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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1918)
OFFICER MATERIAL STANDARD IS GISH Highest Personal Qualities Re quested, Says Bulletin; Training Outlined. Essie specifications for officers in al branches of the service with particulai reference to the selection of candidates for officers' training schools are con tained in a bulletin .iust issued from the office of Colonel "William H. C. owen commanding officer of the Oregon unit of the Students’ Army Training Corps. The list of specifications is as follows: (a) Good character. (b) Attractive personality, courtesy, tact. (c) Good carriage and bearing, poise and dignity. (d) Ability to talk well, with ass once and confidence, and knowled subject. (e) Energy and effective ability. (f) Good standing in 1 ity. (g) Ability to ham In all lines there and academic rr sonal requires ture j mir th e neeese ship, ir men vo1 always .ude m cm eh»rnr <: , . for Oft-. ■ initiative. ,1c respoasib ' • a. tr iniug. ,,ui e requireiaf •• ■:>1 edu -at a i Fetj! enent' for Folio win? ' e list* fo Each Brand. as ,i the ge”"5' 1 j as above. . Artillery to sixty per cent , u Battalions.—Addi .equirements, Arithme .cluding Quadratic Equa Geometry. Knowledge of a-y and Logarithms is desir o rrini/i A T-Pllnvc—Xpwla Officers a previous scientific or technical ed cation, but this is not pre-requisite to selection. The mathematical knowledge required for a Field Artillery officer, though not essential to his admission to an offi cers' training camp, may be summarized as follows. Arithmetic.—Decimal fractions; square root; metric system; and conversion of units. Algebra.—Use of formulae, with abundant drill on use of positive aud negative numbers; addition, subtraction, multiplication and- division of literal ex pressions; solution of linear equations in one variable; (no quadratic equa tions) ; logarithms. Higher Mathematical Work Geometry.—Elementary theorems, particularly those on parallel lines, sim ilar triangles, problems of construction, and angles inscribed iti circles, particu larly a study of right angles. Trigonometry.-—A thorough acquain tance with triangles and their units of measurement; definition and use of the sine, cosine aud tangent much practice in solving right triangles; the law of sines for oblique triangles. Co-ordinate Geometry.—Definition of rectangular co-ordinate; plotting of sim ile curves; formula for distance between ;wo points; and for slope of liue. Use of Seales and Tables.—Through out all this work the student should have much practice in reading scales and us ing tables. Trigonometric tables will be particularly useful in this respect. For Coast Artillery. Coast Artillery.—Additional personal requirements, strength, vigor, energy, ability to think clearly and rapidly under difficulties. Academic.—The best man for Coast Artillery Officer so far as training is concerned is one who has had engineering training and experience. The minimum mathematical and technical training that a candidate should hav.e when selected for training at tin* Coast Artillery Offi cers’ School is as follows: Arithmetic—As above. Algebra—As above. Plane Geometry—As above. Trigonometry—As above; also law of tangents; law of cosines; the simple lormulae of geometry. Co-ordinate Geometry—As above. Use of scales and tables—As above. The Transit—The student should know nomenclature and use of the Transit when he comes to C. A. C. Much prac tice should be given to reading and com piling and determining true north by ob servation on the Sun and Polaris. For Air Service. Military Aeronautics—Is expected to take approximately twenty per cent of the men. Men from eighteen to twenty five preferred. Officers of four different ’arieties—pilots airplane observers. Pftlloon observers, balloon maneuvering officers. All candidates go through pre • —Uvod courses at Ground Schools and Flying Schools before commissioned. Es peeiai emphasis on peisonr.l qualities intelligence, brightness, mental alert 1 ness, ability to think clearly, rapidly, log. ' ieaily in the face of danger. Only thost anxious and willing to win commissions are to be chosen. It is no; desired tc put through a long and expensive coursi of training n man assigned against his will. Many details are given in letter Dei 0. October 10th. 1P1S. 0. Signal Corps.—Men having re ceived training in electrical engineering and Radio Communication are desired, Electrical Engineering graduates are pre ferred. 7. Motor Transport Corps.—Admin istrative: Mcu of 36 to 45. now earn ing at lerst $5,000 with at least ten years of administrative experience. M. T. Officer.—31 to 3(1 years, five years’ administrative experience, robust, aggressive, diplomatic. Practical knowl. edge of operation, maintenance and re pair of automobile. Supply Train.—31 to 30 years. Con scientious. reliable, seri. uis minded. Ad ministrative qualifications more impor tant than mechanical. E ompetnv Commanders.