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-The Looking-Giass
Movie Censorship Issue
Puts 'La Ronde' In Court
The Supreme Court of the
United States went to see “La
Ronde,” the now famous French
movie which played at the May
flower last spring. Ordinarily one
takes little notice of the cinem
atic observation of the high
priests of the law, but this show
ing was in connection with a case
before the august tribunal.
The litigation involves the cen
sorship laws of New York, which
ban any “immoral” pictures. "La
Ronde” was considered “im
moral.” Counsel for the state of
New York made the following
r brilliant com*
mem in res
ponse to an
objection that
“imm o r a 1 ”
was a vague
word: “If any
one in the Uni
ted (States
doesn’t know
what immoral
tneahs, I’d be
greatly supris
’ ed.”
This is only one of several
questions of censorship which
have recently come up. There is
an Ohio case on appeal to the U.
S. Supreme Court concerning
the banning of “M” Several
theater owners have been jailed
in recent weks, including a .Jer
sey City operator for showing
.“The Moon is Blue,” which will
be presented on campus by the
University Theater beginning
Jan. 29. There is talk in Holly
wood of relaxing the voluntary'
industry code which binds the
producers.
Censorship has long had the
movies as it’s special prey. The
churches have usually lead the
fight against “bad” movies. One
of the most powerful, unreason
able, of those censorship agencies
has been the Legion of Decency.
The Legion and other ecclesiasti
cal bodies use a two pronged
weapon. First they bring moral
forces to bear on their people
to stop them from seeing “bad"
pictures; Second, they use eco
nomic force on the theater own
ers.
The latter method, the most
ruthless of the two, sirtce it con
trols the activities of a sizeable
group. They can put teeth into
their threat to keep people from
frequenting any theater that ever
shows a “bad” film. This holy
blackmail even finds its way into
the oath of the Legion of De
cency (recited once a year in al
most all Catholic Churches.)
When asked, "Why do you
want to censor?” the advocate of
censorship will respond “It’s not
good for the people to see these
things.” Why not? ‘1 suppose it
wifl hurt them.” If you ever ask
a "censor if it will hurt him, you
will probably get a curt “No,”
but it will hurt “all those other
people.” In order to improve the
morals of our people We wish to
remove all temptation and pro
tect them.
I doubt that a nation's morals
could ever be improved in so neg
ative a manner, but even if they
could be, who is to say what is to
be detrimental? It would require
beings far superior to the prud
ish, the stupid, the narrow mind
ed and the illiterate that com
prise most of our present boards
of censors.
Art should not be judged ac
cording to an arbitrary "moral
or political” standard. In effect,
the advocate of censorship says
to ignore the ability of the crea
tive artist and concentrate on
his piety.
Tricks of The Trade
• — ---_ ■
'Tm teaching four different courses in education, but confidentially
I have the same lecture in all of them.”
ROTC Department
To Present Awards
Col Edwin Daily, ROTC depart
ment head, and Lt. Col. Robley
Evens, Army unit head, will pre
sent awards to the top students
in scholarship and leadership abil
ities for the fall term at the Army
and Air Force drills on Thursday
and Friday afternoons respective
ly
Those to be honored at the
Army drill this afternoon are Ter
ry Fuuginaga, James Greene, Carl
Groth, and William Mainwaring,
all freshmen. Ronald L. Christen
sen and Jack Dante are the top
Army men of the sophomore sec
tion. The outstanding third year
cadet is Emerson Harvey.
Dull to Ship Clothes
Asks Student Help
Members of the classes taught
by Paul S. Dull, associate profes
sor of political science and his
tory, who are free Saturday morn
ing are asked to contact him to
help pack the second shipment of
clothing for Japan.
The second collection of cloth
ing, collected for the poor of Oka
yama, Japan, where Dull spent
last year in research, will be crat
ed for shipment Saturday at 9
a. m. in Commonwealth hall. Those
who can help are asked to contact
Dull, Commonwealth 310.
CAMPUS BRIEFS
0 Oregon Ski Quacks, Univer
sity ski club, will meet at 6:30
p. m. today in the Student Union.
Plana for future ski trips will be
discussed.
0 A huit henres ce soir dans la
soussol de la bibliotheque le cercle
francais aura son quartrieme
reunion a voir un film. ‘Andre
Gide.’ Apres ca, le groupe irons au
Student Union pour chanter des
chansons francais, boire du cafe’,
et causer un peu en francais.
0 House Chaplains will meet
today at 6:30 p. m. in the SU, ac
cording to Jo Hutcheon, Danforth
fellow. Room number wil be post
ed.
0 Theta Sigma Phi, women’s
journalism honorary, will meet to
day at noon in the SU fishbowl,
according to Kitty Fraser, presi
dent.
0 Petitions for committee sub
chairmanships for the Sophomore
Skip Day are due Friday at 5 p.m.,
according to Hanna Sue Hansen
and Betty Fackler, general co
chairmen. They should be turned
in to either the YWCA office or
Chi Omega.
0 All student* interested in
working on the copy staff of the
Oregana are to meet in the Ore
gana. office in the Student Union
at 3 p. m. today. Those_not able
to attend the meeting should see
the copy editor in the office be
tween 8 and 9 p.m. today.
