Oregon c _p ■ re Emerald VOL. 19. EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1918. NO. 37. STUDENT BATTALION TO HPECTH governor Withycombe Invited by Military Committee to Give First Review Next Week. £adefcs Receiving Appointments as Non-commissioned Officers Given. Oregon’s fighting battalion of cider Sammies will soon put on its best at tire, and go through their movements with extraordinary precision, if ar rangements being made by Colonel John Leader and the military committee are completed. Atfer two weeks of military disci pline and routine of “squads left and squads right.” and “shoulder arnis.” Colonel Leader and his staff believe that the battalion is about ready for its first inspection. The adjutant's office has telegraphed Governor Withycombe, inviting the gov ernor and his staff to review and in spect the University battalion next week. No reply has been received, but there is little doubt that the invitation will be accepted. Desiring to seek the recog nition of the United States war depart ment as soon as possible, and to secure a R. O. T. C. at Oregon, the command ing officer of Camp Lewis and his staff h-ave been asked by Colonel Leader to review and inspect the battalion week after next. It is more than likely that the Camp Lewis officers tsEll accept the invitation for by that time the Sat urday morning class in field engineer- j ing will have finished its trenches. ! modeled after the allied trenches, used i in “no man’s land.” This fact alone i should bring an inspecting party fr.,m Camp Lews, Colonel Leader believes, for as far as the colonel knows, the modeled trenches of “no man's land” constructed on the Oregon campus, are the only exact models in this country. Besides the completion of the trenches, the class will be well along in the art of entanglements, • bombing, musketry, etc., and should be able to pass a severe inspection For the second week in February, the colonel hopes to have the battalion in spected by the commanding officer of the western department, located at San Fiancisco. If the military committee is able to arrange all these inspections, it is more than likely that a reserve of ficers’ training corps will be located at Oregon by the first of next semester. Temporary appointments of non commissioned officers have been made and reported to the commandant's of fice. The following list is not complete, but contains all the names reported at present. All of the men are appointed temporarily. Permanent appointments will be made later: Company A—Acting lieutenant, Rob ert Cosgriff; first sergeant, Nellis Ham lin; guides, Curtis Peterson and Morti mer Brown; platoon commanders, Charles Crandall and Douglass Mul larkey. Company B—Acting lieutenant, Henry Hichkoff; guides, Herman Lind ami Charles Waugh; corporals, D. S. Dag leish, D. G. Boyer. Robert McNar.v, Paul Spangler, S. H. Carter. Cord Sengstake, rhurston Laraway. Company C—Acting lieutenant. Charles Comfort; first sergeant, A. Koepke; second sergeant, Stanley Atkinson; third sergeant. R. Grey; guides. Charles Tisdale and Chalmer Patterson; cor porals, Dow Wilson. Jack Dnndore, D. M. Robinson, J. Burgess, Elmo Madden, Harold Grey, George Cook. Company D—Acting lieutenant, Ray Couch; first sergeant. Larue Blackaby; second sergeant, Dwight Wilson; third iergeairt, James Sheehy; guides, Floyd 3His. Clyde Mason. NORTHWESTERN FOOTBALL rormer U. of W. Star Believes Southern Teams Easily Outclassed. Tie football played by the teams of the northwest is of a higher class than ihe brand below the Mason-Dixon line, Recording to Wayne Sntton, former Tarversity of Washington star, who washed the University of Ixtnisiana Jf*n last season. "Football in the south is advancing rapidly, but on the average northwest frn teams are stronger,” said Sutton Patently. “Georgia Tech had a fine [earn this year, one that would rank with anv i» the country.” OREGANA PLATE CONTEST NOW OPEN TO STUDENTS Designs Should Be in Hands of Dean E. F. Lawrence or Profesor A. H. Schroff by January 21. A competition for four Important Ore gana plates is now open to all students of the University. The program is post ed on the bulletin board in the Architec ture building, and contains all necessary information- The list of plates open for competition embraces a book plate, page border, book stamp and frontis piece. All other plates will be given out individually. The designs should be turned in Mon