OREGON EMERALD Official stu lent body paper of the University of Oregon, published every Tuesday, Ihnrsiay and Saturday of the college year by the Associated Students. Entered in the postoffice ai Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates $1.00 per year. Single copies, 5c. Advertising rates upon request HARRY N. CRAIN William Haseltine .. Robert G. McNary Beatrice Thurston . Douglas Mullarky Melvin T. Solve ... Pearl Craine . . EDITOR ... News Editor Make-Up Editor Women’s Editor feature Editor Dramatic Editor Society Editor Assistants Elsie Fitzmaurice, Dorothy Duniway, Helen Brenton, Beith Abbott, Her man Lind, Bess Column, Adelaide Lak e, Alexander Brown, Levant Pease, Helen Manning, John Houston, Gladys Wilkins, Elva Bagley, Alene Phillips, Louise Davis, Frances Stiles. JEANNETTE CALKINS . BUSINESS MANAGER Catherine Dobie . Circulation Manager Harris Ellsworth. Advertising Manager for February .. Assistants Lyle Bryson. Lee Bartholomew, Eve Hutchison, Madeline Slotboom. Frances Schenk, Foreign Advertising. 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 complanit, but make it direct to the Circulation Munuger. Address all newt and editorial complaints to the Editor. PHONES Manager 177-J News and Editorial Rooms 655 Editor 841 Buslnesss Office 1200 REFORMATION VS. DEFORMATION. Wednesday evening the Student Council passed a resolution which has, thus far at least, received but passing attention judg ing from the manner in which dances and other social functions are being announced for dates conflicting with major athletic activities on the campus. All through the year there appears to have been a spirit of utter disregard for conflicts with varsity contests in the sched uling of house dances. Time and again there have been from one to three dances held on the campus during the time when Oregon teams were in contest. The result has been to detract from the turnout to the major events and a serious loss of enthusiasm through divided attention. A striking example of this, and the incident directly responsible for the Student Council’s action, was the instance of three house functions on the night of the sec ond basketbal game with O. A. C. last week. Here the effect was marked. In the place of the howling, cheering crowd that at tended the first game, the second contest saw great gaps along the bleachers where rooters should have been; and the spirit was low. Next Saturday night Oregon’s wrestling team is to meet the Aggie grapplers in the gymnasium and the social calendar shows no less than three dances marked-up for that evening. True, it would be hardly feasible to call in the invitations that have been issued for these affairs, but it would be very desirable to post pone the opening waltz until after the wrestling meet and there by give everyone a chance to turn out and back up the team. To the University students of several years ago who read these lines the very thought that social affairs are being given preference over intercollegiate contests by the students on the campus today will be a real shock. It is a thing absolutely un heard of in former years and, while we are not so narrow as to oppose a reform simply because it deviates from the established order of things, we are inclined to view the holding of social af fairs in conflict with varsity activities more in the light of a de formation of the Oregon Spirit than as a reformation. II BUTTLE MICE (Continued from page one) ; stead of advancing through the first scone in scattered squad columns, us directed, the men inarched in unbroken line down Onyx street, and drew up in full sight of the enemy, going through “slow and painful maneuvers," as ehar notorized by Captain Allen. Company Becomes Spectator. " "They drew themselves up like itrad • dock’s men against the Indiana.” said Mr. Allen. When ordered off the field, 1) company climbed the fence and sat disconsolately w itching the rest of the fight. U company did not succeed very well in taking the place left vacant by 1> company, through misunderstandi:^ of i he orders. After the charge. Lieutenant Tooic addressed the battalion, explaining the defects of the advance, ami offering sug gestions for improvement. Besides 1> company’s too conspicuous position, he called attention to the fact that several of the squads got in front of one an other, so as to eut off the fire of thos<> behind hem He mentioned men run ning in front of the fire of their own troops as another of the mistakes. Staff Sergeant I’attersou, while run ning with an order during Thruaday’s light, stumbled and fell against some barb wire, eiitting liis face badly, peril ’ ously near his eyes. He was on the campus yesterday, his face swathed in bandages. 