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VOL. 19.
Emerald
NO. 83.
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EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY. MAY 16, 1918.
CADET CORPS III FALL
Var Deoartment Announces
Military Training in Col
leges for Men
Over 18.
Enlisted Students to Be Sub
ject to Call; Will Co-operate
wilh R. 0. T. C.
The cadet corps which President P. L.
Campbell explained when he returned
jom the east recently has been adopt
'd by the war department to go into ef
,eci next year. The announcement re
ceived follows; as authorized by Sec-re
ary of War Baker:
In order to provide military instruc.
ion for the college students of the I ni
ed States during the present emer
;enoy, a comprehensive plan will be put
nto effect by the war department be
ginning with the next college year, in
September, 101S. The details remain to
ie worked out, but in general the plan
will be as follows:
Equipment to be Provided.
Military instruction -under officers
rnd non-commissioned officers of the
irmy will be provided in every institu
ion of college grade which enrolls for
nstruction 100 or more able-bodied stu
lents over the age of IS. The necessary
nilitary equipment will, so far as pos
lible, be provided by the government.
There will be created a military train
ng unit in each institution. Enlistment
vill be purely voluntary, but all stu
lents over the age of IS will be en
•ouraged to enlist.
The enlistment will constitute the
)tudent a member of the army of the
tJnited States, liable to active duty at
The call of the President. It will, how
gr,i he the policy of the government
to call members of the training unit
)nm they have reached the age of 21.
*nless urgent military necessity compels
to earlier call. Students under 18 and
Jrm^efore not legally eligible for enlist
Jtent, -will he encouraged to enroll in
&e training units. Provision will he
tfcde for co.operating the Reserve Of
fcers’ Training Corps system, which ex
ists in about one-third of the collegiate
institutions, with this broaded plan.
Ywo-Foid Object in View.
, The new policy alms to accomplish a
ino-fclj object: First, to develop as
l^great military asset the large body of
wing men in the colleges; second, to
irevent unnecessary and wasteful de
detion of the college through indiscrim
nate volunteering, bv offering to the
(Continued on page Two)
Vacancies Made Tuesday by
Men Leaving Filled.
Tipoinlments of Non-coms to
Be^Announeed Friday at
Drill Hour.
Appointments of commissioned offi
ers in the University battalion to va
ancies left by the men who have gone
o Camp Lewis were announced yester
lay at drill hour.
Clyde Mason was advanced from first
sergeant to first lieutenant in Company
K. the place formerly held by Lieutenant
Oran Jenkins, who is at the training
;amp. Dow Wilson was thansferred
from second lieutenant in C Company to
k.
Charles Waugh was promoted from
second to first lieutenant in Company 11.
Harold Cake, corporal of Company D.
was made second lieutenant of B com
pany.
In C Company Lyle McCroskey was
advanced from first sergeant to first
lieutenant. Sergeant S. H. Carter of
Company B is now second lieutenant in
C Company.
Larue Blaekaby was promoted from
second to first lieutenant in Company
D. Sergeant Bill Steers will be second
ieutenant in Company D.
William Rebec was promoted to sec
ond lieutenant in the Home Guard battal
'oit
These appointments together with the
leparture of several of the non-commis
sioned officers for the camp leave several
§aeaneies in the n n-commissioned offi
cers. Further promotions will be an
nounced tomorrow at drill hour.
VARSITY TENNIS GAME
WITH 0. A. C. SATURDAY
Brown, Heishner, Smith, Laraway,
Haseltine and Miller Out
for Team.
Oregon will be represented by a var
sity team for the last time this year when
the tennis team meets the O. A. C.
racquet wielders on the University court
on next Saturday morning. This will be
the first tennis tournament between the
two schools for two years, the last one
being held in 1916 at Corvallis.
Although the meet is but two days off
no tryouts have been held as yet. Six
men have signified their intention of
entering in the preliminaries so it is
doubtful who will be pitted against the
Aggies on Saturday.
Mortimer Brown, Lawrence Hershner.
Graham Smith. Thurston Laraway. Bill
Heseltine and Kirby Miller arc the six
who will try out for the singles and
doubles. Brown will undoubtedly be one
of the three to compete in the singles
and together with Hershner should be
able to uphold the honor of the Univer
sity in one of the doubles events. The
latter will probably stand a good show
in the singles also. The other places will
be hotly contested by the remaining four.
Tryouts were to be held this after
noon, weather permitting.