day. .January 111. at 10 p. m., to either Dean E. F. Lawrence, of the school of architecture, or Professor A. H. Schroff, of the Art department, who will be the judges of the work. If only one plate is presented it will be reproduced in the Oregana, if more than one is turn'-d in the winning design will be chosen snd second and third mentions will be re warded. All designs must be presented on Wat man’s paper, and drawn v'ith'- fuil strength India ink, according to the notice on the architecture bulletin board, which also advises the use of architectural lettering as a decorative device. Clear sharp edges are given as imperative to reproduction. DR. SCHAFER ANNOUNCES TEACHERS FOR SUMMER Professor H. E. Bourne and Dr. H. H. Powers to Lecture on War Subjects. Dr. Joseph Schafer announces as two of the teachers for the University sum mer school, Henry F. Bourne, professor of European history at the Western Reserve University at Cleveland, and I)r. II. H. Bowers, lecturer and writer of Newton, Mass. Professor Bourne, who will teach Eu ropean history in summer school, is an authority on the teaching of history. Dr. Schafer wished to secure him for the summer school largely for the benefit of the teachers who attended the sum mer sessions. Professor Bourne is a specialist on Napoleon. lie will give a course on the French revolution and the NspolertnTc^WMt. 1‘Wphasizing food, money, and commerce in the Fren^n revolution. Dr. Schafer knew Dr. Powers, who will give lectures on the war at summer school, at Wisconsin in 1892- Later, Dr. Powers was a college professor at Stanford and Cornell. He ' spent 15 years in Europe, lecturing on his hobby, art, although he is a trained sociologist. Dr. Powers will lecture on the back ground of the war and allied topics. CLUB WITHOUT A NAME TALKS SUMMER PLANS Girls Working Way Through School Ap point Membership and Pro gram Committees. With tales of what work they are going to do or what work they would like to do nest summer, 1G of the girls who are working their way through col lege, discussed their plans and aspira tions around the festal board at the Y. W. C. A. Bungalow Sunday evening. When a name has been found, the or ganization wall be complete, as the con stitution was read and adopted at this meeting. A committee on membership has been appointed by President Lillian Hausler. and is composed of the following girls: Mary Moore. Ella Rawling, Erma Laird, Mary Largent, and Wanda Brown. The following were appointed on the program committee, Mabyl Weller, Freda Laird, Maude Largent and Mary Murray. LYLEBIGBEE LOSES FINGER Pitches Hopes Shipyard Accident May Make Him a Mordecai Brown. Lyle Bigbec, former athlete at the University, lost the second finger of his right hand last Thursday in an accident at the Duthie shipyards in Seattle, where he works. As Bigbee pitches in the Northwest ern league in the summertime, the ac cident may result in his developing into a three-fingered star like Mordecai Brown. He is hopeful that he may be able to spring some new delivery on the hatters nest soring.__— Bigbee went in for all kinds of ath letics while in college, winning his let ter in football, baseball, and basketball He excelled in the latter game, and was ‘ captain of the 1915 team. COLONEL LEADER DISCUSSES CAMOUFLAGE AND BOMBING Commandant Srys Americans Are Well Fitted for Work of Deceiving Enemy Because of Superior Intelligence. Colonel John Leader's lecture to the class in military science yesterday, con sisted of brief discussions on camou- . flage, signalling, the bayonet organiza tion. and bombing. The lecture, inter spersed with Colonel Leader's humor, ’ fell upon intent ears. Speaking of camouflage and the ! methods of using it, the colonel said: ; “You gentlemen will be better at camou- ! flage than the French, because you are i naturally more intelligent ” In camou- | flage, it is necessary to conceive a cover which will be ordinary in appear ance, he stated. As an example, he cited a clever ruse of the Germans. A tree stood between the two lines, and under cover of darkness one night, tire Germans removed the tree and substi tuted in its place a tree with a steel lined trunk. In this tree, sharpshooters were stationed, who picked off many men before they were located and the tree blown up by a large shell. “As you men become proficient in the art of camouflage, you will be able to sneak into classes half an hour later and