0 Chi Delta Phi, women’s lit
erary honorary, will meet tonight
at 6:30 in the Student Union. S.
N. Karchmer, creative writing in
structor, will discuss, “The Cor
relation between Television Writ
and Playwriting.”
0 Any girl Interested In winter
term rushing should sign up in the
office of Golda Parker Wickham,
dean of women, in Emerald hall.
g All house managers and their
assistants will meet at 6:30 p. m.
today in the Student Union, ac
cording to Pres. Berry Bowden.
0 Phi Beta, national profession
al fraternity for women in music
and speech, will hold its regular
meeting tonight at 6:30 in the Stu
dent Union, according to Pat
Hartley, president.
0 The following members of
the Student Union publicity execu
tive committee are to meet at
noon today in the SU: Bob Berry,
Olivia Tharaldson, Dorothy Her,
Edna Humiston, Nancy Hooper
and Stewart Johnson.
The Friday Air Force arm wm
have the presentation of awards
to Leland Agenbroad, Robert Bur
nett, Frederick Fraunfelder, Gene
Lawrence, and Donald Smith,
freshman. The sophomore honors
will go to Richard Buffington,
Timothy James, Robert Ransom,
and Harvey Richmond. The out
standing student of Air Science
III is Peter Williams.
Membership, awards will also be
presented to the rifle team. Those
who participated from the Army
group are Lee Tucker, Gordon No
briga, Royal Aubrey, Benjamin
Kahalekulu, Carl Groth, Melin
Jackson, Larry Kromling, David
Goode, and Herbert Yamanaka.
Ted Baker, Jimmie Blue, Richard
Buffington, Frederick Foye, John
Gabrielson, Michael McKenzie, and
Scott were the Air Force cadet
members of the team.
Pledges Attend
Dinner Wednesday
Pledges of all sororities on cam
pus held their annual banquet
Wednesday at 6 p. m. in the Stu
dent Union ballroom. Dress for
the dinner was short silks, ac
cording to Olivia Tharaldson, pres
ident of Junior Panhellenic, spon
soring organization.
All arrangements for the ban
quet were made by Betty An
derson, general chairman, assisted
by her Committee. Committee
members Included Mary Gerlinger,
guests; Rae Bergeron, decora
tions; Alice Jo Jenkins, tickets,
and Judy White, entertainment.
The program featured a
speech by Mrs. Alfred Krohn on j
sorority life and panhellenic during j
her college life as compared with'
today. Entertainment was vo-!
cal numbers by Ann Steams,
freshman in music, and tap danc
ing by Donna Aaris, freshman in 1
art.
Guests at the banquet were
Mrs. Golda P. Wickham, dean
of women; Mrs. V. P. Morris,
wife of the University interim
president; Mrs. Arthur Anderson,
president of the Eugene Panhell
enic; Mrs. E. S. Woodin, alumni
adviser for Panhellenic, and Sally
Thurston, president of Panhellenic
on campus.
Campus Calendar
Noon Speech Ibept a 10 SIT
RE Wk Ex & Fac 111 SU
Co-op Bd 112 SU
Far East Studies 113 SU
Hockey Cl Com Lunch
3:00 Christian Sci 114 SU
4 :00 Ike Cof Hr 315 SU
Scholarship Meet 334 SU
Stu Aft 337 SU
5:30 Delta Theta Phi Ger 3rd fl
6:30 Hse Mgrs 110 SU
Chi Delta Phi 111 SU
ASUO Senate 315 SU
Chaplains 334 SU
Christn Bus Bqt Blrm SU
Thi Beta Ger 2nd Fl
7:00 Scab & B1 112 SU
7:30 Hostess Int 114 SU
Ike Lect 138 CW
8:30 Fr Cl Com Lunch
Readings Thursday
For Richard Roles
Readings for archers, soldiers,
murderers and other men's roles
in the forthcoming University
theater production of "Richard U"
will be held Thursday at 4 p. m.
in Villard 102.
The production has gone into re
hearsal on the main stage and will
open In March. According to Mrs.
Ottilie T. Seyboldt, director, many
men’s roles and a few women's
roles are still available.
ENDS SATURDAY
In Technicolor
"SECOND
CHANCE"
Robert Mitchum
Linda Darnell
and
"WITHOUT
RESERVATIONS"
John Wayne «
Claudette Colbert
EUGENE
DRIVE-IN THEATRE
2860 Wllmt. Ph.4-4152
UNITED AIR LINES
invites
1 the women of the Univer
1 sity of Oregon to a showing
® of a color-sound motion pic
■I ture entitled,
fi "SCOTTY WINS
ft HER WINGS"
I This film depicts the real
I life story of a Stewardess
■ —her selection, her training
I and her duties.
Stewardess Representative, Betty Hanneman, of United Ale
line*, will be on campus et the seme time to discuss e Stew*
erdess career. -
FILM: "Scotty Wins Her Wings”
TIME: Jan. 19, 1954, 3:00
PLACE: 138 Commonwealth
For further information call the
Graduate Placement Office
206 Emerald Hall