Oregon emerald., November 05, 1918, Image 1

Oregon
Emerald
VOL. 20.
EUGENE, OREGON. TUESDAY EVENING, NOV. 5, 1918.
NO 14.
-7F
learn That Swamped Founda
tion Last Saturday Rid
dled During Week,
HAUSER SURELY LOST
FOR CLASH WITH C. A. C.
Gilbert Also Going; Strachan
and Trowbridge in Shape
for Aggies.
After having buried tile Foundation
Shipbuilders under a 40 to 0 score last
Saturday the Oregon service eleven is
not in as good shape to meet the Oregon
Agricultural college as Coach “Shy”
Huntington and “Bill” Hayward would
like. In the first place three members of
the squad are among the men to leave
Thursday for Camp Zachary Taylor.
'Among the rest of the team are several
who arc not in the best of condition and
those that are facing the pleasant pros
pect of being shot in the arm with vac
tine some day this week,
f One of the greatest losses to the
lemon-yellow team is Eric V. Hauser,
left end. who will leave with the rest of
the artillery candidates Friday. In the
three games Oregon has played, Hauser
certainly looked sweet at the flank posi
tion. The way he and Wilson handled
themselves in the game Saturday was in
ao small measure responsible for tbe
aiany gains of tbe local team over the
rivet-slingers. Hauser is a former Dart
mouth player, and in the short time that
be was on the varsity he won a place
among such Oregon ends as Mitchell and
legart.
Gilbert A ho Lest.
Another loss that the squad will feel
Is that of Warren Gilbert, guard on the
freshman team of last year, and one of
the leading candidates for one of the
guard positions on the first team. Gilbert
was putting up a good fight for a regular
job and was giving Mautz, O’Rourke,
Dresser and the rest of the would-be
guards a few things to think about.
Louis Dunsmore is the third inrr.V
of the squad who will start on bis way
for Camp Taylor Friday. Dunsmore has
been a candidate for a line position al
though lie played in the backfield for
the second team last Saturday. Duns
moro is a heavy hoy and with a little
more experience would make a lece foot
ball player. He was showing up well in
practice and had improved neitly in his
work since he first turned out for prac
tice.
This should he enough “sob stuff” for
one week hut it is not. "Scotty” Strachan
is out with what may prove to he broken
ankle. Scotty turned his pedal extremity
luring the Saturday contest and was
taken out. He may he missing from the
iine for a week or two. On tip of this
foe Trowbridge is not advertising his
;ood health any to,, strongly. Joe de
veloped a “Charley horse” after Salur
lay’s eventful clash. II? will probably
ae able to play Saturday against the
Corvallis team, but he will he greatly
ilowed up.
Clever Sub-end Cut.
Another of the sqm.l is out o iun-: a.
;he present writing. This ti.no t is Ilich
jrd Sunderleaf th? clever little end on
;he second team who spilled the first
nil over the pleM a week ago last
Whturdny. Sunderleaf 1= an end of the
'irst magnitude and has been playing A1
football all season.
Some tale of woe this, hut the end is
sot yet. “Shy’’ Huntington received a
telegram from Andy Smith, coach of Cal
ifornia. saying that he had started plas
tering the Golden Gate with advertising
propaganda for the big "doings” at the
hay city November 2.1. This brought
"Shy” hack to earth with- the realization
that he had one of the hardest grinds
before him in the next three weeks that
seas ever wished on any coach.
Captain Lynn Convert, of the Ma
rines. who has been chasing himself
iround the northwest via Pullman, is au
thority for the statement in Tuesday’s
Oregonian that “the action of the T ni
rersity of Oregon in cancelling their
game with the Marines is about as funny
tt ft cryvfor help.” He further says that
K ift^apt altogether assured that Oregon
Man of Company A
Picks Wrong Time to
Crow Like Rooster
“The feller that once
Crowed like a rooste.,
Will never again
Crow like he lister."
So they sing in the third platoon of
Company A. But they sing it softly.
There's a reason. It was once a joke.
Now it's one of the most serious things
in college.
The cause of the disturbance dates
far back. The question itself has become
one of the most important on the cam
pus. It is even running a good beat with
the question of “When do we get paid?”
and "When are our uniforms coming?”
The burning question is Who crowed like
a rooster in the men’s gymnasium Fri
day Might? Nio one acknowledges it,
everyone denies it, but the fact remains.
Some one crowed.
