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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1918)
Men Quartered at Same Place to Be In Same Platoon. The Student Army Training Corps has been organised into two companies to be known 11s A and 15. They are to be di vided into eight platoons, b ur platoons to each company. These platoons will consist of from 45 to 58 men each. Men who have had previous experience in army training will be acting non-com missioned officers. They will be divided as evenly us possible among the pla toons. Lieutenant Edward Itadcliffe is to have charge of company A, and with him is Lieutenant Cornelius Willis. Lieu tenants Frank Spratlin Jr., and Rondo H. Purtridge have charge of company lb The bn sis of division into platoon* and companies is being made according to the way in which the men are housed so that the men in the same- platoons and if possible the same companies will be in the same plnee. The equipment, which consists of beds and bedding which the T'niversity linn ordered so that the S. A. T. C. men may he made comfortable is now on the way. Thus the men who have been forc ed to sleep on straw tieks will soon be more adequately provided for. Ammuni tion has also be< n ordered. It is sported that the barracks which are under construction on the golf fields just east of University avenue will be ready by the first of November. 'I lie twenty-five thousand dollar fund for the building of the barracks was furnished by the merchants of Eugene. The bar racks are to be rented to the University until funds have been raised to purchase them when they will become part of the University buildings. TO TEACH NEGROES ABROAD Brothor of Siberian Sent to France to Organize Educational Work IT. P. Tlmiplnsfl, brother of 1I Poiifflnnn, librarian of the i'niversity "f Oregon, 1ms resinned ns secretary of tlm .American Missionary Society in order to ■jfo to Frnnee ns m V. M • < • C worker. Mr. PounlnsH has been in Kugene, where }ie lectured before the ministers con ference held in connection with the huiii mor school of 191th Mr. Douglass has boon sent to France to organi/.e educational work unions the negro troops t)f the l nited States who lire fighting in Franco. The purpose of this organization is to educate tin* sol idiors so that none will return to the United States as ill it »* r:i t and unedu cated men. Mr. Douglass is working un der the direction of the N. M. t . A., luit it in thought that the government will, After the wjir, take up the work of edu cating returned soldiers. r WING’S MARKET The Home of Good Moats, Fish and Groceries. 675 Willamette St. Phone 38. When He Fails to Get That Letter, World’s One Lump of Gloom r "She writes me, she writes me not. She writes me, she writes me not.” Thus does the eager man in the mail line tell of his fate with each step that tilings him nearer the window where the precious missive may lie waiting him. Twice daily the men try their luck at the window in the upper floor of the Administration building. And twice daily they vow that next time they will be the first in line or know tne reason why. One man came away from the window Friday morning trying to hide a life-size hat box that gave itself away most de cidedly. lie muttered about it depreca Jmgly, Imt wait until it tops bis golden locks and the shame of carrying a “reg ular girl’s hat box” is forgotten, and then it will be all glory. They talk about the men in the trench es, appreciating their letters from home, and if you want to get a testimony of j this watch the fellows as they turn away from the window. It. takes no mind read er to tell whether the man has been satisfied or not MAIL FORCE SWAMPED Parcel Post Packages Average 200 Daily at Office A wagon load of mail comes to the Ibiivorsity office every day to lx* dis tributed to tin' men of the campus, and the mail force is swamped. Five times as much mail as formerly, comes to the office. The principal burden is parci I post packages, which average 200 daily. The mail is being sorted according to i ampoules and orderlies call now each morning thus relieving the long, serpen tine "country postoffice” line, which has I in en forming at mail hour for the past t two weeks. . -- MEN’S ADDRESSES WANTED president’s office asks that every student, knowing the address of an Ore gon man in the service, please tin'll, it in at once so that the records may be made complete. Mole than 1,000 Oregon men are now serving tin..try, but records at till' office give recent addresses of only hulf this number. The addresses .are wanted particularly at. this time so that the newspaper which the editing class id' the school of journalism »s pub lishing, may reach all Oregon men possi ble. LIBRARIAN TO BAN COUGHS Mr. Douglass, librarian, asks students who have bad coughs to remain outside, tlie