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Oregon Emerald VOL. 19. — EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOV. 10. 1917. NO. 18. FRIENDSHIP FUND PLEDGES BROUGHT TD Jim S/ID IN Subscriptions Break $2000 Record; Individual Gifts Run High: 44 in Friendly Hall. Y. W. C. A. TO OBSERVE FELLOWSHIP WEEK Series of Meetings Part of As sociation’s Plans; Lectur ers to Speak. Three hundred dollars .has been pledged ■to the Students’ Friendship War fund on the campus since yesterday . This brings the pledges up to .$*2140 with about $700 paid. Friendly hall reported $150 pledged and $50 paid. The faculty pledged $45 more today which brings them up to $624. Forty-four members have sub scribed to date. The largest individual gift was $100 from a member of the faculty; two others gave $50 each and there were a number of $25 subscriptions, among both faculty and staudents. One member of the faculty put in his own wood to save money to give to the Friendship fund. One student gave up a new watch, another a fountain pen. to tne cause, while several handed over the amount of the railroad fare to Cor vallis, and stayed home from the game today. “Any student who wants to pay cash for the privilege of wearing a whole skin, these days,” said an association leader in challenging students to do their best, “and a bed to sleep in and three meals a day, while college men no less in love with life than ho, are fight ing his battles and trying to make the world a safe place for him to live in, must come through with more 'than a handful of nickles and dimes. "If he wishes to square himself with everybody by denying himself something, for the sake of our nation’s cause, he mustn’t begin to talk about “giving up” sodas and movies. “Any more money contribution, in (Continued on page four) Mm TUX TIGEKTS — Changing of War Duty on Foot ball Admission Considered. Would Make Ten-Cent Increase. Holders of Student-Body Cards Not to Pay. While in Portland at the Oregon-Ma rine football game last Saturday. A. R. Tiffany, graduate - manager, received worl from Milton A. Miller, collector of customs at the I'nited States custom house in Portland, that he woull rule against placing a war tax on football tickets as is now imposed on theater tick ets. The question was brought up because of an effort at San Francisco to make the University of California at Berkeley pay a ten cent tax on all admissions to their game with the University of | Washington. The government officials declared that the law was plain if the receipts from the game went into the stndent-body funds but California pro tested on the ground that part of the fund was turned over to the University to keep up the football field/ No tax was paid by Multnomah Club for the Oregon-Marines came last Satur day and it Is believed that no tax will have to be addel to the admission price at the Homecoming game with Califor nia here next Saturday. If the war tax is enforced a ten cent increase will be necessary for all admissions, including those who enter on student-body tickets, as theaters have to pay the tax on their complimentary tickets the same as on the paid admission. The ten-cent in crease on student-body tickets would, however, come out of the student-body fund and would not be paid by holders of student tickets. Here Y’Are Folks—the Big Hit of the Year!! Faculty Celebrities Will Perform for Students—Black-Face Affair—Read On. Do you all know what will be THE bist hit of the year You can never guess. What? A minstrel show given by the faeult? Yes. A really-truly old fashioned, black faced minstrel show, with all the faculty celebrities taking part, and no one but faculty in the cast. But everyone may come. students, townspeople, all are welcome. And won't it be fun to see your favorite dignified professor disport ing himself in side-splitting comedy? Such- crowds are expected by Pro moter W. F. G. Thacher, the manager and director of this biggest and best show on earth, that he thinks he will stage the performance for three nights. Guild hall is the place. The time—some time in January. After the real black-face minstrel show in the first part, with its grinning end men, dignified interlocutor, and all their new jokes, will come the “olio,” with skits ana burlesques. Women of the faculty will be featured in these vaudeville stunts. All the acts are shrouded in the deepest mystery, and the promoter will not divulge the name of a sinjle one of his famous stars. But we can guess, and don’t you 'think all of them will be perfect screams? There is one deep, dark secret, which will absolutely he the grand special feature of the evening, and not the faintest breath of this will get out until the big surprise is sprung, says the promoter. Now back of all this there lies a serious purpose, for the faculty are staging this show for the benefit of the Bod Cross and the Y. M. C. A. war relief fund. So save your pennies and you can have the time of your life and at the same time be contributing to worthy causes. CORRESPONDENCE STUDY GIVEN FREE TO SOLDIERS Enrollment Fee Eliminated in Case of Enlisted Men Working for Graduation Credits. The announcement that Oregon citi zens. who are serving in the army or navy, will be allowed to enroll in the University correspondence school with out paying the usual fee. has been made by the department. The new arrange ment will make it possible for many men to utilize their spare hours to good advantage, as hours made by cor respondence work will be counted in credits required toward