never let your professor know anything about it,” Colonel Leader declared. The speaker showed the class a few of the signals used by patrols and sen tries to warn their comrades of the approach of the enemy. He demonstrated the manner in which bayonets are held and used by the fight ers in France. When guarding, the rifle is held by one hand at each end and swept up and down or from side to side, to ward off the thrusts of an adversary. “When charging bayonets, never drive at a man’s chest.” declared the colonel, “for the blade sticks, and it is very difficult to draw it out. to say nothing of the nasty job involved. An expert will always aim at the throat, but for you men who probably will nor be very efficient with the bayonet, the best thing to do is to drive at their tummies.” The colonel then took up the organ izatiou of the various units in the I'uue 1 Slates army. The regiment consists of a colonel, 3 majors, each at the he; -1 of a battalion, 15 captains. It*, lieuten ants, 15 second lieutenants. A bat talion consists of four companies of regular soldiers, a machine gun com pany, called the •"Suicide club" by the French, a headquarters company, suppiy Company, four medical officers, uud on ■ chaplain. The company consists of a captain, first lieutenant, second lieu tenant, first sergeant, mess sergeant, supply sergeant, six ordinary sergeants, sixteen corporals, two cooks, one m > chanie, two buglers, nineteen first-class privates, and fifty-six second-class pri i rates Colonel Leader emphasized the im portance of bombing in the war, by stat ing that four times as many casualties are caused by bombs as by rifle fire. Practically all raids are bomb raids. Each regiment in Europe today has one platoon of trained and expert bombers The bombs used by the allies are in the shape of a ball, with a pin sticking out. To use them, the bomber must pull out tlie pin, which starts the fuse, wait n few seconds, depending on the distance the bomb must be thrown, and must then hurl it upward and outward, to ward a point which he cannot sec, but which is located and directed to him by a range finder and reporter. The bomb explodes seven seconds after the pin is extracted, so according to Col onel Leader, ample time is afforded to fondle the instrument of destruction, even to drop it and pick it up again, and then to hurl it to the enemy, where it becomes anything hut a plaything. Dummy bombs, exact imitations of the real thing, arc being made, and a bomb ing shed will he constructed, so the students ,mny become familiar with this most important branch of attack. The Saturday morning class in field engi neering will be the only class to enjoy the work in bombing. BELTS TAKE FIRST INTER - FRUT GAME Win From A, T. 0., 22-10; Ore gon Club Breaks Fiji 4-4 Tie in Last Minute of Play. Teams Exhibit Rough Playing and Lack of Science; Next Meet Tuesday. The first games of the interfraternity schedule were played on Saturday after noon, when the Delta Tans won from the A. T. O. five by a 22-10 score, and the Oregon Club <inintet downed the Fijis by the close score of 6-4. The first game was decidedly lacking in shooting, for each team attempted to shoot time and again, but could not find the rim. Oxman. of the losers, man aged to shoot a few baskets after many efforts, and kept the Delt’s score from mounting higher by some good guarding. Mortimer Brown was the shining light for the winners. Practically every bas ket was shot by him, some of them from difficult angles. The contest was a rough affair from beginning to end, and both teams were pretty badly tired out when the referee’s whistle announced the end of the fray. Teams Show Lack of Scionce. The second game was noted for the absence of any basketball science at all. The Phi flams began with a rush, and scored two baskets in the first few moments of play- From that time on, 'however, not another point was scored by them. Gamble, of the Oregon Club, managed to ring one just before the end of the first period, and the first half stood 4-2, with the Fijis on the long end. During the second half not a single point was made by either team until the last minute of play, when Kng lish, substituting for Weins, shot a beau tiful basket from mid-floor. This evened the count and called for five mimic i’ i .l.a time in—irtTirti—m—vu ' ,ik off the tie. For fully four minutes it appeared as if the contest would end with the score 4-4, but