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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1918)
Rollin Watson Veteran of Sea; Career Carries Him Oven Much of World. The third Officers’ Training Cnmp is fast proving itself a regular refuge of interesting characters. Since it is a somewhat bashful organization, however, it is only slowly and one hy one that these interesting persons come to light. There were millionaires, hotel managers, athb tes and senators. This time if is an cx-sailor, a veteran of the Spanish American war, ltoliie W. Watson, now bugler in the machine gun company. Mr. Watson’s home is in Tillamook, where he has been engaged in the real estate and insurance business for the. past eleven years. Previous to this he was editor and owner of a newspaper in Til^Unook. The navy career of Mr. Watson began in 1894 when he joined in San Francisco as an apprentice boy. At that time all apprentice s had to learn either drum ming or bugling so Mr. Watson chose the latter. This accounts, he explains, for the case will) which lie makes the call now. Goes Far Into China. Soon after entering he was sent to what was'then known ns the Asiatic ela tion. Here patrol boats made trips np navigable rivers as for into the interior of China as possible acting both as a protection to the missionaries at these points and carrying on affairs for the American consul in China. These patrols were in fact the fartherest outposts of American civilization. Mr. Watson was serving on a patrol at the time of the survey of the famous I’e kin-Canton railroad by Kngincei 1'arsons of New York. This railroad extended 1100 miles into the interior and followed the course of the grand canal. At the outbreak of the Spanish-Ameri can war, Mr. Watson went to tin- Phil ippines anil was there during the mem orable battle of Manila Hay. Following the declaration of pence lie sowed in settling the insurrections which arose soon afterward. Newspaper Fiolt! Attracts. Tn 1901 he received liis discharge at Itlio Mil re Island training station. At the time of his discharge he had attained t.lie Students at Oregon To Have Opportunity To “Look at Ears” Look at (he ears on ’em! Oregon studen'ts are going to have lots | of opportunity this year to see their ri vals on the field, on the floor and prob ably on the mat. Two games are yet to be played on the eampus during the football season as vll as the guests with the Marines, O. A. and other organizations off the eampus. Oregon will get a chance to look at "Tick” Malarkcy’s men from Vancou ver next Saturday and will see O. A. C. on Nov. y. I 15ut other things are in store for the period during and after football. Already the army men in S. A. T.C here have been called "Spruce Diviuioncrs” by the men in naval training at the Sigma <'hi house. Already the navy as represented here lias been called the "N'ever-See j'rainc Protection Society” by the men in the army. And it does not stop here. The other day one company turned that favorite old Oregon favorite about O. A. (’. around so that it fold the other company where to go to, and while there can probably not be any interfratrenity soccer, basket ball or wrestling there are still the houses- with more numbers than ever before available. With all the units on the campus nou and with a big schedule of inter-mural sports planned it can’t be a. very long winter. There’s going to be lots of chance to Look at the ears on ’em! position of a non-commissioned officer, gunner’s mate of the second class. Ii was immediately following his return to Tillamook that he entered the news paper field. So when you next hear the good, clear notes of reveille, mess call or taps, more than likely il is Mr. Watson, ex-sailor, newspaper man, real estate and iusur nn-e man and now chief bugler for the third Officers’ Training Corps. * LOOK Where You Are Going! I)o not ho deceived by Glitter and Sham! Woody’* Deep-Ciirv# Kryptok Li'-umbm Aii Be;t*r INFERIOR GLASSES Afl'oct the eyes like a slow poison does the system. Often they aggravate the very conditions they are expected to re lieve. THROW THEM AWAY! Do not for another moment tolerate anything so hurt ful. Your Eyes are worth More than a whole Spectacle fc.hop. Have your glasses correctly fitted at SHERMAN W. MOODY Bring Your Prescriptions Hero. E E SKI!IT SPECIALIST AND 01 TlCIAN 881 Willamette Street Factory on Premises. Oregon Spirit—The cooperation of all students of the University in all student enterprises, causes them to back the Emerald by patronizing Emerald advertisers. That is why Emerald ads pay as ads do in college papers where the registration figures are far greater but the spirit less than the Spirit of Oregon. OPPORTUNITY OPEN 10 PBEHCBEIIj Training Given on Long Island Department of Physiology in Air Service. The war department has issued a call for all pre-medic students who have had training in biology, physiology, or chem istry, to enter the department of phy siology of the air service. Enlisted men are eligible. A course of training is given at Ilazel hurst Field on Eong Island; men who successfully complete the course and quality are recommended for commis sions. Applications should he made to Dr. John F. Bovard, head of the pre medic department, who will furnish the men with application blanks. Men in the S. A. T. C. here, those in hospital work and former students in the pre-medics department are advised by Bovard to consider making applications. “The opportunity is a splendid one.” Dr. Bovard said this morning, in making the announcement. It enables the men to con tinue their pre-medic study and at the same time, he in the army and have a chance for commissions. The pre-medic department this year has an enrollment of 50 among the fresh men alone. The entire registration will he 