graduation. The topics listed in the course are many and include all the major subjects. The course in mathematics will be -of special interest to those in the artillery service, who need mathematics in try ing for promotion. In order to let Oregon men know of this special arrangement of charging no fees, the correspondence department has had a large number of enclosure cards printed, announcing the course. Students are requested to enclose one of these cards when writing to Oregon men in the service. The cards may be secured at the correspondence department office in Oregon hall. IN NAVY YARD CHEM. LAB Oregon Grad Does Analytical Work at Bremerton. Clinton- V. Conley, graduate in the class of 1017, is now at Bremerton, Washington, working in the chemistry laboratory of the navy yard, lie in tended enlisting in the hospital corps, hut he says, in a letter to Professor O. F. Stafford, that he thinks he is doing more good to his country in his present position. His work consists of analyz ing the materials used in naval con struction, ordnance materials, and some foodstuffs from the naval training sta tion. He finds the work interesting and varied. ROBERTS NEW TREASURER Don Roberts, of Astoria, was elected treasurer of the senior class without ex position, at the senior class meeting las*. Thursday afternoon. The class decided :i■ p-'-" ;tr thn firr.t- «-( after the Thanksgiving holidays. On account of the scarcify of men this year, the senior man must bring twoc girls to the dance. President “Chuck” Dundore urged the members to be more careful about keep ing up the old traditions on the campus. Seniors are expected to wear the little sombrero and to twirl the princely cane. University Professors Decide to Investigate Offer at Cost Made by Carnegie Foundation. Policies Given Those Meeting Scholarship Demands; Ore gon Eligible to Group. The faculty of the University of Ore gon. at the monthly coloquium held Tuesday evening. discussed different plans for providing insurance and an nuities for their members. Professor E. E. DeCou outlined the new plan of fered by the Carnegie Foundation for the advancement of teaching, whereby college professors may take out insur 'ance and annuity policies at cost, saving from 15 to ‘-’0 per cent over the cost of policies in commercial companies. A committee, with Dr. II. 1). Sheldon as chairman, will investigate the Car negie Foundation’s offer, to determine the attitude of the University toward it, ascertaining first the definite require ments for entrance into the privileges of the company. The Carnegie Foundation, with a cap ital of $15,500,000 and a yearly income of $700,000, has provided, for a number of years, retiring allowances for col lege professors at the age of 05. These allowances were given to professors in colleges and universities which met the requirements of standard scholarship. Trofessors in 73 colleges received such allowances. Foundation Is Extended [ When the University of Oregon met the requirements of the foundation, the fund had nearly all been used for an nuities. and no more eelleges could he admitted to its privileges. The founda tion now wishes to extend its aid to more than the 73 colleges, to whose retired professors it has been giving annuities, and has therefore changed its plan. To this end, the foundation has or ganized the Teachers’ Insurance and An nuity company, chartered under the laws of New York .ns a regular life insurance corporation, which will issue policies to college professors at cost. The foun dation will pay all the expenses of ad ministration, will provide for disability pensions, and will pay the widows’ pen sions, and by thus paying the overhead (Continued on page two) Dr. Parkin Here in Interest of Rhodes Scholarship System. Says Most Striking Thing on Tour Passiveness of Amer ican View of War. Dr. G. R. Pnrkin, a representative of the Rhodes trustees and of the scholar ship system which they control, was a visitor at the University Thursday and Friday. lie is making an exhaustive tour of the United States and Canada where ho is visiting every state anl every province discussing with Univer sity people modifications of the methods of the award of the trust he administers. The passiveness with which Ameri cans view the war is one of the most striking things on his trip to Dr. Parkin. “In England everyone is vitally alive to the fact that the life of our country is at stake. Hero people don’t seem to realize that thousands of men are dying every day in the trenches m France,” said Dr. Parkin. English universities have barely en ough students now in them to keep go ing. Oxford which in normal times has an enrollment of 3500 has now a scant 300. This is typical of all the colleges. England is making no serious effort to keep her youth in college. One of the difficulties lies in the lack of competition. The scholarships whi.h he represents are the largest in the world, and a scholar who holds them has his way paid for three years with the opportunity of study under distinguished teachers and travel in foreign countries. Elections to the scholarships will stare immediately upon Conclusion of the war. Oregon will be entitled to two men every three years. Thirty-two are chosen out of the entire United States annually. From Eugene. Dr. Parkin goes to Berkeley to visit the University of | California. ' February High School Gradu aets Will Start University in January, Accord ing to Mew Plan. Left to Discretion of Principals; Not Held as Mandatory Upon Them. High school students who would