The tournament will consist of three
singles and two doubles.
0. F. STAFFORD WANTED
IN FRANCE AS CHEMIST
Receives Offer to Join Technical Divi
sion of Gas Service with
Americans.
Professor O F, Stafford, head of the
department of chemistry, has received
word from the government that Colonel
Bacon has asked that 'Professor Staf_
ford join him in France as part of the
technical division of the gas service
American Expeditionary Force. Pro
fessor Stafford feels, however, that the
method he is developing for the utili
zation of waste wood by a new distila
tion process is needed by the govern
ment and that his first duty is to fol
low the development through. He will
probably finish his experimenting by Oc
tober. He wired to Washington, D. C.,
that if needed in France then or if ur
gently needed sooner he would arrange
to go.
The telegram to Professor Stafford
from Washington said in part: “Sure
you wish to be placed where you can
render your country maximum service.
We have no desire to detach yo.u from
your present important work unless it is
clear that you can be of greater service
in France where chemists are now so ur
gently needed by our forces. Men who
go will be commissioned in the chemical
service and assigned to duty under chief
of gas service A. E. F.”
FIVE GET VARSITY JERSEYS
Comfort, Fowler, Wilson, Flegal and
Taylor Now “0” Men.
Sweaters arrived yesterday for the
basketball and wrestling men. They have I
been given to the five men to receive
them by Manager A. R. Tiffany. Charles
Comfort and Ned Fowler were the only
ones to get basketball sweaters as Wil
son, Medley and Steers, the other letter
men, all made th ir emblems in football.
Dwight Wilson, Bruce Flegal and George
Taylor were the three to get wrestling
sweaters. As Taylor is at Camp Lewis
his sweater will be sent to him. Through
a mistake the “O” placed on the sweat
ers was the Roman “O” which was
awarded last year and which was changed
to a block “O” this fall. The correct "O”
will be put on before the men wear them.
SERGEANT FAIRLEY TO BE
INSTRUCTOR AT SCHOOL
Goes to Camp Hancock as Assistant in
Sipply Work—Likes
Oregon Campus.
Ordnance Sergeant Vernon B. Fairley
received orders from the wq{r depart
ment Tuesday to report to .the ordnance
training camp, Camp Hancock, Ga., for
duty as assistant instructor in the sup
ply school.
Since the departure of the fourth
ordnance class Sergeant Fairley has been
in Eugene, and with Lieutenant Jeremiah
has been terminating the business of
the ordnance training school at the Uni
versity.
Sergeant Fairley, who is a graduate
of Dartmouth College and two other
eastern colleges, says that this is his
first trip west and his first visit to a
co-educational college. He says that he
has enjoyed his stay on the campus
very much and that he will carry away
a very favorale impression of Oregon
men and tha University of Oregon.
BRUNK GETS MEDAL !
FOR BEST DEBATER
University Senior Wins Pin:
Ralph Holzman and Ruth
Graham Second
and Third.
Six Contestants Try for Prize
Which Is Given Yearly
for Argument.
Hugh D. Brunk, a member of this
year's 'graduating class and a student,
at the Eugene Bible University, won
the Alumni Medal contest as the best
individual debater, at a tryout held
Monday evening in I>ean John Straub’s
room in the Administration building.
Ralph Holzman won second place and
Ruth Graham third.
Brunk's reward was a gold pin given
annually to the best University debater.
After the year’s debates are over, all
the participants take part in the Alum
ni Medal contest, each speaker consti
tuting a team by himself, and three
judges decide the contest.
Six Try for Prize.
Six contestants tried out Monday
evening, four men and two women. The
men had their contest first on the ques
tion which they debated in the triangu
lar debate with the University of
Washington and British Columbia, “Re
solved, That at the close of the pres
ent war all the nations should establish
an international supreme court with
police power to enforce its decrees.”
The affirmative speakers on this
subject were Day Ra.vly and Ralph
Holzman. Those on the negative were
Kenneth Armstrong and Hugh Brunk.
Two Girls Out.
The girls tried out the question with
which they debated the University of
Washington co-ed team: “Resolved,
That the Tendency of the Newspapers
in the larger cities to consolidate is a
salutary movement in national life.’
Ruth Graham talked for the affirmative
and Amy Carson for the negative.
At four o’clock in the afternoon the
debaters met and drew for sides in the
(final contest. Each speaker was given
12 minutes for their constructive speech
and five minutes for refutation.
Judges Are Alumni.
