Oregon Emerald VOL. 19. EUGENE. OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1918. NO. 84. PUIS FOP GUARDS PROVEJXCELLENT Three Mask and Buskin War Productions Meet with Favor, but Small Audience. Professor Reddie, Lyle Mc ‘ Croskey and Norvell Thomp son Score Hits. Before an audience which scarcely more than half filled the Eugene theater last night, Mask and Buskin chapter of the associated University players staged its initial performance of the three one act plays which were worked up espec ially to be presented as a benefit fop the Eugene Home Guard. The second performance comes this evening. With Colonel John Leader, command ant of the University battalion of which the Home Guard company is a unit, sponsoring the presentation of this group oe thi'ee unusually attractive war plays, and members of Mask and Bus kin, under the able and willing leader, ship of Frof. A. Fergus Reddie giviug of their time and talent, it was hoped to make the two evenings a source of much financial benefit to the guards. The success of the scheme depends largely on the size of tonight’s audience. The three plays—“O’Flaherty, V. O.,” by Bernard Shaw; “The Straggler,” by Henry Irving; and Percy Gibbon's tell ing “The Prussian Way”—were admir ably chosen and grouped for joint pro duction, each having war for its main theme. Standing out vividly among the three was “The Prussian AVay,” for it was set apart by its more rapid action, its more intimate and significant interest and its superior setting and acting — there seemed something vivid and alive in its threat which aroused an interest less noticeable during the progress of the other two, and which carried the ■very players themselves beyond the bonds of self-consciousness. Au increased number of characters was one factor responsible for the im provement, and the consequent decrease in the apparent bleakness of the stage was a second and very marked help to ward that end. The result was much more speed in catching up cues, and more rapid action. The story of the piece is that of a German subject, seourhged by his cap tain, and a deserter from the army, who for revenge will sell a chemical inven tion for exploding cartridges, bombs and shrapnel shells at. long distance by means of powerful electric rays, thus killing <*ff allied troops while Germany lies low. His price is that the officer who whipped him shall be brought there, that (Continued on page Two) Draft Takes Dwight Wilson, President-elect for 1918-19. Bruce Flegal, Arthur Runquist and Irving Rowe Also Or dered to Report. Dwight Wilson, student body president elect, Bruce Flegal and Arthur Run quist were called in the draft this morn ing. They have been notified to report nt Camp McDowell, California, May 27. Efforts made by University authorities ■fo have them exempted because of their membership in the It. C. T. C. granted the University recently have failed. It was found that, probably through a fault vf organization, the men in all the Uni versity and college It. O. T. C. bodies were not exempted when called. The message received here this morn ing from the war department relative to exemption for the three men called said: “Xo exemption from draft on account of merbership in reserve officers’ train ing corps authorized by the war depart, tnent.” Wilson is at present a captain in the University battalion. Flegal was this rear a member of the wrestling varsity baseball team, winning bis letter. Irving Rowe, eajled on Thursday, left Friday morning for Camp McDowell hav ing been ordered to report earlier than :hose who received their call this morn mg. SCHOLAKSHIP OFFERED TO UNIVERSITY WOMAN Association of Collegiate Alumnae Will Decide Award of $25 on May 24. A scholarship of $25 a year is being offered by the Association of Collegiate Alumnae to the University girl who is found most worthy. “I do not know how the choice will be made,’’ said Miss Mozelle Hair, treas urer of the Oregon chapter and a mem ber of the committee to select a winner, “but scholarship and actual fitness for university training will be important factors. However the money will not be given to a girl to whom it will be of 1 no particular help.’’ Miss Hair stated that the scholarship is usually awarded at the time of the last meeting of the association which will occur this year on May 24. Anyone wishing to apply should hand her name to the committee the other members of which are Ilean I-ouise Khr mann and Miss Mary Perkins, president of A. C. A. COLONEL LEADER LEAVES I FOR WEEK’S LECTURE TRIP Military Instructor to Speak at Camp Lewis, Tacoma, and in South ern Oregon. Lieutenant Colonel John Leader left this afternoon for a week’s lecture trip through Oregon and Washington to as sist in the lied Cross drive by speaking on the war and military subjects. lie motored to Halsey this afternoon with Dr. George II. Parkinson and gave his first talk there tonight. lie is scheduled to speak iu Tacoma j tomorrow on the war and in Camp Lew is Monday on technical military prob | lems. Tuesday and Wednesday he will spend in Portland talking to Home Guards and before the State Council of Defense as well as at several other ! meetings to be arranged. Klamath Falls high school will have the Colonel to de j liver the commencement address. Friday : evening. Saturday, he will speak for the Red Cross in Medford and Grants Pass. MEN'S GLEE CLUB TO DANCE Country Club Reserved for Thursday Night, when Jazz Will Hold Forth. There will be much festivity at the Eugene Country club next Thursday night when the T’niversity Men's Glee club will hold their annual dance. This dance is to take the place of the origi nal plan of having n dinner dance at the Osburn Hotel as a last affair before the boys break up for the year. A committee has been appointed con sisting of John Flinn, who is in charge of the music, Jack Montague and Paul Spangler, who <nre to look after the mat ter of eats, Bill Hazeltine, who made arrangements for the club house and Merril Moor, in charge of the programs. Merril Moor has sent to Portland for engraved dance programs and John Flinn says that the music is going to be real jazz, probably Lyons’ orchestra. This year the dance is not to be a for mal affair. They are going to Hoover ize and make it just a plain party, in formal, with good, peppy features, the details of which not one of the men will divulge. They do say, though, that it will be original club stuff such as they would have given had they gone on the usual trip this year. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Faguy Cote have been asked to serve as patrons. There are only fourteen members of the Glee Club left this year and these ! men say that the money which is left in the treasury should certainly be used for one last blow-out. McNARY AND GRAY MOVE UP Appointed as Second Lieutenants of Companies B and 0. Additional appointments in the T’ni versity battalion were announced yes terday. Robert McN’ary will be second lieutenant of C. Company and Harold Gray, second lieutenant of L> Company. Second Lieutenant Harold Cake and William Steers appointed Wednesday, will hold the rank of honorary lieuten ants at their own request. Their resig nations were accepted Friday. Their commissioned rank will be entered upon their record of service, however, but during the remainder of their term they will he permitted to drill as acting non com’Missioned officers in B Company. DELTA TAIIS TO MEET PHI BELTS 1111 FINAL Last in Doughnut Baseball Series Promises to Be One of Season's Best. Durno and Medley to Pitch; Both Teams Working Hard Under Coaches. The final game of the doughnut base 'hall league will be played Tuesday of next week when the Phi Delta Theta representatives will meet the Delta Tan Delta team. This game should prove to be one of the best seen here this year, including Varsity contests. Both of the teams appear to be in good shape and both are confident that they will be able to take the contest. Ed. Durno. who will probably pitch for the Phi Delts, is a good box artist and should be able to keep the Delt slug gers pretty much under his control. In Houston Medley the Delts have a twirler that is about the best in the league and the Phi Delts are going to find that it is no easy job to gather base hits off of this port-sider. The infield of the two teams is about a stand off with the outfield shading a little to the L'hi Delts. The main thing in the game is to be who can hit and who can not. The team that is able to solve the delivery of the oposing pitch er is the team that is gaing to have the best chance to give the cup a rest upon its mantle piece. The Delta Tan team