigadoon,” are completely
sold out, according to Mrs. Gene
Wiley, University theater business
manager. “Within two hours aft
er the box office opened Monday
afternoon there were no more ■
seats available for the production,
this weekend,” she said.
A few tickets for May 26, and
June 3 and 4 are still available.
Doug S t o b i e and Mary Lou
Teague will play the leading roles
of Tommy Albright and Fiona Mc
Laren in Friday’s opening perform
ance. Ed Kenney will take the pan,
of Charlie Dalrymple in the init
ial performance. Allison LeRoux
will portray Meg Brockie.
In Saturday's production, Dor
othy Anderson will play the role
of Fiona; Jerry Reynolds, Charlie
and Jeanette Stone, Meg. Doug'
Sto’oie will again portray Tommy
Albright Saturday but will alter
nate with Gordon Green in other
performances.
Others in the cast, who will per
form each night, include A1 Barz
man, Jeff Douglas; Scott Lehner,
Archie Beaton; Perry Stamper,
Harry Beaton; Pat Henry, Mr. Mc
Laren; Diane David, Jean McLar
en; Bob Luoma, Angus MacGuffie:
Gloria Lee, Maggie Anderson, and
Forbes Hill, Mr. Lundie.
GIRDLE HITCHED
West Coast Ad Boss
Urges 'You' Approach
“We, in the advertising business,
are writing love letters to the pub
lic,” Arthur E. House, president
of the Advertising Association of
the West, told the Oregon Ad Club
Tuesday evening in the Dad’s
Lounge of the Student Union.
House advised that advertising
men use the “you” approach in
writing their “purchase’ copy for
the American public. Business, he
accused, is very lax in utilizing the
things that make advertising prof
itable and effective.
He referred specifically to three
neglected areas in advertising: 1.
employee relations which reflect on
the reputation of the firm; 2. pub
lic relations including public opin
ion of the organization as a whole,
and 3. some type of program to
train and co-ordinate sales people
with the advertising program the
firm undertakes.
House predicted that American
business is getting away from the
“scarcity” market of World War
II and the early months of the Ko
rean situation. “Advertising will
have to figuratively tighten up its
girdle to keep sales moving,” he
said.
“Creative imagination,” House
continued, “has to be based on
good sound business experience and
hard practical effects to be effec
tive. Advertising men traditionally
have their heads in the clouds and
their feet on the ground.”