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Oregon Emerald NO. 74. 'JO VOL. J 9, EUGENE. OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1918. in FAVOR COUNCIL OF OHM LETTER Standard “0” Recommended to Students by Vote of 4-3; Emerald Awards Discussed MAY REDUCE RAILWAY FARE: O. A. C. and Oregon to Petition for Excursion Rates Between Colleges for Games. By a vote of 4 to 3 the student coun cil went on record last evening at its meeting in the library, as favoring the uniform “O” amendment, which is to be voted on by the student body this coming Wednesday. Dwight Wilson, head of the student dance committee, reported a student Dodv dance next Friday evening with the O. A. C. baseball men as Oregon’s quests. The council decided to take up the matter with O. A. C. of petitioning the railroad commission that week-end rates ihould begin on Friday noon, instead of Saturday morning as they now do. Emerald Awards Considered. Harry Crain, editor of the Emerald, submitted the following plan for the awarding of emblems to the Emerald Staff: “In accordance with the provisions of Clause I, Section 4. of Article IV.. of the By-Laws of the Associated Stu dents. I herewith submit for your appro val the system which I. as Editor of the Emerald, have devised for the awarding of amblems to thirteen members of the news staff of the Emerald for the year 1017-191S, as follows: To be Made On Merit Only. “Awards are to bo made entirely upon merit. The reporters, or mem bers of the staff taking general assign ments shall be Judged upon their record, which shall be determined ns follows: a record shall be kept of each assign ment given out, showing the nature of the story assigned, time the assign ment is due and when it is turned in. Failure of the reporter to turn in a story assigned shall be counted as two demerits and failure to turn a story in at the time designed on the assignment slip shall count as one demerit. For every original story turned in the re porter shall be given two credits and for each assignment story in on time in satisfactory form the reporter Chall re ceive one credit. The final standing of the reporters shall be determined by adding separately the average number of demerits in proportion to the credits. “As no system of actual markings can be devised to fit the case of the assis tant editors, I recommend that em blems he awarded to those assistant editors who, in the opinion of the editor, have done satisfactory work throughout their term of office, but, that it the (Continued on page two) MORE GO TO BED CROSS Number of Wipes Within 100 of Goa! Set by U. One House Puts Work on Same Basis as Scholarship with Forfeit of Dates. TTnivwultv Red Cross wort picked up #Praarkably on Tuesday, according to re port given by Miss Tirza Dinsdale, camp us secretary of Y. W. C. A. On Monday 10 girls were present during the after noon and 256 wipes were made. On Tues day afternoon 76 girls were present and 560 wipes were made. The goal the T'ni rersity has set to be reached by its aver ige daily output is 800 wipes. One house on the campus has set Red Cross on the same basis as scholarship, [f the members of that house do not report for a definite number of hours of Red Cross work, her week-end dates ire forfeited. "I wish a similar stand could be taken ny every house on the campus.” said Miss Oinsdaie. “At the University of Wash ngton Red Cross work is compulsory, i hope that this arrangement will not be accessary at the University of Oregon.” Mrs. A. R. Sweetser will be Bungalow Hostess /or Red Cross <a>n Mondays and rftursdajV and Miss Dinsdale on Tnes laye and Fridays. Work will be done at Ihe Bungalow every other week. ELSIE FMZMAURICE MOW SECRETARY OF SOPHS Succeeds Jessie Garner, Who Left Col legs; Date for Benefit Dance Petitioned. Elsie Fltzmaurice was elected secre tary of the sophomore class at the meeting Wednesday morning' in Pro fessor H. C. Howe's room in Villard, to fill the vacancy left by Jessie Gar ner, who withdrew from college at the end of the second term. After the report of only five cents in the class treasury, it was evident that something: must be done to raise funds. Stanley Atkinson, of the sopho more dance committee, reported that the petition for a date for the sopho- , more benefit dance had been handed in, and that the date