O REG O N
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VOL. 19.
EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1918.
NO. 4$. Uf
Lieut.-Col. Leader Is Highly
Pleased With Review Be
| fore Gov. Withycombe
j ?!: and Staff.
Next Review Put Off Until
Camp Lewis Officer Can Be
Secured; Parade Friday.
Lieutenant Colonel John Leader, com
mandant of the University battalion, was
well pleased with the showing made by
the battalion on Tuesday in their re
view before Governor Withycombe. “I
have never seen anything like it,” he
said today. ‘‘I don’t believe that anyone
but myself appreciated the finp poinis
of the work.”
In a general order issued by Colonel
Leader yesterday he said: “The com
mandant desires to congratulate all
ranks of the battalion on the very re
markable display they made yesterday
before the governor. The steadiness
and precision they showed was worthy
of a veteran battalion, and if the pres
ent morale and energy continues, the
battalion should in a short time be sec
ond to none in the United States.”
March on Friday.
The itinery is now being worked out
for a march through town to be taken .
by the battalion on Friday at 1 o'clock,
If the weather permits.
Presentation of the colors will take
place either a week from Friday or the
following Monday, when the American
flag and the University flag will be
presented to the battalion, the custom
being for every battalion to have the
two flags. At that time there will be
* review. Mrs. P. L. Campbell and Mrs.
g. C. Dixon have been asked to preside
over the ceremonies.
Next Inspection Uncertain.
Colonel Leader can state nothing defi_
site at tfce present time concerning the
aext inspection date. Due to the in
ability of Camp Lewis to supply the
battalion with an inspecting officer, in
spection. will probably not be scheduled
again for three or four weeks.
FIRST COHICERT FRID1Y
Men’s Glee Club Will Give Pro
gram at Creswell.
Prof. Arthur Faguy-Cote and
Curtiss Peterson to Be
Soloists.
The- men’s glee club will go to Cres
well Friday night, to give its first con
cent of the year. The club has been
working out the program for some time,
and has arranged a two-part program,
»f songs and stunts.
Arthur Faguy-Cote, instructor in the
school of music, will sing, if the cold
from which he is now suffering is better,
[kirtiss Peterson, baritone, is to sing, and
Perry A rant will give a piano solo,
rkese, with songs by the club, will form
he first part of the program.
A jazz hand is to be one of the fea
:ures of the second part, which, ns no
rurtain is to be used, will consist of the
itants woven skilfully together.
Merle Moore, as a magician, and Wal
ler Grebe, with his long trombone, are
to amuse during the evening. A female
mpersonator, whose identity is closely
^dden. will be one of the big hits. A
Jnmedy skit and Oregon songs will con
iutk* the program.
T^e glee club tour this year will in
clude a trip to Camp Lewis, where a
toneert will be given the soldiers there.
°EAC0CK HEADS ATHLETICS
former Student in Charge of Work at
Hill Military Academy.
Albert B. Peacock, ex ’18, former
Dregon track star, has been engaged as
lirector of all athletics at the Hill Mili_
rjy Academy at Portland. Peacock has
ilready assumed his duties and is work
ng hard to bolster up Hill's basketball
:eam. according to a story carried on
be Oregonian sport page, and accom
»anied by Peacock's picture. Since leav
ng the University a year ago last
ipring. Peacock has been attending the
nedical school of the University in Porc
tnd.
NEW SPANISH TEACHER IS
WIFE OF OREGON GRADUATE
Husband. Member of 1913 Class, Is En
listed in Coast Artillery at
Fort Stevens.
Mrs. Anna Benton Zimmerman, who
took up her duties this morning as in
structor in Spanish as successor to Pro
fessor Harthan de Fell, is the wife
of Howard K. Zimmerman, a graduate
of the University with the class of ’13.
That Mrs. Zimmerman was the wife
of an Oregon graduate was not known
until her arrival here yesterday.
Following his graduation from the
University. Mr. Zimmerman entered the
I Stanford law school, where he met Mrs.
Zimmerman, and married her. He prac
ticed law in Astoria for two years aft
er leaving Stanford, and is now enlisted
in the coast artillery at Fort Stevens.
Mrs. Zimmerman has been on the
Stanford faculty, but previous to her
coming to Oregon was taking post
graduate work there.
