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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1918)
OREGON EMERALD Official student body paper of the University of Oregon, published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the college year by the Associated Students. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates §1.00 per year. Single copies, 5c. Advertising rates upon request HAItEY N. CHAIN . William Haseltine . Robert G. McNary .. Beatrice Thurston . Douglas Mullarky . Melvin T. Solve . Paarl Craine . Assistants . EDITOR ... News Editor Make-Up Editor v/omen's Editor Eeatmre Editor Dramatic Editor Society Editor Adelaide I>ake, Victoria C ase, Leith Abbott, Alexander Brown, Dorothy Dun iway, Levant Pease, Waiter Sckade, lie rnntn Lind, John Houston, Helen Man ning, Helen Brenton. JEANNETTE CALKINS .. BUSINESS MANAGER Catherine Dobie . Circulation Manager Lee Bartholomew .Advertising Manager for January .. Assistants Lyle Bryson, Harris Ellsworth, Eve Hutchison, Madeline SLfbootn. Promptness and accuracy in the matter of delivery :'s what the Emerald geeks to obtain. If you arc not getting your paper regularly, make a corap La nit, bnt make it direct to the Circulation M unager. Address all news and editorial complaints to the Editor. Manager f77-J New* and Editorial Rooms 655 PHONES Editor 841 Businesss Office 1200 WHAT ARE YOU DOING? What a chance the war has brought to the student who was prone to bewail the fact that he, or she, “didn’t have a chance” in student activities. There are such students and right now is the time for them to turn their hand to do the thing they have wanted to do. The opportunity for every student to do things has become more than a chance—it is a duty. There are in every social group certain members who, be cause of their initiative, ability, or through circumstances, are the leaders in that group—the directors of its destinies as a group. Almost without exception these persons are the objects of criticism, some of which is warranted, but most of which is inspired by those jealous of the successes obtained by their fel lows and by lack of information as to true conditions. All of these factors are as much alive in the college student body as in the cities, towns, states and other political units which make up the commonwealth. Much the same variance of character is to be found in the composition of the student body of an Amer ican college or university, as is evident in the personnel of the more truly political units of the nation. As it necessitates “all kinds of people to make a world,” with equal truth can it be said to take all kinds of people to compound the student body of a university. Always we have held fast to the conviction that in most things, at least, Oregon was a little different from the average college. We based this conviction not only upon natural pride in our Alma Mater, but also upon the more sane testimony of those who saw us from the outside. But for all this we cannot but admit that our student body is comprised of much the same material that is to be found in the make-up of the population of other institutions like our own—human nature has a way of be ing much the same the world over. We have our leaders and we have our followers, our pessi mists and our optomists, our sluggards and our eccentrics. But here, as elsewhere, the war has acted as a leveler, smooth ing out a common purpose, the natural contradictions of human nature under normal conditions. The greatly increased field of activity for the college stud ent has been widened to include more than the additional tasks of war preparation—it has lessened the part which each can play in the usual students activities (and give his best to the work of war) and open the field to a larger number of men and women. War and its necessarily increased duties have made a place in student body activities for every student. It is necessary that much of the routine of college life con tinue even during such times as these. They can continue only with the support, of each and every student — active, burden sharing support. Today there is an opening for every student in the University in one or another of the many activities of the student body. With more than half of the students formerly participating in these activities gone the burden of continuing them is falling upon the shoulders of a few and falling heavily. Are you doing all that you can—all that you should_all that vou must—for Oregon and for yourself? MOW THEY CALL HER MIZZI Star of Many p rod uutl on s Shortens TonQue-TwU'tjng Name. The erstwhile star of “Sari” and "The Spring Maid," Mi/r i II a j os, ha a split her name in twain, and is now to l># more easily praised aud discussed as simply Mini when Henry \V. Savage tends her to this city with a large east vf singers, ballet, orchestra and