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Depot Lunch Counter Oysters, Chili and Lunches Served At All Hours R. H. BAKER, PROP. Eugene Quick Shoe Repair Shop 22 WEST EIGHTH ST. MARTIN MILLER “Do you want a shine?” “Yes.” See PETE The Shine Doctor. 747 Willamette. What Is a Table Richly Spread, Without a Loaf of Tip Top Bread It’s Incomplete, That’s What UNIVERSITY BAKERY CHAMBERS HARDWARE CO. Headquarters for “SHERWIN WILLIAMS” and “OLD ENGLISH” FLOOR WAX Rutherford Herman and Vera Melish in “The IJlindiiesH of Virtue,” Eu gene Theatre, Saturday, Jail. 17 0 rris Photo Shop F or Classy Photos i Cherry Sidg. Phone 741 Yerington & Allen PRESCRIPTION DRUG 0 !STS Phone 2'I2 86 Ninth Ave. East Annual Clearance Sale Our Entire Stock of Men’s and Women’s Shoe?; GREATLY REDUCED IN PRICE THE BOOT SH Home of the Florsheim Shoe 710 Willamette Street Eugene. Oregon STOP DISEASE SAYS TORREY BEED PROFESSOR, IN AS SEMBLY, FAVORS PRE VENTIVE MEASURES VACCINATION IS EXAMPLE Medicine, He Avers, Is in An Ev er Changing State; People Must Be Taught to Ward off Disease by Sanitary Methods. The old maxim, ‘ an ounce of pre vention is worth a pound of cure,” was the theme of the address deliv ered by Or. Harry Beal Torrey, pro fessor of Biology at Reed College, be fore yesterday’s assembly. Dr. Tor rey's subject was “The Future of Medicine.” “The prevailing idea of the medi cal profession at the present time is to prevent sickness rather than to cure after one is sick. Old-fashioned ideas are rapidly giving away to these new ideas,” he said. “Thousands of doctors are giving :heir time and money in making sci entific researches to discover meth ods of preventing sickness. These researches are often done with con siderable sacrifice. So important has the question of prevention be come that recent, well-defined move ments have been started to give city health officers special education and to establish a national health de oartment. “Twenty years ago everyone was an individualist. But times have changed since then and we now con sider ourselves responsible for the health of our neighbor as well as our own. “The case of vaccination js an ex cellent example ot' how ideas have changed in the last two decades. When vaccination was first introduc ed as protection against smallpox, >eople were very skeptical about it. Today we find vaccination universal ly accepted as a preventive to small ;ox. Its use has also beeii extended o typhoid fever as well. Statistics (how that in Germany, where the vaccination requirements are ex tremely rigid, there are, proportion ately, but 1-17 as many deaths from smallpox as in the United States, whore the laws are less rigid; and inly 1-07 as many deaths as in Italy, >vhere no vaccination laws exist. "Medicine is not in a static state >ut an ever-changing one. Doctors oust be progressive and ready to i icpt new ideas if they are going to keep abreast of the profession. I save talked with many old doctors vho say that the younger generation ire outstripping them. They assert ! hat it is due to technique, the in vention of new surgical implements uni the existence of more scientific lext-books. This is not the true rea lm. it is true that these changes have been made and have affected lie profession profoundly, but the real reason is that there lias been a ■ 'volution In the ideas of twenty or iiirty years ago. ■'Medicine is becoming a matter of private instruction like music. Doc tors are now going to private prac titioners for their education. "The medical department of your nivei tty, located in Portland, lias ts duty to perform, its duty is to nrevent sickness by showing the peo ple of the state the latest sanitary net hods, it is up to all colleges in the I’niteil States to engage in a sim ilar movement and co-operate with each other in order to obtain the nost far-reaching results.” in hi* introductory remarks, Ur. i’orrej alluded to the fact that he s a form r instructor of Professor John !•'. Wovard, head of the Univer se pre-medic department, when the ■liter ''-as a student at the Univer ity of California. LECTURE FOR ENGINEERS Prof. Dunn to Illustrate Talk on “Woman Wridgo.” Tile Engineering Club will meet Wednesday night. January 21, in Dr. Edmondson's room, for the eon iuct of general business and to Us ui to an illustrated lecture on "The Weman Bridge" by Professor Dunn Freshmen engineers are invited to attend this lecture. SENIOR COUNCIL WILL HOLD SECOND MEETING Hope to Come to Some Definite Conclusion on Co-opera tion Plan The Representative Senior Council, appointed by the Student Body exe cutive committee, will hoid its second meeting next Wednesday evening in John Straub’s room. This committee uas appointed two months ago; ana it was the purpose of their appoint | ment to study student body life at the University and other similar in stitutions, and form some workable plan by which a closer co-operation among the different groups of the student body might be accomplished. It is the hope of President Motsch enbacher that at this meeting the committee will at least approximate somfe' definite plan of general proce dure. SWEETLAND TAKES SIDES FOR WESTERN.COLLEGES Willamette Coach Contradicts Philbrook of Multnomah Club. Dr. G. J. Sweetland, Willamette coach, takes exception to George 'hilbrook’s claim that