Oregon Emerald
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EARL MURPHY.*....NEWS EDITOR
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PHONES
PUTTING IT UF TO THE REGENTS
Allen Baton has handed his resignation to Preesident Campbelll and it is
to be passed upon by the Board of Regents, who meet in special session, Oo
tober 20. The whole situation has thus been put up to the regents and it is
for them to decide so far as Mr. Eaton’s connection with the University is
concerned whether or not Mr. Eaton committed a disloyal act when he at
tended the Chicago meeting of the People’s Council for Democracy and Terms
of Peace.
In his statement to the public, issued Wednesday evening, Mr. Eaton says:
"There was a time when it wais the privilege and duty of every citizen to
keep us out, or lead us in, as he saw the light.” * * * * “Finally a
word about our president. No matter what Wp may have thought once, we
must follow him now. Tills is the only way out. We must follow him* but
not blindly. We can not and we must not shift all of the load onto him, we
must bear our part.” In the face of these statements how can Mr. Eaton
hope to Justify, with the public, his attendance at the Chicago meeting? He
can hardly plead that lie was not awiare that the Council had been forbidden
to meet by the Governor of Illinois and had been denied the privilege of
meeting in two other states previously. The publicity given the whole affair
leaves no room for any man to plead ignorance of these matters.
The question placed before the Regents is ticklish in the extreme. Upon
them are focused the eyes of tlile people of Oregon and upon their decision
will be judged the position of the University toward this war. Not only is it
hard that the loyalty of Mr. Eaton should be doubted, it is harder that any
question should arise as to the full loyalty of the University, an institution
which lias given liberally of both students an Daculty to th|e fighting ranks
and which has practically placed its whole course of study at the disposal
of the Government, that young men of this and neighboring states may be
efficiently trained for effective war service.
ONE SHINING TRIBUTE
To no man, in the opinion of The Emerald, could a greater tribute be paid
than cornea to Allen Eaton through the column* of The Spectator (Portland)
of last week. The clipping reads:
"For the simple reason that Allen Eaton Is connected with tlite People’s
Council we shall have to amen our opinion of that organization. Aflen
Eaton never has been, Is not, and could not be, associated with anything dis
honest stealthy or seditious. Hl» Is a character too pure and elevated to
harbor a thought that is not the expression of the highest patriotism. We
have ever found him fighting for honesty in politics, freedom of thought, and
the advancement of whatever is good and Just. For years, his fellow citizens
of Eugene have elecie and re-elected hi into the legislature, where his has
b.een a voice crying in the wilderness for justice to the people and mercy to
the tax-payer We can be certain that whatever unpatriotic sentiments or
purposes may animate any member of the People’s Council are not only not
shared by Mr. Eaton, but are sturdily combated by him. If a man may be
judged by the company lie keeps, the judgment may be wrong. It is no more
possible to attribute an unpatriotic sentiment or motive to Mr. Eaton than
to imagine him guilty of a financial dishonesty.
"If Mr. Eaton has found that the purposes of the People’s Council are
seditious, we may bo quite certain that he has used all his splendid influence
to purge the organization of its madness. And failing to accomplish this
we may be Just as certain that Mr. Eaton will abandon the council, whose
one claim to decency has been his connection with it.”
WAR NECESSITY AND HORSEPLAY
Today the eyes of the state are focused upon the University the state
institution which has a« Its task during these critical days of international
discord, the efficient training of nearly one thousand young men and women.
That the program of University life during such times should depart from all
frivolity and stick to serious businoss -that every student should be here
for serious business—1b no mom than the people of the state have perfectly
good reasons to expect. Horseplay and indiscriminate physical disciplining
of freshmen has no place in the college life of this year, at least, not until
all other measures have boon tried and have failed to bring results.
This is a time when the people of the state will absolutely refuse to coun
tenance uny such occurrences, and It is a time when ninety per cent of the
students insist tluit no room be given for doubt as to their purpose to se
riously do all that they may to assist in the conflict with Germany.
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FORMER EUGENE MEN ON KANSAS FACULTY
W. A. Dill, 09, Appointed Journalism
Instructor at University of Kansas.
W. A. DU, for tho past six months
a mtun.ber of tho nows staff of ttio
Portland Oregonian, and a graduate
of the University of Oregon in the
class of 1908, has just been appointed
instructor in Journalism in the Uni
versity of Kansas. He will leave
within a few ays for his now post
Merle H. Thorpe, now editor of The
Nation's llusiness and former head of
the* Journalism school of the Univer
sity of Kansas, is to be succeeded by
Prof'. L. N. Flint, who has been act
ing as head of the department for sev
era} months past.
