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EMERALD PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A WEEK UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1914, Volume XVI, No. 12 M'S DELEGATES ADDRESS ASSEMBLY MR|S. GERLINGER, MRS. TRUM BULL AND MRS. FRENCH GIVE INFORMAL TALKS DIGNITY OF LABOR IS T0PI6 “Subtle Suggestion” Given That a New Women’s Gymnasium May be Built Soon That the women of the University may look forward to a new gymasium being built in the near future, was a subtle suggestion offered by S. H. Friendly, a member of the Board of Regents, in his introduction of Mrs. G. T. Gerlinger to the Student Body at assembly in Villard Hall yester dey morning. Mrs. Gerlinger is the new member of the Board of Regents. “When I was showing Mrs. Ger linger about the campus this morn ing,” said Mr. Friendly, “I took par ticular pains to show her the Wo men’s Gymnasium, and pointed out especially its size and grandeur.’’ (His irony was not lost to the audi ence.) “She realizes, as do I, that our boys and girls must have good bodies, as well as good minds, to make a success in life.” Mrs. Gerlinger was given a hearty welcome by the students, as she ac knowledged the introduction, by all risiing to thir feet. Points brought out in a previous talk by Mrs. Millie Trumbull were emphasized by her. It was Mrs. Trumbull who struck a ew keynote of the students’ rela tionship to labor. Mrs. Trumbull is a delegate to the convention of the Oregon Federation of Women’s Clubs, and also is sec retary of the Child Labor Bureau in Portland. “There are two parasites in the orchard of humanity,” was her opening statement “and they are, first, the man or woman who will not work, but who lives off the labor of his fellow men; and second, the man who is too rich to work and who lives off the labor of his fellow men dis honestly and disgracefully, whose lives and destinies his capital con trols. Through these, labor has lost its beauty and dignity,” she continued. “The problem now is to restore to la bor its beauty and dignity. That is going to be difficult. We hear a great deal about students working their way through school to get an edu cation, but do we realize that other boys and girls working for a living in factories are doing the same beau tiful service and securing another kind of an education? We think we have a democratic spirit, but don’t we in reality carry just a little idea that we in school are just a little bit bet ter than he who is doing the outside menial tasks? “There are two people absolutely necessary for the success of this Uni versity. They are the president and the janitor. “And how are we to get dignity back to labor? It is to you students that the outside world is looking. As long as you think you are a little bet ter than the other fellow, the Univer sity students will so long remain in a class by themselves; but when you can transform your thought and get in sympathetic touch with the labor er, then you are accomplishing your purpose. Then you can give back to the University the honor that right fully <belongs to it.” Another delegate to the convention from Portland, Mrs. Robert C. French, delivered a short address. She told of the work of the women’s clubs and their purposes, and told of the growth of the work in national importance. As a concrete example, she pointed out the fact that the National Fed eration was working toward beauti fying the Lincoln Highway by plant (Continued on page 4.) WHAT STARTED THAT THERE WAR? 60 ASK THE PROF. Sure, He Knows. Why Shouldn’t He? They All Know; But They Know Different What caused the war? An attempt to get at the real answer to this ques tion reveals the extent to which the cold light of reason rules the celes tial minds of the faculty, and how little any man’s opinions are affected by his profession or customary sur roundings. Dr. Warren Smith, of the Depart ment of Geology, goes furthest back in his attempt to get at the “rock bottom” facts. Geological condi tions,” says he, “are the real foun dation of national differences, as well as of commercial phenomena.” Dr. Smith is preparing a lecture to show how geology should have the doubt ful honor of having brought on the war. Dr. Joseph Schafer, head of the Hiistory Department, holds that it is all a historical development. He is offering a special course in the his torical causes of the war. Dr. O. F. Stafford points out the enormous part industrial chemistry has played in German development; and the big proportion of Germany’s foreign trade which is made up of chemical products. He thinks that if no German had ever studied chemis try, all might have