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OREGON
PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
EMERALD
Volume XVI, No. 27
EUGENE. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1914.
DR. CLARK PREDICTS
LONG EUROPEAN WAR
UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR CAN
SEE NO PROSPECT OF EARLY
J END TO STRUGGLE
GERMANY ABLE TO HOLD OUT
Battling Powers May Wear Them
Out and Quit With Advantage
On Neither Side
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(Written for the Emerald, by Dr. R.!
C. Clark.)
The length of the European war
seems now less problematical than
at its beginning. It now seems cer
tain that it will be a long drawn out
struggle. In the years before its out
break, military men and writers pre
sumably qualified to speak on prob
lems of war, seem generally to have
agreed that the next war would be
short and decisive. They seem now
to have been poor prophets. The first
months of the war have shown the
combatants very evenly matched,* so
that neither side has yet won any de
cisive victories. It is quite possible
that the struggle may result in the
exhaustion of all the nations involved,
with little advantage won by any of
them. Germany has already accom
plished one of the objects of her
world expansion, the annexation of
Belgium, and seems likely soon to
achieve a second when she reaches
Calais on the English Channel. She
has secured, in part, the elbow room
that she has long desired, and will be
in a position to compete with England
on more even terms because of a bet
ter naval and commercial base. Most
probably she would be satisfied to end
the war at this stage and would per
haps be willing to 'concede to France
the city of Metz and French Lorraine
as an offset to her own absorption of
Belgium.
The problem for Germany from now
on will be to maintain her position,
and hold off invasion of her territory
from west and east. When she ceases
to take the offensive, her losses of
men will not be so great and as she
must have great reserves of young
men yet untouched, it seems quite pos
sible that she may defend her fron
tiers until such time as her enemies
grow tired of war. Prussia, as history
shows, has always enjoyed excellent
luck and has a way of holding onto
territory once seized. Silesia, a good
slice of Saxony in 1815, Schleswig and
Holstein, following the Danish war
of 1864, are examples. Frederick the
Great fought Austria, France, Swe
den, Russia and Saxony to a stand
still for seven years. True, he received
financial aid from England, but even
when left in the lurch by her, alone
he still kept his enemies at bay and
came off with no loss of territory.
The wealth of modern states has no
doubt increased as rapidly as the cost
of warfare, and the nations of Europe
are likely to show an endurance equal
to that of any period of their past
history. England will probably be
compelled to finance all her allies in
this war, just as she has in every
other one, and will no doubt prove
just as able to do so. General Euro
pean wars have heretofore been long
wars.
It is interesting to note that the
whole seven years’ war of Frederick
the Great’s time cost Prussia one-half
million men, a loss at least as great
as that suffered by Germany in the
first two or three months of the pres
ent war. That war cost France some
8270,000,000, a sum that she perhaps
spent twice over during the one hun
dred days of this war.
Great democracies like that of
France and England today have never
before conducted war on so vast a
scale. The governments of these
states must be susceptible to public
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MYSTERY OF WHICH IS WHICH
IN TOOZEitUO “GETS FROSH’
Jack Dolph Bunks With Slaved river
of Emerald Cubs, but Con*
founds Him With Brother
Even his own room-mate can't dis
tinguish “Les” Tooze from his twin
brother, Lamar.
Jack Dolph is the young man who
hangs up the clothes of the Emer
ald’s city editor) and sweeps the dust
under the bed in his room.
Tuesday Frosh Dolph burst into the
Emerald editorial rocms with a ques
tion which was meant for his guar
dian.
“Say, Les,” he begon. Then he
stopped.
Here let us impart a secret which
simplifies the problem of identifying
the duplicate pair. Lamar parts his
hair on the left side; “Les” parts his
on the right.
This was Lamar, and the chagrined
Frosh fled in disorder.
A news-chasers’ rendezvous is no
place to make a “break” and keep it
from the public. Hence this story at
the“Twos’s” expense.
breeleysIttend
BREEZY BANQUET
Sigma Delta Chis Entertain Thirty
Visiting Editors and Journal,
ism Students
Dull care was flouted and serious
ness tabooed at the banquet given by
Sigma Delta Chi in honor of visiting
editors and embryo “pencil pushers”
at the Hotel Osburn last night. This
was the first of a series of get-to
gether dinners which are expected to
lead to a better acquaintance among
the students of the Department of
Journalism and Western publishers
and newspaper men. Over the tobacco
and black coffee, toastmaster Jessup
Strang introduced the guests of the
evening, who told of the lighter side
of the newspaper work. President P.