handed the Eu gene High School team a walloping Thursday evening when they beat them with a score of G to 2. Mortimer Brown performed in the boy for the Delts. Both of the teams played ft good game and the Delts sure looked like world beaters in the contest but it remains to be seen what they will look like when they face the twirling of Dur no. Daily practice is the order of the two houses and Manager Bill Steers and Dot Medley, are pushing their proteges to the limit. There has been some talk of Steers and Medley playing when the teams meet next week. As both houses have enough men to form a team, it is campus opinion that there is no need for Varsity men to enter now, although the regular season is over. The game, say the fans, will be more interesting if Steers and Medley stay out as neither team will gain any great advantage by the addition, as there is very little dif ference in the ability of the two. TO SPEAK ON SHELL SHOCK Dr. E. S. Conklin to Give Three Public Lectures on Army Disease. Three lectures on the army disease peculiar to the present war, shell shook, will be given next week by Dr. E. S. Conklin, bead of the department of psy chology, in his lecture room in McClure hall. While the lectures are primarily for the class in abnormal psychology. Dr. Conklin will admit visitors. The lecture subjects follow: .Monday at 11 a. m., “Psychology of the Civilian Turn ed Soldier;” Tuesday, 11 a. m., “Char acteristics of Shell Shock Cases;” Thurs day, 11 a. m., “Interpretations, Treat, inent and Prevention.” WOMEN TO DO CLUB WORK Eight Girls to Spend Eight Weeks in Y. W. C. A. Camp This Summer. Eight University women who are plan ning to do eight weeks’ club work dur. ing the summer, met Thursday evening for dinner at the Bungalow, when Mrs. P. L. Campbell told them of various forms of patriotic work they might take up with their girls during their eight weeks of work. Mrs. George II. Park inson, who is eight weeks club adviser for Y. W. C. A., also met with the girls. Other meetings to discuss other forms of club work will be held. OHIO REJECTS HONOR SYSTEM. Plan Turned Down by Majority of 103 Votes by Students and Faculty. The adoption of the honor system at the Ohio State University was recently voted on by the students and faculty, and rejected by a majority of 103 votes. —Ohio State Lantern, I I T — ' Fifteen Women Form Unit for All Sorts of Agricultural Labor in Oreaon This Summer. 1 Plan Found Satisfactory in i Other Colleges to Be Used at Oregon. [ Fifteen University girls who ere I planning to form an agricultural unit ; for summer work, met Thursday from | 5 to t! o’clock in the Bungalow to make their plans. They will work together in the country during vacation under the chnperonago of an older woman. Several places are available for unit work but the girls have not yet decided on one. They will take tents and when one job is finished will move on to the next place. General farm work, berry and cherry picking form work they are seeking. "The girls feel that by doing this work j they will be spending their summer [ profitably as well as making it. possible j for more men to enlist,” said Miss Tirza | Hinsdale, campus Y. AV. C. A. secre | tary. The next meeting of the unit will be held next Thursday afternoon at the Bungalow, when the club will he offi cially organized. A forewoman will be elected and the girls will decide upon the matter of a cook and a chaperon. HETEROGENEOUS CLASS STUDIES WAR MINERALS Chromite, Indispensable to Munition Plants, Abundant in Oregon, Says Dr. Smith. A class in war minerals in which three real prospectors are enrolled at present, met last night for the first time in the geology lecture room, with Dr. ( Warren D. Smith, head of the depart, ment of geology. Twelve are enrolled in the class which will meet every Thursday evening. One man in the class has prospected from Washington to Southern California and ■also in Nevada. Another has made coal 1 examinations, and entered the class to learn s'Mething more about metals. One Is a bu.ik president, interested in what he can learn about metals to use as h basis for forming judgments for invest ments. Two members of the class 'are women, one a faculty wife, the other a student. Chromite was the subject for discus sion last night. Tlie United States produces just one fourth