Quakers Slate
Service Meeting
Hugh Cummings, director of
the College I’rpgram of the 1’a
rifle Northwest Region of the
AKSC, a i''riends organization,
will talk witli campus groups and
individuals about Service Com
mittee summer and year-round
assignments on Thursday, Jan.
21.
Cummings will be available for
individual conferences from 2 to
4 p.m. at the campus YMCA,
Room JIB Si Appointments may
be arranged by calling ext 185H
AKSC, as an organization, at
tempts to relieve human suffering
and seeks nonviolent solutions to
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stand aside prideful in Isolation
I tanners and troubles we once
called 'foreign' now live among
us If American lives must end,
and American treasure be spilled,
in countries we barely know, that
is the price that chance has de
manded of conviction.”
He continued, "We are fellow
passengers on a dot of earth.
And each of us, in the span of
time has only a moment among
his companions.
"How incredible it is that in
this fragile existence we should
hate and destroy one another
There are possibilities enough
for all who will abandon mastery
over others to pursue mastery
over nature. There is world j
enough for all to seek their hap
pi ness in their own way.
"Our own course is clear We
aspire to nothing that belongs to
others We seek no domination
over our fellow men, but man’s
dominion over tyranny and mis
ery."
In concluding the speech. John-1
son said, “I will lead as best I
can But look within your own
hearts to the old promises and
the old dream They will lead
you best of all.”
Letters
• • •
(Continued from pane 2)
and what might happen to him
if ho is combatative. Those les
sons are important preparations
for a world in which conflict on
an international scale may mean
extermination of life.
Mr Powell is apparently con
cerned that our culture encour
ages competitive behaviour. In
fact, he draws upon a “body of
experimental literature in math
ematical psychology" which he
claims indicates that competi
tion and cooperation are mu
tually exclusive characteristics
I suggest that he may have mis
represented this literature.
Again according to Dr. Jersild,
‘‘competition —while it may take
the form of 'going against’ others j
—may be a part of a larger
cooperative relationship" among
children. I)r. Jersild illustrates
his point with the example of a
baseball game between children: i
the competition may be intense,;
but were it not for considerable
cooperation, the children would ,
not have come together in the
first place, nor would they fol
low the rules of the game. Doz
ens of examples may be taken
from the adult world. Recently,
in fact, even the Soviet Union
has implicitly agreed the coop
erative competition can stimu
late material, intellectual and
aesthetic progress.
On the more personal level
to which Mr. Powell has chosen
to descend, and which 1 hope he
abandons in future exchanges,
I find amusing his characteriza
tion of my political persuasions
as either “of the dogmatic left
or of the dogmatic right.” I in
vite the interested reader to ex
amine my first letter for evi
dence that I advocate either ex
treme.
Finally, T agree with Mr. Pow
ell that letters to The Emerald
should not be supressed. I do,
however, advocate higher qual
ity. Let us hope that Mr. Powell
comes around to this view.
Sincerely,
Jack Davis
Grad., Biology
conflicts- personal, national and
international.
To achieve this the committee
provides programs of relief, re
habilitation, social and technical
assistance.
Participation in AFSC includes
a range of work projects directed
at aiding problem areas. It may
mean working with Indian reser
vations and blighted urban dis
tricts, or assisting in overseas
work projects in such places as
Latin America
AFSC programs are nonsectar
ian and are co-ordinated through
11 regional offices in the Ij'.S.
and through projects in 17 other
countries. These programs are
supported by voluntary contribu
tions.
According to Charles Palmer
lee, campus YMCA director,
"AFSC has accomplished a great
deal in their quiet way.” Perhaps
the greatest asset of AFSC is in
the confidence people have in the
work they have done. When a
problem arises AFSC takes spe
cific steps toward improving the
human condition.
Solons Oppose
McCarran Act
Ten Oregon state legislators1
have indicated their opposition
to the McCarran Act, terming it
unjust and calling for its re
peal
The ten legislators signed a
statement earlier this week indi
cating their support to an idea
expressed in an editorial carried
in the Oregon Journal of Port
land.
The concurring legislators were
Carl Hack, Sidney Leiken, Ber
keley Lent, Boss Morgan, John
Mosser, Wally Priestley, James
Redden, Betty Roberts, Keith
Skelton and Howard Willits.
After calling the act unjust, the
legislators restated and endorsed
an idea contained in the Journal
editorial:
"The registration provision of
the McCarran Act should be re- i
pealed if the Supreme Court does 1
not declare it unconstitutional
first.”
The act requires members of
subversive organizations to regis
ter their membership.
'Journey' Sold Out
“Long Day’s Journey into
Night" by Eugene O’Neill, a pre
sentation at the University The
atre, is sold out for this Friday
and Saturady night. January 22
and 23 Seats are still available
for the January 28, 29 and 30
performances.
Horace W. Robinson directs the
autobiographical drama which in
cludes a cast of five professional
level actors: Stanley Elberson,
Beverly Waldo, George Sager
Lauris, Harry Smith and Cath
leen Nisbet.
Curtain rises at 7:30 pm. for
all performances.
Bridge Tourney
Signups Available
All Bridge fanciers are invited
to sign up for an all-campus Pairs
Bridge Tournament on Thursday,
Jan. 28, at 7:30. The campus win
ners will represent Oregon at
the regional tournament to be
held Feb. 18-20 at the University
of Washington.