Hr. Aurelio M. Espinosa, head of
the department of romance languages at
Stanford, speaks highly of Mrs. Zim
merman’s knowledge of Spanish. Heads,
of schools where she taught say she has
a good command of the language.
Professor Harthan says that as yet
he is undecided as to his future plans.
Faculty, State Employees,
Escape Income Tax.
Members Having Outside Means
Will Come Under Law;
Some Students Liale.
AH instructors on the University fac
ulty, including President Campbell, and
the other employes of the University in
the business office and on the grounds,
will be exempt from paying income tax
in so far as their compensation from
the University is concerned.
This is the decision reached at the
University business office from a para
graph under personal exemptions from
■the income tax, which provides that
“the compensation of all officers and
employes of the state or any sub-divi-1
sion thereof, except in so far as the
compensation is paid by the federal gov
ernment,” shall be exempt.
The employes of the University are
held to come under the provision, as
they are under compensation from the
state. Some of the faculty members
who have an outside income will come
under the tax. The income tax law in
this case holds for employes of the state
the same as other individuals, and all
single members of the faculty will have
to pay tax if their outside income i
exceeds $1000. Married men come un_
dA the tax when their income is above
$2000.
Some of the students of the Univer
sity have an income of more than $1000
a year, and will come under the tax.
SENIOR PARTY TO BE DANCE
May Be at Kappa Sigma House Soon,
Says Jeannette CaJkins.
The senior party is coming off soon,
and in ail probability will be a dance,
•according to Jeannette Calkins, head of
the party committee. The date will be
definitely decided upon before the next
student body meeting.
The Kappa Sigma house has been
offered for the occasion, and the ma
jority of students seem to favor a dance
cow rather than a picnic in the spring.
Owing to the number of social engage
ments on the calendar at present it is
hard to find an open night.
The committee which was to have met
Tuesday, was postponed, and will meet
'today to arrange for further details.
CO-ED DEBATE TRIAL SOON
Women Who Will Enter Contest Asked
to File Names at Once.
A tryout for co-ed debate will be held
February 5 at 4:15 p. m., in room 3
of Johnson hall. At this meeting pros
pective contestants will discuss the sub
ject of great newspapers in cities con
solidating into corporations. This will i
probably be the question selected for
feminine debate this year, according to
Professor B. W. Prescott, head of the ]
department of public speaking.
All persons wishing to try out are
asked to file their names with Professor
Prescott at once.
The question for debate will be an
nounced during the week following the
tryout
GEN. FOLTZ TO HELP
Students Will Go to Camp Lew
is to Learn Military Sci
ence; Choice May Be
Underclassmen.
U. MAY RIVAL WEST POINT
Dean Allen Says That With
Colonel Leader in Command
Oregon Prospects Bright.
“Oregon should have as well an
equipped military department as West
Point, with Colonel John Leader as com
mandant, and the specialized training
that will be brought back to the Oregon
battalion by the men who are to be
sent from here to Camp Lewis for in
tensified training in musketry, bombing,
bayoneting, trench work, and machine
gun operation,’’ said Dean Eric W. Allen,
of the school of journalism, acting bat
talion adjutant, after having inspected
the military organizations at Camp Lewis
and the University of Washington.
(However Dean Allen corrects the
statement which appeared in Wednes
day’s Oregonian, that Brigadier General
Frederick Foltz, of Camp Lewis, would
accept all University of Oregon men
with Colonel Leader’s recommendation
into all branches of military science,
and that the Oregon battalion would be
reviewed by the commanding officer from
Camp Lewis nest week.
“The idea that General Foltz has
thrown down the bars, permitting us to
send any number of men up there as
candidates for commissions, is a mis
take,” said Doan Allen. “The present
plans are to send a few men to Camp
Lewis for perhaps a month's intensive
training in special lines of military sci
ence, and these men will return to the
University as instructors in these spe
cial branches.
Foltz Pleased with Oregon.
“The University of Oregon battalion
is not in the jurisdiction of General
Foltz, and he will conduct no review
here,” stated Dean Allen.
‘The courtesy of General Foltz in
offering us government instruction is a
precedent—the first time granted to
any institution which is not recognized
by the government as a regular train
ing camp,” said he.