would be given in a few days. He urged all sopho mores to support the cause. Merl Margason reported that there were about eighteen numerals to be awarded to sophomore men and seven to the girls for interclass athletics, but owing to the financial status of the class it had been impossible to pur chase the emblems. The question of challenging the freshman to a debate was brought up, but it was decided to drop the mat ter since it is so late in the year. Al bert Kunquist was appointed to look ! after interclass track and Elmo Mad- j den for Interclass baseball. Ned Fowler, class president, spoke of the necessity of the sophomore s giv ing their support to Junior Week-End, and urged that everyone do all possi ble to advertise the event. The com mittee appointed to take charge of the sophomore canoe for the canoe fete is made up of Harry Jamieson. Gladys Smith, Herald White, Hugh Thompson and Florence Hemenway. Morris Morgan was appointed to take charge of the interclass swim ming meet and John Hunt to select twelve of the huskiest sophs for the freshman-sophomore tug-of-war dur ing Junior Week-End. Ned Fowler announced that at the first meeting of the class, after Junior Week-End, nominations would be in order for the class officers for next year. SENIORS HR EIGER FOR DREIDED EXAMS Striving to Be Different They Break Campus Tradition and Petition to Take Them. Harold Cake Elected Treasurer; Dr. Bovard Talks on Alumni. A departure from «. tradition of 25 years standing was effected when the senior class in meeting this morning decided to petition the faculty for the privilege of taking senior examinations. Every succeeding class for nearly 25 years back has petitioned for exemption from exams and the petition has been as regularly turned down by the faculty. Feeling that the matter is more or less of a joke with the faculty the class decided to introduce a l'ttle variety into the situation. Walter Myers was ap pointed chairman of a committee to prepare the petition. Harold Cake w^s unanimously chosen treasurer of the class to take the place of Don Roberts, wha left with the last ordnance class. Helen Maurice, chairman of the sen ior dance committee, was delegated to task the faculty for permission to hold the senior dance, for which Mrs. Os burn is to be hostess, on a mid-week date. No suitable week-end can be se cured for this. Thursday of next week was chosen as a tentative time for the dance. Sen ior girls not having an escort from the senior class are to be permitted to ask junior men, thus making the event an entirely upperclass affair. Ilenry Eiekoff reported on plans for the senior play “Facing the Music,” which will be produced on Friday night of Junior Week-end. The play is to be coached by James Mott of Salem. A short talk was given by Dr. John Bovard, class adviser, on the importance of the University alumni association to the life of the University and urged every senior to take an active interest (Continued on page four) I IS PASTORAL SCENE Beauty of Outdoors Trans forms Little Theatre for Benefit Play. Faithful Shepherdess to Be Played Tonight and Tomorrow. The stage of Guild hall, where Clorin the Faithful Shepherdess, will admin ister to the troubles of disturbed, jeal ous and mixed-up lovers tonight and to morrow night, is a growing moss cover ed hillside banked with purpie camas and wild iris, long graceful ferns and yellow buttercups. In the background •are tall fir trees, with glimpses of th*' shining red bark of mountain laurel, and a waterfall slips along iu the moss and ferns. The transformation was completed yesterday afternoon by the 11 o'clock classes in dramatic interpotation, which were formed into committees by Profes-1 sor Reddie, and a final dress rehearsal was held by the cast last night. It is no small matter to romp over hill and dale with immunity from actual catastrophe when the hill is a mattress and the dale is a well, the whole land scape accomplished in a space the size of Guild hall stage. The characters *ro going to have to watch their step with n vengeance. The costumes are to keep to classical outlines, with draping their chief char acteristic, and garlands of spring flow ers will be their only ornamentation. Particular attention has been paid to the choice of colors in the robes, and they are so planned as to blend per