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 HARRY N, CRAIN . William Hose! tine . Robert O. McNary ..... Beatrice Thurston . Douglas Mullarky . Melvin T. Solve . Pearl Craine .. Assistants . EDITOR ... News Editor Make-Up Editor Women’s Editor Feature Editor Dramatic Editor Society Editor Elsie Fitzmnurice, Dorothy Duniway, Helen Brenton, Lieth Abbott, Herman Bind, Bess Colrnan, Adelaide Hake, Aieiunder Brown, Levant Pease, Helen Man ning, Walter Schade, John Houston. JEANNETTE CALKINS . BUSINESS MANAGER Catherine Dobie . Circulation Manager Lee Bartholomew .Advertising Manager for January .. Assistants Lyle Bryson, Harris Ellsworth, Eve Hutchison, Madeline Slotboom. Promptness and accuracy in the matter of delivery is what the Emerald seeks to obtain. If you are not getting your paper regularly, make a complnnit, but make it direct to the Circulation M anager. Address all news end editorial complaints to the Editor. PHONES Manager 177-J News and Editorial Rooms 655 Editor 841 Businesss Office 1200 CONDEMN THE SLACKER. Inspection next Tuesday. On that day Governor Withy combe will pass on the military work that is being done at the University, and it is to be expected that his impressions will be influenced largely by the showing made in comparison with the 0. A. C. cadets, whom he has inspected annually since his elec tion. Some time during the following week it is probable that the commanding officer from Camp Lewis will review the battalion and early in February the student companies will pass under the critical eye of the Commandant of the Western Department, in a review that will practically determine whether or not Oregon se cures a Reserve Officers Training Corps rating or not. When one stops to consider the real significance of these events to the University and that the nation is now in the thick of the greatest of the world’s wars, it is hard to understand and almost impossible to excuse one type of student that has made its appearance during the past week. We are speaking of the few who appear to have considered military drill as an entertaining fad during the first few days, but who have now tired of it. They are the ones who, for no particular reason, report to their com panies late, sluff the hour of work with the least expenditure of physical and mental exertion possible and grasp at the first pos sibity of being excused that presents itself. To them “a date with Rosie” or the picture shows seem to be the only bright spots in : life. It is true that we have something to consider other than the newly established courses in military drill. The government in urging college men to stay in school until called, does so with the expectation they will continue to pursue the lines of study that will fit the,m for more efficient service later. Education as usual is what the government requests of the universities and colleges •of the country and it is imperative that the normal routine of studies and student activities shall continue. These, however, are not the things which the students of Oregon and other uni versities are being asked to give time from. They are being asked, and the seriousness of the situation demands, that they give their spare time—all of it if necessary—to preparing them selves for military service. As has been said often before, it is not a matter of compul sion, but a matter of duty, of patriotism. It is just as much a duty for the men who are training under Colonel Loader to get every possible thing they can out of the instruction as it is for the thousands of men who are training in the cantonments and the American camps in France to grasp every opportunity to in crease their efficiency as soldiers. There are greater reasons for the students to take it upon themselves to do as much as they can instead of as little as they can. Rather than being in any ways “cocky” the college student of these times should be the most serious-minded of any. While others have given up their hopes, ambitions and op portunities to enter the Army or Navy and train themselves to fight the nation’s battles, the college man is allowed, urged, to stay with his studies. Where the opportunities for future life of the men now in the service are being steadily lessened, those of the college man are being increased. It is entirely probable that every man now training in the University battalion will be called upon to make some use or other of the instruction he is now receiving before the war is over. Before many months have passed it is likely that most of those who are physically able will be in service, perhaps in the trenches, many as officers leading units of men for whose lives and safety they will be responsible. The man, be he student or not, who wavers in the slightest de gree from the demands made upon him is committing a crime against his nation and against humanity—he is a SLACKER. Only active co-operation on the part of every student can in sure the complete success of the military drill program now operating upon the campus. The student who shirks even the slightest duty expected of him is a double slacker—a slacker to his nation and a slacker to Oregon. It is probable, and we hope true, that the few instances where students have laid down be fore their plain duty to do all they can, have been due to a lack of serious consideration of the task which faces them as citizens of_the_JJnited Static, hut- .-it. l.rinf. ih» ir .-■■"Siw.r demned and scorned by every true Oregon student and every loyal American. The student who invents some flimsy excuse to escape a lit tie more drill work than he is compelled to do and then gloats over it as an accomplishment to be proud of is to be pitied, but even pity is often wasted for want of intelligence to appreciate. ACORNS FROM HOLLOW OAK THAT SAVED KING TO GROW ON CAMPUS Colonel Leader Brings Last Crop From Historic Tree of England WMch Hid Charles II From Cromwell and Preserved Stuart Dynasty. Acorns from the oak tree which hid Charles II. of England, then a prince, from discovery by pursuing Cromwal lians after the battle of Worcester, in the middle of the seventeenth century, are being sprouted by H. M. Fisher, superintendent of the University grounds, and will later in the spring be planted on the University of Oregon campus.. The acorns were given to the University by Colonel John Leader, commnn«nnt of the University battalion, who himself gathered them from the famous Boscobel oak, as the tree that saved the Stnart dynasty, is known in English t istory. As the story goes, the prince’s pur suers had followed him as far as the oak. trep, and losing track of him in the wood, stopped tc confer, when a slight ncise nearby almost