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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1917)
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. Be. EDITORIAL, STAFF. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. Assistant Editor and City Editor . Associate Editor . Associate Editor... Assistant City Editor . HAROLD IIAM STREET .Adrienne Epplng .Milton Arthur Stoddard ....John DeWltt Gilbert .Earl VV. Murphy BUSINESS STAFF. BUSINESS MANAGER...BUIILE D. BRAMHALL Assistant Manager.Louise Alien Assistants.Lhy Carlisle, Jennnette Calkins, Joe Denn, Gertrude Cowgill Circulation Manager...Paul Reaney Phone, Editor, S65 Phone, Manager, 841 Departments Sports Editor....James S. Sheehy Assistants .William Hazeltlne, Gladys Wilkins Student Activities .Dorothy Parsons Women s Sports... ........Helen Hair Forensics ...Rosalind Bates Exchanges .Helen Brenton General Assignments.John Dundore, Elsie Fitzmaurice, Richard Avison, Ross Daleglelsch, Martha Tinker, Pearl Craine, Erma Zimmer man, Dorothy Duniway, Lucile Saunders, Bert Woods, Arvo Simola, Florida Hill, Adelaide Like, Beatrice Thurston, Lyle McCroskey, Tracy Byers, Paul Reaney, Douglas Mullarky, Bill Morrison, Jacob Jacobson, Robert Case, Mellle Parker, Neil Warwick, Anne Dawson, Lynn Me Cready and Miriam Page. QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICE To you students desiring student body offices and aspiring to handle the reigns of government, be pertinent with your selves. Sit down in front of a good mir ror—one that will tell the truth—look yourself squarely in the eye and see if you can answer these questions satis factorily. What is your scholarship record? To those people who have attempted to carry a full college course and were un able to complete the work either to the satisfaction of themselves or their pro fessors we would say those people should squelch their ambitious aspirations at once. The man or woman who cannot carry classroom responsibility is not fit to shoulder practical student body res ponsibilities. What have you done for the student body or the University to deserve to hold a responsible office? The students who shuffle through their freshman and sophomore years without participating in any student body activity or without associating themselves in any way witli the working squads are drones. They are worse than drones—they are parnsite|. No junior or senior who has been a “do-nothing” in his freshman and A Square Meal for A Quarter Pullman Lunch Open All Night sophomore years has a right to any vote save his own. How democratic are you? Oregon democracy demands that its leaders shall be those who are so im bued with the “Oregon Spirit” that they will maintain it unimpaired through their incumbency. Are you broad-minded or are. you ruled by prejudice? IIow well do you know your fellow students or do you limit your friendship to a chosen few? Are you a carping critic or are your ideas and plans, your thoughts and ac tions constructive? How well are you acquainted with the requirements of the office you are af ter? Do you think you are the person for the" place or are you after a little, glory and think you can get something for nc: thing? Have you a reprehensible ulterior mo tive in seeking the office, or do you de sire to do real service for the student t ody ? Changing the drill hour was not a pet plan of the Emerald’s. The Emerald gave reasons tor a suggested change last issue on the basis that a majority of the men drilling wanted a change. But if the reasons listed are not so strong as the r easons for not changing then we should say, as did we Thursday, the drill hour should not be changed. The Emer ald's columns are open to any expres sion for or against a change. t ~ ... — -i Why uot put the freshmen to work planting spuds? Baseball has its fatalities. A co-ed sprained her ankle. If the cost of living mounts any high er what sny you to getting an aeroplane? The spring rop of pins seems to be much smaller. Must be the high cost of living is saving sole leather. The senior says the commencement is coining. But of what? Costs Little More to go East VIA CALIFORNIA Before selecting the route for your next trip East consider these three important things: SERVICE Steel cars, through standard or tourist sleeping cars, unexcelled dining cars. SAFETY Rock ballast, automatic block signals, steel rails, consistant speed. SCENERY Known throughout the country as “The Road of a Thousand Wonders.” LIBERAL STOP-OVERS Our Agents are well Informed. Ask them regarding train schedules, or write JOHN M. SCOTT, General Passenger Agent Portland SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES “Portland Rose Festival, June 13, 14. 