L. Campbell aroused much laughter
with his stories of how he “helped
Nelson start the Kansas City Star;”
Professor Eric W. Allen, “What to
Do With Your Paper After You Get
It”; Elbert Bede, editor of the Cot
tage Grove Sentinel, “Why So Many
Funny Things Happen in Cottage
Grove”; Frank Jenkins, editor of The
Morning Register, “How to Own a
Newspaper”; Prof. C. V. Dyment.
“Cubs, and Other Animals I Have
Met”; and George Palmer Putnam,
the “Man who put Bend on the map,”
delivered, as the guest of the evening,
an epigrammatic speech which he
headed, “And the Worst of It Is, I
Like It.”
BILLS POSTED NONDAY
Advertising for Mens Glee Club’
Concerts Begins. Several New
Stunts Added to Reportoire
Advertising for the Men’s Glea
Club concert to be held Thursday ev
ening, December 3, in the Eugene
Theatre, will begin next Monday, ac
cording to Sam Michael, manager of
the club.
The quartet, composed of Paul
Sprague, Henry Heidenreich, Albert
Gillette and Prof! Ralph Lyman, sang
recently in Portland and will figure
in the concert December 3.
Merlin Batley and Bert Jerard have
several new “stunts,” in addition to
those of last year, and will display
them along with the other features.
Popular prices will be charged for
the entertainment.
SENIORS DRAW MITES
FOR LOTTERY DANCE
MANY PRIZES AND NO BLANKS
MAKE MONTE CARLO GAME
FULL OF INTEREST
"LIFE IS A GAMBLE” SAY MEN
Future Solvers of the Country’s Prob- j
lems to Jubilate at Sigma Nu !
House Tuesday
Partners for the Senior Lottery
Dance to be given at the Sigma Nu
House next Tuesday evening were
drawn at the 1915 class nieeting on
Tuesday night.
The drawing was attended by the
same interest that marked the draw
ing of last year and of the year be
fore.
The committee in charge of the
dance arrangements announced that
the affair will be in the nature of
hard times party. The costumes are
to consist of old clothes while cider
and doughnuts will constitute the re
freshments.
The following ,is the line-up as
drawn Tuesday night.
Andy Wells and Katherine Kirk
patrick; William Lackey and Miss
Bardell; Clark Burgard and Carolyn
Koyl; Sam Michael and Edith Mox
ley; Anthony Jaureguy and Vaugh
McCormick; Henry Heidenreich and
Edythe Rogers; Louis Hoisington and
Florence Kendall; Walter Myers and
Nellie Newland; LaVerne Apperson
and Vera Moffat; Franklin Staiger
and Lois Brown; Chester Huggins
and Cora Truman; Daniel Boone and
Rose Sieler; Will Burton and Hazel
Rader; Elton Loucks and Mildred
Riddle; James Watson and Mabel Mil
ler; Bert Jerard and Lucile Shep
herd; Gene Good and Charlitte Sears;
Morris Bigbee and Florence Bowden:
Peter Crockatt and Ellen VanVolk
inburg; Rex Putnam and Gretchen
Sherwood; Earl Blackaby and Helen
Werlein; Tom Boylen and Georgia
Cross; Carlyle Geisler and Velma
Sexton; Lawrence Dinneen and Ruth
Sears; Luton Ackerson and Lois
Parks; Marsh Goodwin and Vera Kel
lems; ttolla Ralston and Mary Ram
age; Ray Biryant and Beulah Stebno;
Boyce Fenton and Marjorie Cogswell;
Walter “Brenton and Margaret Mann;
Leland Brown and Buth Dorris; Roy
Andrews and Helen Hamilton; James ;
Donald and Anita Slater; Bert Lom
bard and Gertrude Buell; Bryant De
Bar and Genevieve Cooper; Gus
Scholl and Hazel Ralston; John Par
sons and Lyle Steiwer; Fred Hard
esty and Callie Beck; Maurice Hill
and Betsy Wootton; Tom Donaca and
Beatrice Lilly; Thornton Howard and
Ethel Loucks; Millar McGilchrist and
Josephine Moorhead; Ben Dorris and
Gertrude Taylor; Lee Hendricks and
Lucile Cogswell; Ernest Vosper, first
substitute; Roy Johnson, second sub
stitute •
BIG DANCE SATURDAY
The Senior class has arranged
a short order dance for Saturday
night in the gymnasium. Every
body will want to celebrate that
victory—or if it isn’t a victory
we’ll want to forget our sorrows.
