Ill FU1 PLEDGES
to be jpn
Money Raised for Women’s
League to Be Given to
United Campaign.
* lirls who pledged money toward the
$-.000 Women’s League War fund last
spring, which was to be collected this
fall may consider those pledges can
reled, according to Dorothy Flegel, pres
ident of Women’s League. “Owing to the
present war conditions,” she said, “it
is far more important that we over-sub
scribe our quota in the United War Fund
campaign than to successfully raise our
$2000 War Fund.”
The suggestion has been made that
all money received by Women’s League
for its war fund up to the present time
be used toward its pledge to the United
War Fund. This suggestion cannot be
acted upon until a meeting of Women’s
League can be bold. ” By canceling these
last year pledges,” said Dorothy Flegel,
“the women can give their whole support
jto the United War Fund campaign,
which at present seems more import rut.”
“University women,” said Marian Cof
fey, head of the war work of Women’s
League, “cannot raise $2000 over and
above the $6000 which is our quota in the
United War Fund campaign.” A nn eiing
of Women's League will be held as soon
as the ban on campus gatherings is lifted
to settle the matter.
Canvassers for team two under Miss
Dews are Chi Omega, Grace Rugg; Del
ta Delta Delta, Katherine De Yoe ; Pi
Beta Phi, Louise Clausen; Delta Gam
ma, Era Godfrey; Unit one of Hen
dricks Ilall, Evelyn Smith; Mary Spil
ler. Erma Laird; the Kincaid house, Miss
Annie Laurie Rogers ; town girls whose
names fall between “M” and "Z", Vel
ma Rupert, Mary Turner, Ruth Scott.
At the close of the campaign week the
standings of the teams will be determined
on a basis of one hundred per cent, al
lowing twenty per cent on Vlounteer
Day pledges, thinly per cent on total
amount of pledges and fifty per cent on
the number of subscribers.
Buttons to Be Worn.
Red, white and blue buttons are pre
sented each subscriber to be worn dur
ing the week of the Drive. If most of
the subscriptions are made on Volun
teer Day it will greatly facilitate the
standing of the teams- Ballot boxes on
Friday will be open in Friendly Hall, the
Library, Hendricks Hall, the Y, M. C.
A. Bungalow.
Checks should be made payable to Dr.
William F. Vance, Y. M- C- A. secretary
who is treasurer of the war drive fund.
Student pledges are due December 10.
Faculty members are being asked to give
ane and one-half per cent of their annual
salaries with an exemption of $500.00.
Thety will be given until March 10 to
pay their pledges.
Ail Students to Help.
All Oregon students who are at home
or away from the campus during the
week of the drive are asked to send in
their subscriptions so that they will all
be counted on the University's quota.
Committees to conduct the campaign
among the S A. T. C. men were ap
pointed late this afternoon as follows:
Company A, “Nick” Carter, Captain,
Stan Atkinson, Douglas Mullarky ; Com
pany B, Ed. Durno, Captain, Mearl
Blake, Sam Lehman.
t
dricks Girls
Start Something
New and Mystic
* Something which is not a sorority or
r club or a society, or a click, or a clan
or an association or even a league, but
something which is entirely different
from the above named but which can’t
be told because it is secret, j'ou see, has
sprung into existence at Hendricks hall
almost ever night.
Rack yotrr brain ns you will you won’t
be able to guess what it is. The four
charter members, Evelyn Smith. Corne
lius Heesa, Marian Bowen and Frances
Stiles, call it the Fantisi Khiyal, pro
nounced with a strong Hindoo accent.
The colors are black and white, the
sign, the festive lantern. Since Sunday
when the four respective white and black
bows appeared on the four respective
girls, three additional ones are wearing
the little emblem. These are Miss Ger
trude- Talbot, l’atty Trench and Alice
S Uton.
^The purpose of the Fnnusi Khiyal is
another deeply guarded secret, and the
only information that can be extracted
from a member on that point is that it is
a manifold one and will gradually make
itself known.