The judges wore Burleigh Cash and
IVictor Morris, both instructors in the
Eugene High school, and Miss Mary
Watson of the University English de
partment. The judges must he Uni.
versity Alumni.
The time keepers and score keepers
were Marie Badura and Helen McDon
ald.
The debate was scheduled to begin
at S o’clock, hut due to the absence of
one of the judges it was 9 o’clock be
fore the contest started.
SOPHOMORES NEED CASH,
HOLD DANCE FRIDAY NIGHT
Jazz Orchestra Will Furnish Stimulus
for Steppers—Tax Is 25 Cents
Per Couple.
The sophomore class at the University
are sponsoring a student body dance
to be given in the Men’s Gym Saturday
night at S:15.
“We are going to have a jazz orches
tra of three pieces and there won’t be a
thing slow about the evening,’’ declared
Jack Dundore chairman of the commit
tee in charge of the dance.
“We want everybody out.” said Stan
Atkinson, “and we'll promise a whiz of
an evening.”
A charge of twenty-five cents per
couple will be made, the money being
used to defray the expenses of the soph
omore class for the rest of the year and
to make possible the awarding of letters
to members of the class who have repre
sented them in athletics.
The committee in charge is composed
of Jack Dundore, Stan Atkinson and
Helen Melissa < ,'ase.
CANTEEN CAMPAIGN FIRST
No Separate Red Cross Drive for U;
Eugene Fund to Include Campus.
Recognizing the fact that the women
of the University are trying to raise
$2000 for the canteen the county cam
paign committee for the Second I{ed
Cross drive which is to take place from
May 20 to May 27 has decided that there
will be no separately organized campaign
on the University campus. The campus
is to he included in the campaign how
ever. Eugene is to raise $10,000.
CANDIDATES NAMED
IN WOMANS LEAGUE
Nominating Selections Not Yet
Announced by Committee;
Roberta Schuebel up
for Presidency.
Further Plans for Canteen Also
Discussed at the
Meeting-.
With election of officers for Woman's
League for next year scheduled to take
place Tuesday afternoon at -4:30. specu
lation is rife as to possible candidates.
The nominating committee. Cora Hos
ford, chairman, Ruth Ann Wilson, Dor
othy Dunbar, Lurline Brown, and Leura
.Terard, appointed by President Helene
DeLnno, met this afternoon, but have
not announced their selections. The nom
inating committee will choose as candi
dates for each office as they desire,
i Others may he nominated from the floor.
Nominations will he made formally at
Tuesday's meeting, which Helene De
Lano urges every woman in the Univer
sitj to attend, and elections will follow
directly after the nomination.
Secretary Out for Presidency.
Roberta Schuebel will run for presi
dent. but she is the only woman so far
whose candidacy for any office has been
definitely announced. Miss Scheubel was
awarded the Gerlinger cup for the best,
all-around junior woman, being the first
woman to receive this cup. As secretary
of Woman’s League this year, she has
had experience in the association's af
fairs and has served on many commit
tees. Shi> is the first woman in the Uni
versity to take a straight law course. She
is a member of Zeta Kappa Psi and
Kwania and was on the co-ed debate
team last year.
Rumor has it that Ruby Rogue may be
put up for vice-president. Miss Rogue
is a major in the department of physical
education and was secretary of the Wo
man's Athletic association last yon\r.
Another possible candidate for this of
fice or for some other Woman’s League
office is Harriett Garrett.
Canteen Plans Again Discussed
Further plans' for the canteen will he
discussed at the Tuesday afternoon
meeting also. Mrs. Emma Wontton Hall
will rend letters received recently from
the French government, relative to the
establishment of a canteen by the Uni
versity girls in France. Robert Scheubel
will present her plans for the drive to
raise money to equip the canteen.
Y. W. TO GIVE SENIOR
BREAKFAST SATURDAY
Annual Affair Honoring Prospective
Graduates to Take Place at
P. L. Campbell Home.
All senior women in the University
will be honor guests of the Y. W. 0. A.
nt the annual senior breakfast to he
held next Saturday nt S a. m., at the
home of Mrs. P. U. Campbel.
A lottery held last week at the Bun
galow determined the couples for the
affair, and each honor guest will have
as her escort an association member.
Essie Maguire, president, will act ns
toastmistress, and responses will be
given by Gladys Wilkins, Miss Mary
Watson and Emma Wootton Hall.