Informality will prevail, and the
admission will be only 35 cents.
Watch Saturday morning’s Em
erald for further announcement.
In order to raise money to contrib
ute to the Red Cross fund for use in
the European war, all the women at
Vassar College have pledged them-;
selves to pay a tax of ten per cent on
all purchases of ioe cream, candy and
theatre tickets. The money will be
kept by the girls themselves in mite
boxes, to be turned into one large
fund at the end of specified periods.
"SUCCESS 6REAT FUN,”
SAYS GEORGE PUTUM
EDITOR OF BEND BULLETIN
SPEAKS BEFORE AS
SEMBLY
0R6ES WIDER HORIZONS
'Oregon Has Produced Hardly One
Figure of Natural Importance.
Why Not Change This?
“Do you realize that the State of
Oregon has produced hardly one fig
ure of national importance?”, asked
George P. Putnam, editor of the Bend
Bulletin, who spoke at the assembly
Wednesday morning.
“Of course there is the reason that
the state is young and busy, but it
is for you and your brothers and
sisters to say whether this condition
shall be changed. There is no reason
why the state cannot produce some
man or woman who will put Oregon
on the national map of fame. Suc
cess is the greatest fun there is from
every viewpoint.”
“Ways and Means of Enlarging
One’s Local Horizon,” was the subject
of Mr. Putnam’s address. He made
it an informal advisory talk to the
students, interspersing frequently
with a humorous story as an illus
tration.
“ ‘It is more blessed to give than to
receive,’—but this is not true of ad
vice. Still we young people” (Mr.
Putnam is not yet in his thirties)
“make the mistake of not listening
to older people. But I want to tell
you somethingfor your profit.
“Put education on a commercial ba
sis. This is not the only basis, how
ever. Four years here means an in
vestment of perhaps $4,000. Now by
my experience of watching men, with
and without an education, this money
could not be put to better advantage.
“It’s all right to be a big duck in
a big pond, but the best way is to
first be a small duck in a small pond,
and then become a large duck in a
small pond. When this happens you
have the choice of migrating or re
maining and making the pond larger.
“Community loyalty in the West is
a means of you enlarging- your pond.
When I went to Bend I had no inten
tion of staying, but I found two things
there that made me decide to remain.
They were the natural resources and
best of all the citizenship. There is
an opening in every small communi
ty. Cultivate enthusiasm for every
thing you undertake. Love your work
and remember Oregon is but at the
beginning and everything is before.”
Mr. Putnam attended Harvard and
University of California, and has trav
eled and written extensively. He is
a member of the Putnam family of
Publishers, of New York, but is a firm
believer in the small community as
the place for success.
FRIARS ELECT
BEN DORRIS JR.
ERNEST VOSPER
PAN-HELLENIC ASSOCIATION .
WILL GIVE FOOD TO POOR
Seventy-five baskets of food for
the poor will be given Thanksgiving
day, under the direction of the Pan
Hellenic Association. All the fra
ternities, as well as the sororities,
and the two dormitories, are to give
baskets.
A committee, composed of the Sen
ior Pan-Hellenic delegates, with Ruth
Dorris as chairman, is managing
the donations. Mrs. Cox, who is
head of the Eugene Relief Associa
tion, will distribute the baskets on
Thanksgiving morning.
Dean “Grows Up”
With University
Dr. Straub Celebrates Anniversary of
His Connection With University;
kale and Hearty Still
DR. JOHN STRAUB
The distinction of having witnessed
the commencement exercises of every
class graduated from the University
except one is enjoyed by Dr. John
Straub, the oldest member of the fac
ulty in both years and service. Dr.
Straub yesterday celebrated the thir
ty-sixth anniversary of his connection
with the University of Oregon.
Dr. Straub, in speaking of the early
history of the University, says:
“When I came to the University
the equipment consisted of but one
building, .Deady Hall, and that but
partially completed. ..The faculty was
composed of five members, besides
myself, President Johnson, Profes
sors Condon and Bailey, Mrs. Mary
Spiller, and her sister, Miss Boise.