Mr. Dill wue initiated into the Sig
ma Della Chi national Journalism fra
ternity by the local chapter. After
serving as city editor of the Eugene
Guard, Dill w’ent to the Springfield
News and later to the Oregonian.
Mrs. Dill and three children will
accompany Mr, Dill to Lawrence, Kan
sas, in a few days.
JOE HAMMERSLY IS FROSH PRESIDENT
Portland Youth Chosen to Lead Ver
dant Band of Beginners.
At the freetunan election yesterday
, afternoon in Vlllard Hall Joe Ham
' tuersley, of Portland, was elected
president over Paul Robinson, by a
vote of 62 to 44. For vice-president
Marian Spoeri won by a two-thirds
majority. The ballot for secretary
resulted in a tie between Janet Fra
zier and Frances Kubll. On a recount
a mistake of one vote was found
which decided the election iu favor
of Miss Frazier. Miss Feenauglity was
chosen for treasurer out of a field of
four candidates. «
“Being the larjnvst and also the best
rrosluuan class,” said 1 tanuuor&lp'y,
responding to the cries of “speech,”
"it is for us to uphold the honor and
traditions of Oregon.
Miss Spoeri, in a few words. In
dorsed Hanuuersley’s opinion.
There will be another meeting In
the near future for the purpose of get
ting more thoroughly organized for
the coining frosh activities
WALKER MAY COACH FROSH
ARRIVES IN EUGENE LAST NIGHT
TO SEE TIFFANY.
Twenty-Five Freshmen Turning Out
But Coach Bezdek too Busy to
Work With Them.
Dean Walker, last year’s coach of
the freshman football team, arrived
in Eugene last night and held a con
ference with President Campbell and
Graduate Manager A. R. Fiffany, but
as yen nothing definite haa been done
relative to the signing of Walker as
the coach.
About twenty-five “frosh” have been
out for practice, but without a coach
very little has been accomplished, as
Bezek is too busy trying to round
out the Varsity squad in the short
space of time before the first confer
ence game that he has paid little at
tention to the freshman squad.
No schedule has been drawn up yet,
but the game with the “Rooks” from
O. A. C. is certain and several other
games with valley teams are possi
bilities.
CEITIFICATES, HOI CAROUSES, 10
TESTIFY 10 SUMMER GARDENING
Faculty Committee Probably Will Be
Lenient in Demands on
Agriculturists.
Despite the fact that practically all
the twenty-four stuents excused for
farm work last spring have returned,
there is to date but one certificate
in the hands of Registrar Tiffany that
the farm work was actually done.
The certificates, signed by the stu
dent’s parents or employer, must be
filed before the semester credits can
be granted according to the faculty
ruling made last April, when men
were being excused with credit for a
full semester’s work, provided they
went onto farms.
“It is my opinion that the faculty
will not hold strictly to the certificate
rule, but will accept any kind of real
proof that farm work was done,” said
Dean E. W. Allen, chairman of the
faculty committee which granted the
permits to leave school, when asked
today in regard to the granting of
credits.
The one certificate that farm work
was done conies from Earl Powell,
who worked during the spring and
summer on a Springfield ranch.
M’GUIRE ON VISIT FROM NAVY YARD
Architecture Graduate Among Those
in Government Service
Johnny McGuire, 1916 Oregon grad
uate in architecture, who has a posi
tion as draughtsman in the ship-build
ing department of the navy yard at
Bremerton, is in Eugene on a short
visit. A number of other Oregon stu
dents are or were working in the va
rious departments of the shipyard, in
cluding Fete Jensen, Herb Hey wood,
Earl Heitschmidt, Simpkins and Ward.
There is a great demand for draghts
men in tlie shipbuilding line and this
may mean the opening of a new Held
for women. One or two women are
already employed in the Bremerton
yards.
A number of University of Washing
ton students are working at Bremer
ton. but, according to McGuire, they
maintained a discreet silence when i
asked why Coach Hunt, of Washing
ton, caiu elle»ftlie Oregon game.
Announcements
tAll announcements to appear in
this column of the Emerald must be
in by noon of the day of publication.)
Junior meeting Monday, 3 o’clock,;
Yillard Hall.
All men interested in high school
coaching, two hours credit, are re-;
guested to see Mr. Bezdek at the
men’s gymnasium any time up to 4
o’clock Monday. October S.
RECITAL AT CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
A recital will be given at the Chris
Ttirn—church—Tuesday—evening. Orto
her 9, by Henry P. Filer, tenor, and
Perry Burton Arant. pianist. Mr. Fi
ler was formerly head of the music
department of the Eugene Bible Uni
versity Mr. Arant is a graduate of
the Pacific U. Conservatory of mu
sic and entered the University this
fall as a senior. The recital is free
and everyone is invited to attend. (
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