fectly with the special lighting effects of the stage. .The Satyr costume which will transform Professor Reddie into tha Satyr himself—half man and half beast, is being made especially, and promises something entirely new in the way of costuming the Little Theatre plays. The Faithful Shepherdess is, as usual, a Red Cross benefit and tickets may be had at the box office in Guild hall for either performance. THRIFT STAMP DRIVE RENEWED ON CAMPUS Attempt Mode to Help State Fill Quota; Total Sales Reach $4500; Kappas Head List. With Oregon behind in her quota of Thrift Stamp sales, the University cam paign is going to be opened up again full blast by Registrar Tiffany who is in charge of the campus sales. Up to date the sales of the campus total practically $4500, about $500 of which belong to the various fraternity houses. Reports are not yet in from all the houses, and it has been the de termined policy of the committee not to play up the amount of money pledged by each organization, but rather to make membership the distinguishing fea ture. One hundred per cent efficiency has been the slogan. Kappa Kappa Oainma has met that obligation fully with a record of twenty five in the hoaise and twenty-five sub scribers; more than that however, she has set a smart pace for total results, since her pledges for the year are ex actly .$.125, which is much higher than that reached by any other house. Additional reports from various chap ters show Pi Beta Phi with twenty members for the \V. S. S. club; Chi Omega has thirteen, Friendly hall thirty-five, Kappa Alpha Theta twentv two. Alpha Tau Omega ten, Phi Gamma Delta eighteen, and Beta Theta Pi six teen. No reports have been received from the other houses. ISIS' GLEE TO SI1G iS FEITK OF PROM Two-part Concert Will Take Place at Junior Dance: Spirit of Economy to Prevail. Decorations to Be of Military Nature; Service Flags Will Be Used. Tin1 Junior Pront, one of the biggest features of Junior Week-end, -will be given this year on Saturday May 11, at 8 p. m. in the Eugene armory. It is I the aim of the committee in charge of the dunce to make t his event inexpen sive and informal. Therefore, accord ing to Paul Spangler, chairman of the committee, cabs, flowers and dress suits are to he absolutely taboo. The Girl’s Glee club is to give its home eoucert in connection with the dance. The concert is to be in two parts, the first part to he given between the third and fourth dances, and the second part, which is to consist of a number of Japanese songs, is to he given between the fourth and fifth dances. The feature of the dance is being koot fa deep dark secret by the committee, said .Spangler. The decorations are to carry out the ideas of economy. Hanging baskets are to be borrowed from the houses on the campus to be hung laibout the hall, and the campus service flags are to be used I to give things a military air. The or chestra platform is to be decorated with greens. The tickets for the dance will cost one dollar. The patrons and patronesses will in clude Governor and Mrs. James Withv combe, President and Mrs. I*. E. Oa.mp bell, President and Mrs. W. J. Kerr of i O. A. G„ Dean and Mrs. John Straub, I Dean Louise Ehrmann, Mr. and Mrs. | A. O. Dixon, Mrs. Irene Gerlinger, Judge and Mrs. J. W. Hamilton, Colonel and Mrs. John Leader, Professor and Mrs. A. It. Swcetser, Miss Mary Per kins, Dr. and Mrs. George Rebec. LET’S ALL DANCE FRIDAY! FORMER DEBATER BACK ON CAMPUS FOR VISIT Howard Zimmerman Spends Week with Wife; Takes Correspondence Work in Mathematics. Howard Zimmerman, graduate of 1913, now a sergeant in the Coast Artillery at Fort Stevens, is spending the week with his wife, Mrs. Zimmerman, instructor in Spanish. Mr. Zimmerman is remembered as one of the star debaters in the University. He got his first training in debating while attending the Salem high school, where be became a member of the State Debate League. He made the University debate team in his freshman year and remained one of the strongest debaters in the Uni versity during bis four years. He also won the Alumni medal for the best de bater in college. After graduation here, he went to Stanford, where he received his degree in law. Ho practiced law at Astoria for two years. He entered the Reserve Officers’ Training Camp at Camp Lewis, but was taken ill before