Men Drawn from Civil Life
Under Nervous Strain in
War, Says Dr.
Conklin.
Unusual Conditions Responsible
for Disease Known as
“Psycho-Neurosis."
“The armies, especially those of Great j
Britain and France, are made up of a
citizen soldiery, men from all walks of
life shaken out of their comfortable ruts,
who find it hard to adapt themselves to
military life." said Pr. Edmund S. Con
klin. head of the psychology department
at. the University, in his lecture, "The
Phychology o: the Citizen Turned Sol
dier.” yesterday.
"This lack of adaptability puts men in
the position of constantly suppressing
fear and this continual mental conflict
3s responsible for great nervous strain.
Shell and Wound Shocks Differ.
"Shell shock is a combined product of
n number of things which might be list
fid as: The almost unprecedented fa
Vgue of military service at the front;
lack of perfect adaption to military life;
responsibility, lack of sleep, life under
the most trying of conditions, suppres
sion of the fear of being afraid, irregu
larity of meals.
Dr. Conklin said that the term "shell
fhock” was crudely used and that in tech
nical terms the condition was known as
psycho-neurosis, which means an abnor
mal. mental, nervous process.
“It is necessary,” he said, “to dis_
tinguish shell shock from wound shock,
which is a physiological condition to be
fsealt with by the medical profession.
Public Invited to Lecture.
“A very large percentage of the cases
cf shell shock had pre-dispositions to
nervous weakness, a thing hard to dis
chver.”
The second lecture, given today, was
"Characteristics of Shell Shock Cases,”
end the third to he given Monday at 11
»’cloek in his lecture room in McClure
hall, is “Interpretation-, Treatment and
Prevention of Shell Shock.” The pub
lic is invited to attend.” The Psycho
logy of Shell Shock is the general sub
fm. THACHER TO GIVE
WAR BEAJEFiT CONCERT
t'fill Be Assisted by Orchestra; Money
to Go to Dr. Stuart for
French Children.
The next and perhaps the last concert
of the school year will be given by Mrs.
W. F. G.'"Thacher on Tuesday evening.
June 4, in Villard hall.
The benefits of the recital are to be
given to Dr. Bertha Stuart, a prominent
war worker, who is now in France ad
ministering relief to the destitute chil
dren of that country. Word has been
received from her stating that funds of
Every kind are greatly needed.
The University Orchestra will take a
part in the program, playing one num
ber and accompanying Mrs. Thacher in
‘Concerto, A Minor,” by Grieg.
CO OFFER MILITARY COURSES.
Elementary Instruction in Artillery and
Surveying Given.
Harvard, while cutting down its cur
riculum for the coming year in prospect
of the further reduction in the number
of students, especially in the three up
perclasses. offers a third course in Mil
itary Science and Tactics. In this new
course there will be elementary instruc
tion in artillery, and a separate course
In surveying, topography and military
mapping.
MORTON TO GIVE WAR
COURSE IF FIFTY SIGN
Will Fit Students for Government Serv
ice Work; Salaries Range
from $900 to $1800.
Tf 50 students sign with Dean D. W.
Morton for a war emergency course to
be given in summer school to prepare
for government service work Dean Mor
ton will arrange to give the course. He
cannot, however, guarantee the work
unless at least 50 sign up for it.
Dean Morton was moved to work out
the plan for this course after receiving
a telegram from President Campbell
which said that there was a great de
mand for skilled accountants and com
petent clerks. Salaries from $900 to
.'jlSOO are offered. “Men and women
are needed.-’ he wired. "Departments
say great field for trained administra
tors after the war. War department now
actively working. Keep men in college.
Big education drive planned. All work
ing together.”
The summer course will include ele
mentary accounting and business corres
pondence and other, practical courses to
be arranged. It will prepare students
to pass the government examinations
for clerkships, for which, according to
the President’s telegram, there is a
great demand.