Estes, of the (Continued on page four) HUES GOOD FOB B. 0. T. C. IT 0BEG0N Senator Chamberlain Favors Plan, Says President Campbell in Telegram. University Head Member of Im portant Committees in Chicago Convention. Oregon stands a good chance to ob tain a reserve officers’ training camp, according to a telegram • received by L. II. Johnson, comptroller of the Uni versity, from President Campbell yes terday. President Campbell said that he had conferred with Senator George L. Chamberlain, chairman of the com mittee on military affairs, and that the senator was very favorable to the plan No more details were contained in the telegram, hut it is probable that the rating will be secured this spring, as Lieutenant Colonel John Leader also has been working for it, and has been promised support by the military au thorities. The president is now in Chicago at tending a joint meeting of the National Association of State Universities, As sociation of Endowed Universities, and the Association of American Colleges. President Campbell is vice-president of the first-named association. The meeting is being held for the pnr pose of offering the facilities of Amer ican universities and colleges to the country. Students, faculty, buildings and equipment are to tie offered to the government to aid in the war. Regulations respecting the drafting of college students of draft age are also to be drawn up and submitted to the government. President Campbell is serving on some very important com mittees and may be compelled to go back to Washington again before lie re turns to the campus. Karl Onthank, secretary to the presi dent, looks for him to return about 1" *"*n with Mrs. Campbell, left for the east December JO, Mrs. Campbell going to Joplin, Mo., to visit their daughter, Mrs. Sidney Henderson, formerly Lucia Campbell GLASS MEETINGS TO BE HELD AT ASSEMBLY HOUR Senior Play Junior Week-End, Soph Shirts and Freshman Glee Will Bo Brought Up at Sessions. Class meetings " ill be held during the regular I'niversity assembly hour tomor row. The seniors, in the lecture room in Heady hall, v.ill discuss the senior play, and Charles Hundore, president of the • lass, will appoint committees to ar range for it. Plans for inter-class bas ketball will also he considered. In the absence of George Cook, presi dent of the junior class, who enlisted last month. Ella Dews, vice-president, "ill preside over the HUO's in the Ore gon build:ng. Outlining the junior week end program will ho the principal busi ness of the meeting. Green shirts, as a mark of distinction for sophomores, will he voted upon at the sophomore meeting in Guild hall. Keports on this subject will oe made by Ev.-rett Pixley. Sophomore basket ball ana a sophomore party eons' tuto llie other matters to he decided Comini'tees in charge of the fresh man glee, to he held February j(>, in the armory, will report at the f.esh man meeting in Villard hall. DANCES TO FOLLOW GAMES IN ARMORY, POSSIBILITY Executive Committee Discusses Feasi bility of. Plan; Grebo and Com fort on Council. The advisability of scheduling, in the Eugene armory, basketball games, to he followed by informal dances, "as dis cussed at the executive council meeting held yesterday afternoon. No definite plans were made, hut it is possible that later in the year such games followed by dances may lie held. The council sanctioned the men’s glee club trip to American Iuake, the end of this month. The club will sing at St. Helens, American Lake and Portland. A discussion of student body finances for the year indicates that the student body is running about even, and per haps may come out with a little money ahead. Football broke about even. The council also voted money for the numerals to be awarded freshmen tak ing part in major sports. These class numerals are to be worn on the fresh men caps. James Sheehy, president of the stri dent body, has appointed Charles Com fort to succeed Tjynn McCredle, and Walter Grebe to succeed Walter Myers as members of the student council. Mc Crcdie and Myers resigned at the close of last term. MRS. ROSE Y. W. SPEAKER Evangelist’s Address to Bo Followed by Recognition Service. Mrs. (I. Ij. Itoso, who has been as sisting Rev. Mr. Rose in the revival services at the Christian church for the Past week, will speak to the University women at the meeting of the Y. W. U. A., to be held on Wednesday at 4 o’clock. Following the address, the recogni