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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1955)
Students Urged To Write Moms All student* lire urged to writ i* their mothers, inviting them to Mother'll Weekend which in held In conjunction with Jun ior Weekend on May 13-15. Students should write their mothern immediately, no that they can make reservation* for their stay in Eugene. One hotei has already been filled for the weekend. The all-campus sing will be held .Sunday afternoon this yearj and students should Invite their mothers to attend the sing. There will be a breakfast and general business meeting in the Student Union ballroom follow ing registration Saturday morn ing from 8:30 to 10:30. A lunch eon la scheduled for Saturday noon. On.* of the main highlights of the weekend will be the tea, spon sored by the Eugene Mothers' club, which will be from 2 to 1:30 p.m. on Saturday in fler llnger hall. This tea is especial ly for mothers, but campus wom en may also attend. Hui-O-Kamaainos Seek Hula Student Hut-O-Kamaaina. Ha w a I i a n club on campus, it looking for . a girl who would be willing to be part of the entertainment at a club-sponsored fishbowl mixer and at the dub's annual luau. which will be held on April 20 and 30 respectively. The group seeks to find a girl ami teach her the basic funda mentals of dancing the hula. A similar skit was given and re ceived with much enthusiasm last year. The girl picked will be given a gift and a free ticket for two to the luau. Also srte will have the opportunity to learn the fa mous dance of the islands. Any girl interested should contact Andy Toribio at 34078 or Hal Chang at Hale Kane as soon as possible. i S11 Currents Arthur Scene Today in SU At this week’s Friday-at-Four a scene from ’’Arthur” will be presented. A student combo will play several songs, and Bitsy Mills, junior in sociology, will perform a monologue. The master of cere monies will be Sam Vahey. Coffee-Hour Forum Members Will Meet All members of the Coffee Hour Forum will meet today at 4 p.m. in room 302 in the SU. 6:00 Sign On 6:03 Dinner Hour Serenade 6:45 News Till Now 7:00 Best of Broadway 7:30 Sports Shots 7:45 Radio Nederland 8:00 Chicago Roundtable 8:30 UN Story 8:45 Guest Star 9:00 Kwaxworks 10:55 Final Edition llfOO Sign Off HIRE’S HOW TO GET THEMt To ac quaint you with the interesting arti cles in The Reader’s Digest, we make this special offer: From the descriptions below of some of the articles to appear in the June issue of The Reader’s Digest, pick the three articles you would most like to read. Circle with pencil the numbers of these three articles on the coupon below. Then mail coupon to us with your name and address. We’ll send you free copies of the three articles you choose. This offer is good for only a few days, so send us the coupon TODAY. | Could you past a 6th-grade exam? What is the tallest mountain in the UnitedState*? Which American colony did Roger Williams establish? Who discovered the Pacific Ocean? ... If you think your kids have it easy at school, here’s a chance to test yourself on 10 questions they have to answer. 2 20-page book condensation: “Tiger of the Snows.’’ "It has been a long road to the top of Everest,” says the Asian nativewhoconquered the world’s highest summit. "From a ragged coolie to a wearer of medals who rides in planes and worri<-s about income tax.” Thrilling story of Sherpa Tenzing, and how he climbed to the top of the world. 3 Lure that hooks fishermen. Why on earth do folks stand in ice-cold water for hours just to catch a few panfish, when chances are they'll only catch a cold? Philip Wylie shows what 40 mil lion Americans are really after when they fish: the happiness that comes from being alone with one’s inner self. 4 Beware of hitchhikers! One hiker wore a (*1 uniform —but he was really a madman who stabbed the driver, stole his car. Another looked like a college boy but he killed the driver, tried to hack off his head. Here’s a warning against picking up "harmless” hitch hikers—who may rob, shoot, kill you. J You CAN be a stockholder. It used to be that almost all investors in common stocks were wealthy. But today thou sands of wage earners are buying stocks on time, same as autos and refrigerators. Story of the Monthly Investment Plan: new way to own a share of American industry—for as little as )3 a week. 5 They're inventing the drudgery out of farm life. One machine milks a hun dred cows in 21 ■> hours flat. Another scoops up eggs the minute hens lay ’em. There’s even one that doles out feed to cattle, blows a horn to tell the critters to come and get it! Amazing peek at new labor savers down on the farm. 7 Don’t drown! Do you know the safest time of day to swim? ... what to do if you get a sudden leg cramp? . . . how to stay afloat even if you can’t swim a stroke? ... how to give the new method of artificial respiration that the Red Cross recommends? Here are eight simple rules that can save your life. 3 Do European women make better wives? Why are our servicemen mar rying them at the rate of 500 a month? Why do these marriages outlast those to u. S. girls by 3 to one? Here, in their own words, are the reasons why so many of our GIs are picking European brides instead of the girls at home. ^ My most unforgettable character. Princeton’s Dean Gauss would berate a boy in class, then spend all night solv ing his troubles. He’d end a riot with a word, brave a hurricane to watch football ... and, best of all, he taught you to think. Here’s the prof who gave his students hell—and made ’em love it, | Q Are A-bombs poisoning our atmos phere? You’ve heard that radioactive clouds from A-bomb tests are contami nating people, upsetting the weather, possibly deforming unborn children. But evidence shows these reports hove no basis in truth. Here are reassuring facts behind the sensational scare stories. a. 11 The Poles among us. They landed here 12 years before the Mayflcncer; they saved our first colony from collapse. They’ve given us musicians like Sto kowski, patriots like Pulaski, sports champs like Musial. Story of 6 million