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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (May 19, 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 Be.-ond class matter. Subscription rates, per year. $1.00. Single copies, 5c. ~ EDITORIAL. STAFF] EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.HAROLD HAMSTREET BUSINESS STAFF. BUSINESS MANAGER.BURLE D. BRAMHALL City Editor.Luclle Saunders Assistant Manager.Louise Allen Assistants.Lay Carlisle, Jeannette Calkins, Joe Denn, Gertrude Cowglll Circulation Manager.Paul Reaney Phone, Editor, 5«5 Phone, Manager, 841 Departments Sports Editor...James S. Sheuhy Assistants .William Hazeltlne Administration .Gladys Wilkins Student Activities .Dorothy Parsons Women's Sports.....Helen lialr Forensics ...Rosalind Bates Exchanges .Helen Brehton General Assignments.John Dundore. Elsie Fltzmaurlce, Richard Avlson, Ross Dalegleisch, Martha Tinker, Pearl Cralne, Erma Zimmer man, Dorothy Dunlway, I.ucile Saunders, Bert Woods, Arvo Slmola, Florida Hill, Adelaide Lake, Beatrice Thurston, Lyle McCroskey, Tracy Byers, Paul Reaney, Douglass Mullarky, Bill Morrison, Jacob Jacobson, Robert Case, Mellle Parker, Nell Warwick, Anne Dawson, Lynn Mc Cready And Miriam Page. TOO MUCH “CZOLGOTZ” The editor Sr told to eliminate Jolm Alrnnek from the Emerald. We are told he has too much “of that Czolgotz spirit; distasteful to a host of real Americans.” The Identity of this person who presumes to dictate to the editor what he shall do is withheld, for the communication as received through the mail Is unsigned The presumptuous person who wrote the unsigned letter will receive little sat isfaction in adopting such a course. The man with a cause of conviction, with a true heart, with manly courage and who is unashamed of himself will play his game in the open.We have but petty con tempt for the person who hides behind the skirts of an anonymous letter. As to the question, "Is the Emerald one of that ring of subsidized papers?” it is ridicu lous. We pay scant courtesy to such communications. ISA STUDENT A SLACKER? The question is seriously raised, will those male students who return for the opening of the fall semester next Sep tember he branded as slackers. It is un fortunate that the. over-patriotic zoul of so muny people lead them astray from exercising reason and they make the ir rational condemnation of the students who have not enlisted, and stigmatize, them as unpatriotic. This censure is causing many to hastily enter the ranks who would otherwise hr devoting their time in re serve work for Uncle Sam that would he of far more value than more service in the ranks ns a private. Emphatically, no, is the answer the Emerald would give to the question will such students returning next semester be slackers. As far as the future can be determined now the l niversit.v will he conducted next year as in the years past. Saying then tlmt students return ing next fall would he slackers would lie to place the brand of treason on the Uui versity of Oregons for keeping it doors invitingly open and urging stud ents to return. A far broader sense of duty Impels the University to keep its doors open. The University sees the sit uation in the light so many others do of the broader mind : that the rush to the ranks of all the University sudeuts is as foolish ns was the great concentrated rush of the frantic people in (ho Iriquois theatre on fire in Chicago years ago. Those people scrambled in a mad body to the exits; all impelled by motives of safety. But it meant the destruction of all. Care, reason, and common sense must he exercised in the enlisting of Uni versity stulent* lest in the desire to make the safety o fthe nation sure, rather will it be threatened. Just about time the bill collectors were playincr run, sheep, run, with the meek mid lowly. The extraction of it wisdom tooth may he painless, hut the result tuny not he so pleasing. Who said a full moon? Mnko it a quarter in these dry times and we will be satisfied. We don't hear much about drill now. Too serious. Now is the picnic time of the year. ’ ... . PRACTICING CONSERVATION What the I'niversity bally Kanann calls the "1. W. W. Movement,” with a new significance to the initials, needs the support of evert m^n and woman in tile T'niversity, as well as everyone rise in the country. “I. W. W." now