As an intial affair the F. K.’s as they
ere dalled for short, are to give an en
tertainment in the very near future jn
which all wearers of 'lie black are to
take part,
Makes Tour of the German Trenches
Waiter Church, *16, Goes Sight-Seeing on Front and Wanders
Right Into Real Battle.
Corporal Walter E. Church, a Uni
versity graudate of 1916. who has sten
six months’ service in France wita th
63rd fie la artillery, A. E. F., writes to
his mother, Mrs. P. L. Campbell, tel in4
of his experiences at the front. Ex
tracts from his letter follow:
"As I write we are waiting to hear
the results of the German peace note to
President Wilson. By the concensus of
opinion among all the men here there
seems to be only one answer—no armis
tice, no parley. The president has ab
solutely laid down has fourteen condi
tions and unless Germany agrees to all
we don't see how there can ever be a
conference. We ate goin to do the set
tling in this peace. Germany started the
thing and it is easy to see that President
Wilson means to end it.
"I don't like to brag about the boys,
j luit. really and truly, they are the ealtn
! est lot of fellows you ever saw. No ex
| eitement beyond the ordinary cracking
1 of jokes and laughing at them, all the
while going at their work as efficiently
as ever.
"I think I mentioned in my last letter
the chance I had to go up to the first
' line trenches. I wouldn’t have taken
I anything for that experience. Of course,,
I can mention no names or places, but
it was near a city whose name you would
1 readily recognize. There was a town
j near the first place, which is situated
i on a high hill, and the Germans had used
it 'as an observing post. \\ e drove them
off and not long after a group of us
started to see what had happened.
“It was my first look at the frout
lines and it was a sight I will not easily
forget. The day was cold and gray and
a raw wind whistled through the skel
eton trees. We first struck our second
lines, hut passed quickly over and came
to where our first lines had been. If
you could only have seen that place.
Great whitish gashes in the earth and
then huge craters, old and new, lapping
and running into each other. Most of
the old ones were filled with green stag
nant water. Torn and twisted strings
of barbed wire everywhere, and once in
in a while a blasted whitened stumps of
wliat had been a tree. Over everything
a damp, cold chill and a slinip fog.
“The picture was terrible enough, hut
when I looked over where the German
trenches had been there was a worse
one. We knew there had been trenches
and dugouts, hut there was certainly
nothing that could be called that now.
And betweeu was no man’s land. I never
before realised what a fitting term that
was. Neither man nor the devil him
self would claim it.
j “We stflttek out across this chaos,
: turning' and'twisting, climbing and slip
j pin*, and once more I realized what it
must have meant to those doughboys
who went over the top in the pale dawn
—what it must have meant with the ma
chine guns spitting leaden curses from
1 beyond.
I “W'e finally began to reach the sec
| .-1’d lines of German trenches, evacuated
very hurriedly, from all signs. And
such trenches! Many feet underground,
with all possible conveniences and equip
ment, ns if they expected to stay for
; sortfe time.
>' <* passed on across a barren plain
toward the third line trenehes. Thus
plain was a living—but. I should not use
that terra—it was a tribute to the cour
age of the doughboys. They had charged
across here and cleared the woods be
yond the machine guns—and every man
left on that plain was like a finger
pointing toward.the goal.
“No one will blame us for hurrying
past this. Tt e entered the woods and
found there the most complete system
of German trenches I have ever seen or
imagined, lor long distances thev ran
underground, connecting, like so many
galleries. And the varied equipment left
in the hasty retreat—I brought hack as
a memento of the trip a German polished
tan belt with a large buckle, with a
crown and ‘Oott mit uns’ on it, together
with a scabbard and a German bayonet
with the back cut into the wickedest
looking saw teeth imaginable—such a
nice weapon to fight with.
