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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1918)
OREGON EMERALD Official stu lent body paper of the' University of Oregon, published every Tuesday, IhursJay and Saturday of the college year by the Associated Students. Entered in the postoffice at Sugcne, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates $1.00 per year, .jingle copies, cp Advertising rates upon request HAftKY N. CRAIN William Haseltine .. Douglas Mullarky ., RoBeri G. McNary Adelaide Lake . Douglas .Mullarky . Melvin '.V. Solve ... Pearl Craine . . EDITOR ... Nef/s Editor . Assistant Make-Up Editor W linen’s Editor Feature Editor Dramatic J's^iitor Society Editor Assistants $ Elsie Fitzmaurice, Dorothy Duniway, Helen Brenton, Leith Abbott, Her man Lind Bess Colman, Alexander Brown, Levant Reuse, Helen Manning, John Houston, Gladys Wilkins, Elva Bagiey, Alene Phillips, Louise Davis, Frances Stiles, Erma Zimmerman, Ken noth Comstock, Mary Ellen Bailey, and Helen Downing. _ JEANNETTE CALKINS Catherine Dobie . Eve Hutchison . .... BUSINESS MANAGER . Circulation Manager Advertising Manager for April Assistants Harris Ellsworth, Lyle Bryson, Mndel inc Slotboora, Dorothy Dixon, I ranees 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 complaint, but make it direct to the Circulation ivl imager. Address all newt and editorial complaints to the Editor. PHONES Manager 177-1 Editor 841 News and Editorial Rooms 655 Businesss 0ff.ee 1200 THE HUN DIGS HIS OWN GRAVE. For more than a dozen long, hard days now the German ma chine has been 'pounding at the door of Paris. In their desper ute struggle to force the allies to their knees before the United States has massed its resources for the drive that sooner or later is to force the Hun into abandoning his dream of world domination, the directors of the destinies of the central allies have slaughtered thousands upon ■ thousands of their troops. Half a million men is probably a low estimate of the price they have paid for the few square miles of territory gained. What the losses of the French and British have been we can but guess. Without question they have been heavy, even in comparison with such slaughters as that of the siege of Verdun. ' Self evident now is the fact that von Hindenburg and his lieutenants launched the drive with the expectation that it would prove a telling blow to the morale of the allies, if not the com plete disruption of their military organization. The blow, how ever has failed. The British and French lines today present as formidable a barrier to the enemy as they did a month ago and the morale of the allied nations, both on the field and at home, has been strengthened by the Teuton failure. The strengthening of the home morale, especially in the United States, has been the most marked result of the past two weeks of active conflict along the fighting front in France. The people of this country looked upon the great battles previous to our entrance into the war somewhat in the same light they would have regarded a baseball game between two teams of which they knew nothing. Instinctively their sporting natures compelled them to pick a favorite, but their hearts were not deeply in the contest. And it is to be questioned whether or not the heart of the whole Nation has been in the conflict even since Germany became our active enemy. A fight thousands of miles away could not seem serious to the average American until the weight of our antagonist had been clearly demonstrated. We read day after day of the devastation wrought by the powerful Hun machine; we were told from platform and pulpit of the conscienceless ef ficiency of the German spy system; time and time again we were given first hand evidence of enemy plot and counter-plot. And generally speaking, it pased from our minds like water from a duck’s back . But coming as an aftermath of the past fifteen days of in tense stress, when all of the world waited almost desperately for each item of news from the front, is a realization on the part of tlie American people of tin1 size of the task they are facing. To day probably America realizes better than ever before the lengths to which Germany is prepared to go in its lust for world domina tion. We see faintly now, as the people of France, England and Belgium saw months ago, the depth and thoroughness with which Germany has for the past thirty years been preparing for this struggle. We can no longer laugh off as foolish the assertions that we can hardly trust our next door neighbor as a loyal Amer ican. The battle which is now dying out through want of human fuel has set us to thinking and the product of those thoughts is taking the shape of a firm determination to fight with fire. The enemy blaze at our own door step is naturally the first to receive attention. For months every community in the country has felt that somehow or other its highest efficiency as a war unit was being impaired by an influence working to a counter purpose. The Liberty Loan, War Sa\ ings Stamp, Red Cross and