been serene. Dr. C. F. Hodge, Professor of So cial Biology, studies those social phe nomena which have a biological ba sis. “If there wasn’t any absinthe in France, and vodka in Russia, any whiskey and soda in England, or any beer in Germany,” he declares, “there would not have been any war.” Prof. E. W. Allen, of the Depart ment of Journalism, inclines to the belief that a European press which in many instances is under the thumb of ruling cliques, had a great deal to do with the catastrophe by spreading false doctrines and misrepresenting facts. He thinks that absolute free dom of speech and of the press might have helped matters. The professors of languages, on the other hand, think that better inter national understandings might have obviated the difficulty. People should have studied more French, German, etc. What’s the use? YELL PRACTICE WILL 'BE THUR. AID FRI. Vosper Wants More “Pep;” Will Lead Rooters Between 4:00 and 4:30 in Grand-Stand It is the plan of Ernest Vosper, yell leader, to have regular practices for the Student Body to learn the songs and yells. These practices will be a half hour in duration and take place in the grandstand between 4:00 and 4:00, Thursday and Friday even ings. The “Yell Chief” said today: “In order to get the old pep into the Stu dent Body, we must have regular practices. I would like to see the en tire Student Body out on these two nights learning Oregon yells and songs. This means not only the fel lows, but also the co-eds.» Let’s have everybody out there and get some ! life into our yells and songs.” Y. M. C. A. MASS MEETING WILL HEAR PROF. BOYNTON OCT. 18 A mass meetig of University men will be held Sunday, October 18, at 2:3 P. M., in Villard Hall. Profes sor Boynton will lecture on the sub ject of “Science and Faith.” There • will be special music and the Y. M. I C. A. slogan for the occasion is “WE j WANT YOU.” INITIAL LINE-UP * Oregon * Weist * Beckett * Snyder * Risley * Cook * Philbin * Garrett * Cornell * Malarkey * Parsons (C) *• Bryant W. S. C. * 1 e r Heg * 1 t r Applequist * 1 g r Stities * c Clark * r g 1 Zimmerman * r t 1 Alvord (C) * r e 1 Tyrer * q Bernard * 1 h r Bangs * r h 1 Satterworth * f Dietz * W.S.G. MAY PROVE STRONG CONTENDER LITTLE IS KNOWN OF BENDER’S AGGREGATION; WASHINGTON COACH HOPEFUL Montana’s Defeat of Pullman Does Not Indicate the Latter to be Weak; Team is Light By Rex Kay. Coach Bezdek will meet an almost unknown contender for the top of the list when he takes his men against Washington State College, in Port land, this coming Saturday. For the most part, the opinion is that it will be “soft picking” for Oregon—that is, all but Coach Bezdek think or say so. Washington State went down be fore Montana, but Montana has the best team it has had in years. Nis sen, assistant coach with Bender last year, is with Montana, and there are also four of Washington’s last year men with him. This gave Montana no small advantage over the Wash ington men. Coach Bender claims to have a bet ter team than last year, lighter, but faster. Captain Alvard has the rep utation of being one of the best tack les in the Northwest last year, and is hitting the line hard this year with Applequist, who was not with them last year, but a star of 1912, for a running mate. W. S. C. boasts of the strength of these linemen. In the backfield, Bangs and Satterwaita at halves, and Deitz at full, make up a strong trio. The quarterback was the weakest of all places in the Mon tana game, and is still Washington's big worry. Bernard runs the team well, but has shown little class him self as a player. Bender is not short of quarterback material, however, for Smith and Durham, subs of last year, are fast, husky little men. Two men of whom little is known more than that they are hard work ers, are Zimmerman and Steits, guards. In the way of ends, Tyrer and Heg are touted as more than good. Clark has been taken from the back field into center and is said to be a good snapper, but a little light. Oregon, taken man for man, will outweigh most of the Washington men. The one place where W. S. C. may have it on Bezdek’s lineup is at end, but that is doubtful after see ing the stunts pulled off in the out skirts last Saturday. Bezdek kept the speed and variety of plays well in check during the Whitman game; but secret practice is not for the ben efit of modest athletes. Coach Bender took 40 men into training camp for two weeks before college opened, and from there he sent out reports of great prospects. Coach Bezdek is sending out reports of great trials and hard luck—somebody has the wrong dope. ) CONFIDENT OF JAY, SAYS BEZDEK W. S C. EXPECTED TO PUT