"One dug out was a perfect wonder. ’
Some high official certainly must have
lived there. It was reached by stairs
leading into a sunken court and there
the facade itself was of concrete and
had real glass doors and windows. In
side were large, comfortable beds with
springs, upholstered furniture and caba
rets, etc.; on the walls were pictures of
the kaiser in prominent places in large
frames. On the table stood n vase of
fresh flowers and an empty champagne
bottle. Beside them stood the dainti
est slender champagne glass, half filled.
An upholstered chair had fallen or been
hurriedly pushed back, when His High- I
ness had left upon the receipt of the un- 1
believable news of the American ad- :
ranee.
"We pushed on through these woods
and finally emerged. There lay before
ns the town on the bill—or what had !
i once been a town. We wound up among
the deserted streets and finally gained
the. summit, from which the country for 1
many miles ground could be seen. This
was the olu German observation post.
"From this lookout we could see our
boys, just at the foot of the hill, advanc
ing on the Germans. It was actual fight,
iug that we were now watching. About
this time the boche began firing ou the ;
town. We could see one gun ia\ the j
edge of the woods flash, and very soon
afterwards there came a burst behind 1
us. Next time it was in front. We.all ]
hurriedly moved to the protection of a j
nearby wall. Scarcely had we reached i
it when the earth seemed literally to ;
rise up just where we had been stand- ;
iug a moment before. Well, things
looked up from then on, so we decided
to leave. I only wish I could have seen |
our boys clear out those guns as we ;
learned they eventually did.
“We also found out that we had I
reached that town just, one hour after j
it had been officially taken. So you,:
FOR men SCHOOLS
Colonel Leader is Attending
Conference in Portland to
Discuss Plans.
Colonel John Loader, commandant of
the Oregon state officers’ training camp,
went to Portland yesterday to attend a
conference of educators to discuss plans
for military training in the high schools
of the state, lie will have meetings with
the principals of the high schools of
Portland and will confer with Colonel
Alfred C. Sharpe, commanding officer
of the S. A. T. C., and with E. F. Carl
ton, assistant state superintendent of
public instruction.
J. A. Churchill, state school superin
tendent. hns issued a pamphlet, after
discussing the subject with Colonel Lend
er and other military men of the state,
giving briefly the conditions under which
he thinks it wise to introduce military
training in the high school*, The book
let is issued with the approval of the
adjutant general of the state,
Irr.madiate Action Favored,
Mr, Churchill favors tho immediate
introduction of military instruction for
high school boys, where there are 153
boys or oyer in tho school. He would
have the instruction given largely by
[ members of the faculty of the school who
have had any n llitury training or e.v,ierL
I once. Many of the teachers of ihn high
schools,, ho thinks, have had military
training recently.
The system will not be only tempo
rary, lor it is thought that it may well
bo i.tpi up after the war is over. Tho
hoys will receive instruction in squad
and company drill, skirmishing and open
order drill, first aid, topography, field en
gineering, bayonet work, bombing, hy
giene, uiltary history, trenches, cot -
municution drill, military ary inLatlc.n,
systems of military luw, musk Pry, sem
aphore, knotting anti lashing, tactics,
army regulations and theory of gas at
tacks.
Ol A mUMUIO
uwui 30 i
Coii lie] Leader will &isn meet the men
of the Midtnornh1i Guard, unless the war
is spceoiiy ended. Courses will b> givjr.
throughout the state to ad groups of at
least fifty men who wish to study the
sciences of war. The work is being or
ganized under the auspices of the .Mili
tary Training Camps association of the
United States and will be under state
recognition. The course will require six
months’ training. Colonel Leader is go
ing to Astoria soon to see men there
interested in taking this training.
SATURDAY’S GAME
(Continued from page a.*
them as any other team on the map, ex
cepting the "Aggies.”
The California papers hare asked foe
pictures of the Oregon team so by the
looks of things they expect to make the
game a regular affair. The prospect of
the game south is the only thing that
lias not been smashed by somebody and
as it is for the allied war work council
it wiil probably be staged without any
opposition. As soon as "Shy” gets a
game lined up in the northwest the
Health Board or somebody takes all the
joy out of life and puts a K. O. on it.