1<M) for the year, thinks Dr. Bovard. The number of pre-medics last year was 50 including those of all classes. SOCIETY NOTES _4 With tlie prevailing epidemic came the ban upon all social gatherings among University people. illness among the students has caused many parents to come to Kugenc to be near them. S. A. T. C. officials are allowing discharged in fluenza patients to return to their homes during the period of convalescence, and others are going home for a short visit this week. Mrs. Vernon Vawter, whose husband is here in the (). T. is spending the week at the Osburn Hotel. Heroic • Spencer, Genevieve Haven and Mildred Kteimetz spent the week-end at the l’i Beta l’lii house in Corvallis. Lieut. Kennedy of (>. A. C. was a Sun day dinner guest at Hendricks Hall. Madeline Iiurgess, a freshman from tie University of Washington, was a gi est of Kappa Kappa Gamma Sunday. Miss Hurgess returned Monday to her home in Pendleton, where she will re main until the University opens. Mrs. Torn Douica, formerly Marjorie Cogswell, spent the week-end at the Kappa Kappa Gamma house. Her hus liitul is here in the O. T. G. Hlanche Wilson, Carol Montague, Helen Mannnig, l’hilena King and Lueile Evans i.re spending the week at their homes in Cortland. Miss Margaret Hamblin returned to her home in McMinnville Saturday. She will not be back to school until next term. Doris Churchill, a member of Delta Delta Delta, returned to the campus sif ter a week-end visit in Salem. John W. Kennedy and Bruce Hollings worth, former students of the University red members of Phi Delta Theta, were nek-entl visitors on the campus. Both are naval aviation cadets at the Univer s'ty of Washington. Virginia Giles, Helen Houghton aud Nadine Bolilander have returned from Portland, where they spent the week end. Mrs. A. F. Flegal of Portland, is visit ing her daughter Dorothy at the Kappa Kappa Gamma house Jeannette Wheatley, 'Hi. is teaching in the sixth grade at l.a Grande. Ester Furuset, ’IS, of Eugene, is teaching in the California State Hospital at Stockton, California. She attended the University of California Summer school [at Berkeley after leaving the Fniversit.v. COLONEL BOWEN RETURNS C minandant of S. A. T. C. Makes Trip To Portland in Interest of 0. T. C. Colonel W. 11. C. Bowen, command ing officer of the S. A. T. C. here, re turned to the University last night from Portland, where he had been since Sun day, talking with men interested in ap plying for admission to Central Officers’ Training schools. Colonel Bowen inter viewed t>7 applicants, llis recommenda tions, sent direct to Washington, D. C„ are confidential. The men filled out their application blanks, which aside from Colonel Bowen’s estimate of the men personally, is the final basis for the ppoiutment. The Colonel would not -t.ne the number of men he had recom mended. lints for nurses are maintained by the V. W. C. A. at the base hospitals in Fran e. To extend this work a portion of the United War Work Oampaign funds be '■“isod in November will be Tale of Green Cap Or The Woe of the Wind Stricken Frosh An S. A. T. C. Freshman was seen looking for something on the drill ground with a microscope the other day. He was capless and looked worried. A windy day on the drill ground tests i*he mettle,, the self-containment and the equilibrium of the unfortunate “frosh,'' who desires to make a good showing. He is perhaps at attention—an unfriendly wind swoops along without warning and away goes his fetching little green lid. Not even an eyelash must quiver, yet how he aches to even SEE whither it blows. Only two days ago. when 'the woebe gone frosh mentioned in the beginning of the story was on the march with his Company and his Lieutenant gave out in crisp, military conciseness, the count One! Two! Three! Four! along came a tantalizing, naughty wind. One small, round spot on his head was suddenly cold—but the Lieutenant’s eyes were on him. Then he caught a flash of green merge from beneath anw army boot. But already he was acquiring the habit of Discipline ns it goes in the army- Woind he dare make a grab for it? Mon Dieu! Non. One hour later—drill over for the day —a brief respite. Our harassed “Frosh” has also learned the value of time. His mind flits hack to that precious green dot that a Freshman must not be seen without. He is efficient. He goes back to tbe scene of departure armed with a microscope. After a frantic search, he finds a thing that has the appearance of having been something. Closer inspection proves it. Ruination! Another green miniature cha peau to buy, and only eighty cents in his picket. Not another letter due for three, four, maybe five days. And one must drill EVERY day. COLIN V. DYMENT WRITES Has Seen Many Former University Men In France. Colin V. Dyment, head of tbe depart ment of journalism at the University of Washington for the past two years and professor of journalism at Oregon be fore that, writes from Fnnee. where be is with tbe Red Cross, as follows: “September 21, 191ft. ‘Somewhere in France. “Am well and tanned. Life is so inter esting and full here that even if I might write of it, there is no time. Tell mj friends I am at the American front ano going as fast as I can. Slept under an apple tree laft night, and, believe me. it was snappy when I crawled out this morning. An occasional shell zinged over during the night, but Fritz was after a bridge or town just beyond, and my or chard escaped. Tonight I’ll fight rats and fleas for possession of a barn loft, which will he luxury. “Have seen the Toozes, Percy Boat man, Ralph Milne, .loo Bell, A. C. Hop kins and numerous other University men lately, also many Washington and Port land and M. A. A. C. men. Have seen them over 100 miles of France. 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