When First Sergeant Bill Croat was
taking feed check after taps Friday night,
some one crowed. This—for the benefit
of the uninformed—is a high crime. Si
lence should be absolutely respected af
ter taps. The next, morning Grout ask
ed every man in the platoon whether he
had done it, and every man, on his honor,
denied it.
Saturday night Grout was conducting a
cross-examination of some of the men,
when Lieutenant Spratlin happened in.
And right there the matter ceased to be
a joke. Some one, supposedly officer
material, has lied on his honor as a sol
dier and a gentleman. The lieutenant
himself took charge of the affair. Men
in the vicinity of the disturbance were
cross-examined and questioned until 4
o’clock Sunday morning. The result, has
not been announced, but it is likely that
a severe punishment awaits the crow
ing one.
SOLDIERS ARE PICTURED
Magazine Describes American Activity
in France.
America lias achieved the impossible.
Such is the conclusion reached by an
eye-witness (of Yankee activity "over
there” as told in the November issue of
•Country Life in the War. The maga
zine is mostly given over to American
activity in France with pictures of the
doughboys ar play, at work, and conva
lescing in Tied Cross hospitals in Eng
land. The pictures are accompanied by
articles written by those who are well
informed on their respective subjects.
An article entitled ‘‘What we are do
ing for the boys in camp,” tells of the
efforts of those at borne to provide en
tertainment for (lie boys in the camps
near their towns.
Two colored plates appear in the mag
azine. They are a picture of the men of
the T'mted States inarching down the
Avenue President Wilson in Parts July
4," 191S, and a plate of the orders and
war medals conferred by France and Bel
gium.
This magazine may be found on the
table in front of the War News Bulletin
board in the library.
THANKSGIVING REST IS CUT
1 Only One Day Allowed; Penalty to Pun
ish Cutting on Friday.
Thanksgiving vacation this year will
probably bo only one dn^, Thursday. No
vember 2S. A. E. Tiffany. Registrar, an
nounced this morning. The men of the
S. A. T. C. will have only this one day,
following orders from the war depart
ment. and because of the large number
of girls absent during the inflenza epi
demic, M Tiffany thinks that just the
one day vacation will be allowed for them
also. Some severe penalty for not at
tending classes Friday, November 20,
will he decided Wednesday, when the
whole question of vacations will be dis
cussed at faculty meeting. Christmas va
cation will probably be December 21 to
30.
J. H. DE FELL IN SERVICE
Former Faculty Member In S. A. T. C. i
at Stanford Univorsity.
,T. Ilarthan PeFell, last year a mem
ber of the faculty at Oregon in the de
partment of Romance languages, is a
member of the S. A. T. ('. at Stanford
University this year, according to a let
ter from him received on the campus last
week.
He wrote that he was in quarantine
and found the time dragging. He is
studying Russian to pass away the time.
He stated that he wag now a full-fledged i
American citizen, and glad to be in the j
*oaiv *
FOli FRESHMAN
SOPHOMORE MIX
Events Will Be Sand-Bag Con
test, Flag Rush and Team
Rush.
Plans have been completed for the
staging of the Freshman-Sophomore mix
on Saturday afternoon before the Ore
gon-O. A. C. game. Ned Fowler, chair
man, announced this afternoon. The I
mix will be next, in importance to the j
game as the feature of the week-end to
be known now as “week-end of unusu
al activity,” instead of “Homecoming.”
The events will be the sandbag con
test, the tie-up contest, the flag rush,
and the team rush. Each class will geve
a stunt, the nature of which will be kept
a dark secret. The women will not take
part in the program this year as in pre
vious years.
Military maneuvers had been planned
for Saturday morning, but Harold Grey,
chairman of the committee, says they
may not bo scheduled because of the
•breaking up of the squads through the
leaving of so many for Camp Taylor.
Grey himself leaves Thursday and no
one so far has been appointed to take )
his place.
In accordance with the rulings of the
Campus Health Committee, there will
be no dance Saturay night.
The proposed rally for Friday night
comes under the ban, as well as the big
bonfire, the guarding of the “O” and all
the other features that annually pre
ceded the Oregon-O. A. C. football
game, so it was learned last night after
si. consultation with the health committee.
OREGON MEN SEE OREGANA
One Copy Is Read in France by 50
Members of Battery “C”
The some fifty Oregon men now in
France with the 65th artillery, formerly
the 2nd Company Coast Artillery of F.n
gene. have just received their first copy
of the Oreg.ana issued last spring de
voting considerable of its space to these
men. who compose what is perhaps the
largest single group of Oregon men in
the service.