Washington, Oregon and O. A. C. could not com pete successfully in football with Michigan, Notre Dame, Chicago and other Middle Western Colleges. He says that the western teams mentioned rank on a par^with the larger colleges, and asserted that, in his opinion, they could have trim med the teams of the big middle state and eastern colleges last fall. He says that if it weje not for the western lads, who go eastward o college these big schools would tot have their crack teams. Both Sweetland and Philbrook are ex-eastern stars, and Dr. Sweetland played for years against Harvard and Yale. Philbrook attended Notre. Dame, but formerly hailed from Whitman College. HESPIANS MAY BARNSTORM iVof. Itedclie Will Possibly Make Hooking' While in South. Professor A. P. Reddie left yester day on a lecture tour of Southern Jreg'ou towns, and will return the .irst of next week. While on this trip he may sign up engagements in these towns for the production of the play, “The Professor’s Love Story,’’ which he contemplates as the next play after the production of “Strife” for his class in dramatic interpretation. This will be an innovation in d’am .itic work at the University, for lo cal Thespians have seldom gone barnstorming previously. The book .ng will include six or seven engage ments, if arranged. James A. Pack, ex-15, is now working with the Crane Creek Irri gation Company, near Wiser, Idaho, having a position in the engineering department of the Company. Mr. French, who has been janitor if the men’s gymnasium for a good nany years, is laid up with a bad •ase of rheumatism, and will be un ble to resume his duties this year, 'r. Preston, who has been employed m the swimming pool job, has been appointed to the position, which he will hold permanently. La Verne Van Marter, ex-’12, has returned to Eugene to complete his college course. Van Marter will em ter college next semester, and in the meantime is taking a course at the Eugene business college. With 1135 cadets drilling on the campus of the Ohio State University, nllitary science has become the lar gest and most popular course in the curriculum. The lockers do not ■ontaiu sufficient guns to arm the entire regiment at once time, for ins reason it has become necessary o take the guns away from the non commissioned officers. This lack of trms persists in spite of the fact that last year 175 new rifles were secured rum the government for the use of the companies drilling in the fore noon. . Delta Tau Delta announce two new pledges. Russell Ralston and Willard . Carpy. of La Grrande. HOUSE MOTHER IDEA STARTS (Continued from Page 1) pesially in the Middle West, and, I thing, Oregon would not err In adopting It. “Such a plan renders th$ frater nity life more homelike, and puts the men n close touch with someone vvho can often offer helpful advice. “There are two considerations, however, that must be carefully at tended to; these are. Suitable, comfortable arrangements for the house mother’s living room, and the careful choice of women for the positions. They should have separ ate suites, with all other conven iences possible. “For the second point there should be some system evolved that 'would assure the securing of thoroughly suitable house mothers. The na tional men’s fraternities might co operate with the national women’s fraternities in this matter; that is, the women’s fraternities would al most make it a business to select women and offer their names for the positions. “They should be women who un lerstand thoroughly life in men’s fraternities and who realize their oroper position as house mothers. There are a great many women who would be glad to take the posi ions; women of middle age who vould like to take work in the Uni versity, or elderly ladies, whose ex lerience would fit them for the work.” In some of the fraternity houses at the University of Washington the xample set by the women’s f-ater lities has been followed; for the past three years, and Washington men vho have visited Oregon speak high ly in favor of the house mother sys tem. Miss Ruth Guppy, Dean of women, eturned today from Portland where she attended a reception given in tonor of Miss Pendleton, president of Wellesley college. Miss Guppy re orts a most enjoyable time and sttaes that in addition to the Ore gon Alumnae present, there were also many guests from O. A. C. and Reed College. The reception was held at the home of Mrs. Lewis. Harry Micks, ex-’ll, died recent ly in California. Although only in college about two years, Mr. Micks made numerous acquaintances, and many of the alumni who attended the University in 1908 and 1909 will remember him. £yOR,FOLJ€z Netu ARROW COLLAR Tollman Studio For better photos J. B. Anderson, Prop. 734 Willamette. Phone 770 FINEST COFFEE Rich Flavored Coffee Highly Flavored Tea The Freshest in Town ADAMS TEA COMPANY Geo. Sovern, A. C. Rathmell The Palace BARBER SHOP AND BATHS 519 Willamette St. Phone. 971, Eugene, Oregon 104 East Ninth St. Phono tiSO PIERCE BROS STAPLE AND FANCY GKO? ERICS L. D. PIERCE, Eugene, Oregon. \ Sale of Men’s Suits COPYRIGHTED 1012 BT B. STERN & SON NEW YORK & CHICAGO and Overcoats On all our fine Suits and Overcoats re maining in our Fall stock. Reductions in Furnishing goods also. Shirts, Hats, Caps, Neckwear, Underwear, Sweat ers, etc., all greatly reduced.