0 Company Redeems Itself. Yesterday, exactly the same problem was tried as on Thursday, with splendid results. Lieutenant Toozo gave special mention to the good work of 1> com pany. which fairly faded into the laud •cape behind gras* atul ferns, t’reepiug on their hands and kucee, the men could scarcely l>c seen by the umpire*. “In deed, there w.'i* a time that the umpires could not see any of the battalion a( all," anid Captain Allen, "so effective ly did it net behind the grass, stamps, ditches, and all natural obstructions.” Lieutenant Toore complimented all the companies on the work done in yester day's fight. ORCHESTRA SETS NEW DATE Will Appear in Annual Concert in Vil lard Hall April 6. The dale for the annual concert of the University orchestra, originally set for March lfl. Iihs had to be changed to April (!, owing to unforeseen com plications. Practices are being held twice a week, and each number of the program is being brought to a height of perfection. Several new instruments 1m ve been added to the organisation, which have made a great difference in the playing. Special selections will be given by Mr. Faguy-Oote and Miss Forbes. The concert will take place in Villard Hall. EX-STUDENT SELLS WRITING Alyce Bnhr (lives Credit to Prof Thaoher's Short Story Contest. Mrs. Alyce R. Ruhr, ex ’10, recently wrote to Professor \V F. (!. Thacher. expressing her appreciation of the bene lit she received from hi* short-story dass, of which she was a member while at the University two year* ago. Mrs. Iialir writes that she has succeeded in selling D short stories, lid poems. ,‘! songs and It books One is a book of fiction, the other one of poetry. Mrs. llahr also write* for the l’eripterons column of the Oregon, under the nom de plume \yce Hosal.vce Rustung. She has recently acce| ted an offer as deserip ti\e sceuer. writer for a southern ra.l way. ran Don’t Forget Your Good Times Keep a Memory Book: A book full of pictures of your college days will be invaluable in after life and you will spend many happy hours in taking them, putting them in your Memory Book and in looking them over afterwards. SHOP 982 Willamette Street. SEE THE RED SIGN We will develop your films and make your prints on Cyko, the detail paper. A full line of Ansco Cameras, Films and Supplies. Memory Books-—Stunt Pictures ms eOVERNMENT POSTS FOR C0LLE6E MED Draftsmen, Men for Gun Divi sion of Ordnance Are Needed, Says Offi cial Report. Red Cross Assistants, Above Draft Age, Wanted; Duties Are Outlined. Latest information from the intercol legiate intelligence bureau in Washing ton, D. C., received at the president's office, calls for optical draftsmen, lied Cross assistants, and men for the gun division of the ordnance department of the army. Serial, call 115, issued February 20, is for optical draftsmen and inspectors of periscope manufacture. The work in cludes inspection of periscope designing in an important bureau of the navy de partment in Washington, and is espe cially for men slightly under middle age; the salary is $2000 a year and up, according to qualifications. Duties of sui’h an applicant will include designing land superintending the construction of periscope optical systems, and the quali fications are thoroughly familiarity with optical formulae, combined with some practical experience. 150 Wanted In Ordnance. The ordnance department call is for some 150 men, to be commissioned as captains, and first and second lieuten ants in the ordnance officers’ reserve corps, who are of 25 years or over; salaries are from $1700 to ,$2400 a year, i according to rank, plus allowance. Men for this branch of service must be quirTf, energetic, adaptable, and of pleasing per sonality. Some degree of technical train ing is desirable. The chosen applicants will he given a two months’ course in general ordnance, and parti< ularly in the design and construction of trench warfare weapons, after which they will draw field.duty, acting as instructors in cantonments and service schools. The candidate's letter of application must contain statements as to his phy sical condition; military experience, if any; education, with date of graduation ' and degree: detailed account of husi ness experience, present position and salary, town, state, country and date of birth, and full information as to draft statue, if of draft age. 00 Wanted by Red Cross. Red Cross affords places for about t>0 men out of draft age. The call Is i for field directors, assistant directors 1 and assistant directors attached to base I hospitals in the States. In general, the j duties are supervising and directing all ! Red Cross activities in the army and I navy camps and stations, including the I distribution of all supplies, such as I sweaters, and other comforts, emergency relief, home service for the families of j enlisted men, etc. High grade men, ! preferably college graduates, are re quired. All applications are forwarded by : the adjutant. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ MU BETA ELECTS ♦ ♦ - ♦ ♦ BEN BREED ♦ ♦ GEORGE VAN WATERS ♦ ♦ FLINT JOHNS ♦ ;♦ PAUL EAKRlNOVt" ♦ ♦ CHESTER ADAMS ♦ ♦ ERROL MX AIR ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦A ] HEARD AND OVER-HEARD j By LEITH ABBOTT. I’m feeling in a lOder mood 2 day and feel poetic 2. With this word we (editorially, meaning the good Under wood and myself), are preparing for your approval a line of sense and non sense, figurtively speaking, which we hope will go smashing down'- the colyums of the Oregon Emerald with a resound ing smash. When you read a joke which made you chuckle when an infant just say “that joke always did make me laugh,” and pass on to the next. Maybe you have read this one in last month’s Judge, but road it again, and remember that before the invention of slates, people multiplied on the face of the earth, and quickly turn to the society colyums—we don’t care. Our Weekly Health Hints. Don’t get on a ferryboat—it will make you cross. To avoid fnlling hair—step out of the way when you se? it coming. Enuf—alright let’s pass on. Gosh! A fair young damsel set by the wide, wide sea. As calm and as complacent as she could be, As I strode along I spied her there And wondered at her face so fair. A conversation I must start. For I had been hit by eupid’s dart, So 1 said to her merely as a starter, “Fair one, aren’t you afraid of the cold, cold water?” Her answer made mb hunt for a place to hide, When she said, “No, don’t you see it’s tide.” Well, how aa-e we gettin’ by? Shall we start another? All right, here goes. Deep Stuff. We understand that the Zeba Sigma have fixed up one of the rooms in their house which has blinds on the windows. This same room is also fixed up with chairs large enough for two iso we are told), and there is a piano in there which plays mechanically and sounds very much as if a human h ind tickled tile keys. Taking altogether and adding it with something else, we should say, it is a mush room. (For Men Only Joys of Spring B. V... ? Help. A woman asked me the other day. Do the University eo-eds dress well? 1 was durn founded. I didn't know what to say For 1 had never watched them. Russian War Song. t^ung to the tune of. “Come Home Boys. Mother lias Found Word.”) Hurray! Hurray! For the Boleviski. Hurray! Hurray! Our own Libertsky! So we'll siug the chorus from Petrograd to sea. While we are marching through At the Walrus Cistorla Tonits. Perry Mickford and Douglas Funny Prangs in “Soup to Nuts.” Showing iuterior diniug room scenes of the coun ty insane asylum.—Adv. Notic*. All students who do not lire in fra ternities or dormitories, meet Mondav at 4 o'clock in Yiilard Hall, to effect or ganization of Oregon club. Eugene Steam Laundry The Student Laundry. Melviri Solve, Campus Agent. Phone 123. West Eights St. wvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvwvvvvvv THE OR EG AN A The Student Shop. ICE CREAM LUNCHES CANDIES Phone 923. Near The Campus. VVVVVVVVV,A,,i K~XK~XK********$t*£*#V>4t**' To the students of the University and members of the *■ Fraternities alid Sororities: We wish to express our ap- •; preciation for your patronage, and trust our method of I serving you has been such as to leave no doubt as to where ' to place your future orders. * LUMBER AND SLABWOOD : It is none too early to figure on your needs for next year. I THE BOOTH-KELLY LUMBER CO. PHONE 452. 5TH AND WILLAMETTE STS. J JIM SAYS: \ \ HKKK^XK^XwXhX**XimvhHh**4*hX***,mJh!'m*'n*m Wearers of % 3 Bracelet Watches j Have you seen those new Ribbons to use ] instead of your regular bracelet? 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