allied drives have here and there met an unexplainable cross current. The provisions of the draft have come in for unfounded criticism. News of enemy successes at arms have in certain quarters met with ill-disguised sympathy. False rumors, which could serve no purpose other than to create a sentiment of unrest among the people ill large, have made their appearance frequently. In the aggregate these incidents now brand themselves clearly and dis tinctively as enemy activity and enemy propaganda. Somewhere in each of these communities there is a Hun in the woodpile- more likely several of them. Like the elephant, the out and out German sympathizer is not cause for any great anxiety—his activities can be effectively curbed before they iUGillT BEBSTERS TC DISPLAY ORATORY CorTtest Dated April 11; Oregon Club, A. T. 0. Withdraw From League, Causing Schedule Change. Eight Enter Race for Shield Now Held by Phi Gamma Delta; faculty to Judge. Aspiring fraternity debaters will be given a chance to exhibit their eloquence a week from tonight, when the first round of the inter-fraternity debate league comes off. The schedule drawn up sometime ago by the forensic coun cil has been changed because two teams, the Oregon club and A. T. O., have de cided not to enter the competition. The other eight organizations have all signified their intention of trying for the silver shield, now held by Phi Gamma Delta. The shield was awarded for the first time last year, and mud be won three times, not necessarily in succession, to be kept permanently. Five Points to Survive. Each house must enter two teams, an affirmative and a negative, of two men each. The main speeches will be 12 minutes in length and the rebuttal minutes. Three members of the fac ulty will act as judges. Each judge's vote will count as one point, and in ad dition one point will be awarded for winning. A fraternity making five points is placed in the next round. The question to be debated is the same as the one used in the last Varsity debate, namely: “Resolved, That at the close of the present war, the nations of the world should establish an inter national supreme court to pass upon all international disputes, and supported by nil international constabulary to enforce its decisions.’’ Schedule Is Long. The schedule is as follows: Friendly hall, affirmative, versus Kappa Sigma, negative, Dean Straub’s room; Kappa Sigma, affirmative, versus Sigma Chi, negative, lecture room Deady hall; Sigma Cliff affirmative, versus Sigma Nu, negative. Professor Howe’s room; Sigina Nu, affirmative, versus Phi Delta Thctn, negative, Dr. Boynton's room; Phi Delta Theta, affirmative, versus Delta Tail Delta, negative, Dr. Gilbert's room; Delta Tinu Delta, affirmative, versus Phi Gamma Delta, negative. Pro fessor Crockntt’s room; Phi Gamma Delta, affirmative, verssu Beta Theta i Pi, negative, Professor Prescott’s room; | Beta Theta Pi, affirmative, versus Friendly haU, negative, Professor De Gou’s room. All of the debates are set for 7:30 o’clock. U. RED CROSS WORK CUT Exceeding of Eugene Chapter's Quota Is Cause. Only two days of the week will be given over to University lied Cross work at the Bungalow for the rest of April, according to an announcement made todiy by Until Westfall, lied Cross chairman. The reason for the change in the five-day plan used last term is that a certain quota is set for each lied Cross chapter, and since the Eu gene chapter has been exceeding its quota, it is necessary for the work to be slackened. Thursday and Friday afternoons of this week are to be given to the work, and the schedule for the remainder of the month, or until the Eugene chap ter receives its quota, is as follows: Monday. April S; Tuesday, April 0; Thursday, April IS; Friday, April 10; Monday. April Tuesday. April 23. Fledges for three hours’ work per week were received from 107 University women, and pledge cards will be fur nished at the Ilungalow for all others who wish to make a definite pledge, i l'efinite hours of work will be arranged ! for each girl, on Thursday and Friday I at the Bungalow. Get Your Oregana Now! ! nave done any great damage. ' sneaking disloyalist, of which w From now on until the cone l methods and German ideals ha business of the American people and driving the snakes from co\ by an opportune season for laun ef a spring housecleaning, one n Thus has the great German it has netted no material advar the enemy, while it cost him ma and, of greater import to the sue tensified rather than demorali championing world democracy. Sixth Annual Concert — of the — University Orchestra at Villard Hall, Friday April 5 SOLOISTS ARTHUR FAGUY-COTE WINIFRED FORBES Program 8:15 p. m Admission 25c aararaaMBBaBHMmB THE EASTMAN ! KODAK AGENCY Schwarzschild’s Book Store. MADAME SHAFFER Modern Hair Dressing Parlors Trices Rt%isonable Ofer Price Shoe Store Phone SS8 REED PROFESSOR’S WIFE TO LECTURE HERE MAY 8 Labor in War Time to Be Subject of Talk Given Under Auspices of Women's League. Mrs. Dorothy AV. 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