f EMERALD 1917. NO. 81. M FIFTY-THREE HAVE ENLISTED FROM “U Carmen Swanson Only Co-ed to Enter Service; Naval Re serve Draws Most. Eight Students Go to Presidio for Officers’ Reserve Training. h rk * Fifty-two men students and one co-ed enlisted, constitute the toll so far en acted from the University of Oregon student body by the greatest of wars. The branches of service selected by vol unteers are varied. Some have left school for the purpose of farming and thus in tend to do their bit in bringing about a complete victory, while others craving more excitement have enlisted in divis ions in which they hope to see active service. The students already gone have enter ed all ranks of military service mainly in the Officers’ Reserve Corps, Naval Reserve Corps, Aviation, United States Army Band, Navy, and Militia. Miss Carmen Swanson has been the first of the University's co-eds to leave for service. Miss Swanson is now at Bremerton, Wash., in the Naval Reserve. The Naval Reserve Corps is the divis ion perhaps which has taken the largest number of students. These students are now stationed at Bremerton, Wash., re ceiving their preliminary training. Fif teen men and one woman here represent the University. The following list is as accurate as is obtainable at present: Miss Carmen Swanson, Max Cain, Ray Dunn, Herman Edwards, Frank Farrell, Russel Fox, Harry (Skinny) Hargreaves, Lyle Harpole, Norris McKay, Merton Tyrrell, Ivor Ross, Cleveland Simkins, Roy Stickles, Edward Ward. Richard Wilcox, Lee Baruh and E. T. Burch. Two others at Bremerton but not in the Naval Reserve are J. E. McGuire and C. M. Marshall, who are doing work as draftsmen. These two men, students of the school of architecture, are engaged in ship building departments. Another division which has taken a generous supply of juniors and seniors is the Officers Reserve Corps at San Fran cisco. Eight students have so far gone to the Presidio. Those who have lately left are: Roland Geary, Bart Spellman, John Parsons, Glen Dudley, M. V. Mel son, Erie Lane, Jack Elliott and Ray Couch. Other divisions altho not taking quite so many in groups have all claimed a few. The Medical Corps at Vancouver has the names of those present as; Kent Wilson, Ralph Hurn, and Dean Sea brook while the Army Band also has two students stationed there, Leo Potter and Harold Simpson. Lloyd Tegart is at present in San Francisco strutting about in a white hat, middy and breeches of the navy. Nor man Byrne and V. G. Delap are enlisted as marines, Frank Beach previously a senior is now in the rank of naval pay master at Bremerton. Aviators, some in San Diego and some in Florida are Ernest Bills, Bill Black aby and Joe Skelton. Frank Miller, a last semester frosh is at present near La Grande with company M. of the Salem Militia. C. C. Clark and Frederick Kingsbury are hoping soon to see action in the navy. Others who are at present seeing army life in some division or other but where it is not ex actly known are, Avon Babb, Victor Bradeson, Russell Hall, Earl Leslie, Merton Tyrrell, Harry Miller, Aldis Webb and Walter White. Y. W. C. A. TO INVADE PARK Details of Seabeck Conference Will Be Discussed at Picnic Wednesday. All the girls of the University are in vited to appear at the Y AY. C. A. Bunga low AA’ednesday at four-thirty, armed with a couple of sandwiches, cup, spoon, and five cents. The party will then pro ceed to Hendrick’s park where the even ing will—be spent in—earing:—making speeches concerning Seabeck. and sieg ing. Helen AYells will tell the details of the trip to Seabeck, of the place itself, and of the expense. Louise Allen will talk on the college girls of Seabeck, Jeanette Kletzing will speak on stunts and sports, Dorothy AA’heeler on the program for the conference and Miss Tirza TMasdale on the purpose and plan of the confer ence. CLASS HAS PERFECT RECORD Portland Students in Banking and In vestment Win 100 per Cent Score. P. W. Morton, dean of the school of commerce! recently re-eived a report from the class in banking and investment given to the Portland chapter of the American Institute of Banking, to the effect that this class has had a record for the year of 100 per cent. The aver age weekly attendance at the Portland class during the session from September' to April 24. was 6S. At the time of the final examinations, April 27, 6S or the total number of students, took the exam inations