as much chromite os it needs, ac cording to Dr. Smith, and since this is the ease the study of the mineral is be ing made so that everyone can be on the look-out and can report to the govern ment any findings. j Chromite is a compound of iron, chromium and oxygen and it is used principally for the hardening of steel in the munition plants. Large quantities I of chromite are found in the eastern and southern parts of Oregon. “There are places in Oregon where the mineral lies in abundance but it has never been discovered,” said Dr. Smith., “The mining is comparatively easy since it lies close to the surface hut the trou ble is that no one knows nnything about j it.” ! VICTOR HORTA TO LECTURE Belgian Professor to Talk on “German Kultur” Tuesday Evening. “Herman Kultur in Theory and Prac tice.” will he the subject of Professor Victor Horta’s lecture Tuesday evening in Dcady hall. Professor Horta is one of the leading lecturers in the country today, lie is from Brussels, Belgium find was formerly head of the architec. ture department of the University of Louvain, Belgium. For the past two years he has been exchange professor at Harvard University. 11 is descriptions of war conditions in Belgium are vivid and stirring. The lecture will lie open to the Eugene public and the faculty and students of the University, For the past six weeks Professor Horta lias been lecturing for the Archaelogic«l In stitute of America. After the lecture Tuesday night in Deady hail the art de partment will hold a reception in the studio of the architecture building in [ his honor. ♦ ♦ ♦ With the doubles being played as ♦ ♦ the Emerald goes to press, Oregon ♦ ♦ is leading in the tennis mateh with ♦ ♦ O. A. C. on the local courts this <► ♦ afternoon. The Varsity took all <> ♦ three matches in the singles, with ♦ ^ the scores as follows: ♦ ♦ Brown vs Hyde, 0-1. 7-5. ♦ ♦ Hershner vs. Reynolds, 0-1, ♦ ♦ 0-3. 6-1. ♦ ♦ Smith vs. Powers, 7-5, 0-4, 10-S. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦**♦ ABE ROSENBERG TO MEET WASHINGTON IN ORATORY Second Freshman in University's His tory to Take Part in Interstate Contest. For the first time since the days of Carlton Spencer, in 15)10, a freshman is again to represent Oregon at the Ore gon and Washington state oratorical contest. Abe 10. Rosenberg will meet the Washington representative, whose name has not yet been announced, at the Lincoln High School auditorium in Portland on either May 31 or June 1, to compete for the interstate champion whip. Rosenberg's addrpss, “Your Name. Honored Yesterday, Loathed To day, What Shall it be Tomorrow?” is original. The judges of the contest are to be the same as they have been for years, the heads of the English depart ments of the Universities of Idaho, Stanford and California. E. F. Blaine, of Seattle was the donor of the $101) prize, which is to go to the winner. HUNGRY SENIORS FED BY Y. W. C. A. MEMBERS Real Breakfast Served to Co-eds at Home of Mrs. Campbell—Toasts Follow Delicious Meal. “We want breakfast!” said the senior women at the breakfast given for them this morning at the home of Mrs. P. L. Campbell by tin1 Y. W. (’. A. .And the will of the IMS's was obeyed when members of the association served what Emma Wont ton Mali called “the first real breakfast I’ve had in college.” Essie Maguire, campus president, act ed as toast mistress and responses were given by Gladys Wilkins, Miss Mary Perkins, Miss Tirza Hinsdale, Dean Louise Ehrmann, Mrs. S. H. Friendly, Mrs. P. I,. Campbell, Emma Wootton Hall, Miriam Page, Margaret Crosby, Helene Delano, Anna Lansbury Reek, Ruth Ann Wilson and Dorothy Collier. Mrs. Erie W. Allen gave two readings, ■“Ramey Magee” and “Horn and Haw.” The affair closed with a serpentine and “Oskie” by the 125 girls, present, with nine “rails” given for the senior class and the Y. W. C. A. WOMEN’S GLEE CLUB COMPLETES SEASON Financial Status ot University Respons ible for Lark of Concert Trips During Year. The women’s glee cluh^if the Uniyer sity hns finished its season. It will not take the trip which was planned for either southern Oregon or lo Portland and Camp Lewis. The financial status of the University this year will not allow it. The women’s club of this year was one of the best that the Univerity has ever had and an extensive season was planned for it. The first two