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OREGON EMERALD Published each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the college year, by the Associated Students of the University of Oregon. Entered at the postofflcq at Eugene as second class matter. Subscription rates, per year, $1.00. Single copies, 6c. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. ST AFF .MAX H. SOMMER Assistant Editors...Wallace Eakln, Leslie O. Tooae Managing Editor..Harold Hamstreet City Editor.....Harry L. Kuck News Editor.Mandel Weiss Copy Editors.Dc Witt Gilbert, Clytle Hall Special Writers. .Grace Edglmgton, Frances Shoemaker, Charles Dundore, Walter Kennon, Mary Baker. Administration .Roberta Killam Assisi tint .Francis Yoran Sports .Chester A. Fee Assistant .James Sheehy Features .Adrienne Epplng, Echo Zahl Dramatic Critic . James Cellars Dramatics ...Martha Beer Music . ..Eulalie Crosby Society .Beatrice Locke Lucile Watson Exchanges .Louise Allen Reporters.. Kenneth Moores, Jean Bell, ftfarian Nell, Carroll Wlldin, Harold Say, Robert McNary, Percy Boatman, Coralie Snell, Lucile Messner, Lucile Saunder, Joe Skelton, Stanley JCaton, Helen Brenton. BUSINESS STAFF BUSINESS MANAGER..FLOYD C. Manager’s and Editor’s Fhone—841. WESTERFIELD Reward The Yell Leader. IT IS interesting to note that the movement inaugurated last week by the student council to reward the yell leader with a symbol of honor is by no means new with Oregon, as some antagonists think. There is a movement at the University of Washington with the same aim and purpose. The Owl club of the northern institution has broached the matter and is preparing to introduce the plan to the student body in the form of an amendment to the constitution. If this amendment passes, the “yell king” will receive his “W” at Wash ington the same as does the debater or other aspirants for letters. One thing must be taken into consideration and that is whether the awarding of a letter to the yell leader will in any way tend to lower the value of these symbols. Letters are awarded to some of the participants in minor sports who do not work nearly as hard as does the yell leader. Moreover athletic victories arc due to some extent to the yell leader. We have1 yet to see the football player who cannot feel the power that a root ing squad puts into him, even though lie may not hear the war-cry in the excitement of battle. A college to be victorious in athletics must have an organized “pepfill” rooting section which is impossible without the organizing force which rests in the yell leader. For the past few years there has been a noticeable lack of candidates for the position of yell leader. 'I'be position seems to have lost its former glory and power, not to mention its forceful personalities. In the past there was a scramble for the position, but last year the student council had to select a tempor ary leader and then prevail on him to take the position for the season, which he did. But the question is how can the position be raised to higher appreciation; how can the office—one of the most difficult to fill properly—be made worth while to candidates who have the abil ity? Any student who has crammed late at night for an economic quizz knows the answer. Increase the reward. The highest possible reward in college is the coveted letter. Reward the yell-leader with a letter, different, of course, from other letters, and the incentive is provided, and the job will no longer have to go begging for a can didate. At the same time the Kmerald recommends that a permanent advisory committee be placed under the chairmanship of the yell leader, who is elected by the student council. 'Wiis committee will assist and confer with the yell leader on all questions of stunts, dec orations, practices and the numerous other duties that are far too numerous for a single persbn to attend to efficiently. I nder such a system each season will bring out a number of prospective yell leaders, who will try-out for the position. Appoint ments will be made by the student council on a kind of civil service basis. The right man wi 11 get the job, others will prepare for the position in advance by tutoring under the appointee for a year, and the job will automatically take care of itself as far as candidates are concerned. What’s In a Kiss? 7 ///', (jRIP is still in the air, which reminds us of an interesting article by Woods Hutchinson, M. D., who