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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1918)
INSTRUCTOR CHOSEN ar school of music Mrs. Mary Ashurst, of American Guild of Organists, to Take John Stark Evans’ Place Here. e Three of Music Faculty, Badol let, Annett, Evans, Doing War Work. The University School of Music ibis engaged Mrs. Mary Ashurst as temporary instructor of organ during the remainder of the year to take the place of John Stark Evans who left last week for the officers training camp at American I/ake with thirteen other University men. Mrs. Ashurst comes from Los Angeles and is a member of the American Guild of or ganists. “The fact that Mrs. Ashurst is a mem ber of the American Guild is recommen dation enough in itself,” said Dr. Lands bury, dean of the music school. “Admis sion to the (luild is by examination only, and as she is a member that in itself would speak for her capability.” Mr. Evans’ class work has been taken by Dr. Landsbury and some of his pupils by Mrs. W. F. G. Thaeher. Position Held for Evans. “It is understood,” said Dr. Landsbury, “that Mr. Evans’ position will lie open for him if he is able to come back at any time. He is simply on leave of absence. I feel that his personal influence as well as his splendid musical education make him exceptionally well fitted for this po sition. Mr. Evans also has a good busi ness education as he almost finished the course in a well known law school, llis futhcr wanted him to lie a lawyer, but the cull of the music world was too strong for him and lie left his law course just before graduation.” Mr. Evans has nil A. B. degree from Grinnell; he studied music with Itudolph Gang. He is a member of I’lii Beta Kappa. Others in Service. Two other members of the faculty of the school of music are away now doing war work. Frank V. Ilndollet, instructor in flute, is in Vancouver, Wash., engaged in industrial war work, and Howard An nett is witli tlie Oregon Ambulance com pany in training at Gamp Lewis. Y.W.C. A. PICNIC TOMORROW Seabeck Conference to Be Discussed at Last Meeting of Year. The kist Y. W. O. A. meeting of tho yeur, to lie held in the form of a picnic tomorrow at four o’clock, north of Skin ner’s Butte, will he devoted to a discus sion of the Seahook Conference, held an nually June ill, July 1, at Seabeck, Washington. Dorothy Collier will have charge of the meeting, and Mitts Mary Watson. Essie Maguire, Helen Itrouton, Lillie Miller, Delilah McDaniel, Frances Schenk, Helen Wells, Jeannette Kiel/ iug and Dorothy Wheeler, who attend ed conference last year, will speak. The high school Y. W. O. A. will at tend, and Florence Niles and Until Flc gel, delegates to last year's conference, will speak. Eaofc girl is asked to bring a simple lunch and ten cents to pay for food The picnickers will meet at the Dun The PicuiclOMs will meet at the Bun galow. Everf woman in the University is DR. CONKLIN ON LECTURE TOUR. To Give Three Graduation Addresses At Oregon High Schools. Dr. Edmund S. Conklin, head of the department of psychology, will leave to morrow to deliver a scries of com. nicneement addresses. lie will speak at Florence tomorrow night, at Cardi iter Thursday and at North Bend Fri day. Dr. Conklin's third lecture on "shell shock” has been postponed to M.ootuv \lHv 07 Anyway Chef Had a Grand Dream—for Ten Days Student-body Prexy, Star Pitcher, Friars, Kept Cap—Draft Pricked Bubble. Did you ever feel ns if so many won derful things were happening to you that you must be dreaming? And then sud denly just when you got ready to pinch yourself to make sure, did you ever re ceive a terrible jolt and find it had been almost a dream, for none of the things could come true? TW<t was somewhat the way “Chief” Dwight Wilson must have felt, when af ter living through almost the most eventful 10 days a man can experience in college, lie received word that his number had been drawn in the draft and that he must report to Fort McDonald, California, May 20, enter the ranks as a private. An enterprising author searching for startling action might well write a hook on “Ten Days from the Life of Chief Wilson,” or “Following the