he could complete the course. While here, Mr. Zimmerman arranged to take correspondence work in advanced algebra and trigonometry. Professor E. E. DeCou has combined these courses into military mathematics, a course which is proving popular with soldiers who did not have this work in college. About 10 men in Portland are taking this combin ed military course. Banish Du!! Care! Away with Worry! Shed Your Troubles! “On with the Dance,” as Friend Byron Has It. ♦ ‘'Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile. ♦ ♦ “Let’s go! Put on your old soft collar and dance, dance, dance,’’ at the ♦ ♦ best all-student body dance of the year in the men’s gym Friday night. ♦ ♦ Let’s show the 0. A. C. baseball team and the Aggie students that we ♦ ♦ always have the same spirit that we have shown them before. Leave your ♦ ♦ troubles in your kit bag along with your stiff collars and Just bring your- + ♦ self and “her” and twenty-five cents and you will have a part in a cele- ♦ ♦ bration that will rival anything ever staged at Oregon. ♦ ♦ Hcndershott will be there and you know what that means—music that ♦ ♦ would make a crutch dance. Dean Straub will be there to receive you and ♦ ♦ to give you a jolly hand-shake along with Dean Louise Ehrmann. Pro- + ♦ fessor and Mrs. W. F. G. Thatcher, and Mr. and Mrs. Faguy-Cote. If you ♦ ♦ want to see the best 'il dance a-going, bo at the mens' gym at 8:15. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦❖♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ TENNIS CLUB CHAMPIONS INELIGIBLE FOR VARSITY Only Woman's Athletic Association Members Can Play on Team; to Petition for Ohange. An appeal to the Women’s Athletic association to allow members of the wo men's tennis club to become members of the association, and thus eligible to the Varsity tennis team, will be made by a eomraitee composed of Adrienne hipping. Caroline Alexander, and Miss Harriet Thomson, it was decided at a meeting of the club Wednesday night. According to the miles of the associa tion, no woman is eligible to membership of the W. A. A. unless she joins at the beginning of the year, and failure to join bars any woman from the Varsity team of any major sport. As only 2 out of the 20 members of the tennis club, Ella Dews and Maud I/ombard, are members of the association, the remaining number are now ineligible to the Varsity tennis team. It was decided at the meeting that if the association waived the present rule and allowed the women to enter the association, the present tournament should decide the University champion ship. If a Varsity team is chosen, it will be by Margaret Crosby, president of the W. a. A.; Caroline Alexander, head of tennis; and Miss Catharine Winslow, tennis coach. Madeline Slotboom was unanimously elected secretary of tho club, to succeed Gladys Smith, who resigned. PROGRUM A10UNCED FOfl JUNIOR WEEK-END Plans Completed for Festivities on May 10-11; Class of 1919 Reports Preparations. Events to Be Widely Adver tised in High Schools by Posters and by Letters. The program for Junior Week-end Is ns follows: Thursday afternoon, Baseball, Ore gon vs (). A. (’.; Thursday evening, Canoe Fete; Friday morning, Campus work. Painting the “O"; Friday noon, Campus luncheon; Friday afternoon, Military Review and Retreat., Baseball Oregon vs O. A. C.; Friday evening, Senior play; Saturday morning, Swim iming Meet; Saturday afternoon, Track {Meet, Oregon- Washington; Saturday evening, Junior I’rom. The complete program for Junior Week-end was reported at the Junior classmeetirg held Wednesday at ten o’ eloek in Oregon Hall. Illustrated pos ters outlining the program of eventR will lie placed in Southern Pacific and Oregon Electric depots, and sent to the high schools of the Rtnto. It was also emphasized by Paul Spangler, pres ident. of the Junior class, that upon the personal appeal of all members of the University through letters and talks de pended the success of the week-end. Nellis Hamlin, in charge of the dec orations for the Junior Prom, reported that a military scheme would be carried j out in the decorations. Service Flags of the various organizations on the cam pus will be used. It is planned, also, to have the University Service Flag. The class as a whole again went on record ns heartily supporting the Canoe Fete. George Taylor, chairman