Americans with a capacity for hard work—and a flaming love of freedom. |2 • t°©h off 150 pounds! “A year ago, I weighed 337 pounds. I couldn’t cross my legs; I needed help getting my shoelaces tied. But today I weigh only 187—and almost anyone can accomplish the some thing." Here, to inspire anyone who’s overwe;ght, is Mar TarnofFs own story of how he shed 150 pounds. |3 My adopted Japanese brother. It be gan when Yashichiro wrote the Wra, Jennings Bryans: “I come to America, be your son?” The Bryans declined — but one night he stood bowing at the door: “My parents, I am come to your feet.” Poignant story of how the lad won a place in their home—and hearts. | ^ pipeline into our uranium supply. If you saw raw material for A-bombs being dug at the biggest mine on the continent, you’d feel protected from our enemies—till you learned the men who dig it are Communist-led. How R«-ds seized a key union thru which they can cripple our defense. 13 Drama in real life. Suppose you had a 3-year-old daughter. Then suppose you discovered that the hospital had given you the wrong baby—and she wasn’t yours. Could you bring yourself to give her up in exchange for your real child? True story of a couple who faced just such a shattering choice. Golden rogue: Benvenuto Cellini. The ‘ touchiest swordsman in 16th-century Italy, he made enemies pay with their lives; took women as he pleased—and battle only brought laughter to his lips. Yet this swaggerer created some of our most exquisite gold treasures. Adven tures of the world’s greatest goldsmith. |7 Artificial insemination. Today, thou sands of women with sterile husbands have babies this way. What is the tech nique? Does a woman feel guilty, bear ing the child of a man she has never seen, can never know? Does a father accept a child not his owm? Revealing report on a hotly debated procedure. | g Private enterprise for public pur poses. Most of us expect rivers to be f controlled and “improved” by public authority. But Wisconsin has turned one over to a private company. Here’s how it controls floods, gives free trees to farmers, teaches soil conservation . —without charging taxpayers a cent. 19 Angel of the madhouse. From the day in 1841 when she saw four insane people chained in a frozen, filthy cell, this Boston spinster vowed she’d have the mentally ill treated as human be ings. Story of Dorothea Dix, one of the most distinguished (and forgotten) women America has ever produced. 20 Ba«*io City Music Hall. Did you know that GIs, mothers-to-be are whisked in side when lines are long? That each Roekette gets a week off a month?That an operatic film—which the manager feared would be a bore—proved an all time money maker? Behind the scenes at the world’s most fabulous theater. 21 lke’« narrow escape. In ’44 a hundred Nazis sneaked across enemy lines into France. Their mission: to trap Eisen hower on the road to Paris and kill him. Exciting story of how Ike sped closer and closer to death—and how a strange and wonderful act of Provi dence saved him in the nick of time. 22 Do-It-Yourself? Not me! Build your own boat? Fix your own drainpipes? Why not? It’s fun! It’s easy! And it’s cheap—just 25t for plans. (Of course, you’ll have to mortgage the baby for tools, materials, plus the doctor’s fee for that mashed thumb.) Corey Ford rebels against the Do-It-Yourself craze. 23*™ >°u o delinquent parent? “The main cause of juvenile delinquency,” says Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, “is delin quent parent*." The spiritual leader shows why your child’s behavior de pends greatly on the way you behave; names 3 types of parents who are a bad influence on their children. 24 What organized labor wants. Says the president of the AFL: “Years ago, when union leader Samuel Gompers was asked what labor wan ted, he merely said, ‘More.’ The ansrer is the same to day." George Meany (leader of 10 mil lion workers) tells what labor means by “more,” and how it plans to get it. 2 5 How to grow old and like it. Your chances of living to a happy old age depend not only on your state of health, but also on your state of mind. A noted medical authority poses 7 searching questions to help you judge your men tal outlook . . . and suggests definite ways you can add years to your life. 26 W**8* *s * Mormon? He believes the Second Coming has already taken place. But he's not a “Mormon” (it’s just a nickname for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)— and he doesn’t practice polygamy. An swerstothequestionsmost asked about a faith that’s over a million strong. 27 The sun: tomorrow’s power plant? Sunlight has already b^n harnessed to light electric bulbs, run broadcasting sets—and the day may come when it will heat our homes, cook our meals, run our factories. Here’s how this boundless source of power works, and why it may revolutionize our future. 23 Bringing the antibiotics up to date. Today, penicillin and other antibiotics have saved more lives than all other remedies put together. But their helter skelter use has led to disappointments and disasters. Paul de Kruif tells of hopeful new possibilities—arid dangers — of so-called “miracle drugs.” 29 It pays to increase your word power. Does “glutted” mean glued together, lascivious, disemboweled, or filled to excess? Adding new words to your vo cabulary increases your self-confidence, your prestige—even your earning pow er. Here’s a word quiz that’s fun to do, and may pay you dividends. 30 I I'*1* P'Bs. Dirty? You never have to housebreak ’em. Greedy? Feed ’em right, and they’ll eat only what they need. Stupid? One porker, maddened by fever, meekly gulped magnesia ’cause she knew it’d do her good! Alice Haines tells why she’s hog-wild over the barn yard citizen who supplies half oqr meat. CIRCLE NUMBERS OF 3 ARTICLES YOU WANT* Cut out coupon and mail today! *Nol«: only al to a family To: Depf. J Reader's Digest Association, Pleasantville, New York Gentlemen: please send me FREE the 3 articles I have circled below by number. 1 2 6 7 11 12 16 17 21 22 3 8 13 18 4 9 14 5 10 15 19 20 23 24 26 27 28 29 25 30 Name. Address. City. State. (June)