Fickle Flicker of Fortune.” Those remarkable days started off with the election of Wilson to the stu dent body presidency, conceded to lie the biggest honor the students confer on one of their number. That week.end was Junior AVeek-End arid "Chief” pitched a winning game for Oregon against our old rival, (). A. C. That same day he was pledged into the soci ety of Friars in solemn services at the campus J rncheon. And then that night he was awarded the Koyl cup for the best all-around Junior man in college. It. was then that word came that Ore gon was to send 20 men to Camp Lewis and Wilson was given the chance to go, hut he decided to wait until the next, camp, thinking that his number was far down in the draft. Me was appointed a captain in the battalion, about the last of his string of honors, for Saturday morning the news came that his number lull1 been drawn and yesterday after noon he left the campus. “Chief” may find army life as a pri vate a little dull after his experiences here, but at least he has the memory of those record-breaking ten days which signify to him “What might have been.” ADAM, ’19, IN TRUCK CORPS Member of Sophomoro Class Trains at (Icttysbmo, Penn., for Overseas. According to word received on the campus Sprague Adams, ex-’lf), who, a year ago this past winter, enlisted in the tank, corps reserve, lias lieeu called to service and is at present training with the .‘llllith battalion, Co. I!, Light Tank Corps, Camp Colt, Gettysburg, Pennsyl vania. 'The minors are, Adams writes, that the company will not train for long in the United States but will be sent into active service abroad in a short time. Since enlisting and up to the time of being called, Adam was in the employ of the Dodge Motor company in Chicago, Illinois. At the present time Adam’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. U. Adam, of On tario, Oregon, are visiting him and may remain in the east until lie leaves. Adam is a member of the University of Oregon chapter of Alpha Tail Omega. EXTENSION DIRECTOR HERE Berkeley Representative Observes Work of U. of 0. Division. Ira W. llowertli, director of the ex tension division of the University of California left' here today for the Wash ington State College at Pullman, to visit its ( xteusiou division, lie spent all day yesterday inspecting the University ex tension Division and giving suggestions to (lie members. "Mr. llowerth comes from one of the largest and most efficient extension di visions in alls university in the United Matos ami ss o value his remarks highly," said tiny U. l'var, acting director of the extension dis ision. Through some misunderstanding as to | dales, Mr. llowerth will not be able to .oldie s the assembly Wednesday morn tt n i IS WOIEBFIIL PLAY The Rex ilieatre feels justly proud in being the presenter of this, the most magnificent, the really perfect picture, that has been produced in kinematog raphy, one that comes to us at a time ! when the topic of patriotism is upper most in the mind of everyone. The amount spent in producing this play was tre rendous, the time consumed I in its filming longer than perhaps any I other picture, the number of real film I stars who participated greater than in | any other production that has ever been J Garafcfine Farrar in "Joan the Woman" shown, the settings more elaborate, etc., hut not in these things lies the worth of this picture. it Is for vou and I. Rather is it in the direct and deep rooted appeal that this message of patriotism contains, produced in a man ner that is above the clap-trap, the fan fare and the waving of flags and firirig of guns by ihe most artistic director in the husines, Cecil Re Mille, and featur ing tin1 one woman who is thereby placed at the pinnacle of filmdom stars, Geral dine Farrar. Here we have the bravest woman in history coming down to our own age, demanding tl at we listen to her in the mighty invocation for the freedom of civilization. Inspires Soldiers. Nor did sin' stop there, for today, right at Ihe front in Europe, there is no greater stimulation to patriotic en deavor among the men than the presence among them of that fighting spirit sug gested