means ”1 won’t waste.” It is the motto which should gov ern the life of every patriotic American. Every man and woman must pledge himself to the anti waste ideal. No form of association need be created. Just make an agreement with yourself to practice conservation, and the movement ia under way in your individual sphere. The most dangerous waster isn't the notorious spendthrift, for there are s ■ f. w of his type that their t, t.l) d.lmur:il i,-.ing effect isn’t great. The class In col lege which cause* most of the unneces sary loss is just the great average mass. A little too much here—a little un necessary extravagance there—scatter ed along the days and weeks of a few thousand persons, it mounts up to an ap palling total. Cut out some of your luxuries. Bring your social activities down to a reason able basis. Don’t buy clothes you don’t need. Try to earn your keep by doing something productive. The country needcs all its resources now for purposes which are vital. Don’t let your carelessness work against the nation's interests.—Ohio State Lantern. OBLIGATIONS Obligations begin accumulating in the freshman year, pile up more and more during the sophomore and junior years and bury the struggling senior under a mighty heap. Obligations make it impera tive for the student to take more than the usual number of hours during several semesters In order to ease the burden for his final months. Obligations are not entirely financial. Financial obligations, indeed, are usually discharged every summer. Obligations in clude those of the countless campus ac tivities. in which the responsibility rests more heavily on the upperclassmen, and those uf the so-called social life. The freshmen learns thnt he can live on from to $40 a month. As his college life goes on, lie learns that he can live on that amount only by going nowhere and belonging to nothing. The freshman learns that he should spend his evenings over his books, and thnt it is only proper to “step out” Fid day nnd Saturday nights. He finds, how ever, that organizations meet all through the week, and thnt he can scarcely avoid attending tho sessions of several of them. And ns liiw friendships Increase he finds that his obligations with regard to en tertaining and being entertained also in crease. .lodging from the obscurity into which many graduates drop, the moment they receive their sheepskins, there is a bless ed rest ahead of tis. Washington Daily. BOOKLET OUT l« JUNE “The University and the Wo man” Edited by Thacher. Describes Various Activities; for Distribution Among1 High School Graduates. "The University and the Woman" is the title of the new woman's booklet whivh is being prepared by Professor W. K. tl. Tlmcher. It will be a companion o the book issued last year for men and will be out the middle of June. i tic booklet w ill deal with matters of especial interest to women, such as sports, pastimes, social life and the vo cational and cultural opportunities open to women in the University of Oregon. , It will be profusely illustrated with en gravings im every page of girls' rooms, living rooms, sleeping porches, scenes on the campus, the athletic activities, the! tent house of the Maguire girls, and the architectural engravings of the new Wo man's ltiniditig. The text will include the plans for the new Home l'Vouomie* department which will he installed in the fall, and oppor- I Utilities for making one's way through college ami an Interesting solution to the living problem. There will be also accounts of the activities of the V W. t . A. and the various women's organisa tions. -Tl, l.o.d w ill lie for free .tisi-il.nton to the girl graduates of the high schools over Oregon and Washington and other girls whose names will he obtained. PREPS TO HEIR PROFS. Thirty - Two Oregon High Schools to Have U. Speakers. Dean Straub Is Scheduled to Address Eleven Graduat ing Classes. / _ Commencement speakers to thirty-two Oregon high sehools will be furnisher] by the University this year. The demand for commencement orators is consider ably in excess of former years and the high schools, with which final arrange ments have been made, range in size from Medford, Pendleton and Baker to Muddy Creek, which isn’t on the map but somewhere in Eastern Oregon. Dean Straub, always in demand as a commencement speaker, will deliver eleven