UP A HARD GAME, DESPITE USUAL HARD-LUCK STORY PARSONS MAT NOT PLAY All Football Men Who Have Turned Out Faithfully Throughout Season Will Make Portland Trip Every man who has turned out for football and stayed by the ship all the way through will ride to Portland and will at least see the game with Washington State College there next Saturday on Multnomah Field. He won’t have to ride the rods, either. “This is to show these men that we appreciate their efforts, and above all thieir spirit,” quoth Coach Bezdek. The one thing that is worrying Coach Biezdek more than anything else now is the attitude which manifests itself throughout the Student Body, which is, in substance: “Oh, nothing to the game with W S. C.; we’ve got got that cinched; and say, I believe we’ll take Washington to the cleaning this year.” This stuff is being pulled every day, and it gets the coach’s goat. He says: “Everyone is too con fident. The Student Body is too cocky. The team is too swell-headed. They’re beginning to tell me where to get off; they have an alibi for ev erything. What have we got to be cocky about? What have we done? We beat Whitman, true enough; but what has Whitman got? What did Walla Walla High School do to the Missionaries? Licked ’em 15 to 0. We beat them 29 to 3. Is that any thing to get swell-headed about?" “We are going to have a very hard game Saturday. We will do well if we win it at all, even by the slight est margin. Coach Bender, of the Washington Aggies, has been quoted as saying that a wet field will favor his team materially. This means that he has a very heavy team, in spite of the general impression that W. S. C. has the lightest eleven in the confer ence.” What is very apt to be the great est stumbling block to a Lemon Yel low victory is the fact that Bender is drilling the “under dog” stuff inlo his team. They know that they will have to fight and fight hard to win, and a team with that spirit embodied will prove a hard nut to crack. When the whistle blows Saturday there will be ten “O” men in Oregon’s line-up, seven veterans and three Frosh, Philbin at tackle, Snyder at guard, and Risley at center. These three won their spurs in the Whit man game and are expected to devel ope into formidable foes for any of the conference linemen. Captain Parsons may not start against W. S. C. He received a bad “Charlie Horse” in practice Wednes day night, and this may prevent his playing Saturday. His loss would be a serious one to Bezdek’s crew. If Parsons is unable to enter the game, either Lyle Bigbee or Monteith will fill his shoes. Another source of worry is the showing (pf the ends, Weist.and Gar rett. “Bez” is not at all satisfied with their tackling of late. “I may use an. other pair in their place, if they don’t pick up very shortly.” “The statement that Bender wasn't able to ‘wise up’ much when he wit nessed the Whitman game is all bosh,” quoth th chief mentor. “We held back nothing; we didn’t have any other plays.” The team and substitutes, accom panied by Coachs Bezdek, Dallenbach i (Continued on page 4.) SENIORS MEET TO SELECT CEREBRAL PROTECTION Pets of the Faculty Will Settle Con troversy Over Headgear Tuesday Evening. President Ben Dorris, of the Senior class, having escaped from the first meeting of that reverend but rough body with his life, announces the sec ond session of the year for next Tues. day evening at 7:00 o’clock. The weighty matter of official milli nery will crave the attention of the may-graduates. It is rumored that the committee appointed at the last meeting to find a substitute for the sombrero has something startling to recommend. The committee consists of Gene Good, Fred Hardesty and String Strang. Other projects of importance will be attacked with the fearlessness characteristic of the present diploma chasers. President Dorris requests a full attendance of the 92* members. BIBLIOPHILE VISITS CAMPUS AND ADRESSES WOMEN’S CLUB W. H. Galvani, of Portland, Oregon, was a dinner guest at the Bet Theta Pi house Wednesday night. Mr. Gal vani is a well known civil engineer, but has attained widest prominence as a Bibliophile or importer and col lector of rare and interesting books. He takes especial interest in Philos ophy, Economics, Religion and Edu cation. Having a wide knowledge of these subjects, he is making practical use of it. This he is showing in his informal talks before the Federation of Women’s Clubs convention. Mr. Galvani is a native of Poland, but has long been a citizen of the United States. ************ * SPECIAL REPORT OF FOOT- * BALL GAME * \* Special telegraph (reports (of * * the W. S. C.