Signups are available at the
Recreation Desk in the SU base
ment. The tournament is being
sponsored by the SU Games Com
mittee.
TODAY’S STAFF
Night editor: Dave Jordan
Desk editor: Maxine Elliott
Reporters: Steve Brown, Allen
Bailey, Rich Babow, Dave Butler,
Chuck Beggs, Bob Carl, Jerry
Hansen, Marlene Peterson, Caro
line Pitman, Ron Terpening.
Proofreader: Maryann McKay
Nolte Discusses Mencken
At Browsing Room Talk
By CHUCK BEGGS
Kincraiil Managing Kditor
There are “widely divergent j
views” on contemporary criticism
of the arts, hut “precious few
men” can produce a good read
able review today, according to
William Nolte, assistant profes
sor of English.
Nolte was speaking on “Men
cken and Prose Fiction” at a
Browsing Hoorn lecture Wednes
day evening.
He said that most of the good
modern criticism comes from men
that are journalists rather than
from professional critics. But he
considers Henry Louis Mencken
the late author, critic and journal ;
ist, “the most powerful and in
fluential critic during his life-1
time than any this country has
produced.”
Mencken’s sole concern, he j
pointed out, was not just criti- J
cisra. He also had a wide back
Fund Dance
Set After Game
The ASUO Committee on High
cr Education will hold a fund
raising dance following the Ore !
gon-Oregon State basketball game
Jan. 29.
Two bands have donated their
services for the fund raising
affair. The bands are the Syn
dicates and Peter Jones and the
Trojans.
The committee is attempting
to raise money to aid in an in
formation program, explaining
major isues in higher education to
the state at large.
Admission to the dance will be'
50 cents stag and 75 cents per
couple. It will be held in the
Student Union ballroom.
Coffee Hour Set
International Coffee Hour will I
meet at 4 p.m. in the Men’s j
Lounge, Gerlinger. Faculty, Amer
ican students and especially for-!
eign students are invited to at-!
tend the meeting.
Entertainment will be provided
by The Couth Trio.
Refreshments will be served.
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ground in science, theology, phi
losophy as well as the arts. “He
could probably best be labeled
as Emerson was, American as
critic,” Nolte said.
He said Mencken had a theory
of criticism, though he was never
a “pigeon-holer.” Mencken felt
what interested readers was a
protagonist who presented “one
man’s battle with his fate,” a
protagonist close to Everyman
and in whom his reader could
become emotionally involved.
Mencken disliked the didactic,
implausible heroes portrayed in
most of the best-sellers of his
ear, Nolte said. The hero of the
popuar novel was to Mencken
“superb, invincible, autonomous
and master of his fate.” Accord
ing to Nolte, Mencken felt that no
man could really master or con
quer his fate and any fictional
character who was portrayed as
donig so was not entirely plaus
ible.
Mencken felt that the “theme
must not contradict the natural
forces of life,” Nolte said. He
said the two men whom Mencken
most admired were German phi
losopher Friedrich Nietzsche and
biologist T. H. Huxley.
Nolte said that Mencken would
probably not like many of the
modern novels because he felt
fiction should be concerned with
the “typical man, not the freaks
and case studies of the minority.”
He admired especially the works
of Dickens, Hardy, Moore and
Conrad.
Mencken considered Joseph
Conrad's Lord Jim “the greatest
novel in the language,” according
to Nolte.
Nolte said Mencken had a
liking for naturalism and what
the latter called “subjective real
ism” in fictional literature. He
did not care for “objective or
photographic realism,” Nolte said,
as he felt reality could not be
communicated objectively by one
person to another.
Mencken liked the works of
Emile Zola, who he described as
“one of the first great artists to
view man as a mammal.” But he
objected to the naturalistic nov
elist who“ often dabbled in filth
for the simple hoggish joy” it
brought him.
According to Nolte, Mencken
was a great admirer of H. G.
Wells during the latter’s first
three years of literary criticism,
saying he was “magnificently as
sertive and iconoclastic,” but he
felt that he degenerated into a
Messianic complex and appealed
too much to popular tastes in
his later works.
Mencken, Nolte said, felt the
novelist must have “not only a
point of view. . . but must be
consistent in his overall view
of existence.”
“He must represent his views
accurately and interpret them
convincingly,” Nolte said. Men
cken felt that the “successful
man is the most difficult to por
tray convincingly. The problem
is to make the miracle of him not
blow up the probability of him,”
he said.
Mencken felt that “art must
present reality in light of some
recognizable ideal,” Nolte said.
His goal is that the central figure
(Everyman)) “must have quali
ities that enable readers to both
admire and sympathize with him.”
Correction
Three errors occurred in the
Undergraduate Groups Grade
Point Averages published in the
Wednesday edition of The Em
erald.
The Orides fall term grade
average was not published. The
group had a grade average of
2.66, placing it 15th among all
campus organizations and 11th
among women's groups.
The Chi Psi fraternity was in
cluded twice on the list and the
Chi Phi fraternity was omitted.
Chi Psi had a grade average of
2.464, ranking it 19 among the
men’s organizations, and Chi Phi
had a 2.265 grade average, rank
ing it 39 among the men’s organ
izations.
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