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OREGON EMERALD Official student body paper of the University of Oregon, published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the college year by the Associated Students. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates $1.25 per year. EDITORIAL STAFF IJ)oug'ns Mullarky ..Editor tlelen Brenton .Associate Elizabeth Aumiller .....Associate Dorothy Duniwny .City Editor Erma Zimmerman, Assistant City Editor Leith Abbott .Make-Up Adelaide Lake .Women’s Editor Helen Manning .Society Alex B- own .Sports Bess Column .Dramatics Alene Phillips .Women’s Sports Helen McDonald, Louis Davis, Elva Bagley, Francos Stiles and Stella Sulli van. REPORTERS BUSINESS STAFF Harris Ellsworth Lyle Bryson ... Catherine Dobic . .Manager Circulation Collections ASSISTANTS Elston Ireland Warren Kays Margaret Biddle News and Business Phone <35n. DARK TO BE YOI KSEEF. When you first came to college did you think you had to imitate the upper classmen in everythin)?? You found lots of new conditions to which you had to adapt yourself. And many were differ ent from anythin)? else you ever experi enced before. As you stay longer you will discover many other new experiences. Each one will present unlooked-for opportunities but also will involve many problems and decisions which cause you to change some of your ideus. Don't be too narrow to change your ideas. One important test of success in n now environment is adaptability, which means nothing more or less than teachableness. It is necessary to ad just yourself to oilier peoples’ ideas if you want to grow or even live peace ably. Lack of teachableness is merely self Conceit On rho other hand, il by no means holds that one should bo entirely swayed h.v his surroundings. It is a catastrophe when a student allows the influence of a crowd to load him blindly away from his persona! standards. It is necessary to discriminate^ to choose the best and stick to it. If you are honestly opposed to the decisions of popular opinion, do a little swaying yourself instead of being swayed. A crowd always ..Is a leader ami will re spect anyone who is consistent in stand ing "p tor what lie believes. ('ompare carefully before you judge, judge before you imitate ami dare to lie yourself. il. It. t’ollege stmleuts may imi be wry si lull.; Sim In Clauaes bill bow a re we ming in (],i that shopping early? I ‘ri ‘bnbly I be S. A T men mu give tbeir elolb'-s to the Belgians lie fore winter is too fur along. HEADS OF SPORTS NAMED Selections Made tor Mooting of Athletic Association Hoods of the different sports of the Athletic Association were elected Tues day afternoon at a meeting Iteld in the V. W. C A. Bungalow. I’he following We e electei| Teresa Cox, hockey ; (trace Huge basket: all; Mary Irving, golf; VI • e 1 hursloli, 1. .el,all; Madeline Slut boom, tennis; Helen itrenton, archery; 11 n. . 1 Vcung, walking; Adelaide Lake, i eporter. CAGEBALL COMING \ call fot men to report for ragebuU will lie issued til- last of this week Cage bull is a to w sport among the 1'niver mt \ men, but pi ail Walkei experts it to be adopted very iptiekly. Company teams will be formed at fust and match es between these teams will be played. There will not In any outside games but the sport will be confined to the I'uiversity. A large turnout is expected us many of the men are already inter ested in the snort, Fight With Sab W Edward Bentley, Oregon Man, Shots Thought To An attack on a United States trans port by five Herman submarines which was mistaken by most of the men on board the vessel for the usual abandon ship drill is described in a letter re ceived here today from Corporal Ed ward Bentley, of the Forty-third Engi neers, now in France. Corporal Bent ley, who was u sophomore in the Uni versity of Oregon last year, wrote the letter to Professor E. E. DeCou, head of the department of mathematics. The vessel, Bentley writes, was not even scratched during the attack, which oc curred just before she landed at a French port. Two of the Hun submarines, he says, were sunk. Meanwhile the men be tween dcks, ofter a heated debate, rte eided that the noises they heard were doors slamming in other parts of the ship. Since his arrival overseas Bentley hns been working in southwestern France getting out pine lumber for army use. lie is stationed near l)nx, a city about twenty miles from the coast ami about forty miles from the I’yrannees moun tains, which sepT.ite France from Spain. “The work we are doing at present isn't very exciting,” Bentley writes, but his letter, aside from describing the sub marine attack, tells many