OREGON
EMERALD
VOL. 17.
EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1915.
NO. 24.
ANSWER TO POWER
PROBLEM SOUGHT
School of Commerce to Prepare
Standard Exploitation and
Development Bulletin.
4 0. S. DEPARTMENTS AIDING
Hydro-Electric Association with
H. B. Miller as Head,
Starts Activities.
The three northwestern states of
Oregon, Washington and Idaho pos
sess one-third of the water-power
possibilities in the United States.
Can they “cash in” on this tremen
dous natural resource? Must all the
water continue to run into the sea
as waste, while New England, Nor
way, and the other water-power
countries are able to coin their sim
ilar resources into gold?
Great forces havo mobilized in
behalf of Oregon in the last two years
to find the answer to this problem,
if there is any, and the first report is
announced as nearly ready for the
press. The United States department
of state has for more than a year
had a score of consuls and consul
generals in all parts of the world
studying possible world markets for
northwest hydro-electric industrial
products, provided the northwest
should begin production on a large
scale and could ship from Portland
or Seattle. These same consuls have
been instructed to report all the
facts concerning hydro-electric in
dustries and processes in the coun
tries to which they are assigned,
which might be of use under the
conditions that prevail in the north
west. The 'department of the inter
ior, also through its agents, has
■been doing for the northwest the
same service within the borders of
the United States that the depart
ment of state has been performing
in foreign lands.
The deparment of commerce and
the department of agriculture have
performed services almost equally
vaduable and extensive in analyzing
possible outlets for products and
various uses for surplus power.
All this activity in behalf of the
future development of the northwest
was stirred up in the first place by
the Oregon Hydro-Electric associa
tion, which was formed by a large
number of business men who attend
ed the annual “conmmonwealth con
ferences” at the University of Ore
gon at Eugene two years ago. It
is the first instance of a single sec
tion of the country enlisting the gov
ernment’s powerful help in this way.
The executive of the movement has
been H. B. Miller, director of the
University school of commerce, who
serves also as head of the Hydro
Electric association.
The government’s work has now
been embodied in a series of reports
and charts which have been sent for
inspection to the big chambers of
commerce in the east, and have been j
taken for a few days each before the
chambers of commerce of San Fran- |
cisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Port- \
land. They are now in Portland for
study there, preparatory to being
sent to the University of Oregon.
The University school of commerce
has been charged with the duty of
putting this information into per
manent form, bringing together all
facts gathered from all sources into
a bulletin which will serve as the
standard for development and ex
ploitation work throughout the
northwest.
“There is nothing spasmodic about
all this effort,” declares Mr. Miller.
“All these engineers, commercial
clubs and chambers of commerce, of
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Frosh Keep Vigil
Over ‘O’on Mount
Rosy Dawn Sees End of Chilled
and Lonesome Watch.
Yea, Verily.
And lo, they watched by night lest
the Oacites come with pigments and
deface the symbol of their tribe,
which stands on Skinner’s mount,
even as the ark stood on Arat.
They are many in number and
their tents obscure the hill, even as
a greencap obscures the head of a
frosh.
They heap their blaze high with
wood of cedar and the neighbor's
fence posts, lest the Assyrian creep
upon them unawares and place a
David’s coat of noxious colors upon
the yellow ring that crowns the
mount.
Yea, these Proshmites watch dil
igently and their maidens bring
great bulk of precious things to eat
that make the heart of the hero as
steel and his mouth set up a might
cry of joy.
And bleak Boreas bloweth chill
across the valley where the brook
Willamette floweth among the olive
trees.
And the grim watchers pull their
helmets of green far down upon
their ears, and stand with feet far
apart, lest their knees smite togeth
er as if wih weakness.
And the frost formeth upon their
faces and they think of the Soph
who snoreth lou'd afar off beneath
his blankets warm.
And the night passeth chill .and
morning grey looks out upon the
hill of the “O” where the shepherd^
of the yellow paint nurse the com
plexion of their charge through the
long hours of darkness.
Know ye that while ye sleep, this
ceaseless vigil goeth on and that,
while darkness crowns our lives, the
Froshmites watch in silent gloom on
yonder spectral hill?