semesters were spent in perfecting a program which was to be presented the middle of June but arrangements could not be made and in order than their efforts might not be useless, the women sang as a feature at the Junior Prom. DRIVE TO OPEN WEDNESDAY Rev. Spangler to Inaugurate Armenian Relief Campaign. The campus campaign to raise the University’s quota of $100 for the Ar menian relief fund will begin Wednesday morning when Reverend A. M. Spangler, pnstor of the Eugene Congregational church, will address the assembly to ex plain the campaign. The campaign will be carried on on the campus in conjunction with the cam pus Red Cross campaign. Although no University quota has been made for the Red Cross drive next week, because of the campaign being made on the campus to equip a canteen, it is felt that the campus can raise $200. This amount will be raised among the men, who, it is understood, will not he asked to donate to the women’s canteen fund. TEN OUT FOR OFFICE IN IMIS LEIOOE Roberta Schuebel and Dorothy Flegel Want Presidency; Ruby Bogue Is Unopposed. Grace Hammarstrom and Eva Hansen Rivals for •Secretaryship. Ten candidates for the six offices in Woman's League next year were an nounced yesterday afternoon by the nom inating committee. Election will be held Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in Vil la rd ball. The committee hns selected Dorothy Elegel to run against Roberta Schuebel, who announced her candidacy several weeks ago, for president. Miss Flegel has been n member of the Y. W. C. A. cabinet for the past two years, last year having charge of arranging all Y. TV. meetings and planning vesuec programs. She lias been active in class work, was head of the juniors for the campui luncheon, chairman of the committee which arranged for Junior pictures in the Oregana and is u member of this year’s Oregana staff. She is vice pres ident. of Triple C. Ruby Rogue is the only woman slated for vice president by the nominatini committee. Miss Bogue is a major in the department of physical education, was • eretnry of the athletic association last year and head of golf this year. For secretary, Eva Hansen and Greet Hninmerstrom have been named. Miss Hansen is a major in the department ol physical education, is secretary of the athletic association this year and hns been captain of both the freshman and sophomore basketball teams and maim, gor of the sophomore team. She has been on the varsity swimming, hookey and basketball teams. She is president of Triple 15 and a member of Zcta Knp. pa I*si. Grace Ilammerstrom is vice president of Triple R and an active worker in Y. W. ('. A. on the membership committee. She is a member of Kwnma. Reha Macklin and Ethel McGilchrist are slated for the treasury. Miss Mack lin had charge of the sophomores for the campus luncheon. She is a member of Kwnma and Mu Phi Epsilon. Miss (Continued on page three) Dr. W. H. Slingerland to Arrive About May 20. Will Conduct Survey In State Institutions For Care of Children. Dr. W. II. Slingerland, commissioner nnd field agent for the Russell Sage foundation, expert in child welfare, is expected here May HO. i The extension division will arrange his itinerary so that he may investigate all institutions of Oregon where there are children dependent upon the state. Tim legislature last fall passed a bill authorising such an investigation. Five members of the University fac ulty, Earl Kilpatrick, director of the extension division, Dr. E. S. Conklin, head of the psychology department; Miss Elizabeth Fox, dean of women; Dr. George Rebec, professor of philosophy; and Dr. R. W. DeRusk, professor of education, were chosen to conduct the study. No appropriation was made to meet the expenses, so the extension division of the University will finance it and pay for the immediate expenses aud enter tainment of Dr. SUn erland. The Rus sell Sage foundation pays his salary. He will spend several weeks in Ore gon and will send a detailed report of his findings to the extension division. This report will be used as a basis for recommendation to the legislature. Dr. Slingerland bus spent the past several mouths in demonstrating the value and importance of special research and case work in connection with the Moose institution at Mooseheart, Illi nois, an institution of several thous and inmates