writes very interestingly from personal experience. The perils of osculation, like the Perils of Klaine, are overhead lined in the press, says this popular medical writer. Pike any other form of direct personal contact, it is quite capable of spreading the grip, but the actual percentile part played by the kiss in spreading the infection is little more than, trivial. Then the doctor goes on to say that there is very little of it. except within the family, where it creates about as much havoc as the bayonet does in modern warfare. But continues the learned doctor, it would he well to abolish the foolish and frivolous pecking that girls engage in when they meet each other. The article goes on with—and we will end this with—a very salient statement; to wit, "With the sneeze killing at twenty feet and everybody doing it and the kiss only an occasional luxury, it seems a pity to denounce one of the few pleasures of lite on account of the infinitesmal part which it may play in spreading infection." Isn’t it a sail but nevertheless true statement of the professorial temjK»rainent that they all seem to act in perfect harmony; a few months ago the assignments were short and easy. Immediately before examinations, everybody has a baker's dozen of themes to write. 200 pages to read, outside readings galore and what-not. How can a Student live011^24 hours a day without flunking. Huh ? WASHINGTON MAY GIVE “W” TO YELL KINGS Oval Club af Northern University Pro ! poses Constitutional Amendment to Provide Incentive A movement with the purpose of awarding a “W” to the yell king at the University of Washington ie being forwarded by the Oval club. The let ter which would be given is a gold one and is the same design as that formerly given in minor sports. The Oval club intends to present its pla,n to the student body in the form of an amendment to article 7 of the by laws of the associated students. This amendment being passed, the yell king wOjUld receive his letter through serice just the same as a debater or other “W” aspirant. Too Much for Nothing ‘,'The yell king has to work too hard for, nothing,” said George Mathieu, chairman of the committee which has the work in charge. “He does as much andl more than the debaters and several of the athletic position. Because of the work accomplished by the king we feel that he should be rewarded and we hope that the student body will aid us.” “I doubt if this work should be con sidered enough to be rewarded by a “W,” said King Herrick this morning. “If i the students think that it would be lowering the present standard of the let ter to award one to this position they do not; want to be bnckward about turning the,resolution down. We certainly want to put a high standard for obtaining one.” f CAMPUS NOTES 1 ♦-* With only one week 'before semester exatas. little, time is left for dinners and dances'. Instead the library receives first choice in the “Where to Go” list. How ever, the first weeks of the second sem ester will make amends with a large num ber: of gaieties. Arrangements are be ing perfected for the Freshmen Glee and! a number of other formals are sched uled. James Huggins, of Portland, was a Saturday dinner guest at the Delta Gam ma house. - 1 Sunday evening Louise Allen enter tained at her home the Y. W. C. A. and! Y. M. C. A. delegation which toured Southern Oregon during the Christmas holidays. Those present were: Mr. J. D. Foster, Professor It. P. Reader, James McOallum, Walter Dimm, Ralph Allen, Dolph Phipps, Gerry Watkins, Lynn Mc Cre.iidy, Clyde Hall, Ruth Wilson, Ruth Nyei Agnes Duiflap, Frances Prater, Margaret Crosby, Miss Mary Gillies, and Louise Allen. Sunday dinner guests at the Delta Gamma house were Louise Bailey, Irene Rugh, Genevieve Shaver, Grace Reed, Beatrice Smith and Miss Griffin. Dinner guests at Sigma Chi Sunday were Mrs. Watson, Dorothy Bennett, Bernice Lucas, Beatrice Thurston, Es ther I Fenton. Etna Fetzold, Helen Furing ton. Sylva Lloyd, Mona Dougherty and Eulalie Crosby. Henry Howe was a Monday luncheon guest at the Delta Tau Delta house. I — Karl Becko and Morgan Watson were Sunday dinner guests at the Kappa Alpha Theta house. Alene Phillips spent the week-end at Moninouth. ! -■— Frances Adams and Alice Cornwall of Corviallis spent the week-end at the Kap pa Alpha Theta house. Mary Spiller Sunday dinner guests were. Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Schafer, Prof essor nud Mrs. A. R. Sweetser, and Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Dixon Delta Tau Delta Sunday dinner guests werel Dr. and Mrs. D. W. Morton, Claire Bale}-, Marian Springer, Mary Dunn and Mildied Brown. Margaret Casey was called home Mon day noon by the death of her aunt, Mrs. Deller of Portland. Beitu Theta Pi Sunday dinner guests were; Mr. and Mrs. Gillette, Mamie Gil lette, i Professor and Mrs. Dunn, Dorothy DuniJ and Barriam Dunn. Gelrry Watkins was a luncheon guest Monday noon of Beta Theta Pi. f FACULTY DOINGS I * —\---* Upon the call of the president of the Oregon Irrigation congress recently held in Portland. President P. L. Campbell has selected the following persons to ser-j \ e on a committee representing the Uni versity, at an Irrigation, Drainage, and lturall Credits congress: lion. W. K. Newell, H. B. Miller, F. G. Young, and J. W„ Me Arthur, It is the plan of this eongrhss to draft certain constitutional amendments, providing for state guar antee of principal aud interest on irriga-j tiou and drainage district bonds and to devise a system of rurul credits. Dr.i John J. Landsbury, head of the piano department of the school of Music, will give the second lecture in his scries v>n "Musical Thought”, Wednesday af ternoon at 4 p. xu. in Dean Straub's, .'assrpem. The subject will be "The Career of the Motive." Th.'i last number of the Oregon Voter devoted over four pages to a favorable criticism of Dr. James D. Barnett’s new book. The executive committee of the board of Regents will ,meet with President Campbell in his office Wednesday night January 26. Colin V. Dymetot, Earl Kilpatrick and James H. Gilbert will spend Friday, January 28, in Portland, representing the University at the Safety Forum held under the auspices of the public safety committee of the Portland chamber of commerce. Wednesday, Jatauary 26, at 2 p. m. Dr. Don. C. Sowers, will lecture to the commerce students and others interested in Architectural ball on “The Work of the Carnegie Institute.” ALUMNAE ENTERTAINED Eugene Branch of Collegiate Alumnae Holds Business and So cial1 Meeting . ~ The Eugene branch of the association }f collegiate alumnae was entertained by Miss M. Ruth Guppy, Miss Harriet rhomson, and Mrs. E. L. Knapp in the tea room of the hotel Osburn, Saturday ifternoon. Mrs. Warren Du I're Smith presided over the business meeting. Mrs. Roswell Dosch, of the art depart ment of the University gave a talk on ‘The Art That is Around Us,” which ivas followed by an informal discussion jf Japanese art. Miss Guppy wad appointed chairman of i committee to arrange for securing the f500 pledged for the women’s building at the University. Those of the Alumnae present , were: Mrs. Warren Diu Pre Smith, Mrs. George Rebec, Mrs. L. H. Johnson, Mrs. 0. C. Robbins, Mrs. R. W. Winger, Mrs. 3. D. Allen, Mrs. Percy Collier, Mrs. A. M. Spangler, Mrs. |L. R. Edmunson, Mrs. W. F. Osburn, Miss M. Ruth Guppy, Miss Harriet Thomson, Miss Beatrice Baker, Miss Amy Dunn, Miss Ida Tat terson, Miss I. Louise Fitch, Miss Har riet Patterson, Miss Mary Perkins and Mrs. E. L. Knapp., “FEWER PAPERS, MORE SECTION WORK,” EDICT Doctor Bates Discusses Future Policy of the English Teachers’ Association. Hereafter fewer papers will be read and more time will be devoted to the sections, as far as the work of the Ore gon conference of English teachers is concerned. This is the policy laid down for the coming yea!r by Ur. E. S. Bates, aewly-elected president of that branch of the state teachers’ association. Emphasizes^ Section Work “I hope to have at least one day given ever to the special! sections next year,” said Dr. Bates. “A,s it is now the meet ngs take the form of talks to the high school and grade teachers and sectional' liscussions. At least two full meetings should be given qver to the sections, which was not done at the Medford meet- j ng. I have planned for not more than 1 four papers, so thqt ample time may be given to the discussion of vital prob eras. I consider thq work in the sections more important than the papers because :here questions of policies and definite; working plans can be considered and car ried out The sections are really doing' something. Predicts Use of A mplified Spelling, i “There were several fine papers Te.ul it the last conference, however. The one ;kat I consider the most important was on ‘Simplified Spelling’, read by Profes sor George A. Danton, of Reed College, before a joint meeting of the Foreign [.language and English confeernee. “Simplified spelling will come into the schools as surely as women’s suffrage (^11 become nation-wide. It is only a question of time with both. I am thor bughly in sympathy with its use—in mod eration. “The first twelve words to be adopt ed by the National Educational asso ciation, about 15 years ago, are already being used in the English department of the University. These include altho, tbo, thru, thorofare, thqro, thoroly, catalog, and decalog. 