15.” BOOST OU CROP Cranberry Growers Discover Means of Keeping Fruit. Competition With Eastern Mar kets Now Possible; Pro duct Good. The cranberry industry in Oregon has recently received a large boost by the solving of the problem of keeping the marsh fruit over long periods of time. .Such is the content of a letter from William E. Schimpff of Astoria, a lead ing Clatsop county grower, to Allan C. Hopkins of the University School of Commerce. In substantiation of this claim Mr. Schimpff a few days ago sent Mr. Ilopkins a box of cranberries he had grown at Astoria. The berries, although picked several months ago, were solid and in prime condition on reaching Eu gene. Mr. Schimpff also enclosed a pa per of cranberries which had wintered on the marsh where they grew. Al though not picked until April, they man aged to escape without the slightest damage from the frosts of the entire winter. Clatsop county holds first place in cranberry production in the state of Ore gon. More than 100 acres have been set out and improved, which last year yield ed some 20,000 boxes. Predictions are for an even far better crop next year as the bulk of this acreage has not yet come into bearing, for only a small per centage of the vines are yet four years of age. The possibility of the Oregon berry competing with the eastern berry prin cipally of Cape Cod, has now become a certainty and Mr. Schimpff, who is a member of the legislature, is eager to im*. press on prospective growers and pros pective buyers the fact that the Oregon berry compares most favorably, not only in size and flavor but in keeping quality, with the best product of the east. The cranberry growers of Clatsop county lately have organized an associa tion with J. S. Dellinger president and W. E. Schimpff secretary. This associa tion, to which belong virtually all the cranberry producers of Clatsop county, lias associated itself with the two associ ations in Pacific county, Wash., just across the Columbia river, and the three have formed an exchange which will handle the marketing of the crop of their section. The bulk of the cranberry acre age in this whole Columbia river district is planted in late varieties, which keep much better than the early. The second year’s crop picked from the late vines was found to keep much better than did' the crop of the first year. CIVIL SERVICE EXAM SET Secretary Onthank to Establish Lists of Eligibles; Tests on May 16-17. An announcement by the civil service commission of an examination May 10 and 17 has lately been received by sec retary Onthank to establish lists of elig ibles for the position of assistant class ifier and junior classifier in the United States Geological Survey. A considerable number of appointments will probably be made from these lists to positions in volved in the classification of public lands under the stock-raising homestead law and similar statutes . It is be lieved that many graduates of agricul tural, engineering, ad forestry colleges will be well qualified for this work and that the work will e attractive to them. Requests for application blanks should | be addressed to the Commission at Wash ington. Competitors will le examined in the following subjects: surveying, elementary ! land classification, mathematics, thesis and training and experience. Applicants must have reached their twentieth but not their thirty-fifth birth day on the date of the examination. KODAKS THERE’S A SEASON SPRING! When Eleci'eation and Kodaking Ho Hand in Hand Let Our Experts Do Your Developing and Print ing after Your Day of Recreation LINN’S The Kodak Service Station 709 WILLAMETTE STREET Prompt Service Phone 217 This advertisement was written by a member of the University Advertising Class. DUNN’S Bakery PIES CAKES 'ROLLS CREAM PUFFS BREAD COOKIES Barber Shop Is the place that all the Col lege men go for first class work. G. W. Blair, Prop. NOTICE TO OFFICER’S RESERVE MEN. April 27, 1917. Telegram from the Commanding General Western Department, San Francisco, Calfiornia. To Captain Willis Shippam, C. A. C., Exam ining Board, Eugene. Distraction, and information for camp of in struction to be held in Presidio, San Francisco, to start Mag 8th. Enrollments for Presidio Training Camp are being effected under Section 54, National Defense Act. Question of suitable pay for all who enlist under Section 54 is before Congress. Qualified candidates for whom certificates of suitability have been forwarded these Headquarters should -await instruction Headquarters Western Department prior to leaving their homes. All who qualified before duly con stituted examining boards prior to suspension examinations recently ordered by the War Department should similarly remain at their homes and await further instructions from these Headquarters or War Department. All concerned are notified that failure to follow this procedure will result in serious inconvenience to individuals and camp officials. Quit running on flat tires. Wear Neolin soles and Rubber Heels. Jlrrij, tiie Shoe Doctor Opposite Rex W. A. KUYKENDALL The Rexall Store 370 Willamette St. Eugene, Oregon —The kind that pleases and looks nifty. —The Guard Way will „ please 3^011 and make you _ _ a regular customer. —Tickets, Inv i t a t i 0 n s, dIlC0 Prognosis Cards, etc., are a special __ ty with us. Yours for Good Printing The Guard Job Dept.