—Should be vo train commanders and M. T. with emphasis on mechanical but not at expense of admin 'Mty. Ammunition, Machine rears. A-ll physical Technical education jgineering, or five years’ ienee, outdoor rather than .nance.—Many diverse lines of See letter B. d. 0. Quartermaster.—Business expe nd® or aptitude. Commissions for nen showing ability as leaders or di rectors of men. Men not qualified will be used as clerks, accountants, checkers, etc. Limited service soldiers will be ac cepted. The Ordnance and Quartermaster Corps can use about ten per cent of the men. 11. Chemical Warfare Service.—Col lege education preferred. Some knowl edge of Chemistry is an asset, though not absolutely necessary. *1 motes of alumni \ * Lillian Hausler, ’18; and Elk. Raw lings, ex-’21, are attending Behuke Walker business college in Portland this year. Jess Nottingham, of Portland, a stu dent at the University in ’06 and ’07, is in New York expecting to go over seas any minute. She is in reconstruction work and will probably be there a few years after the war is over. She took work in the University Extension school last year. Helen Johns, of Pendleton, and Helen Currey, of La Grande, members of the class of ’17 and or Gamma Phi Beta so rority are doing government work in Washington, D. C. Agnes Campbell, '13, is working in the students’ art museum in New York city. She had her hair cut short a la Washington square. Clara Wold, ’07, is secretary of the Providence Town Players in New York city. Ruth Elton, a freshman last year, is traveling for the Ellison-White Chau tauqua circuit. She goes about five days ahead of the entertainers and makes final arrangements for the program. Ruth Duniway. TO. is in the Y. M. C. A. in New York city. Bessie Allison is doing clerical work in the railroad yards in I/a Grande. She was a freshman of last year. Ruth Anne Wilson, who graduated in June. 1017, with special honors in pub lic finance, is teaching in the Roseburg high school. Fendel Waite, a graduate of the Uni versity in 1913, in a letter says that re cently he saw Cecil Estes and Willard Shaver. Shaver was wounded in the Oambrai drive a year ago and has com pletely recovered and is in action again. NEW COURSES ARE OPENED Shorthand, Typewriting, Offics Man agement Offered A new course in Civil Service will be given by the School of Commerce, be ginning on Monday, October 28. This course includes sections in shorthand and typewriting under the personal super vision of Miss Elizabeth Hogg. A new shipment of typewriters is expected next week. Tliis course will continue until March 1. P. Walter Morton. Dean of the School of Commerce, also announces the be ginning of a new class in office manage ment for men of the S. A. T. C. who have had to withdraw from law. This will be a one-hour conrse meeting at the School of Commerce on Monday at 10 A. M. If necessary a class will also meet on Friday at the some hour. Classes in stenotypy and typewriting will start on Monday, meeting from 0 to 7 and 7 to 8 P. M.. the stenotypy class meeting cn Tuesday and Thursday and the typewriting class on Monday. Wed nesday and Friday. i Urgent Call Is Issued for Ma terial to Make Sandbags. i Gunny sacks, little or big, flour sacks. j scraps of old garments of any color, size 1 or shape, are needed by the University women for making sand bags for Uni versity trench construction, according to Hornier Spencer, campus Red Cross chairman, who stated yesterday that re sponse to former appeals has been very meager. “Unless the men have sand bags, they can build no more trenches, j and unless more scraps are donated the | girls cannot make the sand hags,” is | Miss Spence r's appeal, . The ;uoper place to leave your hunch es of material is the front porch of the V. V. C. A. bungalow, where it will he gathered in by the proper persons. About 100 grain sacks were donated by fann ers around Eugene last Saturday in a canvass conducted by Miss Spencer; three bundles of scraps and suitable ma terial have arrived from Portland; hut beyond this very little has been given. Influenza was given by Miss Spencer as the probable reason for the lack of progress in donations, hut she expresses the hone that by next week the condi tion of siekuess will he sufficiently cleared up to allow a little work on the actual construction of sand hags, and if such is the case much material will he needed. Don’t forget to go through your scrap hags tonight and make a bundle of j things to leave on the bungalow front porch tomorrow morning. NEW 0. T. C. TO OPEN SOON Coionel Bowen Receiving Applications For Camp Fremont Colonel \Y. 11. C. Bowen is receiving application from civilians for admission to the Infantry Officers' Training School to be opened at Comp Fremont, Cali fornia, December 1, to train men as sec ond lieutenants of infantry. The state of Oregon’s quota is 140. No definite number has been assigiul to the Univer sity. The course will be of two months’ du ration. AH draft registrants between the ages of 18 and 40 are eligible, except ing registrants in class one who regis tered prior to September 12 and