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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1916)
OREGON EMERALD Published each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the college year, by the Associated Students of the University of Oregon. Entered at the postoffice at Eugene as .second class matter. Subscription rates, per year, $1.00. Single copies, 5c. EDITORIAL STAFF. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF...HA HOLD HAMSTREET Managing Editor .Edward F. Harwood City Editor..?.He Witt Gilbert Associate City Editor.Adrienne Epplng BUSINESS STAFF. BUSINESS MANAGER .GEORGE T. COLTON Assistant Manager .Burle IJran.hull Assistants.Louise Allen, .lennettc Calkins, John McMurray, Lay Carlisle Circulation Manager .Kenneth Farley, Phone TIKI Phone Editor 565 .Phone Manager 4S1 A VICIOUS MEASURE. To set the bounds of college journal ism would be to draw a line ns vague ns the contour of mountains during In dian summer. Yet the seeming pre cedent of limiting the sphere of a col lege paper's editorial activities to the campus is too definite to rest easy with us. Not that we chafe under the desire to spread ourselves in the task of super ficially touching upon everything, but the very fact that there is so much poli tical unrest this year and that there is such a large number of the students who are voters—is a valid excuse why we should express an opin ion upon those non-partisan questions which will be settled one way or another with the aid of the students’ vote. It is with perfect candor therefore that the Emerald takes up a state initiative measure this issue and expresses itself with the /cal of sincerity. There was initiated last spying a measure to be voted upon at the state election in November called the brewers amendment. The movement has the undivided interest of Col. C. E. N. Wood, of Portland, and on the letterheads he sends out are names of some of the state’s prominent business men as com posing a committee supporting the pro posed amendment. The Colonel makes a very touching appeal in his arguments for the measure. As he states the appeal the measure is designed to prevent a vast flow of money from the state for liquor. It would reinstate the brewery and let the consumer buy a home product. This, in the argument of the Colonel, would save the state its independence and still retain the prohibition voted two years ngo so overwhelmingly. This is all very well could we take the word of Col. Wood at face value. But his record in the past immediately incites doubt as to his sincerity in the present. Investigation shows the measure is most cussedly vici ous in its diabolical cunning. In enact ment not only would the measure re open the breweries but would re-estab lish the saloons in the guise of agents of the breweries. And it would go even farther. That local option territory that was dry for years before state prohi bition came about would again be wet. Vicious V Why it is worse than a boss bite or a kick of a mule. The question of prohibition was sup posedly settled in the vote of two years ngo. At that time as today the students represent a part of the voting popula tion. Students believe in good govern ment; that is majority rule government. And swatting a measure that is a subter fuge for a minority rule government is a swat for freedom. VOLUNTEERING DATES. With the lu'titiiiu of till' student coun cil for student body dunces in the hands of the faculty committee the tension of the situation has been somewhat relieved. But it is upon the recommendation of this committee that the faculty most likely will vote for or against the peti tion. Actuated by unselfish motives the stu dent council drafted the petition. And actuated by a desire to screw down on class room work the faculty are liable not to grant the petition. It is the feel ing that granting dances would lessen class room efficiency that makes the faculty committee hesitate to recom mend the granting of the reipiest. There is a solution for this niixup. A giuuce over the granting of dates by the social affairs committee last year shows that not all the houses took ad vantage of ail their privileges. That same condition will exist this year. In other words there will be dates go to waste. Why not utilise tlieiu'.J What house will volunteer one of its dates to the student council ns a date for a student body dance? TO READ ‘THE MELTING POT’ Charlotte Banfield Will Give Dramatic Interpretation of Fact Play. Charlotte Banfield, a senior, will give a Dramatic Interpretation of, “The Melting Pot” by Zangwill, on Saturday evening at eight o’clock in Villard hall. Zangwill’s four act play, which voices the plea of a young Hussian-Jew violin ist who finds inspiration for his music in his love for America, has been ar ranged by Mss Banfield into a reading which occupies about an hour and a quar ter. Miss Banfield was for three years a teacher in the Gillespie School of Ex pression in Portland. She has given her interpretation of “The Melting Pot” under the auspices of the woman’s club in Forest Grove, for the W. C. T. U. in Portland and at private social gatherings in the same city. The woman’s league sponsors her appearance Saturday evening and the ten cent admission will be applied to the Wo man's building fund. An attractive musical program also is promised by the committee in charge. 528 STUDENTS ENROLLED Number of Correspondence Studonts Is Steadily Increasing. 528 students registered in the Uni versity correspondence department this year, according to Miss Mozelle Hair, secretary if the department. The num ber of courses registrations during Sep tember was <17, with 4 withdrawals and 4 old students renewing registrations. 'I’he courses sending in the most les sons during the month of September were: education, 11!'; college English, 41; entrance English, .‘12; college literature, .'{(); and botany, 27. During the month 410 lessons were received. Miss Hair says that 20 students com pleted 24 extension courses during the month. The number of college hours earned was 02, and tl^' number of en trance units made was one and a half. The grades of those earning college hours were as follows: .”