by Joan of Arc. She is their patron saint, their mascot, their guardian angel, or call her what you will. Some of the most remarkable effects have been worked into this play by the Lnsk.v company, carrying forward, as R. \Y. Griffith put it. many years ahead of anything that has ever been done in picture before. TO BECOME TRAINING SCHOOL. War Work Will be Main Feature of Courses Offered This Summer. Michigan Agricultural college will this summer become practically a training school for war work. Quite extensive plans, covering every phase of patriotic endeavor, from the training of house wives for food conservation in the home to the schooling of recruits for special service, are being formulated by the au thorities of the college. NOT IN R. 0. T. C. OUT OF TEAMS Harvard Will Have Athletics Next Year but Only Military Men Will Play. At a meeting held May ti. the athletic committee of Harvard decided in favor of continuing sports in the fall and through HHS-UI. It soiyus certain, however, that there will he a lading that no men not in the K. O. T. G. shall take ; part in athletics in \t war. STUDENTS!! ElKs Are Putting on Big Patriotic Show FOUR NIGHTS, WEDNESDAY, THURSD’Y, FRIDAY, SAT’DY. THIS WEEK. Are You With Us? “It’s For a Big Cause.’’ Games for Elk Money will be a feature and will recall scenes of days gone by. Special Features. PRIZES First Prize—$50 Lib erty Bond. Second Prize — $10 Baby Bond will be given for Elk money. Every Buck will count one vote. Contest closes at 11:00 o’clock Saturday night. “It’s for a big cause.” Games for Elk Money will be a fea ture and will recall scenes of days gone by. Watch for big balloon each day. $100 to lucky one will be dropped from it. Also watch out for big purple wagon — they may get you. MUSIC He’s Here — Who? —Why Pete Ash and his Jazzy, Dippy, Spoony, Melodious Band Where? Eugene Arm ory. BIG JAZZ DANCE EVERY NIGHT, PETE ASH FAMOUS JAZZ BAND, A REAL TREAT. Merry Time to all. Run as Days of Yore. DANCING 5c. Admission 10c The Red Cross workers were ad dressed Monday night by Professor A. R. Sweetser up< n the use of sphagnum moss in surgical dressings. The address was accompanied by slides, showing the work of gathering and preparing the moss, as weil as much enlarged pictures of the plant and leaf, showing its ab sorbent qu.Mties. Mr. Sweetser showed by aetua t-st how much more liquid i pad made of sphagnum moss would absorb than would a similar pad of the best absorbent cot ton. He told of its use in a crude way in the war between Russia and Japan, as a mere makeshift, am* how it was being now used, not as a substitute, but as ; an improvement over oakum and cottin, besides being much cheaper. .Colonel Creed C. Hammond, com manding at Fort Stevens, made a short talk to the workers and told how much their work had meant to the men at Fort Stevens, and how much more it would mean to those in Europe than it has iu American camps. The public had been invited to come and witness what the Red Cross is doing, and quite a number were in attendance. Cross' Red Cross orchestra furnished music during the evening. COLUMBIA TO HAVE BAND MUSIC New York Military Bands to Play at University Concerts. Summer concerts are to be held at Columbia. There will be musical offer ings by New York military bands. RUTH WESTTALL RETURNS Will Keep Place in Coeur d'Alene High School Next Year. Miss Ruth Westfall, a member of the class of Ibis who has been teaching in the hieh school of Coeur d’Alene. Idaho. has l eturned to Eugene after teaching six weeks. Miss Westfall went to Coeur d’Alene to iill out the unexpired term of a teacher in mathematics ami science who enlisted and was so successful that she has been engaged for next year. BETTER HURRY! It is none too early to make arrangements for next Winter’s Slabwood Supply. THE BOOTH-KELLY LUMBER CO., i 5th and Willamette. Phone 452. Base/.;-* WHEN IN NEED OF GROCERIES, CALL UP 1 1 ii s And we will see that your order is filled promptly with Fresh, Clean Groceries. \ WEISS GROCERY COMPANY By Sydney Grundy and Barry. 8:15 O’clock. Got I p By Arthur Watson. A. F. Reddie, Director. ay 23 and 24 25c and 35c. RED CROSS BENEFIT.