The men selected to be sent to Camp
Lewis will probably not be from the
senit r class, or men who are eligible for
the draft, according to Doan Allen, since I
the object is to choose men who will
remain at the University for a long
enough time to give instruction in the
branches in which they have specialized.
Two conditions will be required of men
sent to Camp Lewis: that the men wear
tile regulation uniform, and that there
(Continued on page three)
C. V. OYMENT TO VISIT
CAMPUS IBIS SPRING
Miss Grace Edgington and
Dean Stone From Montana
May Be Here, Too,
Says Allen.
Was Hostess House Guest at
Camp Lewis; Talked With
Oregon Boys.
Frofessor C. V. Dyment, head of the
department of journalism at the Uni
versity of Washington, and former iti
stmetor of journalism at the Univer
sity of Oregon, may visit Eugene about
Easter time, according to Dean Eric
W. Allen, of the school of journalism.
Dean Allen saw Professor Dyment while
attending the meeting of the State Press
association and the Northwest Confer
1 enee of Teachers of Journalism, in Seat
tle last week.
Professor Dyment expects to come to
Portland for a slight operation which
will make him eligible for enlistment
in the army. While here he will be
the guest of Dean and Mrs. Allen.
During the week of Professor Dy
men’t visit, Miss Grace Edgington, U.
of O., ’16, and now assistant instructor
in the department of journalism at the |
University of Washington, and Dean A.
L. Stone, of the University of Montana
school of journalism, may be in Eugene
! also for a short time. In that case, says
Dean Allen, it will be possible to hold
another meeting of the northwest con
ference of teachers of journalism, be
fore the next scheduled meeting, which
is to take place a year from now in
Eugene.
The department of journalism at the
University of Washington is just in the
process of being changed from a de
partment to a school of journalism, and
Professor Dyment is beginning to re
spond to the name of “Dean” Dyment,
according to Dean Allen.
While at American Dake as guest, of
(Brigadier General Foltz, commandant
at Camp Lewis, whom he met at the
meeting of the State Press association,
where both were on the program, Dean
AHen sow the University of Oregon men
in the hospital unit there, and other
Oregon men stationed at the camp, and
was entertained at the Y. W. C. A.
'hostess house.
‘The Y. W. C. A. hostess house is
the greatest thing at the camp,” says
Dean Allen. “It makes the difference
in many cases between a band of young
hoodlums and a group of gentlemen.”
Dean Allen describes the meeting of
the Northwest Conference of Journalism
Teachers, as being particularly military
in interest this yeaT, and says that it
was of extreme value to those attend
U)g in stimulating the work being done
And mutually jerking up any laxness
that is felt to have appeared in the
conference from year to year.
Tricks Used to Deceive Foe
Explained by Dr. Caswell
Methods of deceiving the enemy
through camouflage, were explained by
Dr. A. E. Caswell, instructor in physics,
who addressed Colonel Deader’s class
in military science, Wednesday night.
The science of camouflage, according
to Dr. Caswell, has extended from the
grass mask worn by the sharpshooter
and the camouflage of heavy artillery \
until now entire roads are camouflaged
to protect them from observation from
airplanes. In one instance cited, the
French troops covered a line of trenches
with canvas and painted a roadway on
the upper side so as to confuse aerial
observers.
The camouflaging of roadways is ac
complished by the placing of strips of
canvas at right angles to the road, and
at frequent intervals with banners run
ning across, much as bunting is strung
across our streets on the Fourth of
July. WTiile this does not conceal the
road, it prevents the observation of
passing troops.
One lantern slide shown by Dr. Cas
well during his lecture, illustrated a case
in which a small powder house was made
to represent a chicken coup, with a hen
painted on the wail to carry out the de
ception.
The comparatively new art of camou
flage has manifested itself in a number ,
of other ways during the present war.;
One night the Germans removed a large
tree which had been standing between j
the trenches in “no man’s land”, and re
placed it with a camouflage tree, with
places for three or four sharpshooters.
The tree was covered with bark-—the
original had no limbs at the time of its
removal. German sharpshooters from
their position in the tree, had free play
on the allied trenches nearby for several
days before the deception was noticed.
Infantrymen in the trenches cover
their faces with hnrlap torn front sand
bags, or cover their faces with mud.