tion service for the 15 new members will be held. The candle service, which is a part of the ceremony that has been adopted this year, will he held, and as many as possible are urged to be pres ent for the occasion FOURTH SON IN SERVICE S. W. Jacobs of Marshfield on Campus for Third Ordnance Course. S. W. Jacobs, of Marshfield, n mem ber of the third ordnance class, will be tile fourth son of the Jacobs family to enter military service. lie was on the campus Tuesday making arrangements to join the course, hut" left in the eve ning to return to Marshfield to attend the funeral of a brother, who died of pneumonia at an aviation training camp in California. DR. W. D. SMITH HONORED Made Councillor Corddlera Section by American Geological Society. Or. Warren O. Smith, head of th« ored by the lieologiejl Society of Amer ica, which recently elected him councillor of the Cordillera section. The geologi - .1 society is composed of the leading geolo gists of the country I TRACK COACH DRW PICTUREf GLOOM ' Goreczky Only Remnant Left From Former Team—Call for New Men to Be Made Next Week. I - Hayward Says He Wants Any body Out Who Can “Put Foot Before Other.” Coach Bill Hayward paints a gloomy picture when he talks of Oregon’s pros poets on the track tor this spring. The ranks of the track team havs been practically depleted by enlistments into the various branches of militai y and naval service. Oscar Goreczky ,s the only old man in school, and owh.g to a recent and serious illness, it is veiy dotibtfol if he will ho able to turn one. "A track man cannot be built in « single day," said Coach Hayward, “»t takes weeks and months of hard, steady work, and most, of the old men arc gone. It is very doubtful that Ooroczkj will be strong enough to work out witl. a track team.” “Hank” Foster, of last year’s fresh man team, is one possibility that the conch is relying upon, principally. Tin, few remaining old men and new can didates for the track team will he caHtil to report and the work of transforma tion will start in about a week. Hay ward announces. “When the call comes. I want evei man that can put one foot before the other to respond," said the coach. “O. A. O. Iras already called her team into action, and their recruits are backed by a number of old men. Tf the men will come out regularly and give me everything there is in them, I will makt, a team- 1 know that it is going to In hard for anyone to give much time t.< - athletics because of the great amoun: of work that has been put upon 'then by the now system of military trainin' and science that the University has adopted, and some of the schools tin. t we will go up against have not been so drawn oil by enlistments and are much hotter able to put out a team, hit this will not keep Oregon from shov ing the old Oregon spirit.” Girls at Campus Red Cro$.i Break Previous Record. Captains of Each Squad Win Check Hour’s Attendance; Talks to Be Given. Six hundred surgical dressings, the largest number of dressings turned out in one afternoon’s w*rk, were mad' yesterday between I an% by 00 gir’ > who came to the V. W. C. A. to wor! Captains have been elected to checi up on the attendance for each hour, an I to assist the instructors in any wa.i possible. Beginning with yesterday, it is planned to have some speaker addres* the girls for 10 minutes each day while they are working, on some current wai topic. It is thought that in this way that the girls who are economizing or. time so ns to be able to devote it to th« Red Cross, will thus reecive informa tion on war topics. Yesterday Dr. Jo seph Schaefer rend President Wilson’s speeeh to congress The captains of the sounds, in the order of their squads, uro Erma Hough, Claire Gazlcy, Ella Dews, Beatrice Thurston, Mabel Rankin, Hazel Ruda baugh, Dorothy Dunbar, Virginia Wal ker, Virginia Hales, Jeannette Moss, Adelaide Rake, Essie McOtrire. Lucille Stanton, I’eggy Crim. Helen Brcutou, Dorothy ('oilier, and Eruuces Elisabeth Baker. BOB RIGGS LEARNS FLYING Last Year’s Junior Attends San Diego School tor Aviators. Robert Riggs, a member of the junior class in the University last year, ii taking work at the San Diego aviatioi school. Higgs came to the University ■i iiiui iilimmi Ii i’.ifrr IIP Wilt li IflTYi"-" her of the Alpha Tuu Omega fraternit /. lie writes that all the fault he has ,x> find with army life as he lives it at San Diego, is that the birds make 'iin ashamed of himself.