dancers 11 the new melodramatic musical com edy, “Pom-Pom." Possibly u leading reason why the saucy star's name has Wen diminutued to ‘\Mitai" is that to her h«s com ' the position once occupied ducp occupied by the much beloved Lotta, on the American stage. lloth have oJiarmed deeply in a wide range of parts, ami hath, while deliciously fern, nine, have played hoys’ parts to the life, sod have seemed to have the power to step across the bounds of se* without i 1 .J.' ■■ ' :■■■: i i . "* hearers. Ami an even more decided comparison <nn'b. drawn in that while each may be classed as .. "coundicune," •hey have found to be a dramatic actress by first instinct. TO ADDRESS SCIENCE CLUB A. C. Dixon Will Review Business Prob lems Thursday 8 P M. at Bungalow. A. C. I>ixon, manager of the Ttooth I Kelly Lumber company, and also a re gent of the University ami chairman of the government food conservation com mitter, will address the science club at the V. \\\ O. A. Bungalow Thursday night. Mr, l>ixon will talk on the prob lems with which the business man of 'Today has to deal. Although the talk is for the science hih particularly, others interested arc invited to attend. The meeting will bo , held at 8 o'clock j Proper class distinction is being pre i served by the seniors of the University i enressee tiy the wearing ,>f derbies and canes. Mustaches were voted out by a majority of one, but the co-eds j dad not vote. Stafford Finds Way to Make Good Gas From Waste Wood A new method of generating at low cost from waste wood, a good quality of gas suitable for distribution to con sumers in towns and cities, has been worked out by Professor O. F. Stafford, head of the chemistry department Professor Stafford’s experiments pr*ve that one pound of dry fir wood, sawmill waste, suoh as usually goes into waste ! burners, will produce about eight cubic feet of gas, having a heating value of 480 British thermal units per cubic foot. The mill waste, thoroughly dried, Ls fed to specially devised carbonizing cham bers, maintained at a high temperature by the burning of charcoal residues made by the gas-producing process. "The large yield of gas, as well as its un usual quality,” said Professor Stafford yesterday, ‘‘is obtained by the produc tion of gas not only from the wood it self more directly, but also as the re sult of the gasification of wood decom position products which ordinarily ap pear as tar and other liquid sub- ^ stances,” Decrease in the cost of producing gas and hence consequent reduction in cost to the consumer, forms one of the great advantages of Professor Stafford’s new method. By nsing waste wood for pro ducing gas, the cost of raw material ranges from nothin;; at all in those places where there is no demand for j “hogged” fuel at a sawmill site, to at most a few cents per thousand cubic feet of gas in localities where liogged wood is sold. In the production of gas from crude oil, the cost of the material is about 40 cents for each thousand feet of gas made with oil at the present prices. Professor Stafford believes that be cause of the scarcity of erode oil and coal available for gas manufacture, and the necessity for economy in these proj ects if wood couid be substituted in making gas, even at the same cost in the end, it would be an advantage in conserving the nation’s supply of oil and coal. “The utilization of wood waste, al ways one of the big problems of con servationists,’’ said Professor Stafford, “is another thing that makes this new method noteworthy.” Beside substituting wood for other gas-making materials in plants already in operation, it will be possible for towns which at present have no plant, to get gas at reasonable prices, if con ditions for getting wood and distributing the gas arc favorable. Operating ex penses in a plant using wood are a lit tle higher than in a plant using oil, but the use of wood has the advantage in the low cost of materials. The Oregon public service commis sion re'l1J*res distributing companies to furnish gas having a heating value of not less than 000 British thermal units per cubic foot, except in Portland, where on account of a decreased price made to the consumer, 575 units is allowed. Keating appliances, says Professor Staf ford, can be adjusted satisfactorily to burn gas carrying 480 units. The com mission would have to grant permission to distribute gas of this heating value, but Professor .Stafford thinks this per mission might readily be granted in view of the decreased cost to the consumer. It is not possible to say now, without further practical tests, just how much the saving to the consumer will be by this new method of producing gas, but considering the low cost of materials, Professor Stafford thinks the costt to the consumer will be considerably less than at present Character and Ideals of Dead Law Student Praised at Service in Portland January 8. Entered University in 1915; Was Member of Delta Theta Phi Fraternity. The funeral services of Seth T,. Smith, senior in the University, who died in Portland January 8. were held at the Portland crematorium, January 10. itev. Heater Poor officiated, -and Miss Daisy Gibson sang, “Abide with Me” and “Be yond the Gates of Paradise.” Judge Henry K. McGinn, who knew Smith when lie was deputy county clerk in the circuit court, paid an eloquent tribute to his memory. lie praised Smith's splendid character and high ideals. Started as Deputy Clerk. Judge McGinn said in part: “1 turn to this young man, whom I had the pleasure of calling my friend. 