This single copy of the Oregarm was j
nearly used up by the time it had been
read by the men in Battery “C,” so en
thusiastic were they over the memories
recalled, and the Oregon Spirit mani
fested throughout its pages, according
to n letter telling of the incident re
reived yesterday from Elmer Brenton
ex-’lO. The interest was especially
great, because of the nearing victory,
and it is likely that a largo percent a ge
of the men will return to the Univer
sity after the war. he said.
Xo Oreganas could be scut to the men
on account, of their limited space to earn
for them. The one which did find its
way to France and to the Oregon men’s
dugout belonged to Walt Church. ’16.
Church gave his copy to Eyler Brown,
president of the Oregon Architectural
club during his senior year here, and by
accident Brown happened to he sent ns
a draughtsman into the section where
the Oregon men were quartered.
BULLETIN
The Orogon-O. A. C. football game
scheduled to be played on Kincaid field
next Saturday was definitely called off
this afternoon by the secretary of the
State Board of Health in communica
tion with President Campbell.
This game was to have been the big
campus game of the year and the first
of a two-game series with 0. A. C. The
other game to be played in Corvallis a
week later is not affected by the orriei
received today but no assurance was
made that it would be, played. The play
ing of this game, it was said, would de
pend upon the state-wide health condi
tion in regard to the Spanish influenza
at that time.
President Campbell was told that the
State Board of Health would permit
games such as the one piayed last Sat
urday between Oregon and the Founda
tion shipyards. .The game for Saturday,
however, promised to bring together too
large a crowd and perhaps would cause
hundreds of 0. A. C. students to crowd
into special trains to make the trip, it
..wu pointed out
ISJ.T.GJTHLETiCe
TO START WITH A
FOOTBALL GAME
Companies A and B to Tussle
on Kincaid Field Next
Friday.
| Couipaii.v athletics lmvc at last started
in earnest in the S. A. T. C. The football
team of Company A will tussle with
Company 15 on Kincaid field next Friday
afternoon. Both elev ms are working out
every night on the , 'rootcry field. Nish
Chapman, a Varsity man, h’s charge
of the Company A fen in. Nish teports
that he has about tlo or 40 nun out for
practice every night. 11 > is certain his
team will wipe the earth with Company
It. “Chuck” Blewitt is one of the most
promising candidates for quarterback.
Another is Bill Morrison, who has won
much football fame. Company 1! men
under the direction of Brandenburg are
fast shaping a good team. Brandenburg
is one of the Varsity’s best men, as Bez
dek considered “Brandy” one of Oro
’ gon’s best prospects. Twenty-thtee men
have reported for practice. Among C'eso
are numerous high school stars, who
promise to win honors for B company.
It.-iaster and Mark Hanna of Mt. Angel
•college are both men who will probably
win a place on the team. They are both
highly praised by men who have seen
them play. Wesley Slmttuek, vvell-kno\vn
star of Vancouver high school team, has
turned out for practice and will un
doubtedly prove his worth in the game
Friday. James John high school sends
one of tlicit star football men, in Mey
ers. Meyers made bis reputation itt the
Portland Interscholastic league and will
undoubtedly show up in the limelight for
Company B.
Showing Rivalry,
Both companies A anil 15 arc showing
a spirit of rivalry that will make the
football contest Friday one of the most
interesting events of the year. The game
is exciting much interest among 'the men,
The Company A boys have Organized
their rooting section under the leader
ship of Eylc McCroskey and Nick Car
ter. Ned Fowler, who was lately elected
lender'of activities in Company A is cer
tain that his men will win their first
contest. Don Orput is the yell leader for
Company 15. Orput is doing his best, to
lead his team to victory Friday and he
is supported b.v every man in the com
pany.
The heads of each sport have boon ap
pointed but. some of the appointment
have not been announced as these
athletics will not begin immediately.
Anmng the Company A men, Riley has
been selected to coach the company soc
cer team. There arc several men in this
confpnny, who will inane Company A
soccer team a strong contender for the
championship. "Hank” Foster is in
charge of flic track team. Bill Hayward
wants 40 men from each company t )
turn out for cross-country wmk. They
will he furnished with uniforms and each
company will he allowed to choose their
color. Basketball will also start very
Boon but ns yet no leader has been ap
pointed. Nod Fowler will probably lend
the team. Ned is n last year's Varsity
basketball man. T’ndor his leadership
Company A should turn out a team that
would bring them honor. The Company
A swimming team will probably he under
ifhe direction of Bill Morrison, who is
considered one of the best swimmers in
the University.