precipitated r search of the vicinity. The timely appearance of an owl quieted the sus picions of the soldiers, and saved the head of the hiding monarch. To this day certain English regiments hear the oak instead of the lanral on their crest, to commemorate the incident. Boscobel Oak Is Old. '["he Boscobel oak, which grows in the puTk of the Duke of Grafton, has about outlived its span of centuries, accord ing to Colonel Leader, and this year produced only a few over a hundred j acorns. Just before leaving England for the United States, Colonel Leader, who was wotmded in the battle of the Somme in command of hia regiment, the Royal Irish Rifles, was visiting with Mrs. Leader's relatives, the family of the Duke of Grafton, and while there col lected all the acorns of the historic tree and brought them with him to Eugene. Oregon secured the last crop of acorns from the oak, for after Colonel Leader left England, the tree was struck by lightning, and destroyed. — Acorns Are Sprouting. Although no special spot on the Uni versity of Oregon campus has as y^t been selected for the planting of the oaks, Mr. Fisher says that they will probably be planted along a lane or drive, the location of which will be decided upon later by the board of re gents or by a committee named for that pnrpose. Of the 100 acorns given to Mr. Fisher by Colonel Leader, Mr. Fisher expects at least 40 or 50 to sprout, and these will be transplanted to a specially protected bed somewhere on the campus, to grow to the proper siee before being finally planted. If by any chance these acorns should fail to grow, Colonel Leader is sprout ing some himself, and has offered to see that the University gets some sprouts of the Boscobel oak in any event, says Mr. Fisher. Team in No Shape for Game With La Grande Five; Weak on Passing and All-Round Playing. Next Contest One Week Off, Practice to Begin Next Week in Real Earnest. With the first game less than a week j off, the freshman team is in rery bad rendition, according to Coach Dean Wal ker. In a practice game Thursday eve ning. they were just able to down the Eugene high school five by the score of IS to 13 nnd a decided lack of every kind of basketball science was noticeable dur ing that contest. The men bunched on me side of the court time and agRin and did not work together at any time during the fray. "They showed uo signs of ever having been coached,” Walker said after the game. “Not onee did I see what you could call real passing, and the hunching np around the baskets was noticeable all through the game.” The first game is to be played in the gymnasium on next Thursday evening with the La Grande team as the oppo nents.This eastern Oregon aggregation is making a trip to Portland to play the Franklin high five of that place and will make a side tonr to Engene to try their skill against the babes. Purno, who has been ont of the line-up for two weeks, played almost a half of the game against the Eugene high five, but hail to be taken ont because of the after effects of his osuse of tousilitis from which he has just recovered. It is doubt ful whether or not he will be able to break into game next week but the coach is hoping for the best. No practice was held today as the coach thought that a rest would do the men a great deal of good. Practice will commence in earnest again on Monday in preparation for the initial game. The next games will be two with the O A. O. rooks at Corvallis on February 1st and 2nd. Those two contests will be preliminaries to the games between the Varsity and the Aggie regulars. Coach Walker expects to make rapid strides with his five before the time of these contests, as the freshman are ont for blood to down the stain of the defeat of the first year football team last season. BARS CIGARETTE ADS The Minnesota stndont senate has bur ied ri curette advertisements from the l niversity daily, which will mean a loss or at least $400 a year to the iwper. PURDUE HELD LIABLE. Tlie student council of Purdne recently received a bill front the Fort Wayne end Norther nIndiana Traction company TTshtTf the parade following the Y. M. (\ A. oanipniitn. The ease was later dis missed because this is the first offense i f this kind and the damage was of minor mmm'anmnu Calls Hostess Houses Great Boon to Camp Lewis. Urges ®hat Everything Possi ble Be Done to Raise Funds for This Work. Tie following letter has been received from Nicholas Jsoreguy, last year pres ident of the student body of the Uni versity, who is now a second lieutenant at Camp Lewis. The letter came in re sponse to a telegram sent by the Uni versity Y. W. C. A., asking for an opin ion in regard to the Y. W. C. A. work at Oatup Lewis. ‘fTo My Friends of the Oregon Y. M. C. A.: “I was surprised, indeed, the other morning to receive yonr telegram ask ing my co-operation in the campaign which is now going on. I assure you I wasted no time in reaching as many Oregon men as possible, seeing some personally and reaching others by mail. Girts’ Work Praised. “I have read with pleasure of the manner in which Oregon girls are tak ing up different lines of war work this year, and I can assure you it is all be ing appreciated. “I am sure that anything the Oregon students can do to raise funds for the Y. W. C. A. work in army camps should be undertaken by all means. It would | be impossible to fully express the ap preciation which every soldier in Camp Lewis feels towards the Y. W. C. A. for its hostess house. "It has brought the home atmosphere into our camp, filling a very urgent need. Prior to the establishment of the hostess house, it was almost out of the ques tion for a soldier to have visitors in camp, even in the best of weather. Since its establishment, already the Y. M. C. A. has entertained 60.000 guests. 34,000 of whom have been served meals. Can Sit Around Fireplace. “Res assured,' therefore, that when you come to Camp Lewis to visit us we can still sit around the fireplace, as we did on those rainy Sunday afternoons in the days of yore. “With best wishes and hope for suc cess in this and otheT lines of endeavor, I am, yours very sincerely, "NICHOLAS JAURBGUY.” f D A K 0 WOMEN LOYAL All the University of Idaho, oue hun dred and fifty-two University women, were registered by the committee of the Women'* Council of National IYefense. Of those, nineteen are not students bnt hold positions as instructors or are on the University clerical staff. collecting war schemes The University of Kansas is collect in* war schemes and ideas from all the 1111-'"■*■* uauaaiiiMa —*— The purpose is to syndicate the ideas of American institutions of learning for the stood of the nation. 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