of this committee, reported that many floats would be entered and also promised an artistic lighting scheme. Marion Coffey, chairman of the fea ture committee for the l’rom, asked that the feature be kept a secret. The music for the dance has not as yet been de cided upon. It is probable that th° Girl’s glee club will assist. CLYTIE HALL TO TAKE NEW POST Will Leave for Pendleton to Work on East Oregonian. Clytie Hall, a member of the class of ’17 who has been employed for the last year on the staff of the Eugene Guard, has accepted a position with the Pendle ton East Oregonian. She will leave for the eastern Oregon city the lasCpart of this week. Her new duties will consist mainly of reportorial work practically the same as she has been doing on The Guard Miss Hall is a member of the Oregon Chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, national .honorary women’s journalism fraternity. lie. BASEBALL TEAM HERE FOR TWO GAMES Battles to Be Staged Friday and Saturday—Team in Fine Cond'tion and Working Hard. WILSON AND BERG TO HURL Men Who Downed Aggies Be fore Will Be Used—Game j Tomorrow at 4. All is in readiness for the two return baseball games agaiust the Aggies to morrow and Saturday afternoons on the 'University field. The rivals will arrive ’from Corvallis tomorrow morning. “Chief" Wilson who won his first conference game on last Friday after noon will be the moundman again this Friday. Wilson held the agriculturists to six bingles last week and had them feeding out of his hand during the greater part of the contest. His arm is in fine shape and a great deal is expected of him tomorrow. Berg Wins Name of “Ice.” Art Berg will be the pitcher on Satur day. In last Saturday’s fracas, the tall southpaw was ns cool ns a refrig erator and let the Aggies down with but four scattered hits, while his team imntes secured a dozen and a half. “Ice" Berg had his first, real workout of the week on Wednesday afternoon against the Varsity sluggers, and went a million. Nothing definitely is known of the in tentions of the O. A. C. nine this week. Cornell, first string piteher of the Cor vallis contingent was disqualified nt the last moment before the contests a. week ago and it not known whether or not he will be able to work on the mound against the varsity. Efforts are being made to secure his eligibility and chanc es are good that he will hurl in one of the games. Coleman is slated to op pose Wilson tomorrow if Cornell is unable to play, and either Kruger or Nes bit will face the onslaught on Saturday. Frosh Contest With Varsity. (James have been played every day this week between the regulars and the freshmen. The former have been hit ting the hall on the nose and If they keep up the stride should have no trouble against the opposing pitchers in the two return contests. Walter Grebe injured his ankle slightly on Tuesday afternoon, but is now almost over the effects. All tho other men are in fine condition and “raring” to go in the two coming con tests. The game tomorrow afternoon will ibegin promptly nt 1 o’clock and the second contest nt 2:30 on Saturday. The reason for the lateness of the con test Friday is because of a University ruling that no athletic contest may be played while classes nre in session. Admission will be free for student* and 25 cents for outsiders. CONCERT CALLED DLL Ranks of Men’s Glee Club Thin Rapidly During Year. Organization Scored Success on Its Only Appearance This Year. The nauch-looked-for concert of the University Men’s Glee club planned for Eugene this month will not be given. When the club returned from its concert trip to American Lake the way for a lo cal concert was clear, but difficulty after difficulty bus bobbed up since, making this concert impossible. In the first place the ranks of the men in the elub have been thinned and as no other men are available for their places, the organization is too much weakened, for a public appearance. The trip to American Lake resulted in a financial de ficit and after carefully considering the local situation. Graduate Manager A. 1L Tiffany decided tkut a local concert might involve some risk. Tflo season, however, has been a suc cessful one for this organization, which made a splendid showing in its appear ance before the students and on its con cert tour to Portlund and Camp Lewis.