The trenches aTr dug in a zig-zag fash,
ion with uneven abutments, so that the
caps of the front line men blend in with
the irregular lines. When this is car
ried out, it is impossible to see a man
at a greater distance than 16 or 20
yards. In cases where sand bags are
used in fortifications, they are often
painted various colors to confuse the
eye so that f fie holes cannot be easily
seen between them, In some instances
rifle holes are made in the center of
the sandbags ,n order to further avoid
observation.
The practice of painting tents near
the front line trenches with different
colors, leaving heavy and light blotches,
is being adopted by the French, and to
a lesser extent by the English troops.
The purpose here, as in a great percent
age of camouflage work, is to confuse
the outlines. It has been found that
the human eye is aided more by out
lines than by colors.
GIRLS’ GLEE CLUB MAY
SING FOR CAMP LEWIS
Guarantee of $400 All That Is Necessary
to Include Cantonment in
Annual Trip.
A guarantee of £4(X> will assure the
IGirls' Glee club a trip to Amerkun
ILake. probably the second week in Feb
ruary, after the Men's Glee club sings
at the cantonment. The Girls’ Glee club !
is anxiously awaiting word from Camp
Lewis. Conceits in several Portland
high schools are also being looked for
ward to. but as yet all plans are uncer
tain. The manager of the club has not
yet been chosen.
Two new sopranos, Virginia Peterson
Walker and Kate Schafer, will take the
place of Betty Bruere and Mrs. Peter
Orockatt, who have withdrawn.
The personnel of the club is Melba
Williams, Gladys Van Nuys, Pearl
Craine, Margaret Mansfield, Adah Mc
Mnrphey, Helen Biggs, Gayle Roberts.
Jessie Garner, Helen Bracht Maurice,
Cora Ilosford, Martha Tinker, May Oor
1'ron, Dorothy Wootton, Joy Judkins,
Emma Wootton, Hester Hurd, Minnie
Johnson. Kate Schafer, Kate Chathurn,
Beatrice Wetherbee, Helen Watts, Krma
KeitWey, Vera De.rflinger, Adelaide
I/ako, Helen Manning, Emma Grebe,
Emma Stevenson.
Hopes of Reunion of
Oregon Men in Berlin.
Clark Thompson Only U. of 0.
Man in Marine Company;
May Cross Soon.
Clark Thompson, a student in the
University last year, who is now with
the 112th company, Eighth regiment of
United States marines, and the. only
Oregon man in his company, has writ- <
ten a letter to Karl Onthan-k, secretary
to the president, telling of his appre
ciation of the copies of the news bulle
tins now being mailed to Oregon men in
the service.
“I was very glad to get the news
from the University, and J was espe
cially interested to see the list of men
and women from the University in the
service,” said Thompson in his letter.
‘This list is especially interesting to the
boys in the service, as the majority of
us will probably ho in France by sum
mer and can possibly stage a reunion
in Paris, or mayhap in Berlin.”
Telling of his experiences as the only
Oregon man in his company, Thompson
says:
“I am the only TT. of O. man in this
regiment, and I often long for some
one to talk old times with. There is
an old O. A. C. man next door to my
tent. 1 got hold of the picture of the
Iron Woman standing on the Krppi
Sig lawn, and of course 1 showed it to
him. His face was a Btndy. I kidded
him extensively until Thanksgiving, aft
er which I maintained a discreet silence.
I wish some of you Bed Cross subscrib
ers could have Rcen us opening the
Christmas packages you made possible.
'You might not think a grown up man
would go crazy over a writing tablet,
some gum, stick candy, tobacco, n pencil,
and a few other little things, but when
those packages were given out, not a
man was absent, and the proverbial kid
with a red wagon had nothing on us
when we opened them.”
GIRLS LEARN TO MAKE j
WAR TIME DOUGHNUTS
Women in Miss Tingle's Domestic Sci
ence Class Cook Without Eggs,
Milk or Sugar.
Over in the domestic science rooms in
Mary Spiller hall, girls in Miss IAlian
Tingle's rooking classes are busy learn
ing to make ‘‘good things which can ho
ejitpn without a pang of conscience in
war times.”