.4 hours, S; 20 hours, M; and S hours. P. One unit at S, and one-half unit with the grade of M are the figures for those earning en trance credits. The. work of the correspondence de partment is steadily increasing, said Miss Hair. SPECIAL COMMITTEE. The committee on student social af fairs, appointed especially to consider the petition of the student council for stu dent body dances, will be Professor Dy ment, chairman; Dean Straub, Miss Fox, Prof. Timelier, and Mrs. Parsons. Daiso Beckett Middleton, dramatic soprano and assistant voice instructor in tin' university school of music, has been elected president of the Ejygene Philhar monic society. The society plans to pre sent “The Chimes of Normandy” some time before December 1. which will be directed by Professor Ualph II. Lyman. It is far better to COOK WITH GAS Than to gas with the Cook Phone 28 I OREGON POWER CO I Students Will Meet With Pro fessors During Regular Assembly Hour. Heads of Departments to Out line Future Plans and Discuss Problems. Have you seen your major professor since the first of this semester? If not you will have an opportunity tomorrow morning at the regular assembly hour to meet with him and hear his plans for the work of the department. This is an innovation in the University and is intended to bring the students with common interests into closer contact with their fellow students as well as the head of their department. In most cases the meetings will be held in the class lecture room of the professor. In a few eases, because of the number of majors in the department, another meeting place had to be secured. Practically all of the professors have planned to lead a discussion of the problems of their respective depart ments and in at least one case an effort is being made to secure outside speak ers. The school of commerce probably leads in enrollment with 1155 majors. There will meet with Ur. Morton in the Archi tecture building. “I promise my majors something interesting,” said Dean Mor ton. “15ut to tell my plans now would spoil it all.” Education majors will meet in Dr. H. G. Sheldon’s room in the library, where Prof. Fred Ayer will tell them something of the demand for teachers, the problems of teaching and the oppor tunities for teachers of education. Prof. Ayer will probably specialize, he says, on high school teaching. There are about 45 majors in this department. The tentative plans for a new move ment in the economics department will be outlined by Prof. F. G. Young to his major students in his room on the second floor of the library. This pro posed work of the majors will consist of a listing of the private and public enter prises throughout the state which use i civil service employees, to the end that students who have majored in the de partment bf economies will be given a preference over those students who have had only a general cultural education or a specialized vocational training. The list will include the state civil service employees as well as those of the coun ties and cities. Pre-medics meet in the regular lec ture room of Deady hall. Dr. Bovard is | trying to gat. a local physician to speak I to the 45 or 40 majors ii his depart ! nient. Dr. Bates will meet the majors in the i department of rhetoric in Guild hall. The [ eight or ten students who major in Greek | language and literature will also meet | in Johnson hall with Dr. John Straub. The exhibit room in the architec tural building will be used for the meet ing of the architecture majors. Dean E. F. Lawrence will speak at the con ference. l’rof. II. G. llowe has something over a hundred majors in English literature and those will meet in his lecture room in Yillard. . Dean Eric Allen will meet journalism students in the lecture room in the Ex tension building. Savoy Theatre Wed. and Thurs. ONLY “Sporting Blood” Featuring Dorothy Bernard and Glen White Friday Only Florence Turner DR. MERRITT TO LECTURE Is Doing Community Work of Extension Department in State. Dr. Fred D. Merritt, who is doing the community work of the extension de partment throughout the state, has two lecture dates upon his schedule. Fri day, October 20, he will be in Wendling and Friday, October 27, will speak at Lake Creek. The purpose of community lectures is to develop with the communities of the state their special interests. Dr. Mer rit will study each community and its needs and will aid their institutions in their own line of development. Dr. Merritt has had several years of experience in educational work. Before coming to Eugene he was school superin tendent in Iowa City and at another time was superintendent of the schools of the county. I)r. Merritt is a graduate of Iowa State University. He took his doctor’s dergee at that institution. DUTTON STILL OUT OF GAME Injured 0. A. C. Halfback Unable to Re turn to Lineup This Year. Lawrence Dutton, the O. A. C. half back, who had leg fractured in the O. A. C.-Multnomah game two weeks ago, has had a strenuous time since the accident. Three times his leg was reset and each time the X-ray protograph showed the bone slightly out of place. Finally Dr. Aiken a bone specialist from Portland, was sent for and he advised an opera tion. It was found during the operation that a muscle had slipped in between the injured parts and interfered with the setting of the bones. Dr. Aiken sewed up the muscle and now Dutton in on the road to recovery. It will be some weeks before he can get around again and it is certain he will be unable to play this season. Button’s loss is a big blow to Aggie hopes as he \yas one of the few letter men on Pipal’s aggregation. He was one of the most consistent gainers for the Orange and Black last year. i i Modart Corsets “A Fine Form is Better Than a Fine Face” —Ralph Waldo Emerson j After all, the acme of beauty is the expression, the life, the freedom, of a beautiful figure. Ease and comfort of motion —unconsciousness of any res traint—permit this fredom, this joy and zest which gives true ex pression to beauty. It is along these lines—tak-j ing health and joy in life as a j basis—that Modart Corsets Are designed—and every wear er stands as fine proof of its success. 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The play is strong, interesting and convincing Wednesday and Thursday October 18 and 19 Admission: Nights, 15^ and 25<*; Matinee 10^ and 15^ Half Block West of Campus on 13th Street The official Student Body Store We Can Fill All Student Needs Always at Your Service \