-U. of O. football * * game will be received by the Em- * * erald on Saturday. The editor * * will be on the Portland end of the * * line. Watch for the Emerald’s * * early report! * **«**•****•• FROSH MU “0” nuntsDoiHERBr Skinner’s Insignia Desecrated by Freshmen; Vigilance Committee Gets Offenders Upperclassmen awoke this morn ing, and, like the Belgians, found that the “awful” had happened. The letter “0,” on Skinner’s Butte, had been mutilated, not by rival colleges. The numerals ’18 showed it to be the deed of the Frosh. “Spud” Hill was the first to notice the desecration. Soon, however, it had spreaed, and the upperclassmen speedily formed a vigilance committee to investigate and bring the crime home to the offend ers. It did not take much head-scratch ing to initiate action on the part of the upperclassmen. Tommy Boylen and Ben Dorris headed the commit tee, and they went over to Kincaid Field, where the rooters’ meeting was being held preparatory to the W. S. C. football game in Portland. Strange as it may seem, a good representation of the Frosh were performing their duty by furnishing noise to urge the team on. Without delay, the upperclassmen herded the offenders together. Under, a heavy guard they were marched through town to the scene of the perpetration. Here they were told to remove the numerals, which they did without hesitation. Apologies i were demanded from the guilty Frosh.1 MIL rums NEW MUSING POUCH UNIVERSITY AD. CAMPAIGNS TO BE CONFINED TO EMER ALD AND OREGANA ONE MANAGER FAVORED Resolved, That Students Patronize the Men Who Advertise; Circu lar Letter to Merchants By action taken at the Student Council last night, all advertising campaigns in the interest of the Uni versity will be confined to the Emer ald and Oregana. This will mean that the merchants, for the present, will not be called upon to support such minor publications as the Y. M. C. A. hand-book, football programs, or any other publication by the Stu dent Body. It is further to be recommended by the Council that the management of the Oregana and Emerald be confined to but their one respective manager. This action will do away with the old custom of giving the Emerald over to the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. for special editions. It is the plan of the Council to put thp business relations between the merchants and students on a better footing; to centralize the advertis ing forces. In the past, support from the merchants has been so divided that no one enterprise had sufficient backing to make it a strong factor for either merchant or students. In order that both the business men and the Student Body may un derstand the motive and value of this movement, Tom Boylen, President of the Student Body, has appointed a committee of four to draw up a res olution to be put before the Student Body, to the effect that this action be taken, and furthermore, that the Student Body resolve to patronize the merchants who support these two enterprises. The committee will also draw up a circular letter to be sent to the merchants of Eugene. The members of the committee are: Lee Hedricks, chairman; Marsh Goodwin, Anthony Jaureguy and William Holt ouice mus step win mean tne dis continuance of the Y. M. C. A. hand book, the Student Council will rec ommend that all information which has previously been confined to it, such as addresses, societies and other general information, be published in the Emerald at any early date; that the general information concerning the Y. M. C. A., its interests, value and appeals, be published in the reg ular columns of the Emerald. Tom Boylen and the managers of the Emerald ad Oregana have been working on such a project for a long time. Not only the student mana gers have realized the necessity of some such action, but the business men have been demanding a central force to support and from which to expect a return on their investment. Managers of the Emerald and Or egana claim that the movement comes none too quick to save one or the other from failing, or at least from being reduced in size. With this step, however, they assure the students of even better publications. Tom Boylen, in speaking of the ac tion, said: “It is a movement for which we have long felt the need. It has been my dream to see this passed for some time, and I feel that the financial troubles of the managers will be much lightened.” When Anthony Jaureguy, manager of the Emerald, was informed that the action had carried, he said: “I am glad it went through; it is a great thing. It was a case of somebody quitting or making great reductions in size. This is an exceptionally hard year. Money is hard to get on. (Continued on pngs 4 )