Among the latest of these are butter
less, eggless, milkless and sugarless
doughnut. Miss Tingle, head of the
department, carefully explained to the
aspiring cooks, that, doughnuts are not
essentially Ilooverish, hut if they nre
cooked in vegetable fats, and foHow a
war-time recipe, they may he used at
rare intervals.
Each co-ed had made her own batch
of doughnuts and was proudly carrying
home a half dozen. Miss Tingle said
all the girls hail done very well, but
that Erma Keftbley’g doughnuts "took
the pie” that day.
The general ingredients of the dough
nuts arp mashed potatoes and graham
flour, thickened with syrup.
KIPP) SIGS DEFEAT
PHI DELTy OLD LEAD
Floyd Ellis Scores All Four
Points for Victors; Teams
Are Very Evenly
Matched.
A. T. 0. WINS OVER BETA
Score Is 6 to 5; Losers Show
Weakness to Make
Possible Baskets.
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
♦ ♦
♦ DOUGHNUT LEAGUE. ♦
♦ - ♦
♦ Standing of the Teams. +
♦ (Standings include games played ♦
♦ Tuesday
♦
night.)
Section
♦ Teams—
♦ Kappa Signv ..
♦ Phi Delta Theta.
W.
o
. 1
. 1
♦ Oregon Club
♦ 'Sigmu Nu .0
♦ Phi Ganvmn I>elta 0
♦ Section Two
♦ Teams— W. I
One.
Ij.
0
1
1
1
1
♦ ;Sigmn Chi .2
♦
♦
♦
♦
♦ ♦'
Friendly Ilall .. 1
Delta Tnu Delta 2
Alpha Tan Omega 1
Beta Theta Pi.. 0
♦
♦'
T. Pet. ♦
0 1.000 ♦
1 .500 ♦
.500 ♦
.000 ♦
.000 ♦
♦
Pet. ♦
0 l..'#» *
0 l.(K*0 ♦
0 .660 ♦
0 .333 ♦
0 .000 ♦
0
0
1
T.
The Kappa Sigs strengthened their
hold on the lend of section one in the
Doughnut league Tuesday night by de
feating the fast. I*hi Delta Theta team
by the score of 4 to 2. “Doc" Ellis,
the Kappa Sig wild man, scored all four
points for the winners, while Ingram
and Phipps each tossed a foul, making
the two points gathered by the Losers.
The game wes not very fast, bnt. the
teams proved more evenly matelied than
was expected.
Tlie incnrbcTs of the Phi Delt quintet
seemed affected by stage fright, or soma
other peculiar ailment, in the early part
of the game, and lost several good
chances to score. This sudden appear
ance of shaky nerves may he attributed
to tl e large r.nmber of University wo
mm who turned out to see the battle.
In the second half the Phi Delta over
cam. this handicap and made a good
fight out of the affair. Joe Jagram,
Phi Delt forward, was so affected in
the first half of the game that he miss.al
four chances to toss fouls.
The Kappa Sigs played a good game
(Continued on page three)
DEBATE TRY-OUT HELD
Abe Rosenberg Will Represent
U. in State Contest.
All State Institutions to Take
Part in Meet in Salem
March 8.
In a tryout held Tuesday afternoon
in Dean John Straub's room, to select
a representative from the University
for the state oratorical contest, Abe
Rosenberg, of Portland, was suceessful.
Oeorge Haney, of Eugene, received sec
ond place. Each of the four contestants
spoflte on the war, with the exception of
Mr. Rosenberg, who talked on “The
Man Napoleon.”
Miss Amy Carson, of Springfield,
spoke on “America ami Peace”; Mr.
Haney on, “The Assault on Christian
Democracy,” and Harold Doxsee on,
•The Patriot’s Duty.” Each spoke for
eight minutes. The judges were Pro
fessor R. W. ITeseott, Professor P. C.
Oroekatt, Miss Mary Perkins, and Wal
ter Myers.
The representative selected will meet
those sent from all colleges in Oregon
at an animal contest, to be held at Salem
on March 8. The colleges participat
ing are .Albany College. Willamette Uni
versity. Pacific University, Oregon Agri
cultural College, Oregon Normal School.
Reed College, and the University of
Oregon.
If the national intercollegiate peace
association contest is held, Mr. Raney
will be the representative from the Uni
versity. Whether or not the contest is
held will be decided by the national com
mittee. Each college will have one B»
resentative.