of the thirty-two addresses in cluding one at Camas, Washington. In Oregon. Dr. Straub will address the high school graduates at Dufur, May 24; Bandon, May 29; Baker, May IS; Suth erlin, May 31; Myrtle Point, May 26; Coquille, May 28; Monmouth, June 1; Creswell, June 7; Tangent, June 13, and Castle Rock, May 25. Dean I). W. Morton, of the school of commerce, will deliver the commence ment oration at North Bend, May 24; Medford, May 31; and Cottnge Grove, June 1. Dr. James H. Gilbert has been asked by Bay City and Nehalem high schools holding commencement exercises May 25 and 26 respectively. Professor A. It. Sweetser will be the commencement speaker at Newport, May 25, and at Mupleton, May 17. Professor P. S. Dunn, Mollnila, May 31. Director Earl Kilpatrick, of the extension division Gold Beach, May 24,, Dayton June 8, and Newberg, June 7. Professor E. E. De Cou, Tualitan, May 26. Professor C. S. Gregory, Boring, May 25, and Scio, June 1. Professor E. E. DeCou, Clatskanie, May 25. Pendleton high school gradu ating class will be addressed by Pro fessor II. J). Sheldon, of the school of education. Dr. Sheldon will also give the Junction City address, June 1. Rose burg high school will have Dr. Joseph Schafer at their commencement exer cises, June 1. Annual “Stunt” Already Plan ned; Will Take Property Trunk Along. Lectures Scheduled for Morn ings ; Afternoons Given to Sports. Plans are booming at the Y. M. C. A. for the annual Sseabeck conference. Nine girls have already decided to go and still more are considering it seriously. Six attended the conference last year. It will be held from June -2 to July 2. The conference promises to be « sttc eess. according to Miss Tirzu Hinsdale, Y. \V. A. secretary, from present n dieations. Several wtxll known speakers will be there ineluding Pr. John Timothy Stone, of t’bicngo, who will be here lecturing during summer school, and Pr. James A. Beebe, president of the Iliff school of theology, Denver. “The girls, of whom there generally arc about 200," said Miss Dine dale, "don’t have to attend the lectures, but they generally want to. The moruings are usually given up to classes while the entertainment comes in the afternoon and evenings. Among other events is the stunt day when the different colleges put on stunts. The Oregon representa tives are going to have their stunt pre pared before hand this year and will bring a property trunk along with them." The leaders of the conference are to be Helen A. Pavis of the national Y. W. t\ A. hoard staff, Eliia 11. Butler and Maly S. Sims, who had particular charge of the city Y. IV. C. A. work. Kleanor llopkins. Jane N. Scott and Brace Maxwell from the Northwestern field office will also he in attendance. Seubeek was a large lumbering, camp in the fifties and sixties. The associa tion took it over n fevy years ago and fitted it up with little white cottages anti hotels. The \. \Y i'. A. conference has hten held there for the last three years. The Y. M t'. A. conference will also meet there again this year, however, leaving two days previous to the arrival of the Y. \V. A, delegation. Those who will go from here are Dor othy ('oilier, Lillian Hxusler, Jeanette lvleitiing, Helen Breuton, May Oorprou, Helen Wells. Tina Hinsdale, Mrs. W. M. ('age. and Hath Wilson. Patronize Advertisers 10:30 “Presbyterianism—National and Catholic” Central Church 8:00 P. M. “Captains Courageous” Third in Patriotic Series All Varsity men especially invited SCHOOL OF MUSIC TO GIVE HEM. SERIES Opening Program in Guild Hall May 21 to Demonstrate Public School Music. Vocal and Instrumental Selec tions Will Include Kinder garten Songs. Under the direction of the school of music, a music festival beginning Mon day evening. May 21, will he given in Guild hall. The festival will be in the form of ten recitals, and will be given free of charge. The openiug program, which will be a demonstration of public school music methods, is as follows: Kindergarten selections by Marian Powell and Kathleen Powell: “Good Afternoon”; “Christmas”; “Cock-a-dood le-do”; “Bye Lo Bye”. Piano selections by Marcel Bean, Newin’s “Rosary” and Grieg’s “Bridal Procession.” Primary selections by the class: “Song of the Kitchen Clock"; “Blowing Bub bles”; “The Owl”; "The Moon Boat”; “Daffy-Down Dilly”; ‘The Kittle Shoe maker”; “Brownies Umbrella.” Piano