Professors at that time were expected
to teach more subjects than they are
now. During my first few years, I
taught Latin, Greek, German, French,
Algebra, Rhetoric and Public Speak
ing. At that time the University
had a preparatory department and
gave but two years of college work.
The students were mostly from the
country districts and a number of
them were mature men. Gradually
new instructors were added to the
faculty, new buildings were erected,
and the preparatory department dis
continued, and the University brought
up to the position which it enjoys to
day.
“I never felt better in my life, and
expect to see several more classes
come and go.”
LAST AND GREATEST
RALLY FRIDAY NIGHT
“PEE-RADE’ TO START AT KAP
PA SIGMA HOUSE AT 6:15
PROMPTLY
Program In Villard Hall at 7:00;
Houses Requested to Have
Early Dinners
Nobody sleeps Friday night, at
least not the fore part of the evening.
No one will be able to sleep, for on
this particular night the greatest ex
hibition of “Oregon Spirit” and “pep”
that an Oregon crowd ever furnished
will pervade the campus.
To begin the evening’s jubilations,
a great “pee-rade” will form at the
Kappa Sigma house at 6:15, and in
a new marching formation, four
abreast, with hands on shoulders and
the outside men carrying lanterns,
the line will march on down town,
picking up stragglers on the way. The
| boys will return at 7:00, when the
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VERILY KINCAID IS A
SLOUGH OF DESPOND
MUIVtPS LAYS RISLEY OUT AND
“DOC” STEWART WILL PRO
TEST CORNWALL AND
COWLEY
BETTING 21 POINTS ON O.A.C.
Squad Is Handicapped by Injuries and
Accidents, but Oregon Still
Has Hopes in Fight
“Jake’' Risley is sick in toed with
the mumps and Cornwall and Cawley
will be protested ^ as “ringers” by
“Doc” Stewart. Wouldn’t that make
a preacher swear. Someone has our
goat, all right; it isn’t Washington
and it isn’t 0. A. C.; it’s old Kid Luck.
With Malarkey and Cornell stowed in
the cooler till next year, and the rest
of the team badly bruised up, pros
pects were dark enough, but now—it
sure is h
Risley is one of the best centers in
the conference, and Coach Bezdek
was counting on him strongly to take
care of Stewart’s style of center
play. “Jake” didn’t feel just right
yesterday, but worked through prac
tice last night the same as usual. He
was far from fit this morning, how
ever, and the Fijis called a doctor,
who immediately decided that “Jake”
had ’em.
The Cornwall-Cawley case has not
been passed upon yet, but it is defi
nitely known that they will be protest,
ed. Coach Bezdek did not use either
of them this year until the local ath
letic board had passed on them. Corn
wall has played against W S. C., Ida
ho and Washington, and none of that
trio kicked. However, if “Doc” has
the goods, which our Athletic Council
did not have, then “Bez” will have
to depend upon another end.
Risley’s job will go to either Coss
j man or Cawley. In case Cawley is
ruled out, then Cossman is the sole
heir.
If Cornwall is ineligible, either
Garrett or Mitchell will start against
0. A. C. Garrett is troubled by lame
shoulders and may not get a chance.
Mitchell is a Freshman, who has
shown considerable ability through
out the season.
Another man upon whom Fortune
does not beam this week is Lyle Big
bee. He was taken to Mercy Hospi
tal last night to have his knee treated
and may not be in condition for the
fray Saturday. Dean Crowell will
j probably play left half against 0. A.
C. This lad made things look good
while he was in at Seattle.
I Betting in Portland is even money
that 0. A. C. will win by a margin of
21 points. Up to this morning it
looked like O. A. C. backers in the
metropolis were rather philanthrop
ically inclined, but now they may not
be able to find so many objects of
charity in Eugene.
One thing is certain—what’s left of
the team will go into that 0. A. C.
game determined to fight to the last
ditch.
Assistant Coach Mitchell witnessed
the O. A. C.-Idaho game, and conse
quently the Aggies’ direct pass style
of play is receiving considerable at
! tention on Kincaid Field.
Ed. Bailey, former All-Northwest
tackle, is helping Bezdek develop the
Lemon and Yellow line this week.
STUDENT AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
GRANTS THREE DATES
The Student Affairs Committee at
its regular meeting Wednesday after
noon, granted the following dates:
December 6—Iota Chi.
December 5—Kappa Alpha Theta
underclassmen.
January 9—Phi Delta Theta.