Additional guests will include Penn
Louise Ehrmann, Miss Mary Watson,
Miss Mary Perkins, Mrs. R. TT. Friend
ly. Mrs. E. P. Pntson, Mrs. A. Tt. Rwoet
ser. Mrs. Elizabeth Prescott and Mrs.
P. R. Burnett.
Nellie Parker is in charge of general
arrangements, and has appointed the
following girls to assist her; Helen
McDonald. .Toy Judkins, Helen Hall, El
sie Fitzmaurice. Eileen Tomkins, Poro
thy Flegel. Helen Brenton, Ethel Waite,
Florence Hemenway. Kitty Johnson and
Frances Elizabeth Raker.
BECKETT AND HALL PICKED
Former Football Stars Are Chosen for
Marine Officers’ Camp in Virginia.
Johnny Beckett and Elmer Hall, both
former football stars of the University
and last year of the Marines team, were
among the four men named from the
state of Oregon for the marine officers’
training camp nt Quantico, Va. The
story of the selection was carried in
Tuesday’s United Press reports. Offi
cial notification came from Washing- j
ton. 1
NEXT DRAFT MAY TAKE
TWENTY UNIVERSITY MEN
Number Is Certain if Last Quota it
Followed; Major Allen Says They
May Remain for R. 0. T. C.
The University will he required to
send -0 men in the next draft which has
just been called if the proportion of the
last draft is followed out. Oregon is
called on to furnish 1500 men and out
of this number 72 will be sent from
Lane county. In the last draft, three
of the eleven men who went to Camp
Lewis were undergraduates in the Uni
versity and following out the same rate,
20 of the 72 will be students.
The local board will at once call the
men in class 1 in their order and will
have them ready to entrain for Fort Me
Itowell Wednesday. May 29. The men
will probably enter the artillery branch
of the army as Fort McDowell is an
artillery training camp. One coutin.
gent is now at Fort McDowell and the
other two are at Camp Lewis. This is
the largest call yet made on Lane coun
ty.
A possibility exists that the men
may be kept from the draft on account
of the It. O. T. C. being established at
the University. Major Eric W. Allen
said that nothing definite is known
nbruit it but that the consensus of opin
ion is that men whose numbers have
been called will be enabled to remain in
college under the R. O. T. C.
Womjm to Compose Swimming
Team at 0. A. C. Chosen.
Miss Winslow Predicts Victory
for Varsity in Meet Next
Saturday. i
' Eleven University women were chosen
after the try out held Tuesday night
1 for places on the Varsity woman's
swimming team which will contest with
O. A. C. in n meet to -he held in Cor
vallis next Saturday afternoon at 2:.'!()
in the V. M. C. A. tank, commonly
known as the O. A. C. hath tub.
'Another final tryout will be held
tonight in the University tank to de
termine the other members of the team.
Those who will try out tonight are Mil
dred Dodds, Ella Dews, Edna Rice, Dor_
othy Bennett, Melba Williams and Na
omi Robbins.
The eleven already chosen and the
events in which they will appear are the
following: Jeanette Moss, 25 yard free
style race, 50 yard free style race, and
relay race; Loeta Rogers, back race,
dives, and free style race; Helen Nicolai,
plunge for distance, 25 yard free style,
50 yard free style, relay; Helen Wood
cock, diving, plunge for distance, relay;
Marion Coffey, dives, 25 yard free style
race, 50 yard free style race, relay;
Hope McKenzie, dives; Elizabeth Peter
son, side stroke for form, back race, 25
yard free style race, 50 yard free style
race and relay; Erma Huff, back race,
relay; Ami Marie Lague, breast, hack
and crawl for form, buck race; Marion
Spoeri, crawl for form, relay; florcnce
riddle, stroke for form, breast, side,
back 'and crawl.
“O. A. C. will surely he a grand win
ner if she wins over Oregon this year,”
declared Miss Catharine Winslow this
morning. “Oregon has some excellent
material.”
The Varsity team will leave for Cor
vallis Saturday morning. Many are
planning to motor over in cars and also
others are going over to witness the
event.
Officials for Oregon are the following:
Bill Morrison, time keeper; Theodora
Stoppcnbach, scorer, Miss Hazel Rader,
judge, and Miss Winslow, referee.
CO-ED TENNIS MEET — 8.