library because id' the disturbance which the eoiiitinmil coughing makes, and s loudly lie wishes to safeguard the public. WAHNNfi BELL INSTALLED \ warning bell at I'ivo tnimites before (lie in ur Inis been instituted at the lo brury in order that the building may be cleared of students as nearly after ten o'clock at night as possible, so that the assist a i ts limy not have to stay over time. Students are asked to leave im mediately at Up1 sound of the hell. Phone -ONE -TWO—THREE. Satisfactory service--Sanitary oondit ions. West Eighth Street. Eugene. LET US Serve You a Square Meal Eat Fish and save Moat. We servo all kinds of Fish dishes. Oysters ami Flams a specialty. The Imperial Lunch FRED GEROT, Proprietor. 721 Willamette Street. STEAKS. (.'HOPS. HIT SCHOOL GIVES PMCM COURSES Work In Ship Drafting and Mili tary Sketching Offered Ship drafting, military sketching, nor mal art and principles of French archi tecture are among the new courses of fered this year by the school of archi tecture and the art department to meet the demands of students who wish to ap ply such training to practical use during war times. “Many opportunities are now open,” said Professor I’. P. Adams, “to students who have had training in ship drafting.” As men are being taken every day from ship yards and put into combative ser vice Professor Adams believes that, (here will soon he a great demand for women with training along this line. The course offered by Professor Adams is a two hour course- Students wishing to enroll must have mechanical drawing as a pre requisite. The normal art course offered this year by Miss Helen Rhodes in conjunc tion with Professor Alfred II. Schroff, is the first of its kind to be given in the northwest. The training is offered to pre pare students to meet the present de mand throughout the state for art teach ers in the high schools. Included in the course are elementary design, lettering and representation, under Miss Rhodes, theory of color, under Professor Schroff, and constructive drawing, under Profes sor Adams. There are twelve students now enrolled in these classes. Somo Courses Offered in Evening The military sketching course has not yet been fully arranged. “We have found it difficult this year,” said Professor Sehroff, “to adopt our classes to suit the men who are members of the S. A. T. C.” As a result Professor Sehroff is offering several of his art courses in the eve ning. The school of architecture,1 which las year carried off many high honors at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, New York, is this year finding existence under the new military regime difficult. Of the twenty-two men who enrolled in the school at the opening of college less than half of that number have found it pos sible to continue their courses. Three members of the architecture faculty last year are now in the service, I Professor Boswell Dosch, was commis sioned second lieutenant in the United I Stall's army at the Presidio this sum mei and is now personnel officer at Reed college. Professor Frederick Fritsch ’s now in France with the base hospital unit and Professor Bonis Rosenberg is with the camouflage division now in France. J Miss Rhodes Back. Miss Helen Rhodes, who was in charge of the art department at the University this summer will remain with the Uni versity this year. Miss Rhodes studied art at the National Academy of Design, New York, and at Folitmbin University under Arthur W. Dow. She has taught art in the New York City Normal school, the University of Pittsburg and at Bell ingham Normal School. Washington state. Before coming to the University Miss Rhodes taught in the Portland high si hools. SPORT HEADS TO BE NAMED —_— Women's Athletic Association Will Choose Nino Leaders. Heads ,.f the nine sports sponsored by (lie Women’s Athletic nssocia'ion ar>* to be elected m the second meeting of that organization in tluild hall on Tuesday af ternoon at .1 o'clock. Nominations made by the committee m j charge are as follows: Hotkey, T.'ovsa Fox, Mila Pews; bast-ball, Man- Filura, Alice Thurston; basketball, Prate Kugg, Man Mattbis; canoeing, Melba W'llmms, I'bzabetb 1’eterson; golf, Mary living, Virginia Hales; tennis, Medeliue Slot | boom; Hfehery, Nancy Fields, licit"; ltienton; walking, llazel Young; swim ming. Helen Nicolai. j Maud Lombard, president of the ass' I ciation. premises an interesting meet ing and states that a matter of import ! ance to all women interested 1.1 athlctbs ■ is to be presented and li-v-issed. No girl who does no eelong to the Athletic association wilt 1 e eligible to . win a letter in any sport. DEAL AND HOUSER BARBERS 21 Eighth Ave., W. LOCKSMITH Locks Repaired, Keys Fitted. Eugene Bicycle Works ^ 837 Olive Street. TM! BEDIM TO CARE FDR SICK Miss Morris, Miss Calef and Eva Hansen Nursing U. of 