voluntarily. "We are quite proud of that record,” said Dean Morton. PROPUEWlB' TO PUY FOLK SONGS Professor Perfect Collects Old Swedish Music From Na tive Longshoremen. Will Make First Appearance at Band Concert to Be Held May 18. Every country has its songs that are clear to the hearts of childhood but that never get published and never are heard except on the playground and in the nursery. Everybody knows the sensa tion of drifting back to the days of youth when fuint snatches of such songs as “London Bridge is Falling Down” and “Farmer in the Dell” are heard in thin childish voices. What would be the de light of every one living in a foreign language if some band would suddenly start to play these old tunes? This is the sensation due all natives of Sweden that attend the concert given by the University band for the benefit of the Women’s buildiug May IS for Albert Perfect, director of the band, has col lected and arranged a large number of old Swedish folk songs. Some of these songs are familiar to the dancing classes as folk dances but most of them have never been published even in Sweden. The history of this se lection is interesting. When Mr. Perfect first came to America he listened in vain for his native music and, not hearing it, he set about to produce some. He was at this me living in Chicago, which boasts a large Swedish population, and he spent much of his time at the wharves where he mixed with the longshoremen and lis tened to their singing. These bits of songs he noted down and took home with him. Little by little he pieced together a collection which is the only one of its kind in existence. The orginal selection when completed required twenty minutes to play. Mr. Perfect “tried it out” before an audience of 7,000 people and was forced to repeat it four times before the crowd was sat isfied. The piece is still in manuscript form but Mr. Perfect expects to have it published in the near future. LAST BOARD MEETING HELD Y. W. Advisory Committee Elects Offi cers at Bungalow Monday. The advisory committee of the Y. W. C. A. held its last meeting of the year at the Bungalow Monday afternoon with Mrs. Karl Onthank presiding in the place of Mrs. A. E. Caswell who is away. The twelve members of the advisory committee are each made responsible for a committee of the association and they also give aid financially to the Y. \V. C. A. The newly elected officers of the advis j cry committee are Mrs. A. E. Coswell, president. Mrs. .T. M. Miller, treasurer, and Mrs. It. T. Burnett, secretary. SIDEWALK CONTRACT LET Cement Way to Be Constructed From -Gymnasium to Education Building. Papers were signed today giving the contract for the new cement walk to ex tend from the men’s gymnasium to the education building to Peter A. Nelson. Mr. Nelson offered the lowest bid for the job. The work will be done for 80 cents per square yard, and the entire walk will cost about $750. The work will start as soon as the weather per wio. History Shows That Oregon Was First To Grant Enlisted Men Full Credit. One afternoon 19 years ago. a score of men and women responded to a call from the office of the president of the Uni versity of Oregon and met together in solemn conclave in Villard Hall. The men and women were the members of the faculty of the University, the presi dent was Dr. C. H. Chapman, and the meeting was called to discuss the situ ation caused by the entry of the United States into war with Spain. Already about lo men had answered the summons of the Oregon National Guard as volunteers. The majority of these were seniors and the question of credit arose. For a few moments the discussion went on and then Dr. John Straub rose and put a proposition to the faculty.' ‘‘No, I can't remember what I said”, the Dean said last night, when asked what he told the faculty. “I only know that I told them that within a day or so more men would be going away. That these men were seniors, largely, and that it would be a mighty fine thing if the faculty would give them it’s assurance that in June, whether the students had returned or not, their diplomas would be ready for them. ‘‘The motion was passed without a dissenting vote and the University had the honor of being the first educational institution in the United States to grant full credit to enlisted men. “I Remember that we sent a telegram to the Portland Oregonian telling them of our action and the news was spread i