Lyle Leads Track.
To Company B, Bill I.vle will lend the
track team. The first work done will be
cross-country running.As yet Bill linr not
a line on the team but lie is ep-tnin that
Company B will develop a winning team.
Herman Bind a last year’s soccer star,
will have charge of the company soccer
team. The men who have signed up for
soccer make the prospects very good.
.Toff Hnrbke will be leader of swim
ming in Company 15. Jeff is considered
by the Portland R. A. T. <men one of
the best swimmers in the Northwest. He
has won several medals for short dis- !
tanees. Rome time ago lie swam against
Duke Kahanamokti and his showing at
this time made his reputation for him.
Jeff is certain that Company 15 ?au de
veiop a team that will defeat Company
A. Basketball is to he under Fddie Dur
no. Eddie is a wonder in basketball. And
under his leadership B company sh uld
have a team that will make the basket
Jja^l B<uL»on exciting.
Confined Men Hear
Rumors of Striped
Suits to be Issued
The entire fourth platoon of Company j
B, residents of the third floor of Friend
ly hall, who entertained too informally
and who were sentenced to confinement
in the barracks from Saturday noon to
Sunday night with taps at 0 o’clock, are
hearing strange rumors.
Promptly at noon on Saturday, a room
check was held on the third floor, and in
termittently thereafter the sergeant vis
ited the rooms to see that the confined
ones were still confined. The tension
grew as the game started. Necks strain
ed out of windows, only to curse the in
tervening trees. Everyone coming from
the game v as hailed, and compelled to
describe it. Some of the u ore venture
some climbed to the roof, and are now
repenting their hasty deed. One of the
lieutenants saw them, and they are
scheduled for severe punishment.
The long day finally came to an end,
and with it, bed checks at nine. Some
of the more thoughtful, had lain In a
supply of pies and cakes, nnd feasts roy
al were held in the evening. Sunday nt
noon, the all highest took pity on their
pitilful plight, and they were released
for tin' remainder of the day. The usual
army rumors were circulated during
their term of confinement. The most per
sistent, was that their striped suits were
on the way. and would he distributed at
any time. This, however, proved false.
NAVY UNIFORMS EXPECTED
Flags For Signalling Needed; Women
Asked to Make Them
[ Uniforms for the men of the naval
unit are expected to arrive any day, F.n
sign William C. Ileppenheimer, pnra
I mandant of the unit, said Wednesday.
Ileppenheimer lias asked for a petty
officer, from the Puget Sound navy yard
at Bremerton to assist him nnd hopes
to have one assigned soon. *
lie is ranch pleased with the material
in the naval unit, he said. The men show
excellent promise.
Flags for signalling are needed by
(lie tars at once, nnd Ensign Ileppen
heimor appeals to the young women of
the University to make them at their
earliest convenience. Material will he
supplii d by him. Any body of women
who will get together nnd make them
should communicate with him. lie is
quartered at the Hotel Oshurn.
GOPHERS FEAST OiM SPUDS
Hondricks Fannorottes Find Potato
Crop Sadly Oopleted.
Tho Hondricks hall farmerettes, su
pervised by Ami Tagus, harvested Hen
dricks hall war garden of potatoes last
Saturday afternoon. After digging n few
hills, they discovered that, the gophers
had been there first, and had devoured
almost the entire crop; but the girls kept
valiantly at their task. What the crop
lacked in quantity it made up in quality,
and the results of the afternoon s labor
was two and a half sacks of very choice
tubers.
The girls have not yet had time to sort
the potatoes, but with the firs': oppor
tunity this task will be performed. Ihe
entire crop has been contracted bv the
Hendricks hall kitchen. The proceeds will
lie given to the Belgian babies.
EIGHT WOULD BE AIRMEN
To Appear Before Aeronautics Board at
Berkeley This Week.
The University will send five pilots,
two observers, and one maneuvering of
ficer, candidates for examination this
week to the aeronautics examining
board at Berkeley. California, following
word received today from the war de
partment. Colonel \V. If. ('. Bowen, com
manding officer of the S, A. T. will
examine applicants today and tomorrow.
Those recommended will be sent at once
to Berkcle Following their examination
there, they will return to the University
to await further orders. They will prob
ably be called at once for training.