The O. A. C. girls’ tennis team will
meet the University of Oregon tennis
team here on June 1, according to a
statement made by Miss Catharine Wins
low, of the gymnasium department to
day. The teams for single and for dou
bles will be chosen from the following
players: Marjorie Kay, Madeline Slot
boom, Maude Lombard, Adrienne Ep
ping Majrorie Campbell, Gladys
Smith and Frances Elizabeth Baker.
JOHN McGNIRE, E X 17 VISITOR
Architecture Student Now Draftsman
at Bremerton Returns to Campus
John McGuire, who graduated last year
from the school of architecture of the
University, has returned to the campiiR
for a visit. He is (row n draftsman in the
Puget Sound navy yards, Bremerton, i
Wash. j
BENEFIT PLAYS DEXL
WITH WAR JESTIQIK
Three Productions for Horru
Guard Fund Portray
biases of Army
Situations.
Col. Leader Praises “Prussia!
Way,’’ “O’Flaherty” and
“The Stragglers.”
The soul of Prussian militarism as
bait'd in Percy Gibbons’ “The Prussian
Way," is the theme of one of the three
plays to be staged in the Eugene the
atre, Friday and Saturday nights, for
the Home Guard fund; ‘‘O’Flaherty, V.
C.", the second play, has for its motif
the heroism of an Irish soldier, and tho
third play, "The Straggler,” is the
story of the patriotism of a man and
soldier whose’ days of usefulness for his
country are past but who lives once
more the glorious fighting days of his
youth.
"The Prussian Way." or ‘Tlnin Ger
man," as it was known before Profess
[ or A. F. lteddie dramatized it for stag*
I production, is pronounced by Colonel
John Leader to be absolutely correct it
its interpretation of Prussiauism and its
; methods, and after hearing it read h*
was enthusiastic over its possibilities.
Interesting, Says Colonel.
"I have worked under tho Prussians,’1
said Colonel Leader, “and the atmos
phere of ’Plain German’ is real. It ii
a splendidly done thing and intensely in.
teresting all the way through. It was
written by a man who never wrote any
thing to any extent whatever befory
[ and immediately his story, which is very
short, was seized upon aud published 01
the front page of one of the biggest
weeklies in tin- country—n magazine
i which had been used to paying as high
its $11000 for a single little story by a
recognized author."
In "O’Flnhert.v. V. C.” Mr. Reddle,
who plays the Colonel, will play the part
in the guise of Colonel Leader and will
undoubtedly be a great hit siuce ho is
extremely clever at impersonations.
Miss Charlotte Ban-field, assistant, in
structor in the department of public
speaking, has seen the plays rehearsed
I and pronounces them splendid, particu
larly in the men’s parts, which are very
t difficult.
I ‘‘Stragglers Second Appearance.
! “The Straggler,” which has been ploy
! cd on the campus this year, has won
i nothing but praise from those who saw
i the performance in the winter season.
It. is a Henry Irving composition, while
‘‘O’Flaherty, V. C,” is by Bernard Shaw,
As 'usual in Mask and Buskin produc
tions, tho work is being done entirely by
class members, from ticket selling and
box office managing to settings.
The lutter will be in charge of Cleomc
Carroll, Xorvell Thompson-, Norman
Phillips and Ruth Young, who compose
the committee on stage settings.
Colonel Leader and other members of
the faculty and townspeople are tc
sponsor the productions, for which the
seat sale opened this morning.
The prices are 1.00, 75c and 50c.
BELGIAN PROFESSOR TO
SPEAK TUESDAY NIGHT
uerman Kultiir In Theory and Practice
Will Be Subject of Lecture
by Victor Horta.
Professor Victor Horta, of 'Brussels,
Belgium, formally head of the architect
department of University of Louvain,
Belgium, find for the past two years ex
change professor at Harvard university,
will speak next Tuesday evening in
Bendy hall at 8 o’clock on “German
Fvultur in Theory and Practice." Pro
fessor Iforta. is coming to the Univer
city at the request of Professor Bos
well Bosch, of the art department. The
lecture will he open to the Eugene pub
lic and the faculty and students of the
University.
Professor Horta is en route to Cali
fornia. For the past six months he has
been lecturing in the east for the
Archaelogical Institute of Ameriea. Two
weeks ago he spoke in Portland, "The
Cathedrals of Northern France and
Belgium." was the subject of his talk
before the students at Beed college.
After the lecture Tuesday night in
Bendy hall the art department of the
I Diversity will hold a smnll informal re
ception in the studio of the architecture
•building in his honor. It is probable
that Mrs. Horta will accompany him.