throughout the country. Within a few days the majority of the schools in the FIELD DAY TRAINING ON Women Prepare for Competition in Events Scheduled May 26. Women training for field day, May, 26, are now permitted to join the class in high school coaching held by Bill Hayward three times a week. This was students in physical training but the events proving valuable to all desiring to enter the meet, a number of other girls have entered. Shot put, sprints, and re lay races have been tried out so far. The class will later on be taken out on the athletic field to study the running done by the men. There are now between 20 and 25 wo , men in the class and more are coming in. “The girls are showing up well consid ering the small amount of training they have had,” said Trainer Bill. “They compare very favorably with the men, especially in their knawledge of theory and form.” On account of the courses being in only a few weeks the attendance has not been large. Up to this time it was handled entirely by the department of physical education for women. NINETEEN GO BACK TO FARM -1 Petitions Come in to Registrar’s Office Daily for Agricultural Work. Nineteen petitions for withdrawal from the University of Oregon to engage iu farm work have been granted so far by the faculty committee on petitions of which Eric W. Allen, of the school of journalism, is head. Aside from these petitions granted there are pending about 25 more requests for withdrawal on the same grounds, which will be acted upon at an early date. The students whose petitions have been granted are: Walter B. Yergen. Keith Leslie, Lucian P. Arant. I Hugh Barnhart, J. F. Howell, George Napper, Clarence Lombard, Harold S. Jenkins, Wilford Jenkins, Ralph Walters, Tyrell Carner, Roy Brown, D. S. Dal gleish. Luther Jensen, Thurston Lara way, C. E. Westenhaver, Harvey Mad den, George Duke and Don Davis. PRESCOTT TO MAKE TRIP Will Speak to School Children *1 PbiiUIb ton and Fossil. R. W. Prescott, professor of public speaking will make a trip this week to Eastern Oregon, where he will make ad dresses to school children. He will talk at Pendleton May 18 snd at Fossil May 10 on the subject “Schools ond the Nation-’. The topic will deal with what the school can do toward preparing the student for service to the country in war. notion had granted the same priviledge, but. Oregon had set the pace.” In all the^ were 125 men from the stu dent body who enlisted in the Spanish American wad, said Dean Straub. “But it must be remembered that the entire student body at that time numbered only 350 of 400 at the most. This corresponds to an enlistment of about So or over with the present enrollment.” Affairs at the University went on very much as usual after the first shock of the proclamation had subsided. There was no drilling on the campus, the mar tial band music which is heard every afternoon at the present was not in evi dence and there was little of the hys teria which has been shown upon sev eral occasions in recent months, ac cording to the Dean. “Then too, the fact that the United States jumped into that more or less suddenly as compared with the present war, tended to make the sensation pos sibly more vivid, yet less lasting. For over two years the talk of war and the evidences of it have been dinned into us on account of the European war. There was, of course none of that then.” The names of many of those who left the University to serve their country are familiar to those of this generation only as memories, but some of them are men of prominence in the state and country no.w Among those who went to the Philippines, to Cuba, or only to San Francisco, were A. L. Gilliland. “Jack” Hawthorne, Applegate, Dr. Condon Mc Cornack, Herbert Thompson, Lee Travis and many others. JOHNNY AND BRICK MARINES Members of Football Team Leave for Mare Island. The ranks of the companies drilling on the University campus decreases al most dally through small groups of men enlisting in some department of the army service. Yesterday afternoon Johnny Beckett and Clifford Mitchell enlisted in the marines. * Those students enlisting or returning home to engage in farm work leave under the conditions stipulated in the re port of the military committee of the fac ulty which met yesterday morning. In substance, the decision is that three fourths credit for semester work be given. Departments are empowered to grant full credit upon