regis trants n deferred classification on ac count of industrial occupation or em ployment. including agriculture. Phys ical requirements are those for gene ral military service. Colonel Bowen is instructed to pre pare a list of eligibles of approximately ten per cent of the quota as alternates to be called in case the principals are not called. This camp is not open to men enrolled in the Students’ Army Training Corps. GILBERT CENSOR IN FRANCE Oregon Student Now Sergeant, Sends Tren h Paper to Campus. War service in France is proving of more than the usual value to Johu De Witt Gilbert, formerly a prominent jour nalist student at the University and editor of the monthly, “Oregon Spirit.” In a letter just received by Major E. "AY. Allen, under whom be worked in journalism classes. Gilbert announces his transfer from artillery to a place in the base censor's office in Paris with the rank of sergeant. In line with his new duties he has made the acquaintance of Wallace Irwin, famous humorous writer and war corresepondent and bus luncheon with him once a week. Gilbert, who came to the University from Astoria, enlisted just before the declaration of war in the old second company of coast artillery in Eugene, and crossed overseas with that compa ny last January. He has donated the schorl of journalism a year’s subscrip tion to “Stars and Stripes,” the over seas newspaper. INFLUENZA NOW ON WANE Number of Cases Now Lowest Since High Mark Was Reached. Influenza is on the wane at the Uni versity. Reports this morning from Dr. John F. Bovard, chairman of the cam pus committee on student health are very encouraging. There are few new cases among the girls and those already on the sick list arc improving. Tuesday the total num beroof cases <^f colds, influenza and grip was 164. Wednesday the number bad de creased to 145. A number of S. A. T. C. men have been discharged from the hos pital during the last few days. Rigid precautions, however, are to be I maintained for some time. THE DAYLIGHT £TORE. SIXTH AND WILLAMETTE The store where good ventilation and spa cious aisles make shopping a pleasure. That prove their economy by their usefulness. They are suits that may be worn indefinitely and still hold their smartness, $35.00 suits specially specially priced at $32.50. Second Floor. WOMEN’S DRESSES To be smartly gowned is typically American. A wonderful assortment of i dresses exhibiting the! newest style ideas, spe-' daily priced at Bath robes in attractive plain shades and plaids. Second Floor. WOMEN’S BATH ROBES Effective ribbon and braid trimmings with or without collars a n d heavy cords and tassels. Second f loor. WOMEN’S HOSE SPECIAL: Women's very serviceable hose in black and white; good range of sizes, specially priced. Reg ular 35c values, for, pair 25^. Main Floor. , Women To Go On Long Waiks in Place of Other Classes. Points for hiking will he granted by the Woman's Athletic association, accord ing to an announcement made yester day by Maud Lombard, president of the association. Hiking is advised by the department of physical education as an exercise for all University women until it is possible for classes in physical ed ucation to open, and the points offered by the association will add interest to many members who wish to raise their standing. A girl ',n each house on the campus to supervise the hiking of members of the house and report the records of each girl has been appointd by Miss Lom bard. The records from each house are to be turned in to the women’s gymna sium office, where the final reports for the association will he compiled by Ha zel Young, beud of hiking. The exact rating of points for hiking has not j'et been worked out by the as sociation. No points will lie given for walking to and from school, however. Miss Lombard announced. Only specially planned hikes will lie counted for points. DR. WHEELER TO BE CAPTAIN I>r. R. II. Wheeler, who left the Uni versity last year to take up ph.vcholog ieal work in the army, has been rec ommended for a captaincy, and has been placed in charge of the psychological work at Fort Worth. Texas. His work has been so efficient that the govern ment is seriously considering sending him to France. FOR KODAKS, j FILMS, FOUNTAIN i Schwarzschii^ BOOK STORE. BRODERS BROTHERS. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Fresh, Corned and Smoked Meats. 80 W. 8th St. Eugene, Oregon. Phone 40. STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! ST m u u THE FIRST EASTERN OLYMPIC OYSTERS Also fresh Clams, Crabs, Oysters, Steaks, Chops, Fish. THE IMPERIAL. 721 Willamette Street. Phone 579. Tli© Best Pltetos in Town Get your picture in Uniform, for MOTHER AND SWEETHEART. I TOLLMAN'S STUDIO mmmamm asraww J1‘ you have a sick friend who would like something GOOD to Gat, Gall Us Up And we will send it out. » Phoney 246 s ds, 4 mtssx&a How About Those Films ? We Sell 'Em — We Print 'Em PROMPT DEVELOPING OF FILMS AND PACKS. WORK LEFT ONE DAY READY AT 5:00 P. M. THE NEXT. GIVE US A TRIAL. University Pharmacy CORNER CAMPUS. PIIONE 229