♦ KAPPA ALPHA TIIBTA AN- ♦
♦ NOUNCES THE PLEDGING OP ♦
♦ MRS. MINNIE KLl'MPP JOHN ♦
♦ SON. ♦
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The McMorran and Washburne Store is using every effort to assist in reducing the
danger of the influenza to the minimum in every way within our command.
We Are Eliminating Advertising
Except of most essential things and will not in any manner attempt to bring business
to our store until the health authorities think the danger has passed. We were inform
ed reliably yesterday that the number of new cases was rapidly diminishing daily and
if we all use every precaution, we will soon have the influenza stamped out.
Shop by mail and by phone when possible, and when necessary to shop ' ^on,
do so in the morning if you can.
Pay Attention to Proper Garments
Warm, comfortable Coats for men, wo
men and children.
Knit Sweaters, Scarfs, Toques, for men.
women and children.
Munsing Winter Underwear for men.
women and children.
Athena Underwear for women and chil
dren.
Richmond Union Suits for men.
Lackinaw Twin Underwear for chil
dren. i
Sleeping warm in comfortable Outing
Flannel Gowns, Pajamas, Sleeping Suits.
» Saxony Knit, Holeproof, Wayne Knit,
Burlington and Phoenix Hosiery.
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Changes in City Charter
Adopted at Election
Though figures on the voting on nit j
the amendments proposed to the city {
charter have not yet been given out, i
ever, every amendment presented to the I
voters Tuesday passed with a good mar
gin. The new amendments were neces- |
sary to the proper conduct of affairs of j
the city in accordance with changes in
the state charter providing that city t
elections shall be held at the some time j
and place as county and state elections. |
There was no contest for the offices ;
of councilman. E. B. Tarks was chosen j
from the first ward; C. B. Willoughby, '
second ward; O. N. Kaldor, third ward;
E. E. Quimby, fourth ward. Mr. Kaldor
is the only new member of the council.
He is assistant mannger of the Eugeno
Fruit Growers’ association cannery.
WAR POSTERS RECEIVER
A set of the National War Work post- j
ors has been received at' the library and
they have been posted in the hall and
rooms downstairs and tho reading room
up stall's. Those posters through their
appealing pictures give nn idea of the
work of the seven organisations for
which money Is to bo raised during the
week of the National War Work cam
paign November 11 to 38.
COL. LEADER AIDS EMERALD
To show thut he is back of the Uni
versity boys "over there,” many of whom
he has never seen, Colonel John Leader,
commandant of the Oregon State Offi
cers’ Training Camps at the University
of Oregon, last week handed a cheelt f°r
$10 to one of the members of Tho Emer
ald campaign committee and asked her
to send him a copy at his office and
one to his place of residence and thon
to hunt up some men in the service and
Rond the other five copies to them
Those seeking the installation of a
chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at the Uni
versity have received notice that their
application is in proper form and that
it will be presented to the senate of
the chapter to he held in March, 1010
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REMEMBER YOUR PRESENT MUST BE MAILED FOR
OVERSEAS BY NOVEMBER 16.
We have a splendid line of convenient articles that will make
acceptable gifts for the soldier or sailor. Come in and look over
our displays. Here are a few suggestions that may help you to
decide—
Razors of all kinds in Service Sets. *
Shaving Soap in Powder, Croam or Cake form.
Shaving and Tooth Brushes in holders.
Stationery of all kinds.
Khaki and Leather Fitalls of many sizes.
Trench Mirrors and Fountain Pena.
Letter Writing Kits in khaki and leather.
Military Brushes in khaki and leather kits.
A Vest Pocket Kodak and Eustman speed films.
A Trench Flashlight, Pencil and many other things.
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The Serviee Giving Store,
Stanley Stevenson.
Phone gif,
Chestar Stevenson