'a he adoption here will go much further, but the change will be gradual. There has |been a great change in public attitude .toward the question since 1905. At that| date, when I was a student at Columbia university, I re member that the press and the profes sors in that part of the country merely laughed at the ide^ of adopting such a foolish system. Now they are consider ing it seriously.” COMPOSER OF SLOGAN IS GRADUATE OF ’99 Mrs. Bertha Slater Smith, who recently won n $25 cash prise for composing the best rose festival slogan, was graduated from the University of Oregon in 1899 and was instructor in English at the Uni versity for several years during the pro fessorship of Luella Clay Carson Mrs. Slater is tin* aunt of May Neill who is now attending University, and of James Neill, ’10. and Will Neill, ’12. She is the daughter of James H. Slater, pion eer U. S. Senntos. from Oregon, and the sister of Wood sou T. Slater, 'S3, former member of supreme court of Oregon and alumui president from 1911-13. James D. Slater another brother, is an attorney and mayor of La Grande. Mrs. Smith's slogan which was chosen from 12.1XX) reads : 1 For you a rise In Portland grows.” BEN DORRIS EMPLOYED IN ST. HELENS PLANT Ben F. Dorris, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Dorris, left Eugene January 18 to accept a position with the St. Hel ens Shipbuilding company of St. Helens, Oregon. Mr. Dorris had been employed for two and a half years in the engineering de partment of the Willamette Pacific com pany, building the railroad from Eugene to Marshfield. During two years of this time Mr. Dorris attended the University graduating in 1914. In his senior year he was manager of the Oregana and the fol lowing year was president of the senior class. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He was recommended for this position by J. J. Delaney, chief clerk in the offices of the Willamette Pacific. 3 OF FACULTY TO ATTEND , PUBLIC SAFETY MEETING The University will be represented at the public safety meeting in Portland, Friday, January 28, by Earl Kilpatrick, of the school of eextension ani Prof essor C. V. Dyment and Dr. J. H. Gilbert. During the reorganization of the Port land chamber of commerce a committee on public safety was appointed. RepTesen tatives of various organizations and in stitutions will meet with this committee next Friday in a safety forum to discuss ways and means of accident prevention. Accidents Due to Carelessness Three fourths of the accidents in Ore gon industry are due to carlessness or ignorance, according to Mr. Kilpatrick. The accident commission provides a compensation for men injured in indus try but it would be more economical to the state to spend money educating the people in accident prevention. The pub lic safety meeting will take steps in this direction. Will Educate People The public safety committee will edu cate both those people who are working !in dangerous places and may be injur ed, and those who may injure other peo ple through caTlessness. In factories and mills a campaign will be waged against improper clothing, such as loose coats which could be easily caught in machin ery. Warning posters will be placed in factories and instruction will be given all new employees concerning the dangers of the machinery. Public safety education will be carried on in the schools and by means of exhibits. The University of Oregon will co-op erate in this work through promoting careful study of conditions and by fur nishing to different organizations lantern slides showing how accidents occur and how they may be prevented. Eugene theatre* Thursday, January 27th E* WALKER WHITESIDE I ••>*.:!_.Hi..*. THETYPHOON The most timely play of the century. seats on Sale Wed. io a. m. 'Pvmpoq* ecaa g*aa c-i jra Show Starts 8 :.*> Pnces ‘ 50^’ 00’ 50 J. W. 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