interesting details of his trip across and of his ex periences since he has bell in France. “I'm burdened with an overwhelming supply of spare time with noth ing to do, as I’m convalescing in a hos pital here at Dax, so T thought T would let you know how the war has treated me up to this stage,” Bentley said. Weather Bad In Camp “Upon leaving the l Diversity I was sent directly to Washington, I). af ter a short stay nt Vancouver Barracks, where we were delayed for outfitting and examinations and such incidentals to en listing. Washington itself proved very interesting, but the camp left very much to la’ desired. We were in tents with out heat of any kind, and the weather was about as bad as any we ever experl enee in Oregon. We had lots of snow, rain, mud, slush and cold to contend with, which wasn’t the pleasantest thing in the world, especially after the nice wea ther we had been having when l left Oregon. However, the bad weather didn’t last long, and we were working hard enough to keep our minds off I he most if omr troubles. We spent prac tically all of our time drilling for the trip overseas. "We didn’t have very long to wait, either, before we started. We had been in Washington only about six weeks when we received our orders to leave. I lie journey to our port of embarkation was without incident. We started on the ocean trip almost immediately after reaching the boat, and we surely were glad we did, too, for we were kept within tlie shiii while we were in port without even being allowed on deck. Life Preservers Warm Garments ■•'pi,,. firgt part of our trip across the ocean was ’ very pleasant in nearly ev ,,ry respect. The sea was calm and n<> one was seasick. The one complaint we could make was on account of the crowd ed condition of the boat and the restrle tiotiH about moving about the ship. "W,» had our abandon ship drills reg ill irly every day and also wore our life preservers at all times many even tak itig the precaution of sleeping in tlim. That wasn’t as t>ad as one would imag ine, for the preservers were made like ,, jacket of some soft material so they proved unite comfortable during tile cold nights. “Our "illy thrill of the whole trip wasn’t at all exciting for the soldiers between decks, .lust as we were in sight of our harbor we were attacked hy fiv,. submarines. 'The call to quar ters was sounded as it usually did for abandon-ship drill, and as it happened to be about the usual time for the drill most everyone was under the impression that this was all that was up. Two Hun bulls Mink ••The newspapers carried quite an ex tensive account of tho encounter, and no cording to tht'ni two submarines were sunk l>y tin' combined gun fire of our ship and t>10 convoy. Hut during all tho excitement otitsido wo wore very busy hiMtodly urguvig whothor tho dull thuds wo honord wro gnu shots or just doors slamming. So wo spout tho time of greatest dangor in a sonsoloss argument without any thought as to tho probahlo dangor wo might ho in. Tho ship got !>.v without a scratch, though tho subs woro not so lucky. The theory that all wo hoard was doors slamming won out in tho debate, hr the way, "After wo landed in Franco wo wore taken to a rest camp a few miles in land. This camp didn’t ban much to recommend it. in our estimation. What put the finishing touch on its poor rep utation was one night when someone among the ‘powers’ over us conceived j tho brilliant idea of calling tho compatr out after midnight and marching us al- j [istakten For Drill Was on Board Transport — Be Doors Slamming most a half mile, attired only hi rain coats and shoes, and giving us a cold shower bath. The nights were bitterly cold, anyway, and the cold shower at midnight isn't exactly the most pleasant I thing in the world, especially if you are i awakened from a fairly warm bed to j go to take it. Even after four months j the fellows howl about that yet. for the i memories linger. Colonel Leader’s Words Mild “You undoubtedly recall Col. Leader’s descriptions of the '40 hommes, eight chevmux, side-door Pullmans’ used oyer here to transport troops in. Col. Lead er’s description was all right as far as it went, hut I'll bet he never rode in one for any length of time. His choice of adjectives when describing them wasn’t unite vivid and comprehensive enough for one who had had the pleasure of about a two days’ and nights’ trip with about thirty-six other poor devils in them. "With all of our packs along to help take up space a person was lucky if lie could find room to sit down even, and when night came and sleep was attempt ed that was when the real fun com menced. .lust about the time you