grad uate in February, may enter the Uni versity the second term, beginning the first week in January, under a new plan announced by the University. For merly the high school students gradu ated in February, just in time to enter the University the second semester, which started iu February. But this year the second term will start a month before the high schools graduate their pupils. Wording of New Provision The new arrangement provides for the entrance of the high school student in the University in January, or one month before he has graduated from high school. The plan mattes the proviso that “the principal shall certify that at the beginning of the school year the student has satisfactorily completed hot less than 13 units of work, and is pur suing work which would at 'the mid year entitle him to graduate with not less than 15 units, the quality of his work being such that the school recommends him for admission to the University.’ If the high school does not wish to give the student a diploma at the time he enters the University, it may con dition its own diploma upon the con tinuance of the student in school work. If such is the desire of the high school principal, the University will later cer tify to the principal of the high school the character of the work done by the student in the University. Loft to Individual Schools Whether or not students from high schools shall enter the University under such conditions, is left to the indi* ’.uni high school. The plan is in no way mandatory on the high school. The words “not less” are used in connection with the 13 or 15 units for the purpose of implying that there is no desire or intention to interfere with the ordinary requirement of 1(> units for graduation. BILL HAYWARD HELPING COACH MARINES’ ELEVEN ’Varsity Trainer Goes North with Big Fellows to Keep Them Fit Physically. When the Marines’ football team left Eugene on Thursday afternoon for Am erienn Lake, they were accompanied by Bill Hayward, trainer of the Varsity teams. Hayward went with the team for the purpose of taking care of the men dtiring the game and also to help in coaching them for their struggle with the Camp Lewis aggregation on Satur day. This is the second game which the Marines have'played on their northern trip. The team they are to buck up against is a strong one, and a hard bat tle is expected. A numher of Oregon men are playing with Camp Lewis, am ong them being Ken Bartlett, Bill Snyder. Orville Monteith, Ward McKin ney and Sam Cook. Hayward will return to the campus the beginning of next week to resume his duties as trainer of the Varsity team. AD COURSE TO BE GIVEN Five Hours, Combining Work !n Throe Departments, Is Planned. An intensive course in advertising will be offered next term, combining work in the schools of commerce and journal ism and the department of psychology. The course will he five hours and will be completed in one term. There is a strong demand for men and women trained to take charge of ad vertising work in corporations and large stores, says Eric \V. Allen, dean of the school of journalism. Mr. Allen has had calls this year for capable people to fill such positions, hut has not been able to meet the demand. Those who he might have sent did not wish to leave school, while very few were considered as qualified. Bachelor Girls Hold Hoov er Feast in Bungalow. Club Tries Out That Sans-Every thing War Cake. Members Survive Whiffs of fish on thirteenth street, crumbs of corn* read on Kincaid, war ca-e r-'ttlinET in a t:n box across the oarrpus and a tuHe laii in the Bungalow at *■> o'clock Thursday night all pointed to the first real dinner of the Bachelor ■Girls’ club. Hitherto they have batched; Thursday they dmed, according to a report made by a vivacious member. 1'. urteen amateur cc.i ks brought their own or ionic one ■■Iso's dinner and four teen happy face i smiled to receive the frugal fish, the economical scalloped potatoes, flankel by Hoover’s own bread-and-apple salad. Miss Tingle’s w > • ."lke remaine 1 locked in the strong box until the p* vchnVgieal moment, wren it was prodtii ed and received utinn in lUsly. It was a sample of the eggless, hutterl ss. flourlnss, s igarless milkless compound that stntck awe into the hearts (and stomtcl.s) of Hoover's most devoted disciples. Between cours.>s, kn'tting appeared,] and ti e bachelor maids turned from Be n Fox at the lend of the table to listen to pointer- from Miss Tingle at the foot. | ’‘But together ” she urged, “You can sive by getting quantities. Then you can "ftord to ecoromire on sugar and moat.” This among many suggestions ab att tireless cot k.ng, food values ntxl four ounces of sugar ;i day. i .,o only cloud that marred the even in:; was the mournful unveiling of APss ! T rz-, Pindale’s h . thday cuke, lit by six-^ teen miniature candles. The nnniver se.y came earlie! in the week, lint the! dul; sp-’iit still cast a gloom over the) BimriJcw. 