a basis of unusual ex cellence of work. A student has option of accepting incompletes instead of credit as above, or of returning and tak ing final exams for full credit. Petitions were granted in accordance to the new ruling yesterday to Ralph Watters, Roy F. Brown, I). S. Dalgeish, James IIowcll, Tyrell Carner, and Curtis Marshall and Dick Nelson, who go as ship builders. PLAN SERIES OF RECITALS School of Music Majors to A pear May 2 to May 30. A series of musical recitals are to be given under the direction of the Uni versity school of music from May ill to 30 every evening in Guild hull at 7:30. The object of these recitals is to show th^ different phases of work to be studied 'in the school of music, and what has been accomplished this year, according to Dean It. II. Lyman. Many of those taking part are promi nent students on the University campus among whom are: Anna Calvert, Itry inond Burns, Ada Mathews, Hazel Rad baugh, Belle Messick, Mable Cochran, Brownell Frazier, and Marian Neil of the piano department; Harold Humbert, Curtis Peterson, Gladys Van Nuys, Charlotte Banfield, William Vawter and Irene Strowbridge of the vocal depart ment: Genevieve Rjwley, Alice Vender Sluis, Robert Scearce, violin, and French Moore, flute. There will also be a re citnl to'demongrrHto pulilio k'Iiik.I nmtli ods of singing, a course which is offer ed in the music department. CHOOSE SECRETARY IN FALL The Y. M. C. A. has not yet appointed a successor to J. D. Foster, former sec retary of the association, who has joined the officers reserve corp. The plan is to let the cabinet run it until next fall, when a new secretary will be appointed. CO-OP RECEIVES OREGANAS Books Arrive in Installments Due to Engraver's Delay. Cheer up! If you have not received your Oregana yet you will get one to morrow. Chuck Dundore, manager, promises that everyone of the 530 subscriptions will be filled by tomorrow. One hund red copies are being turned out every day. Yesterday 50 copies were on hand at the co-op store for distribution among non-fraternity people and last Saturday thtre were five copies left at each fra ternity house. Six hundred and fifty copies will bo printed. 100 of which will be bought by the regents of the University and sent around to the different high schools of the state for advertising purposes. The cause of the delay in delivering the annuals happened several weeks back when cuts were not received in time and although the staff worked overtime, the books could not be completed by last Saturday. TOMINKK OFFERS SEMES TO U. S. So-Called Prosperity Intoxicat ing the Nation and Making People Lazy, He Thinks. Hopes That This Country Will Wake Up and Though An Alien Wants to Do Share. .Toi> Tominnga, graduate of the school of architecture here, who is now employed by McKern, Mend and White, archi tects of New York City, is making good there and enjoys his \>:rk very much, so much so that when five o'clock comes he is not ready to quit and sometimes works on until ten o’clock at night. That lie. takes an active interest in the life of the nation is shown hy a letter received by one of the students here in which he says: “Speaking about the war, there are. lots of excitements in New York City too. I think it was in last week, there were over 10,000 children in parade of ‘Wake Up America.’ When 1 witnessed that stirring parade, my thought went once more back to my young days when Japan was in conflict with Russia. 1 couldn't help but to have a tear in my eyS/. Down in my heart I feel this is a serious time for America, not because we are at war against Germany or any other nation. Imagine if America is in war with Japan and I am an enemy alien in this country and viewing the incidents here and there on this Atlantic coast, m.v pray ers shall be for America rather than for my fair country. Recause I can sec the needs of this country ns much as any body else. People in this country in ma jority are more or less intoxicated in so-called prosperity. Babylonia once built a great city of gold and precious treasure hut 1ms now become a relic of past history. Curse is a prosperity, to my estimate, to American people which is making them to be lazy people. “America must wake up! She is waking up, may God bless her that she might come to herself in time! “I received a letter from American Institute of Architects at Washington, 1). C. asking me if I would volunteer my