Dean Morton urges students to con
sider the possibilities of the summer
course and to confer with him if there
are any questions they wish to have an
swered.
LEADER TALKS IN OREGON
AND WASHINGTON ON WAR
To Speak in Portland at Convention of
"War Workers” from All
Over State.
Colonel Leader left here last Satur
day night for a speaking trip in Oregon
and Washington. He spoke at Tacoma
Sunday night. Monday he visited Camp
Lewis, and from there he will go to
Portland in time to appear upon the
program of the state council for defense.
He delivered a combined war and Red
Cross talk at Halsey on Saturday night.
This program will be held in conjunc
tion with a two-day convention of the
“war workers” from all over the state.
The “war workers” is a title that is
given to all those people in the states
who are either selling liberty bonds,
working for the Red Cross or doing any
of the other useful things that will help
toward the completion of the war. This
convention begins Wednesday and will
extend through Thursday.
From Portland, Colonel Leader will
go to Klamath Falls, where he will de
liver the commencement address to the
high school on the evening of Friday,
May 24. Col. Leader will probably speak
at two or three towns on his return trip,
according to Guy E. Dyar, of the ex
tension Division.
FRATERNITY SCHOLARSHIP FAIL
Nebraska Shows Drop of 15.3 in Stand
ing Due to War.
Figures of fraternity scholarship
standing for the first semester at the
University of Nebraska show that the
average is 15.3 lower than last year. It
is blamed on the war.
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and Home Made Candies.
Kuykendall Drug Store
870 WILLAMETTE STREET.
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BELGIAN TO LECTURE
Victor Horta, Eye Witness of
German Invasion, Will
Speak Tonight
of “Kultur.”
Says Americans Cannot Realize
True Extent of Cruelties
Inflicted. •
Side lights on the German situation,
gained first-hand by Professor Victor
Horta, an eye witness of the German in
vasion of Belgium, will he given in his
lecture, “German Kulture in Theory and
Practice” tonight in Heady hall.
Two years ago Professor Horta was
head of the architecture department of
the University of Brussels and has since
been exchange professor at Harvard
University. This is the first time he
has visited the Pacific Coast.
“I find the Western people,” ho said,
“more genuine and hospitable than the
Eastern people.”
In Belgium Nino Months After Invasion
Professor Horta spent 0 months in
Belgium after the German invasion, and
says that Americans cannot understand
the true extent of the cruelties inflicted
upon the Belgians. “There is but one
idea now in Belgium,” he said. “That
is to beat the Ge-rmans.”
A forty day passport permitted Pro
fessor Horta to leave Belgium to visit
Holland. From there he went to Lon
don to attend an architectural conven
tion. lie warned the London papers not
to print news of his arrival, hut a Bel
gian paper n London carried the news
and within five days the German au_
thorities in Belgium knew it. Horta
was warned not to return to his coun
try and came to America,
“The American government,” he said,
“has been a wonderful help to Belgium.
We would have starved long ago if it
were not for your help. Today there is
enough food in Belgium to keep the peo
ple from starving, but not enough to let
them live.”
Professor Horta is enthusiastic in re
gard to American universities. “Your
students,” he said, “are so independent
that the opportunity for individual
thought is much greater than in Eu
rope.”
(RE SSKEO TO H
All Requested to Pay Tribute to
Italy on Anniversary of En
trance into War.
All Amerijans are asked to wear the
colors of Italy ou Friday, in honor of
her entrance into the world war. These
colors are red, white and green. This
is asked that the Italians both here and
at home may be made to realize the
friendliness of the American people. The
plan as promulgated.by the vacation war
relief committee of the Vacation associa
tion, in a letter to Mrs. P. L. Campbell,
the chairman of the local commitee,
states that the Italy-America society,
Charles Hughes, president, has asked
that every American wear a bouquet of
flowers of those colors on that day.
The plans for the working out of the
scheme locally have been turned over
by Mrs. Campbell to City Superintnodent
AV. R. Rutherford, of the Eugene schools.