1 he .'r"0S(S 1 in erf red until dispossessed by the arrival of the C mmeree eluh at S o clock. when they folded their napkins and silently followed the trail blazed before by oornbreml and fish, which still lingered on the way to their bachelor quarters. FORMER OREGON STUDENT PRAISES ARMY Y. M. C. A. Harold Say Writes That Only Soldier Can Know Real Valuo of Association’s Work. Harold Say, ex-’111. journalism major here last year, now stationed at Fort Stevens, praises tin work of the army X. AL 0. A. in a letter received on the campus yesterday. "If the people of Orr (ton realized the great and wonderful task of the organi zation ns do the soldiers.” he writes, “sums necessary for war work would he, oversubscribed ten times. No one at the fort can praise the Y. AL 0. A., too highly. Only a soldier can appreciate its mission. A place to write, stationery, ink, books and magazines, free movies, all go to make the men contented, happy and hopeful.” Afr. Say says he feels that the papers of Oregon did not recognize the men at Fort Stevens enough during the Liberty bond campaign. “The regiment and regulars subscribed $105,000 in bonds, more than $125 to the man,” he says. "Consider that a private’s pay is $50 a month; that generally he carries Insurance, and usually has dependents or partial dependents” He says he likes army life, arid praises highly the Second company of Oregon Coast Artillery. “A eloser feeling of comradeship could not exist,” he writes, "and every man is proud of the com pany. The spirit between men and of ficers is admirable.” OREGON SOCCER TEAM LOSES TO CORVALLIS Field and Ball in Bad Condition; Aggies Score in First Ten Minutes. Corvallis, (special to the Hmernld)— The Oregon soccer team went down this afternoon to a score of 2-0. With a slippery ball, and a muddy field, the Aggies scored the first goals in the first ten minutes of play. Oregon rallied ■eiltiewl' il ill (lie 11,11 h it, blit llee shooting was wild all the gable, o Oregon’s lineup for the game was: Sehmeer, goal; Lind, left fullback; llaseltine, right fullback; Iloldridge, left hnlflmek; I'caraon, center halfback; Parr, right halfback; Hartley, outside left; Senastuke, inside left; Kheehy, center forward ; Kelleher, inside riglit ; Fox. out side right. Substitutes: .Madden, Ser vice. Univrsity Gives L ibrally of Ser vices and Money to All Campaigns Against Prussianism. Courses Outlined With View to Preparing- Students for Service in Army. l?ince the opening of the fall terra at the University of Oregon, the work of the University has been organized with the main end in view or furnishing most efficient service to the nation in w«r time. From subscribing to iue Liberty ioan to signing Hoover pledges, the Universi ty has taken active part in the war against Prussianisra. Over $1200 waa subscribed to the second Liberty loan by student organisations, and several individuals bought bond-: under the in stallment payment plan. Faculty mem bers subscribed $.‘1500 to the nation’s ('all. • In the cases of the sororities, in almost every instance the money to buy th ' bond or bonds was taken from en tertainment or luxury funds, while in a few houses special assessments were levied to raise 'the bond money. The University apportionment of $2000 toward the million dollnr North American Student Wav Relief fund is b >ing subscribed on the campus by pledges gained in a canvass of every member of the student body and faculty, “(live until it hurts,” is the slogan of the campaign. In the nation wide food saving cam paign, the University hat, responded ear nestly. A majority of the fraternity and sorority houses and private hoarding houses for students have signed the 11 over pledge and observe wheatless and meatless meals at least once and in most cases several times during the week. Women Work in Rod Cross Nearly all of the four hundred women of the University are aiding the Red Cross in some way A campus auxiliary to the national organization meets twice we, kly at the Y W. C. A. bungalow to knit and sew for the soldiers, and nside from this the women have pledged cer tain afternoons and evenings of the week to the local chapter of the national organization for ti king the Red Cross nu sc’s aide course in bandaging. And of course many a girt has her par ties !ar soldier for whom she knits a swci'ter or a searf as a personal gift. With the reorganization and intensi field three term school year, opportunity is given students to get more complete work in a short time. New courses pre paring for national service aTe being of fe • d to the men, and the women of the UnNersity are given the chance to pre pare to take up the work which is being left by the men who enlist. The ord nance accounting course seems to be the most popular of the courses for the men. It offers a very intensive six weoka of training in a •counting, in con versational French, and in military drill, with the object of furnishing men for keeping systematic accounts of the mun (Continued on pngo four) SOLDIERS !i\l CAMP TO GET GREAT VARIETY OF BOOKS Many Gorman Texts Included. Set of Kipling’s Works Given by Local Physician. Oozed leather volumes hearing upon their fly leaves such inscriptions to the former owner ns this, “A token of friendship,” are among the four hundred books already contributed by University students for the soldiers. Many French grammars and readers are in the big stack which also includes classics, a surprising number of German books, histories and high grade works of fic tion. Many of the volumes seem to be prac tically new, while some of the hooks in French would be easily read by the dull est soldier because of the valuable helps pencilled between the lines. A set of. Kipling's works containing si', vi il limes has Icon contributed by I tr. II. Ij. Studloy, a Eugene physician. The books which are collected will he sent to Portland, where Miss Mary Frances Isom, librarian of the Port land Library association, will receive and distribute them to training camps in the i’nited States. The textbooks are sent out upon request from the Y. >1. | (’, A.’s which are establishing classes I for the soldiers in camp.