would think yoiu had found a place for a nap ■some other person in search of ;l few inches of vacant space would make a heroic effort to alter your facial fea tures by placing his army issue, no, tin hob-nail shoes on your ear or nose, which ever came handiest, and exert a downward pressure that never failed to call forth the best vocal efforts of the man below. After two days and nights in one of those cars you’re sufficiently hard-boiled’ for any sort of rough house or melee which may come up. Lifo Not Exciting “W<> have been located in the south ern part of France in the pine forests, where we have been engaged in luinber i.ng ever since vve came across. We are in the Service of Supplies, cutting Lum ber for tiie innumerable uses the A. E. F. has for it. So far, though T can not say that it has been wildly exciting, vve have been getting on fine. Although this isn’t what vve had been led to expect when we first enlisted, as our battalion is sup posed to be a road and bridge outfit, we try to make the best of it. ‘‘1 haven't been fortunate enough to run across any of the other former Uni versity of Oregon men who are over on this side as yet. Our camps are small ami we don’t do very much traveling around except to the nearby villages, so the opportunities for meeting the other soldiers outside of our own com panies are very limited. Language Difficulty Serious "The people are, as a general rule, verj nice to us, though the language is i rather serious difficulty. Most of ns have acquired a limited vocabulary of lie simpler words so that we can get ilong after fashion, although we don’t attempt any very extensive conversa tions. "What 1 have seen in France I like unite well, but all of us will be ready uni anxious to change buck to the Unit ed States when thus war is finally ended tlie right way. 1 don’t think any of us would want to return until it is ended the right wav. All of us hope it will he soon and I for one would like to be back at the University again this fall. It' hick is with me and all goes well, 1 surely shall he a year from now.” ALUMNI NOTES »■ *■-* Oloyit O. Duwson, 'll!, who is now in business at Tillamook, arrived in Ku gone 'ruestlaj for a few days’ visit with old friends on the campus. Dawson was prominent in I’niversity activity during his stay as a student and was the second candidate in a three-cornered race for the presidency of the student body at toe time of the election of Lamar Tooie. Miss Ida DInsdale. who took special work on the campus for a while last ! year and later taught in the Springfield j school, is teaching mathematics in the La Grande high school this year. She is a sister of Miss 1' , DInsdale, the local V. \V. A. secretary. Kileen Tompkins has a position as bookkeeper in Wyeth, near Cascade Locks. Dorothy Durbar. 'IS, is teaching Kug lislt m the La Grande high school. Other Lniversity graduates who are teaching there are Miss Naomi Williamson. Miss MUdred Riddle, and Miss May Neill. Miss Jeanette Wheatley is teaching the syvth grade. NEW ART COURSE OFFERED Clayton Baldwin, instructor in the School of Architecture. is giving a course in pen and pencil. This course is a preliminary course, leading up to mili tary sketching. Hours are arranged to suit the individual schedules NEXT CH TO BEGIN Wd NOVEMBER 23 Eugene Armory may be Used; Sixty Applications in Hand Already. A fourth Officers’ Training Camp will be opened November 2.°. at the Univer sity, Colonel John Leader, commandant of the camps, announced this morning. The demand for another camp has been so strong that it was considered nec essary-to organize the fourth camp, in which between 250 and 300 men will be enrolled. Arrangements are being made for the use of the Eugene armory and other buildings as protection from the wea ther. The staiff for this camp will be substantially the same as that of the other three. Sixty applications and many requests have ben received for admission to an other camp, although no announcement has been mad giving assurance of its es tablishment. Other camps may be established after the fourth camp, it was announced this morning, if the demand is sufficient to warrant them. The camp will close De cember 21. Applications should he filed with Colonel John Leader at the Uni versity at the earliest possible date. There will be more courses in ma hc'.ne gun and more practice on the rifle range in the next camp. Appropriate indoor work will be developed. Three hundred men will be the maximum of the camps. SOCIETY NOTES With the epidemic scare still on the campus, college activities have been en tirely suspended. Private dinners and gatherings of a very informal nature, however, are given despite the general condition of unrest. Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Parsons and Gladys Bowen were Wednesday evening dinner guests of Alpha Phi. Lenin Green, Beatrice We'therbee and Charlie Fenton ’10, and Ruth Roch, ’17. are in the various campus infirmaries as nurse’s aids. Margaret Gray left the campus yes terday for a short visit at her home in Portland. Helen Case is spending the week-end ;,t her home in Tillamook Nell Warwick and Zelma Ross left Wednesday for a short visit at their homes in Marshfield. Hazel Shabrack is at her home in Van couver for the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. IV. ,1. Roberts, of Klam ath Falls, were Tuesday dinner guests at Pi R>ta Phi. Peggy Gross T7, who is now teaching at Castle Rock. Wash., will return to the campus Saturday. She will spend the week-end at the Gamma Phi house. Vivian Hopson and Bernice Craig left yesterday for their homes in Salem, where they will spend the remainder of the week. Marjorie Kay returned to the campus Sunday, after a week’s visit in Salem with her parents. Helen Nelson left Tuesday for hoc home in Pendleton. She will return Sun day. Grace Hainmorstrom left Wednesday for a brief visit with her parents iu As toria. Dick Ransom, of Portland, prominent i.i Multnomah Club auhletics, is on the tampus taking the preliminary examina tions for West Point .lack Montague, US will be in Eugene Saturday for a brief stay. Margaret Conklin. Frances Stiles, Louise Sheahan, Margaret Kubli, Helen Buckley. Geraldine Pilkington and Hel en Houghton are at their homes in Port- j land t'orsthe week-end. GAUZE MASKS FOR NURSES Dr. John Bovard Wakes Distribution Among Infirmaries University women made five dozen masks yesterday for the use ot attend ants on the sick in infirmaries and hous es ou the campus. 'Hie masks were dis tributed bj Dr. John F. Bovard, chair man of the campus health committee. The masks are similar to those which are being used in the East by nurses of influenza patients. They consist of a double bandage of gauze which covers the mouth and chin and ties over the head. They serve to kep germs from the patient from entering the respora tory tract of the attendants. The masks were made at the homo of Mrs. Erie W. Allen. patronize Emeraid Advertisers STUDENTS' WORK TO BE LIGHTENED Professors Asked to Restrict Outside Study During Epidemic. t Students in the infirmaries are not to be worried by having to make up great quantities of work when they get back to their classes. Thi« was a point ta ke nup at the faculty meeting hid in Johnson Hull, Tuesday afternoon. President P. L. Campbell asked that the professors restrict outside work by the students for the time being and give lectures, in order to give the students who are sick a chance to make up the work more easily. Dr. John F. Bo vard, chairman of the faculty committee on student health, urged that the stu dents be not overloaded with work when they return to the University, as many of them will be in a very weakened con dition. The question of closing the institution was brought up and discussed. It was decided that it would be better not to close. The students would be encouraged to leave the campus and per haps come in contact with worse condi tions than are found here. Excluding all ill from the classes and taking the health reports from the students and fac ulty, is considered the most careful and wisest method. It is of very great importance that every student and every member of the faculty make a report of his health, daily. Dr. Bovard said that the fac ulty were far more negligent in repott ing this matter than the students. The regular assembly Wednesday was postponed for a time. Dr. John II. Boyd, pastor of the First Presbyterian chiurch of Portland, who was to have been the assembly speaker Wednesday, was notified of the calling off of the assembly. He will come at a later date. Send the Emerald Home i ARMY WEARING APPAREL. Rain Coats Army khaki color will keep out the weather. All sizes. SPECIAL PRICE THIS WEEK $9.00 WE HAVE A FEW Army Wool Blankets 5-pound Double.$8.00 This is the last shipment of these Blankets to be obtained. THE Haberdasher Men's Outfitter. 713 Willamette .Street Paul W. The Best Photos in Town Get your picture in Uniform, for MOTHER AND SWEETHEART. TOLLMAN’S STUDIO The Best Meals Served. Most Central Location. Telephones in All Rooms. Hotel Smeed Eugene, Oregon. Rooms Steam Heated. Hot and Cold Water Prices Right. GIRLS ATTENTION ! I>o you look STOUT in spite of all you do? 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