1 knew him perhaps better than anyone else except his own immediate family lie started out on his career ns a deputy clerk in the court of which 1 was judge. I see this boy who has been taken right off in early manhood, and I say to myself, ‘Did he get everything he was intended to have?’ It is never for us to know. He did everything that he was called upon to do, and he did it like a man. No nran had a more splendid character. No man had higher ambitions, lie did that which was given him to do, and he did it with all his strength. No one will ever say that he was two-faced, no one will ever say that he was untrue, no one will ever snv that he shirked his duty as an em ploye. Had he lived, he would have been n power for good, a leader of mighty movements. Judge Praisos Courage. “1 knew him. ns l say. when he was j m the department of which I was for I tncrly judge. I knew his integrity, and 1 knew his manly courage, and 1 have no hesitation in saying that he did everything that ever was imposed upon him in life, just I ke a man. Seth, we are parting for a little while. We have c une to the parting of the roads, it will not be so very long before we fol low. \ou did your part, and my hope is that we may all do ours, as you did yours- Goodbye, Seth, you were a noble boy. It will be well with thee, thou hast been faithful over a few things, 1 will make thee ruler over many." Was 27 Years Old. Seth Smith entered the University in liU.V majoring in law- Previous to otm . U'a -'..II V- 1 . - - - j ; ing department of the O. K A N. Oo„ until he was appointed deputy county ; clerk, being assigned to the department | undv Judge McGinn. 'FORMER OREGON STUDENT ! JAILED IN SAN FRANCISCO Stanley Fenton Held for Posing as Army Officer and Passing Bad Checks. Was at Stanford. Hugh Stanley Fenton, who entered tin' University .this fail, as a freshman, but withdrew after a month to enter Stanford, has been sentenced to two weeks’ imprisonment and to pay a $250 fine, after pleading guilty to a charge of posing as an officer of the United States army and passing bogus checks, according to a story carried in the Fri day issue of the San Francisco Exam iner. Fenton, says the Examiner's story, posed in the uniform of a first lieuten ant, and passed several checks during his career in San Francisco. He wrote across the front of them, "government warrant.” Fenton came from Lewiston, Idaho, and was pledged Sigma Chi while at the University. Soon afterward lie was released because of his alleged connec tion with several bogus fcheck incidents before coming to the University, which had not been straightened up. At Stan ford he was pledged I’hi Gamma Delta, hut again released from his pledge when it was found that his references, pur porting to come from several prominent Stanford "Fijis”, were faked. NEW CLASS ORGANIZING Shorthand Class to Meet Monday and Wednesday Evenings. A shorthand class is being organized, which meets Monday and Wednesday evenings at S o’clock, in Professor l’eter Crockatt's room in the library. Those interni ng to enter this class must be j present next Wednesday evening, as the lessms will commence at that time. The j Gregg shorthand system will be used. FORMER PROF.IN ORDNANCE D. Campbell. Once on School of Music Faculty. Joins U. of 0 Corps. David Campbell, a half-brother of President Campbell, and a member of the class of 10111 in the University, is among the men selected for the third ordnance course, which is scheduled to open Jaunary 14. Campbell has been head of the music department of Whit man College, Walla Walla, Wash, lie was formerly a member of the facidty of the school of music at the University. Thirteen student organizations and as many faculty members of the University of Nebraska have adopted French or phans. Mrs. A True I.undy, 360 *4 11th Av\ E., Nu-bone Corsets. Style Shop.—P.M. DORIS PHOTO SHOP Phen.l -II 5-6-7-B Cherry Building Don’t forget Bob's Barber Shop—just around the corner, on TUx. <~XK"X~x~XKK~x~x~x-x~XK~X“X~x~:~x~x**x,<~x~x«fe,9,$*)&*^*^'] Mae Marsh — IN — “THE CINDERELLA MAN.” You can’t help but enjoy this picture. EUGENE THEATRE Admission 11c and 17c. 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