500 UNI SHOW PEP
“Portland ‘Has-Beens’ Prepare to
Be Seen and Heard; Song, Yells
and Band”—Michael
“We are arranging for ‘500 strong’
and intend to leave here about 8:30
a. m. Saturday, the 2 0th, and to ar
rive there about noon,” says a let
ter received here yesterday from
Sam Michael, ’15, concerning the re
turn of the Portland Alumni to the
campus for home coming day.
“If possible, we will work up
some yells and songs, and we are
also trying to work up a fife and
drum band, or a band of some sort,”
Mr. Michael continues. “Many of
the high school students will join our
excursion. As a matter of fact, the
alumni are inviting all of Portland’s
‘preppers.’
“If the S. P. and O. E. meet us half
way, with a $3.60 rate (and return),
there may be a bigger delegation to
the game.
“Don Orput, of course, will be our
yell-leader, and we hope to occupy
the bleachers adjoining the Oregon
rooters, so that we ‘has-beens’ may
be seen and heard.”
Friday night, November 12, a
meeting of the Portland University
of Oregon alumni will be held at the
Central library, to complete arrange
ments for the trip.
University of California, Oct. 28.
—That the University of California
will probably have a school for
coaches next season is the statement
made yesterday by Graduate Man
ager J. A. Stroud. Last season
schools were held at Chicago, Illi
nois, and a number of other eastern
universities.
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HOCKEY GAME ADDED
TO HOMEGOMIMG PLANS
! Local Alumni Are Soliciting Aid
to Make Affair
Notable.
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A hockey game between the O. A.
C. and University of Oregon girls is
| the latest addition to the home com
{lng day program. The game will be
called at 9 a. m. No admission will
|be charged.
“The Eugene alumni are very en
thusiastic,” says Max Sommer, head
of the home coming committee.
j“They are levying a tax of 50 cents
I each to help defray the expenses—
i three or four times as much money
| as we originally asked them for.
|They will also attend to receiving
and entertaining the visiting alumni
'to a great extent.
“The Eugene Automobile club has
offered its services, and promises 100
.autos if we need them.
J “The executive committee of the
I Commercial club has agreed to co
operate in the matter of decorations,
[and has offered the use of the club
'rooms.
“It has been arranged to tag the
alumni in order to show who they
are. They also will be tagged, either
here or on the train en route.
“The Emerald will be printed
early and will be distributed free on
the alumni special trains, and sold
on the O. A. C. train.
“Further committees have been
appointed. Wallace Eakin is a com
mittee of one to cooperate with the
private individuals who are getting
out the programs. These will be
printed Thursday.
* “Fred Dunbar has been empower
ed to choose a band of huskies, who.
will act under his direction as stu
dent police, attending to the parking
of automobiles, and so forth.
“In order thaf' the alumni may
inspect the work of the University,
the Friday classes will be opened to
them. The campus 'buildings may be
looked over Sunday morning—this
will be early enough that all who
wish may go to church. Guides will
be provided for those desiring them.
We also plan to have a short con
cert by the two glee clubs at that
time.”
FRESHMAN GAME SATURDAY
O. A. C. Aggregation Will Outweigh
Local Squad But Coach Malar
key Is Optimistic.
The game between the University
of Oregon “Frosli” and the O. A. C.
“Rooks,” to be played on Kincaid
field next Saturday, promises to be
a good contest from start to finish.
In a way this is to be a financial ex
periment on account of the expense
of bringing the visitors here, and it
deserves the support of the entire
freshman class, said Tick Malarkey,
mentor of the freshmen squad. In
the game played three weeks ago at
Corvallis the Rooks turned out in
full force both at the rooter practice
and game.
“The teams are well matched and
there is going to be a hard fight,
with no large score on either side,’’
says “Tick. ” “They were closely
matched at the last game, and the
Rooks have been practicing hard
since then. While we have not had
as much practice as we should have
had, the fellows have the fight in
them. Some of the men have been
staying up nights guarding the “O,”
which doesn’t help their condition
in the least. The Rooks will have
better punters than we have.”