Mr. Rutherford stated Tuesday that
the children in each room in the city
schools will be asked to request their
parents to wear flowers on that day.
and to wear them themselves if possdde.
The school rooms will be decorated with
the allied flags, and especial attention
will be paid on that day to the Italian
flag.
Mr. Rutherford states that it will be
impossible to have children distribute
bouquets on the street, as suggested, for
the reason that school work has been
so interfered with the past school year
that it is imperative that the closing
weeks be devoted strictly to the routine
of school duties.
It is believed that in Eugene, where
practically -.very home has a flower gar
den, that it should be possible to secure
a good celebration without any general
distribution cf flowers by committees,
as suggested by the letter to Mrs. Camo
bell.
WOMAN'S BUILDING FUND DRAWS
“Thrift Stamp a Month” Campaign
Brings Gift From Alumnae.
The “Thrift Stamp a Month” drive
for subscriptions to the Woman’s Build
ing is bringing results. Karl Onthank,
secretary to the president, received a
contribution of $3 from Carin H. Deger
mark, who graduated from the University
in 1013
“I’m afraid that’s all
I can spare”
You’re a regular, red - blooded,
true - blue American. You love
your country. You love that flap
ping, snapping old flag. Your
heart thumps hard when the
troops tramp by. You’re loyal —*
100%! - $
You intend to — you want to —
'help win the war in a hurry. A
‘'Sacrifice? Sure,” you’ve been
thinking. ‘‘Just you wait till they
really need it.” And you’ve hon
estly thought you meant that too.
Come, Come! Let’s quit fooling
ourselves. Let us learn what “sac
rifice” means. Let us give more
than we can spare — let us “give
till the heart says stop.”
Donated to The Red Cross By
Eugene Clearing House Assn.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
BANK OF COMMERCE.
U. S. NATIONAL BANK.
“False Sociology, Based on
Materialistic Unbelief” Con
demned by Baptists of South.
Hot Springs, Ark., May 21.—Baptists
of the south were today on record as
opposing the “false sociology, based on
materialistic unbelief,” which they claim
has found its way into American univer
sities which “reek with German kultur.”
A resolution, admittedly aimed at a
Chicago university, condemning this
phase of education, precipitated a bitter 1
fight nnd was passed at the final session
late yesterday.
Condemnation of the widespread ‘‘di
vorce evil,” was also expressed in un
other resolution, which admonished Bap
tist ministers to refuse to perform the
marriage ceremony for divorced persons,
except those divorced on the grounds of 1
infidelity, ns defined by the Bible.
MISSIONARY GROUP ELECTS
Helen Brenton Heads Students Walking
to Do Foreign Service.
Officers for the coming year were/
elected at u meeting of the Foreign Mis
sionary Volunteer Baud held last week.
Helen Brenton was chosen president,
Richard Thompson, vice-president and !
Ami Bogus secretary nnd treasurer.
There will be one more meeting of j
the band before school closes and this 1
PASTEURIZED.
HOMOGENIZED.
College Ice Cream
Particular people always order it because it
always pleases. We make fruit punches of all kinds.
EUGENE ICE & STORAGE CO.
PHONE 343.
Flowers for the Dinner Table
No dinner party is complete without them. No table is
“well set” without a center piece of flowers. They lend
grace and beauty to every festive occasion.
Large Palms and Ferns for Rent.
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PHONE 281. 68 9TH AVE. E.
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ivill be in the form of n picnic to be held
either Wednesday or Thursday of next
week.
This club is composed of students who
have volunteered to go in for foreign
nissionnr.v work of some kind.
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lamps for lighting your home
but there are sizes and styles for
the lighting of stores, offices
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Insist on getting lamps label
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and black carton, and the name
Westinghouse is your guarantee
of quality.
Telephone for our lamp man.
Sigwart Electric Co.
933 Willamette. Phone 718.