FLU CLOSES INSTITUTES.
All teachers’ institutes scheduled for
this fall have been indefinitely postpon
ed, owing to the epidemic of influenza.
Very few institutes will meet at all.
County superintendents intend to intro
duce community institutes instead of
countv institutes which will not neces
sitate such large puhlie gatherings, thus
lessening the danger of a second epi
demic
FORTY MED LEI
FOR CAMP TAYLOR
ARTILLERY SCHOOL
Many of Those Selected Are
Prominent in Campus
Activities.
TWO MEMBERS GONE
OFF STUDENT COUNCIL
Football Team Hit Hard; Much
Reorganization Is Made
Neccesary.
Forty men of the S. A. T. C., examined
Monday, were recommended by Oolonel
W. II. C. Ho-ren, commanding officer,
to be senit to the field artillery officers*
training school at Camp Znehnry Taylor,
Kentucky. The men left for their homes
last night on two-day furloughs, will re
port to headquarters here Thursday
morning will then probably leave at
once for Camp Zachary Taylor.
The withdrawal of forty men from the
University, many of them prominent in
campus activities, will again make neces
sary changes in the personnel of the stu
dent council and other organizations. The
loss of Hauser and Gilbert, will be felt
on the football team.
Vice-President Gone.
Klmo Madden, elected vice-president
of the sttuleu body Saturday, mnkes the
(bird vacancy in this office this term.
The student council and executive com
mittee in joint session wilt choose a new
vice-president.
Kyle MeCroskey and Harold Grey, nlso
among those to go, are both representa
tives on the student council. Herald
White, president of the student body,
this morning selected Donald Dalgleish,
as senior yepm.entotive to succeed Grey
and Ned Fowler to fill MeOroskey’s
place on the executive committee. A new
yell leader will also lie chosen soon to
take McCroskey’s place.
Best of Men Taken.
Those selected by Colonel Bowen are:
William O. Ilolman, Albert II. Woer
tendyke, Erie C. ITuuser, J. Ward Cun
ningham, Herman To Kind, Lee M. Sum
merville, Itaymond TO. Koossel, Lynn AT.
Royal, Stephen W. Mntthieu, Mark I.
Hanna, Donald .T. Feenaughty, Stephen
Williams, William ('. Ralston, Louis S
Dundorc, Hollis Johnston and Mark R.
Crain, all of Portland; Henry Eickhoff
of San Francisco; Leonard Bartholomew
Donald McDonald, I’ll ill 1*. Farrington,
and Spencer It. Collins, all of Eugene;
John Hollingsworth, Silverton; Dewey
G. Godard, Long Reach, Cal.; Fred Le
Ttoy Everson, Rend; George I). Higgs,
Klamath Fails; Harold Grey, Medford;
Neal N. Nunnnmkor, Hood River; Benja
min Breed, The Dalles; Edward R. Twin
ing, Oswego; Clyde N. Compton, Rroad
mend, Oregon; Guy E. Sucre, Monmouth;
Warren R. Gilbert, Mapleton; Carlton
R. Weigel, Omaha, Nebraska; Elmo W.
Madden, Seattle, Washington; James C.
Say, Sherwood; Jay W. Shively, Red
mond; William Stenson, Snohomish,
Wash; Paul Pierce, Salem; Lynde C.
Smith, Wasco; Lvlc MeCroskey, Belling
ham, Wash.
SIMS FINDS FRANCE DAMP
Oregon Man Complains of Rain; Eager
to Get to Front.
Henry (“Boo”) Sims, ex-’17, Top Ser
geant in ordnance for the 5th Artillery
Corps, arrived in France three weeks ago
and is now on his way to the front line
trenches. “Boo" wrote from Paris on his
wny t<» the front line trenches. A letter
received on the campus follows, in part:
“They say that this is France, hut
only the aborigines notice it. As yet we
have not been allowed out of the camp
and from all reports I am not much en
thused to get out. There is no telling
when the quarantine will he lifted. Con
ditions are rather bad.
‘From here they say wp go right into
the melee—somewhere near the front
line trenches.anything to get away from
rain, and that’s all we have been bless
ed with since arrival. We manage to get
around camp in a rowboat and a pair of
'boots, while some officers carry a stick
as a propeller, or rather a rudder.
“Ivefty Turney also arrived with the
5th Artillery Corps but has been in the
hospital with the 'flu’ from the time of
his arrival.'’