service when President v\ ill ask for it. Without hesitate I returned my accep tance. I am willing to do my share even my service is more or less limited be cause I am still alien to this country. “1 am very glad Oregon boys are still holding her old Oregon Spirit which made her famous in football as well as in track. I am proud of them from faculty to youngest member of freshmen. So here's to the U. of O. May she ever grow, pros per and flourish, truth ever nourish!” CLASSSS TO BE MAINTAINED Commonwealth Conference Will Not In terfere With University Schedule. Tim Ninth Annual Commonwealth conference and will not be able to meet be held at Eugene Thudsday evening, and nl! day on Friday and Saturday of this w«-elc. This will not be the occasion of a general holiday for University classes, says Karl Onthank, secretary to the president. A few of the economics de partment classes will be excused. Pro fessor F. (i. Young, is director of the conference and will not be ablt to meet any of his Friday classes. NOTED SPEAKER TO ATTEOIDJONFERENCE Social and Economic Experts Will Read Papers at Commonwealth. SAN FRANCISCO CITY PLANNER ON PROGRAM Charles H. Cheney Will Talk Friday on “Community Planning.” .] “A recruiting conference for vital con structive campaigns” is Professor Young’s designation fif the ninth annual commonwealth conference to be held at 'the University of Oregon May 17, 18 and I'd. Professor Young, who is the director of the conference, lias complet ed the arrangement of the program for the three days’ session. Papers will be read and discussed carried on by men of wide prominence in social and economic fields. Prominent among the speakers will be Charles H. Cheney of San Francisco, secretary of the California City Plnuuiug conference, who will read a paper on “The Meaning, Development and Organization of City and Community Plnnning in California” at the Friday afternoon session. The program for the various sessions follows: Thursday Evening ; General topic: Labor Mobilization. Paper, "yhe Problem During and Af ter the War” by Frank S. Myers, post master, Portland. Discussion led by It. p. 1 nd. Portland inspector in U. S, Immigration Se) vice. Paper, "The Activities of the Portland Public Employment Bureau,” by Nelsoa F. Johnson, director. Paper, “The Mans of the Oregon State Labor Bureau”, by O. 1’. Hoff, commis sioner and factory inspector. Friday Morning General topic: The Offender and the Defective—the state policy thait will lessen the number of those and the social burden they involve. Papers will be read ns follows: “The Individual Treatment of the De linquent and the Readjustment of our Law and Administration Which This Will Require” by George A. Thacher, super intendent of rescue work, Portland. "Oregon’s »Need of nn Up-to-date Pen itentiary,” by Captain Chnries Murphy, warden state penitentiary. “The Maintenance of our Industrial Standards During the War,” Mrs. Mil lie R. Turnbull, Child Labor Commission. "The Menace of the Defective," by Professor B. W. DeBusk, University of Oregon. Friday Afternoon General topic: Planning Orderly and Healthy Growth of the Town and Rural Community of Oregon. The following papers will be read: "The Direct Profit to the Community of a Rational City ’lan,” by E. B. Mc Naughton, architect, Portland. “Planning that Extends to the Limits of the Economic and Social Unit,” by Marshall N. Dona, Oregon Journal, Portland. “The Meaning, Development and Or ganization of City and Community Plan ning in California,” Charles H. Cheney, secretary of the California City Plan ning Conference. At the end of this session, adjourn ment will be taken to the National City Planning Exhibit which will be displayed in the exhibition room of the school of architecture. Friday Evening General topic: Bringing Oregon Influ ence to Hear Toward Insuring the Pur pose of the War When Won. "Organization and Work in Oregon of the League to Enforce Peace.” will be the subject of an address to be deliv ered by William I>. Wheelwright, chair man of the Oregon branch of the League to Enforce Peace. "The Plan of Cnmimigu'' will be dis» cussed by It. W. Montague. Saturday Morning General topic: I'niform Tax Classi fication as the First Step Toward Equal ity and Justice in the Oregon Tax Sys tem. Papers will bo read as follows: “Classification as the First Step To ward Equality and Justice in the Use of (Continued on page three)