The team will probably be the
same as before, with the exception
of Williams, who has been drawn
into the varsity service.
“ELECTRICITY (Mil
A PANACEA,” GOLDWELL
Manager of P. R., L. and Power
Co. Dwells on Advantages
of “Juice” in Country.
“Farmers can be educated to the
use ot electricity only through the in
fluence of such institutions as this
University,’’ said O. B. Coldwell, gen
eral manager of the Portland Rail
way, Light and Power company in his
address before assembly yesterday
morning. “Its general use in the
rural communities apd the conse
quent elimination of drudgery will
largely prevent the young people
from leaving the country to seek
work in cities.
“The number of ways in which
electricity can be made a labor-saver
around the household is unlimited
since there is hardly a task to per
form for which some kind of an elec
trical machine has not been invent
ed. Dusting, sweeping, ironing and
dish-washing ami even the freezing
of ice cream can all be done by this
invisible power.
“On the farm electricity means a
panacea. Drudgery and irksomeness
which usually accompanies every-day
tasks are removed by its use. Rates
have 'decreased some 88 per cent in
the last few years and now all com
panies make reduced prices if the
‘juice’ is used for power purposes.
As more people within a certain area
use electricity, to a degree, the
cheaper it will become.
“As applied to the farm directly,
electricity has many applications.
There is the cultivator, the corn
grinder, the milking machine, the
wood-saw and the curry-comb all
driven by electricity, so that the up
to-date tiller of the soil may have a
little time for planning on the next,
'day’s work. Electricity means the
emancipation to the farmer’s wife.
With the electric iron, electric stove
and electric churn her material wor
ries are considerably lessened. Elec
tricity has played a large part in the
development of the Willamette valley
in the introduction of railways bring
ing along wih it the further breaking
up of the valley into small farms and
then making them moro livable.”
PRINTS DIGEST OF SURVEY
University Press Turns Out 10,000
Copies for Distribution
Ten thousand copies of the sum
mary of Dr. S. I*. Cr.pen’s survey of
the University are being printed by
the University printing plant. Dr.
i Capen is special investigator for the
United States bureau of education
and made the survey just after the
opening of school this year.
Students desiring copies sent to
friends or relatives may go to the
registrar’s office and address the
required number of envelopes and
the copies will be mailed.
The lTnivo>rsity wishes to give this
report as wide a circulation as pos
sible, so that people within the state
may know something of the work of
the institution.
University of Kansas, Nov. 2.—An
iron cross has been given to Profes
sor Fritz Kellerman for his bravery
in the attack at Brest-Lltowsk, Rus
sia. Mr. Kellerman was exchange
teacher in the German department of
the University of Kansas during the
year 1912-1913.
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l University of Chicago, Oct. 15.—
Freshmen of the University of Chi
cago are arranging to publish a bi
' weekly paper, named the Green Cap.
The object of the publication will
be to inrcearse university spirit
(among the members of the freshman
class.
Fumes of Acid
Too Much for Ivy
Climber on McClure Shows Con
trast to Sister on the Men
Dormitory Building.
Acid fumes from the chemistry
laboratories in McClure hall appear
to have been the cause of the slight
growth and early departure of the
leaves from the Boston ivy, clinging
to the walls of the same building.
Just a few feet distant, on the men’s
dormitory grows a similar vine, its
leaves still green and flourishing,
while that on the west side of Vil
lard hall is one mass of gorgeous red
and green. The squad working on
the grounds declare that they have
never known it to be so beautiful in
previous years.
On the first of October, when the
leaves began to drop off the trees,
the annual raking up commenced.
Since the city passed an ordinance
against the using of other fertilizer
on grounds, several years ago, it has
been customary to haul them to the
cow pasture across the cemetery, mix
them with dirt, and let them set un
til they are put around the rose
hedges, where they form a very satis
factory substitute for a fertilizer.
This gathering of the leaves covers
about six weeks. They are thrown
into large hop sacks and a wagon
load is hauled away each week.