0. Girls. The task of nursing the steadily in creasing number of sick, at the infirm aries, and at Hendricks Hall has fallen on the shoulders of the three trained wo men available, Miss Margaret Morris, Miss Mira Calef and Miss Eva Hansen, a junior in the University. Miss Morris and Miss Calef nr both trained nurses from the Good Samara tin hospital in Portland and Eva Han sen took her training in the Recon struction course offered at Reed College this summer. The youngest one to complete the course, Miss Hansen was among the first to be recommended for foreign service and expects to receive her call sometime this winter. Place Offered MPs Hansen During the summer Miss Hansen as sisted Dr. Elmer Carlson in the teach ing of anatomy and was offered a posi tion for the winter teaching anatomy' and assisting in the clinic there. The work in the course consisted in | giving massage and remedial exereses to hospital patients which the doctors turned over to the students and of giv ing treatments to all types of cripple children. “We could really see marked improvements in a short time in the cases of the children,” Miss Hansen said, “and you can imagine how encouraged we were.” In addition to this the students watched operations of every kind. Miss Hansen said that they were allowed to ask questions during the operations and the process was explained step by step. The operations selected were types that would be especially valuable in war time j surgery. Girls In War Course Help Besides Miss Hansen ns nil assistant. Miss Morris lias the girls who are en- j rolled in the war coil-re for nurses, de tailed in groups of twos to help her. This work is to form part of their training in practical nursing. Caroline Alexander; Grayce Sage. Betty lvpping, Helen Woodcock, Betty Kessi, Kather ine Livengood, Evalena Calvert, and Es tlier Banks, are the girls enrolled in the course. Esther Banks has hreceived her appointment to Camp Lewis. She expects to leave about th first of the year. The girls who have enlisted in the United States Student Nurse Reserve re ceive their appointments direct from Washington, while the girls who are on ly enlistd in the war course for nurses course. Esther Banks has received their appointments for Camp Lewis from the University. However none of these girls will leave before their first i three months of training ends, that is; the last of December. The period that they train here will serve as the proba- j tion in part in detail hospital work. > Mrs. B. L. Campbell has been work- i ing almost unceasingly in equipping- the j infirmaries. Mrs. Teressa Jackson, ot Eugene, who has taken Bed Cross courses in nursing, is helping out at. the Hall, and Miss Gertrude Talbot head ' resident of Hendricks Hall has been; putting in on the average of Hi hours a j day looking after the girls who are not j sick enough for the infirmaries. Miss Talbot says that in every phase of the work she has met with a wonderful spirit of co-operation on the part of all who are connected with any part of the work. i UNIVERSITY W0MEI9 TO MIKE SANDBAGS Trench Protectors Will Be Sup-? plied, at Suggestion of Colonel Leader. To the women of the University an other patriotic demand lias come. Col onel Leader needs sand-hags! Anywhere from 50 to 1000 sand-bags. Trench work nuts' stop unless they are supplied, and the university cannot afford them at twenty cents apiece. The lied Cross committee held a hasty meeting this morning under the direction of Bernice Spencer, president, and de cided to appeal to university women, students and faculty wives. Scraps of any material, any color, will be wel comed. "They do not have to be made of es pecially strong stuff.*’ said Miss S|>en oer. "After they ire placed along the trench they will not be moved. A box : will l>e ready for all materials at the V. ; W. C. A. Bungalow. We girls can make the bags but we must have the cloth.” All donations will be taken Monday, j Tuesday and Wednesday when the bags I must he finished ready for the trenches. S. A. T. C Wrist Watches We have received a few new ones, but our orders are far from being filled. Watches are scarce. Get one now if you want it. M. L. Kreamer WATCHES AND WATCH REPAIRING. 657 Willamette Street. Register Bldg. I Everything Electrical LAMPS FLASH LIGHTS HEATERS CHAFFING DISHES TOASTERS And dozens of other useful things. Come in and see them The Electric “Across from the Hex.” tffe R^ainbow LUNCHES ICE CREAM FOUNTAIN DRINKS “The Best of Everything.” JIM SAYS Wear NeoMn Soles and Wingfoot Heels. Waterproof and Noiseless. JIM, THE SHOE DOCTOR. 986 WILLAMETTE STREET. KODAK PICTURES Make a Record as you go. You will value it very highly afterward. We have KODAKS AND FILMS Our Kodak Finishing Will Please. LINN DRUG CO. The Service Giving Store. Stanley Stevenson. Chester Stevenson. Phone 217.