selection by Marcel Bean; Coll in’s Polonaise in A Major. Intermedi ate selections by the class: “Nature’s “Goodnight”; “Spring Song”; “Lullaby.” Piano selection by Anastasia O’Farrell; Godard’s Berceuse from “Jocelyn.” Songs suitable for upper grades; by the class: “Swing Song”; "Merry June"; “Wanderer's Evening Song”. The members of the class are Gladys Van Nuys. Claire Gazley, Martha Tinker, Alice Vender Sluis, Elizabeth Houston and Ada Mathews. Tuesday evening will be devoted to a vocal recital by Irene Strowbridge, Cora llosfov’d, Helen Ogsbury, Ada McMur phy, Claiie Gazley, Eva Von Berg. Iva Wood, Reba Maekliu, Adelaide Lake and Helen Dull. \\ eanesuay evenings vocm uuu msuu I mental program will be presented by | Hazel Kudabaugh, Cornelia Hess, Mabel j Cochran, Hester Hurd and Brownell 1 Crazier, pianists; Robert Seearce. viol inist; Gladys Van Nuys, soprano; Evelyn Bristow, contralto; and Jerome Holz man, tenor; Curtiss Peterson, baritone, i with Ada Mathews and Martha Tinker as accompanists, will present the pro gram on Thursday evening. The program for Friday will be given by Charlotte Bunfield, contralto; Belle Messick, pianist, and Alice Yander Sluis. ! violinist. William Vawter, baritone and Marian [ Veil, pianist, will give the Saturday re ■ vital. The following are scheduled to appear j in the seventh recital; Genevieve Rowley, j violinist; Anno Calvert, Raymond Rums. | Dorothy Bennett and Katherine Franz 1 ww, pianists; Alice Yander Sluis, Margar j et Mansfield and Gladys Rowland, so I pratio. Twenty-five pupils of the school of music will give a program of select 'd piano, violin and vocal numbers in the ninth recital of the festival. The oouoludiug evening of the series will he in the form of an ensemble pro gram by the following: Three violins. Genevieve Rowley. Alive Yander Sluis and Viols Crawford: fwo violins. (ien ovieve Rowley n^l Alice Yander Sluis: two violins, Robert Seearce and Miss Wdnhi fred Forbes; two pianos, A.da Matthews and Mabel Cochran. MS DENY FOB FIELD DAY MAY 2D Tennis Racquet to Tennis Win ner and Golf Club for Vic tor on Links. Matches Scheduled in Archery, Swimming, Track, Hockey, Baseball, Canoeing. University women who are members of the Women's athletic association are on their marks for the second annual field day, set for May 26. The various teams to be entered have settled down to a few last honest-to-goodness spurts of work; matches are being arranged, and individual contestants are trying out their paces. Thi> field day program is to include practically the same events staged last year—-contests in archery, goif, swim ming, tennis, baseball ,track work, hock ey, and canoeing. Preliminaries will be run off early Saturday morning, and the circus will be on till the awarding of trophies after the final event. For the tennis matches, the varsity 1 team has withdrawn in favor of lesser lights, and the players who will enter will have about a fifty-fifty chance to win the racquet to be awarded. Miss Thomson has made arrangements for the use of the Country Club golf links , so that the preliminary golf matches can be played off out there; the fairways, although muddy, are much more possible than the wood yard called the University golf course. Teams will be chosen according to class, and the two winners will play the final game. To each of the two members of the winning team a golf stick will be awarded. Officials, referees, judges and other necessary evils have not been chosen, but as plans are rounded out they will be announced, with the order of events, time, and other details. j PRESS NOTICES. * -★ In “The Cure,” the tenth Mutual Chaplin, at the Savoy Friday, Charlie appears as one who has loved convivial ity “not wisely, but too well,” and when the genius of the screen makes his ap pearance wearing the preternaturally grave expression which contrasts so viv idly with the pervasive Chaplin grin, there is irrestrble comicality in the in troduction. “The Cure” is a hospital resort, dedi cated to the elimination of human ills and perversities, populated, as such re sorts usually are, by human freaks bent on physical regeneration and mental re laxation. This crowd furnishes a com edy caste never before equaled even in the vivid imaginings of the screen comedy king. HELP WANTED. 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