President Campbell Lends Alninnl
President Prince L. Campbell
headed the alumni from the Univer
sity of Oregon in their line of march
from the Portland Chamber of Com
merce to the armory, last night. The
occasion was ‘‘college night” at the
land show. Members of the other
universities and colleges of the state
were present and were led by the
presidents of their respective schools.
President Campbell remained over
today in (Portland on University busi
ness.
wddmesiTs read
Barrie’s Problem Play Is En
thusiastically Received By
Large Audience.
(Ily Martha Beer)
Professor Reddle read the “Wed
ding Guest” to a large and appre
ciative audience in Guild hall, on
Tuesday evening.
The play is a drama by J. M. Bar
rie, which deals with the question of
whether a woman shall take back a
husband who lias sinned. When the
husband has proved his worthiness.
he and his wife are reconciled. The
Wedding Guest Is the other woman
in the case who, when she discovers
the true womanliness of the wife, is
willing to sacrifice her own happi
ness to that of the wife and hus
band.
The play has a great deal of hu
man interest. The struggle between
the innate sympathies of the charac
ters and' the conventionalities of
their Jife is marked. Throughout,
Harrie Beems to be seeking for a so
lution of the problem of the other
woman, but in the end he is un
successful, as all others before and
after him have been.
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♦ Announcement #
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*> Tryouts for the sophomore ♦
♦ idepate team will be held De- ♦
♦ cember 11, at 10 a. m., in Guild ♦
♦ hall. Question: Resolved, #
♦ “That No Part of the Oregon ♦
♦Railroad Land Grant Should Re ♦
♦ Added to the National Forest ♦
♦ Reserve.” #
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VICTORIOUS ELEVEN
ARRIVES FROM SOUTH
°ooters Are Conspicuous By
Absence: Early Hours
is Cause.
PLAYERS ARE IN GOOD SHAPE
Scoring Is Made By Aerial
Route Only. Team Shows
Fight in Second Half.
(By Cheser A. Pee)
The victorious football team of
Oregon drove into town early this
morning, and for the first time this
season failed to find a bunch of
rooters at the depot to meet them;
but they used poor judgment in the
selection of the time of arrival, for
the clock was tolling the short hours
about that time of 'day.
Everybody seems to be happy and
well, and injuries are scarce and far
between.
The game was all right after the
fellows started to play in the second
half, but must have been miserable
throughout the first portion.
U. S. C.’s brilliant lateral passes
and dazzling rugby football mixture
only got away on two plays—once
for 35 yards and once for 10 yards.
These occurred during the first half,
before the fellows got settled 'down
to work.
In the scoring half, Oregon opened
up a keg of nails and tacked down 34
of the red boys, while U. S. C. turn
ed' out to be a goose in the duck pond
and hatched out a score which con
sisted only of the outside rim. Ore
gon’s defense was impenetrable. U.
S. C. could not grab a yj
the Oregon offense ripi
combines rather than ffl
ers, and astonished the south with
their German Zepplening abilities.
All the scores were due to the
forward pass in some manner; either
through an opponent's being inter
cepted or an offensive pass com
pleted.
The newspapers throughout the
northwest did not give the men much
credit for their victory—letting it
rest entirely upon their weight.
Library Records Husy Ray
Wednesday, November 3, was the
busiest day on record at the Univer
sity library, from the standpoint of
the number of books issued. A to
tal of 52 2 circulating and reserve
books were handed out at the loan
desk.
Mark Payne, a player on the Da
kota Wesleyan team, broke all ex
isting records when he drop-kicked a
goal from the 63-yard line in a game
played October 16. The former rec
ord was a kick of sixty-one yards,
made by Pat O’Dea in a Wisconsin
Northwestern game in 1898.
Attention Koplis!
To the Members of the Class of
’16, Greetings:
The members of the class of’17,
at regular meeting assembled, do
and hereby challenge said class of
’16 to a game of football, sub
ject to the following conditions:
1. Said game to be played on
Kincaid field, at a date to be
agreed upon by representatives of
the two classes.
2. Excluding from the game
all men who have been out for
football this year.
There will be an important
meeting of the junior men in Pro
fessor Stafford’s room, Wednes
day, 4 p. m.
PRANK SOAIEFE.